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Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (EEFT)

Q4 2015 Earnings Call· Wed, Feb 10, 2016

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Operator

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the Euronet Worldwide Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a remainder, this conference may be recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Mr. Jeff Newman, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Euronet Worldwide. Thank you. Mr. Newman, you may begin.

Jeff Newman

Analyst

Thank you, Stephanie. Good morning and welcome, everyone, to Euronet's quarterly results conference call. We will present our results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2015 on this call. We have Mike Brown, our Chief Executive Officer; Rick Weller, our Chief Financial Officer; and Kevin Caponecchi, the CEO of our epay division on the call. Before we begin, I need to make our forward-looking statements disclaimer. Statements made on this call that concern Euronet's or its Management's intentions, expectations or predictions of future performance are forward-looking statements. Euronet's actual results may vary materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including economic conditions in specific countries or regions, technological developments affecting the market for the Company's products and services; foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; the effects any of breaches in the security of our computer systems, the ability to renew existing contracts at profitable rates; changes in fees payable for transactions performed over our networks and changes in laws and regulations affecting the Company's business, including immigration laws and anti-money laundering regulations. These risks and other risks are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Each of these filings may be obtained via the SEC's EDGAR website or by contacting the Company or the SEC. Euronet does not intend to update these forward-looking statements and undertakes no duty to any person to provide any such update under any circumstances. The Company regularly post important information to the Investor Relations section of its website. Now, I will turn the call over to our CFO, Rick Weller. Rick?

Rick Weller

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Very good Jeff thanks a lot. Good morning and thank you to everyone joining us today. I will begin my comments on Slide 5. We finished the year with strong results, delivering fourth quarter revenue of $470 million, operating income of $55 million and adjusted EBITDA of $77 million. We delivered adjusted cash earnings per share of $0.92, a 24% increase year-over-year. This result includes about a $0.150 of headwind from foreign currency since we gave guidance in October, so without the FX headwind, we would have nearly hit $0.94 a share. The 24% increase also marks the 12th consecutive quarter we have had double-digit year-over-year growth in adjusted cash EPS. While 24% earnings growth is certainly impressive enough on its own, this result also includes approximately $0.11 of headwind from foreign currency on a year-over-year basis. If added to the $0.92, we would have achieved growth of approximately 39% year-over-year, exceptional to say the least. We are proud that each of our segments contributed to these outstanding results, another great quarter for Euronet. Next slide please. On Slide 6, we show our three-year transaction trend by segment, EFT transactions grew 6% with increases across Europe and India. I might point out that this 6% transaction growth number reflects the loss of a substantial number of transactions from the termination of the unprofitable China contract we disclosed in the second quarter. If not for this termination, transactions would have grown approximately 15%. Epay transactions were essentially flat, growth in Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East were offset by declines in Brazil, North America, Russia and the U.K. We continue to see a shift in the mix of mobile versus non-mobile transactions. While we do not disclose the specific number of non-mobile transactions, non-mobile gross profits expanded on a…

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Thank you, Rick, and thanks to everyone for joining today. The results we achieved in 2015 are exceptional. What more can I say about a 50% constant currency growth and op income and adjusted cash EPS. That is just really impressive and a real tribute to our team to work hard every day to make these results happen. I would also like to share with you a few other key highlights of the year. We processed more $2.7 billion transaction. Between our three segments, we were responsible for the collection or dispersion of $74 billion in cash. We added 2,700 ATMs across our current markets as well as five new markets. In June, we acquired IME, a leading Malaysia-based money transfer provider. IME brought us immediate entry into the markets, which account for $133 billion in money transfers each year. In July, we acquired XE, the world's most trusted currency authority. In 2015, XE's websites had more than 256 million unique visitors, nearly 4.2 billion page views and their app has achieved more than 41 million downloads since it was introduced. All of this was the result of three key strategies to continue to add more content to more devices in more markets. Number two, to expand our digital presence; Number three to invest in our business to ensure long-term shareholder value. I had considered the earnings evidence of our success in 2015 and I will highlight some of these areas as we talk about each segment. Please let us move onto Slide #18. This was another outstanding year for the EFT team. What can I say; I just can't enough good things about their ability to remain focused and to select new high-quality sites for our ATMs and POS terminals, while continuing to develop new and innovative offerings for…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Chris Shutler with William Blair. Your line is open.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Hey, guys. Good morning.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Good morning, Chris.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Let us start in EFT, first, Mike, I was hoping to just get a better explanation of what you mean by winterization and the impact of that has on the P&L in the quarter.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Okay. You know, in Europe, we are in a number of these Mediterranean kinds of coastal countries and if we happen to have ATMs in these coasts or islands or whatever, there is basically no customers there. There is no local and there is no tourists. During the wintertime, we basically just kind of put a tarp over them and close them down. We probably still are paying rent, but at least we are not paying for money delivery services and so forth.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Okay. Got it.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

