Spok Reports Second Quarter 2023 Results

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Strong improvement in net income and adjusted EBITDA

Record level of software operations bookings

Software and Wireless Revenue Growth on a Year-Over-Year Basis

Company increases full year 2023 financial guidance

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 26, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), a global leader in healthcare communications, today announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023. In addition, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.3125 per share, payable on September 8, 2023, to stockholders of record on August 17, 2023.

Recent Highlights:

  • Generated net income of $4.7 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to net income of $1.9 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, in the prior year period

  • Generated $8.5 million of adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter, compared to $4.7 million in the second quarter of 2022

  • Software operations bookings totaled $14.0 million for the second quarter, compared to $7.4 million in the second quarter of 2022, a 90% year-over-year increase

  • Second quarter 2023 software operations bookings included 23 six-figure and 3 seven-figure customer contracts

  • Second quarter 2023 software revenue totaled $17.6 million, up more than 24% from the prior quarter and more than 17% from the prior year period

  • Second quarter 2023 wireless average revenue per unit (ARPU) was $7.53, up on a year-over-year basis, with units in service down less than 1% from the prior quarter and 3.5% on a trailing-twelve-month basis

  • Second quarter 2023 wireless revenue of $18.9 million, up 1% from revenue of $18.7 million in the same period in 2022

  • Capital returned to stockholders in the second quarter of 2023 totaled $6.2 million in the form of the Company’s regular quarterly dividend

  • Cash and equivalents balance increased from the prior quarter to $30.9 million on June 30, 2023, and no debt

"I am very proud of the record performance that our team was able to deliver in the second quarter and believe that these results position us well for the second half of the year, as we continue to execute our plan focused on growing revenue, generating cash flow and returning capital to stockholders," said Vincent D. Kelly, chief executive officer of Spok Holdings, Inc. "Last quarter, our team was able to grow revenue, both in total and within each of our two service lines, on a year-over-year basis, reversing historical trends. We made tremendous progress in several key performance areas, including wireless trends, software bookings and backlog levels. Software operations bookings were up 90% on a year-over-year basis and included a record 23 new six-figure and 3 new seven-figure customer contracts. We continued our focus on expense management, as we drove expense reductions on a year-over-year basis, while making the necessary investments in product development and sales and marketing to support the growth of our Spok Care Connect and Wireless solutions. I am also very pleased with our performance in Wireless, as we drove sequential and trailing-twelve-month unit churn down to 0.6% and 3.5%, respectively.

"In short, we are firing on all cylinders," continued Kelly. "Based on our performance in the second quarter we are, once again, increasing our full year 2023 guidance estimates for revenue and adjusted EBITDA generation. We believe we are on track to grow consolidated revenue for 2023, on a year-over-year basis, for the first time in the Company's history and the low point of our revenue guidance reflects that. We look forward to continued success in the second half of the year and believe our extensive experience operating our established communication solutions will create significant value for stockholders by maximizing revenue and cash flow generation."

Financial Highlights:

For the three months ended June 30,

For the six months ended June 30,

(Dollars in thousands)

2023

2022

Change (%)

2023

2022

Change (%)

Revenue

Wireless revenue

Paging revenue

$

18,271

$

18,141

0.7

%

$

36,796

$

36,454

0.9

%

Product and other revenue

606

559

8.4

%

1,109

1,093

1.5

%

Total wireless revenue

$

18,877

$

18,700

0.9

%

$

37,905

$

37,547

1.0

%

Software revenue

License

$

3,692

$

1,962

88.2

%

$

5,310

$

3,786

40.3

%

Professional services

3,837

3,331

15.2

%

7,076

6,667

6.1

%

Hardware

933

507

84.0

%

1,289

1,096

17.6

%

Maintenance

9,124

9,210

(0.9

)%

18,063

18,439

(2.0

)%

Total software revenue

17,586

15,010

17.2

%

31,738

29,988

5.8

%

Total revenue

$

36,463

$

33,710

8.2

%

$

69,643

$

67,535

3.1

%

For the three months ended June 30,

For the six months ended June 30,

(Dollars in thousands)

