Q1 2022 WideOpenWest Inc Earnings Call
Good morning, My name is Regina and I will be your conference operator today at this time I would like to welcome everyone to the wide open West first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to add.
Ask a question during this time simply press Star then the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question Press Star One again I would now like to turn the conference over to Andrew Posen, Vice President head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us for our first quarter 2022 earnings call with me today is Teresa elder Wow, 's, Chief Executive Officer, and John Rego, whilst Chief Financial Officer.
Well, we get started I would like to remind everyone that during our call. We will make some forward looking statements about our expected operating results our business strategy and other matters relating to our business.
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In addition.
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Reconciliations between GAAP non-GAAP metrics for our historical results can be found in our earnings releases and our trending schedules, which can be found on our website.
We have also included a presentation this morning.
Complement our prepared remarks, now I'll turn the call over to wireless Chief Executive Officer Teresa Elder.
Thanks, Andrew welcome to Wow's first quarter earnings call our.
Our business has that not to a great start in 2022 picking up right, where we left off at the end of last year.
Successfully executing our plan to grow our high speed data business.
We have shared our path forward in the outlining the steps, we're taking to get there and expanding our footprint through continued edge outs greenfield expansion and the increasing the contribution from our commercial business I'm pleased to report, we're making progress on all three fronts and they are beginning to show up in.
Our results.
For the first quarter, our high speed data revenue increased nearly 4% on a pro forma basis, while video and telephony revenue declined 14% and 11% respectively from the same period last year.
Our pro forma adjusted EBITDA increased nearly 8% to $66 4 million driven largely by the growth in our high margin high speed data business.
The pro forma adjusted EBITDA margin was 38% for the quarter.
The metrics in our high speed data business also continued to show strength during the first quarter. We added 3300 high speed data RG is bringing our total number of HST RG use two 515000.
With consistent levels of low churn, we once again increased the total number of subscribers both year over year and sequentially ending the quarter with 535000.
Our focus on adding H S. The only customers also continues to pay off as we have once again maintained a sell in rate of approximately 87% of new customers purchasing our HST only service for the seventh consecutive quarter.
Consistent with last quarter, a majority of new customers are buying speeds above 500, Meg and 85% of new customers are buying speeds over 200 Meg.
High speed data or <unk> of $65 is up marginally from the same period last year, but slightly lower than last quarter.
The year over year increase predominantly reflects customers purchasing higher data speeds, while the sequential decline was driven by an increase in promotions in the first quarter.
Our edge out strategy continues to deliver growth in homes passed and higher penetration rates panic.
Penetration for the 'twenty 'twenty vintage increased to 23, 5% and the 'twenty 'twenty. One then edge grew to 35%.
We are pleased with the growth of our edge out vintages, which continued to be increasingly productive as we said before we believe the performance from our edge out investments reflect the strength of our core business and supports our confidence in our ability to grow penetration quickly and future Greenfield.
That's the.
This morning in a separate press release, we announced that we are doubling our greenfield expansion plans for homes passed to 400000 by 2027.
A 21% increase to our current footprint.
And now expect to invest a total of 400 million as a part of this process.
The increase reflects the momentum we're seeing in central Florida, where we identified an additional 50000 homes and our latest Greenfield market Greenville County, South Carolina, where we plan to add nearly 30000 homes passed.
The combined success of our efforts in Central Florida, and South Carolina led us to increase our investment plans and long term targets, which John will review in his comments.
We are also quickly moving forward with our entrance into the mobile market with while mobile powered by reach we are on target to officially launch the offering in one of our southern markets. Later this month, followed by an enterprise wide launch earlier in the third quarter.
We're excited to provide our customers additional flexibility to stay connected on a reliable no contract cell phone plan with unlimited talk and text.
Our partnership with reach enables one to quickly enter the mobile market with minimal operational or developmental work on our part we believe this additional service offering will further enhance customer acquisition and retention, while providing a great service that our customers have been looking for two.
To conclude I'm pleased with our first quarter results the strong start to the year and our significantly increased expectations of our greenfield plants well.