That is almost 600 ATMs.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Right. Yes. I just wanted to understand whether there is still associated with those machines in the quarter.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Yes. That is the whole trick and we are trying on that pie chart, and I have been saying this for a number of years that as we have moved into Western Europe, things just get more expensive. I mean, you know, a location in downtown [ph] cost the same as in downtown Rome, and the thing rents is you got to pay them 12 of the year unless you happen to be on an island or so.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Okay. Then in Q4, you added 823 ATMs, you said you winterized 591.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Let me just add to that too, those 591, we have to continue to depreciate them even while they are closed down for the winter.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Yes.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

…so they still do have expense associated with them.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Understood. On the deployment of what winterization numbers though, can you give us some sense of how those numbers in the quarter compared to prior fourth quarters? I am just wondering if, particularly the ATM addition number of 823, whether that was materially more aggressive than prior quarters.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Yes. Look, we never…

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

…higher.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Yes. We have never put 800 ATMs in a quarter, so that was higher. Then we have just got - I mean, we had a stunning year. We are just a little over 2,000 the last several years and we did 2,700 this year, so that's 2,700 additional ones that you are paying full price on and we winterized more this year too just, because we were more penetrated into those markets.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Okay. Got it.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

I think, kind of just get ready for, in the fourth quarter and in the first quarter, we are going to have much higher cost as a proportion revenues and EFT and that is just kind of the way it is, but we have got enough empirical experience that we know these things just you know print money for us in the other quarters.

Rick Weller

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

I guess the other thing I would point out, Chris, is that while we do have the higher cost, you can see in the results of our profits is we have got good contribution coming in from a number of our different business segments that, again, if you look at on a constant currency basis, we were up in earnings almost 40% year-over-year. We recognized that we may have some of these, let's call it, more seasonally different costs, but we are really pleased with our teams' efforts to be able to bring in the type of revenue sources and profit sources that give us that ability to grow 40% in this case year-over-year, despite having that kind of load of expenses.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Yes. Understood. Is there any way, guys, to classify the kind of the earnings hit in the Q1 earnings guidance from more deployments? I am just thinking last year's Q4 to Q1 versus maybe 2014 Q4 to 2015 Q1, just is there a couple of pennies of additional headwind from more aggressive deployment or how should we think about that or is it similar?

Rick Weller

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

It is a little bit more, but again, we also have the cumulative effect of a year's worth of ATM growth coming into the picture there, so we expect to see a continued improvement in our EFT business, but clearly on a just on a cost basis, it will be more in the first quarter this year than last year.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

One thing we did find maybe five or six years ago, when were a little bit smaller, we were kind of careful not to install many ATMs in the first quarter, because we knew there are highly negative financial impacts on our numbers. We have got enough experience now putting these individual ATMs in these markets that you just can't get enough of them and if you do not start working in January, so basically we are putting them in as fast as we can really around the whole calendar and that cost us more in Q1, but that is the payoff is in Qs 2, 3 and 4.

Rick Weller

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

I guess just to finish the comment, if you just take a look at our first quarter guidance, we are expecting that it is a nice improvement over last year's first quarter, which as well includes appreciation or accretion from the EFT segment. Net-net, again, while we will have additional cost there, that cumulative year-over-year growth has given us the ability to believe that we will see yet an expansion in our op income of our EFT segment into the first quarter.

