Executives
Management
Steve Mihaylo - Chairman & CEO Doug Gaylor - President & COO Ron Vincent - CFO Jeff Korn - Chief Legal Officer
Crexendo, Inc. (CXDO)
Q3 2015 Earnings Call· Tue, Nov 3, 2015
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Executives
Management
Steve Mihaylo - Chairman & CEO Doug Gaylor - President & COO Ron Vincent - CFO Jeff Korn - Chief Legal Officer
Operator
Operator
Good day and welcome to the Crexendo Third Quarter 2015 Earnings Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Chief Executive Officer, Steve Mihaylo. Please go ahead, sir.
Steve Mihaylo
Management
Thank you, Rene [ph] and good afternoon, everyone. I am Steve Mihaylo, CEO and Chairman of Crexendo. I want to welcome all of you to the Crexendo's 2015 third quarter conference call. With me here today are Doug Gaylor, our President and COO; Ron Vincent, our CFO; and Jeff Korn, our Chief Legal Officer. I am going to ask Jeff to read our Safe Harbor statement, after that I will give some brief general overview comments relative to the quarter. Ron will provide some granularity on the numbers. Doug will provide a business and sales update. And then we will open the call for questions. Jeff, would you please provide the Safe Harbor statement?
Jeff Korn
Management
Yes, Steve. I want to take this opportunity to remind listeners that this call will contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a Safe Harbor for such forward-looking statements. All statements made in this conference call other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to words like, belief, expect, anticipate, estimate, will and other similar statements of expectation identify forward-looking statements. Investors should be aware that any forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed here today. These risk factors are explained in detail in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, and the Form 10-Q for the period ending March 31, 2015 and June 30, 2015 and September 30, 2015. Crexendo does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. I'd now like to turn the call back to Steve. Steve?
Steve Mihaylo
Management
Thank you, Jeff. This quarter has been a quarter with some good trends and I think the results show we are on the right track. Let me point out some of the highlights. We have had our best sales quarter in our history. We continue to increase sales this quarter and continue to have success with larger sized customers. I am hopeful that we will continue to increase these sequentially quarter to quarter. Our backlog continues to grow every quarter and I'm convinced that this bodes well for the future growth and revenue from telephony services. We work hard on our cost structure and we continue to do an excellent job of reducing costs. Our $1.2 million decrease in operating expenses for the nine months when compared to the same period a year ago, a testament to that. We will always watch your expenses carefully. As I've discussed before, our ability to work on large enterprise deals sets us apart from most of our competitors. Our business is primarily attend to working with enterprise customers. We have a very integrated sales process for sales and engineering or partnering - are partners in providing specific solutions when needed, this gives us a competitive advantage when customers who need advanced and customized solutions. We can do it better, faster and more cost effectively than our competitors. I mentioned last quarter that we were working on several large deals, and while I'm not going to discuss the specifics due to competitive factors, I'm pleased to be able to confirm that two of the deals I discussed were finalized in the third quarter. In addition, we have just received a contract for another large multi-location business. I expect those revenues to start impacting our on our results starting in Q1 of 2016. Sales from…
Ron Vincent
Management
Thanks, Steve. We're happy to report the consolidated revenue for the first quarter increased 14% quarter-over-quarter compared to $1.7 million for the third quarter of the prior year. I hope it casting [ph]. Services segment contributed $1.5 million for the third quarter, a 49% compared to $1 million contributed in the third quarter for prior year. Our web services segment contributed $430,000 plus their quarter down 38% from $690,000 contributed in the third quarter of the prior year. Our consolidation revenue for the nine month ended September 30 increased 2% to $5.7 million compared to $5.6 million with a nine months in September 30, 2014. The 45% or $1.3 million increased from our fellow communication services segment was offset by 46% or $1.3 million decrease in revenue from our my web services in the same period. Consolidated operating expenses for the third quarter decreased to 8% quarter-over-quarter, $3 million compared to $3.3 million for the quarter of the prior year. Year-to-date, consolidated revenue expense decreased 11% or $9.2 million compared to $10.4 million for the same period of the prior year. On a GAAP basis, the company reported a net loss of $1 million during the third quarter or a loss of $0.08 per diluted common share compared to a net loss of $1.5 million or a loss of $0.13 per diluted common shares for the third quarter of the prior year. We reported that loss of $3.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 for a loss of $0.25 per diluted common share compared to a net loss of $4.6 million and a $0.42 loss per diluted common share for the same period the prior year. The company reported non-GAAP net loss of $742,000 for the third quarter, or a loss of $0.06 per diluted shares compared…
Doug Gaylor
Management
Thanks, Ron. We had a strong third quarter and our numbers continue to head in the right direction. Our telecom revenues and our telecom backlog have quarter-over-quarter increases of 9% and 12% respectively as opposed to record sales bookings for the quarter. Our direct sales team continues to have great success with the larger sized transactions in major accounts while sales from our partner channel continue to post strong numbers. The activity, contributions and excitement from both of our sales channels is becoming more consistent and helping us grow our business. In addition, our continued focus on cost control lessened our cash burn for the quarter as we work towards profitability. On the sales front, we had a very strong bookings quarter from both our direct and partner channels that help contribute to our stronger sales bookings quarter-to-date. We continue to add quality channel partners that want to add strong cloud-based communication solutions to their portfolio. Our partners continue to uncover large opportunities and as a matter of fact, our partner sales thus far in Q4 are extremely strong. Our direct sales team success on larger national and multi-location accounts, along with specific particle market concentrations at a significant impact on our Q3 sales numbers with multiple sales in the 200 plus phone arena. The combined efforts of both channels allowed us to onboard and activate a record number of desktops during the quarter. We expect these trends to continue and are adding additional sales resources in both channels in the months ahead to allow us to continue this momentum. Our new partner portal launched earlier this year has received great feedback from our partners on the wealth of tools and resources provided to them within the portal that helps them position and sell our solutions. Also during the quarter…
Steve Mihaylo
Management
Now I thank you Ron, Doug. Rene, we're ready for questions from the folks that are on the conference call.
Operator
Operator
[Operator Instructions]
Steve Mihaylo
Management
It sounds like we did too good a job explaining everything for this corner Rene. We'll give them just a couple of more seconds. If not, we'll close the conference.
Operator
Operator
Okay. [Operator Instructions] And it appears we have no questions in the queue. I would like to turn the conference back to you, sir, for any additional or closing remarks.
Steve Mihaylo
Management
All right. I want to thank everyone for being on the called this quarter and your continued support and following of Crexendo. We look forward to talking to you sometime in the New Year when report our year-end numbers. And with that I'd like to wish everyone happy holidays, Thanksgiving, Skimming up, Christmas and Hanukkah [ph] and all the other holidays. So with that, I'm going to say goodbye and we'll talk to you next quarter. Thank you.
Operator
Operator
This does conclude today's presentation. We thank you for your participation.