<unk> 2021 and capped off a significant transformation of the company 2022 is the beginning of the next stage of our continued growth through the execution of our broadband first strategy as a low leverage high growth company. We're excited about the opportunity in front of us as we drive further growth.
And our organic footprint, including both residential and commercial customers and expanding our footprint through self funding Greenfield builds now I'll turn the call over to John who will go over our financial results in more detail.
Thanks Teresa.
Our first quarter delivered solid results as we continue to execute on our broadband first strategy.
Make progress on the opportunities ahead.
In the first quarter.
Total revenue declined to three 8% to $174 6 million, reflecting a three 6% increase in high speed data revenue more than offset by declines in video and telephony, which decreased 13, 8% and 11, 3% respectively.
The growth in HST revenue is predominantly driven by the addition of new customers as well as existing customers buying higher speed tiers, which has pushed our pro forma adjusted EBITDA up seven 8% from the same period last year to $66 4 million.
On the next slide.
Continue to see our incremental contribution margin increased on a year over year basis as a result of the favorable shift in our base to HST only customers.
Incremental contribution margin increased 520 basis points from the same period last year, but modestly declined from last quarter largely due to the first quarter annual programming rate increase for our video subscribers.
Margin expansion paired with operational cost efficiencies has driven our pro forma adjusted EBITDA margin to 38%.
Okay.
Now for a progress update on our cost structure alignment following the divestiture of the five service areas.
As of the first quarter, we cut an additional $1.4 million out of the business, bringing our total savings to $10 7 million. This.
This represents approximately 30% of the $35 million, we identified for reduction over the next few years.
These reductions in our cost of primarily from a decrease in head count as well as costs incurred in services related to the TSA is as part of the divestitures.
The latter are also reflected in our SG&A as we continue to incur the expense, but a reimbursable costs, which are presented in other income we're encouraged by the pace of the reductions in our cost base.
We ended the quarter with total cash of $197 million and total outstanding debt of $751 2 million, resulting in a pro forma leverage ratio of two six times adjusting for cash held for taxes related to the transactions.
Approximately $140 million of taxes were paid in April which will be reflected in our second quarter financials.
In the first quarter.
Our capex from continuing operations decreased by $1 9 million from the same period last year to $42 1 million.
This improvement is primarily due to decreased spend of CPE and service enhancements offset by investments made in expansion Capex, primarily supporting the growth of our commercial opportunities.
If you look at the right side of the slide our first quarter results for Unlevered adjusted free cash flow, which we define as pro forma adjusted EBITDA less capex increased to $24 3 million up $6 7 million from the same period last year setting a path to fund the ramp of Greenfield investments later this.
Year.
Finally, before we open up the call for questions I want to talk about our updated long term targets and our outlook for the second quarter.
This morning, we announced that we are doubling our plans for the Greenfield expansion to 400000 homes passed by 2027.
We will be able to fund this growth utilizing cash from operations and do not anticipate having to increase our leverage we're really pleased with the progress we've been making in executing our greenfield plans and the speed with which we have identified our future markets will be increasing the amount of allocated capital from 200 million to $400 million.
As a result of this increased investment we're also updating and increasing the long term targets that we set at our Investor day, Although our expansion capital expectations for this year will not change the average annual spend for 2023 to 225 will increase to slightly more than $100 million per year.
We now expect the CAGR for HFC revenue to be between 11% and 12% up from the previous target of 9% to 10%.
CAGR for total revenue will increase to 2.5% to 3% up from 1% to one 5% and the CAGR for adjusted EBITDA will increase to 10% to 11% up from 8% to 9%.
Now I would like to discuss our outlook for the second quarter and full year, we expect <unk> revenue to be between 104, and 107 million total revenue to be between 177 and $180 million and adjusted EBITDA to be between 68% and $71 million. We also expect HFC net additions to be between 1002.
For the full year, we're maintaining the guidance, we set last quarter with HFC revenue expected to be between 427% and $430 million total revenue to between to be between 708 and $711 million and pro forma adjusted EBITDA to be between 281 and 208.
The $4 million.
We also continue to expect HFC net adds to be between 14 and 17000 for the year.
