Brad D. Smith
Analyst · Cowen and Company
Okay. Thanks, Matt, and thanks to all of you for joining us. I'm pleased to share that we're off to another strong start in fiscal 2012. First quarter revenue was $594 million, representing an increase of 12% versus last year. Our Small Business Group led the way in the quarter, growing revenue 13%, making it the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth in Small Business. Across-the-board, our results are in line with our expectations and give us confidence to reiterate our guidance for fiscal 2012. As you know, we typically report a loss in the first quarter of each fiscal year. The good news is our operating loss this quarter narrowed significantly compared to the first quarter last year, reinforcing the strengthening benefit of our ongoing shift to more recurring, reliable Connected Services revenue. We're often asked how we continue to produce the kind of growth we've been delivering despite a volatile macroeconomic environment. The answer is simple, secular tailwinds, they're overpowering any cyclical uncertainty. We are well-positioned in capitalizing on the long-term structural shift in Connected Services. We're seeing the impact of this structural shift in each of our businesses. For example, in Consumer Tax. The software category has grown 6% on average over the past 5 years, far outpacing any other tax prep method. Professional tax preparers grew a modest 1% and tax stores and manuals declined during the same time period. In Small Business, our online and mobile solutions are our fastest-growing services. We now have 300,000 QuickBooks Online customers, 300,000 Website customers, 200,000 Online Payroll customers and over 100,000 customers using our newer mobile solutions. And in Financial Services, our mobile banking customer base has tripled over the last 12 months, now totaling 1.2 million end users. Intuit has another strategic advantage, 15 million installed customers. As the old adage goes, it's easiest to sell to the customer that you already have. And we're doing just that. We're enriching the mix as our customers rapidly adopt Connected Services. This generates the recurring revenue stream that I mentioned earlier, as well as favorable lifetime value economics for Intuit. In addition, we're also benefiting as customers attach additional services and adopt more full-featured offerings that carry a higher average selling price. Let me share a couple of examples to illustrate the power of this favorable mix shift. QuickBooks Online comes with the recurring revenue stream and a lifetime value that is 20% higher than that of a QuickBooks Pro desktop customer. Posting 40% year-over-year subscriber growth in the first quarter, QuickBooks Online is one of our fastest-growing connected services. In Payroll, the rapid growth in our Online Payroll solution, the increased success in attaching direct deposit and a favorable mix shift towards higher-end products are all driving higher revenue per customer. Combine these trends with customer retention rates in the mid-80s, and we have a large and growing Payroll customer base in which we can sell new solutions. While enriching our mix and maximizing our up-sell and our cross-sell opportunities are excellent leverage for growth, we're also staying laser focused on growing our categories by converting to nonconsumption. Our teams are innovating in key areas and are striving to simplify our first-use experience for users, making it easier for new customers to get up and running on our products and services. This will continue to expand our categories and, over time, will convert millions of consumers and small businesses who do not currently take advantage of digital solutions. Some examples include GoPayment, which as you may recall, enables small businesses to accept payments anywhere on mobile devices. Over 70% of stand-alone GoPayment customers are new to our Small Business franchise and GoPayment is also attracting customers who sign up for a broader set of payment services. Another great example is our recently released Mint for the iPad, which makes it easier for consumers to interact with their personal finances on the go. Early feedbacks have been very positive on this application, earning 4.5 out of 5 stars in the Apple App Store. When you put it all together, these opportunities are a reflection of our enduring strategy to capitalize on the long-term shift in Connected Services. Our results in the first quarter reinforce that our strategy is working. Our 3-point growth strategy remains unchanged. First, to drive growth in our core businesses, which benefit from high share, low penetration and a superior Net Promoter Score relative to competitive alternatives or other substitute methods. Second, to build adjacent businesses and enter into new geographies, which we expect to add 1 to 2 points of growth over the next several years. And third, to accelerate our company's transition to Connected Services, which now represents 62% of total revenue, with over 35 million customers using our hosted offerings. I am encouraged by our results this quarter, but we realize we have plenty of game left to play this year, so we're staying focused. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Neil, who will provide the financial details.