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OneSpan Inc. (OSPN)

Q2 2022 Earnings Call· Tue, Aug 2, 2022

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for attending today's OneSpan Second Quarter 2022. My name is Tia, and I will be your moderator for today's call. All lines will be muted during the presentation portion of the call, with an opportunity for questions-and-answers at the end. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to pass the conference over to your host, Joe Maxa, Vice President of Investor Relations with OneSpan. You may proceed.

Joe Maxa

Analyst

Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining the OneSpan second quarter 2022 earnings conference call. This call is being webcast and can be accessed on the Investor Relations section of OneSpan's website at investors.onespan.com. Joining me on the call today is Matt Moynahan, OneSpan's Chief Executive Officer and Jan Kees van Gaalen, our Interim Chief Financial Officer. This afternoon after market close, OneSpan issued a press release announcing results for our second quarter 2022. To access a copy of the press release and other investor information, please visit our website. Following our prepared comments today, we'll open the call for questions. Please note that statements made during this conference call that relate to future plans, events or performance including the outlook for full-year 2022 are forward-looking statements. These statements use words such as believes, anticipates, plans, expects, projects and similar words, and these statements involve risks and uncertainties and are based on current assumptions. Consequently, actual results could differ materially from the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements. I direct your attention to today's press release and the Company's Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of such risks and uncertainties. Also note that certain financial measures that may be discussed on this call are expressed on a non-GAAP basis and have been adjusted from a related GAAP financial measure. We provide an explanation for and reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures in the earnings press release. In addition, please note that the date of this conference call is August 2, 2022. Any forward-looking statements and related assumptions are made as of this date. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events or for any other reason. I will now turn the call over to Matt.

Matt Moynahan

Analyst

Thank you, Joe, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We delivered a solid quarter with 21% ARR growth and 26% subscription revenue growth and we exceeded our internal revenue ARR and adjusted EBITDA expectations, despite foreign currency exchange headwinds, which Jan Kees will discuss with you during his financial review. Strength in the quarter was primarily driven by expansion contracts with existing customers, including several seven-figure contracts for esignature and security solutions. Some of our important wins include the following: a multi year seven-figure TCV contract with the European customer utilizing several of our security solutions; a six-figure ACV expansion of an existing multi year seven-figure TCV contract with the top global bank in Europe that have been experiencing higher-than-expected demand for mobile banking across all lines of business; a 300,000 ACV contract with one of the largest private banks in India. This bank is a long-term Digipass customer that began buying our mobile security solutions. Several esignature customers in North America, including a seven-figure multiyear new logo win and several expansion contracts with existing customers that added new lines of business and increased volume commitments. And a customer of ours in the Asia Pacific region acquired three companies, which were all running a competitor esignature platform. This customer standardized on OneSpan Sign esignature as their solution of choice. Our enterprise class feature set, ease of integration, and ability and willingness to white label our solutions were key factors in many of our wins. Now let me update you on our strategic transformation plan. We are hard at work building a digital agreement security company that matters to the world. Our objective is clear and that is to protect enterprises as they engage in transact with their customers throughout the transaction lifecycle from identity verification to…

Jan Kees van Gaalen

Analyst

Thank you, Matt. Hello, everyone. Good afternoon. I'm pleased that we've reported a strong quarter, largely driven by improved operational rigor in the business. Additionally, I want to highlight the impact of foreign currency exposure on our revenue for the quarter. Excluding this impact, our Q2 revenue would have been $3.2 million higher than we reported, representing a year-over-year growth rate of 7%. Now turning to our financial results. ARR grew 21% year-over-year to $134 million. ARR specific to subscription contracts grew 35% to $98 million and accounted for approximately 73% of total ARR. Dollar-based net expansion or DBNE, which we define as the year-over-year growth in ARR for our existing customers was 116%, up slightly, but consistent with recent quarters. Revenue grew 1% to $53 million, led by 26% growth in subscription revenue to $20 million, offset by the expected decreases in perpetual-based software maintenance and non-recurring revenues. Gross margin was 67%, consistent with the same quarter in 2021, an increase in higher margin digital agreement revenue was offset somewhat by product mix shift within the security solutions segment. GAAP operating expenses included $1.5 million of outside services related to our strategic plan and $2.7 million of severance costs and other expenses related to our restructuring plan. GAAP OpEx benefited by approximately $2 million from changes in foreign exchange. As noted last quarter, we completed substantially all of the action items contained in Phase 1 of our cost reduction plan announced in December 2021. As of June 30, we achieved annualized cost savings of $11.8 million, which is near the high end of the $10 million to $12 million of annualized savings called for in the plan. We announced Phase 2 of our cost reduction plan in May of this year, which calls for total cash charges related to…