Across these metrics are in line with today's updated long term targets.
In closing this was another strong quarter for Wow, we're thrilled about the growth ahead as we continue to make good progress in executing our broadband first strategy expanding on our momentum and delivering strong results and now we would like to open up the line for questions.
As a reminder to ask a question simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. Our first question will come from the line of Scott gun morale with RBC capital markets. Please go ahead.
Great. Thanks, good morning. Thanks.
Thanks for taking my questions.
You if I could first on broadband subscriber trends can you talk a bit more about the underlying dynamics you saw in Q1, and what's driving your expectations for the one to 2000 net adds in <unk> and perhaps most importantly based on your guidance whats, giving you the confidence that you can see the acceleration from there.
First half of the year into the back half of the year.
And then just on the Greenfield expansion plans I think it is.
Encouraging to see the ramp investment and doubling unexpected homes passed from 200 to 400000 at the Analyst Day last December you had already somewhat signal that you could envision a path to expanding homes passed with greenfields to 400000 or more so presumably back then you had some sense that there is scope to increase your.
So I guess the question is as you look ahead would you expect to stay at the 400000 range or are you in this constant state of evaluating additional markets, which might result in continued increases in the total target. Thanks.
Thanks, Scott I'll go ahead and start off first of all on broadband subscribers. We were very encouraged by what we saw out of the gate in the first quarter.
This was a significant uptick from what we saw in the fourth quarter last year and I think what we're really seeing is how well wow can be Pete in the marketplace for what customers are looking for which of course is our speed and our reliability, but also making sure we have that strong value we provide a choice.
The other alternatives in the market and we do that really by being easy to do business with and that really shows itself by not having contracts the ability to have self install and many of our installations are also same day. So those really resonate with the customers in the marketplace. So that's why I think.
Where some of the drivers.
Why customers come to Wow as we look at the second quarter I really believe that we're starting to return to some normal seasonality in second quarter in our industry. If you go back a couple of years back when things were a bit more than normal.
Second quarter would usually stepped down a bit as kids come home from school backup in with parents and so we think that normal seasonality is more likely to happen we have confidence in the second half of the year once again because of that seasonality, but also because of the way that wow competes in the.
Places like I mentioned, we also are seeing with the addition of our mobile launch that happens.
And later this month and then rolling out to more markets. Later this year that will give us added competitiveness. We're also continuing to see more green shoots on the commercial side of the business.
And I really believe as we launch more new products in the commercial space as well all the other things really give us confidence for our full year numbers.
So.
Then turning to Greenfield. The second question that you have there we are encouraged by what we're seeing and decided to step up to the 400000 homes passed by 2027 Youre right. We did say that we were thinking about that back on Investor day, and everything that we've seen in the market has just reinforced what.
<unk> decision that will be and I would certainly point to the great penetration growth that we're seeing in the edge outs, especially the most recent vintage 2021.
Right now what we're trying to do is continue to plant greenfield it through our free cash flow and we think 400000 homes passed feels about right for that but certainly we'll always be opportunistic and continue to look further than John is there anything else you'd like to add on that yes, sure. So I mean again the idea here is that we.
We funded from the cash flow the business can produce.
On the other side of the boundary is this concept of leverage so as you recall from Investor Day, I suggested the board sort of mandated that we never go above three five times.
We're at two six times now so if there were some amazing opportunity that we could think about it then but for now.
We're looking at 400000 homes and we'll we'll fund the build out of that from the cash that we generate.
Okay. Thank you both that's very helpful and if I could just sneak in one more on maybe M&A.
You clearly had a very transformative 2021 with asset sales.
Do you see additional opportunities in todays environment for any sort of M&A.
You know right now we are just so excited and focused on running the business executing on the plans we have in our organic footprint as well as what we're doing with Greenfield. So we're just excited by what's ahead for awhile.
Okay.
That's great. Thank you.
Your next question will come from the line of <unk> Levi with UBS. Please go ahead.
Great. Thank you two questions on the cost side can you talk about.
What youre seeing in the current environment and the impact of inflation in the business versus your expectations.