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Last year '14 over '13, we grew first quarter profit by about 20%, and we can hit our guidance of $0.68, it will be very similar for this quarter, so we are happy we can kind of walk and chew gum at the same time, we can take on higher expenses and still deliver those kind of growth numbers.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Then just one more quick one, on EFT, the ATM deployments in the quarter and roughly over 800 number and the 2,000-plus and in 2016, how does that breakout Eastern Central Europe versus more on developer to Europe as well as India?

Mike Brown

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

Well, I won't break it out between Central and West, Europe, my bet is a little bit more in the Western Europe versus Central and probably Europe versus India is probably 75-25 is a guess. When we think 2,000-plus, you know, we obviously have enough staff to put in 2,700. The question is, finding really good site, so I do not want to just find numbers for you guys, you know, put in bigger numbers. I want to put in ATMs that are profitable, so that is why we say 2,000-plus, because we still restrict our site pointers to find excellent locations.

Chris Shutler

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open

All right, thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Peter Heckmann with Avondale Partners. Your line is open.

Peter Heckmann

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Hey, good morning gentlemen. Thanks for taking my questions. It is regards the, Rick, [ph] in the quarter, lower than expected. Were there any one-time or discrete items that you want to call out there?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

In the first quarter?

Peter Heckmann

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

In the fourth quarter.

Rick Weller

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Well, I think it is really those couple that we pointed out in our press release there.

Peter Heckmann

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Say again, I am sorry. I missed it.

Rick Weller

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

It just would be those couple that we pointed out in our press release.

Peter Heckmann

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Okay. Then just in terms of trying to get the consensus a little tighter. You have given your EPS guidance. Can you talk about how you are thinking about constant currency organic revenue growth maybe in the first quarter and if possible for all of '16?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Well, Pete, we can give some consideration as to whether we would expand the line items that we give guidance on, but so far we felt comfortable to stay to bottom-line. As Mike said earlier in his comments, our epay business more specifically can have a little bit more of an erratic top-line, but as you can see from the illustration I pointed out on a gross margin basis if you made a couple of adjustments for some of the gross revenue reported versus transaction that really what we saw was a consistent improvement in transactions and gross profit on a year-over-year basis, so that is why we been reluctant to want to give more specific guidance on the top-line. We will take revenue from, let us say, for example cadooz and be glad to serve our customers and our markets out there. Even though it may turn out to be gross revenue that we report, we know what we will make in terms of a transactional profit and I think you can look back to our history and see the consistency of that and also the consistency of the delivery of our bottom-line. Sometimes the top-line can be a little bit more erratic. I think, we are seeing that for example in this fourth quarter, but I would encourage us to continue to take a real strong look at the bottom-line, because clearly we cannot produce that level of profits if we do not have the gross profits coming through the business.

Peter Heckmann

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Right, and I think that is important point is that there is a real makeshift here and that is benefiting that the bottom-line and do not want to get the consensus in a situation where you are missing the top-line, but you are beating the bottom-line, because you have not given enough details on the mix shift.

Mike Brown

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Yes. I guess that always kind of gets around as to who is missing what, whether it is missing or the analysts, but we will leave the humor at, Pete.

Peter Heckmann

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

All right, just last question. I will get back in the queue, but in terms of kind of the percentage change in the mix shift in prepaid. I may have missed it, but was there anything in particular from a seasonality perspective in the fourth quarter in epay that is a consideration and how should we think about it over the next year in terms of will we expect kind of mobile prepaid to be shrinking at a rate of about 10% a year, but content growing at 25%. Then we can kind of do our own calculations of what that does to margins.

Mike Brown

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Yes. I mean, we have not put a specific number on it, but I think that you are in a mid-to-upper single-digit number on the mobile and you are in a nice strong double-digit on the non-mobile, Pete.

Peter Heckmann

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Okay. Then just last, any seasonality in the fourth quarter in epay that is worth calling out or is that kind of…

Mike Brown

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Nothing of remark.

Peter Heckmann

Analyst · Avondale Partners. Your line is open

Okay. I will get back in the queue. I appreciate it.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Mike Grondahl with Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open.

