Hello everyone and welcome to the Q3 2022 OneSpan Earnings Conference call. My name is Nadia, and I will be coordinating the call today. [Operator Instructions] I would now hand over to your host, Joe Maxa, Vice President of Investor Relations to being. Joe, please go ahead.

Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining the OneSpan third quarter 2022 earnings conference call. This call is being webcast and can be accessed on the Investor Relations section of OneSpan's website at investors.OneSpan.com. Joining me on the call today is Matt Moynahan, OneSpan's Chief Executive Officer and Jorge Martell, who joins as our new Chief Financial Officer in early September. This afternoon after market close, OneSpan issued a press release announcing results for our third quarter 2022. To access a copy of the press release and other investor information, please visit our website. Following our prepared comments today, we will open the call for questions. Please note that statements made during this conference call that relate to future plans, events or performance including the outlook for full year 2022 are forward-looking statements. These statements use words such as believes, anticipates, plans, expects, projects and similar words, and these statements involve risks and uncertainties and are based on current assumptions. Consequently, actual results could differ materially from the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements. I direct your attention to today's press release and the company's Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of such risks and uncertainties. Also note that certain financial measures that may be discussed on this call are expressed on a non-GAAP basis and have been adjusted from a related GAAP financial measure. We have provided an explanation for and reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures in the earnings press release. In addition, please note that the date of this conference call is November 1st, 2022. Any forward-looking statements and related assumptions are made as of this date. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events or for any other reason. I will now turn the call over to Matt.

Thank you, Joe. Hello everyone. Welcome to our third quarter earnings call. I'm pleased to begin today's call by welcoming Jorge Martell to the OneSpan team as our new Chief Financial Officer. Jorge is a well-rounded and operationally focused CFO with strong experience in global finance. He joined us from Extreme Reach, a global leader in creative logistics with an end-to-end cloud based technology platform, where he was instrumental in the execution of the company's organic and inorganic global growth strategy. Jorge is another great addition to our transformational leadership team, as we focus our strategic plan to drive increased growth and profitability over the coming years. Now, turning to our third quarter financial highlights. We had a strong quarter overall, including record bookings and digital agreements, driven by several customers committing to longer term contracts, given the enterprise-class quality of our solution. As a result, total company bookings were at the highest level in eight years. Protecting high value, high assurance, B2B, and B2C transactions remains a high priority for our customers, even in a challenging macroeconomic environment. Booking strength was broad based across North America and most of Europe. Though we did see some pockets in Europe and Asia where sales cycles lengthened. Total revenue in the quarter grew 9% year-over-year to $57 million, notwithstanding approximately $4.5 million of foreign currency headwinds. Adjusted for constant currency, revenue grew 18%. Annual recurring revenue grew 14%. Excluding the FX impact of approximately $3 million, ARR grew 17%, in line with our full year 2022 guidance range. In addition to FX, ARR was impacted by timing of contract renewals and certain customers adjusting their purchase volumes to reflect post-pandemic normalize levels. We were profitable on an adjusted EBITDA basis, which benefited from operating efficiencies and ongoing cost saving initiatives as compared…

Thank you, Matt and good afternoon, everybody. I'm really excited to be a part of OneSpan and the new management team and look forward to helping drive growth as we implement our strategic plan. I hope to meet all of you face-to-face in the near future. I'm pleased that we reported a strong quarter from our top and bottom-line, largely driven by improved operational discipline and execution in the business ARR grew 14% year-over-year to $136 million. ARR specifically to subscription contracts grew by 25% to $101 million and accounted for approximately 75% of total ARR. Dollar-based net expansion or DBNE, which we define as a year-over-year growth in ARR from existing customers, was 109%. DBNE was impacted by FX, longer sales cycles in certain international regions, timing related to contract renewals, and some customers right-sizing their volumes to reflect post-pandemic levels. Revenue grew 9% to $57.1 million, led by 25% growth in subscription revenue to $22.3 million and 11% growth in Digipass tokens to $19.8 million. We also experienced a 1% growth in maintenance revenue. These revenue increases were partially offset as a result of our security software license transition from perpetual to term, which is included in professional services and other revenue. Gross margin was 67% compared to the prior quarter and compared to 70% in the third quarter of last year. And I'll provide additional color by segment in a couple of minutes. GAAP operating loss in the third quarter was $5.6 million. GAAP operating expenses included a $3.8 million impairment charge related to our decision to sunset non-core solutions and $2.7 million of non-recurring items related to our restructuring plan. Operating expenses benefited from our cost reduction plans, increased R&D software capitalization costs, and by approximately $3 million from changes in FX as compared to last…