And two other cost items potentially the ramp up in mobile cause is there way to quantify and when do you think that will peak.
And any plans to accelerate the exit of the video service. So that we can see the ramping could you.
Division margin even more thank you.
Sure.
John and I will tag team on this back yes. Thanks for the question first of all on inflation I would say.
Our cost I feel like we maintain extremely well and John talked a little bit about some of the costs. We're taking out of the business overhead as well that allows us to continue to have very attractive prices for our customers and be the best value in the marketplace.
On the mobile carts I'll talk about that briefly touch on each of your questions and hand, it over to John but on mobile the ways that we're getting into the mobile business is really.
Very low cost low operational impact to us we're working with our partner reach mobile who is doing their core business, which is a lot of the heavy lifting for us. So it really is not a big cost to us that allows us for another service to our customers that they're asking us for.
And trust us to provide so I think it's very positive the way that we've approached that and then finally I'm taking a video cost out of the business has been a core strategy of Wow. Since we went with the strategy of broadband first at the beginning of 2020 and customers of their own volition or I'm continuing to cut.
The video cord and buying bigger broadband packages, that's why over 50% of our new customers are now buying 500, Meg services and looking at streaming services. So that trend is continuing as customers shift to more broadband and away from video that decreases costs in our business.
With that said, we still continue to provide video services to those customers, who want to have a pay TV or curated service and there are costs that go up from the programmers and we do have to pass on those costs John Yes.
Just jumping quickly touch on the mobile piece.
The way this is structured for a modest for a modest amount of money. We set up the program with reach there are no ongoing costs, it's a rev share.
As we start to see this come in in Q2, we will launch in the end of this month.
We will be just booking our Rev share into the other revenue line items. So theres no no specific cost that's associated with that.
I think that's one on the inflation intact, I mean, I'm sure inflation impacts everything interestingly enough, there's a lot of government programs.
Out there that will give people some relief so it hasn't really negatively impacted us at this time, but you know certainly where were breath of the issue of how people on top of it.
Okay, great. Thank you maybe just a quick follow up on the Capex commentary you gave can you just clarify is your expected pacing to be pretty linear exiting this year as you doubled.
Footprint.
Just if you could go through.
Sort of Capex targets over the next few years.
Yes, so I think the answer the first part of that is yes, I think after we get through this year it should be the pace should be more linear because this is the first greenfield here the bulk of that sort of expansion capex, which we pegged it excuse me $80 million for this year is going to come in the second half of the year as we start to do the building. The first part of the year with Greenfields would look.
Identifying the properties and doing some of the upfront permitting and all of that kind of stuff.
When we look at the <unk>.
Capex going forward the three year average spend on Capex is going to be approximately $225 million on average per year of which about 104 hundred $5 million of that will be for growth growth here is greenfield plus edge out plus commercial and the biggest part of growth will be greenfield and that will be more linear as.
We as we go forward because the properties have been identified and the crews can start doing what they have to do.
A final one for me do.
Do you do you see any opportunity to talking to state funds as you build.
Greenfield.
Yeah, we.
We aren't targeting those areas as our top criteria. So certainly we will be opportunistic of some of those arise, but we're sticking to the criteria in those areas, where we know we can be most successful and penetrate the customer base and really provide customers with an alternative rapidly.
Okay. Thank you so much.
Thanks, Patrick.
Your next question will come from the line of Frank Louthan with Raymond James. Please go ahead.
Great. Thank you.
Talk a little bit about competition in the market. There is a concern in the market increased competition from new entrants is going to drive pricing down and impairing terminable schools.
<unk> been in the business of taking share from cable for over two decades I wanted to see what you think of this and you give us an idea of how much pricing changes and you enter a market what you're modeling for our appealing interest what do you see in the real world from incumbents from a pricing perspective, when you when you come into the market.
Yeah. Thanks for the question Frank we you're right, it's really been the DNA of Wow for 22 years, we've been in business to be the challenger brands and come in and really.
Give customers a choice to have much more competition in the marketplace.
We have value pricing that is generally a bit lower than the others that are in the marketplace and that resonates with customers, but what really has customers stick with us and why we have such low churn or the speed the reliability and the suite of services that we have along with how easy we are to date.
