Brittany Bagley
Analyst · Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead
Thank you, Eddie. We are excited to report another quarter of stellar results, further solidifying our ability to deliver a record year. The strong demand for our products and the fact that our customers have proven that they will wait as they work to fulfill their orders, further demonstrates the power of our offering and brands. Let me add some color to our results, starting with the second quarter. We delivered adjusted EBITDA of $48.5 million compared to a loss of $28.4 million last year. Our adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 14.6% during the quarter. We were able to deliver this tremendous result with exceptionally strong gross margin, top line growth and ongoing operating expense leverage. This is also the first Q2 in our history where we have been net income positive, and we are pleased to see more consistent profitability across our quarters. Revenue in the quarter increased 90% to nearly $333 million. This anniversary, the 17% year-over-year revenue decline in the prior year quarter, which stemmed from partner inventory rebalancing and retail store closures at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The outperformance versus expectations was largely a result of our ability to fulfill more demand. This was driven by ongoing supply chain capacity investments, as well as improved shipping and logistics processes. Even with the improved supply position in the quarter, we continue to be out of stock on a number of our products, which further points to the strong demand we are seeing. The Americas grew 90% and EMEA grew 100% or 83% on a constant currency basis. APAC grew 56%. The Americas and EMEA both continue to see incredibly strong demand across our products. APAC grew slightly less quickly than our other regions given the softness in IKEA. IKEA continues to be impacted by store closures and the transition in our product cycle. As Patrick mentioned, we are working on a new product release with them, which we will share more details on in the near future. Sonos speaker revenue was up 130% year-over-year driven in part by comping the 27% decline in Q2 last year and was particularly helped by the continued success of Arc and Sub. Sonos system products revenue increased 10%, comping 22% growth last year and driven by the continued strength of our installer channel and component products. Partner products and other revenue increased 16% driven by accessories and Sonance, offset by lower IKEA revenue. Gross margins were incredibly strong in the quarter and reached a record 49.8%, an improvement of 810 basis points versus last year, of which 300 basis points is due to lower tariffs expense. We had approximately $2 million of net tariff expense impacting gross profit during the second quarter. Excluding tariff, the 510 basis points of gross margin improvement was primarily due to comping our At-Home with Sonos promotion last year, as well as a shift into higher margin products and channels, and fixed costs leverage on the higher Q2 sales volume. This gross margin expansion comes even with an increase in component costs, as well as ongoing higher industry-wide shipping and logistics costs. Turning to operating expenses. We saw significant leverage during the second quarter, largely due to the benefit of higher second quarter revenue. We experienced year-over-year increases in all OpEx lines as a result of increasing investments to support our higher top line growth this year and into the future. We also have higher incentive compensation assumptions given our increased outlook. During the second quarter, we used $39 million in cash from operations and had negative free cash flow of $47 million largely due to the timing of working capital and accrued expenses driven by seasonality. We are ending the quarter with $639 million in cash and cash equivalents, which continues to put us in a strong position to invest organically in our business, pursue M&A and return capital to shareholders through our authorized share repurchase. We currently have no debt on our balance sheet, as we paid down our outstanding $25 million in January. Overall, we believe Q2 demonstrates a really impressive quarter for the company and helps us deliver on a strong fiscal 2021. Now, turning to our outlook. Despite our outperformance in Q2, as I'm sure you're largely aware the global supply situation has only gotten more challenging as we look towards the second half of the year. We and others across the industry are seeing significant increases in constraints on a variety of components. Our team continues to work tirelessly to mitigate as much as we can to deliver on the incredible demand we see. We appreciate that our customers have proven that they will wait for our product, which is continuing to help us navigate through this challenge and deliver tremendous results. Obviously, this has been a difficult year to forecast. We remain aware of the continued uncertainty in the broader macro environment, but feel confident in our fiscal 2021 outlook, given our strong first half performance and the continued strong demand for our products as we enter the remainder of the year. We are providing the best update we can, given what we see from a demand perspective and what we currently know about the global supply chain. With those considerations in mind, we are increasing our adjusted EBITDA to $225 million to $250 million, up from our prior outlook of $195 million to $225 million and well ahead of our initial fiscal 2021 guidance of $170 million to $205 million. This new outlook represents 13.8% to 14.9% adjusted EBITDA margin. This is an expansion of 560 to 670 basis points from the prior year. We're maintaining our gross margin outlook of 46% to 46.5% because we expect increasing costs of components, the need for additional airfreight to mitigate the impact of the industry-wide supply shortages and a smaller benefit from product mix. We continue to have $27.5 million of tariff refunds we expect to receive. However, as reminder, given the timing is uncertain, this is not included in our outlook and will be recognized only upon acceptance of the refund requests. We will continue to call off this impact each quarter for transparency As we stated last quarter, we expect to continue making additional OpEx investments in our product, marketing and operations to support the higher revenue volumes and long-term growth initiatives. We also expect higher incentive compensation to support the increased top line growth and profitability, while delivering on attractive OpEx leverage for the year. We are increasing our total revenue for fiscal 2021 to $1.625 billion to $1.675 billion, representing growth of 23% to 26%. Excluding the 53rd week from fiscal 2020, this represents growth of 25% to 29% for the year. It's compared to our prior outlook of $1.525 billion to $1.575 billion provided last quarter, and our initial fiscal 2021 revenue guidance of $1.44 billion to $1.5 billion provided at the start of the year. Even as the world begins to open up again, the demand for our products has never been stronger. We're incredibly pleased with what we have been able to deliver in Q2. We are focused on continued execution to deliver on our increased fiscal 2021 outlook, which is significantly higher than what we set out to deliver. As a reminder, we have a tremendous opportunity ahead of us. There is a clear path to achieving our fiscal 2024 targets of $2.25 billion in revenue, 45% to 47% sustainable gross margin and 15% to 18% adjusted EBITDA margin. With that, I would like to turn the call over to questions.