Q2 2022 Kaleyra Inc Earnings Call
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Good afternoon. Welcome to Kaleria's second quarter 2022 earnings conference call. After the market closed, Kaleria released unaudited results for the second quarter and the June 30, 2022. The press release as well as a replay of today's call can be found on the company's investor relations website at investors.kaleria.com. Please review the release for additional information on what will be discussed today. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode.
After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. Joining us today are Claris founder and chief executive officer, Dario Collerero, chief financial officer, Yakumo Dologbio, and VP of Ingressor Relations, calling Gilles.
Following their remarks, we will open the call for your questions.
I would now like to turn the call over to Cylorus, VP of Investor Relations, Colin Gillis. Sir, please proceed.
Thank you.
Before we begin, we would like to remind everyone that during today's call, management will be making forward-looking statements.
Please refer to the company's SEC filings, including the company's annual report on the Form 10-K , for a summary of the forward-looking statements and the risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those forward-looking statements.
Clare Acosta's investor is not to place undue reliance on any forward looking statements. The company does not undertake and specifically disclaims any obligation to update or revise the statement to reflect new circumstances or unanticipated events that occur except as required by law.
Throughout today's press release and on the call, we'll refer to adjusted gross profit margin, adjusted eva doth, and adjusted earnings per share. Adjusted eva doth, and adjusted earnings per share.
These metrics are not determined in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles and therefore are susceptible to varying calculations.
A definition, calculation, and reconciliation to the financial statements of these non-GAAP measures can be found in the tables included in our press release.
We believe these non-GAAP measures of Calera's financial results provide useful information regarding certain financial and business trends and the results of operations. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Dario for an overview of Calera's second quarter. Dario?
Thank you, Colin. Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. As usual, for those of you who may be new to our story, I'll begin with the briefs of the duos of our business.
Calayra is a communication platform as a service provider. And at a high level, we provide our global partner base with an only channel suite of powerful APIs and visual tools to bridge the communication divide between brands and the cost in customers.
Brands often face coverage gaps when trying to communicate with their customers, especially industries that require security and must prioritize the liability, such as financial institution and healthcare.
Our mission is to build the lasting business to customer relationships for our partner brands across channels and to do so while providing service that our clients can trust.
We reiterate our growth strategy relies on three main pillars.
One.
We're focused on the own expanding our geogurathic and fruitful things.
Collegiate revenues comes from global customer and this priority for us to both expand the new geographies and maintain our by this global Grammily split.
It is our view that the cheapest market has all the mainstream fragmented and under-prinestrated many parts of the war.
And we have well-positioned to meet Cipa's demand in under severed areas.
After last year's expansion into American market through the English infrastructure, we continue to have around the third of all our venues. We are going to have around the third of all our venues. We are going to have around the third of all our venues. We are going to have around the third of all our venues. We are going to have around the third of all our venues. We are going to have around the third of all our venues.
From each of the Americas around 41%, Europe around 28% in the area around 32%
A favorable balance that makes Calera one of the most prominent and geographically diverse C-Pass companies in the world.
2. We will continue to judiciously invest in our own channels with ourselves.
It is our goal to meet our partners on whichever channels they require to best connect with their customers.
As video and vice communication for Liferite Globally, expanding inter-new communication streams remains an important area of investment for our team.
And lastly, we remain committed to secure, reliable and trusted service.
Our business drives in industries that have the highest standard of security for their communications with their consumers.
Banks, financial institutions, healthcare, etc.
all need to be able to trust that their interactions with consumers
are handled with the utmost security and consistency.
Calera delivers on that in a way that no other industry player does.
While others strive for partner volume, we know that our expertise in trusted seepers influences customer retention. And that with the right partners, disinar language and excel.
While our diverse geographic mix concentrated investment in our omnichannel platform is secure service, we believe we have a real opportunity to scale and realize our long-term vision of being a trusted global CIPAS provider for our partners.
Our Chief Financial Officer, Jaco Maldonado, will discuss our financial results for the quarter shortly. But before I end over the call, I'd like to look up a few recent highlights from our second quarter.
