Form 8-K IAC/INTERACTIVECORP For: Feb 02
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 2, 2016
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
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Delaware |
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0-20570 |
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59-2712887 |
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(State or other jurisdiction |
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(Commission |
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(IRS Employer |
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of incorporation) |
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File Number) |
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Identification No.) |
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555 West 18th Street, New York, NY |
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10011 |
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(Address of principal executive offices) |
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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 314-7300
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
o Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On February 2, 2016, the Registrant issued a press release announcing its results for the quarter ended December 31, 2015. The full text of the press release, appearing in Exhibit 99.1 hereto, is incorporated herein by reference.
Prepared remarks by the Registrant’s management for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 and forward-looking statements, appearing in Exhibit 99.2 hereto, are incorporated herein by reference. These remarks are also posted on the “Investors” section of the Registrant’s website (www.iac.com).
Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2 are being furnished under both Item 2.02 “Results of Operations and Financial Condition” and Item 7.01 “Regulation FD Disclosure.”
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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Exhibit No. |
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Description |
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99.1 |
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Press Release of IAC/InterActiveCorp, dated February 2, 2016. |
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99.2 |
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Prepared Remarks by IAC/InterActiveCorp Management, dated February 2, 2016. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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IAC/INTERACTIVECORP | |
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By: |
/s/ GREGG WINIARSKI |
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Name: |
Gregg Winiarski |
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Title: |
Executive Vice President, |
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General Counsel and Secretary |
Date: February 2, 2016
Exhibit 99.1
IAC REPORTS Q4 2015
NEW YORK— February 2, 2016—IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) released fourth quarter 2015 results today and published management’s prepared remarks on the Investors section of its website at www.iac.com/Investors.
SUMMARY RESULTS
($ in millions except per share amounts)
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Q4 2015 |
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Q4 2014 |
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Growth |
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FY 2015 |
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FY 2014 |
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Growth |
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Revenue |
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$ |
848.7 |
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$ |
830.8 |
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2 |
% |
$ |
3,230.9 |
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$ |
3,109.5 |
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4 |
% |
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Adjusted EBITDA |
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160.8 |
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160.0 |
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1 |
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485.8 |
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544.1 |
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-11 |
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Adjusted Net Income |
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64.7 |
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89.7 |
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-28 |
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268.0 |
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226.5 |
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18 |
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Adjusted EPS |
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0.75 |
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1.00 |
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-25 |
% |
3.04 |
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2.55 |
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19 |
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Operating (Loss) Income |
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(5.4 |
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110.4 |
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NM |
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179.6 |
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378.7 |
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-53 |
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Net (Loss) Income |
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(31.8 |
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70.2 |
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NM |
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119.5 |
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414.9 |
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-71 |
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GAAP Diluted EPS |
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(0.38 |
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0.78 |
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NM |
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1.33 |
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4.68 |
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-72 |
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See reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP measures beginning on page 12.
Q4 2015 HIGHLIGHTS
· Match Group completed its IPO in Q4 2015. Revenue for the quarter increased 12%, or 16% excluding the effects of foreign exchange, driven by a 14% increase in Dating revenue attributable to 30% growth in Average PMC, to over 4.6 million globally. Match Group Adjusted EBITDA increased 16% versus the prior year.
· In the HomeAdvisor segment, domestic revenue (82% of total revenue) increased 51%, the 9th consecutive quarter of accelerated growth, driven by 55% growth in service requests and 46% growth in paying service professionals. Adjusted EBITDA increased 57% versus the prior year. Full year 2015 revenue was $361.2 million, up 27% versus 2014.
· Within Publishing, Premium Brands revenue increased 14% driven by strong growth from About.com and Investopedia. Premium Brands ended 2015 with over 100 million monthly active users.
· Within Applications, Consumer revenue increased 6% driven by growth from our downloadable desktop applications, including SlimWare, as well as from Apalon, our mobile applications business.
· In the Video segment, total revenue increased 13% versus the prior year driven by Vimeo, DailyBurn and Electus, partially offset by $10.8 million lower revenue from IAC Films. The Adjusted EBITDA loss improved 87% versus the prior year.
· Vimeo grew paid subscribers 19% to 676,000. Vimeo on Demand ended 2015 with approximately 32,000 titles from nearly 10,000 creators and more than 1.2 million video buyers since launch.
· DailyBurn revenue increased 80% with subscribers ending the year over 105,000, up 56% versus the prior year.
· Following completion of the Match Group IPO and related debt transactions, IAC’s Board of Directors has suspended the quarterly cash dividend program.
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
DISCUSSION OF FINANCIAL AND OPERATING RESULTS
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Q4 2015 |
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Q4 2014 |
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Growth |
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$ in millions |
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Revenue |
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Match Group |
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$ |
267.6 |
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$ |
239.0 |
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12 |
% |
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HomeAdvisor |
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91.8 |
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72.4 |
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27 |
% | ||
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Publishing |
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179.5 |
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206.7 |
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-13 |
% | ||
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Applications |
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179.2 |
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194.1 |
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-8 |
% | ||
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Video |
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66.0 |
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58.2 |
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13 |
% | ||
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Other |
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64.8 |
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60.5 |
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7 |
% | ||
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Intercompany Elimination |
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(0.1 |
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(0.2 |
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57 |
% | ||
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$ |
848.7 |
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$ |
830.8 |
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2 |
% |
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Adjusted EBITDA |
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Match Group |
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$ |
99.3 |
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$ |
85.4 |
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16 |
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HomeAdvisor |
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5.8 |
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3.7 |
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57 |
% | ||
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Publishing |
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22.7 |
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41.8 |
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-46 |
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Applications |
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41.7 |
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47.7 |
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-12 |
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Video |
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(1.4 |
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(10.9 |
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87 |
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Other |
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7.4 |
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6.7 |
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11 |
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Corporate |
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(14.7 |
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(14.4 |
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-3 |
% | ||
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$ |
160.8 |
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$ |
160.0 |
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1 |
% |
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Operating Income (Loss) |
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Match Group |
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$ |
67.6 |
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67.5 |
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HomeAdvisor |
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2.8 |
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(0.2 |
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NM |
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Publishing |
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(70.4 |
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32.2 |
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NM |
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Applications |
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37.1 |
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45.2 |
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-18 |
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Video |
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(2.2 |
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(11.7 |
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81 |
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Other |
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(8.4 |
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5.6 |
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NM |
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Corporate |
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(31.9 |
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(28.2 |
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-13 |
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$ |
(5.4 |
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$ |
110.4 |
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NM |
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Match Group
Dating revenue grew 14% due primarily to 12% higher Direct revenue(1), driven by increases in both North America and International, up 11% and 14%, respectively, versus the prior year period. Direct revenue growth was primarily driven by higher Average PMC at both North America and International, up 20% and 51%, respectively, due mainly to Tinder and the acquisition of PlentyOfFish, which closed on October 28, 2015, partially offset by 14% lower ARPPU(2) due to brand mix shifts, foreign exchange effects and deferred revenue write-offs. Excluding foreign exchange effects, total Dating revenue would have increased 18% and International Direct revenue would have increased 28%.
