August 15, 2024

TORONTO, Aug. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Visionary Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ:GV), a private education provider located in Canada, with subsidiaries in Canada and market partners in China, today announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024.   Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Highlights Revenues increased by $0.9 million, or 11.2%, to approximately $9.4 million in fiscal 2024 from approximately $8.4 million in fiscal 2023.  Gross margin was 27.1% in fiscal 2024, as compared with 44.6% in fiscal 2023. Net income of $967,249 and net loss of $3,572,108 for fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023 respectively.    Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results   Revenues   Revenues increased by $0.9 million, or 11.2%, to approximately $9.4 million in fiscal 2024 from approximately $8.4 million in fiscal 2023. The increase in revenue was principally due to increase of rent revenue of $0.9 million in fiscal 2024, with a stable tuition revenue in fiscal 2024. In fiscal 2024, the Company had $nil revenue generated from construction and sale of vacant lands.   Revenue from rent increased by $0.9 million, or 13.1%, from $7.1 million in fiscal 2023 to $8.0 million in fiscal 2024. The increase in rent revenue was mainly due to the revenue generated from the newly purchased office building in September 2022. In fiscal 2023, it generated rental income of $4.9 million for 6 months and in fiscal 2024, it generated rental income of 6.6 million for 12 months. In addition, one office building was sold in June 2023 which generated rental income of $0.7 million in fiscal 2023 and less than $0.2 million rental income in fiscal 2024. The rental income in general decreased in fiscal 2024 due to economic downward post to pandemic. Revenue from tuition income increased by $0.1 million, or 1.4%, from $1.3 million in fiscal 2023 to $1.4 million in fiscal 2024. The total tuition income was stable for fiscal 2024 and 2023. However, the tuition income from Toronto Eschool decreased by $0.1 million in fiscal 2024, and the tuition income from Max the Mut College of Animation (“MTM”) increased by $0.2 million in fiscal 2024, and tuition revenue from other educational subsidiaries, including Lowell Academy, Toronto Art Academy and Conbridge are all decreased slightly in fiscal 2024. The increase of tuition revenue from MTM was mainly due to increase of tuition fee per student consistent with the inflation past pandemic.   Gross profit and Gross Margin   Our gross profit decreased by $1.2 million, or 32.5%, to $2.5 million in fiscal 2024 from $3.7 million in fiscal 2023. Gross margin was 27.1% in fiscal 2024, as compared with 44.6% in fiscal 2023. The decrease of 17.5% in the gross profit margin was primarily attributable to the lower gross profit margin for our rental business segment because of the increased costs in connection with the newly purchased office buildings with low occupancy rates and the higher gross profit margin from our education segment due to lower staffing costs.   General and administrative expenses   General and administrative expenses decreased by $79,252, or 6.5%, from $1,227,424 in fiscal 2023 to $1,148,172 in fiscal 2024. The decrease was mainly due to an increase of $1.1 million on amortization (i) from two buildings transferred from assets held for sales to used propert and equipment as we change in our future plans in fiscal 2024 and (ii) the full-year amortization of office building purchased in September 2022, partly offset by the decrease of our office expenses, travel expenses, commission expense and insurance. Our general and administrative expenses represented 12.2% and 14.6% of our total revenue for fiscal 2024 and 2023, respectively.   Professional fees   Professional fees increased by $1,939,241, or 200.2%, from $968,435 in fiscal 2023 to $2,907,676 in fiscal 2024, representing 31.0% and 11.5% of our total revenue for fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023, respectively. The increase was mainly due to a total of $1.9 million consulting fee settled by our common shares in fiscal 2024. Our regular legal and accounting fees were stable and slightly decreased from the prior year.   Salaries and compensations   Salaries and compensations decreased by $324,288 or 28.5%, from $1,1,36,676 in fiscal 2023 to $812,388 in fiscal 2024, representing 8.7% and 13.5% of our total revenue for fiscal 2024 and 2023, respectively. The significant decrease was mainly due to the reduction of our budget on our administrative team in both of our rental business and our educational business.   Interest expense, net   Interest expense increased by $2.8 million, from $3.0 million in fiscal 2023 to $5.8 million in fiscal 2024. The significant increase was mainly due to the increase of prime rate by Bank of Canada (from 2.7% as of April 1, 2022 to 7.20% as of March 31, 2024) which has significant impact on all our outstanding mortgages with variable interest rates and the increase of two private 2nd mortgage with principal balance of $6.7 million in the middle of fiscal 2023.   Government subsidies   We received $nil, $109,723 and $490,171 from the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program and Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy program in fiscal 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.   Impairment expenses   In fiscal 2024, we recorded impairment loss of $49,784 for the property and equipment at MTM due to out of date for its computer and software used in animation education. In fiscal 2022, we recorded impairment loss of $379,165 for the intangible assets and goodwill in connection with the private high schools and Conbridge College, a private college because we are in the process of improving the efficiency of the operations, streamlining the business lines to focus on its core education sector, and optimizing the structure of the vocational educational business. There was no such impairment loss record based on our assessment in fiscal 2023.   Warrants expense   We recorded $893,878 debt component and $443,208 embedded derivatives at the inception date on September 19, 2022 and recognized day 1 loss of $1,565,570 due to fair value assessment. From the inception date to March 31, 2023, we further recorded loss on change in fair value of warrants liabilities of $251,237 for share warrants. On May 15, 2023, we entered into exchange agreement with the convertible note holders and 66,667 common shares were issued (1,000,000 before the share consolidation at 15:1) to exchange for Series B warrants. The deal was closed on May 15, 2023. For fiscal 2024, we recognized gain of $1,536,494 on Series A and B warrants on change of fair value of warrant liabilities recognized. There was no warrant liabilities or corresponding changes in valuation in fiscal 2022.   Loss on convertible debenture valuation   In fiscal 2023, we recorded loss of $157,010 on change in fair value of a convertible note with a debt component