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Mitek Systems, Inc. (MITK)

Q2 2014 Earnings Call· Thu, May 1, 2014

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Operator

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the Mitek Systems Incorporated Second Quarter Fiscal 2014 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. (Operator Instructions) As a remainder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce you to your host, Leslie Philips, Investor Relations for Mitek. Thank you. Ms. Philips, you may begin.

Leslie Philips

Investor Relations

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Before I turn the call over to Jim DeBello and Russ Clark, I'd like to cover a few quick items. This afternoon, Mitek issued a press release announcing its second quarter of fiscal 2014 financial results. That release is available on the company's website at www.miteksystems.com. This call is being broadcast live over the Internet to all interested parties, and the webcast will be archived on the Investor Relations pages of the company's Web site. On today's call we will discuss certain factors that are likely to influence the business going forward. Any factors discussed today that are not historical facts, particularly comments regarding our long-term prospects and market opportunities, should be considered forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may include comments about our plans and expectations of future performance. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially. We encourage all of our listeners to review our SEC filings, including our most recent 10-K for a more complete description of these risks. Our statements on this call are made as of May 1, 2014, and the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any of the forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in expectations or otherwise, for any reason. Additionally, throughout this call, we will be discussing certain non-GAAP financial measures. Today's earnings release and the related current report on Form 8-K describe the differences between our non-GAAP and GAAP reporting and present the reconciliation between the two for the periods reported in the release. And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Jim DeBello, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mitek. Jim?

James DeBello

Management

Thanks, Leslie, and good afternoon, everyone. Driven by our growing user base and our solutions ease-of-use, revenues for the quarter increased 39% year-over-year to $4.5 million. I'm pleased by Mitek's strong second quarter results by the fact that this is our third quarter in a row where revenue has exceeded $4 million. We ended the March quarter with 2222 banks signed for Mitek's Mobile Deposit, crossing the 2000 bank threshold. As you recall, it was only three quarters ago that we exceeded the 1000 bank level. Everyone here is very excited to have reached this milestone. Included in the 442 banks that were added during the quarter we announced the top 30 banks that signed for two solutions. I'm looking to catch the attention of the mobile-only customer. This bank is implementing Mobile Deposit and/or Mobile Photo Bill Pay joining the growing number of financial institutions that have adopted multiple solutions from our mobile imaging platform. We now have 1759 banks live, an increase in the quarter of 397 banks that went live. In addition to the success we had in growing the number of banks we are also very proud of our 100% customer retention rate for mobile deposit, including all of the top 10 U.S. retail banks. Since launching mobile deposit we estimate users of our technology have deposited over a $150 billion; that's a 250% increase in cumulative mobile deposit volume in the last 12 months alone. This volume increase is driven by increasing consumer adoption as well as by a higher average check deposit, thanks in part to banks raising their Mobile Deposit limits. We remain focused on creating the industry's most innovative and user-friendly mobile imaging solutions. Leveraging our first-mover advantage we continue to improve our existing solutions in increased Mitek's offerings. With our patented…

Russell Clark

Management

Thanks, Jim, and thank you everyone for joining us on today's call. As usual I'll discuss our quarterly results on a GAAP basis unless I specifically call out a figure as non-GAAP. Our earnings release includes reconciliations between the two measures. Total revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2014 was $4.5 million compared to total revenue of $3.3 million for the year ago period. Second quarter revenue was comprised of $3.1 million in software revenue, including revenue from nine Mobile Deposit reorders, and $1.4 million in maintenance and professional services or PS revenue. This compares to year earlier software of approximately $2.2 million and maintenance and PS revenue of $1 million. Our maintenance base continues to top $1 million per quarter. Total operating expenses were $6.7 million compared to $5.6 million in the year ago period. This year-over-year increase was primarily driven by investments in sales and marketing personnel as well as litigation costs related to protecting our IP. Non-cash stock compensation expense during the second quarter of fiscal 2014 was $916,000 compared to $704,000 in the year ago period. Selling and marketing expenses were $1.9 million compared to $1.4 million in the year ago period. The year-over-year increase results primarily from additional personnel we have hired to support our sales, marketing and product management effort. R&D expenses were $1.6 million in Q2, consistent with the year ago period. G&A expenses were $2.7 million during the second fiscal quarter compared to $2.1 million in the year ago period. The year-over-year increase in G&A was primarily driven by IP litigation expenses, which totaled $1.2 million during the fiscal second quarter. As we mentioned on the last earnings call, Q2 litigation expenses were higher than previous quarters due to the timing of expert testimony moving into Q2. GAAP net loss was…

Operator

Operator

(Operator Instructions) The first question is from Bhavan Suri from William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir.

