David Fisher
Analyst · JMP Securities
Thanks and good afternoon, everyone and thanks for joining our call today. First, I will provide an overview of our third quarter results and will give an update on our recent actuations of OnDeck which closed on October 15. And finally, I’ll discuss our strategy and outlook for 2020. After that, I'll turn the call over to Steve Cunningham, our CFO, who will discuss our financial results and outlook in more detail. Starting in March the entire Enova team orchestrated a quick and exceptional response to the COVID crisis. We began seeing the benefits of this effort in Q3 as our business showed strong signs of recovery from the industry-wide impacts from COVID. Our improving performance can be seen and the stability of our portfolio are strong credit metrics and a re-acceleration in our originations. As a result, we delivered record profitability in Q3 primarily as a result of high net revenue margins driven by the strong credit performance, but also due to efficient expense management. Third quarter revenue of $205 million declined 33% year-over-year, but adjusted EBITDA rose 112% to a record $136 million and adjusted EPS of $2.97 grew 223%. Third quarter revenue decreased sequentially due to our intentional pullback and originations in response to COVID. We expect that trend to reverse given the substantial increase in our lending activities during the quarter. The confidence that drove our decision to increase our originations in Q3 was a result of a number of factors. Our successful efforts to help our customers manage through the crisis resulted in much stronger than expected portfolio performance. In addition, we saw continued strong credit performance from new loans at the end of Q2 and into Q3 and importantly both the strong portfolio performance and credit metrics continued even after government stimulus wound down in July. We've taken a measured approach to re-accelerating our lending running hundreds of tests to gauge demand, credit quality of customers and competition. We are currently testing the re-acceleration of originations at nearly every State in our lending footprint and in all of our marketing channels. The data we collect from these tests give us deep insights into consumer and small business borrowers. With these insights we are able to adjust our products, our marketing and our models to address current economic conditions. Our testing will of course be ongoing, but we believe we already have a strong hand on how the pandemic has impacted customer behavior. As a result, we have been rapidly adjusting our sophisticated analytics model to steadily increase lending volume at attractive unit economics. While still at levels below last year the week-over-week and month-over-month growth rates and originations have been strong across all of our products and this has continued into Q4. It is obviously difficult to make forward-looking predictions giving the ongoing impacts from COVID. But based on what we are seeing today we would expect growth in our originations to continue for the foreseeable future even as portions of the country are experiencing high COVID levels. Despite elevated unemployment rates, we are seeing signs of strength in the non-prime customer base. Clearly, the consumer and the economy have proved more resilient than most people would have guessed back in the spring. The restrictions caused by COVID have greatly reduced spending and those lower spending levels combined with the earlier government stimulus has freed up capital for many consumers. And in many cases these consumers have used this extra capital to pay down debt. As the economy opens back up, our belief is that consumers will start spending again potentially at elevated levels due to pent-up demand. And as they do they will need access to credit to temporarily support dislocations between their income and their expenses. Since those customers have been paying down debt during COVID, their personal balance sheet should be in a position where we can successfully lend to them. We saw the same dynamic following the financial crisis which led to strong origination growth in 2010 and 2011 at Enova. While third quarter originations declined 77% from a year ago, they increased 56% sequentially and originations from new customers increased to approximately 11% of total origination up from around 7% in Q2. This is down from 39% in Q3 of last year as expected and as we continue to accelerate originations, we expect that the proportion of new customers will increase over the next several quarters given the good demand we are currently seeing. Due to our prudent approach to originations during the pandemic, our loan portfolio contracted 36% on a year-over-year basis from the third quarter of last year. But this rate is slowing and the portfolio is down only 14% from the second quarter. In the third quarter of this year installment products represented 72% of our portfolio. Line of credit products accounted for 28% and short-term loans accounted for under 2%. Small business represented 12% and our U.S. near prime products represented 59% of our portfolio. Before wrapping up, I'd like to spend a couple minutes discussing a recent acquisition of OnDeck. As we said when we announced the deal, this transaction brings together two complementary market-leading businesses. OnDeck's proven products further enhance our product differentiation by combining our world-class capabilities in consumer lending with theirs in small business. And we believe now is a great time to be increasing our presence in small business lending. The pandemic has devastated many small businesses across the country. Their revenues are down and small business owners are digging into their savings to survive until the pandemic subsides and the economy reopens. But when it does I believe consumers will have a significant amount of pent-up demand that small businesses can serve, but these businesses will need capital to restock their shelves, buy new equipment, bring employees back and many other critical expenses. And we intend to be there to supply that capital through our broad range of SMB financing products. For now Enova will add the OnDeck brand products and services to its SMB portfolio to create a combined business with significant scale and diverse product offerings. Over the next several quarters, we will be finalizing our strategy on the optimal number of products and brands to best serve the needs of SMB borrowers. These decisions will be made by running numerous tests in the marketplace to gauge the true needs of customers. It is also encouraging that OnDeck financial performance during the third quarter exceeded our expectations. Steve will discuss the results in more detail. In addition the integration is going well so far and we believe we are on track to deliver that $50 million of expense synergies and $15 million in run rate revenue synergies. And we continue to believe that the transaction will be accretive in the first year and generate non-GAAP earnings per share accretion of more than 40% when the synergies are fully realized. In summary, we are pleased with our third quarter performance. Our portfolio reflects stable and solid credit. We ended the quarter with a very strong balance sheet and liquidity position. This gives us the flexibility to increase lending value as we continue to see attractive unit economics. As we look forward, we remain committed to helping hard working people get access to fast trustworthy credit. We have proven that our online-only business model can rapidly adapt to changes and that we have the ability to successfully manage the business in any market condition. While COVID has created uncertainty in the near term, our secure financial position and broad product offerings position us well to continue to produce sustainable and profitable growth as well as drive shareholder value. And together Enova and OnDeck will be well positioned to further support small businesses and consumers in the wake of the pandemic. For over 16 years, we've had a history of profitable lending through various cycles and as a combined company we are even better positioned due to our larger scale and more diverse offering. Leveraging our strong financial and operational position we will continue to look for diversification opportunities both internally and through acquisition. With that I'll turn the call over to Steve to provide more details on our financial performance and outlook and following Steve's remarks we will be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Steve?