Yemi Okupe
Analyst · Canaccord
Thanks, Andrew. Today, I'll walk through progress made in the second quarter across our key growth levers as well as investments we are making to bring a better health experience to millions of consumers globally and capture the immense opportunity in front of us. In the second quarter, revenue grew nearly 40% year-over-year to more than $753 million. Expanded assortment, new geographic markets and an elevated consumer experience allowed us to add 300,000 net new subscribers and end the quarter with nearly 3 million subscribers on our platform. Domestic revenue growth accelerated to 16% year-over-year in the second quarter as U.S. operations generated $622 million of revenue. The pivot we made in March to expand the assortment of branded weight loss products on our platform was a key driver of the reaccelerating growth in the second quarter as more subscriber additions offset revenue recognition headwinds from the shift to a monthly cadence in branded weight loss offerings. Increasingly, we view specialties with large audiences such as weight loss and sexual health as strategically important beyond just their direct revenue contributions as they provide advantages such as, first, a meaningful expansion of the cross-sell opportunities across the platform as consumers often seek treatment for conditions beyond weight. Cross-sell potential increases further as we extend the reach of lab testing on our platform, which can surface underlying needs for treatment within specialties like low testosterone and cardiovascular health that subscribers may not know they have and would not otherwise act upon. What begins as weight loss treatment has the potential to become a pathway to providing access to care for a much broader range of subscriber needs. Second, it allows us to rapidly deepen the structured data set across our platform. The more subscribers we serve, the richer our data set becomes. This allows us to equip providers with tools to better match subscribers with effective treatments as well as design more customized subscriber tools for follow-up care. Each subscriber makes the platform smarter and better for the next. Finally, our infrastructure is built to continuously capture economies of scale. As our subscriber base grows, we realize efficiencies across our supply chain, including our provider network, pharmacy fulfillment and follow-up care operations. This reduces our cost to serve, expanding our ability to reach more subscribers at accessible price points. Strength in our domestic operations has provided us with the conviction to invest internationally and bring our value proposition to millions of consumers overseas. In the second quarter, international revenue increased over 17-fold year-over-year to $131 million. We welcomed the Eucalyptus team in June, deepening our presence in Europe and extending our reach to Australian and Japanese consumers. Eucalyptus contributed approximately $40 million of revenue in the second quarter, further accelerating our already strong existing international business that grew 13% quarter-over-quarter organically. Our revenue footprint continues to rapidly diversify across specialties and now also across geographies. Hers is on track to deliver north of $1 billion of revenue this year and new specialties such as low testosterone continue to serve as strong growth drivers for Hims. In fact, in the coming quarters, we expect testosterone will become our sixth U.S. specialty to reach a $100 million annual revenue run rate. Our growing international business makes this diversification even more robust. The U.K., Australia and Germany are each already generating more than $100 million in annualized revenue, with Canada also on track to join this group as well, as we scale our generic weight loss offering. We believe we have the infrastructure to improve the overall quality and efficiency of our platform as we continue to scale. Our aim is to continue to drive scale, but do so in a thoughtful way that lays the foundation for robust EBITDA and cash flow generation. Our second quarter results reflect that discipline. Adjusted EBITDA in the quarter was $60 million, representing an 8% adjusted EBITDA margin. This represented a 1-point improvement quarter-over-quarter as operating leverage more than offset gross margin headwinds from the ongoing mix shift toward weight loss and the accelerating revenue contributions from our international business. These results exclude approximately $81 million of nonrecurring costs incurred during the quarter, consisting of acquisition and transaction costs primarily related to the closing of our Eucalyptus acquisition, restructuring costs following the strategic pivot in our weight loss specialty earlier this year and legal contingency accruals related to recent litigation with the FTC. Let me briefly address that last item directly. As disclosed in our filings, following nearly 3 years of cooperation throughout the FTC's investigation and several months of good faith settlement negotiations, the FTC filed a complaint on July 29. Ultimately, we were not prepared to accept the terms we do not believe reflect the facts or the law. We are confident in our position and intend to defend it vigorously. These onetime costs primarily impacted G&A, operations and support costs during the quarter. Unless otherwise noted, the remainder of my commentary today reflects our results excluding these costs. Gross margins in the second quarter were 64%, down approximately 6 points quarter-over-quarter on an adjusted basis. This compression reflects deliberate strategic action to scale the specialties and markets that we believe will drive the long-term value of our platform. We do not believe anyone else in consumer health has the scale, infrastructure and balance sheet to