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Mitek Systems, Inc. (MITK)

Q4 2015 Earnings Call· Thu, Nov 5, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good day and welcome to the Mitek System's Fiscal 2015 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Todd Kehrli of the MKR Group. Please go ahead.

Todd Kehrli

Management

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, and welcome to Mitek fiscal 2015 fourth quarter and year-end earnings conference call. With me on today’s call are Mitek’s President and CEO, Jim DeBello; and CFO, Russ Clark. Before I turn the call over to Jim and Russ, I’d like to cover a quick few items. This afternoon, Mitek issued a press release announcing its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter and full year financial results. That release is available on the company’s website at www.miteksystems.com. This call is being broadcast live over the Internet for all of the interested parties and the webcast will be archived on the Investor Relations page of the company’s website. I'd like to remind everyone that on today’s call, management will discuss certain factors that are likely to influence the business going forward. Any factors discussed today that are not historical facts, particularly comments regarding our long-term prospects and market opportunities, should be considered forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may include comments about our plans and expectations of future performance. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially. We encourage all of our listeners to review our SEC filings, including our most recent 10-K for a more complete description of these risks. Our statements on this call are made as of today, November 05, 2015 and the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any of the forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in expectations or otherwise, for any reason. Additionally, throughout this call, we will be discussing certain non-GAAP financial measures. Today’s earnings release and the related current report on Form 8-K describe the differences between our non-GAAP and GAAP reporting and present the reconciliation between the two for the periods reported in the release. I’ll now turn the call over to Mitek’s CEO, Jim DeBello. Jim?

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Thanks, Todd and good afternoon, everyone. I'm happy to report the best quarter and in fact the best year in Mitek's history. Our outstanding results included record revenue, record net income and record earnings per share on both the GAAP and non-GAAP basis. We had a strong fiscal 2015 and we think fiscal 2016 is going to be even better. These record results for the year were driven primarily by the continued sustained growth of our industry leading Mobile Check Deposit product. While our record fourth quarter results also highlight the rapidly growing revenue contribution from a pair of powerful new product offerings from mobile ID capture and verification. We're now perfectly positioned to broaden our industry leadership by helping companies transform their businesses to leverage the rapidly growing mobile channel. Accordingly we're highly confident that fiscal 2016 will be another excellent year for Mitek. With the successful acquisition of ID Checker, we're now providing the enterprise customer with unparalleled choice between a cloud or on premise offering and increasing our recurring revenue mix. We're addressing a huge opportunity estimated at $3.8 billion. Our deep experience in serving over 60 million consumers today strongly suggests that our dominance in mobile deposit can be replicated in the multi-billion dollar ID Capture and verification markets where our successful launch of groundbreaking products already confirms our strategic direction and unique game-changing capabilities. For example, no one else can read an imperceptible code on a US driver's License to instantly verify a photo ID, a tremendous differentiator. And no one else can capture an identity document through the mobile browser. We can, we're seeing a deepening pipeline and have the balance sheet to exploit these emerging opportunities quickly and profitably. We planned to sign 10 marquee Fortune 500 customers in the financial services, healthcare…

