Sagit Manor
Analyst · Jefferies. Please proceed with your question
Thank you, Yair, and good morning, good evening, everyone. We're grateful to have our shareholders, analysts and the entire Nayax community with us today as we review our Q3 2024 earnings. This quarter's results showcase our continued momentum and success driven by our focus on profitable growth. We're excited to report record revenue and net profit for the quarter, positive free cash flow and a growing base of customers as well as our managed and connected devices. Starting with our quarterly performance, we are pleased to report revenue of $83 million, marking a 38% increase compared to Q3 2023. Notably, recurring revenue from SaaS subscription and payment processing fees showed significant strength, increasing 49% to approximately $60 million. This strong performance, which consistent of high dollar net retention rate of 130%, underscores the scalability of our SaaS-based business model. Recurring revenue represented approximately 72% of our total revenue this quarter, up from 67% in Q3 last year, reflecting our strategic focus on SaaS and payment solutions. We also saw a significant increase in transaction value, up 32% to approximately $1.3 billion from $1 billion in Q3 2023. This growth highlights both our expanding market presence and the increasing adoption of our platform. Hardware revenue reached $23.1 million, a 15% increase over Q3 2023. As Yair mentioned, we did experience some delays in new product certifications, which are now expected to be completed by the end of 2024 and early 2025. We continue expanding globally, especially in automated and self-service verticals, reaching approximately 1.23 million managed and connected devices, an impressive 40% increase compared to Q3 2023. This metric is crucial as it directly correlates with our ability to generate transaction-based revenue and demonstrates the scalability of our SaaS infrastructure. Let's now dive into our profit segments. In terms of gross profit, we generated $38 million, representing a nearly $15 million increase or 65% growth compared to the same period last year. Gross margin in Q3 was 45.7%, up from 38.1% in Q3 last year. This improvement highlights the strides we've made in hardware margin enhancements, supply chain optimization and higher SaaS and payment processing margin. Specifically, recurring margin increased to 50.1%, up from 46.9%, driven by a significant reduction in transaction costs. In addition, hardware margins reached 34.4%, up from 20.5% in last year's quarter, reflecting the positive impact of strategic efforts to enhance operational efficiencies and streamline our supply chain in recent quarters. Our operating profit reached $1.5 million, a solid turnaround from an operating loss of $1.5 million in the same period last year. This quarter, we also achieved a record high adjusted EBITDA of $11.1 million, up from $3.5 million in Q3 last year. This impressive growth demonstrates our ability to drive profitable expansion while improving margins, managing costs and strategically investing in growth opportunities. In terms of net income, we are proud to announce positive net income, the first since going public with net income of $0.7 million for the quarter compared to a loss of $3.1 million in Q3 last year. This marks a key milestone in our journey towards sustainable profitability. Turning to our liquidity and balance sheet. Cash generated from operating activities reached an all-time high of $16.6 million for the 3 months ended September 30, 2024. Free cash flow, defined as cash from operations less capital expenditure, was $10.1 million for the quarter, allowing us to meet now our commitment to positive free cash flow for the year. Our cash position remains strong with cash and cash equivalents and short-term deposits totaling $89 million, while debt stands at $49 million, maintaining a solid balance sheet and net cash position. Our customer base also expanded significantly, reaching nearly 91,000 customers by the end of Q3, adding over 5,600 customers this quarter alone. Additionally, we increased our managed and connected devices by 41,000, bringing the total to nearly 1.23 million devices. The slightly lower sequential growth in activated devices reflects lower hardware sales in Q1 2024 compared to Q4 of last year. Looking into our revenue guidance for the full year 2024. While we are confident in the underlying strength of our business, there are a few discrete items that impact revenue growth in 2024 by about 3 points, mainly related to delays in some new product certifications. We are modifying our revenue guidance to a range of $315 million to $320 million, reflecting 35% growth at the midpoint on a constant currency basis. This is a slight adjustment from our prior guidance of $325 million to $335 million. However, we expect continued improvement in hardware gross margin this year, driven by economies of scale, optimized pricing and cost efficiencies. As a result, we're raising again our hardware margin guidance to exceed 30%, up from the previous range of 27% to 29%. Our outlook for adjusted EBITDA remains strong with guidance of $30 million to $35 million for 2024, expected though to be at the higher end of the range, underscoring our strong operational performance. The company also reaffirms that free cash flow for the full year 2024, defined as operating cash flow, less capital expenditures will remain positive as demonstrated this quarter. We are excited about our plans for 2025, anticipating continued strong profitable growth, driven by continued market expansion, the full integration of recent acquisitions, continuous operational optimization and the resolution of some product certification delays, unlocking associated revenues. These initiatives, combined with the rollout of high-margin offerings will position us for sustainable, profitable growth in 2025 and in the years ahead. While we are still in the planning process for next year, we expect adjusted EBITDA to be at least 15% for 2025. Looking at the long term, we are confident in our strategy, targeting 35% revenue growth and a 50% gross margin, supported by initiatives like rental and leasing options, loyalty products and embedded finance solutions. Our long-term adjusted EBITDA margin target remains at 30%. In closing, we're proud to report net income for the first time, strong free cash flow, robust operating leverage and an exciting outlook for profitable growth. Thank you again for joining today's call. We look forward to sharing more about our progress in the quarters ahead. I'll now turn the call over to the operator for our Q&A session. Operator?