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21 $0.68 $1.50 Potential Return 121% YE: Jun FY17E FY18E FY19E Revenue (M) 25.9 29.5 33.7 EBITDA (M) 2.6 3.5 4.9 EBITDA margins 9.9% 12.0% 14.6% GAAP EPS ($) 0.03 0.04 0.07 FY17E FY18E FY19E EV/Sales 0.9x 0.8x 0.7x EV/EBITDA 8.8x 6.4x 4.6x P/E 22.7x 17.0x 9.7x 32.5 Shares O/S (FD) 34.6 Market Cap (Basic) $22.1 Market Cap (FD) $23.5 Cash $2.3 $0.07/sh Debt $1.3 $0.04/sh EV $22.6 [email protected] Stock Performance Stock Data (M) Shares O/S (Basic) Gabriel Leung 416-507-3963 Initiating Coverage Previous Close 12-month Target Price Estimates (C$) Valuation Company Description Markham-based Sangoma provides a comprehensive Unified Communications (“UC”) solution to service providers, carriers, enterprises, small-to-medium sized businesses, and original equipment manufacturers. Research Team $1.50 BUY Sangoma Technologies Corporation (STC - V) June 7, 2017 I Like What I’m Hearing Company Profile Markham-based Sangoma Technologies provides a comprehensive Unified Communications solution to service providers, carriers, enterprises, small-to-medium sized businesses, and OEMs. Investment Thesis STC has spent the last several years evolving (via a combination of organically adding new products, regions, and customer segments, as well as several prudent acquisitions) its business from just selling telephony cards to a comprehensive UC platform, including technology and appliances such as session border controllers, IP-PBXs based on Free PBX, a range of IP-phones, VoIP gateways, SIP trunking, fax-over-IP services, and call center software. With this full-suite platform and broad range of indirect channel partners, we believe STC is well positioned to show meaningful organic growth and operating leverage over our forecast period. Investment Highlights - It’s A Big Market Opportunity: According to Global Market Insights, the UC market is forecast to hit $96B by 2023. Rising demand in the enterprise is anticipated to be a key driver. - Much Better Armed To Address This Market: Sangoma has evolved from a one-trick pony (i.e. telephony cards) to a full suite UC provider. STC’s ability to now execute a “land and expand” strategy has been a key catalyst driving its organic growth. - Everything We Are Looking For In A Good Tech Investment: o ~40% of revenues are recurring services, which provides good forward visibility. o It has good growth momentum with nine-month y/y revenue growth at 27% (largely organic). o We believe there is good operating leverage potential as the proportion of higher margin hosted software services increases. o The company has a healthy M&A pipeline to augment its services offering and distribution capability. o The company has no customer concentration (i.e. over 10% of revenues). - Cheap and Potential Takeout Candidate: The stock is cheap at 0.7x forward EV/Sales and 4.6x EV/EBITDA versus comps at ~1.3x and ~10x respectively. We also view Sangoma as a potential takeout candidate given its large network of customers and product offering. Initiating with a Buy rating and $1.50 target price, which is based on 10x FY19e EV/EBITDA (ending June 2019).

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$0.68

$1.50

Potential Return 121%

YE: Jun FY17E FY18E FY19E

Revenue (M) 25.9 29.5 33.7

EBITDA (M) 2.6 3.5 4.9

EBITDA margins 9.9% 12.0% 14.6%

GAAP EPS ($) 0.03 0.04 0.07

FY17E FY18E FY19E

EV/Sales 0.9x 0.8x 0.7x

EV/EBITDA 8.8x 6.4x 4.6x

P/E 22.7x 17.0x 9.7x

32.5

Shares O/S (FD) 34.6

Market Cap (Basic) $22.1

Market Cap (FD) $23.5

Cash $2.3 $0.07/sh

Debt $1.3 $0.04/sh

EV $22.6

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Stock Performance

Stock Data (M)

Shares O/S (Basic)

Gabriel Leung 416-507-3963

Initiating Coverage

Previous Close

12-month Target Price

Estimates (C$)

Valuation

Company Description

Markham-based Sangoma provides a comprehensive Unified

Communications (“UC”) solution to service providers, carriers,

enterprises, small-to-medium sized businesses, and original

equipment manufacturers.

Research Team

$1.50BUY

Sangoma Technologies Corporation (STC - V)

June 7, 2017

I Like What I’m Hearing

Company Profile

Markham-based Sangoma Technologies provides a comprehensive

Unified Communications solution to service providers, carriers,

enterprises, small-to-medium sized businesses, and OEMs.

