Anthony Noto
Analyst · Rosenblatt Securities. Sean, the line is yours
Thank you, Andrea. Welcome all to SoFi';s first earnings conference call as a public company. We're excited to speak with you today about our second quarter results. I want to start by providing you with a short overview of our mission, our strategy, our job to be done, which is more commonly referred to as our value proposition and our points of differentiation. Our mission is to help our members predominately made up of what we call high earners that well serve, achieve financial independence to realize their ambitions. Our strategy is to offer a comprehensive suite of products and services so that we are there for every major financial decision in our members lives, and all the days in between. My passion for SoFi increases every day, driven by the impact that we have in our members lives. That impact is driven by our focus on a unique value prop. One job to be done, which is helping our members get their money right by giving them a one-stop-shop to borrow better, save better, spend better, invest better and protect better.
breed: And second, not only do we strive to make each of these products best-in-class, we also obsess over how to make them work better when they're used together. While we do both of these things right, we not only deliver unique SoFi experience to our members that improves with each new product they choose. But we can also create the best unit economics across our business. As we get more efficient and serving our members, we can invest that savings in offering members the best rates, no fees, the best prices, terms in selection, This in turn drives more engagement, more data and our ability to help our members use more products to get their money, right. We call this the financial services productivity loop, and it's working. We see it in the numbers, accelerating year-over-year growth in members and products, increasing member lifetime values, declining number acquisition costs, superior revenue growth, and improving margins. Today, to the best of our knowledge, SoFi is the only company providing a comprehensive solution set in one easily to used mobile first digital platform. Many companies have talked about it, but only SoFi has done it. Now let's get into the quarter. I'll take you through a few high level takeaways, and then Chris will take you through the results in more detail. The second quarter proved to be a very strong quarter full of milestones. We want to highlight four key points from the results. First, our strategy execution are driving record results. Second, we are constantly striving to iterate, learn and iterate some more in order to compound innovation and differentiate our products. Third, we are hitting an inflection point in our financial services proceeding strategy, with a number of financial services products used by members reaching nearly 3x the number of running products during the quarter versus about equal one year ago. And fourth, we continue to invest aggressively to ensure we're driving compounding growth while still delivering profitability. Let's take these one-by-one, starting with our strategy and execution are driving record results. Specifically, we achieved record adjusted net revenue of $237 million despite our student loan refinancing business operating in less than 50% of pre-COVID levels to the CARES Act, which is a great testament to the diversity of our business. Total members through 113% year-over-year, which is our eighth consecutive quarter of accelerating year-over-year growth. Total products held by our members increased 123%, our fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth of more than 100%. We demonstrated continued strong cross-buying trends with cross-block products up 1.7x versus a year ago, Galileo our technology platform business will then doubled its total client accounts to 79 million and just crossed $100 billion of annualized payment volume in July. We delivered our fourth consecutive quarter of positive EBITDA. In our financial services segment revenue had a breakout quarter of 2.5x versus Q1 2021. This brings me to the second key takeaway. In the quarter, we demonstrated our commitment to constantly iterate across four factors, fast selection, constant demands to drive compounding innovation. Here's just a few examples of what we did in the quarter. Our products are 100% digital, and there are infinite ways to tailor them to specific members needs. To ensure our members get the right loan for them. We launched a next gen credit model and reengineered our fraud and income verification processes. This drove a 30% higher approval rate with the same credit box, leading to a 60% increase in funnel conversion and improved Net Promoter Score, all with zero negative impact on credit quality. Across lending, we continue to invest in automation to make the loan application process easier, faster and lower touch. In Q2 more than 50% of personal loans process were 100% automated. That compares with less than 30% one year ago, which drove lower cost per loan and shortened time to fund to two days from four days last year and nearly a week a few years ago. In student loans, we work to align with members individual needs throughout the pandemic, specifically by introducing this snooze feature. The snooze feature allows borrowers to lock in a low rate on a student loan today. It's delaying the starting payments until the CARES Act loan deferral program ends in January 2022. In SoFi Money, we enhanced our direct deposit offering by adding two-day early paycheck to earlier enhancements like free overdraft protection, auto save and roundup features. And SoFi invest members asked for more cryptocurrency selection. So we added 16 points to the offering. We also have the ability to redeem SoFi reward points earned on all of SoFi products into cryptocurrency. And we were one of the first offer [audio gap] with our new IPO investment center. Also in invest we added to our already strong SoFi ETF offering by launching SoFi weekly the first ever equity ETF that pays weekly dividends, this joint SoFi TJF or fixed income ETF which pays a dividend every Friday. At Galileo, we near completion on a 15 month project to build out a new cloud computing environment to replace the on premises environment, and are now in Q3 focused on the migration of existing clients to the cloud, which we filed by onboarding new clients straight to the cloud. We also continue to grow the Galileo partner base, signing up 22 new partners in the first half of ‘21 well 12 of those in Q2, including some focused on enterprise and cryptocurrency. Finally, we continue to iterate and innovate on our unique rewards program by adding additional reward triggers when members set up returning purchases or return deposits in SoFi Invest or direct deposit in SoFi Money, or when members use the app to take actions that make their financial life better. Since launch, rewards is contributing meaningfully to cross-buy and engagement. Already members have earned 450 million points with new ways to earn in the works. This is just a sample of all the innovation introduced this quarter. But we have much more in the pipeline, so stay tuned. The third message I want to hit on today is the inflection point we have reached with the financial services productivity with strategy. We worked hard to scale our financial services offering which includes products like SoFi Money, SoFi Invest, SoFi relay and SoFi credit card, as these products have a much broader appeal, lower customer acquisition costs and greater daily engagement compared to lending products, which has significantly higher LTV for use less frequently and buy fewer people. Driving greater scale in the top remember funnel with financial services products drives two crucial benefits. First, it resulted more members, more usage and more data across a set of products with extremely attractive standalone characteristics. And second, this drives greater volume of cross bought products at lower overall acquisition costs, leading to superior economics and lifetime value. We are seeing our efforts pay off. In Q2, we reached a critical inflection point with a number of financial services products held by SoFi members and nearly $2.7 million is now nearly three times the number of SoFi Money products at almost $1 million. A year ago there were about equal in number. The 3x greater scale is helping drive a 1.7x increase in the number of products that were cross bought in the quarter versus Q2 2020. The profitability of our learning products is already at industry highs, and increases dramatically when loans are cross bought. Because there is no additional cost from acquisition. This further solidifies our superior lifetime values, leading to our ability to offer unmatched value to our members. The last point I'd like to drive home today that we continue invest aggressively in our business to fuel compounding growth, while still delivering profitability to our shareholders. This combination is not easy, but we are committed to contributing around 30% of incremental revenue to the bottom line and reinvest the remaining 70% in bolstering our product innovation to drive decades of compounding growth. Even as we invest aggressively in technology, marketing and people, we continue to realize cost efficiencies, which is beginning to drive real operating leverage. By leveraging cross buying and better gaining realization and targeting we've reduced sales and marketing as a percentage of revenue and customer acquisition cost meaningfully year-over-year. We have also improved our Member Services capabilities reduce onboarding friction points via implementation of more streamlined processes, including leveraging data and improved communications, all to drive down operating expenses, and improve efficiencies. All the while we've worked to drive improve product NPS, with better products and greater automation, which in turn reduces contacts and frees up resources to play often. In summary, we had record results with accelerating growth and a lot of milestones we've caught up as we head into the second half year. But rest assured, we are committed to running faster, reaching higher and achieving more every day. With that. Let me turn it over to Chris to run through the results in detail.