Eric Stang
Analyst · Northland Capital. Your line is open
Thank you, Matt. Hi everyone. Welcome to Ooma's second quarter fiscal year 2024 earnings call. Thanks for joining us. I'm pleased to report Ooma performed well in Q2. I'm looking forward to reviewing our accomplishments and the progress we've made on the several growth initiatives we have underway this year. Financially, Ooma achieved $58.4 million in revenue, $3.8 million in non-GAAP net income, $4.9 million of EBITDA, and $3.6 million in cash flow from operations in Q2. We also managed OpEx spending well in the quarter and reduced our inventory. Regarding growth, our important business subscription services revenue grew 27% year-over-year. Overall, we ended the quarter with $215 million of annualized exit recurring revenue, up 15% versus a year ago. I believe we executed well in Q2 to drive these results and that Ooma is in a strong position today to pursue its strategy and growth initiatives. During Q2, we continued to invest in Ooma Office, which of course is our award-winning solution specifically designed for small to medium-sized businesses, which seek a combination of advanced features, ease of use, and affordability. We added to Pro Plus, our top service tier, several new features to facilitate collaboration and customer interaction, including online bookings, one to many messaging, team chat, and new CRM integrations with Zoho and Freshdesk. We also improved our Office Desktop app introducing an updated user interface and faster performance for a more cohesive user experience that simplifies interactions. These feature enhancements continue our strategy to build out the capabilities available in our Pro Plus service tier, which, along with our Pro service tier, allow us to target slightly larger customers and drive higher revenue per user. We feel our Ooma Office strategy is working by allowing us to serve increasingly larger customers, while maintaining our longstanding focus on making communications approachable for businesses of any size. As in past quarters, more than half of our new Office users in Q2 selected one of these two premium tiers as we continue our journey to democratize advanced technology and make it accessible to small and medium-sized businesses. While Ooma Office is targeted at businesses one to 20 users in size, I'm pleased to report our largest Office customer win in Q2 was a 286 user account which valued the flexibility and affordability of our solution. We're also seeing interest in Office from potential partners to see Office as a good fit with their products and services. Last quarter, you may recall, we announced a partnership with NexHealth, which focuses on the dental space, and we have additional Office partnerships in progress. For the rest of this year, our plans for Ooma Office are to continue to build out the Pro Plus tier feature set and to enable more partners to integrate with, and in some cases, resell, Ooma Office. We also continue to invest in Ooma Enterprise, our solution targeted at larger-sized businesses in select verticals or in need of customization. One focus for us is hospitality customers, where we continued in Q2 to secure wins with major brand hotels. We also began working recently with a new partner to enable our core telephony and SMS capabilities in their platform in support of an artificial intelligence use case. Ooma Enterprise will be incorporated into the partner solution via a CPaaS-like business model. Our partner already has several alpha customers deployed and is targeting launch this year. While we don't specifically promote Ooma Enterprise as a CPaaS solution, I believe this one-off use case demonstrates the ultimate power of our platform to adapt to bespoke needs. For the rest of this year, our plans for Ooma Enterprise are to continue our industry-focused strategy, while also growing our network of telecom agents and resellers. We're also making investments to expand internationally. As planned, we made a major step forward in Q2 with our largest customer by putting in place the capability to serve them in a new region of the world. Over the coming weeks, we will begin rollout in earnest in this new region. I'm also pleased to report that during Q2, we were able to add more users than we anticipated and we gained visibility for increasing to a 100,000 users or more with this customer. For the balance of this year, we will focus on implementing our service for this customer in the new region plus at least one additional region as well as on continuing to onboard their users. Our largest area of investment at this time is Ooma AirDial, our integrated solution to replace aging and expensive copper lines that serve critical infrastructure and other specialized applications. As you know, we see a massive market opportunity for AirDial, both in the USA and in other countries. Our feature enhancements to AirDial continued in Q2 as we brought out version 2.0 of our Remote Device Manager, implemented network side autodial features to support older emergency phones, and implemented modem support to make remote programming of door access systems more reliable. There is a long tail of specialized and older equipment relying on copper lines today and we feel our ability to control the total end to end solution is an advantage as we evolve AirDial to meet all the needs of the market. Owning all aspects of our platform end-to-end has allowed us to adapt the AirDial platform to serve the needs of customers with challenging use cases, including in circumstances where those customers have had another provider failed previously. Commercially, we announced earlier this month and UScellular completed its launch planning and began offering AirDial through its sales organization. In fact, I'm pleased to report that UScellular's first customer win with a customer requiring 136 lines occurred in Q2, even before the formal launch date. In this case, AirDial displaced a competitor whose products were not working well and we helped UScellular deliver a solution in a situation where the customer needed to maintain compliance in a very short timeframe. As in past quarters, our sales funnel for AirDial continued to build in Q2 and we had some notable wins in the quarter. Our largest Q2 win was a restaurant group, which will deploy over 750 lines. Just days after the end of Q2, we also won a large retailer opportunity, representing approximately 800 lines. Both of these opportunities came through partners of ours who are reselling AirDial. Just this week, we made a further exciting announcement regarding AirDial. I'm pleased to report that the largest REIT in the world, Prologis, will offer both Ooma AirDial and Ooma Office through their Essentials platform. This platform provides building and other services to Prologis' large base of customers. We're thrilled they have chosen Ooma as their featured and only solution for parts replacement and business communications. Bringing on partners is one of our key strategies to drive AirDial growth. Most typically, our partners resell AirDial, but in some cases, they refer customers to us. This last quarter, in addition to UScellular and Prologis, we also established new partnerships with two CLEX, two aggregators, and two other resellers. Our plans for the rest of this year for AirDial are to grow our sales and go-to-market resources significantly, establish more resale partnerships, and further enhance the differentiation of our solution. As I've outlined, we have a lot of initiatives underway and it's an exciting time for us. I will now turn the call over to Shig, our CFO, to discuss our results and outlook in more detail and then return with some closing remarks.