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Xunlei Limited (XNET)

Q4 2016 Earnings Call· Thu, Mar 9, 2017

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Operator

Operator

Good morning and thank you for standing by for Xunlei’s Fourth Quarter 2016 Earnings Conference Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. After management's presentation there will be a question-and-answer session. Today's conference call is being recorded today. I would now like to turn the call over to your host today, Ms. Danny, IR Manager of Xunlei. Thank you, please go ahead.

Unidentified Company Representative

Management

Thank you. Good morning and good evening. Welcome to Xunlei’s fourth quarter 2016 earnings call. I'm Danny Jones [ph], Investor Relations Manager at Xunlei. With me today on the call are Mr. Sean Zou, our Chairman and CEO and Mr. Tom Wu, our CFO. Today's conference call is being broadcasted and a replay of the call will be available on our IR website following the call. Our earnings release was distributed yesterday and it is now available on the IR website as well as Newswire service. Before I get started please know that the discussion today will contain certain forward-looking statements made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. Please refer to our SEC filings for a more detailed description of the risk factors that may affect our results. We do not assume any obligations to update any forward-looking statements except as required under applicable law. During this call we will be referring to both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures and that non-GAAP measures are reconciled to the most recent directly comparable to the GAAP measures in this table attached to our earnings release, which can be found again on our IR website. Please note that all numbers are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated. I will now turn the call over to. Sean please.

Sean Shenglong Zou

Management

Thank you, Danny. Good morning and good evening everyone. Thanks for joining us today for our earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2016. Let me start by commenting on our top line. Our total revenues for this quarter were 39.5 million which represented 12.3% increase on a year-over-year basis. Progress in key segments of mobile advertising, cloud computing, and subscription contributed to this growth. Subscription business grew by 9.5%, mobile advertising grew by 185%, and the revenue for cloud computing grew by 80.4% on a year-over-year basis. Tom, our CFO will provide more details on the financial results in his section. Given this is the first earnings call for this year, I would like to take this opportunity for a quick review of last year and a more importantly key strategies and outlook for Xunlei in the coming New Year 2017. For the full year of 2016 we reported total revenues of 157 million representing 20.7% increase from the same period in 2015. With this growth we achieved a number of strategic initiatives. First we made progress on our cloud computing business. We successfully extended bandwidth sales to the live video industry which is one of the promising growing Internet usages in China. Second, we further accelerated the transition to mobile internet by increasing active users and enriching product diversity. And last, our subscription business grew in terms of revenues. We have been very focused on execution and the management of this product. For 2017 our strategies will continue to focus on the key initiatives. For cloud computing we need to further improve our technology and the scale in terms of the revenue size, customer’s mix, and a segment's diversity. Live videos should remain a core application of our focus but, we obviously need to be aware of other…

Tao Tom Wu

Management

Thank you Sean. Good morning and good evening everyone. For the fourth quarter total revenues were 39.5 million which represented a 12.3% growth on a year-over-year basis. Increases in mobile advertising, cloud computing business, and subscription revenues were the major contributors for the year-over-year basis of growth. Subscription revenues were 21.7 million, number of subscribers was essentially flat from 5.02 million in the corresponding period of last year to 4.97 million end of this quarter. ARPU as Sean mentioned grew to 30.1 RMB compared to 25.3 RMB in the corresponding period of last year. As Sean mentioned in his section that we were very focused on our execution and customer care. The continuing importance of our mobility products was also a factor. For our cloud computing business project Crystal, revenues of cloud sourced bandwidth videos segment was strong contributing to the rise of revenues. Overall cloud computing revenue was -- grew 7.8% on a sequential basis. We're obviously very focused on executing this business which as Sean mentioned is still generating losses. Unlike advertising revenues which included mobile advertising revenue in the quarter were 4.6 million. Mobile advertising revenue grew 185.1% compared to the corresponding period of last year which we started to monetize a mobile traffic in terms of advertising sales in the fourth quarter of 2015. Traffic for this particular mobile app peaked at around about 10 million DAU, daily active user last year. Cost of revenues was 20.2 million compared to 21.1 million in the third quarter of 2016. Gross profit margin was 48.2% compared to 48% in the previous quarter. The operating expenses were 29.1 million compared to 30.3 million in the previous quarter. The decrease on a sequential basis was mainly due to decrease in general and administrative costs. Net loss for continuing operations for the quarter was 7.7 million compared with an operating loss of 7.6 million in the previous quarter. Non-GAAP net loss from continuing operations was 4.4 million. Turning to our balance sheet, we have continued to have a very strong balance sheet. We ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalent, and short-term investment balance of 381.5 million which is down slightly from 391.4 million of the previous quarter. The decline was partly due to several strategic equity investments we made during the past quarters. Cash value per ADS at the end of the quarter remained at $5.77 per ADS. Let me finish by going over our guidance for the next quarter. We expect our revenues to be between 39 million to 41 million for the first quarter of 2017. The midpoint of the range represents a year-over-year increase of about 4% and we look forward to updating everybody soon. Operator we’re open for questions.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]. There are no further questions at this time please continue.

Sean Shenglong Zou

Management

Thank you for joining us this evening if there are no further questions. Shall we pause a bit more operator?

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions].

Sean Shenglong Zou

Management

If there are no further questions.

Operator

Operator

There are no further questions at the moment. Please continue.

Sean Shenglong Zou

Management

Right, if there are no further questions thank you for joining us tonight and we certainly look forward to updating you on our progress in the coming quarters. Thank you and have a good morning.

Tao Tom Wu

Management

Thank you everyone.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen that does conclude our conference for today. Thank you for participating you may all disconnect.