Kelyn Brannon
Analyst · Scott Berg of Needham. Your line is open
Thank you, Pat and good afternoon everyone. As you heard from Pat the first quarter marked a strong start to the year with several strategic acquisitions customer expansion and new logos along with the up-sell and cross-sell to our growing customer base. As usual all non-revenue financial figures I will discuss today are non-GAAP unless I state them as a GAAP measure. As always, you will find a reconciliation from GAAP to non-GAAP results in today's press release. I would also like to remind everyone that we adopted a new revenue recognition accounting standard otherwise referred to as a ASC 606. During the first quarter of 2018 on a modified retrospective basis. This means that results for reporting periods beginning on or after January first 2018 are presented under the new revenue recognition standard while prior period amounts before January 01, 2018 are not adjusted. There is no significant impact to our revenue recognition under 606 sales commission expenses, extended to between five to ten years which resulted in an $126,000 reduction in commission expense for Q1 of 2018. Now, let me review our financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018. Total revenue for the first quarter increased 80% to $19.3 million from $10.7 million in Q1 of last year. The primary contributor of this increase was recurring cloud revenue, which more than doubled year-over-year growing an impressive 110%. In fact cloud revenue grew almost $5 million, sequentially and represented 85% of total revenue in Q1 up from 73% in Q1 of last year. As Pat mentioned, we've been pleased with our ability to steer the business towards a visible recurring revenue focused cloud Company. In Q1 recurring revenue, which includes the sum of cloud revenue and maintenance and support revenue represented 91% of total revenue up from 83% in the first quarter last year. Q1 benefited from typical seasonality we experienced as a result of one-time W-2 and ACA processing. To be more transparent, we've normalized these one-time benefits to disclose a normalized recurring revenue, which represents 82% of total revenue, up from 80% the first quarter last year. Hardware revenue in Q1 was $719,000, down from a little over a $1 million in Q1 of last year. The hardware line item on our P&L can fluctuate from quarter-to-quarter based on purchasing patterns. That said, it isn’t a material contributor to the business, contributing under 4% of total revenue during Q1. We are pleased to see on-premise software decline as it demonstrates our success in migrating any remaining customers to our cloud offerings. In Q1 2018 on-premise revenue represented less than 1% of total revenue. As a result, we've combined the on-premise revenue with maintenance and support revenue on our P&L. Maintenance and support revenue of $1.2 million was up 7% over Q1 of last year. Professional services revenue for Q1 with $975,000, up from $701,000 in the year ago quarter. As a reminder, services revenue ebbs and flows based on a variety of factors. We view services as an enabling function that is a accelerator to our cloud offerings which drives the real growth and value to our shareholders. Next, I'll discuss our profitability metric. GAAP gross profit for the first quarter of 2018 was $13.7 million or 71.2% of total revenue, a $5.4 million improvement over the $8.3 million in the first quarter of 2017. You'll note that our gross margin in Q1 was impacted due to the shift in revenue mix. As you recall, we acquired three resellers at the beginning of the year. These resellers typically carry lower gross margins and represented a larger portion of our revenue mix in the quarter, which resulted in the overall gross margin reduction. As you'll see in today’s press release, we are also disclosing non-GAAP gross profit which adds back amortization and stock-based comp to GAAP gross profit. For the quarter – for the first quarter non-GAAP EBITDA including – excluding acquisition cost and onetime items totaled $3.8 million, an increase of 121% of full step up of $2.1 million from $1.7 million in Q1 of last year. Non-GAAP EBTIDA, as a percent of revenue, was 19.6% versus 16% in Q1 of 2017. As you know Q1 typically trends down as a result of employer taxes and benefits as you kick off the year. In addition Q1 2018 was impacted by our recent acquisitions which typically take six months or so to achieve planned synergies. For the first quarter of 2018 our non-GAAP net income totaled $1.7 million or $0.13 per share. Asure previously disclosed non-GAAP net income excluding the two onetime items, amortization expense, and other onetime expenses and stock based compensation. I'd like to note that beginning in 2018 we are also adding back the non-cash tax effect of acquired goodwill and amortization. So these can vary in size and frequency. When removing these costs our effective tax rate is approximately zero percent. We feel that this is a more [Audio Gap] in today's press release. Based on our prior methodology or what analysts previously modeled for non-GAAP EPS, our Q1 2018 non-GAAP EPS would have been $0.11 per share. You'll note that we have shown both measures in this table and going ahead we will be disclosing non-GAAP net income loss and EPS under this new methodology. As we begin to implement our new ERP system, we are able to make refinements to provide more detailed disclosures. Shifting gears to our balance sheet. At quarter-end, we had $26 million in cash and cash equivalents and $115 million in debt. Deferred revenue on the balance sheet as of March 31, 2018 was $13.2 million, an increase of 33% year-over-year. Unbilled deferred revenue, which represents business that is contracted but unbilled and off balance sheet into the first quarter at $14.1 million, up 422% year-over-year. Backlog which we define as a sum of deferred revenue and unbilled deferred revenue was $27.3 million, up 167% year-over-year. DSOs in Q1 were 80 days down from 84 days in the year-ago quarter. During Q1, we invested approximately $25 million in cash to consummate three acquisitions. We added 81 employees in Q1 bringing our total headcount to 405. Before I turn the call back to Pat, I want to congratulate him on being nominated as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. I can speak for the entire Asure team when I say that Pat is an outstanding leader who has dramatically impacted the directory of Asure over the past nine years and will continue to lead us during this exciting time for our company. Now I'll turn the call over to Pat. Pat?