John Crawford
Analyst · Jefferies
Let's move to Slide 7 for a summary of our second quarter results. On a reported basis, revenue declined by 3% to $428.2 million. Organic revenue growth was 5% for the quarter, in line with our expectations. Organic growth reflects continued double-digit growth from e-commerce, 1% growth from SMB and 3% organic growth from digital wallets, and it excludes the impacts from the divestiture, foreign exchange and interest. Adjusted EBITDA was $105 million and adjusted EBITDA margin was 24.8%, up 80 basis points compared to the first quarter. When we exclude the impact of the divestiture, our gross margin declined 160 basis points, driven by 2 ongoing factors: lower interest revenue, which accounts for 40 basis points of the decline and the remainder reflecting business mix. As we've discussed on prior calls, the shift in mix is mainly driven by higher ISO channel growth within our Merchant Solutions segment. This was partially offset by a decline in SG&A, reflecting our continued cost discipline and the nonrecurring pieces of last year's investments. Excluding the contribution of the divestiture and prior year EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA growth would be 12% with margin expansion of 130 basis points. Turning to cash flow. We generated $54 million in unlevered free cash flow in the quarter with a 51% conversion of adjusted EBITDA compared to 59% in the second quarter of last year, reflecting unfavorable FX movement on cash held in foreign accounts. Without this FX impact, our conversion would have been 60% for the quarter. On an LTM basis, unlevered free cash flow was $272 million, reflecting 64% conversion, and we expect the full year to be in line with our target range of 65% to 70%. Adjusted net income was $27.6 million or $0.46 per share compared to $0.59 in the second quarter of last year as the prior year period included $25 million of EBITDA from the divested business as noted in our press release. The GAAP net loss of $50 million for the quarter included a $31 million valuation allowance on our U.K. deferred tax assets as we no longer meet the accounting recognition threshold. Additionally, we are evaluating the U.S. tax implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and expect it will result in a full valuation allowance against our U.S. deferred tax assets in the third quarter of this year. I'll point out that these are noncash expenses driven by accounting recognition requirements that have no impact on our cash taxes. Turning to Slide 8 for a breakdown of our revenue growth drivers year-to-date. Revenue attrition was 12% for the first half, which reflects modest improvement from Q1 to Q2, but remains slightly above our expectations. Existing customer growth was strong at 13%, which includes clients onboarded in 2024 and will naturally moderate as the year progresses and we annualize the start dates of client onboards. The growth contribution from new customers and new product initiatives improved to 6% in Q2, resulting in a 4% contribution to growth for the first half of the year. Turning to Slide 9 to discuss the Merchant segment results. Merchant Solutions volume increased by 9% to $35.7 billion, reflecting strong growth in e-commerce and resulting in organic revenue growth of 6%. As a reminder, e-commerce verticals such as iGaming reflect a higher gross margin profile compared to SMB, but a lower take rate, which is predominantly why volume growth outpaced revenue growth for the segment. Adjusted EBITDA for the segment was $39.7 million with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 17.1%. There's a lot of noise here, but looking past the impact of the divestiture, the main driver is the mix headwind due to stronger performance in our ISO channel relative to SMB direct. SG&A for the segment declined sequentially from the elevated level in Q1 and compared to the prior year, reflecting a lower level of investments and improved productivity. Excluding the divested business, adjusted EBITDA margin for Merchant Solutions would have improved 280 basis points year-over-year. Turning to the Digital Wallet segment on Slide 10. Revenue from Digital Wallets was $201.2 million, an increase of 3% on an organic basis despite a lower level of sports betting events compared to the second quarter season last year. Our 3-month actives were 7.2 million, up 3% compared to last year, reflecting growth from LATAM actives, our new collaborations with retail banking merchants and growth in our classic digital wallets, supported by strong consumer acquisition activity and marketing campaigns to reengage users. Adjusted EBITDA for the Digital Wallet segment was $82.7 million, which was flat compared to last year, including a $4 million headwind from lower interest revenue and also reflecting business mix due to high growth in our eCash products. Segment SG&A was higher in the quarter as well due largely to increased marketing to support our launch of the PagoEfectivo wallet and foreign exchange impacts. Turning to Slide 11 for an update on leverage and capital allocation. At the end of the quarter, total debt was $2.6 billion and net leverage increased to 5.4x, as the stronger euro at the end of June increased our euro debt balances by more than $100 million when translated back to U.S. dollars. The divestiture is the biggest driver of this temporary increase in our net leverage, and we expect to start growing over that impact to our LTM EBITDA metric in the back half. I'll point out that this impact on the debt balance due to FX does not impact our interest expense, which was $34.5 million in Q2, down 7% compared to the second quarter of last year. Our current interest rate is 5% and down 80 basis points year-over-year. Lastly, we purchased 1.5 million shares during the second quarter at an average price of $13.41 per share and an additional 1.5 million shares to date during the third quarter, bringing our year-to-date total to 3.6 million shares. While we are keen to deliver, the low prices in our stock have been too attractive to ignore. Finally, turning to Slide 12. We're reaffirming our 2025 outlook based on our year-to-date results and what we expect for the remainder of the year. We continue to expect organic growth in the second half to accelerate to the range of 8% to 10%, with the fourth quarter expected to be our strongest quarter for reported growth, organic growth and margin performance. The drivers are consistent with what we shared on our last call. We expect to do roughly 1 percentage point better on existing customer growth, bringing that to approximately 9% and while attrition is tracking less favorable at 12%. We continue to expect our new customer and NPI growth to contribute roughly 10%. As Bruce discussed earlier, our product initiatives remain on track, and our anticipated new customer growth is supported by strong growth across our enterprise deals and ACV. We also have a healthy book of business currently in client delivery that is scheduled to go live in the second the midpoint of the range and adjusted EBITDA growth in the low to mid-teens when normalizing for the impact of the business disposal. Lastly, our margin profile is expected to improve in the second half, supported by overall growth and operating leverage, along with a slight mix improvement at the segment level, where we expect a stronger contribution from digital wallets in the second half as well as margin improvement in the Merchant Solutions segment with an expectation that our initiatives to improve growth and channel mix will lead to an increase in gross margins in the second half. With that, I will turn it over to Bruce for final remarks.