Business with and that's what keeps customers are with us. So when we go into a new market, what's nice about the.
Revisions, we've done to our billing systems consolidating down to one billing system. We now have the capability of being even more hyper local with pricing and with packages to make sure that we can be competitive whatever the dynamics are of the local market as we look at Greenfield, we're going into markets that have.
Traditionally not had so much competition and so we'll be bringing that new dynamic.
I can't say that we've seen in for example in January has really a lot of immediate reaction from competitors coming in.
But the nice thing about why was that we can always be nimble if that arises does that answer your question Frank.
Yes, that's good.
And you say you come in a little cheaper I mean does that.
Two or 3% cheaper or 20% cheaper what do you think you need to do to get People's attention.
Thank God I mean, it sounds like it's more of an offering and service.
Today's decision, but where can you be a little bit more specific on the pricing front.
Yeah, I'd say you know it varies because pricing is always dynamic with promotions and all the different things that are out there, but I'd say, we're probably 5% to 10% cheaper usually.
We make sure we're competitive with the offerings with the service with everything it's the whole bundle.
Okay, Yeah, so don't have contracts and to be clear, we don't require customers to bundle with video, which most of our competitors too.
Right.
Okay.
Alright, Thank you mhm. Thanks.
Thanks.
Your next question will come from the line of Brandon <unk> with Keybanc capital markets. Please go ahead.
Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the questions. A couple of quick ones you talked about some <unk> pressure from promotions sequentially. This quarter can you maybe outline how you expect HST our boutique trend throughout the rest of the year and then maybe on that point.
You make a point to call out your mix of 200, Meg and above customers curious if you could share what your gigabit selling is today and how you see that trending over the course of the year and maybe over the next couple of years. Thanks.
Thanks Brandon.
Yes on HST RPC, yeah, it was down a bit sequentially and really that's because of some of these competitive promotions that we're doing really trying to gain share and we're a share taker in the marketplace. So that is one thing with all the advertising that goes on about broadband promotions that all of our competitors do.
It causes customers to look around and see what alternatives are out there and that's good for us because we always compete very well when I look ahead for HST are tuned for the rest of the year I think it will probably start to pick up again, I'm a bit as we see them.
Uh huh customers continuing to take those higher speeds and as you pointed out we are having over 50% now of our customers their new customers, taking the 500 Meg service and many of those are taking one gig, we usually don't call that number out specifically, but it's.
Most of our customers now are 200, Meg and above and then the majority over 50% are taking 500, Meg and we just like to keep moving them onto it so they have that great customer experience.
John anything else you want to add because I know, there's some accounting rules in there that.
Make it <unk> change a bit sometimes too.
Yes, it's around the World. We are also always fighting the ASC 606 complicated calculations, which did have an impact a modest effect on our approved but yes. It's been predominantly some promotional activity nutso number down a bit but from where we're sitting right now it looks like we have a chance to stabilize and start going up again.
Thank you.
Your next question will come from the line of Dan <unk> with B Riley Securities. Please go ahead.
Yes. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for taking my questions. This morning.
Luke just given you're so early in this greenfield build.
And you've really ramped it up here, maybe if you could just give us a little more detail on what it was that you've seen so far or any data points or just general commentary on what you've seen with your existing Greenfield that led you to to double it.
Sure I'm happy to talk about that Dan.
So our criteria when we first launched Greenfield and started talking about it back at the end of last year is that we really looked across the whole continental U S looked at markets with good population demographics as well as a less competitive interest industry dynamic and intensity in those markets and then.
We overlaid with that our understanding of the cost to build our assumptions on <unk> and our penetration in all of this is with a targeted IRR in mind. So those are the kind of broad based criteria that we use as we've looked more closely and gotten to know the community of Orange County, and Seminole County.
In Florida, better and really understood the mix of households, there we were thrilled to be able to say Wow. There's another 50000 homes passed that we'd be delighted to serve in this market. So that takes that market alone up to 150000. In addition, we really were impressed by the <unk>.
