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Crexendo, Inc. (CXDO)

Q1 2016 Earnings Call· Tue, May 3, 2016

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Transcript

Operator

Operator

Good day and welcome to the Crexendo First Quarter 2016 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, Shannon. Good afternoon everyone. I'm Steve Mihaylo, CEO and Chairman of Crexendo. I want to welcome all of you to the Crexendo 2016 conference call. With me here today are Doug Gaylor, our President and COO; Ron Vincent, our CFO; and Jeff Korn, our Chief Legal Officer and Joe Sealer, our Controller. I'm 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 up to 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 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 am pleased with the steady progress that we made during the quarter. Our telecom business has starting to materialize; our hosted telecom segment revenue for the first quarter or 2016 increased by 34% to $1.8 million compared to $1.2 million for the first quarter of 2015. This is a solid increase and a testament to our progress. Also important is that we continue to increase our backlog. We are also doing a good job of keeping the expenses down and within our projections. I think it is particularly telling that we have lower expenses in Q1 2016 as compared to Q1 2015. These results confirm to me that we are staying on plan and we are well positioned to reach cash flow breakeven late this year and GAAP profitability in the first half of next year and I might point out this is the first time I put this in our press release. While we are watching expenses we continue to strategically invest in the business in our future success. The first thing we have done is to open up our platform to allow customers to migrate their Polycom phone star system. We initially limited our services to Crexendo branded phones while honing our award winning service. We are now at the right stage of our growth phase to expand those services by opening up our system to the he largest provider of phones which allows us to expand our sales reach to businesses which currently have investment in Polycom phones. However, we are not reducing our commitment to provide top of the line cost effective Crexendo branded phones. We have added two new Crexendo branded phones which are feature rich and are competitively priced. These phones allow our customers top of the line phones at…

Ron Vincent

Management

Thanks, Steve. We reported consolidated revenue for the first quarter of $2.2 million compared to $1.9 million in the first quarter of the prior year. Approximately 82% of the revenue for the quarter was generated from our hosted telecommunications segment which contributed $1.8 million. Our Web services contributed $396,000 for the first quarter down 25% from $528,000 contributed in the first quarter of the prior year. Consolidated first quarter operating expenses decreased 6% to $3 million compared to $3.2 million for the first quarter the prior year. The decrease in operating expenses can be attributed to a decrease in general and administrative expenses of 17% to $1 million compared $1.3 million for the first quarter of the prior year. Also revenue increased 6% to $913,000 from $861,000 for the first quarter of the prior year. The marketing expenses increased slightly approximately by 1%. Both cost to revenue and sales to marketing increases are directly related to the increase in revenue. Additionally research & development increased 13% to $229,000 compared to $203,000 in the first quarter of the prior year as we further develop our products and services. On a GAAP basis the company reported $868,000, our net loss for the first quarter or a $0.07 loss per diluted common share compared to a net loss of $1.2 million or a $0.09 loss per diluted common share for the first quarter of the prior year. Non-GAAP net loss for the first quarter or $0.04 loss per diluted common share compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $636,000 or $0.05 per diluted common share for the first quarter of the prior year. EBITDA for the first quarter was $830,000 compared to $1.3 million for the first quarter of the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter was $580,000 loss compared to an $860,000 loss for the first quarter of the prior year. Total cash and cash equivalents including restricted cash as of March 31, 2016 was $1.3 million compared to $2.2 million at March 31, 2015. Cash use for the operations for the period was $261,000 compared to $756,000 used for the same period for the prior year. Cash provided by investment activities for the period was $12,000 compared to cash used for investing activities was $4,000 for the same period of the prior year. Cash use for financing activities for the period was $97,000 compared to cash used for financing activities of $61,000 for the same period of prior year. With that I will turn it over to you Doug Gaylor, our COO.

Doug Gaylor

Management

Thanks, Ron. Q1 delivered increases in telecom revenue, telecom backlog and overall revenue while we continue to decrease expenses and lower our costs. Our sales bookings although lower than Q4 are in line with the budget and projections for Q1. We continue to make progress towards cash flow breakeven and cash profitability. Our telecom sector revenue increase of only 4% were impacted by some delays on a large 1000 ton that was not able to completed in Q1 as recently scheduled. As we continue to sell larger multi-location and more complex opportunities, we could see delays in completing installations in certain quarters which could impact revenue of quarter over quarter. Our partner channel as well as our direct channel had nice success during Q1 selling larger opportunities as we continue our focus on larger, national and multi-location account. These larger opportunities continue to help increase our contracted back log which increased 6% quarter-over-quarter. we continue to be very successful with enterprise sales and we will be preparing some future case study releases during those sales as we hope to replicate the successes. Some of these notable sales in Q1 included large multi-location financial institutions with 200 stations, a multi-location retail healthcare service provider with over 400 stations, a very prominent non-profit organization with over 250 stations, a large multi-location law firm with a 100 stations and a very high profile west coast retail store with 125 stations. We are pleased that we have been able to acquired enterprise sales from both our direct and partner channel and our funnel for similar size opportunities is strong in both channels. We are getting great feedback in our telephone sets that we introduced in Q1 and have begun shipping. These new phones now give our customers five Crexendo design and feature rich affordable…

Steve Mihaylo

Management

Shannon, I think we are ready for questions if there are any.

Operator

Operator

Steve Mihaylo

Management

Okay. Well, thank you, Shannon and thank you for participating everyone. I want to make one summing remark here and that has to do with Doug Gaylor's presentation. It's important to note that we have quite a few large installations that are in our backlog and will be fulfilled in the second quarter which should allow us to have very robust sales quarter-over-quarter revenue I should say. With the pipeline that has very significant large orders I think we are going to see a good back log increase as well. I want to thank everyone for participating today and we look forward to talking to you next quarter. Thank you Shannon and good evening.

Operator

Operator

Thank you,sir.That does conclude today's teleconference. Thank you all for your participation.