Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Operating Segments

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Operating Segments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Operating Segments

12. Operating Segments

 

In accordance with ASC 280, “Segment Reporting”, the Company defines an operating segment as a business activity: (1) from which we may earn revenue and incur expenses; (2) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance; and (3) for which discrete financial information is available.

 

Our reporting segments are defined as below:

 

TREATMENT SEGMENT, which includes:

 

  - nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed waste (containing both hazardous and low-level radioactive constituents), hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, processing and disposal services primarily through three uniquely licensed and permitted treatment and storage facilities; and
  - Research & Development (“R&D”) activities to identify, develop and implement innovative waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams.

 

SERVICES SEGMENT, which includes:

 

  - Technical services, which include:

 

  professional radiological measurement and site survey of large government and commercial installations using advanced methods, technology and engineering;
  integrated Occupational Safety and Health services including IH assessments; hazardous materials surveys, e.g., exposure monitoring; lead and asbestos management/abatement oversight; indoor air quality evaluations; health risk and exposure assessments; health & safety plan/program development, compliance auditing and training services; and OSHA citation assistance;
  global technical services providing consulting, engineering, project management, waste management, environmental, and decontamination and decommissioning field, technical, and management personnel and services to commercial and government customers; and
  on-site waste management services to commercial and governmental customers.

 

  - Nuclear services, which include:

 

  technology-based services including engineering, decontamination and decommissioning (“D&D”), specialty services and construction, logistics, transportation, processing and disposal;
  remediation of nuclear licensed and federal facilities and the remediation cleanup of nuclear legacy sites. Such services capability includes: project investigation; radiological engineering; partial and total plant D&D; facility decontamination, dismantling, demolition, and planning; site restoration; logistics; transportation; and emergency response; and

 

  - A company owned equipment calibration and maintenance laboratory that services, maintains, calibrates, and sources (i.e., rental) health physics, IH and customized NIOSH instrumentation.
  - A company owned gamma spectroscopy laboratory for the analysis of oil and gas industry solids and liquids.

 

MEDICAL SEGMENT, which includes: R&D of the Company’s medical isotope production technology by our majority-owned Polish subsidiary, Perma-Fix of Medical or the Medical Segment. The Medical Segment has not generated any revenues and all costs incurred are reflected within R&D in the accompanying consolidated financial statements. As previously disclosed, the Medical Segment has substantially reduced its R&D costs and activities due to the need for capital to fund these activities. The Company anticipates that the Medical Segment will not resume full R&D activities until the necessary capital is obtained through its own credit facility or additional equity raise, or obtains partners willing to provide funding for its R&D.

 

Our reporting segments exclude our corporate headquarters and our discontinued operations (see “Note 11 – Discontinued Operations”) which do not generate revenues.

 

The table below presents certain financial information of our operating segments for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 (in thousands):

 

Segment Reporting for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2020

 

    Treatment     Services     Medical     Segments Total     Corporate(1)     Consolidated Total  
Revenue from external customers   $ 9,563     $ 15,297           $ 24,860     $     $ 24,860  
Intercompany revenues     207       8             215              
Gross profit     2,745       1,895             4,640             4,640  
Research and development     94       66       66       226       6       232  
Interest income                             56       56  
Interest expense     (18 )     (6 )           (24 )     (96 )     (120 )
Interest expense-financing fees                             (68 )     (68 )
Depreciation and amortization     264       77             341       5       346  
Segment income (loss) before income taxes     1,547       1,318       (66 )     2,799       (1,477 )     1,322  
Income tax expense     (14 )                 (14 )           (14 )
Segment income (loss)     1,533       1,318       (66 )     2,785       (1,477 )     1,308  
Expenditures for segment assets     679       214             893       3       896 (2)

 

Segment Reporting for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2019

 

    Treatment     Services     Medical     Segments Total     Corporate(1)     Consolidated Total  
Revenue from external customers   $ 9,905     $ 1,803           $ 11,708     $     $ 11,708  
Intercompany revenues     2       21             23              
Gross profit/(negative) gross profit     2,957       (456 )           2,501             2,501  
Research and development     147             74       221       6       227  
Interest income                             81       81  
Interest expense     (17 )     (9 )           (26 )     (61 )     (87 )
Interest expense-financing fees                             (10 )     (10 )
Depreciation and amortization     237       78             315       8       323  
Segment income (loss) before income taxes     1,875       (1,012 )     (74 )     789       (1,300 )     (511 )
Income tax expense     (39 )                 (39 )           (39 )
Segment income (loss)     1,836       (1,012 )     (74 )     750       (1,300 )     (550 )
Expenditures for segment assets     222       2             224             224 (2)

 

(1) Amounts reflect the activity for corporate headquarters not included in the segment information.

 

(2) Net of financed amount of $82,000 and $4,000 for the three month ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.