2023

2022

Change (%)

2023

2022

Change (%)

GAAP

Operating expenses

$

30,248

$

31,298

(3.4

)%

$

58,711

$

73,791

(20.4

)%

Net income (loss)

$

4,733

$

1,924

146.0

%

$

7,850

$

(5,290

)

248.4

%

Cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments (as of period end)

$

30,866

$

38,432

(19.7

)%

$

30,866

$

38,432

(19.7

)%

Capital returned to stockholders

$

6,230

$

6,155

1.2

%

$

13,163

$

12,679

3.8

%

Non-GAAP

Adjusted operating expenses

$

28,875

$

29,977

(3.7

)%

$

56,092

$

67,041

(16.3

)%

Adjusted EBITDA

$

8,511

$

4,694

81.3

%

$

15,410

$

2,570

499.6

%

For the three months ended June 30,

For the six months ended June 30,

(Dollars in thousands, excluding units and service and ARPU)

2023

2022

Change (%)

2023

2022

Change (%)

Key Statistics

Wireless units in service

806

835

(3.5

)%

806

835

(3.5

)%

Wireless average revenue per unit (ARPU)

$

7.53

$

7.23

4.1

%

$

7.56

$

7.22

4.7

%

Software operations bookings(1)

$

14,010

$

7,374

90.0

%

$

19,688

$

12,586

56.4

%

Software backlog (as of period end)

$

56,980

$

44,488

28.1

%

$

56,980

$

44,488

28.1

%

1) Software operations bookings includes net new (i.e., new customers or incremental add-on sales to existing customers) sales of license, professional services, equipment, and first-year maintenance.

Financial Outlook:

The Company also increased its financial guidance and now expects the following for the full year 2023:

(Unaudited and in millions)

Current Guidance

Full Year 2023

Prior Guidance

Full Year 2023

From

To

From

To

Revenue

Wireless

$

74.5

$

75.5

$

73.0

$

75.5

Software

$

60.0

$

62.0

$

58.0

$

62.0

Total Revenue

$

134.5

$

137.5

$

131.0

$

137.5

Adjusted EBITDA

$

25.0

$

28.0

$

24.5

$

26.5

2023 Second Quarter Call:

Management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss these financial results on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The presentation is open to all interested parties and may include forward-looking information.

Conference Call Details

Date/Time:

Thursday, July 27, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. ET

Webcast:

https://www.webcast-eqs.com/register/spok_q22023_en/en

U.S. Toll-Free Dial In:

877-407-0890

International Dial In:

1-201-389-0918

To access the call, please dial in approximately ten minutes before the start of the call. For those unable to join the live call, an OnDemand version of the webcast will be available following the call under the URL link and on the investor relations website.

About Spok

Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is proud to be a global leader in healthcare communications. We deliver clinical information to care teams when and where it matters most to improve patient outcomes. Top hospitals rely on the Spok Care Connect® platform to enhance workflows for clinicians and support administrative compliance. Our customers send over 100 million messages each month through their Spok® solutions. Spok enables smarter, faster clinical communication. For more information, visit spok.com or follow @spoktweets on Twitter.

Spok is a trademark of Spok Holdings, Inc. Spok Care Connect and Spok Mobile are trademarks of Spok, Inc.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release contains the following non-GAAP financial measures: adjusted operating expenses and adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted operating expenses excludes depreciation, amortization and accretion expense, impairment of intangible assets and severance and restructuring costs. Adjusted EBITDA represents net income/(loss) before interest income/expense, income tax benefit/expense, depreciation, amortization and accretion expense, stock-based compensation expense, impairment of intangible assets and severance and restructuring. With respect to our expectations under "Financial Guidance" above, reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net income (loss) is not available without unreasonable efforts on a forward-looking basis due to the high variability, complexity and uncertainty with respect to certain items included in net income (loss) that are excluded from adjusted EBITDA, in particular, income tax benefit / expense, stock-based compensation expenses, impairment of intangible assets, severance and restructuring and other non-recurring expenses. These items can have unpredictable fluctuations based on unforeseen activity that is out of our control and /or cannot be reasonably predicted.