Adjusted EBITDA increased 16% due primarily to the higher revenue and lower costs in the current year period related to the ongoing consolidation and streamlining of our technology systems and European operations at our Dating businesses ($2.0 million in Q4 2015 versus $3.6 million in Q4 2014). Both revenue and Adjusted EBITDA were impacted by deferred revenue write-offs of $8.1 million in Q4 2015 primarily driven by the
Note 1: Direct Revenue is revenue that is directly received from an end user of our products.
Note 2: ARPPU, or Average Revenue per Paying User, is Direct Revenue in the relevant measurement period divided by the Average PMC in such period divided by the number of calendar days in such period.
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
PlentyOfFish acquisition and $2.5 million in Q4 2014 in connection with The Princeton Review and FriendScout24 acquisitions. Operating income was flat versus the prior year despite the 16% higher Adjusted EBITDA due to an increase of $14.9 million in stock-based compensation expense due primarily to charges associated with the modification of certain awards and the issuance of equity awards since the prior year.
Please refer to the Match Group Q4 2015 earnings release for further detail.
HomeAdvisor
Revenue increased 27% due primarily to 51% growth at the HomeAdvisor domestic business, partially offset by international declines due primarily to the restructuring of certain European operations in Q4 2014. HomeAdvisor domestic revenue growth accelerated for the 9th consecutive quarter with year-over-year growth driven by 55% higher service requests and a 46% increase in paying service professionals to approximately 102,000. Adjusted EBITDA increased 57% due to the higher revenue, partially offset by increased investment in marketing and sales force related expenses.
Publishing
Revenue decreased 13% due to 28% lower Ask & Other(3) revenue, partially offset by 14% higher Premium Brands(4) revenue. Ask & Other revenue decreased primarily due to a decline in revenue at Ask.com and certain legacy businesses. Premium Brands revenue increased due primarily to strong growth at About.com and Investopedia. Adjusted EBITDA decreased 46% due to the lower revenue from Ask & Other and increased marketing and payroll related expenses at Premium Brands. Operating loss in the current year includes an impairment charge of $88.0 million related to certain intangible assets.
Applications
Revenue decreased 8% due to a 31% decline in Partnerships(5), partially offset by 6% growth in Consumer(6). Consumer growth was driven by higher revenue from our desktop applications, including SlimWare, and a full quarter contribution from Apalon, our mobile applications business (acquired on November 3, 2014). Adjusted EBITDA decreased 12% due primarily to the lower revenue at Partnerships, higher marketing spend at Consumer and $3.0 million in restructuring costs across Applications.
Video
Revenue grew 13% due primarily to strong growth at Electus, Vimeo, and DailyBurn, partially offset by $10.8 million lower revenue from IAC Films as the prior year benefited from the release of Top Five and Inherent Vice. The 87% improvement in the Adjusted EBITDA loss reflects increased profits from Electus and lower losses at IAC Films.
Note 3: Ask & Other revenue is principally composed of Ask.com, CityGrid and ASKfm.
Note 4: Premium Brands revenue is composed of About.com, Dictionary.com, Investopedia and The Daily Beast.
Note 5: Partnerships revenue is composed of our business-to-business partnership operations.
Note 6: Consumer revenue is composed of the direct-to-consumer downloadable desktop applications, including SlimWare, and Apalon, which houses our mobile applications.
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
Other
Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA increased 7% and 11%, respectively, due to growth at ShoeBuy. Operating loss in the current year includes a goodwill impairment charge of $14.1 million.
Corporate
Adjusted EBITDA loss increased slightly due primarily to a favorable legal settlement in the prior year, partially offset by lower compensation costs. Operating loss reflects an increase of $2.7 million in stock-based compensation expense due primarily to the issuance of equity awards since the prior year.
OTHER ITEMS
Interest expense increased due to both the costs and higher interest rate associated with the exchange of $445 million of Match Group 6.75% Senior Notes for a substantially like amount of IAC 4.75% Senior Notes, as well as $800 million of borrowings by Match Group under its term loan facility. In connection with the note exchange, $7.3 million in costs were expensed during the current year period. The note exchange and term loan borrowings closed on November 16, 2015.
Other income, net in Q4 2014 includes a $19.4 million pre-tax gain related to the sale of Urbanspoon.
Operating loss in Q4 2015 includes the $88.0 million intangible asset impairment charge in the Publishing segment and the $14.1 million goodwill impairment charge in the Other segment which impacted net loss and GAAP EPS by $69.4 million and $0.84, respectively. These charges did not impact Adjusted Net Income.
The effective tax rates for continuing operations in Q4 2015 and Q4 2014 were 14% and 39%, respectively, and the effective tax rates for Adjusted Net Income in Q4 2015 and Q4 2014 were 40% and 39%, respectively. The Q4 2015 effective rate for continuing operations was lower than the prior year primarily due to the non-deductible goodwill impairment charge.
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
As of December 31, 2015, IAC had 83.0 million common and class B common shares outstanding. As of January 29, 2016, the Company had 5.6 million shares remaining in its stock repurchase authorization. IAC may purchase shares over an indefinite period on the open market and in privately negotiated transactions, depending on those factors IAC management deems relevant at any particular time, including, without limitation, market conditions, share price and future outlook.