Matt Moynahan

Analyst

Thank you, Jan Kees. We estimate first half 2022 revenue would have been nearly $5 million higher had currency exchange rates been constant, as compared to the year ago period. Based on current rates, we expect continued, but somewhat less FX pressure in the second half of the year. We are making initial progress in our transformation and are confident in our second half outlook. Therefore, we are affirming our full-year 2022 guidance. For the full-year 2022, notwithstanding FX headwinds, we expect the following: total revenue to meet or exceed full-year 2021 revenue; ARR growth to be in the range of 16% to 18%; and adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of negative $4 million to negative $7 million. In closing, the future of OneSpan is bright. We are working hard to improve revenue predictability and to get more balanced contribution across product lines, business segments and geography that I'd like to see over time. I am pleased by the improved sales performance and operational -- we saw in Q2. And I'm proud of the team for our progress to-date. Moving forward, I am confident in our ability to unlock shareholder value as we increase our focus, leverage our competitive advantages and enhance our operational performance. With that Jan Kees and I will be happy to take your questions. Operator?

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] The first question is from the line of Chad Bennett with Craig Hallum. You may proceed.

Chad Bennett

Analyst

Great. Thanks for taking my questions. Matt, you rattled off a lot of pretty significant six-figure, seven-figure multi-year wins, which are great. I guess just in terms of the new logo pickup, if you did see a new logo pickup in the quarter. What were the differentiators in you winning those esign deals where there was consolidation deal or is just a brand new esign new logo? And second kind of added question to that is, did the security side also from just a pure bookings standpoint do better-than-expectations?

Matt Moynahan

Analyst

Let me talk to the last first and then I'll get to the esignature business. On the security side, we are seeing very healthy demand for our Digipass solutions. So Obviously, we don't -- we haven't historically broken out product line detail at that. But Digipass bookings are doing well? We had a book-to-bill issue associated with supply chain, but I can tell you that I'm very pleased with the performance of the token business. As the FX and supply chain issues level out, we do anticipate that business being one of growth. We still have lumpiness in the other parts of our business on the subscription side, but we see strength in mobile security and non-mobile security products and so security overall had a good quarter from a bookings per perspective. On the esignature side of things, let me address a new logo and then I'll get to the competitive differentiators on why we won. First of all, historically, the company really hasn't had an enterprise go-to-market. We've had enterprise go to enterprise products, but the go-to-market was fragmented across three different sales teams and we are bringing that together. Over time, you should see an increase of new logos in that enterprise top segment that is an incredibly important focus area for us. When we have one in the enterprise segment, the relationships have acted like two enterprise customers where you get that land and expand capability. We did have a good quarter in new logos, but that we need to rebalance the growth in new logos from the bottom half of the pyramid to the higher half of the pyramid by building out our unified go-to-market. So that's an important focus here as for us over the quarters to come. As far as why we win, I…

Chad Bennett

Analyst

Got it. I appreciate the color. Then maybe one quick follow-up, I heard the FX impact on revs, but I didn't hear an FX impact on ARR or subscription ARR. Do you have that?

Matt Moynahan

Analyst

Jan Kees, you want to take that or it's like me too? It's largely very similar to what you would have had in the revenue. Go ahead, Jan Kees.

Jan Kees van Gaalen

Analyst

Yes. So basically similar to what we saw on the revenue line, so again a couple of $100,000 is our estimate.

Chad Bennett

Analyst

Okay, alright. Thanks very much. Nice job on the quarter.

Jan Kees van Gaalen

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Gray Powell with BTIG. You may proceed.

Gray Powell

Analyst · BTIG. You may proceed.

Can we focus in on what you're seeing in Europe? I think almost 50% of revenue comes from the EMEA region. Have you seen any changes in customer behavior or sales cycles there in the last few months?

Matt Moynahan

Analyst · BTIG. You may proceed.

Not really. I mean, again, when you look at the business, we have 55%, the [Technical Difficulty] share of revenue coming from EMEA attendee -- most of the EMEA business is security. The inverse is true of the Americas 45% and the vast majority of that is digital agreements, but the behavior is similar across both with large enterprise customers. On the security side, again with EMEA had been highly concentrated in security, our security solutions, thankfully, are mission critical. They're used for online banking, which in environments like this is actually increasing. And we have a very sticky solution both with our back office authentication capabilities and Digipass tokens that are part of the installed base go-to-market for these banks. And so we haven't seen any material decline in demand. Actually, we've seen slight upticks in demand, but the -- our ability to fulfill that demand has been hampered by the supply chain. But it's a good thing for us given that the vast majority of the historical one spend is associated with online banking and such.

Gray Powell

Analyst · BTIG. You may proceed.

Understood. Okay. That's helpful. And then on the ARR side, I'm sorry, I missed the answer to the last question. Did you say that the FX impact on ARR was just -- is a few $100,000? Was that correct?

