Tim Regan
Analyst · Dropbox's website following this call. I will now turn the program over to Karan Kapoor, Head of Investor Relations for Dropbox. Mr. Kapoor, please go ahead
Thank you, Drew. Before turning to our quarterly results, I'd like to start with a reminder of our financial strategy. We continue to focus on balancing growth and profitability in a thoughtful disciplined way. We remain committed to our long-term objectives, including delivering operating margins of 30% to 32% and generating annual free cash flow of $1 billion by 2024. We also remain focused on allocating capital to growth initiatives, both organic as well as through acquisitions, while also returning a significant portion of our free cash flow to shareholders in the form of share repurchases. We believe that execution against these objectives will generate long-term value for our shareholders. Today, I'll talk through our performance for the quarter and our updated guidance for the year that demonstrate that we continue to operate the business in line with these principles. Let's begin with our first quarter results. Total revenue for the quarter increased 9.9% year-over-year to $562 million, beating our guidance range of $557 million to $560 million. Foreign exchange rates provided an approximate $1 million tailwind to growth in line with our guidance. Total ARR for the quarter grew 8.4% year-over-year for a total of $2.290 billion. On a constant currency basis ARR grew by $40 million sequentially, and 8.9% year-over-year. I know that we update the FX rates used to calculate ARR at the start of each year. We continue to drive growth in ARR through strength in our teams, the adoption of our family plan, and momentum in our document workflow businesses HelloSign and DocSend. We exited the first quarter with 17.09 million paying users and added approximately 300,000 net new paying users sequentially driven in part by our family plan. Average revenue per paying user was $134.63 in Q1. ARPU decreased by $0.15 sequentially. As the mix shift to higher price plans was more than offset by an FX headwind and the strengthened family plan which as a reminder, is comprised of six seats and therefore carries a lower ARPU profile. Before we continue with further discussion of our P&L, I would like to note that unless otherwise indicated, all income statement figures mentioned are non-GAAP and exclude stock based compensation, amortization of purchased intangibles, certain acquisition related expenses, impairments of our real estate assets and expenses related to our reduction in force. Our non-GAAP net income also includes the income tax effect of the aforementioned adjustments. I'll now provide a brief update on our real estate strategy, where we're taking steps to de-cost our real estate portfolio as part of our transition to a virtual first model. We continue to make progress against our goals, executing sub leases in San Francisco for a portion of our headquarters, as well as Seattle and Ireland since our last earnings call, we did not incur any impairment charges in the quarter. With our cumulative impairment incurred to date remaining at $430 million. We continue to estimate that our total impairment charges will be up to $450 million. With that, let's continue with the P&L. First quarter R&D expense was $157 million, or 28% of revenue, which increased compared to 26% of revenue in the first quarter of 2021. The increase in R&D was driven by our continued momentum in hiring, to drive future revenue growth, where we are investing in DocSend and HelloSign, developing adjacent products and features to our core file sync and share category and strengthening our retention and conversion capabilities. We also continue to invest in ensuring a seamless experience for our customers, as we adapt our desktop clients to operating system updates, as well as investing in our own security by bolstering our data protection, while improving detection, response and compliance practices. So our users can continue to trust our platform. First quarter sales and marketing expense was $88 million, or 16% of revenue, which decreased compared to 17% of revenue in the first quarter of 2021. First quarter G&A expense was $42 million, or 7% of revenue, which also decreased compared to 8% of revenue in the first quarter of 2021. In total, we earned an operating profit of $170 million in the first quarter, which represents an operating margin of 30%, or a one percentage point improvement compared to the first quarter of 2021. Our Q1 operating margin exceeded guidance by over two points, and was primarily driven by our stronger than expected revenue performance, efficiency stemming from hiring in lower cost locations, as well as delayed costs that we now expect to incur later this year. Net income for the quarter was $141 million roughly flat compared to the first quarter of 2021. As our income tax expense increased significantly through the impact of R&D tax legislation, newly effective in 2022. And given that we have now fully utilized our NOLs for non-GAAP tax purposes, diluted EPS was $0.38 per share, based on $373 million diluted