I start with a financial overview.
Our second quarter revenue was 81.1 million, up 50% from the same comparable year ago period, and in line with our revenue estimate.
From a profitability perspective, we are encouraged that we were able to exceed the expectation and do so.
while continuing to invest in business in our growth strategy.
For example, our second quarter gross profit and adjusted gross profit were 18.7 million and 20.2 million, a 78% and an 82% increase from last year's Q2 respectively.
while our adjusted the BDA increased over 177%.
from the prior year period, from 2.2 million to 6 million.
In addition, our cash and cash equivalent position remains strong at over $74 million and our key metrics significantly improved as well with our adjusted gross margin at 25% compared to 20.6% in the prior year period.
Also, the campaign registry continued to outperform, posting its first million dollar month and finishing with over 4 million in revenue in our second quarter with high profitability.
While we don't plan to update campaign registry results every quarter, the campaign registry continues to be a key aspect of our trusted CPA software.
We remain committed to driving significant shareholder value both through the campaign registry as well as the rest of the business over the long term.
Moving to some of our key operating metrics, in the second quarter we delivered 13.4 billion available messages and connected 1.8 billion voice calls.
In our largely volume-based business, this reflects our ability to leverage the benefits of scale and is an area in which we hope to drive continued growth in the future.
In Q2, our dollar-based net expansion rate was 103% calculated based on pro forma revenue from the same customer base in the corresponding year-old comparable period.
Moving to our operational highlights. In the second quarter with.
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We also announced two key appointments in personal.
First, Zephyr Lasker has been appointed to the leadership team as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Alliances.
Zephyrine has a decorated career in messaging, e-commerce, digital marketing, and software as a service platforms, and will be instrumental in providing collaborative effort to expand within new existing markets.
Second, Colleen Gillis has been appointed as our Vice President of Investor Relations.
Colleen brings over a decade of industry experience from his time analyzing public and private companies as an equity research analyst.
In his new role, Collin has already started engaging with the investor community to expand and to elevate visibility into the company's operations, growth strategy and results.
I'd like to send a warm welcome to Jeffrey and Colleen, both of whom have already done tremendous work for Kanae.
Colleen is joining us today as well and I'd like to give him an opportunity to introduce himself.
colleing.
Thank you, Dario.
I joined Calera because I see a company with an attractive global customer base.
balanced revenue sources,
a strong management team
and a clear roadmap to help our clients connect with their customers.
What separates Clari from other companies
is the ability to provide a deep level of service to large enterprise companies.
In the latest investor presentation, we point out that 38.3% of revenue from the June quarter is related to our top 10 customers.
It's simple to understand that mobile usage is only going to increase.
and that brands are going to continue to expand the way they reach out to customers.
In closing, I want to mention I include my email address and all the financial press releases.
I welcome all communications and look to be a resource for existing and potential investors.
And with that, I'll pass it back to Dario to wrap up our operational highlights.
Thanks, Colin.
Moving on to product delivery, we co-developed a video interface with the Sant'Agostino Italian Healthcare Network to enable several of its clinics to offer remote assistance to patients.
These integrated product developments are increasingly popular among service providers and help fair existing operations with technical capabilities.
We look forward to continuing our partnership with Santagostino and the start to develop integrations such as this one across industries and channels in the coming quarters.
Kaleo's flexible omnichannel offering is one of our greatest strengths.
And this is an area in which we expect to continue investing during the back half of 2022.
Across our business,
We were able to achieve these results despite persistent headwinds faced during the quarter. We believe that the distinct short-term challenges in Brazil that we discussed last quarter have now passed.
However, additional overlapping geopolitical and macroeconomic factors influence the environment for many global companies.
When combined, these factors including a slowing global economy, recent market volatility, adverse effect on foreign exchange rates, and uncommonly high feed and energy costs,
caused in part by the war in Ukraine can affect our previously projected growth of 2022.
Specifically, two new phenomena stand out.