Jan Kees van Gaalen

Analyst · BTIG. You may proceed.

No, it's the same as what we've seen on revenue.

Gray Powell

Analyst · BTIG. You may proceed.

And you guys is like $5 million on revenue. That's actually pretty big in absolute dollar terms. Okay, okay, and then maybe on the cost side. So you called out $1.5 million in outside services and $2.7 million in severance for a total of $4.2 million in one-time costs. Is it safe to say that, that entire $4.2 million hit the operating cash flow line? And then just how should we think about transition costs for the rest of the year as we try to think about operating cash flow?

Jan Kees van Gaalen

Analyst · BTIG. You may proceed.

Yes. So the entire cost hit to the operating cash flow line, that is correct. It's exactly in the net income losses that we reported. And for the rest of the year, there is still some amounts of 7s to come, but we currently cannot point whether it will be in Q3 or Q4.

Gray Powell

Analyst · BTIG. You may proceed.

Okay. That's helpful. Thank you very much.

Jan Kees van Gaalen

Analyst · BTIG. You may proceed.

You’re welcome.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Rudy Kessinger with D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Rudy Kessinger

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Yes. Thanks for taking my questions. I'm curious on the EBITDA guide, you're negative $1.3 million in the first half, you're guiding to a $5 million to $7 million loss for the year. So gotten to a step down in the EBITDA loss in the second half, despite when you put it together, you've got $17.8 million in annualized cost cuts so far versus $10.8 million as of Q1. So you've got more cost cuts that should be flowing through here. And obviously, you're adjusting out the severance and whatnot in that adjusted EBITDA figure? So why to step down, I guess, in EBITDA in the second half?

Matt Moynahan

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Jan Kees, you want that?

Jan Kees van Gaalen

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Yes, look, there are certain number of costs which we don't adjust out first of all in terms of severance. And second of all, the severance, the savings in the second half of the year, are accruing towards the end of the period. And so that's basically the explanation.

Matt Moynahan

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

I'd say there are other elements that are play there are the timing of the sales and marketing expenses with the build up. Obviously, that's going to be subject to our ability to effectively hire the sales team, right? And the other one is timing.

Jan Kees van Gaalen

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

I mean, and then also there is some new product development focusing in the DA area.

Rudy Kessinger

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Okay. That's fair. And then Matt, I guess, some of the six and seven figure wins in the quarter, it sounds like for the most part it was esignature, but of course as you've said pretty frankly, esignature, you kind of view it more as a feature not a product. So I guess I'm curious, were any of those deals kind of led or did they involve virtual room? And what kind of interest are you seeing in that -- in the pipes and the conversations you're having?

Matt Moynahan

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

So we're having -- we're seeing significant interest in virtual room, obviously still early days in that. And I would say the activity in our internal sandbox, which we had not gone, say, to GA commercial, had doubled over the previous quarter. Again, but still fairly small. We would plan on integrating virtual room into our unified go-to-market and we expect to start seeing business happen in that product skew you as we ramp the enterprise sales team. I personally have seen significant interest in it. There are variations of this type of product in very basic form out there as people are looking to secure virtual interaction and business, particularly in the banks. And so I do have significant hope for this product line in the marketplace and the place it will hold relative to what largely is video or collaboration. That is a very, very different category.

Rudy Kessinger

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Got it. And then just one last one if I could. On the ARR growth, you're 21% in the quarter, you're guiding the 16% to 185 by year end. Is your expectation at this point for ARR growth to bottom in Q4? And then start to reaccelerate in Q1 as some of the new sales initiatives and reps start to ramp up and contribute?

Matt Moynahan

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Yes, that is the anticipation. Again, we have a couple of puts and takes across the portfolio as I've cleaned up the product portfolio and some of the smaller products. We also have other products that were end of life and in general the company is largely through its conversion from perpetual to subscription. And if you remember during the Investor Day, I used the term core AR growth. So I absolutely think it's fair to say that. You'll let the need that occurs as you go through Q4 and then we are on almost fully the three year strategic plan where what we'll be reporting is core AR growth business model conversion largely through that.

Rudy Kessinger

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Great. Thanks for taking my questions.

Matt Moynahan

Analyst · D. A. Davidson. You may proceed.

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] There are no additional questions at this time. I will pass it back to Matti for any closing remarks.

Matt Moynahan

Analyst

Good to start. Thank you everyone for joining today. We very much appreciate it and we look forward to sharing with you our continued progress in the quarters to come. Very proud of the work that the team is doing here, and you have our full commitment to continue to bring clarity and transparency to the way we're communicating and managing the business. And thank you much for your time today. Speak with you soon.

Operator

Operator

That concludes today's conference call. Thank you. You may now disconnect your line.