Q2 2020 CLARIVATE PLC Earnings Call
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Thank you Sarah good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for the clever late second quarter 2020, <unk> Conference call with me today are Jerry Stead, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, like your tanks Chief Financial Officer.
Our Ahmed President Science group and just for a prison Nike group all will be that will take your questions. The conclusion of the prepared remarks.
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Good morning, quite a bit issued a press release announcing a French result, the period ended June 32020.
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After our prepared remarks, well open the call to your questions and with that it's a pleasure to turn the call over juror.
Thank you Mark and thanks to all of you for joining us this morning.
2020, there's been a very productive year for clarity and we still have slide much left to go.
What the teams accomplished in seven months is simply incredible, including our announcement. This morning, although very very solid second quarter results.
They usually we've been able to accomplish so much well close to 100% of our people are working from home.
This is a great credit all colleagues and your ongoing commitment to exceed productivity in service levels, while continuing to execute on their strategic initiatives to drive profitable growth in long term shareholder value.
The improved results from our recent colleague engagement and customer service customer delight surveys validate the outstanding performance of our more than 5300 colleagues.
Pardon the great work, they're doing every day I'll cover those results in a moment.
Yesterday, we took another big step forward and enhancing our product offerings with you announced proposed strategic combination with CP, a global reading a world leader in intellectual property information and services.
Transformative combination reach a full service IP organization, which will provide customers with numerous products and services to meet their ever increasing needs. Once the combination is completed we will form a true into in global solution covering the innovation in.
Property lifecycle.
Earlier this year, we acquired DRG reading one of the largest and most complete providers of life science inflammation in the world with offerings across the entire life science values Jade.
The integration of DRG as wallet.
We are delivering at cost synergies and have initiated revenue synergy opportunities the growth strategy, we outlined at our Investor Day last November trial is coming to life ahead of schedule and we're just getting started.
For the second quarter, we reported adjusted revenue at $277 million, an increase of 16% that constant currency, excluding divested businesses. Adjusted revenue increased 21%. In addition to recent acquisitions sales growth was driven by a 4%.
The increase in organic subscription revenue from new businesses and annual prices price increases this more than offset a decline in transactional revenue due primarily to reduce demand, resulting from the pen done.
I'm very pleased with the significant improvement in our profits this quarter driven by the increase in sales and the cost efficiency initiatives that we're currently pursuing.
Adjusted EBITDA increased 37%.
To $100 million for the second quarter and our adjusted EBITDA margin continued to improve to 36% for this quarter compared to 30% faster. These strong results with star adjusted earnings per share 18 cents the highest level since we became a public company on our first.
Quarter call in early May we highlighted our expectations for the first half in second half considering the coal that pandemic. We continue to expect a gradual lifting of restrictions and a recovering a recovery starting in the fourth quarter. Our results for the first six months are exactly in line.
Our expectation and we expect to second half will show a significant improvement over the first Richard will cover the details and just a few minutes.
In May we completed our first colleague engagement and customer delight surveys for Twentytwenty I'm very proud of our troops results.
Time agreed on certainty disruption that confidence in our company from our colleagues and from our customers has never been higher our success always begins with colleague engagement, we saw exceptional participation across clarity with a 91% participation rate up 10% from last year.
The engagement scores increased a healthy seven points to 76 from our 2019 score of 69, our score came in above the benchmark average of 72.
Importantly, our company response and communications around Cobot, 19 scored an exceptional 93% favorable that was our highest score.
Improvements we have made internally are also making a real difference externally. This was validated by the improved results from a customer delight survey is a time, where we have limited virtual only customer interaction. We've received a decisive score on the customer delight survey of 79. This represents.
An improvement from 76, we received in 2019 best practices 82, so while we still have some work to do we are well underway to reaching and eventually exceeding this target.
Our improved score confirms the importance that our customers place on the work we're doing every day to help them be successful.
We saw an increase in scores on key items, including information insights and quality of products and services, our biggest opportunity which has not changed since last October is our ability to be the easy to do business with company.
While this is our lowest score question at 59% we increased our performance by four points. This is a good improvement and reflects the focused effort, we've made on delivering customer delight scoreboard actions.