Investment Thesis

STC has spent the last several years evolving (via a combination of

organically adding new products, regions, and customer segments, as

well as several prudent acquisitions) its business from just selling

telephony cards to a comprehensive UC platform, including

technology and appliances such as session border controllers, IP-PBXs

based on Free PBX, a range of IP-phones, VoIP gateways, SIP trunking,

fax-over-IP services, and call center software. With this full-suite

platform and broad range of indirect channel partners, we believe

STC is well positioned to show meaningful organic growth and

operating leverage over our forecast period.

Investment Highlights

- It’s A Big Market Opportunity: According to Global Market Insights,

the UC market is forecast to hit $96B by 2023. Rising demand in the

enterprise is anticipated to be a key driver.

- Much Better Armed To Address This Market: Sangoma has evolved

from a one-trick pony (i.e. telephony cards) to a full suite UC

provider. STC’s ability to now execute a “land and expand”

strategy has been a key catalyst driving its organic growth.

- Everything We Are Looking For In A Good Tech Investment:

o ~40% of revenues are recurring services, which provides

good forward visibility.

o It has good growth momentum with nine-month y/y

revenue growth at 27% (largely organic).

o We believe there is good operating leverage potential as

the proportion of higher margin hosted software services

increases.

o The company has a healthy M&A pipeline to augment its

services offering and distribution capability.

o The company has no customer concentration (i.e. over

10% of revenues).

- Cheap and Potential Takeout Candidate: The stock is cheap at

0.7x forward EV/Sales and 4.6x EV/EBITDA versus comps at ~1.3x

and ~10x respectively. We also view Sangoma as a potential

takeout candidate given its large network of customers and

product offering. Initiating with a Buy rating and $1.50 target price,

which is based on 10x FY19e EV/EBITDA (ending June 2019).

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Who They Are and What Do They Do?

• Markham-based Sangoma provides a comprehensive Unified Communications (“UC”) solution toservice providers, carriers, enterprises, small-to-medium sized businesses, and originalequipment manufacturers. The company has ~110 employees.

• Sangoma has spent the last several years evolving (through both acquisitions and internal R&D)its business from selling just telephony cards to a comprehensive UC platform, includingtechnology and appliances such as session border controllers, IP-PBXs based on FreePBX, arange of IP-phones, VoIP gateways, SIP trunking, fax-over-IP services, and call center software.

• UC refers to the integration of communication tools that help people exchange ideas and dotheir jobs more effectively. Ideally, a unified communications environment is integrated with theback-end systems that provide services as well as the front-end clients that provide access.

• The company has grown revenues to ~$25M with ~10% EBITDA margins across customers inover 100 countries. It has no major customer concentration (i.e. over 10%) and ~40% of revenuesare recurring services. It also has a broad ecosystem of distribution partners and strategicpartners (including OEM integration with major software suites).

• At its current valuation of 0.7x forward sales and 4.6x EV/EBITDA, we view the stock asrepresenting compelling value. We are initiating coverage with a Buy rating and $1.50 target.

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UC – A Growing Market Opportunity

• According to research group Global Market Insights, Inc., the UC Market is forecast tohit $96B by 2023. Rising demand in the enterprise sector is anticipated to drive thisdemand over the forecast period. This can be attributed to the ability of thetechnology to deliver real-time communications services required for critical businessoperations.

• Key insights from the report include:

– The hosted unified communications market size is anticipated to witness significant growth over theforecast timeline. The advantages associated with these products such as rapid implementation,automated upgrades, and scalability will drive demand in the coming years (Sangoma offers products onboth an on-premise and hosted basis).

– Enterprises dominated as of 2015, occupying nearly 60% of the UC market revenue, which can becredited to the increasing adoption for enhancing business processes and advantages offered by UCsystems such as mobility.

– Government applications will exhibit considerable growth prospects due to escalating adoption of thetechnology to accommodate the needs of citizens pertaining to the permit processing and public safety.These solutions enable governments to efficiently deal with the emergencies and crisis conferencing.

– Asia Pacific is anticipated to witness significant growth at a 15% CAGR over the next eight years.Increasing demand for mobility is driving the demand for advanced UC systems across the region.

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Evolution into an Integrated UC Provider

• Through internal R&D efforts and a series of acquisitions, Sangoma has transformed its business

from what was historically a single product, legacy telephony boards business to an integrated

Unified Communication solution, which is available on-premise and via the cloud.