First, we continue to face significant foreign exchange advances, fueled largely by the ongoing geopolitical turmoil in Europe .
Although we are still free of direct exposure to Russia and Ukraine, and maintain a diverse geographic customer mix overall, nearly 30% of our revenue comes from within the European countries and many of those contracts are transacted in euros.
We saw increased volatility within the foreign exchange rate market in the past few months. That's enough when compared to the last year Q2 exchanges.
This year's revenue was reduced by nearly 3.5 million in the second quarter.
This impact, when calculated on a pro forma basis relating engaged perimeter, was laid to our European revenues being worth nearly 15% less in 2022 than in 2020.
It was in 2021.
Second, broader economic downturn has started to shift enterprise purchasing behavior.
Due to our commitment to secure service, our enterprise partners' relationships require significantly more upfront diligence than for other areas of our industry.
While this adds time to our sales cycle, the trust we build with our partners through this process adds us maintaining our strong net retention and 0% churn rates within our top 10 customers.
Unfortunately, in periods of more careful enterprise spending, this creates an even more elongated phase cycle and backs up customer acquisition pipeline as a result.
These global external impacts are not expected to persist forever. And as the market and our broader economic environment adjust to our accounting new world, we expect the sales pipeline to turn back on.
and for our diligent customer acquisition work over the past few quarters to be recognized.
Until then, however, we remain mindful of our forecasting ability in an uncertain landscape, and have decided that it is prudent to revise our guidance for the third quarter and full year.
So as Colin will discuss at the end of the financial section, with those challenges in mind, we've made an approximately 4% downward adjustment to our revenue outlook for the 2022 fiscal year and aligned our outlook for the third quarter to match this reduction overall.
However, while we adjust to our current climate, our focus remains on maintaining consistent profitability metrics and driving healthy growth across our business.
What was originally perceived as an isolated, quarterly downturn for the world has proven to be more extensive. And we are cognizant that prospective lines of business development are more difficult to generate in the current climate.
We remain focused on the fundamentals of our business and understand that high quality product and service development and implementation will continue to reap increased economic benefits in the long term.
We are proud to our team's perseverance and their unwavering commitment to build a sustainable and valuable business moving forward.
And with that, I'll turn the call over to our Chief Financial Officer, Giacomo Ballagio, to discuss our financial results for the quarter.
in greater detail.
Jacquan
Thank you, Dario. Turning now to our financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. As Dario mentioned, our total revenue in the second quarter increased 50% to $81.1 million from $54 million in the comparable year-ago period. The increase in revenue was mainly driven by the effect of the business combination with Engage, which contributed $30.2 million and the organic growth of Calera Legacy Business representing 16%.
The increase in gross margin was mainly due to the engagement by the air integration and increased performance by Calera Video and Calera Voice as well by the campaign registry.
Net loss total is 15.8 million or 36 cents per share based on 43.4 million weighted average share outstanding compared to a net loss of 4.5 million or 13 cents per share based on 34.3 million weighted average share outstanding in the comparable year ago period. The increase in net loss was mainly driven by the monetization of acquired intangibles in their core interest on conversion.
over period. 5
adjusted net income, a non-gap measure of operating performance decreased by 89% to $55,000 or $0 per both basic and diluted share based on 43.4 and 53.7 million weight average share outstanding respectively.
from
or $1 per boat, the basic and diluted share based on 34.3 and 44.9 million weight average share outstanding, respectively in the comparable year-ago period. Adjust ABDA, a non-GAAP measurement of operating performance increased 177% to 6 million or 7.4 million.
percent of total revenue compared to 2.2 million or
4% of total revenue in the comparable year-ago period. The increase in adjusted BDA was primarily due to the effect of the business combination with Engage-a-Baddie and the co-signals between the two legacy businesses.
At the end of the second quarter, cash, cash equivalents, receipt of cash and short-term investments were $74.8 million compared to $97.9 million as of December 31, 2021.
This completes my financial summary. I now like to turn the call back over to Colin to provide our financial outlook for the remainder of the year.
Thank you, Giacomo.
