Agi Dotcheva
Analyst · Goldman Sachs. Your line is open
Thank you, Eido’s team and everyone for joining today's call. Our GMV for the first quarter was $27.3 billion reflecting a 20% increase year-over-year. We achieved strong first quarter revenue of $68.9 million, up 17% percent year-over-year, an acceleration from our fourth quarter growth of 14%. Our increase in GMV and revenue was primarily driven by new merchants and upsell and revenue growth across all geographies. Tickets and travel was the most meaningful area of growth, having nearly doubled our billings year-over-year within this vertical. Going forward as we now have a fully lapped coverage-related comparable periods we expect a more normalized level of growth in these vertical, but still view this is an active area of growth for the year. In addition, our food, electronics and money transfer categories each grew during the quarter, primarily driven by new merchants and upsell activity. We saw year-over-year improvements in the rate of decline in our general retail and home categories during the first quarter, while these categories are still negatively impacting our growth, this is an encouraging trend that we’re monitoring closely. One of our largest categories, fashion and luxury goods was flat year-over-year in the first quarter as compared to growth that we saw in this category in 2022. Within this category, we have seen slow down in some of our same-focus merchants, in particular within luxury brands and our sneaker sub-segment. Getting a broad-based and diversified portfolio of merchants helps position us as a durable business across all types of spending environments. And as consumer spending continues to shift away from goods towards spending on services and live events, we believe that we remain well positioned to benefit. From a geographic standpoint, the U.S., our largest region, improved by high-single-digits and EMEA and APAC each grew approximately 40% during the quarter. Our continued revenue growth from regions outside of the United States, demonstrates the positive returns from our previous environment and market share gains. Moving on to gross margins, our non-GAAP gross profit margin for the first quarter of 2023 was 53%, consistent with the fourth quarter of 2022 and an improvement from 52% in the first quarter of 2022. We continue to benefit from improvements in our core machine-learning models and other cost of goods savings offset by the impacts of ramping of significant new merchants. As a reminder, gross profit margin is best analyzed on an annual basis as margin may fluctuate on a quarterly basis. Moving to expenses, total non-GAAP operating expenses were $1.6 million for the first quarter of 2023 , a 6% decrease year-over-year. Our non-GAAP operating expenses as a percentage of revenue declined year-over-year from 75% to 60%, reflecting leverage in the business model. As a result of further optimization and expense reductions in the first quarter of 2023, I'm pleased that our expenses were meaningfully below our first quarter budget rate of $45 million. This was primarily driven by further optimization of tools and systems, evaluation of non-essential marketing and administrative expense, and other seasonality of expenses. We expect to carry through most of these savings throughout the remainder of 2023. For modeling purposes, we anticipate our Q2 to Q4 quarterly expenses within the range of approximately $43 million per quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter was negative $5.2 billion, a 62% year-over-year improvement. We have meaningfully improved our adjusted EBITDA performance on a year-over-year basis for the third consecutive quarter since making the decision to accelerate our timeline to reach profitability. In addition, we continue to maintain a healthy cash flow model and we were very excited to cross into free cash flow positivity this quarter. We will continue working towards strengthening our free cash flow position. Moving to the balance sheet, we maintain a very strong liquidity position. We ended the first quarter with approximately $484 million of cash deposits and accrued interest on the balance sheet. And we carry zero debt. This amount represents a sequential increase in cash deposits and accrued interest of $2 million. For reference, this a meaningful improvement from a sequential decrease of $10 million from the same comparable period in the prior year. Simply put, we are confidence in the business ability to generate positive cash flows over the long term. And we believe that our balance sheet and strong liquidity position is an underappreciated asset. In this environment, our strong and liquid balance is an advantage and provides us with the flexibility to deploy capital strategically should opportunity present itself. In terms of our outlook, we're updating and improving our 2023 bottom-line guidance that we previously shared on our Q4 call. Assuming no further material changes to the macro environment, we continue to anticipate revenue of between $297 million, and $303 million for the full year of 2023 or $300 millions at the midpoint. Moving to adjusted EBITDA, as a result of our disciplined approach to managing the business in the first quarter and expected OpEx reductions going forward, we now believe that our full year adjusted EBITDA will be between negative $12 million and negative $17 million, an improvement of 41% from our initial range. As always, we look to find additional leverage in our expenses. We continue to approach our guidance responsibly. Due to the macroeconomic environment, we will continue to monitor the performance and health of our merchants, consumer spending and the broader ecommerce landscape and the impact on our results. Overall, we're pleased with our results and our outlook for the year amidst a challenging landscape. We remain excited about the positioning of our business, the continued prospects for long-term growth, and our ability to deliver value to shareholders. Operator, we’re ready to take the first question, please.