Our customers have given us a roadmap to world class delight, and we will remain unrelenting in our pursuit of this goal to help us get there in June we acquired customer first now accompanied led by carry Nelson carry worked for me back at ISS and is build the business that is instrumental in introducing that.
Discipline, a superior customer experiences through their work on customer delight surveys and very importantly customer journey mapping.
She's working closely with the science and IP groups to improved customer experience, while building customer centric operational model across all of player but we.
We will continue improving customer engagement as we could quickly move ahead implementing the plans of our new global business centers, we are setting up three centers to drive improvements in productivity and customer delight and have made significant progress so far London this up and running Chandler, Arizona opens next.
In Penang Malaysia in December.
Despite the global health pandemic hiring is on track and we're seeing excellent quality candidates come forward. We're also looking into other parts of the business outside of insight sales and customer service that will to benefit from these centers, including more solid cost savings to count.
Now turning to our internal response to the epidemic most of our colleagues continued to work from home our co. Ved response Task Force is working through our returned to office planning a very thoughtful plan. This now in place.
We continue to imagine manage expenses very closely extended hiring restrictions until November force first as of now.
We remain optimistic that we'll see a gradual lifting of restrictions with the recovery starting in October.
Based on a solid first half of the year, we remain optimistic about the second half of 20, Twond, we reaffirmed our outlook yesterday adjusted revenue of 1.13 billion to $1.162 billion to $1.16 billion adjusted EBITDA of 395 million to four.
Hundred $20 million adjusted EPS of 53 cents to 59 cents, an adjusted free cash flow of 220 million for $240 million. This outlook does not in.
Reflect any impact with our plan in combination with SCPA with that I'll turn the call over to Richard.
Thank you Gerry I'll second quarter results demonstrates that the actions we are taking to drive improved business performance all working.
We reported adjusted revenues of $277 million, an increase of $35 million or 16% at constant currency.
The call to includes a full contribution from the acquisition of DRG and thoughts IP, which together I think 20% to revenue growth.
This was offset by the Mark one as a brand protection divested products, which was sold on January the first of this year and which reduced revenue by 6% compared to last years second quarter.
Excluding the domestic product lines total revenue increased 21% at constant currency in the second quarter.
The foreign exchange impacts in the second quarter was a negative drag or just under 1% huge still this trend as compared to last years second quarter.
Organic business revenue, excluding acquisitions divestitures on foreign exchange increased 1% its highest subscription revenue was partially offset by lower transactional revenue.
On a reported basis total subscription revenue was $217 million, an increase of 8% at constant currency.
Recent acquisitions added 11% of subscription revenue growth, which was partially offset by the divested product lines, which decreased revenues by 7%.
Excluding the divested businesses subscription revenue increased 15% at constant currency.
Organic business subscription revenue growth was almost 4% driven by new business, including several large contract renewals entered into during the quarter, hence when its annual price increases.
Subscription revenue renewal rates increased to 93% for the first six months of 2020 compared to 92% for the prior year.
This is an important metric as we are enjoying the benefits of the product renovations flowing through to even higher renewal rates.
Transactional revenue increased to $60 million.
$21 million, 53% year over year on a constant currency basis, driven by the acquisitions.
Recent acquisitions added 66% of transaction revenue growth on the product line divestiture noted transaction revenues by less than 1%.
Organic transactional business revenues decreased by approximately 13%.
Hi, a services revenues within the weapons signs in life Sciences were more than offset by lower with of science backfile sales and come to mark such volumes due to that global pandemic.
He CV growth was 9% for the second quarter, which includes the addition of DRG.
Excluding acquisitions, he CV growth on an ongoing basis increased by almost 5% and was driven by organic growth and annual price increases.
Looking now at the performance across all to product groups for the Science group revenue increased $48 million for 37% to 100 to see $84 million at constant currency driven by the acquisition of DRG.
Organic business revenue increased by 2% led by higher subscription and services revenue within life Sciences product family as well as the web assigns group.
The intellectual property group revenue for the second quarter, excluding divestitures increased 2% to $93 million at constant currency driven by the dots IP acquisition.
Organic business revenue for the IP group decreased by less than 1% a subscription revenue growth was partly offset by another company muck such volumes and IP services revenue.
