ZoomInfo, (NASDAQ: ZI) the go-to-market platform to find, acquire, and grow customers, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024. “We continued our move up...
VANCOUVER, Wash.: ZoomInfo, (NASDAQ: ZI) the go-to-market platform to find, acquire, and grow customers, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024.
“We continued our move up-market, fueled by ZoomInfo Copilot and Operations growth, and we delivered strong financial results while improving the quality of new customers that we are bringing in. The entire company is more focused than ever on delighting both our new and existing users via robust product innovation and customer obsession,” said Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo founder and CEO. “Net revenue retention was stable for the third consecutive quarter and we again grew our $100k and million dollar customer cohorts. We remain steadfast in our commitment to growing levered free cash flow per share and driving significant long-term value creation for our shareholders.”
Third Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights:
Recent Business and Operating Highlights:
Q3 2024 Financial Highlights (Unaudited) | ||||||||
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| GAAP Quarterly Results |
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| Non-GAAP Quarterly Results |
| Change YoY |
Revenue | $303.6 |
| (3)% |
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Operating Income | $43.5 |
| (31)% |
| Adjusted Operating Income | $111.7 |
| (11)% |
Operating Income Margin | 14% |
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| Adjusted Operating Income Margin | 37% |
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Net Income Per Share (Diluted) | $0.07 |
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| Adjusted Net Income Per Share (Diluted) | $0.28 |
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Cash Flow from Operating Activities | $18.2 |
| (77)% |
| Unlevered Free Cash Flow | $110.7 |
| 17% |
The Company uses a variety of operational and financial metrics, including non-GAAP financial measures, to evaluate its performance and financial condition. The accompanying financial data includes additional information regarding these metrics and a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial information for historical periods to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. The presentation of non-GAAP financial information should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
Business Outlook:
Based on information available as of November 12, 2024, ZoomInfo is providing guidance for the fourth quarter and full year 2024 as follows:
| Q4 2024 |
| Prior FY 2024 |
| FY 2024 |
GAAP Revenue | $296 - $299 million |
| $1.190 - $1.205 billion |
| $1.201 - $1.204 billion |
Non-GAAP Adjusted Operating Income | $103 - $105 million |
| $412 - $418 million |
| $416 - $418 million |
Non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income Per Share | $0.22 - $0.23 |
| $0.86 - $0.88 |
| $0.92 - $0.93 |
Non-GAAP Unlevered Free Cash Flow | Not Guided |
| $420 - $430 million |
| $420 - $430 million |
Weighted Average Shares Outstanding | 362 million |
| 375 million |
| 378 million |
Conference Call and Webcast Information:
ZoomInfo will host a conference call today, November 12, 2024, to review its results at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. To participate in the live conference call via telephone, please register here. Upon registering, a dial-in number and unique PIN will be provided to join the conference call.
The call will also be webcast live on the Company’s investor relations website at https://ir.zoominfo.com/, where related presentation materials will be posted prior to the conference call. Following the conference call, an archived webcast of the call will be available for one year on ZoomInfo’s Investor Relations website.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Metrics:
To supplement our consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, this press release contains non-GAAP financial measures, including Adjusted Operating Income, Adjusted Operating Income Margin, Adjusted Net Income, Adjusted Net Income Per Share, and Unlevered Free Cash Flow. We believe these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance because they eliminate certain items that affect period-over-period comparability and provide consistency with past financial performance and additional information about our underlying results and trends by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of our business, results of operations, or outlook.
Non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the comparable GAAP measures, but rather as supplemental information to our business results. This information should be read only in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. There are limitations to these non-GAAP financial measures because they are not prepared in accordance with GAAP and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies due to potential differences in methods of calculation and items or events being adjusted. In addition, other companies may use different measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of our non-GAAP financial measures as tools for comparison. A reconciliation is provided at the end of this press release for each historical non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with GAAP. We do not provide a quantitative reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures included in this press release to the most directly comparable GAAP measures due to the high variability and difficulty to predict certain items excluded from these non-GAAP financial measures; in particular, the effects of stock-based compensation expense, taxes and amounts under the exchange tax receivable agreement, deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities, and restructuring and transaction expenses. We expect the variability of these excluded items may have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future GAAP financial results.
We define Adjusted Operating Income as income (loss) from operations adjusted for, as applicable, (i) the impact of fair value adjustments to acquired unearned revenue, (ii) amortization of acquired technology and other acquired intangibles, (iii) equity-based compensation expense, (iv) restructuring and transaction-related expenses, (v) integration costs and acquisition-related expenses, and (vi) legal settlement. We define Adjusted Operating Income Margin as Adjusted Operating Income divided by the sum of revenue and the impact of fair value adjustments to acquired unearned revenue.
We define Adjusted Net Income as net income (loss) adjusted for, as applicable, (i) the impact of fair value adjustments to acquired unearned revenue, (ii) loss on debt modification and extinguishment, (iii) amortization of acquired technology and other acquired intangibles, (iv) equity-based compensation expense, (v) restructuring and transaction-related expenses, (vi) integration costs and acquisition-related expenses, (vii) legal settlement, (viii) TRA liability remeasurement (benefit) expense, (ix) other (income) loss, net and (x) tax impacts of adjustments to net income (loss). We define Adjusted Net Income (Loss) Per Share as Adjusted Net Income (Loss) divided by diluted weighted average shares outstanding used for adjusted net income (loss) per share.