Mike Grondahl

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Yes. Thanks for taking my question guys. Maybe I will just try one follow-up on epay. This shift from a commission to a processing fee and the cadooz kind of face value stuff, what inning are we in of that kind of working itself through revenue? Are we at the beginning stages of that? Do you see that continuing for a while? Can you give us some color there?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

I would say that the cadooz is kind of like a quarter-by-quarter thing. It just happens to be the relationship of this year's fourth quarter compared to last year's fourth quarter, so it kind of does not have a continuing effect. The other item which was the mix from what I will call commission-based revenues to transaction fee revenue largely happened in the fourth quarter and we will kind of see some of that effect as we go throughout the year on the revenue line, but not on the gross profit line.

Mike Grondahl

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Right. I think to take away for epay is revenue trends are lumpy, but the gross profit line and the bottom-line, you are pretty happy with and you have got your own…

Mike Brown

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Yes, and it is very constant.

Rick Weller

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Yes. Well, said. Well, said, Mike.

Mike Grondahl

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Okay. Then just thinking about 2016 for a moment, where do you see your investment dollars going in 2016? What are a couple of the larger buckets? Like, is Ria online still several million dollars and what else would you call out?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

That is one. We will continue to invest in that digital space there. There is a few others that I would call out that we have been quite pleased with in completing our investments for continued growth. We will continue to rollout the HiFX U.S. business and hopefully we will see it gain more momentum. As Mike said, we will be focused on HiFX Canada to be ready for capitalizing on our XE.com acquisition, echo another comment that Mike said, we will continue to invest in ATM deployments. We will continue to see more EFT products rolled out to really leverage what is on our ATM and POS network across our many countries In pre-pay, we will continue to attract more non-mobile names, so I guess that kind of in a real macro perspective would be the areas that we have focused on. I would not necessarily say that each of those are going to drive incremental investment dollars. Some will take a little bit of incremental investment dollars, we factor that into our guidance that we have given for the first quarter, but we are pretty excited about a number of these things. I did not mention IME in Malaysia. We see that is an extremely attractive opportunity for us. We do not see a lot of what I characterize as being dollar investments, but we will make significant time investments to grow that property.

Mike Grondahl

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Okay. Then some of the fourth quarter renewals, and maybe Woolworths in Australia, are those being renewed on similar terms or you having to make greater than expected concessions. Just could you talk about those renewals sort of generally?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

That is specifically in epay?

Mike Grondahl

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Well, I guess just any renewals you are doing, whether it is ATM that you are managing, whether it is or non-mobile?

Kevin Caponecchi

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Yes. From an epay perspective, this is Kevin, I can speak to that. We are having quite a bit of success renewing retail arrangements and brand agreements with no material impact on the business. In fact, as we add more and more products to our portfolio, we actually are getting some leverage in those discussions.

Mike Brown

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

I would even add to that, while we have talked about the mobile decline for really several years, we have also recently changed a little bit of our approach with some of those vendors where we recognize that there are some drops in the volume, so we have negotiated effectively increases in the rates. We have not seen any kind of downward pressure on the renewal of these things. We think that we will continue to advance the ball there, but I do not ever want to try to, let us say oversell our margin numbers out there too, because I believe we always have competition out there. That is always going to be there, but what we have been able to demonstrate year-in and year-out is that we find ways to grow through that.

Mike Grondahl

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Got it. Maybe just last question for Mike, how do you see 2016 setting up for Euronet? In light of the fact that adjusted cash EPS has grown 25%-plus the last three years. As you guys point it out on a constant currency basis almost 50% in 2015, so how was 2016 setting up?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Honestly, we have got a lot of momentum behind it. It is hard to do 28% on 27% on 28% over and over and over. I will agree, but the nice thing is, we have got a lot of momentum and we really know what we are doing here, so I am really excited about this year. We want to sustain those high levels of growth like we have as close as we can and I will tell you everybody knows, we have got an implicit arrangement with all our managers as they keep delivering these kinds of numbers. You can double your stock price or double your earnings in three years, so it is hard to do, but that is at least at goal so.

Mike Grondahl

Analyst · Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open

Got it. Okay. Thanks, guys.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Rayna Kumar with Evercore ISI. Your line is open.

Rayna Kumar

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Good morning.

Mike Brown

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Hi, Rayna.