• Key acquisition milestones include:

– VegaStream (acquired in August 2011 for £0.9M in cash): Acquired VOIP gateway appliances

– Schmooze (acquired in January 2015 for US$3M in cash and issued 3.65M shares for a value of US$1M

and entered into potential earn-outs of up to US$0.85M): Schmooze is the primary developer of

FreePBX and the manager/sponser of that open source project, one of the most widely used IP-PBXs

with millions of installs globally. Schmooze also offers chargeable, add-on commercial modules, support

services, accompanying hardware to complement FreePBX and an integrated SIP trunking service.

– RockBochs (acquired in January 2015 for US$1M in cash and potential earn-outs of US$500k ): Offers

Fax-over-IP monthly service, including developing its own FoIP customer premise equipment and offers

custom telecom appliances that allow customers to install their own communications software on a

purpose-built server.

– Micro Advantage (acquired in December 2016 for US$350k and potential earn-outs of US$300k): Is a

hosted telecom and IT provider in the Ohio area, that provides a range of services including a Cloud PBX

offering based upon Sangoma’s products and technology.

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Sangoma’s UC Product Portfolio

• Session Border Controllers (“SBC”)

– SBC is a device regularly deployed in VoIP networks to exert control over the signaling and usually also the mediastreams involved in setting up, conducting, and tearing down telephone calls or other interactive mediacommunications. Sangoma’s SBCs are available as hardware appliances, as software-only solutions running on avirtual machine in hosted environments, or as a hybrid of both.

• IP-PBX

– A PBX (Private Branch Exchange) is a system that connects telephone extensions to the Public Switched TelephoneNetwork and provides internal communication for a business. An IP-PBX is a PBX with Internet Protocol connectivityand may provide additional audio, video, or instant messaging communication utilizing the TCP/IP protocol stack.Sangoma offers a feature rich IP-PBX called PBXact and also has the most widely used software-based PBX in theworld called FreePBX, which is available free of charge as open source software. Both PBXact and FreePBX aresoftware products and are also available pre-loaded on a Sangoma telecom appliances.

• IP-Phones

– Sangoma’s range of IP-Phones are customized to seamlessly integrate with all FreePBX systems to provide zerotouch installation, simplified system management and instant access to a wide range of features.

• VOIP Gateways

– VoIP gateways are needed any time voice traffic moves from a VoIP network to a traditional PSTN telephonenetwork. As the traffic traverses these networks there are issues that need to be resolved regarding both the media(the sound of the caller ’s voice) and the signaling (the method used to control the media traveling over thatconnection). VoIP Gateways are also needed to connect traditional telephones to an IP-PBX

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Sangoma’s UC Product Platform

• PBXact UCC Service

– PBXact UCC service is a cloud based PBX service specifically designed to meet the needs of SMBs andsmall enterprise. PBXact UCC uses Sangoma IP phones and delivers simple online signup, unlimitedUS/Canada calling, number portability and VoIP security.

• SIPStation

– SIPStation is a hosted, SIP trunking service targeted to users of FreePBX systems. SIP trunking is fastbecoming the technology of choice to interconnect an IP-PBX system to a telephone company (in thiscase an IP telephony service provider or ITSP).

• FoIP

– Sangoma offers a hosted fax over internet protocol services, which is particularly useful for smallbusiness that rely on fax communications and also for industries with challenging network conditionssuch as mining, oil rigs, ship to shore over satellite.

• Call Center Software

– Sangoma currently supports two different products used by outbound call centers for call progressanalysis (CPA). The NetBorder Call Analyser is targeted at very large call centers and is usually deliveredunder an OEM arrangement with the company providing the call center solution. Lyra is a “lighter-weight” version of the software that has been optimized to work with contact centers that are built onthe Asterisk platform.

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Sangom’s UC Product Platform

• Other Connectivity and Media Processing Products

– Tapping Boards, which is a specialized, high-density board that can be used as part of large call

recording platforms

– Transcoding Boards and Gateways, are designed to translate media encoded by VoIP networks or

traditional telephony networks to allow calls to pass through networks.

– Multiplexers is a device that works at the physical layer of a network and is used to translate various

standards.

– PSTN Interface Boards, perform a very similar task to VoIP gates, but are installed inside the servers

rather than being stand-alone devices.

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Sangoma’s UC Product Platform

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Leverage Both Its Direct and Indirect Channels

• Sangoma has customers in over 100 countries with a very large base of users (up to 2M, which

includes FreePBX users). Roughly 55% of revenues are based out of North America, 20% in

Europe, 15% Asia Pacific and 10% Caribbean and Latin America.

