CoreCard - Q2 2024
August 1, 2024
Transcript
Operator (participant)
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, and welcome to CoreCard second quarter 2024 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press Star and zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Matt White, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead.
Matt White (CFO)
Thank you, and good morning, everyone. With me on the call today is Leland Strange, Chairman and CEO of CoreCard Corporation. He will add some additional comments and answer questions at the conclusion of my prepared remarks. Before I start, I'd like to remind everyone that during the call, we'll be making certain forward-looking statements to help you understand CoreCard Corporation and its business environment. These statements involve a number of risk factors, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations. Factors that may affect future operations are included in our filings with the SEC, including our 2023 Form 10-K and subsequent filings. We'll also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted diluted EPS and adjusted EBITDA, which is adjusted for certain items that affect the comparability of our underlying operational performance.
These non-GAAP measures are detailed in reconciliation tables included with our earnings release. As we noted in our press release, our second quarter results were in line with our expectations. Total revenue for the second quarter of 2024 was $13.8 million, a 12% decrease year-over-year, driven by lower license revenue and lower professional services revenue, primarily from our largest customer, Goldman Sachs. The components of our revenue for the second quarter consisted of professional services revenue of $7 million, a metric we guide to and which came in ahead of our previously guided range. Processing and maintenance revenue of $5.7 million, and third-party revenue of $1.1 million. As expected, we did not have any license revenue for the quarter.
As we continue to grow revenues outside of our largest customer, Goldman represented 63% of our revenues for the second quarter of 2024, compared to 70% for the second quarter of 2023. Revenue growth, excluding our largest customer, was 7% in the second quarter on a year-over-year basis. Revenue growth, excluding our largest customer, in addition to the impact from ParkMobile and the legacy Kabbage business, as we've detailed in prior quarters, was 34% in the second quarter on a year-over-year basis and is expected to be 15%-20% for the full year, which is above our previously guided range of 10%-15%. We continue to onboard new customers, both directly and through various partnerships we have with program managers.
As in previous quarters, we currently have multiple implementations in progress with new customers that we expect to go live in the coming months. Processing and maintenance revenues were mostly flat in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the second quarter of 2023, primarily due to the revenue decline from the legacy Kabbage business that I mentioned previously. Turning to some additional highlights on our income statement for the second quarter of 2024. Income from operations was $1.1 million for the second quarter of 2024, compared to income from operations of $2.7 million for the same time last year. Our operating margin for the second quarter of 2024 was 8%, compared to an operating margin of 17% for the same time last year.
The decrease is primarily driven by lower license revenue, continued investments in our new platform, and lower professional services revenue. The income statement impact of our new platform build was $0.7 million in the second quarter of 2024, compared to $0.4 million for the prior year period. We've reduced our headcount slightly in India and expect related cost savings starting in the third quarter of 2024. We will continue to look for cost savings as needed to remain profitable, given the lower revenues we are currently receiving from our largest customer. Our second quarter 2024 tax rate was 24.4%, compared to 24.8% in the second quarter of 2023. Earnings per diluted share for the quarter was $0.11, compared to $0.22 for Q2 2023.
Adjusted diluted EPS for the quarter, excluding stock compensation expense, was $0.15, compared to $0.23 for Q2 2023. Adjusted EBITDA was $2.5 million compared to $4.8 million for the second quarter of 2023. We have over $22 million of cash on our balance sheet as of June 30, 2024, and we expect to continue generating operating cash flow in 2024. We plan to use this excess cash and cash generated from operations to continue our investments in our new platform and to continue buying back shares. We repurchased 134,650 shares in the first quarter of 2024 for $1.6 million and 147,040 shares in the second quarter for $2.1 million.
For the full year of 2024, we continue to expect services revenue to be approximately flat. We expect license revenue to be approximately $1.4 million in either the fourth quarter of 2024 or the first quarter of 2025. As mentioned earlier, we expect growth from customers, excluding our largest customer, in addition to the impact of ParkMobile, the legacy Kabbage business, and the $0.5 million of accelerated revenue recognized in Q1 2024, to be between 15%-20% for the full year, which is above our previously guided range of 10%-15%. Within services, we continue to expect strong growth in processing and maintenance as our customers continue to grow and as we continue to onboard new customers.
We anticipate professional services revenue in the third quarter of 2024 to be likely in the range of $6.2 million-$6.5 million. With that, I'll turn it over to Leland.
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Thanks, Matt. You didn't leave me much to say. I think you're pretty comprehensive in covering, kind of, the business and even where we're headed now. I guess I often say, "Just look at the numbers and don't pay attention to what anybody says." I think the numbers are about what we expected. We're happy with them. They're probably a little higher than what we expected from the standpoint of professional services, and I wouldn't expect that to stay up, but I've been surprised several times in the past few years on them, and they may still stay up. Generally, our growth is good. As far as the other side of the business, other than our largest customer, it's steady. Could it be a little faster and bigger? Would I like that? Yeah, but you can't handle a lot of...
