Angie’s List Reports First Quarter 2016 Results

  • Company on track to remove reviews paywall by summer of 2016
  • Revenue of $83.9 million for the first quarter of 2016 as compared
    to $83.5 million for the first quarter of 2015
  • Adjusted EBITDA1 of $4.8 million for the
    first quarter of 2016 as compared to $8.6 million for the first
    quarter of 2015
  • Net loss of $4.0 million2 for the first
    quarter of 2016 as compared to net income of $4.4 million for the
    first quarter of 2015
  • Year over year growth in participating service providers, total
    contract value, traffic and first-year membership renewal rates

INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Angie’s List, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANGI) today announced financial results for
the quarter ended March 31, 2016.

“We made good progress preparing for the strategic and operational shift
in our business,” said Scott Durchslag, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Angie’s List. “The rollout of our technology platform, AL
4.0, is on schedule, and we are on track to remove the reviews paywall
by this summer.”

“Our freemium offering, which is being piloted in some top markets,
continues to perform robustly, with logins, searches, contract value and
reviews each up compared with our control markets,” Durchslag continued.
“These encouraging results give us confidence that our upcoming
nationwide freemium rollout will drive a re-acceleration of our
business.”

“We are also focused on stabilizing our core business during this time
of change,” continued Durchslag. “Our overall first quarter revenue was
flat year over year as we continued to face headwinds on member and
advertising revenue. Adjusted EBITDA1 declined from a
year ago due largely to non-recurring expenses and investments in our
initiatives to reignite revenue growth. On a more positive note, we
sequentially grew our total number of service providers and our backlog
of contract value, and our total site traffic increased approximately
25% in the first quarter of 2016 from the year-ago quarter.”

“While turnarounds take time, we are approaching a key inflection point
in our business as we make major progress toward introducing our new
freemium business model.”

1 Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure.

2 Includes a $3.5 million contingent liability
recorded during the quarter related to pending litigation.

Key Operating Metrics

     
Three months ended

March 31,
2016

March 31,
2015

Change

Total paid memberships (end of period) 3,309,166 3,103,367

7%

Gross paid memberships added (in period) 188,242 229,987

(18)%

First-year membership renewal rate (in period) 73 % 71 % 2 pts
Average membership renewal rate (in period) 75 % 75 % flat
Participating service providers (end of period)* 54,864 54,341

1%

Total service provider contract value (end of period, in thousands) $ 267,302 $ 263,349

2%

Total service provider contract value backlog (end of period, in
thousands)
$ 165,360 $ 165,600

—%

 

* We include in participating service providers the total number of
service providers under contract for advertising, e-commerce or both at
the end of the period.

Market Cohort Analysis

  Pre-2003   2003-2007   Post-2007   Total
March 31, March 31, March 31, March 31,
2016   2015 2016   2015 2016   2015 2016   2015
Number of Markets 10 10 35 35 208 208 253 253
Average Revenue/Market $ 8,011,151 $ 7,696,718 $ 6,200,540 $ 5,851,214 $ 226,773 $ 211,270 $ 1,360,866 $ 1,287,367
Average Marketing Expense/Market $ 1,272,695 $ 1,367,509 $ 1,339,087 $ 1,437,514 $ 117,678 $ 126,499 $ 332,300 $ 356,917
 
Membership Revenue/Paid Member $ 24.42 $ 30.89 $ 22.71 $ 27.83 $ 14.47 $ 15.66 $ 20.89 $ 25.18
Service Provider Revenue/Paid Member 105.59 110.87 100.92 103.33 42.04 42.03 86.49 88.47
Total Revenue/Paid Member $ 130.01 $ 141.76 $ 123.63 $ 131.16 $ 56.51 $ 57.69 $ 107.38 $ 113.65
 
Total Paid Memberships 640,384 592,037 1,815,927 1,694,950 852,855 816,380 3,309,166 3,103,367
Estimated Penetration Rate* 17% 16% 13% 13% 12% 12% 14%

13%

Annual Membership Growth Rate 8% 20% 7% 19% 4% 16% 7%

18%

Cohort table presents financial and operational data for the twelve
months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015.

* Demographic information used in penetration rate calculations is
based on third-party studies we commissioned in December 2015 and March
2015, respectively. According to these studies, the number of U.S.
households in our target demographic was 27 million for each of the
periods ended December 31, 2015 and March 31, 2015.

First Quarter Results

Revenue

Total revenue for the first quarter of 2016 was $83.9 million compared
to $83.5 million in the year-ago period, driven by higher service
provider revenue, which increased 2% to $67.5 million, offset by a
decline in membership revenue of 6% to $16.3 million from a year ago.

The growth in service provider revenue, which includes both advertising
and e-commerce revenue, quarter over quarter was largely the result of
higher service provider revenue per average participating service
provider and service provider contract value. These gains were partially
offset by the impact of near-term reductions in average e-commerce take
rates in previous periods as well as revenue losses attributable to the
ongoing migration to our new technology platform.

The decline in membership revenue quarter over quarter is primarily the
result of a 12% decrease in membership revenue per average paid member
attributable to tiered pricing, which has reduced average membership
fees. The Company added 188,242 gross paid memberships in the period, a
decline from gross paid member additions of 229,987 in the year-ago
quarter.

Operating Expenses

Operations and support expense was $12.2 million, a decrease from $14.0
million in the year-ago quarter, attributable to quarter over quarter
reductions in compensation and personnel-related costs and credit card
processing fees.