• Sangoma sells its products on both a direct (typically to larger OEMs and carrier) and indirect

basis (for small-to-medium sized businesses and enterprises). The company has around 15

quota carrying sales reps.

• Carriers are typically telcos, ISPs, ITSPs, wireless/mobile operators, and service providers who

resell services using either their own networks or those of others. All of these organizations are

potential customers for Sangoma. OEM partners are companies that “design-in” Sangoma

products as a component of their solutions.

• In other cases, Sangoma utilizes an indirect distribution model (i.e. distributers and resellers) to

reach for enterprises and SMB. Using regional distributors and resellers supported by Sangoma’s

sales and marketing efforts has proven very successful.

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Broad Range Of Clients and Partners

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Revenue Model Focused on Predictability

• Sangoma generates revenues via hardware, software, service, and subscription fees.

• The company’s order size ranges between $2k to $200k and it does not have any

customer concentration.

• Revenues from the company’s newer products (i.e. not telephony cards) now represent

over 70% of total revenues and it has a strong recurring services revenue base now

representing 40% of revenues, including maintenance, subscription, software, and hosted

services.

• Seasonally, the company’s fiscal Q4 (ending June) is the strongest, while fiscal Q1 (ending

September) is the weakest.

• We believe the company’s ability to offer a full suite UC solution has enabled it to

successfully execute a “land and expand” strategy, which we believe has been a key driver

of organic revenue growth.

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Financial Review – Focus on Profitable Growth

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• Sangoma recently reported fiscal Q3 (ended March) revenues of $6.8M, which was up 28% y/y.

• EBITDA was $730k (up 62% y/y) representing EBITDA margins of 11%.

• Revenues were split $3.9M and $2.9M between products and services (services include recurringrevenues).

• YTD revenues and EBITDA are up 27% and 54% respectively.

• We believe the fiscal Q3 growth reflect the fruits of the company’s multi-year turnaround plan,which saw it transform from a single product company to a full-suite unified communicationprovider addressing a broad range of global customers.

• The company ended the quarter with $2.3M in cash against $1.3M in debt. FCF was largely flatwith operating cash flow of $586k offset by $21k in capex and $563k in capitalized developmentcosts. Changes in working capital was a drag at $554k as the company was building inventory forthe seasonal strong fiscal Q4.

• Note that to be conservative, amortization of capitalized development (~$435k per quarter) is notadded back to EBITDA, which we believe reduces the distortion stemming from the capitalizeddevelopment costs.

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Financial Review – Key Statistics

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Source: Company filings

Sangoma - Revenue Analysis

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Forecast Assumptions

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• As part of its recent fiscal Q3 results, the company guided for FY17 (ended June) revenues and

EBITDA to exceed $25M and $2.4M respectively. That would represent y/y revenue and EBITDA

growth of at least 18% and 70% respectively.

• For FY18 (ending June 2018), the company had previously guided to revenue growth of 15 – 20%

and EBITDA margins to exceed 10%, although the company plans to update this guidance (likely

on the upside) as part of its fiscal Q4 results (expected end-August).

• For the purposes of our go forward estimates, we have modeled organic revenue growth of

~14% for FY18 and FY19 and EBITDA margins to improve to 12% and 14.6% for FY18 and FY19.

We expect the company’s ability to meet or exceed our margin assumptions to be largely driven

by revenue mix (i.e. software/hosted services versus hardware product).

• The company has $2.1M of Federal tax credit carry forwards and also unutilized SR&ED

expenditures carry forward of $4.38M for deferral and Ontario income tax purposes. As such,

although we have modeled 35% taxes in our estimates, we expect cash taxes to be slightly lower.

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Financial Estimates

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Q4 FY17e FY17e FY18e FY19e

($) 30-Jun-17 30-Jun-17 30-Jun-18 30-Jun-19

Revenues 6,708,826 25,910,708 29,538,207 33,673,557

Gross profit 4,407,699 17,001,595 19,475,311 22,312,404

Gross margins 65.7% 65.6% 65.9% 66.3%

EBITDA 636,742 2,561,601 3,533,812 4,903,533

EBITDA margins 9.5% 9.9% 12.0% 14.6%

Sangoma - Financial Estimates

Source: Beacon Securities

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Initiating With a Buy Rating and $1.50 Target

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- As highlighted by the table in the following page, comparable companies are trading at a

forward EV/Sales multiple of ~1.3x and EV/EBITDA of ~10x.

- By comparison, Sangoma is trading at 0.7x and 4.6x respectively.