On a reported basis IP group revenue declined 12% due primarily to the divested products.
Adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter increased $27 million for 37% to $100 million compared to the prior year period.
This is driven by the increase in revenue and strong margin flow through contributions from acquisitions portfolio rationalization as well as the benefits of the cost saving initiatives.
Our adjusted EBITDA margin improved by almost 600 basis points to 36.2% as compared to 30.2% in last year's second quarter.
Other operating income was $9 million in the second quarter, an increase of $2 million for 33% compared to last year's quarter second quarter. The change was primarily related to a gain in foreign currency exchange this quarter compared to a loss in the prior year period.
For the second quarter of 2020, we recorded a benefit to income tax expense of $5 million versus an expense of $4 million in last year's second quarter.
The primary driver is the difference in the timing of direct indicate recognition of profits and losses at the company's mix that jurisdictions to the industry and tax periods for the second quarters of 2019 and 2020.
[noise] cash taxes in the second quarter with $3 million compared to $7 million in the prior year period.
Primary drivers if that decrease with at USA income tax payments were deferred until July the 15% this year due to the caved pandemic.
While last year's second quarter included foreign jurisdiction tax payments made for tax years 2017 in 2018.
The second quarter adjusted net income was $17 million, an adjusted diluted EPS was 18 cents.
This represents a significant sequential increase compared to adjusted net income of $26 million, an adjusted EPS of seven cents for this years first quarter.
The weighted average number of for the diluted shares outstanding used in the adjusted EPS calculation increased by 28 million shares to 395 million shares compared to this year's first quarter.
The increase is mainly due to including the food share count versus weighted share count for the issuance of shares.
Related to the acquisition of DRG in Q1, and the exercise of public Lawrence in exchange for ordinary shares in the first quarter.
Capital expenditures were $33 million for the second quarter. The increase over last year is due primarily to an acceleration of product development with significant cadence of new releases per renovated products more time spent an application development as a result of coated I'd say that for a high proportion of time is capital.
Realized together with the addition of DRG.
Cash and cash equivalence was $609 million as at June 30th an increase of $300 million from the March 31st Twentytwenty period.
The increase was primarily driven by $304 million a proceeds from the June ordinary share issuance.
Adjusted free cash flow was $42 million for the quarter compared to a use of cash of $9 million in last year's second quarter.
The year over year improvement to $51 million is due primarily to $62 million increase in cash provided by operating activities in this year second quarter, partially offset by higher captive expenditures.
As of June 30th we had total gross debt of $1.95 billion net debt was $1.35 billion.
The underlying adjusted EBITDA, which we are required to report on a trailing 12 month basis pursuant to the reporting covenants contained in our credit agreement and indenture was $439 million.
Refer to our earnings release, all 10-Q for a reconciliation from net loss to adjusted EBITDA and from adjusted EBITDA to Standalone adjusted EBITDA.
With net debt of $1.35 billion on net leverage ratio improved from 4.7 times at the end of Q4 2019 to 3.1 times at the end of Q2, Twentytwenty driven by the increasing cash and Standalone adjusted EBITDA.
We ended the quarter with significant liquidity.
In addition to the $609 billion a cash on hand, we havent untapped revolver of $250 million in conjunction with closing the proposed transaction. The CP a global we are planning to use $400 million in cash to retire parts of our outstanding debt.
With that I'll now turn the call back to Jerry.
Thank you Richard before we open the line for questions. Let me reiterate how excited we are with the progress were making towards our long term profitable growth objective. The proposed combination with SCPA global will play a big role and getting us there even quicker.
I want to think all colleagues that clarity for continuing to go above and beyond in the face of the pandemic not only did we deliver solid results for the first half of the your we continued to make significant progress on many of our strategic initiatives, including to transform eight to transfer money to act.
Positions and we improved our colleague engagement customer delight scores lastly, while we moved our Investor day wants this year due to the health crisis, we've decided to move would again to November when we hope to have completed the proposed combination with CP a global this means that will be in a better position.
To further discuss the benefits of the combination our integration plans and provide the comps combined company outlook for 2020, we're now ready to take your questions. As a reminder, please limit yourself to one question then returned to the Q operator.
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Uh Huh Putney quit bought cranes. Please go ahead.