Selling expense was $27.8 million, down from $28.3 million in the
year-ago quarter, due primarily to lower headcount. The total number of
employees in the sales organization declined 7% year over year,
resulting in reduced selling compensation and personnel-related costs.

Marketing expense, which now includes the marketing costs that were
previously classified in general and administrative expense, was $19.1
million, an increase from $18.8 million in the year-ago quarter,
attributable to increases in marketing outsourced services expenditures
and compensation and personnel-related costs quarter over quarter,
partially offset by a decrease in advertising spend over the same time
period.

Product and technology expense was $10.0 million, an increase from $8.4
million in the year-ago period, largely attributable to headcount
increases.

General and administrative expense was $18.0 million, an increase from
$8.7 million in the year-ago period, driven by period over period
increases in outsourced services expenditures and compensation and
personnel-related costs as well as a $3.5 million one-time contingent
liability recorded during the quarter related to pending litigation.

Net Income (Loss)

Net loss for the quarter was $4.0 million compared to net income of $4.4
million in the year-ago quarter, attributable to higher operating
expenses, including the aforementioned contingent legal liability
recorded in general and administrative expense.

Adjusted EBITDA1

Adjusted EBITDA1 was $4.8 million for the period, down from
adjusted EBITDA1 of $8.6 million in the year-ago period.

Cash

Cash provided by operations for the first quarter was $9.2 million. At
March 31, 2016, the balance of cash, cash equivalents and investments
was $59.1 million.

Business Outlook

The Company reiterated its full year guidance for revenue of $345
million to $355 million and adjusted EBITDA1 of $31 million
to $35 million.

1 Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure.

 

Angie’s List, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance
Sheets

(in thousands)

March 31,
2016

December 31,
2015

 

Angie’s List, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated
Statements of Operations

(in thousands, except per
share data)

Three Months Ended
March 31,

 

Angie’s List, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

Conference Call Information

The Company will host a conference call today, April 20, 2016,
at approximately 8:30 AM (ET) to discuss the quarterly financial results
with the investment community. A live audio webcast of the event will be
available on the Angie’s List Investor Relations website at http://investor.angieslist.com/.

A live domestic dial-in is available at (877) 380-5664 or (253) 237-1143
internationally. An audio replay will be available at (855) 859-2056
domestically or (404) 537-3406 internationally, using passcode 85488464
through April 25, 2016.

About Angie’s List

Angie’s List helps facilitate happy transactions between more than three
million consumers nationwide and its collection of highly-rated service
providers in 720 categories of service, ranging from home improvement to
health care. Built on a foundation of 10 million verified reviews of
local service, Angie’s List connects consumers directly to its online
marketplace of services from member-reviewed providers and offers unique
tools and support designed to improve the local service experience for
both consumers and service professionals.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to providing financial measurements based on generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”), we
disclose in this press release financial information that was not
prepared in accordance with GAAP. This information includes non-GAAP
Adjusted EBITDA, which we define as earnings before interest, income
taxes, depreciation, amortization, non-cash stock-based compensation
expense, contingent liabilities and adjustments and non-cash long-lived
asset impairment charges, as applicable. We use Adjusted EBITDA
internally in analyzing our financial results and determined to disclose
this measure to investors as we believe it will be useful to them, as a
supplement to GAAP measures, in evaluating our operating performance
relative to our industry sector and competitors. We believe that the use
of Adjusted EBITDA provides additional insight for investors to use in
evaluation of ongoing operating results and trends. However, non-GAAP
financial measures such as Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered in
isolation from, or as a substitute for, financial information prepared
in accordance with GAAP. We have significant uses of cash flows,
including capital expenditures and other contractual commitments,
interest payments and income taxes that are not reflected in Adjusted
EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA does not consider the potentially dilutive
impact of issuing non-cash stock-based compensation to our management
and other employees. It should also be noted that other companies,
including companies in the same industry, may calculate Adjusted EBITDA
in a different manner than we do. We have provided a reconciliation of
the Adjusted EBITDA measure to the most directly comparable GAAP
financial measure herein.

Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements

This press release contains statements that constitute “forward-looking
statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended. All
statements other than statements of historical fact, including
statements regarding market and industry prospects and future results of
operations or financial position, made in this press release are
forward-looking. In many cases, you can identify forward-looking
statements by terminology, such as “may”, “should”, “will”, “expects”,
“intends”, “plans”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “estimates”, “predicts”,
“potential” or “continue” or the negative of such terms and other
comparable terminology. The forward-looking information may include,
among other information, statements concerning our estimated and
projected earnings, revenues, costs, expenditures, cash flows, growth
rates, financial results, our plans and objectives for future
operations, changes to our business model, growth initiatives or
strategies (including, but not limited to, merger and acquisition
activity), profitability plans or the expected outcome or impact of
pending or threatened litigation. There may also be other statements of
expectations, beliefs, future plans and strategies, anticipated events
or trends and similar expressions concerning matters that are not
historical facts. Risks and uncertainties may affect the accuracy of
forward-looking statements.

For a discussion of these factors and other risks and uncertainties that
may affect our business or cause actual results to differ materially
from those contained in our forward-looking statements, please refer to
the filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from
time to time, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.

These documents are or will be available online from the SEC or on the
SEC Filings section of the Investor Relations section of our website at http://investor.angieslist.com.
Information on our website is not part of this release. All
forward-looking statements in this press release are based on
information currently available to us, and we assume no obligation to
update these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.

Contacts

Angie’s List
Investor Relations:
Leslie Arena,
317-808-4527
lesliea@angieslist.com
or
Public
Relations

Cheryl Reed, 317-396-9134
cherylr@angieslist.com

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