You couldn't handle it if it was growing a whole lot faster, so we're pretty happy with the continued growth. The new what we call CoreFi or CoreFinity platform we're building is coming along fine also. I'll just remind everybody, that's not expected to be finished until the end of the fourth quarter, let's say, of 2025. But we're making good progress, and we're using parts of what we've done already in our current environment. So that's an investment. It's an investment we think is really good for the company and the shareholders over the long term. Other than that, there's not a lot to say. We've added... I could name a lot of cards and things, but we don't tend to do that. I will mention that one of our customers has got Qatar.
So if you fly to Qatar or to India through Qatar and want to earn bonus points, you'll end up with the Qatar Airways card, and that's being processed by CoreCard. We're still doing well in the Middle East, but generally, business is just steady. Steadily growing as far as the current business, steadily growing as far as adding some new ones. And we are working on several other good-sized potential business that would come online in late 2025. That is the nature of what we do. You have to work on it a year in advance, typically, and we have two or three that we're. We believe at least one of those will go live, maybe, maybe all of them, in the third, fourth quarter of next year, first quarter of 2026.
Generally, I would just have to say, we're pleased with the numbers that we reported this quarter. We're pleased with the way business is going, and we're just gonna continue to stay on the path we're on now. Operator, you can open it for questions. Be happy to take a few questions, either from Matt or I.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star and one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and two if you'd like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while we poll for questions. Our first question is from the line of Hal Goetsch with B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead.
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Hey, Hal, we can't hear you.
Operator (participant)
Hal, are you there?
Matt White (CFO)
Hey, hey there.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Yeah, in the... Thank you. I'm sorry, I was on mute. The tone of business this time a year ago, we were in the midst of a, you know, a little bit, a little bit of a banking crisis for small banks and large banks as well. A year has gone by and, yeah, you mentioned the bus- the tone of business is steady, and it's just, you know, is the tone of like RFPs or inquiries, is that still steady, or is that lifting from maybe a year ago or six months ago? Or what's the tone of like-
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Uh-
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Yeah, activity?
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Yeah, I would say there's been a change in the sense that less fintech activity, a little bit more from the smaller banks. It's still not big, but it has improved some from what we're getting from the smaller banks.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Okay.
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Fintech has slowed some. Of course, we still get some but I'm just trying to give you-
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Yeah
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
the sort of sense of what I see in the landscape. A little better from the smaller banks and a little less from the fintech side of the business.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Okay. Question for Matt. Was there any buyback activity in the quarter? I know you have been buying back stock.
Matt White (CFO)
Yes.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Could you talk about it real quick?
Matt White (CFO)
Yeah, we bought back around 147,000 shares at $2.1 million. So-
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Okay
Matt White (CFO)
... And then again, buyback activity for Q2.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Okay. Okay. And, and final question is, you know, you, you mentioned, like, 2 to 3 large, at least one or all could hit maybe in the back half of 2025. Like, when... Could you give us, like, a kind of a, a range or a feel for what large is for you guys, like, in terms of-
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Sure
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
- number of cards?
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Sure.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Yeah.
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Sure. But yeah, that's, that's a good question, Hal. I'm gonna give you a pretty wide range, $2 million-$8 million a year type revenue.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Okay.
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Over two is, you know, it's a small large, but it's a medium.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Yeah.
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
And 8 is a big large for us. And I'm talking about annual revenue. So 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 type annual revenue, maybe in combination. Well, no reason to do combination. You either have it or you don't have it. But... And let me just add to that, though. What's important in this kind of business is that it tends to snowball a little bit. You know-
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Mm-hmm
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
... if you add a couple of more, decent-sized, financial institutions, that tends to lower the risk for the next guy to make the decision. So that helps you. Now, we believe it's very low risk. We have got a lot of experience with conversions. We've never had a problem. We do not think there'll be a problem, but it doesn't matter what we believe. What matters is what-
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Yeah, absolutely
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
a board of directors or a risk officer believes.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
Absolutely.
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
And of course, we can do all we can to show them that it's not much risk, but risk is taken away based on historical performance. So that's kind of the way we're growing the business.
Hal Goetsch (Senior Managing Director)
All right. Thank you. Appreciate that perspective. Thank you.
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Any other questions?
Operator (participant)
Thank you. No, sir, there are no questions in the queue. Ladies and gentlemen-
Leland Strange (Chairman and CEO)
Okay. Well, we thank everyone for taking the time to listen to our call, and as always, if you have any individual questions, Matt and I are always available to talk. So thank you very much.
Bye.
Operator (participant)
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