Thank you good morning, again guides or not I think the results are fairly straightforward I guess my question Jamie Moyer.
You've got all the moving pieces, thanks to Colgate, you've got DRG unsigned baggage Cabot CP Global VIP side. You know my question is you know looking from home like how are you able to handle all this can you just give us a cleveland, Ohio. The E. G acquisition has been going maybe as an example, too.
Kind of the capacity to handle all this.
Yeah. Great question, then I'll start have moved charter at that's a great example, the put that in perspective, we announced the closing of that as you'll remember on February 29.
And two weeks later, everybody was working for oil.
The integration is ahead of plan I'm very proud to have moved to our his team and the entire DRG team our cost savings are above target continued to be.
The revenues I, just couldn't be happier with and we've done it I think with a great integration team that moved Taro give you a couple of points on or just a minute and then we stay really close on top of things as we are doing and we'll continue to our productivity is the highest that I've ever seen it.
Good that giant why it is for me, but let's focus on what the boot shark and say what the progress on DRG great question.
So thank you Gerry yes the.
The integration of went very smoothly, we had a very experienced team had managing a that program.
As Joe He says it's being very smooth.
We've realized not only our cost synergies, but also our revenue synergies.
A fair amount of cross selling is also because the we've we've we benefit from there you know from clean up from the initiatives associated with that including obviously bring various products to market. So overall, it's gone very well and I think the unique aspect of what we do which is we provide information and data.
In fact with.
With yeah with the current situation does actually being a greater demand for digital engagement to online engagement data resources so that.
If any helped us to just say on the costs there.
Think spoke to our great question next question. Please.
Our next question comes from Seth Weber with RBC capital markets. Please go ahead.
Hey, good morning, guys I.
At the priests Hi, I appreciate the commentary about some of the new extensions or contract extensions and things. We got here in the in the quarter. I was wondering if you could just give us some more color on what you're seeing from specifically on the universities and the government side, because you know there I think there's some concerns out there that those end markets could be.
Okay.
Relatively softer here just didnt occur in the current dynamics. Thanks.
Yes, no great question I'll start moved Carl pick up and Richard will add a close this one off [laughter], we're really pleased with where we are operating.
For sure there are pressures on universities and government from a cost standpoint, our renewal rates are actually have slightly improved over last year at this point in that part of the world and that is just a reminder for everybody about 70% of our.
Annual subscription based renewals.
Occur in the first half so we've got a pretty good view of that motor and his team have stayed on top of that great work and we put in place about actually I guess three months ago, a team that Richard shares to make sure any changes on pricing request, our terms et cetera.
Out of that particular global market segment.
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Sure. Thanks, Gerry you.
Yeah, I mean, what we've seen in Twentytwenty.
I'm, particularly from the academic sector ahead is pretty much continuing to have primarily because I've ever the funding is already in place and much of the academic academic sector, particularly.
The after tax universities in academic centers, yeah, they have pretty sound funding structure as an imbalance and so cool and of course, we've got a view towards 2021.
And on a case by case that the JV said with 70 looking at where we can potentially len flexibility into second universities.
In terms of adjusting to a Kobe that also the post coded a potential scenarios, where certainly more online.
Engagement to make half of students more distance or distance learning or use of digital resources and so forth. So so with with obviously, but with the products and the data that we have we'll obviously continue to add to set that markets post Kobe, but for now we know we have.
We haven't really seen seen an impact.
Thanks look to arent, yet you're just cover the terms side the sector things.
Just a couple of the points on the unit on the University in Moccasin, Firstly to some of cost point, we Sal.
To the top 7000 research intensive universities around the world, We monitor usage and usage has been very very good Cherry This pandemic period.
Secondly.
The dollars allocated to current a products is a very small percent shipyard rule University buchi budgetary spend on risk on the information resources.
We are not a significant part of the rule.
But spend so we're not expecting that to be disruption. Consequently.
With respect to payment terms that Jerry was referencing we put a task force in place at the start of the pandemic.
Which was really essentially.
An enabler to allow sales to maintain the client relationship at any payments issues behind to buy a corporate team I have to say the number of instances we've got to manage through that mechanism is being very low enough front office sales organizations manage these relationships extremely well so we've not seen.
