Operator
Operator
Good day and welcome to the Crexendo Fourth 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.
Crexendo, Inc. (CXDO)
Q4 2015 Earnings Call· Tue, Mar 1, 2016
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Operator
Operator
Good day and welcome to the Crexendo Fourth 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.
Steve Mihaylo
Management
Thank you, Vicky [ph]. Good afternoon everyone. I'm Steve Mihaylo, CEO and Chairman of Crexendo. I want to welcome all of you to the Crexendo 2015 yearend 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'm going to ask Jeff to read our Safe Harbor Statement. After that I will give some brief general overview comments 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 up to questions. Jeff, would you please provide the Safe Harbor Statement?
Jeff Korn
Management
Thank you, 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 press conference call other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include but are not limited to words as like, believe, expect, anticipate, estimate, will, and other similar statements of expectation identifying 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, 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. I'm very pleased with the results both for the year and for the fourth quarter. We experienced a 39% increase in revenue from hosted telecom services for the year ended December 31, 2015, which is a very solid increase and it's in line with our expectations and growth plans. I am particularly pleased with the 42% increase in our hosted telecom services backlog in 2015. As I've said before, I believe that in this stage of our growth, backlog is the best way to gauge our future growth. The substantial year-over-year increase is a very good trend. I expect us to continue to grow revenue and backlog quarter over quarter and year over year. In addition to the year-over-year increase, we introduced both sales and backlog Q4 -- we increased, rather, both sales and backlog Q4 2015 over Q3. I believe the results show that we are on the right track. We continue to have success with large-sized customers. Our team is particularly adept at finding solutions for enterprise customers. I believe this is differentiated for us and lets us compete with anyone in the industry. We have a very strong integrated sales process for sales and engineering, our partners in providing specific solutions when needed. This gives us a competitive advantage with customers who need advanced and customized solutions. We continue to work hard on our cost structure and we continue to do an excellent job on reducing costs. Our 11% reduction in consolidated operating expenses for the year ended December 31, 2015 shows we remain on the right track. This decrease in 2015 is after [ph] reducing costs in 2014. I'm also encouraged that we have substantially improved our tracking of expenses. Our expenses in 2015 were fully in line with our expectations and our…
Ron Vincent
Management
Thanks, Steve. I sure will. Consolidated revenue for the fourth quarter increased 7% to $2.1 million, compared to $2 million for the fourth quarter the prior year. Our Hosted Telecommunications segment contributed $1.7 million for the fourth quarter, up 27%, compared to $1.3 million contributed in the fourth quarter of the prior year. Our Web Services segment contributed $407,000 for the fourth quarter, down 37%, from $645,000 contributed in the fourth quarter the prior year. Consolidated operating expenses for the fourth quarter decreased 10% to $3.4 million, compared to $3.8 million for the fourth quarter of the prior year. On a GAAP basis, the Company reported a net loss of $1.3 million or a loss of $0.10 per diluted common share for the fourth quarter, compared to a net loss of $1.7 million or a loss of $0.15 per diluted common share for the fourth quarter of the prior year. Non-GAAP net loss was $600,000 for the quarter or $0.05 loss per diluted common share, compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $1.2 million or $0.10 loss per diluted common share for the same period of the prior year. EBITDA for the fourth quarter was a net loss of $1.3 million, compared to a net loss of $1.7 million for the same period of the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter was a net loss of $700,000, compared to a net loss of $1.2 million for the same period of the prior year. For the full year, consolidated revenue for the year of $7.8 million, compared to $7.6 million reported in the prior year, an increase of 30%. We continue to see tremendous growth in our telecommunications segment. Our Hosted Telecommunications segment contributed $6 million to the full year, an increase of 39%, as Steve mentioned, compared to…
Doug Gaylor
Management
Thanks, Ron. We had a strong fourth quarter and continue to see the trends moving in the right direction for both our sales and revenue numbers. The 11% increases we recognized quarter over quarter in both telecom revenue as well as in our telecom backlog, combined with a very strong sales bookings quarter in Q4, have accelerated our progress towards profitability. Our partner channel continues to grow and had their largest sales contribution to date during Q4. And we continue to have success with our direct sales focused on larger national and multi-location accounts. The increases on our sales and revenue numbers have been complemented with reductions in our expenses, which helped reduce our non-GAAP losses by over 16% quarter over quarter. Our telecom revenues and telecom backlog had nice increases for the third consecutive quarter, buoyed by strong sales from both our partner channel and our direct channel. Our partner channel had a strong quarter by landing some very sizable opportunities, including a 1,200-phone plus opportunity, as well as a 400-phone, a 250-phone, and multiple 100-phone opportunities during the fourth quarter. The amount of larger opportunities in our partner community as engaging in with Crexendo highlights what we have been positioning for quite some time, and that is that our product is the perfect fit for the midsized and small enterprise level clients. Our operations and implementations processes on these larger accounts is very structured and geared towards larger installations. These cut-overs go extremely smooth for us and our partners now have full confidence that they can introduce Crexendo's cloud communications with their larger accounts, where before they only felt comfortable in the smaller-size ranges. We highlighted many of these successes and case studies at our recently completed business partner conference called CrexWorx that Steve alluded to earlier. Our…
Steve Mihaylo
Management
Thank you, Doug, and thank you, Ron. Vicky [ph], if you could open it up to questioning. We'll take questions. Thank you.
Operator
Operator
And we have no one signaling for a question at this time.
Steve Mihaylo
Management
Okay. Well, I'm just going to make a few additional comments. I think it's important to note quarter-over-quarter growth. We pretty well worked through the legacy business and we're still seeing some attrition in the legacy hosting, and we probably will somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% or even 15% a year. That should become an immaterial part of our business in the next year or two. As I've mentioned many times before, backlog is going to be a very important metric, but you also need to look at our balance sheet. And I would point out to you that our current ratio is nearly two-to-one. And this year, providing there are no unforeseen circumstances, we should have nearly $2 in sales for every $1 of balance sheet. This is very important. And finally, we should see some kind of cash flow breakeven this year. We're not exactly sure when it will happen, but I think the probability is pretty high. With that, I'm going to remind you all to look at our 10-K and our press release for further clarification on any of these events. And I will wish you all a good day and a good evening. And see you next quarter. Thank you very much.
Operator
Operator
That does conclude today's conference. We thank you for your participation.