As of December 31, 2015, the Company had $1.5 billion in cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities, of which IAC had $1.4 billion and Match Group had $99.8 million. Additionally, the Company had $1.8 billion in long-term debt, of which IAC had $555 million and Match Group had $1.2 billion ($40 million matures in the current year). IAC has a $300 million revolving credit facility. Match Group has a $500 million revolving credit facility. Both credit facilities were undrawn as of December 31, 2015 and currently remain undrawn.
As of December 31, 2015, IAC’s ownership interest and voting interest in Match Group were 84.6% and 98.2%, respectively.
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
OPERATING METRICS
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Q4 2015 |
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Q4 2014 |
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Growth |
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Match Group |
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Direct Revenue (in millions)(a) |
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North America (b) |
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$ |
149.2 |
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$ |
134.4 |
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11 |
% |
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International (c) |
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77.6 |
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68.2 |
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14 |
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Total Direct Revenue(a) |
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$ |
226.8 |
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$ |
202.6 |
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12 |
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Indirect Revenue |
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14.7 |
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9.8 |
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49 |
% | ||
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Total Dating Revenue |
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$ |
241.5 |
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$ |
212.5 |
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14 |
% |
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Non-dating Revenue |
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26.1 |
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26.5 |
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-2 |
% | ||
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Total Revenue |
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$ |
267.6 |
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$ |
239.0 |
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12 |
% |
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Dating Average PMC (d) (in thousands) |
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North America (b) |
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2,916 |
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2,429 |
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20 |
% | ||
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International (c) |
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1,697 |
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1,127 |
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51 |
% | ||
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Total Dating Average PMC |
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4,613 |
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3,556 |
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30 |
% | ||
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Dating ARPPU(e) |
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North America (b) |
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$ |
0.56 |
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$ |
0.60 |
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-8 |
% |
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International (c) |
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$ |
0.50 |
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$ |
0.66 |
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-24 |
% |
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Total Dating ARPPU |
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$ |
0.53 |
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$ |
0.62 |
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-14 |
% |
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HomeAdvisor |
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Domestic Revenue (in millions) |
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$ |
75.6 |
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$ |
50.1 |
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51 |
% |
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Domestic Service Requests (000s) (f) |
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2,308 |
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1,491 |
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55 |
% | ||
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Domestic Paying Service Professionals (000s) (g) |
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102 |
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70 |
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46 |
% | ||
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Publishing (in millions) |
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Revenue |
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Premium Brands (h) |
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$ |
82.4 |
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$ |
72.5 |
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14 |
% |
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Ask & Other (i) |
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97.1 |
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134.2 |
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-28 |
% | ||
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Total Revenue |
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$ |
179.5 |
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$ |
206.7 |
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-13 |
% |
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Applications (in millions) |
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Revenue |
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Consumer (j) |
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$ |
128.4 |
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$ |
120.6 |
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6 |
% |
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Partnerships (k) |
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50.8 |
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73.5 |
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-31 |
% | ||
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Total Revenue |
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$ |
179.2 |
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$ |
194.1 |
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-8 |
% |
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Video (in thousands) |
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Vimeo Ending Subscribers |
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676 |
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566 |
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19 |
% | ||
See notes on following page
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
OPERATING METRICS NOTES
(a) Direct Revenue is revenue that is directly received from an end user of our products.
(b) North America includes Match, Chemistry, People Media, PlentyOfFish, OkCupid, Tinder and other dating businesses operating within the United States and Canada.
(c) International includes Meetic, PlentyOfFish, Tinder and all dating businesses operating outside of the United States and Canada.
(d) Average PMC is calculated by summing the number of paid subscribers, or paid member count (PMC), at the end of each day in the relevant measurement period and dividing it by the number of calendar days in that period.
(e) ARPPU, or Average Revenue per Paying User, is Direct Revenue in the relevant measurement period divided by the Average PMC in such period divided by the number of calendar days in such period.
(f) Fully completed and submitted customer service requests on HomeAdvisor.
(g) The number of service professionals that had an active membership or paid for leads in the last month of the period.
(h) Premium Brands revenue is composed of About.com, Dictionary.com, Investopedia and The Daily Beast.
(i) Ask & Other revenue is principally composed of Ask.com, CityGrid and ASKfm.
(j) Consumer revenue is composed of the direct-to-consumer downloadable desktop applications, including SlimWare, and Apalon, which houses our mobile operations.
(k) Partnerships revenue is composed of our business-to-business partnership operations.
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
DILUTIVE SECURITIES
IAC has various tranches of dilutive securities. The table below details these securities as well as potential dilution at various stock prices (shares in millions; rounding differences may occur).
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Avg. |
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Exercise |
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As of |
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Shares |
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Price |
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1/29/16 |
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Dilution at: |
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Share Price |
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$ |
51.94 |
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$ |
55.00 |
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$ |
60.00 |
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$ |
65.00 |
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$ |
70.00 |
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Absolute Shares as of 1/29/16 |
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83.1 |
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83.1 |
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83.1 |
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83.1 |
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83.1 |
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83.1 |
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RSUs and Other * |
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3.3 |
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3.3 |
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3.2 |
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3.0 |
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2.8 |
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2.6 |
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Options |
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7.3 |
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$ |
52.17 |
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1.2 |
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1.3 |
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1.5 |
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1.7 |
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2.0 |
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Total Dilution |
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4.5 |
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4.5 |
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4.5 |
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4.5 |
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4.6 |
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% Dilution |
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5.1 |
% |
5.1 |
% |
5.1 |
% |
5.2 |
% |
5.3 |
% | ||||||
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Total Diluted Shares Outstanding |
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87.5 |
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87.5 |
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87.5 |
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87.6 |
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87.7 |
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* Assumes Match Group subsidiary denominated stock-based awards are settled with shares of Match Group common stock; therefore, no dilution from these awards is included in the table above.
CONFERENCE CALL
IAC will audiocast a conference call to answer questions regarding the Company’s fourth quarter 2015 results and management’s published remarks on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time. This call will include the disclosure of certain information, including forward-looking information, which may be material to an investor’s understanding of IAC’s business. The live audiocast will be open to the public at, and management’s remarks have been posted on, www.iac.com/Investors.