- Applying a 10x EV/EBITDA multiple to our FY19e (ending June 2019) estimates results in a target

price of $1.50.

- This represents a 121% potential return leading us to initiative coverage with a Buy rating.

- In our opinion, continued positive growth execution (particularly as it relates to successful cross-

selling activity within the large existing customer base) and potential acquisitions represent key

catalysts for the stock.

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Comparable Analysis

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2-Year 2-Year

Ticker Mkt Cap ($M) FY - 1 FY1 FY + 1 Revenue CAGR FY - 1 FY1 FY + 1 EBITDA CAGR FY -1 FY1 FY + 1

Comps

AudioCodes AUDC.O 210.37 1.4 x 1.3 x 1.2 x 6% 18.0 x 13.5 x 9.9 x 35% 14.8 x 20.2 x 17.2 x

Cisco CSCO.O 157,801.72 2.4 x 2.5 x 2.5 x -1% 7.3 x 7.1 x 7.1 x 1% 15.0 x 13.2 x 12.9 x

Clearone CLRO.O 80.52 1.4 x 1.3 x 1.2 x 7% 7.6 x 12.4 x 7.3 x 3% 35.2 x 23.1 x 14.1 x

Mitel Networks MITL.O 883.65 1.1 x 1.1 x 1.1 x -2% 6.6 x 8.0 x 6.8 x -1% 25.0 x 9.2 x 8.9 x

Shoretel Inc SHOR.O 419.89 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 x -1% 10.7 x 15.7 x 15.8 x -18% -85.2 x 107.0 x 91.1 x

Sonus Networks SONS.O 364.98 1.1 x 1.1 x 1.0 x 2% 10.5 x 14.2 x 11.6 x -5% -26.1 x 32.2 x 26.0 x

Global Average 1.4 x 1.4 x 1.3 x 2% 10.1 x 11.8 x 9.7 x 2% -3.6 x 34.2 x 28.4 x

Global Median 1.2 x 1.2 x 1.1 x 1% 9.1 x 12.9 x 8.6 x 0% 14.9 x 21.7 x 15.7 x

Sangoma Technologies STC.V 23.51 0.9 x 0.8 x 0.7 x 14% 8.8 x 6.4 x 4.6 x 38% 22.7 x 17.0 x 9.7 x

Sangoma: Peer Group Analysis

Source: Thomson, Company filings, Beacon Securities

EV/Sales EV/EBITDA P/E

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Risks To Our Analysis

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Ability to grow profitably – While the company has done a great job in stabilizing its operations, it isstill in the very early innings of its revenue growth initiatives and its ability to grow profitably will bea key item to watch.

Legacy products declining – Around 30% of the company’s revenues are still derived from its legacytelephony cards business. While the company has done a good job extending the life cycle of thisproduct through geographic expansion, we anticipate that this will remain a declining business,which will need to be offset by its newer products.

Financing and integration risks – We anticipate that acquisitions will remain a pillar for growth forSangoma over the near-term. We believe this introduces potential financing (i.e. dilution) andintegration risks. However, based on recent transactions and results, we believe the managementteam has done a good job driving positive synergies with its acquired businesses.

Competition – We view the unified communication market as being very competitor with numerous(larger) competitors in Sangoma’s key focus markets. Key competitors include Avaya, Cisco, RingCentral in hosted and cloud-relate services. Within the enterprise, we believe Sangoma facescompetition from traditional IP communications vendors and Software ventures such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Mitel.

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Seasoned Management Team

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William J. Wignall, President and CEO has run several technology companies and prior to Sangoma held the role of President

and CEO at Truition, a developer and marketer of e-Commerce software. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of

Electronics Workbench.

David S. Moore, CFO, is a CMA with 25 years of experience in both public and private companies within the technology sector.

Most recently he was CFO at Truition Inc. and before that CFO of Fifty-Plus International (now trading as Zoomer Media).

Tony Lewis, COO, oversees Global Sales, R&D and Operations. Prior to joining Sangoma, Mr. Lewis was the CEO and co-

founder of Schmooze Communications, which was acquired by Sangoma.

Frederic Dickey, VP of Marketing & Product Management, was previously at Paraxip leading marketing and business

development efforts, which was acquired by Sangoma in July 2008. Prior to that, he was GM at Kallastra, a wholly-owned

subsidiary of Octasic Semiconductors, and has over 25 years of experience in the networking industry starting at Nortel.

