Ravi Narula
Analyst · William Blair. Bhavan, your line is open
Thank you, Eric and good afternoon, everyone. As a reminder, all income statement items, except revenue, are on a non-GAAP basis and exclude expenses, such as stock-based compensation, related taxes and amortization of intangibles. The reconciliation of the GAAP to non-GAAP financial data can be found in the press release issued earlier today on our Investor Relations website. Today, I'm going to review the results of our third quarter of fiscal year 2018 and then provide our outlook for the fourth quarter and full year fiscal '18. Total revenue for the third quarter of fiscal '18 was $28.5 million, an increase of $1.5 million or 6% on a year-over-year basis, above the top end of our previously provided guidance range. This revenue growth was driven by strong performance in our core subscription services including Ooma Office. Subscription and services revenue were 90% of total revenue in the third quarter of fiscal '18 compared to 86% of total revenue in the prior year quarter. Net loss per share for the third quarter of fiscal '18 was $0.02 similar to the third quarter of last year. For the third quarter of fiscal '18, subscription and services revenue excluding Talkatone again grew 20% on a year-over-year. We are pleased with our 59% year-over-year growth of Ooma Office subscription and services revenue as they continue to develop new sales channels. Ooma residential subscription and services revenue grew 11% on a year-over-year due to growth in users and to a lesser extent due to minor changes made and how we structure our pricing in the third quarter. As previously expected, revenue from Talkatone declined 27% on a year-over-year basis to $1.5 million, and was flat on a sequential basis. Consistent with a last couple of quarters, business promoter data has been excluded from our key metrics. As mentioned in the last earnings call, we sold business promoter at the start of the third quarter of this fiscal year; however, revenues from business promoter in the third quarter of fiscal 2017 were approximately $1.2 million. Product revenue for the third quarter of fiscal '18 was $3 million, a 22% year-over-year decline given lower sales of Telo, however, product revenue was flat on a sequential basis. Our core user base increased 10% from 833,000 at the end of the third quarter last year to around 914,000 core users at the end of the third quarter this year. Our premium users grew from 43% to 45% during the same period last year. Our Ooma Office core users are now 12% of total core users compared to 10% at the end of the same quarter last year. From a revenue perspective, Office is now 22% of our total revenue compared to 17% in the prior year quarter. Our average monthly subscription and services revenue per user or ARPU for both, Ooma Office and Ooma residential increased to $8.83 for the third quarter of fiscal '18 compared to $8.14 for the prior year period. This growth in ARPU was primarily driven by growth in Ooma Office users. Annual exit recurring revenue or AERR increased 19% year-over-year to $96.8 million for the third quarter up $15.4 million from third quarter of fiscal '17. Our net dollar subscription retention rate for the third quarter increased to 99% compared to 98% for the same quarter last year. Now moving onto gross margins; overall gross margins increased to 61% in the third quarter of fiscal '18, up from 58% in the same period last year. This was driven by continued improvements in our subscription and services margin which is now 71% as our Office users grew and we got the benefit of scale. In addition, gross margins benefited due to certain credits against our subscription and services expenses that are not expected to repeat in the fourth quarter. Product and other gross margins were negative 23% for the quarter compared to negative 10% for the prior year quarter. This increase in negative margins was primarily due to higher fixed costs, particularly personnel and other overhead costs. Third quarter operating expenses were $18 million, an increase of $2 million or 12% on a year-over-year basis. Sales and marketing expenses were $8.7 million, an increase of approximately $800,000 or 10% on a year-over-year basis due to the expansion of our sales and marketing efforts in support of our small business solutions. Research and development expenses were $6.4 million, an increase of $1.1 million or 21% on a year-over-year basis due to investments in personnel and other costs. This increased investment in R&D supported the continued development of our Office platform, including launching WeWork services in the UK, as well as continued development of home security features on our residential platform. G&A expenses were $2.8 million, an increase of 3% from the prior year period to support the growth in the business. Our net loss in the third quarter was $377,000 or $0.02 loss per share compared to a loss of $291,000 or $0.02 loss per share for the third quarter of fiscal '17. Adjusted EBITDA loss was $41,000 in the third quarter of fiscal '18 versus a gain of $81,000 in the same quarter last year. Now, turning to the balance sheet. We had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $53.5 million with no debt at the end of the third quarter. In Q3, we generated $947,000 of cash from operations compared to approximately $400,000 in the prior year quarter. This was the sixth consecutive quarter where we have generated positive cash from operations while continue to grow our core business subscription and services revenue. We have generated $2.4 million in cash from operations for the first nine months of fiscal '18 compared to $176,000 of cash used for the same nine months period of fiscal '17. Deferred revenue at the end of the third quarter was $16.3 million, up 5% from the prior year period as a result of growth in our core users. We ended the third quarter with 590 full-time employees and contractors through our various partner organizations, up from 511 in the prior year quarter. Now for our outlook. Again, the following guidance does not have any material financial impact from Business Promoter as it was sold in August, and also exclude stock-based compensation expense, related taxes and amortization of intangibles. For fourth quarter fiscal '18, total revenue is expected to be in range of $29.3 million to $29.8 million. Non-GAAP net loss for the fourth quarter of fiscal '18 is expected to be in the range of $500,000 to $1 million as we will incur additional expenses of approximately $400,000 for CES in January. Non-GAAP net loss per share is expected to be in the range of $0.03 to $0.05; we have assumed $19 million weighted average shares outstanding for Q4. For full year fiscal '18, total revenue is expected to be in the range of $113.5 million to $114 million; we expect non-GAAP net loss to be in the range of $1.6 million to $2.1 million. Non-GAAP net loss per share is expected to be in the range of $0.09 to $0.11; we have assumed approximately 18.6 million weighted average shares outstanding for fiscal '18. With that, let me pass it back to Eric for some closing remarks. Eric?