Kim Nelson
Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets. You may proceed with your question
Thanks, Archie. We had a great third quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $70.9 million, a 13% increase over Q3 of last year, and represented our 75th consecutive quarter of revenue growth. Recurring revenue this quarter grew 13% year-over-year. The total number of recurring revenue customers increased 14% year-over-year to approximately 30,500, and wallet share was about flat year-over-year at approximately 8,800. As a reminder, in December 2018, we announced the acquisition of CovalentWorks. At the time, we stated that we expect our customer count to increase by approximately 2000 and our wallet share to decrease by approximately $500 in 2019 due to CovalentWorks' smaller average customer size. For the quarter, adjusted EBITDA was $18.1 million compared to $14.4 million in Q3 of last year. We ended the quarter with total cash and marketable securities of approximately $201 million, and repurchased approximately $6 million of SPS shares. In addition, the Board of Directors has authorized an increase and extension of the previously announced stock repurchase program, which originally authorized the company to purchase up to $50 million of its outstanding common stock. That amount has been increased by the Board to $100 million. Under the original program, the company repurchased over $40 million through September 30. The Board also authorized an extension of the original expiration date from November 2, 2019 to November 2, 2021. Now turning to guidance. For the fourth quarter of 2019, we expect revenue to be in the range of $72.2 million to $72.8 million. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $17.9 million to $18.4 million. We expect fully diluted earnings per share to be approximately $0.19 to $0.20 with fully diluted weighted average shares outstanding of approximately 36.2 million shares. We expect non-GAAP diluted earnings per share to be approximately $0.29 to $0.30 with stock-based compensation expense of approximately $3.4 million, depreciation expense of approximately $3.1 million and amortization expense of approximately $1.6 million. For the full year, we expect revenue to be in the range of $278.6 million to $279.2 million, representing 12% growth over 2018. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $68.8 million to $69.3 million, representing approximately 34% to 35% growth over 2018. We expect fully diluted earnings per share to be in the range of $0.87 to $0.89, and we expect fully diluted weighted average shares outstanding of approximately 36 million shares. We expect non-GAAP diluted earnings per share to be in the range of $1.21 to $1.23 with stock-based compensation expense of approximately $14.7 million, depreciation expense of approximately $11.2 million and amortization expense to be approximately $5.5 million. For the forecast, investors should model a 30% effective tax rate calculated on GAAP pre-tax net earnings. For 2020, we will provide detailed guidance on our Q4 earnings conference call. However, for modeling purposes, we expect to deliver 20% annual EBITDA dollar growth over our 2019 annual EBITDA guidance and at least 10% annual revenue growth over our 2019 annual revenue guidance. In summary, SPS Commerce continues to execute on its targets, proving efficiency in our business model and leveraging our growing network of strategic relationships retailers and suppliers to address the multibillion-dollar market opportunity ahead of us. And with that, I'd like to open the call for questions.