Doug Vilim, VP Global Sales, prior to joining Sangoma, Doug worked in positions of increasing responsibility in sales and

marketing roles at Eicon Networks, now Dialogic, as well as 10 years in pre-sales technical which lead to positions in Channel

and Enterprise sales at NEC and Compaq

Nenad Corbic, CTO, is an industry veteran with 20 years of engineering experience in the networking industry, and leads

Sangoma’s global R&D efforts with teams around the world.

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Board of Directors

David Mandelstam (Chairman) – was previously President and CEO of Sangoma.

Yves Laliberte - has held (and currently holds) senior management positions in various companies, including those

listed on the TSX and NASDAQ. He is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and was part of the Audit

Committee of Aastra Technologies Limited until April 2006.

Allan James Brett - is a CPA, CA and CBV, and is currently the CFO at The Descartes Systems Group Inc., a public

company listed on the TSX and NASDAQ. From June 1996 until January 2014, Mr. Brett was the CFO at Aastra

Techonlogies Limited, a TSX listed company.

William Wignall – is CEO of Sangoma

Al Guarino – is Chair of the Audit Committee and is currently CEO of PhysioMed Physician Services in Toronto. He

has previously been CFO of Health Holdings Company and was the Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen

Enterprise Practice. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of

Toronto.

19Gabriel Leung, 416-507-3963

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Capital Structure

20Gabriel Leung, 416-507-3963

Basic shares outstanding 32,479,809

Warrants 0

Options 5,967,160 - Average exercise price of $0.31

Fully diluted shares outstanding 38,446,969 - Without considering strike price

Key shareholders

David Mandelstam 4,292,500 - Former CEO of Sangoma, now Chairman

Other Insiders 185,500

Nicholas Galea 5,658,500 - CEO of 3CX, which is a competitor of Sangoma

Sangoma Capital Structure

Source: Beacon Securities, Company filings

- Of note, ~15% of shares are held by Nicholas Galea who is CEO of 3CX (a Sangoma competitor). As we understand it, the shares are held as a personal investment for Mr. Galea.

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Sangoma - Income Statement

FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 Q1 FY17 Q2 FY17 Q3 FY17 Q4 FY17 FY17 FY18 FY19

(C$) 30-Jun-13 30-Jun-14 30-Jun-15 30-Jun-16 30-Sep-16 31-Dec-16 31-Mar-17 30-Jun-17 30-Jun-17 30-Jun-18 30-Jun-19

Revenue 12,950,178 13,829,082 16,318,046 21,193,272 5,820,431 6,569,674 6,811,777 6,708,826 25,910,708 29,538,207 33,673,557

Y/Y Revenue Growth -5.9% 6.8% 18.0% 29.9% 23.5% 29.3% 28.5% 10.0% 22.3% 14.0% 14.0%

Cost of sales 4,465,551 4,574,556 5,351,335 6,785,161 2,054,980 2,219,213 2,333,793 2,301,127 8,909,113 10,062,896 11,361,152

Gross profit 8,484,627 9,254,526 10,966,711 14,408,111 3,765,451 4,350,461 4,477,984 4,407,699 17,001,595 19,475,311 22,312,404

Gross margins 65.5% 66.9% 67.2% 68.0% 64.7% 66.2% 65.7% 65.7% 65.6% 65.9% 66.3%

Expenses:

Sales and marketing 2,777,713 3,359,401 3,596,652 4,401,707 1,074,293 1,164,015 1,344,823 1,341,765 4,924,896 5,876,815 6,734,711

% of revenues 21.4% 24.3% 22.0% 20.8% 18.5% 17.7% 19.7% 20.0% 19.0% 19.9% 20.0%

R&D 2,827,648 2,594,514 3,437,852 4,608,540 1,193,845 1,284,712 1,300,525 1,300,525 5,079,607 5,450,525 5,900,000

% of revenues 21.8% 18.8% 21.1% 21.7% 20.5% 19.6% 19.1% 19.4% 19.6% 18.5% 17.5%

General and administration 3,080,595 2,416,295 3,269,863 4,958,014 1,351,792 1,385,967 1,405,127 1,405,127 5,548,013 5,720,000 5,880,000

% of revenues 23.8% 17.5% 20.0% 23.4% 23.2% 21.1% 20.6% 20.9% 21.4% 19.4% 17.5%

Foreign currency exchange (gain) loss -141,024 -56,472 -268,071 50,391 15,339 24,233 -25,462 0

8,544,932 8,313,738 10,036,296 14,018,652 3,635,269 3,858,927 4,025,013 4,047,417 15,552,516 17,047,340 18,514,711