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
GAAP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
IAC CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
($ in thousands except per share amounts)
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Three Months Ended December 31, |
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Twelve Months Ended December 31, |
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2015 |
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2014 |
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2015 |
|
2014 |
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Revenue |
|
$ |
848,728 |
|
$ |
830,754 |
|
$ |
3,230,933 |
|
$ |
3,109,547 |
|
|
Operating costs and expenses: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Cost of revenue (exclusive of depreciation shown separately below) |
|
214,084 |
|
233,712 |
|
778,161 |
|
860,204 |
| ||||
|
Selling and marketing expense |
|
315,274 |
|
279,832 |
|
1,345,576 |
|
1,147,409 |
| ||||
|
General and administrative expense |
|
147,364 |
|
131,637 |
|
525,629 |
|
443,610 |
| ||||
|
Product development expense |
|
47,220 |
|
42,163 |
|
185,766 |
|
160,515 |
| ||||
|
Depreciation |
|
15,512 |
|
16,948 |
|
62,205 |
|
61,156 |
| ||||
|
Amortization of intangibles |
|
100,648 |
|
16,090 |
|
139,952 |
|
57,926 |
| ||||
|
Goodwill impairment |
|
14,056 |
|
— |
|
14,056 |
|
— |
| ||||
|
Total operating costs and expenses |
|
854,158 |
|
720,382 |
|
3,051,345 |
|
2,730,820 |
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Operating (loss) income |
|
(5,430 |
) |
110,372 |
|
179,588 |
|
378,727 |
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Equity in earnings (losses) of unconsolidated affiliates |
|
850 |
|
(300 |
) |
772 |
|
(9,697 |
) | ||||
|
Interest expense |
|
(28,366 |
) |
(14,195 |
) |
(73,636 |
) |
(56,314 |
) | ||||
|
Other (expense) income, net |
|
(3,677 |
) |
16,023 |
|
36,149 |
|
(42,787 |
) | ||||
|
(Loss) earnings from continuing operations before income taxes |
|
(36,623 |
) |
111,900 |
|
142,873 |
|
269,929 |
| ||||
|
Income tax benefit (provision) |
|
5,206 |
|
(43,914 |
) |
(29,516 |
) |
(35,372 |
) | ||||
|
(Loss) earnings from continuing operations |
|
(31,417 |
) |
67,986 |
|
113,357 |
|
234,557 |
| ||||
|
Earnings from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
28 |
|
625 |
|
17 |
|
174,673 |
| ||||
|
Net (loss) earnings |
|
(31,389 |
) |
68,611 |
|
113,374 |
|
409,230 |
| ||||
|
Net (earnings) loss attributable to noncontrolling interests |
|
(460 |
) |
1,561 |
|
6,098 |
|
5,643 |
| ||||
|
Net (loss) earnings attributable to IAC shareholders |
|
$ |
(31,849 |
) |
$ |
70,172 |
|
$ |
119,472 |
|
$ |
414,873 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Per share information attributable to IAC shareholders: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Basic (loss) earnings per share from continuing operations |
|
$ |
(0.38 |
) |
$ |
0.83 |
|
$ |
1.44 |
|
$ |
2.88 |
|
|
Diluted (loss) earnings per share from continuing operations |
|
$ |
(0.38 |
) |
$ |
0.78 |
|
$ |
1.33 |
|
$ |
2.71 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Basic (loss) earnings per share |
|
$ |
(0.38 |
) |
$ |
0.84 |
|
$ |
1.44 |
|
$ |
4.98 |
|
|
Diluted (loss) earnings per share |
|
$ |
(0.38 |
) |
$ |
0.78 |
|
$ |
1.33 |
|
$ |
4.68 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Dividends declared per common share |
|
$ |
0.34 |
|
$ |
0.34 |
|
$ |
1.36 |
|
$ |
1.16 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Stock-based compensation expense by function: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Cost of revenue |
|
$ |
364 |
|
$ |
45 |
|
$ |
1,210 |
|
$ |
949 |
|
|
Selling and marketing expense |
|
2,902 |
|
516 |
|
10,186 |
|
2,144 |
| ||||
|
General and administrative expense |
|
26,478 |
|
14,109 |
|
82,798 |
|
49,862 |
| ||||
|
Product development expense |
|
3,837 |
|
1,467 |
|
11,256 |
|
6,679 |
| ||||
|
Total stock-based compensation expense |
|
$ |
33,581 |
|
$ |
16,137 |
|
$ |
105,450 |
|
$ |
59,634 |
|
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
IAC CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
($ in thousands)
|
|
|
December 31, |
|
December 31, |
| ||
|
|
|
2015 |
|
2014 |
| ||
|
ASSETS |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Cash and cash equivalents |
|
$ |
1,481,447 |
|
$ |
990,405 |
|
|
Marketable securities |
|
39,200 |
|
160,648 |
| ||
|
Accounts receivable, net |
|
250,077 |
|
236,086 |
| ||
|
Other current assets |
|
174,286 |
|
148,749 |
| ||
|
Total current assets |
|
1,945,010 |
|
1,535,888 |
| ||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Property and equipment, net |
|
302,817 |
|
302,459 |
| ||
|
Goodwill |
|
2,245,364 |
|
1,754,926 |
| ||
|
Intangible assets, net |
|
440,828 |
|
491,936 |
| ||
|
Long-term investments |
|
137,386 |
|
114,983 |
| ||
|
Other non-current assets |
|
138,545 |
|
56,693 |
| ||
|
TOTAL ASSETS |
|
$ |
5,209,950 |
|
$ |
4,256,885 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
LIABILITIES |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Current portion of long-term debt |
|
$ |
40,000 |
|
$ |
— |
|
|
Accounts payable, trade |
|
86,883 |
|
81,163 |
| ||
|
Deferred revenue |
|
258,412 |
|
194,988 |
| ||
|
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities |
|
383,251 |
|
397,549 |
| ||
|
Total current liabilities |
|
768,546 |
|
673,700 |
| ||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Long-term debt, net of current maturities |
|
1,748,213 |
|
1,080,000 |
| ||
|
Income taxes payable |
|
33,692 |
|
32,635 |
| ||
|
Deferred income taxes |
|
348,773 |
|
391,790 |
| ||
|
Other long-term liabilities |
|
64,510 |
|
45,191 |
| ||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Redeemable noncontrolling interests |
|
30,391 |
|
40,427 |
| ||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Commitments and contingencies |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Common stock |
|
254 |
|
252 |
| ||
|
Class B convertible common stock |
|
16 |
|
16 |
| ||
|
Additional paid-in capital |