Rayna Kumar

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Hi. When do you expect epay revenue to return to growth given the shift from commission to processing fees? Can you quantify revenue from cadooz?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Well, I did not specifically call out that revenue number for cadooz. I just added it together with the other one to kind of get that net effectively increase of 4% for epay on a year-over-year basis, so you could do a little bit of math Rayna and get to there, but I won't set out the two numbers. I would tell you it was slightly more in favor of the transaction shift in the cadooz number. In terms of the return of the revenue, it is probably a little bit like what I would say, to my comments to I think it was Pete about guidance on that. I probably would not speak a great deal to the top-line, but again I would talk about the gross profit line and I think we will continue to see that that number will move up the page. We have got good product in our retailers today. We have got others stuff it is in the pipeline. We have got other ideas on the drawing board, so I would expect to see that we will continue to see a growth in our gross profit number. I would probably be a little careful to try to set an expectation of what would happen on the top-line, just because of some of the - maybe as Mike's said, some of the lumpiness in that prediction.

Rayna Kumar

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Got it. That is very helpful. Do you expect to win a cross-border money transfer contract with Walmart this year?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

I do not expect anything with Walmart. All I accept that, if I can just continue to deliver good service to them, good products, good quality then we can perhaps get other deals and you saw the deal that we just announced with AmEx and Walmart. It certainly would not have happened if we were not good graces with Walmart with our current that Walmart2Walmart product. What they want to do with their international business is up to them. As you saw, our competitor within Walmart is now in a non-exclusive arrangement, so that I think opens the door for a lot more discussions in the future.

Rayna Kumar

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Understood. Just one last question, could you speak about on your expectations for negative FX translation, the impact of revenue and earnings for 2016?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Well, let me tell you, if I knew the answer to that one, I would be a billionaire. I mean at the end of the day, all we do every one of these quarters is we tell you what we are going to do next quarter based upon current FX rate of the dollar. You know, the dollar to the euro goes 1 to 2 then we are really going to have some problems. If it goes 2 to 1, then we are going to have a really nice year, but that just as reported. That is why we always do in constant currency.

Rick Weller

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Rayna, as Mike's said, we may be doing something else. We are glad to be able to grow our earnings on a constant currency basis 50% year-over-year. If I were to try to guess what is going to happen with currencies, I do not think we would have near that luck, but if you take a look at the year euro on average for 2015, it was about $1.11. Okay? At one point each for each euro, you are end up with about $1.11. The euro today is trading at about $1.12, so if it remains and there is many of the other currencies are, let us call it, similarly packed around the euro rather than the dollar, so if it would remain like that throughout this year, you could see that the earnings would have relatively insignificant impact from FX, but that is just dependent upon whether those currencies kind of continue at the current rate.

Rayna Kumar

Analyst · Evercore ISI. Your line is open

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Tim Willi with Wells Fargo. Your line is open.

Mike Brown

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Hi, Tim.

Tim Willi

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Thanks. Good morning. Hi, guys. A question on EFT, I guess staying this quarter or next quarter, but how do you think about ultimately your growth opportunity in Western Europe. Then does that at some point in time have you looking at other regions that you are currently not in and I guess I think about like South East Asia?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Well, let me. I think this is something that bears repeating. I mean, when you take a look at the ATM penetration of North America versus Western Europe, North America has twice many AMTs per capita. Compared to the Central Europe, it is probably four times as many ATMs here as there on a per capita basis. There are about 400,000-ish ATMs in Europe, so that would say that if Europe wanted to have the same kind of numbers as the U.S. does. I could put in 400,000 new ATMs to get up to our standards you might say. We are putting in 2,500. I mean, we are not even scratching the surface and then you add to that, places like India and some of these other those places where you going to get 10X difference or 20X difference, so I still believe it is a target-rich environment. Although it is not built like the U.S. is through surcharge, it is built by finding really good locations that you can get lots of locals to come visit. Then with a little bit of luck, you can catch some tourists and you make a little bit money on those transaction. I do not think Europe is ever going to have as many ATMs as the U.S. does on a per capita basis, but we have got a long runway before we run out of sites. I will also say we are not just looking at Europe and we are not just looking at India. We are looking at other markets too.

Tim Willi

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Okay. That is what I was most curious about it is if there are geographies.

