Ravi Narula
Analyst · Credit Suisse. Your line is open
Thank you, Eric, and good afternoon everyone. I'll start by reviewing the financial results of our first quarter of fiscal year '19 and then provide outlook for the second quarter and full year fiscal '19. All income statement items except revenue are on a non-GAAP basis and exclude expenses such as stock-based compensation, amortization of intangibles and acquisition related charges. The reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial data can be found in the press release issued earlier today, which is available on the Investor Relations section of our Web site. Now Q1 '19 results. We had a solid start to our fiscal year '19 achieving $30.2 million of revenue in the first quarter. This is an increase of $2.6 million or 10% on a year-over-year basis and exceeds our previously issued guidance range of $29.5 million to $30 million. This growth was driven by continued strong performance of our core business segments, particularly Ooma Office. Net loss for the first quarter of fiscal '19 was $849,000 within the previously issued guidance range of a $700,000 to $1.2 million loss. To help provide clarity, we’ll reclassified Ooma Office and Voxter Communications as Ooma Business. As a reminder, we acquired Voxter Communications in March of this year and though Voxter is not material to the overall business today, we expect it to be a strategic growth initiative for us going forward. We are pleased with the continued growth of our subscription and services revenue of Ooma Business, which grew 53% on a year-over-year basis and our residential subscription and services revenue grew 11% on a year-over-year basis. Once again, the combined subscription and services revenue from the core businesses namely Ooma Business and Ooma Residential grew 20% year-over-year. Talkatone revenue declined 17% year-over-year to $1.17 million slightly ahead of our previously issued guidance range of $1 million. At the end of the first quarter of fiscal '19 subscription and services revenue was 90% of our total revenue compared to 87% in the prior year period. Product revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2019 was $2.9 million a 16% decline year-over-year as we focus on the growth of Ooma Business which generates lower product sales per user. Due to the implementation of the new ASC 606 accounting rules, we transferred approximately $1 million from deferred product revenue to retained earnings as at the start of this fiscal year. We believe that under the old rules, the majority of this deferred revenue would otherwise have become revenue sometimes in fiscal 2019. I will now provide details about our customer and other metrics like core users and APRU. Again, these metrics come from both Ooma Residential and Ooma Business combined, which includes Voxter Communications. Our core user base increased 7% from 879,000 core users at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2018 to approximately 945,000 users at the end of the first quarter of fiscal '19. Our Ooma business users grew to 14% of total core users at the end of the first quarter of fiscal '19 compared to 11% at the end of the first quarter of fiscal '18. Ooma business contributed 26% to our total revenue in the first quarter compared to 20% in the prior year quarter. Our average monthly subscription and services revenue or monthly ARPU increased to $9.31 in the first quarter of fiscal '19 compared to $8.38 for the prior year period. Annualized exit recurring revenue was approximately $105 million at the end of the first quarter of fiscal '19, a 19% year-over-year increase. We are also pleased with our 101% net dollar subscription retention rate for the first quarter compared to 97% for the first quarter of fiscal '18. Now let me add some color to the gross margins. Overall gross margins increased to 60% in the first quarter of fiscal '19 up from 59% in the prior year period. This increase was primarily driven by growth of Ooma Business offset in part by the onetime charge of two $200,000 for potential regulatory tax settlement which was recorded in subscription and services costs. Subscription and services revenue gross margin for the first quarter of fiscal '19 was 69% flat from last year quarter as it recorded this above mentioned tax litigation settlement charges. Product and other gross margin was negative 18% for the first quarter down from the prior year quarter of negative 8%. Now onto operating expenses, first quarter operating expenses were $19.3 million, an increase of $2.5 million or 15% on a year-over-year basis. This increase was primarily driven by investments in developing new products and features partially offset by capitalization of certain sales and commission expenses. We are investing into sales and marketing channels to drive growth of Ooma Business. Compared to the prior quarter, overall sales and marketing spend decreased by approximately $100,000 to $8.5 million, as we capitalize sales commissions and other expenses of approximately $1 million under the new accounting rule. Research and development expenses were $7.6 million, an increase of $2.1 million or 38% on a year-over-year basis to support the continued enhancements to Ooma Business as well as adding new features and product offerings to our home security solution including Butterfleye. G&A expenses were $3.1 million, a 19% increase from the prior year period to support the growth of our business including the two recent acquisitions. Our net loss in the first quarter of fiscal '19 was $849,000 or $0.04 loss per share compared to a loss of $291,000 or $0.02 loss per share in the first quarter of fiscal '18. Adjusted EBITDA loss was $522,000 in the first quarter of fiscal '19 versus a gain of $71,000 for the same period last year. Now turning to the balance sheet. We have cash and investments of $49.7 million with no debt at the end of the first quarter of fiscal '19 reflecting acquisition-related payments of $2.4 million made in March of 2018. For the first quarter of fiscal '19, we generated approximately $300,000 in cash from operations compared $165,000 in the prior year quarter. We ended the quarter with around 650 full time employees and contractors up from approximately 600 in the prior year quarter. This growth in headcount was driven by increases in sales and R&D and to a lesser extent from the Butterfleye and Voxter acquisitions. Now let me provide our second quarter and full year fiscal '19 outlook. Again, the following guidance is under the new accounting rules and excludes stock-based compensation expense, amortization of intangibles and acquisition related charges. For second quarter fiscal '19, total revenue is expected to be in the range of $30.5 million to $31.3 million. Non-GAAP net loss for the second quarter of fiscal '19 is expected to be in the range of $800,000 to $1.3 million. Non-GAAP net loss per share is expected to be in the range of $0.04 to $0.07. We have assumed 19.5 million weighted average shares outstanding for Q2. Our full year fiscal '19, total revenue is expected to be in the range of $124.5 million to $127 million. We are increasing the low end of our revenue guidance range by $1.5 million. We expect non-GAAP net loss to be in the range of $2.5 million to $4.5 million, non-GAAP net loss per share is expected to be in the range of $0.13 to $0.23. We have assumed approximately 19.9 million weighted average shares outstanding for fiscal '19. In summary, we are pleased with our execution in the first quarter as well as with our Q1 financial results. We believe this momentum gives us further confidence about the long-term prospects of our growth initiatives. With that, I'll pass it back to Eric for some closing remarks. Eric?