|
11,486,315 |
|
11,415,617 |
| ||
|
Retained earnings |
|
331,394 |
|
325,118 |
| ||
|
Accumulated other comprehensive loss |
|
(152,103 |
) |
(87,700 |
) | ||
|
Treasury stock |
|
(9,861,350 |
) |
(9,661,350 |
) | ||
|
Total IAC shareholders’ equity |
|
1,804,526 |
|
1,991,953 |
| ||
|
Noncontrolling interests |
|
411,299 |
|
1,189 |
| ||
|
Total shareholders’ equity |
|
2,215,825 |
|
1,993,142 |
| ||
|
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY |
|
$ |
5,209,950 |
|
$ |
4,256,885 |
|
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
IAC CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
($ in thousands)
|
|
|
Twelve Months Ended December 31, |
| ||||
|
|
|
2015 |
|
2014 |
| ||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Cash flows from operating activities attributable to continuing operations: |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Net earnings |
|
$ |
113,374 |
|
$ |
409,230 |
|
|
Less: earnings from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
17 |
|
174,673 |
| ||
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
113,357 |
|
234,557 |
| ||
|
Adjustments to reconcile earnings from continuing operations to net cash provided by operating activities attributable to continuing operations: |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Stock-based compensation expense |
|
105,450 |
|
59,634 |
| ||
|
Depreciation |
|
62,205 |
|
61,156 |
| ||
|
Amortization of intangibles |
|
139,952 |
|
57,926 |
| ||
|
Impairment of long-term investments |
|
6,689 |
|
66,601 |
| ||
|
Goodwill impairment |
|
14,056 |
|
— |
| ||
|
Excess tax benefits from stock-based awards |
|
(56,418 |
) |
(44,957 |
) | ||
|
Deferred income taxes |
|
(59,786 |
) |
76,869 |
| ||
|
Equity in (earnings) losses of unconsolidated affiliates |
|
(772 |
) |
9,697 |
| ||
|
Acquisition-related contingent consideration fair value adjustments |
|
(15,461 |
) |
(13,367 |
) | ||
|
Gain on real estate transaction |
|
(34,341 |
) |
— |
| ||
|
Gains on sales of long-term investments, assets and a business |
|
(1,005 |
) |
(21,946 |
) | ||
|
Other adjustments, net |
|
26,496 |
|
20,789 |
| ||
|
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions: |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Accounts receivable |
|
(29,680 |
) |
(19,918 |
) | ||
|
Other assets |
|
(21,174 |
) |
(3,606 |
) | ||
|
Accounts payable and other current liabilities |
|
8,989 |
|
5,206 |
| ||
|
Income taxes payable |
|
24,167 |
|
(94,492 |
) | ||
|
Deferred revenue |
|
66,914 |
|
30,142 |
| ||
|
Other changes in assets and liabilities, net |
|
(233 |
) |
(243 |
) | ||
|
Net cash provided by operating activities attributable to continuing operations |
|
349,405 |
|
424,048 |
| ||
|
Cash flows from investing activities attributable to continuing operations: |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired |
|
(617,402 |
) |
(259,391 |
) | ||
|
Capital expenditures |
|
(62,049 |
) |
(57,233 |
) | ||
|
Proceeds from maturities and sales of marketable debt securities |
|
218,462 |
|
21,644 |
| ||
|
Purchases of marketable debt securities |
|
(93,134 |
) |
(175,826 |
) | ||
|
Proceeds from the sales of long-term investments, assets and a business |
|
9,413 |
|
58,388 |
| ||
|
Purchases of long-term investments |
|
(34,470 |
) |
(24,334 |
) | ||
|
Other, net |
|
(3,541 |
) |
(3,042 |
) | ||
|
Net cash used in investing activities attributable to continuing operations |
|
(582,721 |
) |
(439,794 |
) | ||
|
Cash flows from financing activities attributable to continuing operations: |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
Borrowings under term loan facility |
|
788,000 |
|
— |
| ||
|
Debt issuance costs |
|
(19,050 |
) |
(383 |
) | ||
|
Fees and expenses related to note exchange |
|
(6,954 |
) |
— |
| ||
|
Principal payment on long-term debt |
|
(80,000 |
) |
— |
| ||
|
Proceeds from Match Group initial public offering, net of fees and expenses |
|
428,789 |
|
— |
| ||
|
Purchase of treasury stock |
|
(200,000 |
) |
— |
| ||
|
Dividends |
|
(113,196 |
) |
(97,338 |
) | ||
|
Issuance of common stock, net of withholding taxes |
|
(38,418 |
) |
1,609 |
| ||
|
Repurchase of stock-based awards |
|
(23,431 |
) |
— |
| ||
|
Excess tax benefits from stock-based awards |
|
56,418 |
|
44,957 |
| ||
|
Purchase of noncontrolling interests |
|
(32,207 |
) |
(33,165 |
) | ||
|
Acquisition-related contingent consideration payments |
|
(5,750 |
) |
(8,109 |
) | ||
|
Funds returned from escrow for Meetic tender offer |
|
— |
|
12,354 |
| ||
|
Other, net |
|
(19,393 |
) |
(905 |
) | ||
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities attributable to continuing operations |
|
734,808 |
|
(80,980 |
) | ||
|
Total cash provided by (used in) continuing operations |
|
501,492 |
|
(96,726 |
) | ||
|
Total cash used in discontinued operations |
|
(152 |
) |
(145 |
) | ||
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
(10,298 |
) |
(13,168 |
) | ||
|
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents |
|
491,042 |
|
(110,039 |
) | ||
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
990,405 |
|
1,100,444 |
| ||
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
|
$ |
1,481,447 |
|
$ |
990,405 |
|
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
RECONCILIATIONS OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP MEASURES
IAC RECONCILIATION OF OPERATING CASH FLOW FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS TO FREE CASH FLOW
($ in millions; rounding differences may occur)
|
|
|
Twelve Months Ended December 31, |
| ||||
|
|
|
2015 |
|
2014 |
| ||
|
Net cash provided by operating activities attributable to continuing operations |
|
$ |
349.4 |
|
$ |
424.0 |
|
|
Capital expenditures |
|
(62.0 |
) |
(57.2 |
) | ||
|
Tax refunds related to sales of a business and an investment |
|
(2.1 |
) |
(0.8 |
) | ||
|
Free Cash Flow |
|
$ |
285.3 |
|
$ |
366.0 |
|
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2015, consolidated Free Cash Flow decreased $80.7 million due primarily to lower Adjusted EBITDA and higher income tax payments.