Russ Clark

CFO

Thanks Jim. Hi everyone and thank you for joining us on today's call. As a reminder, all financial figures I site today are on a GAAP basis and unless I specifically call that number as non-GAAP. Our earnings release includes a reconciliation between these two measures. Also as a reminder, September 30 is the end of our fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year. So any references to quarters or years are on that basis. As Jim mentioned, Q4 total revenue was a record $7.9 million a 42% increase year-over-year. We’re also achieved a record non-GAAP net income in Q4 of $2.8 million or $0.09 per diluted share representing our sixth consecutive quarter of non-GAAP net income. Q4 software revenue of $5.5 million included 13 mobile deposit reorders and was up 42% compared to revenue of $3.8 million in the year ago quarter. Q4 services revenue of $2.4 million increased 42% over last year's Q4 revenue of $1.7 million and includes recurring identity verification SAS revenue around $600,000 generated by ID Check or which we acquired in June. Total Q4 operating expenses were $6.9 million compared to $5.6 million in the year ago quarter. Q4 selling and marketing expenses were $1.9 million compared to $1.2 million in the year ago quarter. We continue to invest in direct sales and marketing personnel and programs for our identity products including international sales personnel who joined us with the ID Checker acquisition. Q4 R&D expenses were $1.7 million compared to $1.3 million a year ago. This increase reflects our investment in personnel to continue to build world-class ID Capture and verification products including talented software engineers and computer vision scientists in our new ID Checker Office in the Netherlands. Our Q4, G&A expenses were $1.9 million down from $2.6 million in the year ago…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And we go to Bhavan Suri with William Blair.

Bhavan Suri

Analyst

Hey guys, can you hear me okay?

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Yes we can.

Bhavan Suri

Analyst

Great. Hey Jim hey everybody, congrats there. Nice job and thank you for the forward-looking guidance. Appreciate that as I'm sure all the investors do. I guess let me just touch first on the mobile deposit business done really well. But we see some conversions there obviously between signed versus live thing and that natural assume that happening. But we should expect that gap to continue because given the tenant friction rate in the actual number of banks that have signed up. Is that the right way to think about it?

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Yeah Bhavan you're right and absolutely have seen that gap close over the last several years and several quarters. We're getting to the point now where we've added 400 banks over the last couple of quarters and 300 to 400 for several quarters before that. So it sort of chasing a moving targets and the number of banks in any quarters increased as well. So we see the gap close but I think most importantly we continue to sign 400 new banks a quarter.

Bhavan Suri

Analyst

Yeah. And when you look at that any update in sort of the international expansion around mobile deposit, how should we think about that opportunity obviously - that you guys already have a nice presence but how do we think about the broader opportunity with Checks maybe not in Europe but in another parts of the world it's still certainly have reduced.

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Bhavan, this is Jim and hello and I think to answer that includes a phrase compared to what. So as we look at the international opportunity in England it's about 1 billion to 1.5 billion checks numbers. You might get number is approaching that in Brazil, but fundamentally the check market is a North America including Canada. The big opportunity really for us we believe is in the commercial side. And that's why we've invested in launched this mobile multi-check capture feature it allows small businesses to capture multiple checks as opposed to having a scanner connected to their PC of the added expense and inconvenience of doing that. So we think the number of commercial checks it works. The number of international checks combined here in the US alone. So we look at the bigger opportunity, so we are working in parallel for UK opportunities two partners. We're doing the same in Brazil, Brazil has yet to pass their laws allowing image capture and transmittal of an item check. So again that's going to be slow growth an opportunity that will occur overtime but low compared to what we're going to experience I think this year in the commercial side.

Bhavan Suri

Analyst

Got it. And then maybe on that Jim just on the mobile check deposit before you jump at the sort of Photo Fill and PhotoVerify. But two quick things, one how ASPs of mobile deposit trended. And then two have you seen any banks raise their limits on deposits. Because that's always been a little bit of a slog or on sort of the growth of that business too.

Russ Clark

CFO

Hey Bhavan its Russ. On ASP side you can continue to see consistency there I think as customers have gotten more comfortable with volumes and order bigger blocks they've leveraged volume discounts. So as we seen revenue continue to grow we seen some volume discounting but overall that the pricing schedule remains pretty well intact.