Mike Brown

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

…but I do not want you to get all excited and expect the whole bunch of ATM in some wacky new market, because that is not going to happen this year. We might test a few, see how they work and that is typically how we are going to any of our new markets, we test it with 20 or 30, see how that works. Then if it works, we will blow out a couple of hundred.

Tim Willi

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Yes. Question for Rick on the balance sheet and then I will hop off. Just sort of how you are thinking about cash and share buyback that pay down what the M&A pipelines look like?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Well, as we typically have, we have a number of opportunities that are on the examination table, so to speak. I think, as we have done in the past, we will look to those opportunities and whether we think that there is a good chance to complete them. It is always really difficult. We went a couple of years there without doing anything and then last year we completed two acquisition, the IME and the XE, so we have got some what appear to be some interesting opportunities, but from there it gets to be really hard as to whether or not you can actually close out on them. As I think you saw in our announcement in January, there we had approved some share repurchase, we will consider that in balance with the opportunity or let us say what our view and our optimism may be with respect to completion of an acquisitions and then whether or not it would be a more sizable acquisition. Right now, we do not see really large things on the acquisition horizon, but we do see things consistent with transaction sizes we have completed in the past. Tim, again that is really kind of hard one to say, but there is good opportunity there. We will see how they work out.

Tim Willi

Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is open

Great. Thanks very much, guys.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Alex Veytsman with Monness, Crespi, Hardt. Your line is open.

Alex Veytsman

Analyst · Monness, Crespi, Hardt. Your line is open

Good morning, guys. For epay, I just wanted to get more color on the non-mobile products extension, specifically, what you expect in 2016, what are some of the tailwinds you could see for non-mobile as well as for epay overall?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Monness, Crespi, Hardt. Your line is open

Yes. I do not know that we necessarily see any other additional tailwinds out of non-mobile there out of our epay segment. As I mentioned earlier, we have seen some of that tailwind. We have talked about it in the past and we recognize that it is a product that has a more mature lifecycle to it. As a result, we are bringing in other product to offset that. Our team has done a really good job at bringing in that non-mobile product to offset it, but I would not expect to see any additional tailwind in that, but Kevin if you have any other observations, you can jump in.

Kevin Caponecchi

Analyst · Monness, Crespi, Hardt. Your line is open

Yes. The only other thing I would add to that Rick is that we continue to add more channels, not necessarily more markets, but more channels specifically the digital channel, distributing our content via wallets and online merchants and online banking and mobile apps, so we will see an expansion of channel distribution and we are always adding content, but I would agree with Rick in terms of one or two specific products, I do not see one or two products making a significant difference in the year. It just about adding a lot more content across more channels and optimizing the distribution that we have in place today.

Alex Veytsman

Analyst · Monness, Crespi, Hardt. Your line is open

Got it, that is helpful. Then for Walmart cross-border, I know that at this point nothing is signed, nothing is there, but if that were to happen besides Mexico, what are the most logical markets for the Walmart-2-Walmart cross-border for you guys?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Monness, Crespi, Hardt. Your line is open

Well, I think it is just best to say Walmart has to make those decisions in which way they want to go. If they would like us to be their partner, we will be happy to negotiate.

Alex Veytsman

Analyst · Monness, Crespi, Hardt. Your line is open

Okay. Great. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Jason Deleeuw with Piper Jaffray. Your line is open.

Mike Brown

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

Hi, Jason.

Jason Deleeuw

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

Hi, Mike. Thanks and good morning. First question on EFT, so the margin outlook for the full year basis. I think I understand kind of the increasing shift to the owned AMTs and how that is creating more pronounced seasonality in that segment, but when I think about on a full-year basis for EFT, I mean the incremental margins must still be pretty high. Can we still expect margin expansion for the segment on the full year?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

Well, as I might have covered with you before, when we throughout an ATM in - Western Europe and maybe across the board, probably our incremental margin on that is about 30%. [ph] some purchases infinity, theoretically if we put in gods and gods of new ATM our margin should approach 30%, so that might even be less than what we have today, but that is because today we have a mix of that and very high-margin probably 90% margin outsourcing deal, so it is really a race to see how much outsourcing revenue we can bring in. At the same time, we are bringing in 30% margin owned ATM revenue.

