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GoPro, Inc. (GPRO)

Q2 2019 Earnings Call· Thu, Aug 1, 2019

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Operator

Operator

Good day, everyone. Welcome to GoPro’s Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Results Conference Call. Today’s conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Christopher Clark, Vice President of Corporate Communications. Please go ahead sir.

Christopher Clark

Management

Thanks, operator. Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to GoPro’s second quarter 2019 earnings conference call. With me today are GoPro’s CEO, Nicholas Woodman; and CFO, Brian McGee. Before we get started, I’d like to remind everyone that our remarks today may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements and all other statements that are not historical facts are not guarantees of future performance, and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially. Additionally, any forward-looking statements made today are based on assumptions as of today. We do not undertake any obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events. Information concerning our risk factors is available in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in other reports that we may file from time-to-time with the SEC. Today, we may discuss gross margin, operating expense, net profit and loss, as well as basic and diluted net profit and loss per share in accordance with GAAP and additionally on a non-GAAP basis. We believe that non-GAAP information is useful because it can enhance the understanding of our ongoing economic performance. We use non-GAAP reporting internally to evaluate and manage our operations. We choose to provide this information to enable investors to perform comparisons of operating results in a manner similar to how we analyze our own operating results. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP operating expenses can be found in the press release that was issued this afternoon. In addition to the earnings press release, we have posted slides containing detailed financial data and metrics for the first quarter 2019. These slides, as well as a link to today’s live webcast and a replay of this conference call are posted on the GoPro Investor Relations website for your reference. All income statement related numbers that are discussed today during the call other than revenue, are not GAAP, unless otherwise noted. Now I’d like to turn the call over to GoPro’s Founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman.

Nicholas Woodman

Management

Thanks, Chris, and good afternoon. Today, Brian and I will take you through GoPro’s second quarter 2019 performance. In short, we are growing and we are profitable. And as Brian will discuss in a few minutes, we are increasing our full-year revenue guidance and tightening our full-year EPS guidance raising the mid-point by 14%. Revenue in the quarter was $292 million representing 20% growth sequentially and 3% growth year-over-year. Excluding our aerial business, revenue grew 9% year-over-year, earnings per share was positive $0.03 an $0.18 improvement year-over-year and our flagship HERO7 Black with its market leading durability, versatility and revolutionary video stabilization continues to draw customers to the high-end. Demand for HERO7 Black helped drive ASP’s up 7% year-over-year excluding aerial to $270. And in the second quarter, we also saw higher than expected retail demand for HERO7 Silver and HERO7 White. This demand helped GoPro achieve a significant milestone in the quarter surpassing more than 35 million HERO cameras sold since we launched the first HD HERO in 2009. In addition to our strong performance at retail, GoPro.dom continues to thrive. In the second quarter, we saw web traffic jump 9% sequentially and 22% year-over-year, a record for Q2. E-commerce conversion increased 120% year-over-year and e-commerce revenue grew 55% year-over-year. Thanks to continued demand in all regions, channel inventory is at appropriate levels globally and we believe we are well-positioned for the launch of new products later this year. And after previewing our upcoming fall product lineup, our distributors and retail partners are very excited about the continued innovation in our upcoming products and we believe we'll be able to expand our leadership position during the holiday quarter. GoPro continues to lead in our markets globally and in Q2, we did not see an impact to sell-through as a…

Brian McGee

Management

Thanks, Nick. I'll begin with an overview of our performance for the second quarter and then discuss our outlook for 2019. We are increasing our 2019 annual revenue guidance and now expect revenue to grow between 9% and 12% or $1.25 billion to $1.28 billion and we are increasing the midpoint of our EPS guidance by approximately 14% to $0.40 per share. We continue to expect positive EBITDA of approximately $100 million for 2019 and I'll give you more color on that at the end of my prepared remarks. In the second quarter of 2019, we continue to execute on the business delivering revenue growth and profitability. Our results for revenue, margin, operating expenses and earnings were all in line with our prior guidance. Several financial metrics for the second quarter are noteworthy. Revenue increased 20% sequentially, 3% year-over-year and 9% year-over-year excluding our aerial business. Street ASP increased 7% year-over-year excluding our aerial business. Based on sell-through data, demand for cameras at price points of $300 and above increased more than 90% year-over-year meaning we’re selling more profitable products. Margins improved to 36%. GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses reduced year-over-year by 4% and 6% respectively. GAAP loss per share improved 70% to $0.08 while non-GAAP net income was $4.2 million or $0.03 per share, a $25 million improvement year-over-year and inventory over the past 15 months has consistently turned approximately every two months. Turning to the balance sheet for the quarter, accounts receivable were $145 million and DSOs were 45 days. In light of the uncertainty around tariffs, we proactively increased U.S. bound Camera Production, we continue to manage our inventory tightly maintaining approximately 60 days ending the period with $129 million in inventory. Cash and equivalents ended the quarter at $130 million. Now let's discuss our quarterly business…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] We will hear first today from Andrew Uerkwitz with Oppenheimer.