I'll now take a few minutes to provide our financial outlook for the rest of the year, which ends on December 31st, 2022.
As a reminder, Calera currently provides annual and quarterly revenue guidance as we believe these metrics to be key indicators for the overall performance of our business.
As Dario explained, our outlook for the rest of the year factors in previously unforeseen global headwinds that both affect our industry and the broader technology market.
The pooled effect of these headwinds has lengthened our sales cycle.
Backlogged our pipeline.
and it will take additional efforts to return to our prior levels of top-line growth.
Due to this environment, we continue to believe that it is prudent to adjust our full year outlook.
We currently expect revenue for the third quarter to range between 83 million and 87 million.
For the full year of 2022, we expect revenue to range between $345 million and $350 million.
I would remind investors of the seasonality and Calera's business.
where we expect to see positive catalysts in the fourth quarter, including the 2022 U.S. election cycle.
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the December holiday season.
This completes my financial outlook summary. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Dario to wrap up our remarks for the call. Dario? Thank you for having me.
Thank you, Colin. In summary, we are encouraged by our positive momentum in many strategic areas of our business as we have moved into the second half of the year.
While we were confronted with a broader global economic landscape that impacted our overall growth, we believe that we took meaningful steps forward in the second quarter as we continue to invest in our omnichannel platform and partnerships while driving profitability.
Our product suite continues to grow in both depth and breadth, and the quality of our service is as strong and trusted as ever.
Our geographical footprint continues to expand into a healthy global balance that we look to build on moving forward.
And our strides into new growth areas, including Kaleira video and voice, along with promising results from the campaign registry, have continued to drive leverage into our operating model.
As we move into the second half, we do so with conviction in our long-term growth strategy supported by a strong balance sheet and a healthy business fundamentals.
We are confident that we have the team and the processes in place to remain agile in the face of challenging environments, and that our overall business meaning is very healthy.
Above all, we look forward to driving sustainable value across our business as we advance along our journey to become the trusted partner in the expanding and massive C++.
And with that, we are ready to open the call for questions. Operator, please provide the appropriate instructions.
Thank you.
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Now our first question will come from George Sutton of Craig Howlam. Please go ahead.
Thank you. I really wanted to focus in on the guidance, particularly for Q4. So last year it looks like, sequentially, you grew 7 percent. It looks like at the midpoint you're assuming a 20 percent growth in Q3 to Q4 this year. And I appreciate the political campaign opportunity. Can you just walk through the thought process of that 20 percent versus the 7 percent last year? Not a lot.
Oops, that's better. Okay.
Yes, calling please.
Okay.
George, I understand how the numbers look, right? But we did sit down and go through all the baseline cases.
and feel that with the existing.
customer base
particularly a new customer that is very active and is escalating quickly.
that generates a significant amount of revenue in the December quarter. That was the realistic number that we wanted to provide.
Just to be clear, you're saying there are new customers that you've brought in recently that you're expecting to have big contributions in the back half of the year? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, that's correct.
Okay. We've already done that. I'm also pointing out.
You know that there are many other positive factors that I gave in the script, right?
political elections Diwali
And then of course your typical Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the holiday season.
Okay, just want to make sure I understood that. And we're excited about your expansion into the U.S. It does look like you've opened an office in Atlanta. I assume that gives you some more boots on the ground in the U.S. Can you just give us an update on your U.S. expansion?
Yes, this is Daniel.
The opening of the office in Atlanta is simply a new office that we have established to host our people in Atlanta that are coming from the Young Age acquisition. And also we are hiring in Washington DC.
This was Virginia.
and also we have operations in Los Angeles. Obviously, the growth of the company is not only in the US, but it's also in other geographies, including India, Dominican Republic, and in Europe , in the UK, and in Italy.
Can I just ask one other question? You mentioned, I think you said, I may not be quoting perfectly, but the challenges like we had in Brazil from a pricing perspective have ended. Could you just talk about that? That does now seem like a very isolated event in your view? Yes, I think it is.