invest in this way. As branded weight loss products and international revenue become a larger portion of the business, we expect gross margins will remain below the levels we have historically achieved. What matters to us is that the underlying unit economics of the platform remains strong and that each of these investments expands the base of subscribers we can serve and positions us to unlock efficiencies across our platform over time. In recent quarters, a meaningful portion of our investment has gone into technology and G&A as we've leaned into the engineering and AI organizations and the leadership talent required to deliver a first-of-its-kind health experience to consumers around the world. That investment will continue, but we were encouraged to see modest sequential leverage across both lines this quarter, which we believe offer an early signal that investments here can be meaningfully accretive over time. Those investments are also beginning to generate cost savings elsewhere in the business. Operations and support delivered three points of sequential leverage in the second quarter. This is a reflection of the improving efficiencies we are driving across our pharmacy operations as we increase throughput and early cost savings from the AI initiatives we have deployed across customer support. As Mo mentioned, successful pilots have demonstrated that AI has the capacity to drive a 50% reduction in nonclinical tasks handled by our support teams. Early signs in the same pilot are also demonstrating stronger engagement and lower cancellations for the participating subscribers. As these capabilities mature, we expect the overall subscriber experience to improve and our cost to serve to decline. Finally, we continue to increase efficiency in our marketing spend as we scale. Marketing as a percentage of revenue improved 5 points year-over-year and 2 points quarter-over-quarter to 34%. Many of the drivers remain consistent with past quarters, strengthening retention, improving rates of cross-sell accruing organically across the platform and years of brand investment, helping to lift customer acquisition in lower-cost channels. With that said, we also see two new dynamics that are presenting additional opportunities. First, our collaborations with pharmaceutical innovators like Novo Nordisk are resulting in real marketing tailwinds. We've seen groundbreaking treatments draw enormous consumer attention to categories like weight loss. And when people go looking for a trusted, approachable place to start, they increasingly start with Hims & Hers. We built a platform that makes health simple, personal and easy to stay with, and that is allowing us to turn consumer curiosity into new care relationships in an increasingly efficient way. Additionally, our expanded international presence unlocks the potential for larger global brand moments while also driving far greater optionality in where we can deploy capital to drive awareness of our platform. We believe we are in one of the most exciting stages in our history. It is a stage that demands we lean into investment, act decisively on the right M&A opportunities and attract the caliber of talent that enables us to capitalize on the significant growth runway in front of us. Periodically, we expect this long-term oriented mindset will impact our GAAP results, and that was the case in the second quarter. GAAP net income was a loss of $86 million, which was impacted by the previously mentioned nonrecurring acquisition, restructuring and legal costs. Over the last 12 months, our platform generated over $260 million of operating cash flow. That's inclusive of second quarter results where operating cash flow momentum took a pause due to the increased working capital demands associated with our rapidly expanding branded weight loss offering. During the quarter, operating cash flow was negative $36 million and free cash flow was negative $68 million. Since the end of the first quarter, we successfully completed two actions that we believe will help ensure our balance sheet will not limit our ability to capture the growth opportunities in front of us. First, we established a $400 million receivables facility, giving us an efficient mechanism to convert the growing base of short-dated receivables generated by our branded weight loss offering into cash with capacity that scales alongside the business. Second, we completed a convertible debt offering of over $400 million, further reinforcing our balance sheet. Our expectation is to resume free cash flow generation in the second half of the year. After accounting for the approximately $225 million upfront payment made at the closing of Eucalyptus, we ended the quarter with more than $840 million of cash and short-term investments. We also have $225 million remaining on our share repurchase program, which continues to give us the ability to act when we believe the market value of our stock disconnects from its intrinsic value. Taken together, our balance sheet, our access to efficient sources of liquidity and the cash generation of our domestic business give us the flexibility to fund an accelerating platform while continuing to invest with conviction. Our investments will continue to orient around our core strategic growth levers, which we believe will solidify the pathway of 2030 financial ambitions. Utilizing technology to elevate the quality of care for our users, expanding into new specialties, broadening access to personalized care across specialties, leveraging partnerships to become a best-in-class curator of health services and expanding internationally. I'll highlight a few of these where we expect heavier near-term investment. First, we are accelerating investment in our technology and AI capabilities. AI investments on our platform are driving a meaningfully better