Githesh Ramamurthy
Analyst · JPMorgan
Thanks, Brian, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. We're excited to have recently completed our business combination with Dragoneer, returning CCC to the public markets under the ticker CCCS. I'd like to thank Dragoneer for their incredible partnership during the merger process, and we look forward to their continued support as one of our largest shareholders. Being able to partner with one of the world's most successful investment firms on this journey was an important validation of our differentiated market position and how we manage the business for the long term. I'd also like to thank everyone at CCC. Becoming a publicly traded company is an important milestone for our business that would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of every single CCC-er. As part of this process, we renamed the company CCC Intelligent Solutions, which reflects our emergence as a SaaS technology partner focused on applying AI, IoT and advanced analytics across the insurance economy. In the 6 months since we announced our business combination with Dragoneer, we've met with over 70 investment firms and learned a great deal about what shareholders are most focused on. In particular, we recognize that there is great interest in understanding how the different opportunities we are targeting could enable us to grow above our 7% to 10% long-term revenue growth objectives. On today's call and going forward, one of our goals is to explain what we are putting in place by way of growth objectives, how this supports our customers' digitization journeys and why we are optimistic about the future. I'd like to start by summarizing our financial results for the second quarter. Revenue was $166.8 million, up 11% year-over-year on a reported basis and 16% adjusted for a divestiture last year. This was ahead of our guidance and the fourth consecutive quarter of accelerating growth. Adjusted EBITDA was $60.1 million, which represents a 36% margin, up more than 350 basis points from the second quarter of 2020. Again, this performance was ahead of our guidance. We are pleased with our performance in Q2 as trends across our business continued to improve throughout the quarter. The auto insurance economy is at the very early stages of its digitization, which we estimate represents a $9 billion market opportunity in the United States and a $35 billion opportunity globally. We believe CCC has developed the most comprehensive and effective platform with the CCC cloud, putting us in a great position to benefit from the secular trend of digitization. I'd like to spend a few minutes reviewing some of the key highlights from the second quarter. First, I'll start by discussing some of the key growth drivers and customer wins during the second quarter, with a strong quarter with continued momentum, cross-selling additional solutions to our existing customers. As we've discussed in the past, most of our growth comes from our existing customers, which reflects our proven track record of innovating new solutions that drive increased value across the auto insurance ecosystem. We saw strong customer engagement and buying patterns improved as the economy reopened from COVID restrictions in recent months. From a new business perspective, we are approaching pre-COVID levels of activity in many of our different customer segments. We had a strong quarter with our insurance customers, while increasingly embracing the CCC cloud's ability to drive greater operating efficiencies, support faster quality claim processing and provide their customers with a modern, digital experience they've come to expect in all aspects of their lives. Adoption of our AI and mobile solutions remain key priorities for many of our insurance customers, and we see a long runway of opportunity in these areas. A good indication of the adoption of mobile is an increasing percentage of claims being settled via mobile. Since the onset of COVID, more than 20% of all claims on the CCC cloud were done via mobile. This compares to 15% in 2019. We expect this number will keep growing as larger national insurers introduce and expand their digital initiatives. Our Total Loss solution, which streamlines the total loss claims process when a vehicle is unable to be repaired, had a strong quarter as well. We signed new deals with 2 top 10 insurers that expanded their Total Loss solution set deployment to further automate downstream aspects of the total loss process, driving greater operational efficiency and faster claim resolution for the policyholders. In addition, we expanded the Total Loss ecosystem by adding several new auto lenders to the platform. We performed well with our repair facility customers where adoption of our Engage package, which facilitates simple yet powerful mobile engagement with their customers, remain strong. We added more than 1,000 new repair facilities to the CCC platform in the first half of 2021, which is a roughly 4% increase to our repair facility footprint. We now have more than 26,000 repair facility customers. We're excited to see that nearly 30% of these customers have adopted Engage in the 18 months since it was introduced. As you know, we serve as a system of record for our repair facility customers, and our ability to automate and manage many of their key processes drives greater revenue and profitability for them. We believe we have an extensive opportunity to deploy additional capabilities to our existing customers. We have the ability to drive attractive growth with the current set of solutions for the foreseeable future. And as I'll highlight in a moment, we are hard at work delivering exciting new innovation that will provide additional avenues for growth in the future. The second area I'd like to highlight is our success in emerging parts of the auto economy ecosystem. As we discussed with investors in recent months, there is tremendous innovation happening across the industry. Whether it is new modes of transportation or digital innovation reaching a new part of the market, the complexity of this ecosystem continues to increase. We also see a great opportunity to expand with fast-moving, innovative tech-driven start-ups in insurance and other parts of the market, like rideshare and large rental operations. I'd like to highlight 2 recent wins and provide an update on the expansion of our parts platform to demonstrate our early success in these areas. Buckle is an inclusive tech-enabled financial services company that provides auto insurance to gig economy drivers, a rapidly growing part of the