Andrew Uerkwitz

Analyst

Hey thanks gentlemen for taking my questions. It seems like in Q2 in this June quarter, silver and white delivered better than expected, however it sounds like the second half you're still assuming the higher end cameras will do better. Is that something you're getting that feedback from your retail partners or is that something you're seeing in your data. How should we think about that mix?

Nicholas Woodman

Management

Thanks Andrew. Silver and white did do better than expected in the second quarter but it wasn't at the expense of 7 Black. Just to be clear, so that's a net positive just selling more of the entire line. And it's feedback that we're getting from sell-through data.

Andrew Uerkwitz

Analyst

Got it. And then if you could share it sounds like your partners are pretty excited for this fall. Has there been any discussion on how we should think about channel going forward for the current products, promotions that sort of thing?

Nicholas Woodman

Management

Well obviously strong sell-through in Q2 and continued strong sell-through in July helps us achieve the appropriate channel inventories that position us well for the introduction of new product. I can't comment on what the new product line is but I can share that. Our strategy works really well for a product to transition and our retailers are all so far the reaction has been universally positive on the new product line. We learned a tremendous amount from HERO7 Black and what it is specifically about our products both current and future that would excite consumers in the line and whereas last year holiday success was really dependent on HERO7 Black being the star. I'd say our strategy this year is to perpetuate our flagship as the far away runaway star. But we've built more performance and excitement into our entire product line. So we think we're de-risking our 2019 Q4 strategy by having a much stronger lineup overall where each of the SKUs we believe is going to be a strong contributor and that can help us both de-risk the quarter, grow and maintain and build upon the momentum we've got but then carry that importantly into 2020 as well.

Andrew Uerkwitz

Analyst

Great, thank you. I appreciate that color. And if I could just another quick one. Brian it may be too early to know but how should we think about the mix between the two quarters in the second half similar to 2018?

Brian McGee

Management

Between the two quarters this is both I think the way the street has Q3 model that wouldn't be ahead of that. So I think some of the upside is we think five more in Q4.

Andrew Uerkwitz

Analyst

Got it. Super helpful. Thank you gentlemen.

Operator

Operator

We’ll hear next from Eric Woodring with Morgan Stanley.

Eric Woodring

Analyst

Hey good afternoon guys. I was just wondering if you could talk about the profile of some of the Plus subscribers that you see signing up, are they kind of like photographers or they your average consumer. Just curious on that and then I have a follow-up.

Nicholas Woodman

Management

We don't have consumer data at that level. We do know what is driving the subscription conversion of customers. We've done a lot of research to understand what features they are most interested, what's compelling them to sign up for a free trial in the first place, what's compelling them to convert to paid subscriber and what's compelling them to stay on and in the case of some churn, what's compelling them to churn out. And so we're getting a better understanding of the motivations of our subscribers. And so you've seen us make consistent improvements to the service adding value adding benefits of course rolling the subscription out more globally and improving the discoverability of the service and the ease by which our customers can sign up and all of this is contributing to accelerated growth for the service which is obviously really important to us given the high margin nature of the service we have. We have more advancements planned for later this year and look forward to hopefully reporting on a continued acceleration of the growth.

Eric Woodring

Analyst

Awesome thanks. And then just as it relates to ASP performance in the first half, if I just look back at my notes, I think you guys said ASPs would be up 8% year-over-year in the first half, they weren't up quite that much. Just curious if that's more of a product of mix because you talked about white and silver doing okay in 2Q or if there are any other factors?

Brian McGee

Management

Hi Eric, it’s not a systemic issue in the business, it has more to do with mix with silver and white just being a little bit stronger in the quarter. And that drove most of it. And that was really more timing between Q2 and Q3. So we still expect to be above $280 that came after the year is that we’re seeing on that, yes.

Eric Woodring

Analyst

Great, thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We'll hear next from Nik Todorov with Longbow Research.

Nikolay Todorov

Analyst

Hi guys. Thanks for taking the question. Congrats on the good results and an outlook. Brian if we can go to the guidance, it implies some really strong lift into ASP in the second half in order to get to that 280 for the full-year. Specifically here in the third quarter or just the fourth quarter you just mentioned that a third quarter should be closer to the street at 310. Can you give us some colors on how should we think about ASP versus units in the second half?