Operating income -60,305 940,788 930,415 389,459 130,182 491,534 452,971 360,282 1,449,079 2,427,972 3,797,693

EBITDA 628,096 1,298,038 1,637,238 1,432,597 422,100 759,218 729,431 636,742 2,561,601 3,533,812 4,903,533

EBITDA margins 4.9% 9.4% 10.0% 6.8% 7.3% 11.6% 10.7% 9.5% 9.9% 12.0% 14.6%

Interest income -26,907 -26,809 -17,992 -2,694 0 0 0

Interest expense 198,000 0 46,282 108,761 24,565 23,116 27,071 27,071 101,823 108,284 108,284

Impairment of intangible asset 1,056,088

Accelerated amortization of patents

Impairment of goodwill 3,543,912

Business acquisition costs 0 0 297,145

Income before taxes -4,831,398 967,597 604,980 283,392 105,617 468,418 425,900 333,211 1,347,256 2,319,688 3,689,409

Income taxes -496,741 230,547 352,102 168,959 42,075 178,423 145,273 116,624 482,395 811,891 1,291,293

Tax rate 10.3% 23.8% 58.2% 59.6% 39.8% 38.1% 34.1% 35.0% 35.8% 35.0% 35.0%

Net income -4,334,657 737,050 252,878 114,433 63,542 289,995 280,627 216,587 864,861 1,507,797 2,398,116

EPS:

Basic -0.15 0.03 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.05 0.07

FD -0.15 0.03 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.04 0.07

Shares outstanding:

Basic 29,261,162 28,829,809 30,629,809 32,479,809 32,479,809 32,479,809 32,479,809 32,479,809 32,479,809 32,479,809 32,479,809

FD 29,261,162 28,829,809 30,629,809 32,479,809 33,021,912 33,237,533 34,576,650 34,576,650 33,853,186 34,214,918 34,034,052

Source: Company filings, Beacon Securities

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Sangoma - Balance Sheet

FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 Q1 FY17 Q2 FY17 Q3 FY17

(C$) 30-Jun-13 30-Jun-14 30-Jun-15 30-Jun-16 30-Sep-16 31-Dec-16 31-Mar-17

Assets

Current assets

Cash 4,012,126 4,981,571 2,518,156 2,086,932 2,365,107 2,277,375 2,278,521

Trade receivables 4,963,684 5,309,728 5,267,027 4,214,079 3,294,276 3,312,985 3,773,250

Inventories 3,035,704 2,587,634 3,975,892 3,887,233 3,993,363 4,533,404 5,031,638

Investment tax credits receivable 321,794 367,874 364,797 374,115 313,837 313,837 70,563

Income taxes receivable

Sales tax receivables 28,854 44,422

Investment in Vegastream Private Networks 10,665 10,665

Other current asset 47,677 115,348 205,532 448,939 561,983 421,018 249,608

Total current assets 12,420,504 13,417,242 12,331,404 11,011,298 10,528,566 10,858,619 11,403,580

Non-current assets

Property and equipment 333,451 349,553 494,945 597,103 569,771 564,346 555,194

Intangible assets 1,172,642 998,514 5,938,508 5,480,583 5,313,905 6,080,249 5,818,191

Development costs 2,539,418 2,745,227 2,173,284 2,506,452 2,518,613 2,560,992 2,551,915

Deferred income tax assets 887,581 944,282 1,231,340 1,520,472 1,657,972 1,792,330 1,929,644

Goodwill 0 0 1,750,066 1,638,546 1,638,546 1,638,546 1,638,546

4,933,092 5,037,576 11,588,143 11,743,156 11,698,807 12,636,463 12,493,490

Total assets 17,353,596 18,454,818 23,919,547 22,754,454 22,227,373 23,495,082 23,897,070

Liabilities

Current liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 1,628,555 1,705,802 4,067,014 2,435,687 1,729,121 2,467,695 2,384,822

Provision 23,318 43,318 83,318 103,318 108,318 113,318 118,318

Sales tax payable 0 113,735 60,006 11,064 81,791

Income tax payable 21,598 116,000 117,187 64,130 241,507 373,084

Operating line 1,340,603 1,340,603 1,340,603 1,340,603 1,340,603

Current portion of term loan 17,035

Deferred revenue 146,514 300,226 359,868 417,369 495,284 481,604 449,570

Total current liabilities 1,815,422 2,070,944 5,966,803 4,527,899 3,797,462 4,655,791 4,748,188

Term loan

Deferred income tax liabilities

Total liabilities 1,815,422 2,070,944 5,966,803 4,527,899 3,797,462 4,655,791 4,748,188