Bhavan Suri - William Blair

Analyst · William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir

Hi, guys thanks for taking my question, and nice job on the business there.

James DeBello

Management

Hi, Bhavan.

Bhavan Suri - William Blair

Analyst · William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir

First I have to touch on the reorders; you obviously had a nice uptick in the number of reorders. I guess I was just starting to wonder, are the reorders becoming smaller? Is that something you guys are strategically pushing to drive towards more frequent reorders?

Russell Clark

Management

Hi, Bhavan, with the cadence of the business, as you mentioned we saw nine reorders this last quarter. I think it was four, quarter before that and eight, a quarter before that. So, there is still a measure of timing in the cadence of the reorders. I would say in general in terms of trends, what we have seen is that when an end user bank will come into licensing Mobile Deposit, go to the implementation cycle, get live and see a lot of success in that customer base. Many times when they come back they have purchased a larger order on (indiscernible) order size just because they're are more comfortable with run rates and so forth. So, I see that, but it's a caveat there that in any given quarter reorders can range in size from less than a $100,000 to maybe a few hundred thousand dollars in general.

Bhavan Suri - William Blair

Analyst · William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir

Okay. Okay, helpful. And then, Jim provided some color on the competitive environment. I think it was helpful. Just one question on that, if you look at the top 40 banks today, how many of those have purchased multiple solutions from you where that sort of creates a most stickier environment. These are the event the guys with my claim to have sort of check imaging capability.

Russell Clark

Management

Sure. Bhavan, if you take a look at the numbers that Jim threw out there with over 2200 banks signed. When you look at some of our other products from Bill Pay and some of our other MIP applications, we have at least a couple dozen in that category, so without a specific cross reference, but given the assumption that most of the banks out there have Mobile Deposit that have gone on for multiple products. It's more than a couple of dozen.

James DeBello

Management

I might add this, Bhavan, that one day in particular U.S. bank has three of our applications live today.

Bhavan Suri - William Blair

Analyst · William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir

Okay. Yeah, helpful. And then as you look at the quarter, either one of you guys, were there any insurance companies coming in for any reorders or any new insurance client signed up?

Russell Clark

Management

Bhavan, we didn't have any larger insurance company sign production level deals. We are engaged with several large carriers for proof-to-concept and other ways to test our quotation and claims software.

Bhavan Suri - William Blair

Analyst · William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir

Okay. And then last one from me before I turn it over. Obviously the whole application development environment opening up to that is really interesting given that people can then create their own apps using a part of the technology. Are there any sort of apps you've seen start to get developers or anything we could look at where folks are using the Mitek technology embedded in something outside of the mobile banking space?

James DeBello

Management

Yeah, Bhavan. I think you can appreciate when we have been on the road and so forth; we get questions in different use cases thrown at us all the time. So think about any type of documents out there that might have multiple digits on them. We specialized our core business on financial documents, but when you get outside that, again, there any number of documents with multiple digits and other information input there.

Bhavan Suri - William Blair

Analyst · William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir

But not sort of like consumer type asset we could actually go and take a look at today.

James DeBello

Management

Bhavan, those are in progress, and we will be making announcements in the upcoming months, but we do have activity in that regard from developers who have contacted us.

Bhavan Suri - William Blair

Analyst · William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir

Great. Yeah, because I think that's just interesting. So it just had the capabilities that third-parties could use. Anyway, guys, that's it from me. Nice to talk …

James DeBello

Management

I agreed.

Bhavan Suri - William Blair

Analyst · William Blair & Company. Please go ahead, sir

Yeah, and I'll jump back in queue, thanks.

James DeBello

Management

Okay.

Operator

Operator

(Operator Instructions) Ms. Philips, at this time we have no further questions.

Leslie Philips

Investor Relations

Thank you. Before closing the earnings call I'd like to inform everyone that Mitek will be presenting at the William Blair 34th Annual Growth Stock Conference to be held June 10th through June 12th in Chicago at the Four Seasons Hotel. We will publish a press release before the event indicating the day and time management will be presenting. Thank you for joining us today for Mitek's fiscal second quarter earnings call. We appreciate your interest in the company. Have a great day.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, at this time the conference is now complete. You may disconnect your telephones. Thank you for calling. Bye.