Randy Fields
Analyst · Davidson
Todd, thank you. We're very pleased with the first quarter financial results. We continue to show the strong operating leverage critical to our long-run earnings growth, and point of fact, we saw a near tripling of net income compared to last year. We're also very pleased that the net income growth was driven by very solid revenue trends, 26% increase year-over-year. And we saw record cash flow driving the highest ever end-of-quarter cash balance. That, in turn, provides more and more comfort to our customers and prospects, which is increasingly important to larger companies with whom we either are or might be doing business. Important drivers though are, in a sense, what we ought to be focused on, why did the performance happen? Well, the truth is, it's the same ones we've been talking about for some period of time with you, the same ones that we've driven into our culture and that we talk to you about on virtually every conference call. First, it's our relentless focus on the customer, on the customer success and on the customer's feeling in relationship with us. We call it the bedrock principle of the business. Secondly, it's the breadth of the offering across our platform that allows our customers, as they experience success with one of our products, to use more other services to deepen our contribution to their business. This gives us the ability to cross-sell our customers sequentially as they prioritize their needs. In the first quarter, we rotated our focus to compliance. Results here continue to be driven by our superb execution. We've been able, for example, to collapse the time it takes to get a HUB supplier on the system and compliant. The bigger we get interestingly, the better we are at execution. This has always been my hope and now it's our reality. The Success Team, as they're called, has done an amazing job of continually improving our ability to execute at this scale. With our rotation and focus, we saw strong growth in our Tier 1 -- we call them retailer/wholesaler HUBs in terms of those connection. It's important to remember that each quarter, we do change the focus for new sales activity. Our customers obviously need absorption time naturally, and this will be our standard of practice for a while longer. As we highlighted in our last call, we signed the largest compliance deal. Indeed, I think it's the largest deal of any kind in the company's history during the last quarter. This shows we really have cornered the compliance market with big retailers and wholesalers. We are the industry-endorsed standard. And as such, we also saw very strong growth in Supplier HUB connections from our Tier 2 growth initiative that we began in the last quarter of last year. We added more Tier 2 HUBs in the first quarter of this year than we did in the fourth quarter of last year when we began the initiative. Our momentum is growing progressively, and we expect it to do that for a long time in the future. Many tens of thousands of Supplier HUBs can be brought into the network if we're successful. A very big opportunity for us. We already have thousands of Tier 2 suppliers somewhere in our network, and there are literally hundreds of thousands of potential targets for us. Todd highlighted a customer comment from one of our retailers. I wanted to highlight another comment from the COO of a specialty produce supplier. And in fact, they were one of our first Tier 2 Supplier HUBs. At a recent SQF conference, she called us out by saying -- and this is a quote, "We were looking for something that was really easy to use, would help us comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act. What we found with ReposiTrak is that we get supported 100% through the process. ReposiTrak has worked with us to adapt the system to address the needs we have. We've been on the system now for four years, and the support continues at the same pace. For us, it's really taking the burden of clients and spread it out through the whole Supply Chain." That's a tremendous endorsement. They did this publicly, and we could not be more proud of the team for doing this kind of execution for us. Let's shift for a moment to Supply Chain. While we rotated our focus to compliance, Supply Chain also performed very well in the quarter. As we've highlighted, we're seeing on Amazon effect driving demand for our Supply Chain solution. We're doing more larger deals, and we're seeing our customers take more of our Supply Chain application. For example, this quarter, one of our largest Scan Based Trading customers decided to implement our ordering solution across their entire footprint. And effectively, that doubled the size of their engagement with us. As a result, Supply Chain revenue trends continued to be very positive. We never took our eye off the ball while we're developing compliance and MarketPlace. And like compliance, it also has incredibly low levels of churn and a very high contribution margin. Given the trends we continue to see, we're very confident that fiscal '19 will be an even better year for the Supply Chain than fiscal '18, even though we should remember that fiscal '18 was the strongest year for Supply Chain in the company's history. MarketPlace. I saved MarketPlace for last. We did see the expected seasonal pullback in revenue contribution from MarketPlace. Nevertheless, it continues to be a significant addition to our overall business and continues potentially to be a very important part of our mix. We're still at least one year or more away from developing all of the use cases that we've talked about and scaling the business so our execution maintains our standards and our reputation. Internally though, I can tell you we're very excited about the promise of what we're doing, and our excitement continues to grow. We continued to believe that we'll add two more buyers to MarketPlace during the fiscal year. And like our first buyer, they will start small and continue to grow hopefully as they have a base of success with us. Interest continues to exceed our expectations. Our first buyer continues to explore and add additional areas where MarketPlace can aid their sales growth. The truth is that, that's the best measure of our success. We're very pleased with the results. Beyond that, we're also scaling our efforts to develop a private MarketPlace for our partner, GMDC. GMDC is bringing new suppliers into the MarketPlace. And in addition, they're getting in front of several new prospective buyers. We're always, as you know, cautious when we bring a new product to market and laser-focused on the customer's success. But the reality is it's going at least as well as we could have hoped. So if I bring it all together from a conclusion perspective, you can see our integrated platform of applications is coming together nicely. We're doing what we said we would do. At this point, we have the only platform that we're aware of that can help a retailer or wholesaler source a new supplier rapidly and efficiently, vet a new supplier rapidly and efficiently, and then onboard and transact with that supplier rapidly and efficiently. We continue to be focused on growing the scale of the network. For now, compliance really remains a major driver of this concept of increasing scale, and our rotation into compliance in the first quarter helped drive our total compliance connections to nearly 70,000 and brought our total connections across our network to nearly 300,000. By the way, even I'm wowed by that scale. Our focus on our customer's success is the primary driver of our growth in scale because it results in our having very low churn. It's not just enough to add customers, you have to keep them. And interesting to note that our churn across the network in fiscal '18 was less than 2%, less than 2%. That's a level that's exceptional in the SaaS world and one that we're very, very proud of. So we hope you are as well. We're focused on also though growing the scope of our engagements. We're really at the beginning stages of learning to cross-sell, but I'm optimistic about either -- what I'm seeing. Our 2 tiers -- our Tier 2 Supplier HUB growth initiative, which is based on the idea of upselling is off to a very strong start. Additionally, I'm seeing some positive development, and I mentioned one of them in adding services to our Supply Chain customer set. MarketPlace, obviously, is the ultimate opportunity for cross-selling because of the benefits it brings both to the HUBs and simultaneously to their suppliers by increasing sales. Interestingly, when you look at the whole of our capabilities in a single, integrated platform, we have a perfect applicability so we do some, we consider, interesting, highly regulated industries where compliance, tracking, inventory management and tax collection are at play. We're not going to talk anymore about that now, but it's fair to say that we're examining this regulated opportunity and we're responding to some inquiries. Hopefully, more about that later. What does all of these mean to you as an investor? We have a self-reinforcing business model with fabulous operating leverage. Over the long term, we should generate sustainable growth and really superior earnings growth, but we need to continue to focus on execution and keeping our customers engaged. So we will continue to change our focus quarter-to-quarter in a cadence that matches our customers' opportunities and needs. This, in our view, is how you build a sustainable business. We emphasize profitability. Profitless growth is not our plan. Our goal is to grow faster, have earnings grow faster than the revenue and have cash grow on top of that. It's all happening now, and we hope you're as pleased as we are. I could not be prouder of the team. Amazing people, really amazing. Okay. So operator, let's open it up to some questions.