Brian McGee

Management

Yes for the second half and we guided the second half by the way because we can end up with timing differences between Q3 and Q4, right as we kind of go into the fall. But we feel comfortable that that would be about the right level for Q3, unit growth in the second half if I take the midpoint of what we talked about would be about 3%, unit growth year-over-year and ASP growth would be about 7%, we're going to continue to see migration to the upper end by the way that's also driving the whole model right, it’s driving revenue lift, our margin improvement as sequentially from the first half to the second half. We're holding OpEx and that's driving a lot of earnings leverage in the second half.

Nikolay Todorov

Analyst

Okay. And that 3% -- okay got it and then 3% unit growth do you expect that to be more centered around the fourth quarter and just because I'm looking at the September quarter last year was an easy comp from a unit perspective?

Brian McGee

Management

Yes, I think units will be up in both quarters.

Nikolay Todorov

Analyst

Okay. All right, that's helpful. And lastly in the fourth quarter also kind of seems like ASP is going to be historically high at least that's what's implied. Is there something, is that a function of the product that you guys are launching. I think Nick you mentioned there's a potential for maybe even ahead of HERO7 Black tier probably a camera for $4.99 or is just the fact that you're probably going to refresh the Fusion?

Nicholas Woodman

Management

Multiple products in our roadmap are going to contribute to this.

Nikolay Todorov

Analyst

Okay. Got it. And are you guys sharing how much in absolute values the sales to GoPro.com?

Brian McGee

Management

We didn't. We were above 10% in the first quarter and slightly under that in the second quarter, we did grow 55% up year-over-year. So solid performance and execution on the Web site.

Nikolay Todorov

Analyst

Okay. And last one from me, I'm sorry. So you mentioned sell-through was about 1 million units and that was down 14% year-over-year. I just want to make sure that's right.

Brian McGee

Management

Yes, that's correct. And I'd also point out that $300 and above price point as we mentioned in our prepared remarks up more than 90%. So we are with the continued execution and innovation we're bringing into the market and the value proposition that's driving to the higher end for our consumers.

Nikolay Todorov

Analyst

Got it, thanks. Good luck guys.

Brian McGee

Management

Thanks.

Nicholas Woodman

Management

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And from Wedbush Securities, we will hear from Alicia Reese.

Alicia Reese

Analyst

Hi guys, thanks for taking the questions. I was just wondering if you could give us a little bit more color on the Quik apps and perhaps if you can go into some detail about how many non-GoPro users are on the app roughly and how you're going to engage them and potentially expand your addressable market that way?

Nicholas Woodman

Management

The majority of users of the Quik app are non-GoPro owners which is on one hand an opportunity for us to get more of our GoPro users, GoPro owners using the Quik app which is why we combined the GoPro app and a Quik app into one app to improve discovery and overall simplification of our software experience for our customers. So we're really excited that those two apps are now combined and positive about the majority of Quik app users being non-GoPro owners is it shows that we have the ability to engage and provide a valuable content solution for consumers that don't yet own a GoPro or may never own a GoPro. And so it creates affords us the opportunity to better learn about these customers and how we can serve them through software. And our belief is that we can leverage our brand and technical capabilities to monetize them over time. And it's interesting when you think that the ticket to admission to benefit from GoPro as a brand and as a solution providers has historically started at $199 with our HERO7 white product. And then we have our free Quik app and now the GoPro app that's free, that non-user non-GoPro owners can use. And so there's this big field of opportunity between free and $199 that we can target consumers that maybe aren't passionate enough about our tools, brands and services to spend $199. But they may be interested in buying services or solutions from us that are somewhere between free and that that $199 hardware ticket to enter the GoPro 10.

Alicia Reese

Analyst

Great and thank you. That’s all from me.

Nicholas Woodman

Management

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And with no other questions, I'd like to turn things back to management for closing remarks.

Nicholas Woodman

Management

Thank you, operator. We feel great about the second half of the year and the upcoming holiday quarter and we've got strong momentum and we're very enthusiastic about our new product line that's coming this fall. So to our customers, fans and partners around the world thanks so much for helping us achieve this position of strength and we look forward to wowing you soon. Investors will be in New York City at the Citi Conference on September 4th and hope to see you there. Thanks to everyone for joining today's call. This is Team GoPro signing off.

Operator

Operator

And again that will conclude today’s conference. Thank you all for joining us.