Quarterly Presentation Q4 2022
February 14, 2023
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Powering video everywhere
The interoperable video technology platform that powers everything from ultra secure government meetings, to personalized banking, to efficient hands-free work
Q4 highlights and key areas of focus
Leaner organization
- Pexip exited Q4 with a team of 329 FTEs, down 40% from mid-Q2
- Additional NOK 189 million of annualized reductions in costs realized in Q4
Sustainable cost base
- Updated cost base estimate for 2023 of NOK 850 million (100 million below previous estimate)
- Cost base going into Q1 underpin cash flow target at current revenues
Positioned for growth
- Solid momentum within Secure Spaces with recurring revenues growing 8% in Q4 alone
- Continue to strengthen partnerships in Connected Spaces with estimated resulting positive medium-term ARR impact
Revenue and ARR development
Results and cash
- Q4 revenue of NOK 260.4 million, down 2.1% y-o-y
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Total ARR at USD 99.6 million
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Adj. EBITDA of NOK 21.7 million excl. restructuring costs, up 119% y-o-y
- Cash flow of NOK -67 million, with a cash position of NOK 419 million
2023 Financial targets
- 20%+ growth in ARR in Secure Spaces and Video Innovation
- Flat to positive development in total revenues
- NOK 100-150 million EBITDA
- NOK 40-60 million free cash flow excluding one-offs
Business update
A leaner organisation
~330 dedicated employees
Focusing on two distinct strategies
Note: Total ARR also includes Legacy areas not shown in this overview, amounting to USD 6 million
Pexip
Market
Pexip's unique technology enables differentiated customer offerings
Patented transcoding architecture
- Unique interoperability & browser experience
- AI using cloud compute
- More environmentally sustainable
Run on any compute platform
- Total data privacy and control
- Full customization capabilities
- Unique position in self hosted and sovereign video services
Connected Spaces: Infrastructure & Interoperability Secure Spaces: Secure & Private solutions Video Innovation: Custom Solutions
Continue to enhance technology leadership on Connected Spaces
Best Microsoft Teams and Google Meet interop user experience
- Enables you to bring a Teams-like experience to every meeting room
- Seamless intuitive experience
- Familiar meeting features
- Allowing users to join all Teams, Google, Zoom and Webex meetings
Cost Savings
- Reduce costs on expensive infrastructure
- Postpones investments into new video hardware when moving to a new platform
Sustainability & User adoption
- Maintaining existing hardware longer reduces e-waste and carbon footprint
- Users can continue to use existing video hardware to join their meeting of choice no training required
Security and privacy concerns driving demand for Pexip
Geopolitical Complexity
Cyber Vulnerability
- Many organizations are prohibited from using cloud solutions
- Business continuity and redundancy solutions are becoming top of mind
- Increased awareness in both public and private sector
Pexip Secure Collaboration
A modern self-hosted collaboration tool with chat, video and file-sharing.
Data sovereignty & control
supported solution
Modern and Interoperability
Total ARR base at USD 100m in Q4 2022
Booked Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) development
Secure Spaces
ARR USDm
- Continued momentum for our Secure Collaboration products with recurring revenues in Secure Spaces growing 8% in Q4, and underlying y-o-y growth of 60%
- Increased awareness on cyber vulnerability and privacy gives Pexip an attractive position as a leading on-premise focused video collaboration provider
- Increasing use of private networks and 5G as well as defence and ultra-secure applications which brings a broad set of opportunities within the secure collaboration space and enables further growth
- Signed a 5-year agreement with a public justice organisation in Q4 with a TCV of USD 3.5 million
Video Innovation
ARR USDm
- Stable ARR in Video Innovation, with ARR of USD 21.1 million.