We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to management and investors regarding certain financial and business trends relating to Spok's financial condition and results of operations. We use these non-GAAP measures for financial, operational, and budgetary decision-making purposes, to understand and evaluate our core operating performance and trends, and to generate future operating plans. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures permit us to more thoroughly analyze key financial metrics used to make operational decisions and allow us to assess our core operating results. We believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing our financial measures with other software companies who present similar non-GAAP financial measures. We adjust for certain items because we do not regard these costs as reflective of normal costs related to the ongoing operation of the business in the ordinary course. In general, these items possess one or more of the following characteristics: non-cash expenses, factors outside of our control, items that are non-operational in nature, and unusual items not expected to occur in the normal course of business. We believe it is important to exclude these costs, given that they do not represent future operational costs under this strategic business plan. This allows us to assess the underlying performance of our core business under this new strategic business plan.

We do not consider these non-GAAP measures in isolation or as an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. The principle of these non-GAAP financial measures is that they exclude significant amounts that are required by GAAP to be recorded in the Company's financial statements. In addition, they are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgment by management about which items are excluded or included in determining these non-GAAP financial measures. In order to compensate for these limitations, management presents non-GAAP financial measures in connection with GAAP results. We urge investors to review the reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures, which are included in this press release, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act

Statements contained herein or in prior press releases which are not historical fact, such as statements regarding our future operating and financial performance, are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to be materially different from the future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expectations include, but are not limited to, our ability to manage wireless network rationalization to lower our costs without causing disruption of service to our customers; our ability to retain key management personnel and to attract and retain talent within the organization; the productivity of our sales organization and our ability to deliver effective customer support; our ability to identify potential acquisitions, consummate and successfully integrate such acquisitions, and achieve the expected benefits of such acquisitions; risks related to global health epidemics; economic conditions such as recessionary economic cycles, higher interest rates, inflation and higher levels of unemployment; competition for our services and products from new technologies or those offered and/or developed from firms that are substantially larger and have much greater financial and human capital resources; continuing decline in the number of paging units we have in service with customers, commensurate with a continuing decline in our wireless revenue; our ability to address changing market conditions with new or revised software solutions; undetected defects, bugs, or security vulnerabilities in our products; our dependence on the U.S. healthcare industry; the sales cycle of our software solutions and services can run from six to eighteen months, making it difficult to plan for and meet our sales objectives and bookings on a steady basis quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year; our reliance on third-party vendors to supply us with wireless paging equipment; our ability to maintain successful relationships with our channel partners; our ability to protect our rights in intellectual property that we own and develop and the potential for litigation claiming intellectual property infringement by us; our use of open source software, third-party software and other intellectual property; the reliability of our networks and servers and our ability to prevent cyber-attacks and other security issues and disruptions; unauthorized breaches or failures in cybersecurity measures adopted by us and/or included in our products and services; our ability to realize the benefits associated with our deferred income tax assets; future impairments of our long-lived assets, amortizable intangible assets or goodwill; risks related to data privacy and protection-related laws and regulation; and our ability to manage changes related to regulation, including laws and regulations affecting hospitals and the healthcare industry generally, as well as other risks described from time to time in our periodic reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although Spok believes the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be attained. Spok disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Tables to Follow

SPOK HOLDINGS, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Unaudited and in thousands except share, per share amounts and ARPU)

For the three months ended

For the six months ended

6/30/2023

6/30/2022

6/30/2023

6/30/2022

Revenue:

Wireless

$

18,877

$

18,700

$

37,905

$

37,547

Software

17,586

15,010

31,738

29,988

Total revenue

36,463

33,710

69,643

67,535

Operating expenses:

Cost of revenue (exclusive of items shown separately below)

6,727

6,980

13,263

14,784

Research and development

2,853

2,624

5,346

9,121

Technology operations

6,452

6,880

13,039

13,893

Selling and marketing

4,354

3,874

8,255

9,189

General and administrative

8,489

9,619

16,189

20,054

Depreciation, amortization and accretion

1,265

871

2,501

1,805

Severance and restructuring

108

450

118

4,945

Total operating expenses

30,248

31,298

58,711

73,791

% of total revenue

83.0

%

92.8

%

84.3

%

109.3

%

Operating income (loss)

6,215

2,412

10,932

(6,256

)

% of total revenue

17.0

%

7.2

%

15.7

%

(9.3

)%

Interest income

354

170

626

237

Other (expense) income

(138

)

25

(85

)

12

Income (loss) before income taxes

6,431

2,607

11,473

(6,007

)

(Provision for) benefit from income taxes

(1,698

)

(683

)

(3,623

)

717

Net income (loss)

$

4,733

$

1,924

$

7,850

$

(5,290

)

Basic net income (loss) per common share

$

0.24

$

0.10

$

0.39

$

(0.27

)

Diluted net income (loss) per common share

0.23

0.10

0.39

(0.27

)

Basic weighted average common shares outstanding

19,957,786

19,693,659

19,927,782

19,645,680

Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding

20,255,248

19,807,430

20,266,914

19,645,680

Cash dividends declared per common share

0.3125

0.3125

0.6250

0.6250

SPOK HOLDINGS, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands)

6/30/2023

12/31/2022

ASSETS

(Unaudited)

Current assets:

Cash and cash equivalents

$

30,866

$

35,754

Accounts receivable, net

25,467

26,861

Prepaid expenses

7,371

6,849

Other current assets

841

587

Total current assets

64,545

70,051

Non-current assets:

Property and equipment, net

7,869

8,223

Operating lease right-of-use assets

12,713

13,876

Goodwill

99,175

99,175

Deferred income tax assets, net

48,992

52,398

Other non-current assets

630

754

Total non-current assets

169,379

174,426

Total assets

$

233,924

$

244,477

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Current liabilities:

Accounts payable

$

6,768

$

5,880

Accrued compensation and benefits

8,528

11,628

Deferred revenue

23,984

27,255

Operating lease liabilities

4,693

5,096

Other current liabilities

5,352

4,573

Total current liabilities

49,325

54,432

Non-current liabilities:

Asset retirement obligations

7,455

7,237

Operating lease liabilities

9,520

10,604

Other non-current liabilities

1,013

1,107

Total non-current liabilities

17,988

18,948

Total liabilities

67,313

73,380

Commitments and contingencies

Stockholders' equity:

Common stock

2

2

Additional paid-in capital

100,612

99,908

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

(1,862

)

(1,909

)

Retained earnings

67,859

73,096

Total stockholders' equity

166,611

171,097

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity

$

233,924

$

244,477

SPOK HOLDINGS, INC.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Unaudited and in thousands)

For the six months ended

6/30/2023

6/30/2022

Operating activities:

Net income (loss)

$

7,850

$

(5,290

)

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided (used) by operating activities:

Depreciation and accretion

2,501

1,805

Deferred income tax expense (benefit)

3,602

(495

)

Stock-based compensation

1,859

2,076

Provisions for credit losses, service credits and other

222

861

Changes in assets and liabilities:

Accounts receivable

1,168

(576

)

Prepaid expenses and other assets

(653

)

(416

)

Net operating lease liabilities

(324

)

(109

)

Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other

(1,745

)

(3,582

)

Deferred revenue

(3,282

)

(169

)

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

11,198

(5,895

)

Investing activities:

Purchases of property and equipment

(1,815

)

(1,192

)

Purchase of short-term investments

—

(14,967

)

Maturity of short-term investments

—

15,000

Net cash used in investing activities

(1,815

)

(1,159

)

Financing activities:

Cash distributions to stockholders

(13,163

)

(12,679

)

Proceeds from issuance of common stock under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan

90

—

Purchase of common stock for tax withholding on vested equity awards

(1,245

)

(1,209

)

Net cash used in financing activities

(14,318

)

(13,888

)

Effect of exchange rate on cash and cash equivalents

47

(204

)

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

(4,888

)

(21,146

)

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

35,754

44,583

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

$

30,866

$

23,437

Supplemental disclosure:

Income taxes paid/(refunded)

$

253

$

185

SPOK HOLDINGS, INC.