At this stage.
Disruption in that respect.
Thanks very much next question please.
Our next question comes from Ashwin.
Yes, I clearly see please go ahead.
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Hi, Jay how do you care to head on looked down good morning, and yeah. Congratulations on the performance.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm Cancun, primarily figured out how the enlightenment changed to the quarter. So perhaps looking at it from two angles, one you like Steve EVP of Science beta.
Make the new you I have you had it now opportunities through the quarter to get some some kind of you know initiated feedback.
Does the pricing benefit the pricing for that he'll come true.
You know as you press he sort of in aseptic broth has said it yeah. Thank goodness and then when you talk about you know.
Large contracts entered in June is that it because the environment has returned to a sampling stuff normalcy.
In June compared to April just trying to get some needed for how the quota share my sense progressed.
Great question I'll start I'll ask Jeff to comment on.
The new product introductions, and user interface et cetera, and I see and then look to our actually because we introduced a tremendous amount of new products in life science in Q2, so well covered I would say two or three it just as reminders for everybody.
We said that we reduced our midpoint of our revenue guidance by.
$30 million.
And just as a reminder, we said that million one.
30 to a billion won 30 billion won 50.
And I think it's important that that you remember we also said that we thought about 47, 48% of our revenue would be in the first half versus 52 in the second half we normally run.
Without.
The pandemic about 49 51 on the base business, what I'm not sure because I think it'll be helpful. For you that we made clear is that with the addition to DRG for one month and a day in the first quarter and in three months in the second quarter.
The the spike in the.
The second half of revenue comes from them running 40% first half, 60% second half. So if you thought about it I felt really good about where we ended up.
The the for for the first half.
And then I'll give a little more color and then turn it over to Jeff different simple way to think about it is if we were annualizing because I'm not sure we help make it clear if you annualize approximately a full Europe DRG at 220 million to revenue you would see that the second half.
Of their revenue would be 130 million.
So that then you should subtract from what the guidance. We've given you that gives you a pretty good view of why we got such high confidence in our core business in the second half the the the subscription rate question that you ask.
We feel really good about we said at the time.
The reduction that we.
We would reduce the midpoint of our revenue guidance by 30 million 25 million of that was on transactions and.
That that's turning out to be a reality, particularly Jeff I'll comment on that in a minute.
We think we'll see a bit of a pickup in the second half with that but we only had 5 million or frankly, it was a conservative estimate for Richard and I on the subscription base and I would say at this point, we couldn't be happier the renewals are solid.
And in actually on a year to date basis or the retention is up over 1% so that feels good Jeff.
Yes, sure. Thanks, Jerry I mean to comment on the environment first as Jerry said, we expected to see some softness, particularly in the transactional part of the IB IP business as a result, Toby and I would say that the softness that we saw was right in line with our expectation. So no surprises there we were really pleased in the first half with.
The underlying subscription strength, so we feel pretty confident that what we predicted at the end of the first quarter for the year is gonna be exactly what's going to happen with a recovery starting in Q3, and and hopefully accelerating beyond that I'm on the product side, I mean with Q GQ the work from home in the environment.
Really hasn't slowed us down at all we completed the darts IP integration with coffee Mark right at the end of Q1, we completed the integration with drilling at the end of Q2.
We were able to make quite a bit of progress around adding data with the full text expansion into Darwin from 20 to 65 authorities that of course, we also had added.
Quite a bit of industrial design content to GM dosing, we continue to focus on the user experience for our customers and we'll continue to do that in second half and we continue to focus on our data initiatives to improve and expand the scope of our content across the products and we feel pretty good.
Thanks moved car.
Yeah based on messenger pay I think what we've enjoyed in Q2 is certainly an increasing.
In end user adoption right across our sweet, particularly.
In web assigns and some without of course as a the move towards distance learning and no loved the university sending their students. So so that that uptick was what's that mean noticeable for us in line to our product releases, particularly in the core tell us suites we've.
Hey, Nick or an increase in not only adoption, but also in subscription.
Our retention has increased in.
Costs across the core tell us a suite in particular.