- Video innovation is still an immature market however with large potential across several use cases and clear signals of increased market traction in attractive niches
- The customer base is a mix of long-term, large customers and growth opportunities
- Pexip Engage, Pexip's scheduling solution built on the Skedify acquisition, delivered a strong quarter with 15% growth in the quarter, supported by the first direct \$100k+ win for the Engage product
• Signed a 3-year agreement with the biggest independent mortgage consultancy service in the Netherlands, De Hypotheker
Connected Spaces
ARR
USDm 63.0 61.9 61.5 61.3 61.2 Q4 2022 Q4 2021 Q1 2022 Q2 2022 Q3 2022
- Have innovated to regain technology leadership in Connected Spaces through 2022
- Continue to win major customers with our leading technology, in particular on Teams interoperability
- Signed a top ten Fortune 500 company with Pexip Enterprise Room Connector for their existing video rooms
- Signed a large Nordic bank for company-wide rollout of new video rooms and video infrastructure
Breakdown of ARR development
Development in ARR portfolio last twelve months
- Legacy continues to decline in line with expectation, driving both churn and downsell
- Have increased list prices from Jan 1, 2023 which will have a positive impact on net upsell through 2023
- The single large customer lost in Q3 continues to affect the development, and excluding this customer, churn is slightly up compared to the previous quarter (USD 8.6 million compared to USD 7.2 million out of Q3 2022)
Continued solid progress on cost reductions support 2023 financial targets
Operational cost base development
NOK million, annualized
Updated cost base estimates
NOK million, full year
Note: EBITDA costs consisting of Cost of sales, Salary and personnel expenses and Other OPEX. Balance sheet costs consists of capitalized PPE and software development, principal lease payments and quarterly change in contract cost assets.
Q4 2022 revenue and EBITDA development
- Revenues were NOK 260.4 million in Q4 2022, a 2.1% decrease y-o-y
- Continued positive EBITDA development, driven by realized effects of the cost reduction program and providing support on projected return to profitability
- Positive adj. EBITDA amounted to NOK 21.7 million excluding restructuring costs
Adjusted EBITDA NOK million
2022 revenue and EBITDA development
- Full year revenues were NOK 867.1 million in 2022, a 7.6% increase y-o-y
- Adjusted EBITDA of negative NOK 184.0 million, representing a -21.2% EBITDA margin
- Including restructuring costs EBITDA amounted to negative NOK 245.3 million
- Targeting positive EBITDA of NOK 100-150 million for 2023
2019 2020 2021 2022 370.0 867.1 678.5 805.5 Revenue NOK million Adjusted EBITDA NOK million 2019 2020 2021 2022 55.6 76.3 -124.3 -184.0
Q4 2022 and full year 2022 Financial results
Profit and Loss Comments
| NOK million |
Q4 2022 |
Q4 2021 |
2022 |
2021 |
| Revenue |
260.4 |
265.9 |
867.1 |
805.5 |
| Cost of goods sold |
17.7 |
18.3 |
93.8 |
76.9 |
| Gross Profit |
242.7 |
247.6 |
773.2 |
728.6 |
| Salary and personnel exp. |
166.0 |
158.2 |
719.7 |
634.4 |
| Other operating exp. |
55.0 |
79.4 |
237.5 |
218.6 |
| Adj. EBITDA1 |
21.7 |
9.9 |
-184.0 |
-124.3 |
| Restructuring costs |
29.2 |
- |
61.3 |
- |
| EBITDA |
-7.5 |
9.9 |
-245.3 |
-124.3 |
| D&A |
44.3 |
20.5 |
115.1 |
73.7 |
| Operating loss |
-51.7 |
-10.6 |
-360.4 |
-198.0 |
- Slight decline in year-on-year Q4 revenue, driven by lower ARR and revenue from Self-hosted Software.
- COGS is mainly relating to sale of Pexip-as-a-Service and is stable year-on-year despite higher revenue. This is mainly due to underlying efficiency improvements, as well as some end-of-year one-off benefits.
- Improved adj. EBITDA of positive NOK 22 million from lower operating expenses, up from NOK 9.9 million in Q4 2021.
- Restructuring costs are one-off costs related to the cost restructuring program and resizing of the organization.
Summary and outlook
Summary & outlook
Profitability
- Q4 2022 adj. EBITDA of NOK 22 million
- Target EBITDA of NOK 100-150 million in 2023 with minimum NOK 40-60 million free cash flow1
Growth and ARR outlook
- Macro environment impacts sales cycles and decision processes
- Continued good traction for Secure Spaces supporting target of +20% development across Video Innovation and Secure Spaces in 2023
- Q1 ARR expected USD 97-100 million
- For 2023 as a whole, we target a flat to positive development in total revenues
- Technology leadership continues to attract strategic partnership opportunities
1) Free cash flow from operating cash flow and investing activities excluding one-off items Note: Assuming constant currency (LTM basis)
Upcoming dates
Annual & Sustainability Reports 2022
March 29, 2023
Annual General Meeting
April 20, 2023
Q1 2023 Quarterly Presentation
May 4, 2023
Thank you! Q&A
Appendix
ARR development across solution areas
ARR development across geographies and products