Jason Deleeuw

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

Got it. I was just going to add that what is exactly driving the shift towards more owned ATMs versus outsourcing?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

I mean, it all started with the banking crisis seven years ago, the friggin' banks had their balance sheet upside down. Nobody could make a decision. They still and do not seem to be able to do that good of job with it, so we are going to wait for them to do outsourcing. The banks are very unstable right now, particularly the banks in Europe and idea of outsourcing is a difficult thing to sell in any environment, particularly now, so why sit around and wait for them to get the sites and make the right decisions. Let us put some ATMs of our own. We know how to do it. We have been putting in take in individual sides for 21 years, so let us do what we know how to do and if more outsourcing deals come then all the best.

Jason Deleeuw

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

Got it. Then for epay, also I just want it to make sure I understand. What is driving the shift from this transaction from commission to more processing transaction?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

That was one of our larger customers and that is just how they wanted to renegotiate their dealer how we wanted to, and then it has all worked out. I mean, to use is a relevant what the top-line is as long as we continue to see growth on that bottom-line.

Jason Deleeuw

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

Then for money transfer, I know you guys are continuing to try to grow share and get more agents. Obviously, Walmart international is the big one, but I know there are others that you are looking for possibly just U.S., domestic and when you are competing for this business like what are the key negotiating points are differentiators. I mean, has this strictly come down to price and the commission share?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

You know what, what we are seeing here is, Walmart is the largest retail in the world and they are probably the most sophisticated. What they realized is that an exclusive relationship with one provider does not make a lot of sense long-term and they want to give their customers choice. They said that when we announced the product and you can see that also on payout, payout has gone from exclusives to non-exclusive as well. As this industry evolves, it is going to move more towards non-exclusive, because at the end of the day there is no it does not make sense for you to ally yourself with just one provider who might only have the largest provider out there is 17% market share that means you are saying no to the other 83%, so we would expect an evolution just like we have seen in payout on the SIM side, where more people will go non-exclusive and allow their customers choice.

Jason Deleeuw

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

Thanks. Then just the last one, beginning question is on the global macro obviously a little bit more forefront given the last few months, but I know you guys are put in a pretty strong constant currency growth across all your businesses, but are you starting to see any macro softness and any of your businesses in any regions that you would called out?

Mike Brown

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

No. That is something I want to be make really clear. We have not felt any of these, we do not see it. Immigration continues to grow around the world. Our site for ATMs, are still there regardless of these macro events. Epay continues to throw more content into more channels all the time. I mean, we grew constant currency last year by 50% bottom-line. I mean, obviously, we are not feeling a lot of impact.

Jason Deleeuw

Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our final question comes from Matt O'Neill with Autonomous Research. Your line is open.

Matt O'Neill

Analyst · Autonomous Research. Your line is open

Good morning, guys. I was wonder if you could give any update on the possibility of Visa opening DCC on ATMs outside of EU?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Autonomous Research. Your line is open

Well, I mean, we have announced that we do that now in other countries. We do it in India. We announced to the State Bank of India's as a DCC partners of ours, with 45,000 - Did you say Visa? That is up to Visa right now. I mean, the EU mandated the Visa allow DCC, it is kind of dumb that they do not. MasterCard has a certainly embraced it as a way that you can make more profit and also allow their customers to have more transparency in that transaction rather than being surprised when they get home. We hope that Visa brightens up as well, so we will just see what happen.

Matt O'Neill

Analyst · Autonomous Research. Your line is open

Great. Thanks. Lastly, any updates or changes to the plan for the XE migration following the notice period?

Rick Weller

Analyst · Autonomous Research. Your line is open

No. We have given them notice. Basically it took us about a month or so after the acquisition to give them their notice. We are now working out the mechanics of connecting all the pipes together, so that we can have a nice flawless transaction flow for our customers. We expect later this year, just like what we are originally anticipating to go live with that. We do have the exact date yet, but we are working towards that.

Matt O'Neill

Analyst · Autonomous Research. Your line is open

Great. Thanks very much.

Mike Brown

Analyst · Autonomous Research. Your line is open

Okay. Operator, I think, we were a little bit or 15 minutes over. I thank everybody for their time and their patience.