We would at least a number of web sites a improvements, including the you I. We had the 2020 version of the Chessen channel citations of course that we released and so you know I'm not sure doesn't take more time to adopt so what were expecting all the survey a response to those in a in Q3.
Beyond as our customers can enjoy.
The benefits from that some of those particular releases.
Then on the DRG side. We've we've we've also seen great success here in Q2, particularly with the analytics business and the various products that a company.
That particular suite and that's in line with obviously all of our integration efforts said that we talked at the outset took this coal would DRG as we bought you know that business pretty in line to all of our product management and product launch.
Practices.
Thanks, Mark Tarr, Thanks, Jeff Ashwin, Great question I hope that helps clarify why we've got such confidence and delivering the second half next question. Please.
Got it seems like to ask a question. Please press Star then one our next question comes from and U. Nicholas with William Blair. Please go ahead.
Hi, Good morning. This is actually Trevor Oneone Tran drew thank you for taking my question here.
Just wanted to answer that one on the.
On the IP business in light of the acquisition, you announced yesterday SCPA that that business is becoming a bigger piece of the total pie.
So I was just wondering how you think about the market growth for the IP business broadly I think you've talked about potentially double digits for life Sciences overtime, just wondering what might be a comparable type growth outlook for for the IP segment. Thank you great. Great question I'll have Joe comment on that.
If you a couple of the key statistics is the growth and patents in the growth and trademark inquiries, but the patent growth the.
Jeff Please comment on it because it's pretty remarkable.
Yes, so we like the underlying strength in the market I mean, you're seeing patents grow roughly 6% year on year.
And you're seeing a what I guess I would call the democratization of innovation, where you're seeing a much larger spread of companies filed pads. So it's not dominated by just a larger players in each particular market. We think that creates a an incredible amount of opportunity for us in the IP market and particularly with the new mix of products that we expect to enjoy.
By the fourth quarter. The other thing that's always important to note what we're talking about the IP group is the underlying data and we've been doing a lot of work.
Decouple that data.
From the platform so that we can leverage the data.
In one of the data as a service program to serve in particular needs a particular vertical markets.
Data has a lot of value within IP that has a lot of value.
That were not necessarily equally attractive yet. So we can we think we can get a pretty aggressive growth rate on the basis of all of those things.
Thanks, Jeff Great question next question. Please.
Our next question comes from two inch Tom with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Hi, Thanks, Good morning, I wanted to dive deeper into the potential growth impact of the acquisition of SCPA. Following this acquisition. Jerry can you provide an update on what your aspiration to organic revenue growth target is exiting 2021 and by 2023.
Great question. So two things in November will give you really Chris guidance and look forward to that out into the future Oh, obviously based on our expectation to close early fourth quarter her sooner.
With the with the addition of a great.
Business.
Couple of things, what we have said.
Was that we expected to Richard and I, just a reminder for everybody actually January 14th 2019.
We said, we expected to close 2020 between 4% to 6% organic.
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Revenue growth, we feel very good about that target.
If anything if you included organic growth and DRG, which we won't but if you included that it would be even higher at the at the top end of that we also said then the last year that are Investor day that we expected to close a run rate of 68%.
Organic growth as we exit 20.
20.
2021, and we'll do that I think what you should be thinking about is as you heard us think life science should be growing double digits high degree of confidence that does do all of us that that'll happen, we'll give you much clearer guidance on what we expect the with the addition.
One of a CPGA in November and will also lay out to your question George at 2020 to exit rate into 2023 on organic growth.
Free cash flow.
And for sure.
An exciting number of EBITDA margins. So I think we'll do I have got such great confidence in this team I think we'll be at the upper end of the 6% to 8% organic growth as we exit a 2021. Thank you great question next question. Please.
Our next question comes from back coming with B. Riley FBR. Please go ahead.
Yeah, Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my question you guys. Just yeah, just talking about the pricing even in a difficult environment. It sounds like you were still able to actually increase prices here as I was hoping you can just give a little more detail around kind of that I guess the reception to the price increases and your ability to continue to.
See that move upward out the environment continues to improve from from the tough conditions here in Q2.
Great question I'll have Richard add color and just the second.
We just had our first half report on an annual report on pricing.