IAC RECONCILIATION OF GAAP EPS TO ADJUSTED EPS
(in thousands except per share amounts)
|
|
|
Three Months Ended December 31, |
|
Twelve Months Ended December 31, |
| ||||||||
|
|
|
2015 |
|
2014 |
|
2015 |
|
2014 |
| ||||
|
Net (loss) earnings attributable to IAC shareholders |
|
$ |
(31,849 |
) |
$ |
70,172 |
|
$ |
119,472 |
|
$ |
414,873 |
|
|
Stock-based compensation expense |
|
33,581 |
|
16,137 |
|
105,450 |
|
59,634 |
| ||||
|
Amortization of intangibles |
|
100,648 |
|
16,090 |
|
139,952 |
|
57,926 |
| ||||
|
Acquisition-related contingent consideration fair value adjustments |
|
2,445 |
|
414 |
|
(15,461 |
) |
(13,367 |
) | ||||
|
Goodwill impairment |
|
14,056 |
|
— |
|
14,056 |
|
— |
| ||||
|
Gain on sale of VUE interests and related effects |
|
— |
|
— |
|
— |
|
(48,588 |
) | ||||
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
(28 |
) |
(625 |
) |
(17 |
) |
(174,673 |
) | ||||
|
Impact of income taxes and noncontrolling interests |
|
(54,186 |
) |
(12,500 |
) |
(95,448 |
) |
(69,336 |
) | ||||
|
Adjusted Net Income |
|
$ |
64,667 |
|
$ |
89,688 |
|
$ |
268,004 |
|
$ |
226,469 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
GAAP Basic weighted average shares outstanding |
|
83,004 |
|
83,898 |
|
82,944 |
|
83,292 |
| ||||
|
Options and RSUs, treasury method |
|
— |
|
5,564 |
|
5,323 |
|
5,266 |
| ||||
|
GAAP Diluted weighted average shares outstanding |
|
83,004 |
|
89,462 |
|
88,267 |
|
88,558 |
| ||||
|
Options and RSUs, treasury method not included in diluted shares above |
|
2,623 |
|
— |
|
— |
|
— |
| ||||
|
Impact of RSUs and other |
|
607 |
|
426 |
|
(216 |
) |
351 |
| ||||
|
Adjusted EPS weighted average shares outstanding |
|
86,234 |
|
89,888 |
|
88,051 |
|
88,909 |
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
GAAP Diluted (loss) earnings per share |
|
$ |
(0.38 |
) |
$ |
0.78 |
|
$ |
1.33 |
|
$ |
4.68 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
Adjusted EPS |
|
$ |
0.75 |
|
$ |
1.00 |
|
$ |
3.04 |
|
$ |
2.55 |
|
For Adjusted EPS purposes, the impact of RSUs on shares outstanding is based on the weighted average number of RSUs outstanding, including performance-based RSUs outstanding that the Company believes are probable of vesting. For GAAP diluted EPS purposes, RSUs, including performance-based RSUs for which the performance criteria have been met, are included on a treasury method basis. In addition, for Adjusted EPS purposes, Match Group subsidiary denominated stock-based awards are assumed to be settled with shares of Match Group common stock and weighted average shares have been adjusted accordingly.
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
IAC RECONCILIATION OF SEGMENT NON-GAAP MEASURE TO GAAP MEASURE
($ in millions; rounding differences may occur)
|
|
For the three months ended December 31, 2015 |
| ||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Adjusted |
|
Stock-based |
|
Depreciation |
|
Amortization of |
|
Acquisition-related |
|
Goodwill |
|
Operating |
| |||||||
|
Match Group |
|
$ |
99.3 |
|
$ |
(19.1 |
) |
$ |
(6.2 |
) |
$ |
(6.0 |
) |
$ |
(0.4 |
) |
$ |
— |
|
$ |
67.6 |
|
|
HomeAdvisor |
|
5.8 |
|
(0.4 |
) |
(1.8 |
) |
(0.8 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
2.8 |
| |||||||
|
Publishing |
|
22.7 |
|
— |
|
(2.3 |
) |
(90.8 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
(70.4 |
) | |||||||
|
Applications |
|
41.7 |
|
— |
|
(1.1 |
) |
(1.5 |
) |
(2.0 |
) |
— |
|
37.1 |
| |||||||
|
Video |
|
(1.4 |
) |
— |
|
(0.4 |
) |
(0.4 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
(2.2 |
) | |||||||
|
Other |
|
7.4 |
|
— |
|
(0.6 |
) |
(1.2 |
) |
— |
|
(14.1 |
) |
(8.4 |
) | |||||||
|
Corporate |
|
(14.7 |
) |
(14.1 |
) |
(3.1 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
— |
|
(31.9 |
) | |||||||
|
Total |
|
$ |
160.8 |
|
$ |
(33.6 |
) |
$ |
(15.5 |
) |
$ |
(100.6 |
) |
$ |
(2.4 |
) |
$ |
(14.1 |
) |
$ |
(5.4 |
) |
|
|
|
For the three months ended December 31, 2014 |
| ||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Adjusted |
|
Stock-based |
|
Depreciation |
|
Amortization of |
|
Acquisition-related |
|
Operating |
| ||||||
|
Match Group |
|
$ |
85.4 |
|
$ |
(4.2 |
) |
$ |
(8.4 |
) |
$ |
(4.6 |
) |
$ |
(0.7 |
) |
$ |
67.5 |
|
|
HomeAdvisor |
|
3.7 |
|
(0.4 |
) |
(2.0 |
) |
(1.4 |
) |
— |
|
(0.2 |
) | ||||||
|
Publishing |
|
41.8 |
|
— |
|
(2.5 |
) |
(7.1 |
) |
— |
|
32.2 |
| ||||||
|
Applications |
|
47.7 |
|
— |
|
(0.8 |
) |
(1.3 |
) |
(0.3 |
) |
45.2 |
| ||||||
|
Video |
|
(10.9 |
) |
(0.2 |
) |
(0.2 |
) |
(0.5 |
) |
— |
|
(11.7 |
) | ||||||
|
Other |
|
6.7 |
|
— |
|
(0.5 |
) |
(1.2 |
) |
0.6 |
|
5.6 |
| ||||||
|
Corporate |
|
(14.4 |
) |
(11.3 |
) |
(2.6 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
(28.2 |
) | ||||||
|
Total |
|
$ |
160.0 |
|
$ |
(16.1 |
) |
$ |
(16.9 |
) |
$ |
(16.1 |
) |
$ |
(0.4 |
) |
$ |
110.4 |
|
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
IAC RECONCILIATION OF SEGMENT NON-GAAP MEASURE TO GAAP MEASURE
($ in millions; rounding differences may occur)
|
|
|
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2015 |
| |||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Adjusted |
|
Stock-based |
|
Depreciation |
|
