Brad Smith
Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch
All right. Thanks, Matt, and thanks, all of you for joining us. We just completed another strong quarter, which capped off a really strong fiscal year. Our results continue to demonstrate that our strategy is working and our execution is on track. In fiscal year 2011, we delivered 11% revenue growth and 19% non-GAAP EPS growth. We continued to expand operating margins while investing for the long-term growth of our company. And in the fourth quarter, we turned a profit in non-GAAP earnings per share for the first time in recent history. We're proud of our ability to deliver our best results when year-over-year comparisons, external market conditions and the competition are the toughest. Quite simply, it motivates us. And looking forward to fiscal 2012, we feel confident about our game plan to deliver strong performance once again. Now I will tell you that this confidence comes with a complete acknowledgment that the economic environment remains a challenge and our competitors continue to sharpen their strategies as well. But that's nothing new to us. These conditions simply put a premium on execution. If history or the past several years of this economic slowdown have proven anything, it's that our portfolio of offerings, combined with our focus on execution, have enabled us to remain resilient in the most challenging environment. And through it all, we continue to benefit from the secular shift of customers moving to connected services, which provides a tailwind at our backs as we look ahead. That's why we remain laser-focused on continuing to execute against our 3-point strategy of growing our core businesses, expanding into adjacent businesses and new geographies, and accelerating our transition to connected services. Reflecting on our core businesses, the 2 that typically come to mind are our Small Business Group and our Consumer Tax business. They represent the majority of the company's revenue and operating income, so our ability to continue driving strong growth in these 2 segments is critical. The good news is we've managed to do just that. Despite the recession, Small Business revenue has grown at a compounded annual growth rate of 9% over the last 5 years, and we're exiting fiscal 2011 growing at 12% year-over-year. In Consumer Tax, we've grown at 13% compounded annually over the same 5-year period. The success of our Small Business Group comes from a tried and true focus: expanding our categories, converting nonconsumption and increasing the revenue per customer over time. Our teams are innovating in exciting ways to attract new customers and increase the lifetime value. In fiscal 2011, we grew Small Business revenue double-digits and we expect another year of double-digit growth in fiscal 2012. There is a unifying theme across Small Business that gives us confidence this performance is sustainable without any help from the economy or across-the-board price increases. That theme is a favorable mix despite slower-than-expected customer growth. And why? Because our core customers, especially those that are new to the Intuit franchise, continue to demand and adopt connected services that are more valuable to them while delivering better long-term economics to Intuit. Let me illustrate a few examples to make this point clear. In Financial Management Solutions or QuickBooks, we're rapidly growing customers and revenue in QuickBooks Online and our QuickBooks Enterprise products. A typical QuickBooks Online customer who only purchases the Financial Management Services pays us $24.95 a month. By comparison, an average QuickBooks Pro desktop customer pays about $200 for the software every 2 to 3 years. So the mix shift to QuickBooks Online, as well as QuickBooks Enterprise, which carries an even higher price point, is quite favorable. In Employee Management Solutions, or Payroll, the same holds true as our average revenue per customer continues to increase. This is driven by stronger direct deposit attach and the ongoing mix shift to our online payroll services and to more advanced payroll solutions that carry higher lifetime values. In payments, overall customer growth is being driven by the rapid adoption of our popular mobile solution, GoPayment. Overall merchant growth is now being complemented by improving charge volume for merchant as well. So while the economic environment for small businesses isn't getting better anytime soon, the reality is payment hadn't really gotten better since 2008. We simply found ways to serve our customers and to grow in the challenging environment. If you look at our other core business, Consumer Tax, we remain focused on the key levers for revenue growth that you know so well: expanding the tax software category, taking share and improving revenue for filing. We had another great tax season, growing units 12% and revenue 13%. This came despite a tough comparison versus fiscal 2010, as well as shifts in our competitors' strategies throughout the tax season. Looking ahead, some of you have asked about our ability to grow tax customers as the manual tax filer bucket quickly drained. Hey, that's a fair question and it's one I'm eager to address, so I'll put it out there proactively today. For years, we had been intensely focused on both creating and demonstrating a superior value proposition for digital tax products versus the tax stores. The Net Promoter Scores for digital tax solutions are higher than tax stores, and the price is about 75% less expensive. So in our minds, there are tens of millions of tax filers who spend too much money to be inconvenienced by going to a tax store. Long story short, we seek to earn these comp customers over time. In addition, the digital tax category is naturally advantaged. It's advantaged by the demographic and the technological shifts in the market. This has driven average software category growth of 6% to 8% for the past 5 years, and we don't see it slowing down. This outpaces the growth rate for all other tax prep methods. And each year, millions of new taxpayers come into the system, usually younger filers who have grown up in an online world with technology as their tools of choice. When it comes time to file their taxes, they are most likely to choose online solutions. And as their technology tools of choice increasingly become mobile devices and tablets, we're committed to maintaining our leadership position through innovative new offerings like SnapTax and other products that you will learn more about at our upcoming Investor Day in September. So while we continue to see double-digit growth potential in our 2 core businesses, we are pleased to say that our newer adjacencies are also starting to make a contribution. Many of our adjacent businesses are smaller, but as we said, we expect them to contribute a few points to growth over the next several years. For example, our Small Business offerings in the United Kingdom and Canada are performing very well. And while it's still early, we're excited about the opportunity to expand other Small Business products, such as our QuickBooks Online, into select developed economy like Canada, the U.K. and Singapore, while continuing our longer-term efforts in the emerging markets. Intuit Health is also growing very fast in terms of new providers, patient utilization and year-over-year revenue growth. With that said, we've made some investment choices and we had a few execution misses. And that's led us to a decision to record a noncash impairment charge this quarter. We still believe there is a big unmet need here, and we're taking the necessary steps to align our focus and investment to capitalize on this business opportunity. Finally, the third element of our growth strategy is accelerating our transition to connected services. These digital services are driving customer acquisition and revenue growth in all of our businesses. For example, QuickBooks Online subscribers grew 41% year-over-year, TurboTax Online subscribers grew 20% and our online payroll subscriber base grew 13%. The adoption of mobile services is simply accelerating these trends. In our Financial Services business, the number of subscribers using our mobile banking solutions tripled over the past year. And in our Mint business the number of end-user accessing Mint through their mobile device now exceed 50%. Then putting it all together, connected services are the jet stream for our company's future potential while already playing a significant role in our present performance. We now have more than 35 million end users on our hosted products and services, and the adoption of mobile is only going to push it faster. Revenue from our Software-as-a-Service offerings now totals nearly $1.5 billion, and it's grown at a compounded annual growth rate of more than 35% over the past 5 years. When you add in other recurring revenue services that are advantaged by working with our software -- think of payroll and payments -- our total connected services now represent 62% of our company's revenue, which is up from 59% in fiscal 2010. So as you can hear, our strategy is working. And as I often say, strategies alone don't move mountains. Bulldozers do. And that's where execution and a set of rigorous financial principles also come into play. I feel good about the guidance for fiscal 2012 that we're announcing today, with growth opportunities on the horizon, a strong cash position and consistent operating results. We are also pleased to announce that for the first time in our history, Intuit will pay a cash dividend beginning in fiscal 2012. This is in addition to our existing share repurchase program, including an additional $2 billion repurchase authorization that was just approved by our board. Neil's going to share a few more details in a minute, but let me be very clear. This dividend reinforces our confidence in our ability to deliver double-digit revenue growth and expand margins over the long term, while also continuing our commitment to return cash to our shareholders along the way. So with that, let me turn the call over to Neil.