Brad Hale
Analyst · Wells Fargo. Please state your question
Thanks, Trevor, and good afternoon to everyone on the call. For the first quarter, we generated revenue growth of 182% to $152.8 million. The revenue growth was driven once again by our hybrid growth model, namely outsized organic growth, combined with contributions from new partnerships. We once again generated double-digit organic revenue growth on a year-over-year basis, recording 14% organic growth for the quarter, thanks primarily to particularly strong performance from our Specialty segment, driven by the MGA of the Future, as well as accelerating trends during the quarter in all our segments. This was despite some headwinds in organic contingent income revenue across our Middle Market and Main Street segments. Given that partnerships are an important portion of our own ongoing growth strategy. In our regulatory filings, we also provide revenue metrics on an unaudited pro forma basis. This provides investors with a more apples-to-apples comparison, is it for 2021 partnerships, had been acquired on January 1, 2021. For the first quarter of 2021, unaudited pro forma revenue was $153.3 million. Unaudited pro forma information should not be relied upon as being indicative of the historical results that would have been obtained if the partnerships that occurred on that date, nor the results that may be obtained in the future. GAAP net income for the first quarter was $30.6 million or $0.32 per fully diluted share. Adjusted net income for the first quarter of 2021, which excludes share-based compensation, amortization, and other one-time expenses, was $42.5 million, or $0.44 per fully diluted share. A table reconciling GAAP net income to adjusted net income can be found in our earnings release in our 10-Q filed with the SEC. Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2021 rose 276% over the prior year period to $52.7 million. As a reminder in Q1 2020, we had $54.2 million in revenue. Thus, we almost generated as much adjusted EBITDA this Q1 as we did revenue last Q1. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 35% for the first quarter of 2021, compared to 26% in the prior year period. As a reminder, our adjusted EBITDA margins are seasonal in nature, with Q1 being the strongest quarter. We typically record lower margins throughout the balance of the year. For the second quarter, we would anticipate an adjusted EBITDA margin, approximately 150 to 200 basis points lower than the 16% we experienced in the same quarter of 2020, which is entirely timing related as a result of seasonality of the business changing given our M&A success. For the full year, we now expect 150 to 200 basis point margin increase in adjusted EBITDA margin relative to last year's 18%. Our MGA of the Future platform continues to outperform growing 56% during the quarter compared to the prior year period. The results were driven by continued growth in renters, and supplemented by the master tenant liability product we launched in the fourth quarter of 2020. As a reminder, our master tenant liability product allows property managers to identify tenants without renters insurance, and obtain insurance for their units. It's a particularly exciting product for us, given our multifamily expertise and existing client bases across both the MGA and our Middle Market business. Also related to the MGA of the Future, we successfully launched our new private flood product in April and continue to work on the launch of our Florida homeowners' product later this year. We don't anticipate flooded home to begin meaningfully contributing to growth in the MGA until 2022. But as we've previously stated, we believe our ability to launch additional products in the MGA continues to be a key component to our long-term success. And we will remain focused on doing so. Within renters' policies in force increased by over 41,000 from December 31, 2020 to 566,000 as of March 31, as compared to an increase of 27,000 over the same period last year. As of May 8 policies in force has increased further to approximately 582,000. Since our last earnings call on March 11, we also turned on an additional 250,000 units bringing the total unit count, in which our renter solution is available to roughly 8.5 million, providing a nice runway for continued future growth. Finally, we took advantage of our larger size and fantastic performance during a tough COVID economy, coupled with our revolving lenders willingness and increased our leverage covenants to 6 times versus 5 times. Today, this gives us additional margin of safety. And we thought accepting an offer to relax covenants is always in our shareholders best interest. With that, I will now turn the call over to Kris.