transportation market. Transportation network companies and their drivers will benefit from digital solutions that utilize mobile and AI to enable a self-guided auto claims experience. Buckle is initially deploying CCC Quick Estimate, CCC Smart Total Loss and CCC Quick Valuation to provide drivers full transparency and faster resolution of the claims. Our work with Buckle is another example of the new growth opportunities that are being created by innovation across the transportation industry. Next, we recently signed an agreement with one of the world's largest global vehicle rental companies for our core estimating workflow solution. By deploying this offering, this customer will be able to streamline the inspection and repair process for its fleet. This is an exciting initial win that has additional opportunities to expand its usage of CCC to more solution sets. Parts is an area where we're seeing impressive growth, including a record for parts orders in the second quarter. We are still relatively early in the rollout of our parts solution, but the significant growth in order volume, which was up nearly 80% year-over-year, is a good demonstration of the value repair facilities and parts suppliers realized from transacting directly through the CCC platform. We believe CCC's platform will play an indispensable role as the market continues to expand and new entrants push the boundaries of what's possible. The third area I'd like to provide an update on is product innovation. We pride ourselves on being an innovation-led company, and we are constantly identifying new opportunities that can increase the value of our platform. Our customers look to CCC to develop solutions that address some of the biggest challenges facing their businesses. A great example of this is the recent announcement of CCC ONE Estimating-IQ, which will be the latest feature available on CCC ONE, the leading estimating platform for the collision repair industry. With this new feature, we are significantly enhancing the AI capabilities of our platform for repair facilities. We are utilizing the more than 150 million estimates that collision repairers have written on our platform to enable repair facilities to utilize machine learning to prepopulate estimates with parts and labor operations based on photos of vehicle damage and configurations of the repair facility. This is critical technology that will provide repair facilities the real-time data they need to manage the increased complexity of vehicle technology and reduce cycle times. We're also getting positive early feedback on our recently announced enterprise payments platform. The customer feedback we have received since announcing our payment platform in May validates the significant market opportunity in this area. We believe CCC's approach to integrate with the payment processor further leverages our deep existing integrations across more than 30,000 companies and more than $100 billion of commerce that we help enable across our platform, putting us in a solid position to succeed. Payments represent one of our most significant long-term growth opportunities, but we are still in the early stages of developing customer awareness and pipeline. We're on track to launch payments in the near future. To realize the full extent of our product ambition, we continue to invest in our team. We recently completed an important executive transition, promoting John Goodson to be our new Chief Technology Officer. John joined CCC last year as head of R&D, and prior to that, served in senior technology leadership positions at global multibillion-dollar software companies. He has extensive experience developing SaaS applications and scaling development groups. Together with Shivani Govil, our Chief Product Officer, John will help lead our product development efforts. We have also been hiring great new talent across our product development and product management organizations that increase our ability to innovate quickly. I'm excited by the energy and velocity within our product groups. We believe that our customers will benefit from the talents of our product team, but also believe it will help drive significant and sustainable growth. Finally, I'd like to provide a quick update on claims frequency. As expected, claim frequency continued to increase during the second quarter as travel restrictions eased, though it remains below pre-pandemic levels. Our second quarter results benefited from a particularly easy compare, as the second quarter of last year saw the most pronounced drop in COVID-related transaction volumes. As this dynamic plays out over the year, we expect only 1 to 2 points of growth related to transaction recovery for the full year. We expect to see additional increases in claim frequency in the second half of the year as we get closer to pre-COVID levels, but the pace is hard to anticipate. As conditions normalize, we will not provide color on claim frequency on a quarterly basis, but we think it's important context given the extraordinary events of the past 18 months. As a reminder, historically, claims frequency has been very stable and less than 20% of our business is tied to transactions. Before I turn the call over to Brian, I wanted to wrap up by reinforcing the key takeaways from the quarter. First, we delivered strong revenue growth during the quarter, driven by the continuous innovation we have brought to market and the critical importance of digitization to our customers' future success. Second, as Brian will review in more detail, we are raising our guidance for the full year, and are on track to deliver approximately 14% revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA margins over 36%. This compares favorably to the targets we outlined in February, at the time of our business combination announcement, and reflects the strong underlying momentum in our business. Third, our innovation engine continues to deliver exciting new solutions that will deliver additional value to customers and provide new growth opportunities for CCC. We view our combination of growth and profitability as a unique and compelling financial profile that compares favorably to most publicly traded companies. As we look to the second half of the year and beyond, we remain focused on execution and delivering consistently strong operational and financial results. We are confident in our ability to hit our long-term objectives and generate significant value for our shareholders going forward. Now I would like to turn the call over to Brian, after which we'll be happy to take your questions.