Yes, exactly what I said. The events that we are recording during the second quarter, during the first quarter, deployed over the second quarter, and it's absolutely as planned. We are obviously working together with the accounts to expand our business in other geographies, and also we are onboarding other accounts.
But that specific event didn't appear on our radar in other jurisdictions.
Understand. Okay. Thanks guys
Thank you, George.
The next question comes from Tim Horan of Oppenheimer. Please go ahead, sir.
Good afternoon. This is Ed Yang for TIM. Two questions if I may. First, can we quickly go around the world and buy vertical rank order from strongest to weakness geographies? Is the U.S. still outperforming Brazil and Europe ? Which sectors are picking up or slowing down? Any changes in trends since the prior quarter? Just related to that, the 4% reduction in revenue guidance, is that...
The fare travel transportation is 15.7%.
and technology is 14.5%.
Thank you too.
Then we have all the other operators CPAS aggregators that are counting for about 22.5%.
And this is the split by vertical.
The other question is related to the dynamics of the different
in this way.
different geographies. So the revenue by country breakdown is United States 33.8%
Second in line is India with 24.2%.
Italy, which is still sizable but it's relatively smaller, is 20.5%.
And all the other European countries, excluding Italy, are accounting for 17.3%.
South America has been in Q2 6.9%.
And other Asian countries including Middle East and Africa accounts for 7.3%.
Overall, no individual customer accounting for more than 10% of the revenue.
And Dario, just for clarification, I'm asking amongst those different geographies and amongst those different verticals, any changes within any of those segments that stand out in terms of getting stronger or weaker since the prior quarter?
No, not really a significant dynamic. The business is being quite stable for Calera. This is a volume business, so you may have specific segments having a higher volume performance and other segments lagging a little bit behind, but itís not very relevant. Field banking is digital banking, in particular mobile banking is definitely the king of the hill and in general we tend to work on transactional services.
in terms of that 4% reduction applying to just broad base across across your businesses or homes.
May I answer that one?
Sure, Connie, go ahead.
Okay.
Briefly, I think everyone understands.
that we are in a very unique economic situation.
We have inflation.
We have the economy contracting.
We've got central banks tightening, right, with the US central bank leading the way, right, which is driving a strong dollar.
We're back below parity, right, to the euro.
And then we've got on the other side...
these incredibly strong payroll numbers that are coming in.
And so that just causes a certain degree of caution among executives as to
So where exactly are we headed, right? You know, is this a shallow recession? Is this even a recession at all? Now we're back to talking about a 75 basis point rate hike for the Federal Reserve, right? Are they going to overshoot? And so it's just...
more prudent to bake in caution in terms of what consumer activity is going to be, right, and the length of time that executives are going to take to make their business decisions. And so that's a big part of the driver. There's really, I was, when I joined, I was very pleased to find that Calera is able to grow through the current economic environment. Pretty neurally asked the question how to pass that crack and it has banner equation
So does that make sense?
Fair enough. And just a final question for me, and this is more longer term. Just on pricing, obviously a lot of uncertain macro crosscurrents, FX, I understand that. And Dario, historically you said you relied mainly on volume growth, and now you handle billions of text messages and voice messages and so on. But now that...
double-digit inflation is the norm across the world. Has there been any change in customer thinking or opportunity for you to open the pricing discussion with customers given the value and some of the cost savings that you provide? Thank you.
This is a good question. We are carefully evaluating the pricing dynamics. At the moment we do not experience an increase in...
Thanks for watching. See you next time.
And the same moment we will, we have a contract that allow us to revert to the customers the increasing sourcing cost. We are cautious about being proactively announcing the pricing, again, because this is a volume business and we do not want to.
put in a difficult corner our business model.
rising prices may bring, due to the elasticity of demand, to lower volume. So at the moment we stay put.
But this is something that we are thinking about.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Jonathan Navarrete of Common. Please go ahead.