Amortization of |
|
Acquisition-related |
|
Goodwill |
|
Operating |
| |||||||
|
Match Group |
|
$ |
278.7 |
|
$ |
(50.1 |
) |
$ |
(26.0 |
) |
$ |
(20.1 |
) |
$ |
11.1 |
|
$ |
— |
|
$ |
193.6 |
|
|
HomeAdvisor |
|
18.5 |
|
(1.6 |
) |
(6.6 |
) |
(3.8 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
6.5 |
| |||||||
|
Publishing |
|
87.8 |
|
— |
|
(9.6 |
) |
(104.9 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
(26.7 |
) | |||||||
|
Applications |
|
184.3 |
|
— |
|
(4.6 |
) |
(6.3 |
) |
1.8 |
|
— |
|
175.1 |
| |||||||
|
Video |
|
(38.4 |
) |
(0.4 |
) |
(1.1 |
) |
(1.6 |
) |
2.6 |
|
— |
|
(38.8 |
) | |||||||
|
Other |
|
10.6 |
|
— |
|
(2.5 |
) |
(3.3 |
) |
— |
|
(14.1 |
) |
(9.2 |
) | |||||||
|
Corporate |
|
(55.7 |
) |
(53.4 |
) |
(11.9 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
— |
|
(120.9 |
) | |||||||
|
Total |
|
$ |
485.8 |
|
$ |
(105.4 |
) |
$ |
(62.2 |
) |
$ |
(140.0 |
) |
$ |
15.5 |
|
$ |
(14.1 |
) |
$ |
179.6 |
|
|
|
|
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2014 |
| ||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Adjusted |
|
Stock-based |
|
Depreciation |
|
Amortization of |
|
Acquisition-related |
|
Operating |
| ||||||
|
Match Group |
|
$ |
273.4 |
|
$ |
(20.9 |
) |
$ |
(25.5 |
) |
$ |
(11.4 |
) |
$ |
12.9 |
|
$ |
228.6 |
|
|
HomeAdvisor |
|
17.7 |
|
(0.6 |
) |
(6.5 |
) |
(9.6 |
) |
— |
|
1.1 |
| ||||||
|
Publishing |
|
151.0 |
|
— |
|
(11.9 |
) |
(28.6 |
) |
— |
|
110.5 |
| ||||||
|
Applications |
|
186.2 |
|
— |
|
(4.4 |
) |
(2.5 |
) |
(0.3 |
) |
179.0 |
| ||||||
|
Video |
|
(39.9 |
) |
(0.6 |
) |
(0.9 |
) |
(2.1 |
) |
0.2 |
|
(43.3 |
) | ||||||
|
Other |
|
13.1 |
|
— |
|
(1.8 |
) |
(3.8 |
) |
0.6 |
|
8.1 |
| ||||||
|
Corporate |
|
(57.4 |
) |
(37.6 |
) |
(10.1 |
) |
— |
|
— |
|
(105.1 |
) | ||||||
|
Total |
|
$ |
544.1 |
|
$ |
(59.6 |
) |
$ |
(61.2 |
) |
$ |
(57.9 |
) |
$ |
13.4 |
|
$ |
378.7 |
|
SEE IMPORTANT NOTES AT END OF THIS DOCUMENT
IAC’S PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIAL REPORTING
IAC reports Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net Income, Adjusted EPS and Free Cash Flow, all of which are supplemental measures to GAAP. These measures are among the primary metrics by which we evaluate the performance of our businesses, on which our internal budgets are based and by which management is compensated. We believe that investors should have access to, and we are obligated to provide, the same set of tools that we use in analyzing our results. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for or superior to GAAP results. IAC endeavors to compensate for the limitations of the non-GAAP measures presented by providing the comparable GAAP measures with equal or greater prominence and descriptions of the reconciling items, including quantifying such items, to derive the non-GAAP measures. We encourage investors to examine the reconciling adjustments between the GAAP and non-GAAP measures, which are included in this release. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for a full year.
Definitions of Non-GAAP Measures
Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (Adjusted EBITDA) is defined as operating income excluding: (1) stock-based compensation expense; (2) depreciation; and (3) acquisition-related items consisting of (i) amortization of intangible assets and goodwill and intangible asset impairments and (ii) gains and losses recognized on changes in the fair value of contingent consideration arrangements. We believe Adjusted EBITDA is a useful measure for analysts and investors as this measure allows a more meaningful comparison between our performance and that of our competitors. Moreover, our management uses this measure internally to evaluate the performance of our business as a whole and our individual business segments. The above items are excluded from our Adjusted EBITDA measure because these items are non-cash in nature, and we believe that by excluding these items, Adjusted EBITDA corresponds more closely to the cash operating income generated from our business, from which capital investments are made and debt is serviced.
Adjusted Net Income generally captures all items on the statement of operations that have been, or ultimately will be, settled in cash and is defined as net earnings attributable to IAC shareholders excluding, net of tax effects and noncontrolling interests, if applicable: (1) stock-based compensation expense, (2) acquisition-related items consisting of (i) amortization of intangibles and goodwill and intangible asset impairments and (ii) gains and losses recognized on changes in the fair value of contingent consideration arrangements, (3) income or loss effects related to IAC’s former passive ownership in VUE, and (4) discontinued operations. We believe Adjusted Net Income is useful to investors because it represents IAC’s consolidated results taking into account depreciation, which management believes is an ongoing cost of doing business, as well as other charges that are not allocated to the operating businesses such as interest expense, income taxes and noncontrolling interests, but excluding the effects of any other non-cash expenses.