<unk> Greenville County, South Carolina, and are delighted to add them to our mix as well. So that's 180000 homes passed that we've identified already and as we look down our list of opportunities. We just see a lot of opportunity right now I'd say, our biggest limiting factor is really.
How much we can do and stay with our criteria or funding it through free cash flow and staying under the leverage ratios that John was talking about.
But we're very encouraged by what we're seeing in the receptiveness within those local communities.
Great. Thank you and then.
It's been awhile since we got an update on the formerly EBV program now I think its the affordable connectivity program with the infrastructure Bill just any commentary on how you know.
Described as Youre trending from that program.
Yeah. Thanks for asking we're very excited about the affordable connectivity program and it's actually being highlighted today in Washington D. C. Here at the White House I'm actually in town for that today, and we've continued to see that program grow in offer customers who.
Who would have difficulty affording broadband a $30 subsidy per month, we now have over 11000 customers who are active on either the E. B b or a C. P program now and that's up 1500 since last quarter.
We overall have actually over 17000 customers that we have supported on this but some of those have now transitioned them via the two transactions. We did last year too astound and Breeze line. So those customers are now being cared for by those companies, but we definitely feel like this is a great program to make sure that the.
Digital divide isn't happening and that people can continue to work and learn from home as they need to.
Okay.
Awesome I appreciate you, taking the questions and I'll turn it over.
Thanks.
Your next question will come from the line of Matthew Harrigan with benchmark. Please go ahead.
Oh, thank you.
Sure. So I'm sure, they're not going to go through the before a while ago, the 50 or 60 variables or whatever.
But what's really come to surprise you I mean, clearly there's a large concentration in Florida in the sunbelt.
With Greenville, but are you are you.
We're running this suggests through self serve.
Logistic regression, where you draw some qualitative variables as well.
Onto the variables and if you've had.
Infinite capital from private equity.
Do you think there was just a really really broad suite of opportunities or even from your vantage point, even if it was like 10 or 15% of the U S. It would be.
Mirth opportunity, but do you really think that this is.
An opportunity for the picking across a really large.
None of the U S.
Market, maybe outside the largest metropolitan areas. Thank you.
Thanks, Matt.
Absolutely I believe that and our appetite aspirations are much bigger than what we're even talking here. We can definitely see many communities that have demographics and costs and a regulatory environment and all the things that we look at that would allow us to come in and be.
An alternative and a challenge to our operators and other markets and we feel like that would be very successful. So yes. We think the opportunity is much bigger than even the 400000 here, but you know we're going to be judicious and good stewards of the Capex that we have and make sure that we're getting the right return for our investor.
Along the way.
Perfect. Thank you.
Your next question will come from the line of Grant Jocelyn with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.
Good morning, two questions for me first this year, we've seen some broadband providers switch from year, one promo pricing followed by a year to step up over the simpler pricing with.
Higher initial price, but no step up for you too is the kind of permanent step up pricing contracts still the right model for a while.
And then second I was wondering is AT&T U verse price increase this month, an opportunity for you to try and literally some of that customer base. Thanks.
Well, thanks grant for the questions.
We have a variety of promotions and just very solid value everyday pricing as well for our customers. So the promotions vary a lot by competitor by market and so it is very but we generally provide great value for our customers throughout the duration of their time with us and I think that's.
Evidenced by how low our churn has been at record lows. It stayed low customers come to Wow, and then just stay with us for the long term in terms of AT&T. We compete against AT&T. Every day. So you know every change they may make or a price increase certainly it gives us just yet.
Another reason that we can learn those customers away and take share. So certainly all of those things give us an opportunity and Wow is very nimble and agile and really understands what each of our competitors are doing in each of our markets and make sure that we know what our alternative for those customers.
Or to be able to bring them over to Wow.
Makes sense. Thanks, so much.
At this time I will turn the conference back over to Teresa elder for any closing remarks.
Yes.
Thanks, so much.
We really appreciate all of you joining us this morning, and thank you for your continued interest and support of Wow Hope everyone has a great day.
Ladies and gentlemen that does conclude today's call. Thank you all for joining you may now disconnect.
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