Daniel Murphy
Analyst · Roth Capital. Your line is open
Thanks, Rob. Reiterating Rob's comments, our underlying fundamental point to solid execution on most of our 2016 objective. As with the end of the second quarter, we have migrated more than 70% of our customers to LiveEngage and we are very confident in meeting our goal of upgrading 75% of our customers by yearend. We are rapidly moving revenue on to the platform as we upgrade our largest brand and we're seeing positive results from LiveEngage customers, including strong mobile adoption and double digit year-over-year usage increases. It is a great indicator of customer satisfaction and future revenue growth potential. We stabilized the customer renewal rate in the second quarter and generated solid traction in the consumer and automotive verticals. We are also keenly focused on driving efficiencies throughout our business and we are on track to reduce expenses year-over-year by approximately 5% or $12 million of 2016. 2016 expenses include investment of approximately $5 million and one-time cost to ensure positive upgrade experience as our brand moves to LiveEngage. As we entered 2016, the user will be three key levers associated with pushing the upgrade to LiveEngage. Customer renewal assumption, the timing of migrations and the timing of upsells from the existing customers migrating to new platform. We've build our forecast to account the new levers based on detailed account plan to each brand and in depth customer level conservations. Midway to the year we are right on target with our renewal rate assumption, we are also tracking extremely well against our migration forecast with more than 70% of our customer now in LiveEngage. We have approximately 25% of our revenue migrated as of the end of the second quarter. As well our success having key mid market modifies reference customers onto LiveEngage has helped to accelerate migrations either in the form of customers upgrading piece of their business onto the platform more quickly, or having discussions about moving more quickly than we had anticipated. This is the positive development, which should contribute to fewer remaining legacy dollars needing to be migrated onto LiveEngage in 2017 than we had originally forecast. The offset is our customers typically refer the complete migration before spending the scope of the contracts as such we’re experiencing modestly higher than anticipated blaze in upsells from existing customers. As we continue to move larger customers over to the platform, I would expect the percentage of customers migrated to slowdown but the percentage of revenue migrated to increase. Taking this trend into account, a refresh of our assumptions around upsells suggest a forecast should be reduced by $7 million or 3% combined with an incremental $2 million foreign exchange headwind following the blazer. We see a roughly $9 million impact to our full year 2016 revenue guidance at the mid-point of the updated and previous ranges. Our goal for 2016 is to provide stable revenue and healthy cash flow generation as we focused on completing the migration. We expect second half 2016 revenue to be in line with first half while profitability strengthened half-over-half. With that, I will turn your attention to the second quarter 2016 operating results. Revenue of $56.7 million was in the upper half of our guidance range trailing 12 month average revenue per enterprise and midmarket held steady above 200,000 in the second quarter of 2016 and in line with the record result with probably the first quarter of 2016. We signed 117 deals in the second quarter and 36 of those were with new enterprise or mid-market brands. B2B revenues declined 5% to $52.4 million and consumer revenue increased 10% to $4.2 million. The B2B revenue breakdown by industry was retail 27%, financial services 22%, telecommunication 17%, technology 10%, and other 24%. Revenue from international operations accounted for approximately 32% of total revenue. Second quarter GAAP net loss per share of $0.14 and adjusted net loss per share $0.04 were higher than previously issued guidance. Diluted adjusted EBITDA per share of $0.08 was within our guidance range. Included in the second quarter GAAP net loss was $3.1 million of non-recurring cost primarily associated with IP litigation and cost rationalization effort. Second quarter gross margin was 69.1% in line with our expectations. The company's cash balance including restricted cash increased to $56.3 million at the end of the second quarter from $48.5 million in March. LivePerson generated cash from operations of $12.6 million in the second quarter of 2016 compared to $7.9 million on the year ago period. Cash flow has continued to benefit from our ability to move customers to cash payments in advance on annual billings. This shift was reflected in deferred revenue more than doubling to $29.4 million in the second quarter from $12.3 million in the year ago. The company repurchased approximately 185,000 shares of stock for $1.4 million in the second quarter and additional $15.5 million remained available under the share repurchase authorization. Capital expenditures totaled $2.1 million in the second quarter. I will now review our updated guidance and our detailed expectations are as follows; for the third quarter of 2016, we expect revenue of $54 million to $55 million, GAAP net loss per share $0.09 to $0.07, adjusted net loss per share $0.03 to $0.01 and adjusted EBITDA of $3.8 million to $4.7 million or $0.07 to $0.09 per share. For the full year of 2016 our expectations are as follows; revenue of $221 million to $225 million and revenue guidance includes negative foreign currency impact of more than 3 million from approximately $1 million previously guided. GAAP net loss per share of $0.34 to $0.28, adjusted net loss per share of $0.08 to $0.03 and adjusted EBITDA of $18.2 million to $20.5 million or $0.32 to $0.37 per share. In addition we expect to pay cash taxes between $1 million and $3 million in 2016. Furthermore as a percent of revenue for the year, we anticipate gross profit to be approximately 70%, sales and marketing at 40%, G&A at 16%, and R&D at 18%. Please refer to LivePerson’s earnings release issued earlier today for details on our full year 2016 assumptions. We have also published a supplemental presentation on the Investor Relations page of our website that reviews key points from the earnings call. With strong mobile momentum, favorable LiveEngage usage trends upgrades moving into the final stages and retention stabilizing, we are progressing solidly through our business transition. The completion of the upgrade for LiveEngage will not only position us to expand our lead on the web and target larger adjustable market but will also enable us those in the few greater profitability. As such we remain confident about our prospects for returning to growth and retaining our historic margins as we move past the migration. With that, I will open the call to question. Operator?