UNITS IN SERVICE, MARKET SEGMENTS,

AND AVERAGE REVENUE PER UNIT (ARPU) (a)

(Unaudited and in thousands)

For the three months ended

6/30/2023

3/31/2023

12/31/2022

9/30/2022

6/30/2022

3/31/2022

12/31/2021

9/30/2021

Account size ending units in service (000's)

1 to 100 units

48

48

50

51

53

54

55

57

101 to 1,000 units

144

149

147

147

149

150

154

154

>1,000 units

614

614

620

626

633

634

638

642

Total

806

811

817

824

835

838

847

853

Market segment as a percent of total ending units in service

Healthcare

86.1

%

85.7

%

85.4

%

85.0

%

85.0

%

84.7

%

84.7

%

84.6

%

Government

4.2

%

4.3

%

4.4

%

4.1

%

4.2

%

4.7

%

4.8

%

4.8

%

Large enterprise

4.0

%

4.1

%

4.0

%

3.9

%

4.0

%

3.9

%

3.9

%

4.1

%

Other(b)

5.7

%

5.9

%

6.1

%

7.0

%

6.8

%

6.7

%

6.6

%

6.4

%

Total

100.0

%

100.0

%

100.0

%

100.0

%

100.0

%

100.0

%

100.0

%

100.0

%

Account size ARPU

1 to 100 units

$

11.91

$

12.03

$

11.95

$

11.80

$

11.41

$

11.52

$

11.58

$

11.67

101 to 1,000 units

8.56

8.75

8.66

8.44

8.27

8.24

8.30

8.38

>1,000 units

6.94

6.95

6.86

6.69

6.63

6.64

6.63

6.65

Total

$

7.53

$

7.59

$

7.50

$

7.40

$

7.23

$

7.24

$

7.26

$

7.29

(a) Slight variations in totals are due to rounding.

(b) Other includes hospitality, resort and indirect units

RECONCILIATION OF ADJUSTED OPERATING EXPENSES

(Unaudited and in thousands)

For the three months ended

For the six months ended

6/30/2023

6/30/2022

6/30/2023

6/30/2022

Operating expenses

$

30,248

$

31,298

$

58,711

$

73,791

Add back:

Depreciation, amortization and accretion

(1,265

)

(871

)

(2,501

)

(1,805

)

Severance and restructuring

(108

)

(450

)

(118

)

(4,945

)

Adjusted operating expenses

$

28,875

$

29,977

$

56,092

$

67,041

RECONCILIATION OF ADJUSTED EBITDA

(Unaudited and in thousands)

For the three months ended

For the six months ended

6/30/2023

6/30/2022

6/30/2023

6/30/2022

Net income (loss)

$

4,733

$

1,924

$

7,850

$

(5,290

)

Add back:

Provision for (benefit from) income taxes

1,698

683

3,623

(717

)

Other expense (income)

138

(25

)

85

(12

)

Interest income

(354

)

(170

)

(626

)

(237

)

Depreciation, amortization and accretion

1,265

871

2,501

1,805

EBITDA

$

7,480

$

3,283

$

13,433

$

(4,451

)

Adjustments:

Stock-based compensation

923

961

1,859

2,076

Severance and restructuring

108

450

118

4,945

Adjusted EBITDA

$

8,511

$

4,694

$

15,410

$

2,570

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Contacts

Al Galgano
952-224-6096
al.galgano@spok.com

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