Thank you, Jorge. We estimate revenue in the first nine months of 2022 would have been $9 million higher and our revenue growth rate would have been six points higher at 11% had currency exchange rates been constant compared to the year ago period. Based on current exchange rates, we expect additional FX pressure in the fourth quarter. I also want to point out that we made several important portfolio management decisions recently, in line with our strategic plan to focus our efforts on our most relevant solutions as we enter the first year of our strategic plan beginning January 1st. The sun-setting of certain assets, including deal flow, will contribute to revenue and ARR headwinds over the coming quarters, but also enable us to reallocate resources and focus our efforts on our highest growth opportunities. For the full year 2022, we expect the following; total revenue to meet or exceed full year 2021 revenue despite FX headwinds; ARR to be in the range of 12 to 13%, which is near the bottom of our previous guidance range of 16% to 18%, when excluding an estimated FX impact of 3% to 4% and considering the downstream impact to our business from strategic portfolio changes in the macroeconomic environment; and adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of positive $1 million to $3 million as compared to our prior guidance of negative $5 million to $7 million. In closing, we believe we have momentum in our strategy and our teams as we head into fiscal year 2023. We have been hard at work over the past six months to put in place the foundation of our three-year plan. This plan includes increased revenue, predictability, and a more balanced contribution across product lines, business segments, and geographies over time. I'm proud of our team in the progress we've made today. We look forward to updating you again next quarter. With that, Jorge and I will be happy to take your questions. Operator?

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And our first question today goes to Gray Powell of BTIG. Gray, please go ahead, your line is open.

Okay, great. Yes, thanks for taking the questions. I just had a few here. Maybe starting off high level, how do you feel about your pipeline and the visibility you have on demand today versus six months ago?

Jorge, I'll take this one. I feel actually increasingly good on all -- can you hear me okay?

I can hear you. Yes.

Okay. All right, thank you. Sorry. I feel increasingly good with the visibility we have in the operational brig taking hold really in every part of our business without stop. Obviously, I had dual visibility as CEO and CRO and I'm very pleased with the teams and the process behind our ability to get visibility number one, and then two multicoated visibility going forward. As you know, the key focus and priority for us has been demand generation and so we continue to focus on that. And new logo acquisition is one of our top priorities, which in turn obviously drives new pipeline. Our execution on existing customers has been improving and you do see an increasing portion of our pipeline coming from installed base customers as our sales team is unified now and has the ability to sell the entire portfolio. That said, getting the flywheel spinning on the new logo acquisition obviously will take multiple quarters to get that right.

Okay, that's helpful. And then -- I mean, we're still working on some of the moving parts of the model. So, hopefully this question is okay, but can you just kind of help me understand you had a pretty big revenue beat, in comparison looks like ARR was a little bit light, there's the guide down even on constant currency basis. Can you help us square those items? Was there some extra term license revenue or longer contract duration? Or just how should we think about the sustainability of that revenue upside you posted in Q3 because that -- the headline numbers are pretty good.

Yes, I can take the high level Jorge, then if there's anything to add, please do. Obviously, in revenue, we do have the mix component coming from on premise, subscription software and the revenue recognition related with that as well as our perpetual hardware business, okay. But despite the supply chain issues, we are seeing strong demand for the hardware products. So, those two pieces are almost a buffer, if you will, on the revenue side of things and as we all know, can be lumpy from time-to-time, given the nature of our business. But that works in favor of the revenue line. ARR, in this particular case, was impacted by a couple of known loss contracts that were in place, but were in effect in Q3. So, we felt a little bit of a dampen from that. We did experience some churn in our SMB space as we pivot to the enterprise. And those are two of the primary drivers for that. We also talked about a little bit of a dampening effect on the ability to cross-sell coming from sunset products. Those portfolio decisions that we spoke about over the past couple of quarters are now in effect, and that did have a slight dampening effect on ARR as well given our inability to go cross-sell and upsell, end of life products. So, those are the three primary drivers that would give you the difference between the ARR topline performance -- the topline performance from ARR.

Understood. Okay. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you. And our next question goes to Anja Soderstrom of Sidoti. Anja, please go ahead, your line is open.

Hi. Yes, thank you for taking my questions, and congratulations on the good progress you appear to be making. You're mentioning that sale cycles are getting a little bit longer in some regions. Can you just elaborate on that what you're seeing there? And sort of if you think that's going to be affecting other regions as well as we go forward?

