David Fisher
Analyst · JMP. Please go ahead
Thanks, Monica, and good afternoon everyone. And thanks for joining our call today. I am going to start-off by giving a brief overview of the quarter, along with an update on our new business initiatives, before turning the call over to Rob to discuss our financial results in more detail. Overall, we are happy with the trajectory Enova is on, while our financial results for the quarter were a bit muted, we remain a very profitable company with numerous growth prospects, driven by the combination of strong execution of our existing businesses, as well as impressive progress of our new initiatives. For the second quarter, revenue of $146.3 million was slightly below our guidance, driven by a slower than anticipated recovery in our UK business, as well as currency headwind. However, despite the lower revenue, strong loan performance and controlled marketing spend resulting as leading our profitability guidance for the adjusted EBITDA of $41.1 million. These results demonstrates the resiliency of our business model, built on sophisticated advanced analytics and the flexibility of our proprietary lending platform. While improvement in the UK business was a little slower than we expected, we are very encouraged by the momentum we are seeing there. UK loan originations increased almost 20% sequentially in the second quarter and we believe that reduced competition, our strong regulatory compliance and our diligence in developing a solid relationship with the FCA all position us well for continued success there. Beyond UK, our diversification strategy and recent product introductions continued to exceed our expectations and look to be meaningful contributors to our future growth. The clearest example of this is NetCredit, our near-prime installment product in the US, which continues to grow at a very strong case. NetCredits revenue and loan balances for the quarter are both up over 150% from last year and the business will be solidly profitable this year. Importantly, over one third of the NetCredit loan portfolio represents loans with an ATR below 36%. To further accelerate the growth in NetCredit, our plan is to expand this business into additional state over the next couple of quarter, by establishing loan programs with a small number of banks. Under these programs, Enova provides marketing, processing and loan services to the banks. The banks may then sell some or all of the loans they originate to Enova or other purchasers. We believe this initiative which will focus on sub [ph] 36% ATR loans were large in NetCredit footprint over 40 states. We've also seen nice growth in our CNU [ph] installment loan product with the addition of two states this year, Texas and Ohio. These new products and NetCredits continue growth led to a 40% year-over-year increase in our US installment loan and finance receivables revenue. In addition, the combination of installment loans and line to credit now account for 67% of our total revenue and 79% of our total combined loan and finance receivables balance. Looking forward, we see the bulk of our growth coming from installment loans and lines of credit, as these products have been the majority of our focus. In addition to the success of NetCredit, all of our recent new product introductions and new initiatives involved installment loans or line of credit products as example. Turning to our new initiatives. All four of our pilots launched last year continued to perform well. This include On Stride, our near prime installment loan product in UK, our short-term installment loan products in Brazil, and medium-term installment loan products in China and Headway Capital, our small business line of credit offering in the US. The most fully developed of these four looked to be Brazil. We have significantly improved the unit economics for our Brazil products, driven by very low customer acquisition cost and declining default. While we are keeping the eye on the economy in Brazil, given these positive results we anticipate significantly expanding our efforts there. In China, we entered the market as the countries first online direct consumer lender and continue to see strong demand from growing tech-savvy, middle class consumers in China. For next step, we plan to fly for a national license there later this year, plus and 10 [ph] of those licenses have been granted today. So if you are successful in getting the license, we believe we will be in a very good competitive position. In the second quarter, we enhanced our small business offering with a tuck-in acquisition of assets of a company that focuses on purchasing future receivables of small businesses. This acquisition gives us an additional product to serve the needs of the small business community and significantly boost our expertise in small business lending. We believe the combination of this new product with our existing line of credit offering from Headway gives us a robust offering for small businesses in the US. In total, we plan to invest almost $20 million this year in the four new initiatives we launched since last year. We are cognizant that this is a significant amount of money, but it’s demonstrated by NetCredit, we have a track record of turning these investments into successful businesses that we believe can generate significant profitability in the next couple of years. Now I want to turn briefly to the ongoing CFPB rulemaking process. As you know, earlier this year the CFPB published and outlined proposals for regulating high cost short term loans, installment loans, lines of credit and other products. This outline was published in preparation for convening a small business advisory review panel to determine whether the proposals in the outline did have a significant economic impact on small businesses and not for profit. The small business panel report is not yet been made public, but there have been statements in the press from participants, indicating that based on some of the comments and data to the FDA advocate and CFPB staff communicating their concern that the CFPBs proposals would harm small businesses, would add significant additional cost without providing meaningful additional benefit for consumers. Since the CFPB review – we still outline, we have met them several time to discuss the proposal and we are voluntarily provided information and analysis to help ensure that the final rules reflect the realities of consumer credit needs and the credit market place. The CFPB staff is welcoming and supportive of these efforts and has engaged with our team to better understand the information we have provided. We hope that they will be able to use this information to develop effective rule that strike the right balance, between eliminating bad access [ph] and bad practices, while for reserving access to credit for under bank consumers. While there is not a lot of additional information regarding the substance of what the CFPB will propose, we continue to believe that the core of the CFPB framework will be built around ability to repay based underwriting. This plays firmly into our strength as the sophistication of our underwriting has long been a competitive advantage for Enova. In addition, the flexibility of our online platform gives an important advantage of the brick and mortar competitors who still make up a majority of the industry. We also believe that are recent experiences in the UK adapting to an enhanced ability to repay regulatory framework provide us valuable experience for a similar effort in the US. Lastly, in terms of timing, the industry continues to anticipate that the proposed rules will be published late this year, filing publications proposed rules there will be time of period powered by a CFPB response. Once the final rules are published there will be an implementation period of up to a year. This makes it highly and likely that the new roles will take it fast before 2017. Looking forward, we continue to believe there is a huge opportunity serving under bank customers. We are growing our existing businesses, successfully nurturing our new initiatives and building a pipeline of additional opportunities. And of course, all of this results upon the strength of our proprietary technology platform and advanced analytics capabilities. While there is currently lot of uncertainty regarding the substance of the CFPBs rulemaking, we made significant efforts to ensure that Enova remains successful. Our revenue is becoming more diversified by the day and we have strong practices, leading regulatory compliance and a deeper and more successful track records than anyone else of managing through substantial changes in regulations. As always, none of this will be possible without the tremendous team we have here at Enova. We have amazing people that are focused on continuing to develop our technology and analytics and introducing new products, which would drive sustainable long-term growth and profitability. Now I'll turn the call over to Rob Clifton, our CFO to go over the financials in more detail and following Rob’s remarks, we'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Rob?