Bill Stone
Analyst · Craig-Hallum. Please go ahead, sir
Great. Thanks, Brian, and thank you all for joining our call tonight. I'm going to break my prepared remarks into four areas. First, I want to talk about the elephant in the room that is top of mind for most investors and that's the real time impact of COVID-19 on our business. I will then briefly close out our fiscal year, spend a few moments on the closing of our Mobile Posse acquisition and how we're going to talk about the Mobile Posse results against the broader business, and finally provide some real time operational details on our progress against our broader long-term diversification strategies. Regarding our current performance in the COVID-19 environment, many investors may have speculated our performance will suffer as a result of disappointing demand from advertisers and disappointing supply of devices from their local closed carrier stores. The reality is as our performance has never been stronger as a result of a winning strategy, great attention to detail and our execution and amazing team here at DT. Both Barrett and I will provide more color on these dynamics later in our remarks, but when we compare the financial results from our two businesses on a combined basis for April and May 2019 results to April and May of 2020 results, we are seeing double digit top line revenue growth with expanding profitability and margins. In other words, while neither we nor anyone out there can predict with certainty of what the macro future holds in a COVID-19 environment. In the present Digital Turbine is setting all time monthly performance records and its results in this highly strange macro environment. Again, we'll provide more details later in our remarks, but I want to make sure we don't bury the lead message we want investors to take away from today's call. And that message is our business has never been healthier or stronger than it is right now. Closing out our fiscal year, we finished with $138.7 million in revenue and $19.6 million in EBITDA, which included one month of Mobile Posse results. Both financial metrics exceeded our expectations, which comprises over 30% annual top line growth and over 100% annual growth in EBITDA. We also finished the year with our Ignite software installed on over 400 million devices globally, including growth of 150 million devices in the fiscal year, which compared to just over 100 million devices added in the prior fiscal year. I was also pleased with our progress on revenue per device or RPD, which is a key health metric of our business. RPD continues to improve both internationally and here in the U.S. with U.S. RPD growth of 32% in the fiscal year. We spent March focused on integrating our Mobile Posse business, and we continue to be pleased with the acquisition as our strategic and financial rationales for this transaction are all intact. We've integrated our management teams, our back office activities and our business development efforts. To further facilitate that integration as one company versus two companies, we've also renamed our business units. Going forward, you will not hear us spend much time referring to Mobile Posse, rather you'll hear us refer to three lines of businesses in our remarks. First, we have an application media business that is focused on delivering applications to devices. This is largely our core Digital Turbine business that investors knew pre-acquisition. We also have a content media business, which is focused on delivering content, such as news, weather, sports and entertainment to devices and monetize through programmatic advertising. This includes all the legacy Mobile Posse revenues plus our media hub revenues that have been transitioned to be managed by the former Mobile Posse team. And finally, we have other miscellaneous revenues that are comprised of license fees from operators, professional services and the like. This third category is not material today. And that's, we're not going to spend a great deal of time on it, but want to make sure investors understand the distinction that this third business unit is focused on us getting paid from the carrier or the OEM versus getting paid from the media partner. Now turning to our results across these business segments, the strong results are the direct result of our strategy of diversification we embarked on years ago. Diversification of business partners, products, business models, geographies, and so on. We are no longer reliant upon any single variable in our business to define our success. In terms of partner diversification, our total revenue with our initial U.S. partners of Verizon, AT&T, Cricket and U.S. Cellular increased year-over-year despite a decline in the total combined devices sold. Today, these four partners represent less than 50% of our total revenues. This compares to over 70% for the fiscal year 2020 and nearly 90% for fiscal 2019, helping us to diversify partners are now having T-Mobile being a large content business partner, plus our rollouts with newer U.S.-based partners, such as Tracfone and international partners, such as Samsung and America Movil. Our application business revenue from international partners has increased 80% year-over-year driven by Samsung, America Movil and others. And this has taken our international partner revenues contributing now approximately 20% of our application media revenues. And this compares to 9% of revenues a year ago. And with our Samsung momentum combined with the launches of Xiaomi in India and Telefonica and Latin America and Europe happening later this quarter, we expect these numbers to continue to grow. Product diversification is another primary growth driver for the business. In terms of product diversification, dynamic installs comprise approximately 60% of our revenues today. This compares to almost 80% for the fiscal year 2020 and over 85%, two years ago. Our content products are now approximately 25% of revenues. Our other application products, such as Single-Tap, Folders, Notification and wizard are approximately 15% of revenues. And we are continuing to innovate with new products, content, television, and home screen experiences that will further diversify these numbers. As we are seeing strong demand for more offerings with our existing operator and OEM partners above and beyond those that we have today. And finally, our business models have diversified, driven primarily by our content business. More than 30% of our revenues are now recurring revenue streams that are insulated from new device sales. This compares to less than 5% of revenues being recurrent a year ago. And regarding some of the details we're seeing in the current pandemic, I would characterize our business as extremely resilient, due to strong demand from advertisers and global device supply continuing to be robust. Demand is exceeding our expectations for a few reasons. First is that our platform provides complete view through to end user engagement and spend off an application. So for example, if a customer engages with an application such as Pandora or TikTok, both of those companies can track exactly how much benefit they received from using our platform. This helps them drive additional spend on a platform due to the strong ROI they see from their new customers. And in a world where marketing dollars need to show clear and measurable return on investment, our platform provides exactly that. And secondly, we know that media dollars follow where eyeballs are and those eyeballs are in applications, whether that is in social media, streaming audio, streaming video or gaming, and all of these categories are spending more dollars with us today compared to prior periods. And unlike most other media businesses, we have limited exposure to categories like restaurants, small business, travel, automobiles and other hard-hit sectors of the pandemic. The other dynamic is supply. Smartphone is one of the things that none of us can live without in today's world. And here in the U.S. while some local shops may be closed, we've seen a migration to online shopping smartphones. Our carrier and OEM partners have estimated that anywhere from 60% to 70% of device sales are now being purchased online, which compares to 10% to 15% pre-crisis. And while some U.S. operators may be reporting slower upgrade cycles, it's also important to note that our software is installed on approximately 60% of the Android devices here in the United States and 15% globally. Thus even if overall device growth were to slow, we have a long way to go before our overall device growth slows. And we expect to materially improve our device volumes, despite this pandemic, given this penetration dynamic. In this top line growth, margin expansion, operating leverage, free cash flow, and strengthening balance sheet are not the results of any financial engineering. There are the results of us simply focusing on the fundamentals. Our strong operating performance is being driven by these diversification metrics and the strategy we embarked on in a few years ago is now bearing real fruit in these difficult macroeconomic times. And before I turn it over to Barrett, I want to give a shout out to our entire DT Team that is now official includes the Mobile Posse team. Being able to accomplish these results in a difficult remote work setting is truly amazing. Work can be harder when you can interact face to face with your customers, your partners, and your colleagues, and our history and culture of being a more global and distributed workforce than most other companies that operate out of a traditional headquarter office setting provides us a unique advantage in this new normal world and combined with a team's focus. So accountability and community, and just great command over the key business drivers it’s which generating strong results. And with that, I'll turn it over to Barrett to take it through the numbers.