Sure. Just at a high level, if you look at our portfolio, I'd say the lengthening sales cycles were more associated with the digital agreements side than the security software side. In fact, we're seeing the demand for the tokens, we have obviously a difficult time meeting that demand too, but supply chain constraints. The security software products continue to do well given that they're largely tied to online banking, and the authentication and identity verification of online banking end users. And so that's a very -- that's a positive for us. The digital agreement business is really think of it as a mix between internal use cases, with things like NDAs, and internal documentation and business processes, and external use cases that are typically used with external customer engagements. Think of it as mortgage lending refinance. We also have a healthy business with being integrated into platforms, given our private label capability, the internal projects from time-to-time, depending on customer, we have seen some lengthened sales cycles as CIOs look to reduce the top priorities inside of companies given the macroeconomic environment. On the external use cases that are customer facing, we have seen some downstream impacts of transaction volumes lessening, which might impact you know, a larger upsell or purchase at renewal or contract expansion midyear. So, think of it as a tale of two cities internal with regard to the internal projects measure up to the to a reduced waterline as far as the corporate priorities in the macroeconomic environment than the external use cases being tied to transactions like mortgages and refinance. And so that's just introduced some of the some of the pause in our customer base, particularly mortgage-related and insurance-related articles.

Okay, thank you. And then in terms of them, expanding yourself to move in home pretty aggressively, can you talk to how fast do you think they're going to become productive? How long is that training cycle for new reps?

Yes, that is a great question and something we're hard at work at, which is a global enablement, we enabled North America in Q2. I was over in Europe personally for the European enablement session. And we'll do a pack in Q4. And we have our sales kickoff with a high percentage of content and enablement in January. So, this is an ongoing process. We are tracking to plan a slightly behind hiring on the Salesforce but we believe we're tracking to plan to double the salesforce by the end of next year. And so as we discussed when we rolled out the plan in May, the three significant variables for us to go drive over performance in the plan are getting the sales team productive, time to rent, the quota attainment, the quota levels themselves and deal size. And so I feel good with the enablement offers that have been taking place, though we have to go see those sellers in action as we enter into FY 2023. It's all very new right now, but I feel comfortable with the rate and pace of the enablement and now we need our top sellers to go out there and do a great job for us.

And how do you -- what's your kind of churn and how that changed in recent months?

We had a couple of contracts that were known, churn and that manifested itself this this quarter. That was one of the areas of contribution to the dampening effect on arr. We are new, essentially to the SMB space from a cloud infrastructure of standpoint. And we did experience some churn in the s of that segment, the small business, our focus has been on historically on the enterprise. And in that's where another dampening effect took place in the SMB. Nothing chronic, but we did have those two, one-off situations manifest themselves in Q3. No major trend -- no major change to the trend line.

Okay. And just one last one. What's the upside -- driving the upside in the adjusted EBITDA guidance versus the previous guidance?

Jorge, do you want speak to that? Take this one?

I can take this one. Yes, I can tell you what, I got this. Can you hear me okay?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay. So, I think there's a couple of factors here. One is our discipline -- financial discipline that we've been executing over the past few months, that has impacted obviously, the operation of some cost, discipline on capitalizing software expenses is one for sure. The other portion is also headcount-related as some of the restructuring initiatives that we had been talking about, you're starting to see that impact that benefit roll through sequentially as well. And then there's a lot of upside as well with hiring -- the late hires that would say, with respect to certain areas or pockets of different departments. I think those are the three largest ones that I can comment on.

Okay, thank you. That was all for me.

Thank you.

Thank you. And the next question goes to Rudy Kessinger of D. A. Davidson. Rudy, please go ahead, your line is open.

Hey, thanks for taking my questions. I want to go back to Gray's question first, just on the revenue upside in the quarter. Is there any finer point you can put on the term licensed mix in the quarter where either there's two large esignature renewals that you caught out term license, it's just still a tough model to grasp with subscription and digital agreements up 18%, quarter-over-quarter in the maintenance and support was up sequentially too? So, how much of that was driven by license?

Yes, we had a couple of significant contracts that closed at the end of Q2. And as Rudy, the way that subscription models flow, they didn't really have much of an impact in Q2. So that's another element where we had two contracts close at the end of Q2, that manifest themselves in Q3, from a topline perspective, but there's no major departures other than, the only comment I can really make is that we will experience lumpiness from time-to-time, given the product mix that we have at the moment, which still has a heavy on premise component on the security software side. And on the digital agreement side, we still have that large deal phenomenon has given it to the enterprise where they have an over weighted impact on any given quarter. And I don't anticipate that that changes over the next two to three quarters until we get the flywheel spinning on the new logo acquisition.