For the year felt very good about that we had said last year that we hope to be north of 3% with price realization. We're very much on track with that we had a great meeting in the last week or two with a with a boat tar, Jeff Richard myself and others and.
We'll be loading as we've said consistently.
Our renewal.
At renewal information somewhere north of 4% expected growth and I think I don't use the word price.
Because I don't think of it that way I use the word of value increase and just for openers. If you think of everything we provide for annual subscription base, which you get at the beginning of the year versus what you continue to receive from US is the end of the years a significant enhancements when we talked about all the new products.
Et cetera, we've done so I feel very good one other quick comment then to Richard for color.
Our our feedback from the.
Customer delight scores is very consistent it's the highest scores I've ever seen in the value that our customers place in their work streams on our product offerings. So we want to continue to earn.
Kind of return and value recognition and we'll continue to make sure that we demonstrate with our sales force the increase value with the new products enhance timeliness et cetra Richard.
Yes, I think because jerry's coveted the <unk> in the items I would add is ER is actually related to currency and that is to us over 75% of all revenue streams octomom denominated.
And obviously dollars being relatively strong and so when it comes to price increases where we are invoicing in particular in emerging markets, where there's been currency devaluation against the dollar that's the one area, where we up ensuring that we obviously something on value but.
We think I had thought would be one everywhere, we would be like a bit more cautious and we factored that into our estimates for price increases for next year looking at the OS we were expecting a yield of at least 4% in 2021.
And as we said on previous calls we expect.
Equilibrium of price increases annual each but to be between four and 5%, but the one area that we that's the second we if we are focused on these emerging markets because it's all the strength.
Thanks, Richard Great question next question. Please.
Our next question comes from Snow.
With Stifel. Please go ahead.
Hey, guys couple of questions on TRG.
First could you tell specifically how much revenue DRG contributed in the quarter and then also can you comment on the progress of seemed to transition the revenue to over subscription base. Then Oh, you know kind of transactional based at that they had had a beforehand that was I'm going before you guys bought them.
That's a great question, let me help on the first part and then move to our and Richard give our views on how that back in fourth quarter load will shift was time into more annual subscription base just to take take it this way.
If we didn't have them for a full year. They would have delivered between 210 and 220 million of revenue 60% of that is in the second half. So simple way to think about it is make it easy 130 million or thereabouts in the second half had they been with us all.
Sure that means they would have been at 90 million in the first half they werent.
Because we had the them for four months, but so you can do that math, but the big thing is 60% comes in the fourth quarter in the second half with a big curve.
On the fourth quarter booked are you start Richard please pick it up great question. Thanks.
So I just just a point of clarification here I mean, we're talking about rig recurring revenue and not onetime transactional revenue and there isn't a difference between the two so recurring revenue.
Allows us to August make a engaging long term relationships with with customers and also a significant size as well so it's part of that shift.
You know we've started really taking a number of the assets, particularly bats customers you've seen our analytical tools and software products in particular and by shifting goes out of the 2% to 100% cloud subscription then we'll continue with that effort as we.
Build out the products and we Productized those Davis used cases, so over time, we'll see some of that recurring revenue shift does that to cloud subscription, but subsidies in Q3 in Q4, we certainly expect to continue with that with a real push out on bringing in a lot of the commitments around those re occurring.
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Yes, so in terms of the contribution from DRG.
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In the press you can see that we bifurcate the revenue growth between acquisitions divestitures.
Organic growth in FX. So you can you can see it in the in the supporting documentation in the Q.
And I think.
The other thing I'd comment on that they actual last year all him for DRG was 207 million. The hypothetical I gave you is not a big growth. So there's room for that too, but use the actuals and you'll see how it plays out that's why we have such huge comp on its in the second half delivery as well.
Given you the annual guidance.
I think we're done with the questions at this point.
And I would suggest that we.
We look forward to any one on ones as we go forward worked very very pleased with the results and as we said yesterday it really excited about having the the good fortune to add DRG Route and then we hope as quickly as weekend with SCPA Lisa.
Our two amazing assets that puts us as world leaders in two of the greatest businesses that there is the only one that tracks innovation from the beginning to the real results of reality with innovation. So very pleased very excited I'm very proud of our team in the amazing work.
They continue to do and I think you off for your interest and participation. Thanks operator.
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