Hey, good afternoon. Thank you for taking my call. So, I'll start with revenue. Just want to understand what was the dollar impact on revenue from foreign exchange in the quarter and how much is baked into the third and the fourth quarter individually? Senior Chairman
This is Giacomo on a pro forma basis. Just in Europe the difference in revenue for foreign, at best foreign effect is about 3.5 million. This is Giacomo on a pro forma basis.
At the end of the quarter.
and it was just affecting reps. And then for the third and fourth quarter, can we expect like what, maybe 3 or 2.5, according to what you guys have to plan?
Yes, of course.
We saw decline quarter by quarter, in particular from euros.
So yeah.
Okay, got it. And the reason I'm asking is mainly because I want to see if the reduction in guys is really because businesses is more of an effect.
FX driven so this is helpful.
I mean, well.
If I could just chime in on it.
It just seems that you can't model enough of a change. It keeps just dropping and dropping. We are stuck in the situation where the US central bank looks like it's going to be the world leader in right hikes.
Got him.
For Justin and Eva, I know you guys don't provide guidance for this, but can we expect a sequential improvement through the third and fourth quarter? And presumably it would be already better, I guess, than what it was in 2021. There's absolutely no threat to this moment.
This is a question for Giacomo. It's related to the seasonality of the adjusted BDA.
Yes, usually we have a better quarter.
and keep drinking for a video on
Of course, we have to think about these adverse effects in revenues and the inflation can be You know,
a few downturn in the NABDA, but we have
confident to have a good
And if I may, just one more question. I know we're just in August , but in terms of 23, you know, just what are you guys thinking of in terms of new customer acquisitions and what type of growth can you expect year over year? Thank you.
Well, we are investing into expanding our business development capabilities.
The pipeline of new leads and new prospects is constantly increasing.
And so let me say, I think that we will perform better than in the past in terms of growth on new customers. But our growth is explained not only by new customers, new business, but also by the increasing volume of existing customers. And this is possibly the part that is more difficult to model because basically this is depending on the overall...
performance of the economy.
and
That's the challenge in a way. Now it's hard to predict on the three.
It's a good question and it's a tough answer.
But the only way that we can handle this is to keep on investing in the growth. That's what we're doing.
And when you say Gruell, the way I'm kind of interpreting it, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is just more US-centric investment, or is this just why broad all over the world, India, Brazil, Europe ?
Well the macroeconomic dynamics most likely will be more challenging in Europe .
due to the war in Ukraine.
due to the very step increase in the cost of raw materials energy.
This is also depending on the monetary policy of the European Central Bank, which is following at the moment the US Fed is under debt.
but maybe going forward will be
in a difficult corner. So let me say, overall, we expect Europe being more challenging, US going fairly well, and Asia Pacific going fairly well.
Okay, thank you. That's it for me.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Vivek Ploni of Northland Capital. Please go ahead.
I'm Vivek on behalf of Mike Lachimo. So I have a couple of questions with me here. So the first one is how much did the campaign registry contribute in the second quarter?
As Darius said, they contribute for 4 million in the second quarter.
My second question is about the headcount. What are the current level of headcounts and where might that be at the end of the year?
Good question. So at the end of June , the overall headcount, I'm looking for the right figure was about 600, exactly.
Hold on one second. In terms of growth...
We are, well, we were exactly 607 at the end of June 2022.
We are slowing down the hiring. In the second half we are slowing down the hiring because we think that we must stay more conservative.
Also, considering that we have adjusted our overall guidance for the full year.
So I do not expect this figure to get much higher than that.
Uhhhh...
I think that it's reasonable if we'll end up...
at roughly 650 at the end of the year.
Great. Thank you.
Thank you.
At this time, this concludes our question and answer session. I would now like to turn the call back over to Mr. Kalejuro for his closing remarks.
Okay, thank you very much operator and I want to thank again all of you for joining us in the call today and we want to thank our extensive worldwide network of partners in Western but also we want to thank all of our employees for their continued support. Operator. User.
I would like to remind everyone that a recording of today's call will be available for replay via a link available in the investors section of the company's website.
Thank you for joining us today for killer's first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. You may now disconnect.
Thank you.