consumer experience that is resulting in a reduction in cancellations. Subscribers are able to get faster answers to questions alongside a more consistent and personalized experience. Early signals are already demonstrating AI's ability to improve the efficiency with which we serve our subscribers. We expect these benefits to compound with time, unlocking a powerful combination of stronger revenue growth and cost savings. Our expectation is that the AI investments will pay back within 12 to 18 months. More importantly, we believe these capabilities, combined with our scale, provide structural advantages to invest in ways that others cannot across key growth areas like weight loss and international markets. Starting with weight loss, we will deploy a portion of efficiency improvements from AI into making our platform the most accessible place for consumers to begin their weight loss journey. The success across our AI efforts continues. Our expectation is that we will unlock more value for our weight loss subscribers by the end of the year in the form of lower prices and/or additional tools. This is a playbook we know well. In our sexual health and hair loss specialties scale allowed us to steadily lower prices for our customers, which expanded our addressable market, strengthened retention and ultimately drove stronger LTVs and margin expansion. We see a similar opportunity taking shape in weight loss, where our growing scale, improving operational efficiencies and AI-supported care model enable us to make treatment more affordable for more people. Delivering more for less is how we extend the advantages of our platform, and we believe few in consumer health are positioned to do the same. We also expect to redeploy a portion of efficiencies to accelerate growth within our international business. We have the necessary talent to meaningfully evolve the way consumers access their health and wellness needs across Australia, Japan, Canada, Germany and the U.K. And we expect to invest aggressively in these markets as we build category leadership. Importantly, adoption of weight loss solutions across many of these markets still lags the U.S. meaningfully and the same investments to strengthen our leadership position can accelerate growth of the category itself, expanding the market for us and for our industry partners. We expect these markets to emerge as meaningful profit centers as they scale. Lastly, we will continue investing in the operational capabilities and clinical oversight required to bring new offerings to the platform responsibly, including higher complexity offerings like injectable testosterone in the near term and peptide therapies if the regulatory landscape allows. With that, I will walk through outlook for the remainder of the year. In the third quarter, we're anticipating revenue in the range of $880 million to $900 million, representing a year-over-year increase of approximately 47% to 50%. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $75 million to $95 million, representing an adjusted EBITDA margin of 10% at the midpoint of both ranges. For the full year, we are raising our 2026 revenue outlook to $3.1 billion to $3.3 billion, representing a year-over-year increase of 32% to 41%. It is our expectation that 2026 adjusted EBITDA will be between $275 million and $325 million. These adjusted EBITDA and revenue ranges imply an adjusted EBITDA margin of 9% at the midpoint of both ranges. To help contextualize our outlook, I will highlight a few points. First, we expect the gross margin dynamics we saw in the second quarter to persist through the second half as branded weight loss offerings and international revenue continue to grow as the share of our business. As I discussed earlier, this mix shift reflects a deliberate decision to scale the specialties and markets we believe will drive the long-term value of the platform. Second, we expect the compounding effect of the weight loss cohorts acquired throughout the first half to drive a meaningful step-up in adjusted EBITDA dollars in the second half, accompanied by continued leverage across our operating expenses as revenue growth in the U.S. reaccelerates. At the same time, our guidance is designed to preserve the flexibility to lean further into the investment priorities outlined today as opportunities materialize. Finally, we expect our international business to generate at least $600 million of revenue in 2026, which will continue to operate at or near breakeven on an adjusted EBITDA basis as we prioritize scale. Our platform is delivering a combination of value to consumers that we believe cannot be found anywhere else in health care. We are addressing more health needs for our subscribers through an experience that becomes more personal with every interaction at prices that become more accessible as we scale. That combination is why more people are choosing our platform than ever before, and why they are staying longer entrusting us with more of their health. What's most exciting is that now this is a truly global story. The re-acceleration underway in our U.S. business is paired with leadership positions across key international markets, giving us more consumers to serve, more markets to scale and more ways to compound our advantages than at any point in our history. All of which reinforce our confidence in achieving our 2030 ambitions of at least $6.5 billion in revenue and $1.3 billion in adjusted EBITDA. Our success would not be possible without the significant efforts of Hims & Hers employees around the world. I'd like to thank them, our subscribers and our shareholders for supporting us in our mission to help the world feel great through the power of better health. With that, I will now turn the call back over to Bill to kick off Q&A with 2 questions from our retail community.