weighted average shares outstanding, up from $0.35 per share, based on $405 million diluted weighted average shares outstanding for the first quarter of 2021. Moving on to our cash balance and cash flow, we ended the quarter with cash and short term investments of approximately $1.5 billion. Cash flow from operations was $141 million in the first quarter. Capital expenditures were $11 million during the quarter. This resulted in free cash flow of $131 million, compared to $109 million in Q1 of 2021. In the first quarter, we added $20 million to our finance leases for data center equipment. Let's turn to our share repurchase activity. In Q1m we repurchased 11 million shares, spending approximately $260 million. At the end of Q1, we had approximately $84 million remaining on our previous $1 billion share repurchase authorization. As a reminder, last quarter, our Board approved a new $1.2 billion authorization which we expect to commence this quarter once we exhaust the previous authorization. I'd now like to share our guidance for the second quarter and provide an update to our full year 2022 guidance. I will also provide some context on the thinking behind this guidance. For the second quarter of 2022, we expect revenue to be in the range of $568 million to $571 million. We are assuming a currency headwind of approximately $3 million in the second quarter. We expect non-GAAP operating margin to be approximately 28.5%. Finally, we expect diluted weighted average shares outstanding to be in the range of 366 million to 371 million shares based on our trailing 30 day average share price. For the full year 2022, we are maintaining our revenue guidance range of $2.320 billion to $2.330 billion. This range is inclusive of two headwinds. The first is an approximately $14 million currency headwind and the second is a high single digit $1 million impact from changes to our service and sanctions in Russia, which I will discuss more in a minute. We continue to expect gross margin to be approximately 81%. We are raising non-GAAP operating margin to be between 29% to 29.5%, up from the prior guidance of approximately 29%. We are maintaining free cash flow guidance to be in the range of $760 million to $790 million. This includes $17 million in cash outflows for the 2022 installments of acquisition related deal consideration holdbacks. Additionally, our free cash flow guidance is inclusive of an estimated $30 million headwind resulting from the impact of R&D tax legislation newly effective in 2022. We continue to expect capital expenditures for 2022 to be in the range of $25 million to $35 million. We continue to expect additions to our finance lease lines to be approximately 5% of revenue in 2022. Finally, we expect 2022 diluted shares outstanding to be in the range of 366 million to 371 million shares, down from our previous guidance range of 368 million to 373 million shares. This reduction in our share count reflects our commitment to an anticipated impact of our share repurchase program. To share some additional context on this guidance, we are maintaining our full year revenue guidance. As mentioned, we expect the impact from discontinuing new sales and financial sanctions in Russia to be in the high single digit millions of dollars to revenue this year. Despite this, our outperformance in the first quarter, and the trends we are seeing within the business give us confidence that we can absorb the impact of Russia while still maintaining our initial revenue guidance. Additionally, and as a reminder, we continue to expect updates to our pricing and packaging approach for a subset of our customer base. These changes will incorporate the value that we've been adding to our plans, in particular capabilities that we have been developing and will soon release related to security. I look forward to sharing more this quarter on these pricing and packaging changes. As related to operating margins while we continue to expect margin headwinds in 2022 from FX as well as incremental teeny office reopening and event expenses as pandemic restrictions soften. We are raising our 2022 operating margin guidance as we are seeing success in our ability to hire top talent outside of traditional high cost tech hubs such as San Francisco, New York and Seattle. As related to free cash flow, we are maintaining our free cash flow guidance. While we are expecting a high single digit million dollar impact of revenue from Russia, we expect a larger and more immediate impact of billings, given our ratable revenue recognition model. Thus a larger cash impact will be absorbed this year offsetting the benefits of our increased operating margins. Lastly, we are maintaining and remain committed to our long-term targets, which as a reminder are expected to be achieved by 2024 and include our goals of delivering operating margins of 30% to 32% and $1 billion in annual free cash flow. In conclusion, we had a solid start to the year delivering strong results, and continuing to be focused on balancing growth and profitability in a thoughtful, disciplined way. With that, I'll now turn it over to the operator for Q&A.