Shareholders' equity

Share capital 15,333,326 15,333,326 16,497,326 16,497,326 16,497,326 16,497,326 16,497,326

Contributed surplus 1,621,375 1,730,025 1,882,017 2,060,557 2,131,991 2,210,009 2,248,944

Accumulated other comprehensive income 0 -19,162 49,218 90,585 80,614

Deficit -1,416,527 -679,477 -426,599 -312,166 -28,624 41,371 321,998

Total shareholders' equity 15,538,174 16,383,874 17,952,744 18,226,555 18,649,911 18,839,291 19,148,882

Total liabilities and shareholders' equity 17,353,596 18,454,818 23,919,547 22,754,454 22,447,373 23,495,082 23,897,070

Source: Company filings, Beacon Securities

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Sangoma - Consolidated cash flow statement

FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 Q1 FY17 Q2 FY17 Q3 FY17

(C$) 30-Jun-13 30-Jun-14 30-Jun-15 30-Sep-16 31-Dec-16 31-Mar-17

Operating activities:

Net income -4,334,657 737,050 252,878 114,433 63,542 289,995 280,627

Adjustments for:

Depreciation of property and equipment 87,219 74,472 102,825 121,648 34,513 29,356 30,097

Amortization of intangible assets 407,393 174,128 452,006 742,950 185,972 160,310 207,428

Amortization of capitalized development costs 1,747,593 1,673,410 1,750,466 1,525,977 423,703 429,054 435,484

Unrealized foreign exchange gain 0 -132,240 7,009 -13,573 -4,223

Income tax expense -496,741 230,547 352,102 168,959 42,075 178,423 145,273

Income tax paid 8,632 -14,245 -37,449

Income tax refunds 760,638 208,075

Share-based compensation expense 193,789 108,650 151,992 178,540 71,433 78,018 38,935

Impairment of intangible assets 1,056,088

Impairment of goodwill 3,543,912

Investment in Vegastream Private Networks 10,665

Accretion expense 15,843 12,825 0 0 7,267

Change in item of working capital:

Trade receivables -468,666 -346,044 42,701 1,060,308 919,803 -18,709 -460,265

Inventories 5,133 448,070 -1,388,258 88,659 -106,130 -540,041 -498,234

Other current assets 327,856 -67,671 -90,184 -244,564 -113,045 140,966 171,410

Sales tax payable 188,570 -15,568 44,422 113,735 -53,729 -48,942 70,727

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities -473,043 77,247 693,977 249,995 -706,566 738,575 -57,744

Provision 23,318 20,000 40,000 20,000 5,000 5,000 5,000

Deferred revenue 43,552 153,712 59,642 53,930 77,916 -13,680 -32,035

Income tax payable 21,598 94,402 -8,510 -53,054 177,377 3,053

Income tax refund 0 0 0 243,274

Investment tax credits receivables 239,390 -46,080 3,077 -9,318 60,278 0 0

Income tax paid 0 0 0 0 0 -94,680 0

-113,890 245,264 -500,221 1,324,235 30,473 345,866 -554,814

Operating cash flow 2,090,706 3,252,153 3,334,949 4,227,953 858,720 1,497,449 586,074

Investing activities:

Purchase of property and equipment -42,110 -90,574 -248,217 -214,456 -7,181 -23,931 -20,945

Development costs -2,790,468 -2,175,099 -2,234,750 -2,562,936 -573,364 -608,933 -563,934

Acquisition of Schmooze and Rockboch 0 -4,656,000 0 0 0 0

Business combination

Payment of contingent consideration 0 0 -1,868,400 0 0 0

Purchase of intangible assets 0 0 0 0 -952,317 0

Total investing activities -2,832,578 -2,265,673 -7,138,967 -4,645,792 -580,545 -1,585,181 -584,879

Financing activities:

Repayment of term loan -34,072 -17,035 0 0 0 0 0

NCIB -228,755

Operating line 0 0 1,340,603 0 0 0 0

-262,827 -17,035 1,340,603 0 0 0 0

Effect of f/x on cash 0 0 0 -13,385 0 0 0

Change in cash -1,004,699 969,445 -2,463,415 -431,224 278,175 -87,732 1,195

Cash, beginning of period 5,016,825 4,012,126 4,981,571 2,518,156 2,086,932 2,365,107 2,277,376

Cash, end of period 4,012,126 4,981,571 2,518,156 2,086,932 2,365,107 2,277,375 2,278,571

Source: Company filings, Beacon Securities

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