We define Unlevered Free Cash Flow as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less (i) purchases of property and equipment and other assets, plus (ii) cash interest expense, (iii) cash payments related to restructuring and transaction-related expenses, (iv) cash payments related to integration costs and acquisition-related compensation, and (v) legal settlement payments. Unlevered Free Cash Flow does not represent residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures since, among other things, we have mandatory debt service requirements.
Net revenue retention is a metric that we calculate based on customers of ZoomInfo at the beginning of the twelve-month period, and is calculated as: (a) the total annual contract value ("ACV") for those customers at the end of the twelve-month period, divided by (b) the total ACV for those customers at the beginning of the twelve-month period.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. You can generally identify our forward-looking statements by the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “can”, “continue”, “could”, “estimate”, “expect”, “forecast”, “goal”, “intend”, “may”, “might”, “objective”, “outlook”, “plan”, “potential”, “predict”, “projection”, “seek”, “should”, “target”, “trend”, “will”, “would” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Any statements in this press release regarding future revenue, earnings, margins, financial performance, expenses, estimates, cash flow, growth in free cash flow, results of changes in operational procedures, liquidity, or results of operations (including, but not limited to, the guidance provided under “Business Outlook”), and any other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. We have based our forward-looking statements on beliefs and assumptions based on information available to us at the time the statements are made. We caution you that assumptions, beliefs, expectations, intentions and projections about future events may, and often do, vary materially from actual results. Therefore, we cannot assure you that actual results will not differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements include, among other things: future economic, competitive, and regulatory conditions, potential future uses of cash, the successful integration of acquired businesses, and future decisions made by us and our competitors. All of these factors are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of them are beyond our control. For a further list and description of these and other important risks and uncertainties that may affect our future operations, see Part I, Item 1A - Risk Factors in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which we may update in Part II, Item 1A - Risk Factors in Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q we have filed or will file hereafter. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures, investments, or other strategic transactions we may make. Each forward-looking statement contained in this presentation speaks only as of the date of this press release, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.
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About ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI) is the trusted go-to-market platform for businesses to find, acquire, and grow their customers. It delivers accurate, real-time data, insights, and technology to more than 35,000 companies worldwide. Businesses use ZoomInfo to increase efficiency, consolidate, technology stacks, and align their sales and marketing teams - all in one platform. ZoomInfo is a recognized leader in data privacy, with industry-leading GDPR and CCPA compliance measures and numerous data security and privacy certifications. For more information about how ZoomInfo can help businesses grow their revenue at scale, please visit www.zoominfo.com.
Website Disclosure
ZoomInfo intends to use its website as a distribution channel of material company information. Financial and other important information regarding the Company is routinely posted on and accessible through the Company’s website at https://ir.zoominfo.com/. Accordingly, you should monitor the investor relations portion of our website at https://ir.zoominfo.com/ in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings, and public conference calls and webcasts. In addition, you may automatically receive email alerts and other information about ZoomInfo when you enroll your email address by visiting the “Email Alerts” section of our investor relations page at https://ir.zoominfo.com/.
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Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets | |||||
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| September 30, |
| December 31, | ||
| 2024 |
| 2023 | ||
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Assets |
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Current assets: |
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Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 147.7 |
| $ | 447.1 |
Short-term investments |
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| 82.2 |
Restricted cash, current |
| — |
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| 0.2 |
Accounts receivable, net |
| 163.0 |
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| 272.0 |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
| 73.9 |
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| 59.6 |
Income tax receivable |
| 6.1 |
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| 3.2 |
Total current assets | $ | 390.7 |
| $ | 864.3 |
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Restricted cash, non-current | $ | 8.9 |
| $ | 8.9 |
Property and equipment, net |
| 99.5 |
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| 65.1 |
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net |
| 108.5 |
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| 80.7 |
Intangible assets, net |
| 290.8 |
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| 334.6 |
Goodwill |
| 1,692.7 |
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| 1,692.7 |
Deferred tax assets |
| 3,692.9 |
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| 3,707.1 |
Deferred costs and other assets, net of current portion |
| 110.9 |
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| 114.9 |
Total assets | $ | 6,394.9 |
| $ | 6,868.3 |
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Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity |
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Current liabilities: |
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Accounts payable | $ | 21.1 |
| $ | 34.4 |
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities |
| 109.5 |
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| 113.8 |
Unearned revenue, current portion |
| 417.0 |
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| 439.6 |
Income taxes payable |
| 0.3 |
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| 2.0 |
Current portion of tax receivable agreements liability |
| 58.9 |
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| 31.4 |
Current portion of operating lease liabilities |
| 11.4 |
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| 11.2 |
Current portion of long-term debt |
| 5.9 |
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| 6.0 |
Total current liabilities | $ | 624.1 |
| $ | 638.4 |
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Unearned revenue, net of current portion | $ | 2.2 |
| $ | 2.3 |
Tax receivable agreements liability, net of current portion |
| 2,736.0 |
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| 2,786.6 |
Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion |
| 135.8 |
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| 89.9 |
Long-term debt, net of current portion |
| 1,222.9 |
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| 1,226.4 |
Deferred tax liabilities |
| 2.5 |
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| 1.9 |
Other long-term liabilities |
| 3.0 |
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| 3.5 |
Total liabilities | $ | 4,726.5 |
| $ | 4,749.0 |
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Stockholders' Equity: |
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Common stock, par value $0.01 | $ | 3.4 |
| $ | 3.8 |
Additional paid-in capital |
| 1,351.3 |
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| 1,804.9 |
Accumulated other comprehensive income |
| 15.9 |
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| 27.3 |
Retained earnings |
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