Mala Murthy
Analyst · KeyBanc. Your line is open
Thank you, Jason and good afternoon everyone. I would like to echo Jason's comments regarding the broad based momentum that the business is experiencing and we are very pleased with the 2019 performance. I will now review the fourth quarter and the full year at a more granular level. Total revenue increased 27% to $156.5 million in the fourth quarter, that revenue growth was entirely organic, but for the small impact of the Medicine Direct acquisition. For the full year of 2019, total revenue increased 32% to $553.3 million or 24% on an organic basis. We continue to see a stronger U.S. dollar versus the prior year resulting in an FX adjusted revenue growth approximately 96 basis points above our reported full year revenue growth. Global subscription access fee revenue for the quarter of $127 million, grew 24% versus the prior year and accounted for 81% of our consolidated revenue, with visit fee revenue comprising the remaining 19%. U.S. subscription access fee revenue of $98.1 million, grew 25% in the quarter versus last year and international subscription revenue grew 19% to $28.9 million, demonstrating accelerating momentum as we exited the year. Visit fee revenue for the quarter increased to $29.5 million representing growth or 47% over the prior year. Of which revenue from individuals with visit fee only access was $8 million in the quarter representing 112% growth versus the prior year. Turning to membership and access, as Jason highlighted, U.S. paid membership increased this quarter to 36.7 million members up 61% versus the prior year, reflecting the increased adoption of virtual care and demand for our comprehensive service offering. As a reminder, the U.S. paid membership includes only members associated with a PMPM and does not include individuals with visit fee only access. Individuals with visit fee only access increased to 19.3 million at the end of the fourth quarter up approximately 9.9 million versus the prior year and 0.3 million sequentially. Turning to visits, total visit volume was 1,239,000 in the quarter representing a 44% increase versus the prior year. Visit volume from paid members in the U.S. grew 40% to 850,000, which represents an annualized utilization rate of 9.5%, a 125 basis point decrease over last year’s fourth quarter. Excluding the impact of the large health plan on-boarding during the third quarter, annualized utilization during the fourth quarter would have been 11.9% up 110 basis points over the fourth quarter of 2018. For the full year, we completed over 4.1 million visits, representing growth of 57% over the prior year. PMPM in the quarter was $0.91 compared to $1.16 in the prior year’s quarter. As we have previously discussed, we expect to see a dampening effect on average PMPM, when we onboard large new health plan member populations. Excluding the impact of the large health plan population added during the third quarter, fourth quarter PMPM would be $1.19. Gross margin percentage for the quarter was in line with our expectations at 65% compared to 67% in the fourth quarter of last year. The year-over-year decline in percentage gross margin reflects the strong visit growth and visit fee revenue performance in the quarter, as visit fee revenue comprised 19% of total revenue in the fourth quarter compared to 16% in the fourth quarter of last year. For the full year, gross margin percentage was 67% compared to 69% in the previous year. Dollar gross margin increased 28% for the full year to $369 million. Operating expense for the quarter totaled $116.7 million or 74.6% of revenue compared to 81.9% in the fourth quarter of last year. Excluding non-cash charges such as depreciation and amortization, stock compensation and one-time acquisition and integration related expenses, quarterly adjusted operating expenses were $85.9 million or 55% of revenue compared to 63% in the fourth quarter of last year. Adjusted EBITDA increased to $15.2 million for the quarter compared to $5.8 million in last year’s fourth quarter, reflecting our strong revenue growth and ability to drive operating leverage. EBITDA including stock compensation and one-time acquisition cost was a loss of $5.7 million for the quarter compared to $8.3 million loss in the same period last year. For the full year, adjusted EBITDA increased to $31.8 million more than doubling versus the prior year, as adjusted EBITDA margins expanded over 250 basis points. Our net loss in the quarter was $19 million compared to a net loss of $25 million in the fourth quarter of 2018. On a per share basis, our net loss was $0.26 for the fourth quarter compared to $0.35 in the fourth quarter of last year. For the full year, net loss per share was $1.38 in 2019 compared to $1.47 in the previous year. At the outset of the year, one of our key financial goals was to achieve positive cash flows from operations. And we have delivered on that generating nearly $30 million of operating cash flow for the full year of 2019. As a result, we ended the quarter with $517 million in cash and short-term investments and improvement of nearly $39 million versus the prior year and $26 million sequentially. Our total debt outstanding as of December 31 was $562.5 million, which consists of our two convertible notes. Now turning to forward guidance. Please note that all forward guidance will exclude the impact of the recently announced InTouch Health acquisition. Until the transaction closes, which is expected at the end of the second quarter. As Jason noted, for the full year 2020, we expect revenue to be in the range of $695 million to $710 million representing 26% to 28% growth versus the prior year, which again is substantially all organic. We expect total U.S. paid membership of approximately 43 million to 45 million members, representing 17% to 23% growth in new membership as compared to 2019. And visit fee only access to be available to approximately 19 million to 20 million individuals. We expect total visits to be between 5.5 million and 5.9 million representing total visit growth of 33% to 43% over the prior year. We expect an EBITDA loss in the range of $15 million to $5 million and adjusted EBITDA in the range of positive $60 million to $70 million, which is more than double 2019 adjusted EBITDA at the midpoint. The expected EBITDA improvement reflects operating leverage as we grow top line in conjunction with our continued focus on operating efficiencies, while still allowing us to continue to make significant investments against future growth opportunities. Net loss per share is expected to range from a loss of $1.19 to $1.06 per share based on 73.7 million weighted shares outstanding. We expect cash flow from operations to grow consistent with adjusted EBITDA growth. For the first quarter of 2020, we expect total revenue of $169 million to $172 million. We expect to end the quarter with U.S. paid membership of approximately 40 million to 41 million members and visit fee only access to be available to approximately 19.2 million individuals. We expect total visits of between 1.4 million and 1.6 million in the quarter. We expect a first quarter EBITDA loss in the range of $9 million to $7 million, adjusted EBITDA of positive $9 million to $11 million, and net loss per share to be between $0.37 and $0.34 based on 73.1 million shares outstanding. In conclusion, I’m pleased with our financial results and excited about the momentum we see across the business as we enter 2020. With that, I will turn the call back to Jason for closing remarks.