Okay, and then on the dollar base, next expansion rate, 109%, down seven points from 116%. last quarter. Going by the definition of that figure, gross churn shouldn't be impacting that number. So, a seven-point decline, quarter-over quarter again, is there just any finer points you could put on why such a pretty significant drop off in that metric?

Do you want to take that, Jorge? Let me speak to one of the dampers, which I mentioned, Rudy is the some of the sun-setting decisions -- some of the sunset decisions on the portfolio management. We did sunset deal flow; we did sunset risk analytics, and we did sunset, the on-premise version of our digital agreements. All three of those products had pipeline associated with them, de minimis in the big scheme of things, but in order of, single-digits to mid-single-digits of millions of pipeline that was in play. And obviously, when customers hear of an underlying decision that does impact the purchase decision, understandably, many of those conversations have converted into discussions around other products. But those products were not as generally available for cross selling into the installed base that we had, which obviously has a higher percentage of banking customers than at this particular time. So that was one of the meaningful reasons that I'm trying to invest in declined quarter-over-quarter.

Okay. And then just lastly, for me, it looks like you didn't buy back any stock in the quarter after you spent $5.7 million buying back stock in Q2, just wondering the thought process behind that decision, especially if you consider where the stock was trading down in the $8 to $9 range in September, why not buy back in the stock in the quarter?

Yes, at a high level, we continue to evaluate that. And obviously, we do believe the stock is at an attractive level. We took a pause as we put a fine point, obviously, as you know, we rolled out the new strategy to the investment community in May and had been very hard at work, building out a corporate development strategy to support that, including M&A. And we thought it was prudent to take a pause to make sure that we had all of our corporate allocation sources and uses aligned before going further on that. But till then we do believe the stock is a very attractive valuation. And there's always an opportunity for us to reenter the market at current levels. That's a continuous discussion with the Board.

Got it, that's it for me. Thanks for taking the questions.

Thank you, Rudy.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And our next question goes to Nick Mattiacci of Craig-Hallum. Nick, please go ahead, your line is open.

Hi, this is Nick on for Chad Bennett. Thanks for taking our questions. So, as we think about the three year CAGR targets given in May, I guess, given how much has changed in the macro and with FX and now the updated ARR guidance for this year, are you thinking about the linearity of that three-year targeted CAGR any differently?

At the moment, we are not. The big factor here, given our size is really the ramping up the sales and marketing efforts in their front end engine, I do feel very good about the enterprise class nature of our products and when we do land enterprise customers, they behave like enterprises would, both in terms of deal size and contract length. And so right now, no changes to our guidance, I feel very comfortable with where we're at. But obviously, the first half of next year is incredibly important for us to see the productivity of our selling community and the deal sizes as we reorder oriented company to the upper half of the pyramid. So, no chase the guidance right now.

Got it. And then maybe if you could expand more, on the upcoming launch of the cloud connected Digipass, I guess a more color you could give on that offering. And if that may change the revenue record recognition of hardware sales or add a recurring component to that business?

It will be launched with a ratable recognition model associated with it. So, when we do launch the cloud connected device, it will be pure ARR. In the traditional sense, it's a service, it's not a piece of hardware anymore. I'm very much looking forward to getting this device into the market. Historically, as many of you know, hardware was sold by a separate sales team in a separate sales motion to a portion of our installed base. With a unified go-to-market, we do intend on taking this cloud connected device and connecting it to everything. Our firm belief is that the high assurance security for transactions that require it, you know whether it be a document or a banking transaction, may be able to take advantage of this capability. Certainly the digital agreements process, the Virtual Room product, which we just relaunched, as well as our traditional banking core. We haven't -- we do plan on making announcement soon on that product and given the supply chain element and the uptake with it, as well, obviously, it'd be a multi quarter journey for us as we go and engage our sellers on what is a new business model, but one that we're seeing very favorable response from our installed base customers. But we haven't talked much further than that. And you don't get product line guidance on this. So happy to take you offline and talk about some of the dynamics but you'll see you'll see some you'll see more information coming on that soon.

Thanks for taking the questions.

Thank you.

Thank you. We have no further questions. I'll hand back to Matt for any closing remarks.

I'd like to thank everyone for joining for this call. We appreciate you going along on this journey with us and we look forward to updating you again in one quarter's time. Thank you for your time today.

Thank you. This concludes today's call. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect your lines.