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Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO)

Q3 2013 Earnings Call· Tue, Jul 30, 2013

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon. My name is Lita, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Fair Isaac Corporation Third Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. Mr. Steve Weber, you may begin your conference now.

Steven P. Weber

Analyst

Thank you, Lita. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining FICO's Third Quarter Earnings Call. I'm Steve Weber, Vice President of Investor Relations, and I'm joined today by our CEO, Will Lansing; and our CFO, Mike Pung. Today, we issued a press release that describes the financial results compared to the prior year. On this call, management will also discuss in comparison to the prior quarter in order to facilitate an understanding of the runway of our business. Certain statements made in this presentation may be characterized as forward-looking under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Those statements involve many uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Information concerning these uncertainties is contained in the company's filings with the SEC, in particular, in the risk factors and forward-looking statements portions of such filings. Copies are available from the SEC, from the FICO website or from our Investor Relations team. This call will also include statements regarding certain non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to the company's earnings release and Regulation G schedule issued today for a reconciliation of each of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measures. The earnings release and Regulation G schedule are available on the Investor Relations page of the company's website at fico.com or on the SEC's website at sec.gov. A replay of this webcast will be available through August 30, 2013. Now, I'll turn the call over to Will Lansing.

William J. Lansing

Analyst

Thanks, Steve. Today, we announced the results for our third quarter of fiscal 2013. I'll briefly recap those results, talk about the performance of our different segments and give our view on the macro environment. In our third quarter, we reported revenue of $184 million, an increase of 15% over the same period last year. On a GAAP basis, we delivered $20 million of net income and earnings of $0.54 per share for the quarter, down 5% and 8%, respectively, from the same period last year. The GAAP results included a noncash tax charge of $0.07 per share. We delivered $29 million of non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS of $0.80 per share, increases of 14% and 10%, respectively, from the same period last year. Recurring revenues throughout our business were strong again this quarter. We are pleased with the continued momentum we're seeing in our Scores business, which I'll discuss in a minute. One area of disappointment is the lengthening of the license sales cycle, particularly among North American banks. While we still feel the size and quality of our pipeline provides us with the ability to deliver against our previous guidance, we had expected to close more deals at this point in our fiscal year. As a result, we are adjusting our guidance down modestly. Mike will explain this when he reviews the financials, but first I'll discuss the results in each of our business segments. Our Application revenue this quarter was $115 million, up 17% from the same period last year. Most of the increase is attributable to the acquisitions of Adeptra and CR Software, but we continued to deliver very good results in fraud banking, which is up 14% year-over-year. As I said earlier, Applications is an area where we have seen delays in license sales.…

Michael J. Pung

Analyst

Thanks, Will, and good afternoon, everyone. Today, I'll emphasize 3 points in my prepared comments. First, our revenue this quarter was $184 million, a 15% increase over the same period last year and a 2% increase over the prior quarter. The increase from last year was primarily driven by our acquisitions, with about 1% of the growth coming organically. Second, we delivered $20 million of GAAP net income and free cash flow of $27 million. We repurchased about $48 million of stock this quarter, made a $49 million scheduled debt repayment and ended the quarter with $93 million of cash. Finally, we are revising our guidance today, moving the revenue range down slightly and adjusting net income to reflect this revenue change, as well as the noncash tax charge we took this quarter. Now I'll break revenue down into our 3 reporting segments. Starting with Applications, revenue was $115 million, up 17% versus the same period last year but down 2% from last quarter. Much of the increase from the prior year was due to the acquisitions of Adeptra and CR Software, which accounted for about $20 million of revenue in this quarter. In the second segment, Tools, revenue was $22 million, up 7% versus the prior year and up 20% versus the prior quarter. The year-over-year increase was primarily due to growth in services and maintenance revenue. License sales were flat with the same period last year but up 80% over last quarter. And third, in our Scores segment, revenue was $47 million, up 12% from the same period last year and up 7% from the prior quarter. As Will noted, we delivered very solid results in both B2B and in B2C. B2B was up 10% compared to the same period last year and 8% compared to last quarter.…

Steven P. Weber

Analyst

Thanks, Mike. This concludes our prepared remarks, and we're ready now to take your questions. Lita, please open the lines.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from Manav Patnaik.

Manav Patnaik - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst

Gentlemen, the first -- just the details, in terms of the $20 million, I think you said contribution from acquisitions, how did that split between Adeptra and CR Software?

Michael J. Pung

Analyst

Manav, Adeptra was roughly 70% of that $20 million. There was roughly another $5 million from CR and the rest from the other 2 small deals.

Manav Patnaik - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst

Okay. All right. Fair enough. Now on the Scores side, you talked, obviously, this quarter you had some nice benefit from mortgage and auto. And I guess going forward, you're seeing some modest improvement in the consumer side. Now with the mortgage headwind for the second half of the year, is there -- like how should we read in terms of the -- either the sequential or year-over-year growth on the B2B side, at least? I understand B2C will see that benefit from the Experian deal.

Michael J. Pung

Analyst

Yes. On the B2B side, we're continuing to see modest growth, and I would expect our fourth quarter on the B2B side to be somewhat flat or potentially down depending upon the timing of the slowdown in some of the mortgage refinancing. We're not seeing that rapidly in the near term, but there is a possibility we see some flat or downtick on the B2B side for that region.

Manav Patnaik - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst

Okay, fair enough. And I guess, last question. Nice to see you guys back in the buyback market. Just curious on is that sort of an indication that the M&A activity will slow down or pause for now? Or is it just that there aren't that many deals in the horizon? Anything to read into that?

William J. Lansing

Analyst

Manav, the answer to that is it's -- is the same as the answer we've had, which is we look at acquisitions on a somewhat opportunistic basis, and we can't completely control the timing of when the right deal comes along. And so where we have the cash available and we don't have the deal, we're in buyback mode. And now and then, the buybacks are going to be suspended when we need to use the cash for acquisition. So I would not read too much into the fact that we bought a bunch of stock this quarter. That could be different next quarter or we could buy a bunch more. I mean, I really can't say.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Carter Malloy.

Lauren Slabaugh - Stephens Inc., Research Division

Analyst

This is Lauren Slabaugh in for Carter. Quick question on what you mentioned about the lengthening of the license sale cycle. Could you just give a little more color on what's going on behind the scenes at some of the big banks to cause this?

William J. Lansing

Analyst

I think that is a combination of 2 things. It's a combination of the environment that our customers are operating in, and we all know that environment. And so there's a little more complexity to their side of the equation. And I think the other part of it is the way we're going at our deals. We're looking at larger deals, and they naturally take longer to get done. And so it's a combination of both factors.

Lauren Slabaugh - Stephens Inc., Research Division

Analyst

Okay. That's helpful. And then moving over to the Scores business. Could you just go a little bit about the health of the prescreen and marketing business there?

William J. Lansing

Analyst

Yes. On the prescreen side, we've seen some modest growth over the last 3 quarters in a row on volumes that are being pulled for acquisition and marketing purposes. This quarter, we saw 8% growth over last year on volume acquisitions. And year-to-date, we're up modestly, about 4% on a year-to-date basis. We have seen more of the actual revenue growth, though, coming on the origination side, and that's been tied more to the mortgage and the autos. So I would say modest improvement, nothing eye-popping and off the charts, but several quarters in a row of continued growth is well accepted here.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] There are no further questions at this time. This concludes today's conference. You may now disconnect.

William J. Lansing

Analyst

Thank you.