Wix Reports Second Quarter 2019 Results

 

 

 

 

 

NEW YORK, July 24, 2019 -- Wix.com Ltd. (Nasdaq: WIX) today reported strong financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019, exceeding its prior guidance. In addition, the Company provided its initial outlook for the third quarter 2019 and raised its outlook for the full year, reflecting accelerating collections growth for the second half of the year.

 

“Our ongoing strong top line performance reflects success across multiple growth drivers, including vast improvements to our overall product offering and increasing adoption of complementary products. These results validate the increasing value we provide to our evolving user base. We have made tremendous progress with multiple new initiatives, and I believe these will drive growth in the second half of this year and beyond,” said Avishai Abrahami, Co-founder and CEO of Wix.

 

Lior Shemesh, CFO of Wix, said, “We continue to grow the value of our user base through new product offerings and increasing monetization. We now expect future collections of existing user cohorts to be $5.9 billion over the next eight years, which is an increase of 28% Y/Y. Our results continue to show the strength of our financial model and our ability to drive profitable growth, which we believe will continue through this year and for many years to come.”

Commenting on the recently announced initiative to expand Customer Solutions, Nir Zohar, President and COO of Wix, said, “Our expanding Customer Solutions organization is ramping quickly as we have added resources and are implementing many new processes to enable personalized support for users. Initial data is very positive, and we continue to believe this initiative will fuel additional growth.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wix is introducing its outlook for the third quarter 2019:

Wix is also updating its outlook for the full year 2019:

 

Wix will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 to answer questions about the financial and operational performance of the business for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019. The conference call will include a brief statement by management and will focus on answering questions about our results during the quarter. To enhance the Q&A portion of this call, the Company has posted a shareholder update and supporting slides to its Investor Relations website at https://investors.wix.com/. These materials provide shareholders and analysts with additional detail for analyzing results in advance of the quarterly conference call.

 

To participate on the live call, analysts and investors should dial +1-877-270-2148 (US/ Canada), +1-412-902-6510 (International) or 1-809-212-373 (Israel) at least ten minutes prior to the start time of the call and reference Conference ID WIX. A telephonic replay of the call will be available through July 31, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. ET by dialing +1-877-344-7529 and providing Conference ID 10133234.

 

Wix will also offer a live and archived webcast of the conference call, accessible from the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website at https://investors.wix.com/.

 

Wix is leading the way with a cloud-based website development platform for over 150 million registered users worldwide today. The Wix website builder was founded on the belief that the Internet should be accessible to everyone to develop, create and contribute. Through free and premium subscriptions, Wix empowers millions of businesses, organizations, artists, and individuals to take their businesses, brands and workflow online. The Wix Editor, Wix ADI, a highly curated App Market, Ascend by Wix and Corvid by Wix enable users to build and manage a fully integrated and dynamic digital presence. Wix's headquarters are in Tel Aviv with offices in Be'er Sheva, Berlin, Dnipro, Dublin, Kiev, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo, Tokyo and Vilnius.

 

Download: Wix App is available for free on Google Play and in the App Store

To supplement its consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, Wix uses the following non-GAAP financial measures: collections, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating income (loss), non-GAAP net income (loss), non-GAAP net income (loss) per share and free cash flow (collectively the "Non-GAAP financial measures"). Collections represents the total cash collected by us from our customers in a given period and is calculated by adding the change in deferred revenues for a particular period to revenues for the same period. Non-GAAP gross margin represents gross profit calculated in accordance with GAAP as adjusted for the impact of share-based compensation expense, acquisition-related expenses and amortization, divided by revenue. Non-GAAP operating income (loss) represents operating income (loss) calculated in accordance with GAAP as adjusted for the impact of share-based compensation expense, amortization, and acquisition-related expenses. Non-GAAP net income (loss) represents net loss calculated in accordance with GAAP as adjusted for the impact of share-based compensation expense, amortization, amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs and acquisition-related expenses and non-operating foreign exchange expenses (income). Non-GAAP net income (loss) per share represents non-GAAP net income (loss) divided by the weighted average number of shares used in computing GAAP loss per share. Free cash flow represents net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less capital expenditures.

The presentation of this financial information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. The Company uses these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. The Company believes that these measures provide useful information about operating results, enhance the overall understanding of past financial performance and future prospects, and allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in its financial and operational decision making.

 

For more information on the non-GAAP financial measures, please see "Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below. The accompanying tables have more details on the GAAP financial measures that are most directly comparable to non-GAAP financial measures and the related reconciliations between these financial measures. The Company has not reconciled its free cash flow guidance to net cash provided by operating activities because net cash provided by operating activities is not accessible on a forward-looking basis. Items that impact net cash provided by operating activities are out of the Company's control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted. Accordingly, a reconciliation to net cash provided by operating activities is not available without unreasonable effort.

 

 

This document contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements may include projections regarding our future performance, including, but not limited to revenue, collections and free cash flow, and may be identified by words like “anticipate,” “assume,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “outlook,” “future,” “will,” “seek” and similar terms or phrases. The forward-looking statements contained in this document, including the full year guidance, are based on management’s current expectations, which are subject to uncertainty, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others, our ability to grow our user base and premium subscriptions; our ability to create new and higher monetization opportunities from our premium subscriptions; our ability to enter into new markets and attract new customer segments; our ability to maintain and enhance our brand and reputation; our prediction of the future collections generated by our user cohorts; our share repurchases made pursuant to our share repurchase plan; our ability to manage the growth of our infrastructure effectively; our ability to effectively execute our initiatives to scale and improve our user support function; the success of our sales efforts; customer acceptance and satisfaction of new products and other challenges inherent in new product development; changes to technologies used in our solutions; or changes in global, national, regional or local economic, business, competitive, market, regulatory and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s 2018 annual report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 9, 2019. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release speaks only as of the date hereof. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

Investor Relations:

Maggie O’Donnell

415-223-2624

Media Relations:

Vivian Hernandez

Wix.com

415-517-6539

Wix.com Ltd.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS - GAAP
(In thousands, except loss per share data)
		Three Months Ended								Six Months Ended
		June 30,								June 30,
		2018				2019				2018				2019
		(unaudited)								(audited)				(unaudited)
Revenue		$	146,132			$	185,419			$	283,907			$	359,709
Cost of revenue			30,437				46,662				59,481				86,377
Gross Profit			115,695				138,757				224,426				273,332
Operating expenses:
Research and development			48,492				61,486				94,994				119,669
Selling and marketing			58,855				71,329				125,866				157,047
General and administrative			14,855				20,103				28,525				38,569
Total operating expenses			122,202				152,918				249,385				315,285
Operating loss			(6,507	)			(14,161	)			(24,959	)			(41,953	)
Financial expenses, net			1,532				(580	)			1,403				(2,310	)
Other income (expenses)			63				8				84				32
Loss before taxes on income			(4,912	)			(14,733	)			(23,472	)			(44,231	)
Taxes on income			728				2,001				1,979				3,243
Net loss		$	(5,640	)		$	(16,734	)		$	(25,451	)		$	(47,474	)
Basic and diluted net loss per share		$	(0.12	)		$	(0.33	)		$	(0.54	)		$	(0.95	)
Basic and diluted weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share			47,689,337				50,273,017				47,258,381				49,917,692

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