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Hey Bhavan let me add to that also. We see volumes going up. We see consumption continue to percolate into the consumer world. In addition to banks which you mentioned earlier, two other key drivers that are important that the number of consumers who are exposed to mobile deposit and use it. And then among those consumers the amount of usage the frequency of these. We think those later two are the most important in terms of driving our growth. And we'll give you an example on to your point on raising limits. We did and have seen P&C bank recently raised limited for what was an anemic of $1000 per customer per month or per item. And too much greater numbers in fact one of our directors who was a P&C customer recently mentioned that through a fund raiser he collected a bunch of checks and personally was able to deposit in the amounts approaching over $10,000. So we see this trend happening among several banks where individuals are allowed to make bigger deposits and more frequent deposits. Secondly we also see certain banks getting very, very clever about how their market we love their advertising. Don't make any mistake about it Serena Williams hit the tennis ball and then deposit the check we love that. But you know what there other things you can do is and certain banks are doing it. They're having contest. One bank in particular gives a $100 check as a promotion to introduce the idea of mobile deposit to their consumers. Allowing them to not only deposit the dollar to their account which is of the trust but to get them involved in the contest. Deposit a buck get involved with their contest easy can win a $100 or $1000 or $10,000 a week. So we really like those kind of very innovative market and to keep this product in front of customers. So again one of the seven Americans growing and we think that usage consumption will continue to grow with innovative marketing that's happening.

Bhavan Suri

Analyst

Great. And then turning to PhotoVerify, just a little bit on the pipeline there. I mean you touched on expanding into new verticals. Any specifics about what you're thinking government services commerce travel will be helpful as we think about sort of where those market to go.

Russ Clark

CFO

Yeah Bhavan familiar territory for us is financial services and insurance and telco. And we continue to be very active in those verticals in the past. But I think the point is that our Photo Fill and PhotoVerify products are truly horizontal products and they're not limited to opening accounts or helping process transactions and just as three verticals but they can apply do any vertical. So with that being said we are very focused on those three initially but we are definitely out in other verticals meeting with digital marketers at those companies as well. so financial services we have a big beachhead there and a strong hold that we want to make sure we win there P&C insurance we've been in for a long time and wireless especially on the telco side as well. But adding sales staff we have people calling on company's another verticals also.

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Yeah let me add Bhavan also, we are selling this product direct enterprise, number one. Number two is this product will be sold primarily in a cloud as a service. Although we offer on promise as well there is not key differentiator for us. And thirdly this is native in an app and through the browser through the mobile web. So we really have some core differentiators and value add for enterprise customers. They can consume and how they wish. So it's interesting we are leveraging our success with mobile deposit the 60 million consumers out there to use this product. And these experiences are pleasant it's a magical experience, when you deposit a check it settling in your bank account and then it have to go to the branch. And so we're getting call some other enterprise customers and another vertical. And one that will be announcing shortly that learned about it. So they're experience with one of the top 3 banks just as a consumer. So having that base of business, having that experience with the mobile market is allowing us to leveraging into other verticals. So in the course of the 10 that we announced in terms of marquee Fortune 500 companies they will not all be in the banking industry and we're proud of that. And we think as Russ said, this is a product that extends beyond financial services and to important B2C e-commerce, healthcare, telecom and beyond.

Bhavan Suri

Analyst

That's really helpful Jim actually just doing for that color. And then one last sort of just housekeeping question for me. Hey Jim a quick update on your status of your 10b5 plan on the options. Just too how many elect that to be exercise.

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Bhavan good question I'm happy to tell you and others that I have discontinued the 10b5-1 plan. It no longer is in effect. So I will not be selling any additional shares to the 10b5-1 for the remainder of this period.

Bhavan Suri

Analyst

Got it. Well guys thanks for taking my questions, appreciate. And nice job on that on the quarter there and look forward to another solid quarter next quarter. Thanks.

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Yeah. Thanks.

Russ Clark

CFO

Thanks Bhavan.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]. And there are no other questions at the moment. That concludes our question-and-answer session. I'd like to turn the call back to the company for closing remarks.

Jim DeBello

President and CEO

Thank you operator and thank you everyone for joining us today. This concludes our call and we look forward to talking to you next quarter.

Operator

Operator

Once again ladies and gentlemen that does conclude today's conference. We thank everyone for joining us.