Adjusted EPS is defined as Adjusted Net Income divided by fully diluted weighted average shares outstanding for Adjusted EPS purposes. We include dilution from options and warrants in accordance with the treasury stock method and include all restricted stock units (“RSUs”) in shares outstanding for Adjusted EPS, with performance-based RSUs included based on the number of shares that the Company believes are probable of vesting. This differs from the GAAP method for including RSUs, which are treated on a treasury method, and performance-based RSUs, which are included for GAAP purposes only to the extent the performance criteria have been met (assuming the end of the reporting period is the end of the contingency period). Shares outstanding for Adjusted EPS purposes are therefore higher than shares outstanding for GAAP EPS purposes. We believe Adjusted EPS is useful to investors because it represents, on a per share basis, IAC’s consolidated results, taking into account depreciation, which we believe is an ongoing cost of doing business, as well as other charges, which are not allocated to the operating businesses such as interest expense, income taxes and noncontrolling interests, but excluding the effects of any other non-cash expenses. Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EPS have the same limitations as Adjusted EBITDA, and in addition, Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EPS do not account for IAC’s former passive ownership in VUE. Therefore, we think it is important to evaluate these measures along with our consolidated statement of operations.
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IAC’S PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIAL REPORTING - continued
Free Cash Flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities, less capital expenditures. In addition, Free Cash Flow excludes, if applicable, tax payments and refunds related to the sales of certain businesses and investments, including IAC’s interests in VUE, an internal restructuring and dividends received that represent a return of capital due to the exclusion of the proceeds from these sales and dividends from cash provided by operating activities. We believe Free Cash Flow is useful to investors because it represents the cash that our operating businesses generate, before taking into account non-operational cash movements. Free Cash Flow has certain limitations in that it does not represent the total increase or decrease in the cash balance for the period, nor does it represent the residual cash flow for discretionary expenditures. For example, it does not take into account stock repurchases. Therefore, we think it is important to evaluate Free Cash Flow along with our consolidated statement of cash flows.
Non-Cash Expenses That Are Excluded From Our Non-GAAP Measures
Stock-based compensation expense consists principally of expense associated with the grants, including unvested grants assumed in acquisitions, of stock options, restricted stock units and performance-based RSUs. These expenses are not paid in cash, and we include the related shares in our fully diluted shares outstanding using the treasury stock method; however, performance-based RSUs are included only to the extent the performance criteria have been met (assuming the end of the reporting period is the end of the contingency period). We view the true cost of stock options, restricted stock units and performance-based RSUs as the dilution to our share base, and such awards are included in our shares outstanding for Adjusted EPS purposes as described above under the definition of Adjusted EPS. Upon the exercise of certain stock options and vesting of restricted stock units and performance-based RSUs, the awards are settled, at the Company’s discretion, on a net basis, with the Company remitting the required tax-withholding amount from its current funds.
Depreciation is a non-cash expense relating to our property and equipment and is computed using the straight-line method to allocate the cost of depreciable assets to operations over their estimated useful lives.
Amortization of intangible assets and impairments of goodwill and intangible assets are non-cash expenses related primarily to acquisitions. At the time of an acquisition, the identifiable definite-lived intangible assets of the acquired company, such as content, technology, customer lists, advertiser and supplier relationships, are valued and amortized over their estimated lives. Value is also assigned to acquired indefinite-lived intangible assets, which comprise trade names and trademarks, and goodwill that are not subject to amortization. An impairment is recorded when the carrying value of an intangible asset or goodwill exceeds its fair value. We believe that intangible assets represent costs incurred by the acquired company to build value prior to acquisition and the related amortization and impairment charges of intangible assets or goodwill, if applicable, are not ongoing costs of doing business.
Gains and losses recognized on changes in the fair value of contingent consideration arrangements are accounting adjustments to report contingent consideration liabilities at fair value. These adjustments can be highly variable and are excluded from our assessment of performance because they are considered non-operational in nature and, therefore, are not indicative of current or future performance or ongoing costs of doing business.
Income or loss effects related to IAC’s former passive ownership in VUE are excluded from Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EPS because IAC had no operating control over VUE, which was sold for a gain in 2005, had no way to forecast this business, and did not consider the results of VUE in evaluating the performance of IAC’s businesses.
Free Cash Flow
We look at Free Cash Flow as a measure of the strength and performance of our businesses, not for valuation purposes. In our view, applying “multiples” to Free Cash Flow is inappropriate because it is subject to timing, seasonality and one-time events. We manage our business for cash and we think it is of utmost importance to maximize cash — but our primary valuation metrics are Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS.
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OTHER INFORMATION
Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
This press release and our conference call, which will be held at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time on February 3, 2016, may contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The use of words such as “anticipates,” “estimates,” “expects,” “plans” and “believes,” among others, generally identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements relating to: IAC’s future financial performance, IAC’s business prospects, strategy and anticipated trends in the industries in which IAC’s businesses operate and other similar matters. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions about future events, which are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially from those contained in these forward-looking statements for a variety of reasons, including, among others: changes in senior management at IAC and/or its businesses, changes in our relationship with, or policies implemented by, Google, adverse changes in economic conditions, either generally or in any of the markets in which IAC’s businesses operate, adverse trends in any of the industries in which IAC’s businesses operate (primarily the online advertising, general advertising and dating industries), our dependence on third parties to drive traffic to our various websites and distribute our products and services in a cost-effective manner, our ability to attract and convert visitors to our various websites into users and customers, our ability to offer new or alternative products and services in a cost-effective manner and consumer acceptance of these products and services, our ability to build, maintain and/or enhance our various brands, our ability to develop and monetize mobile versions of our various products and services, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, changes in industry standards and technology, the integrity and scalability or our systems and infrastructure (and those of third parties), our ability to protect our systems from cyberattacks, operational and financial risks relating to acquisitions, our ability to expand successfully into international markets and regulatory changes. Certain of these and other risks and uncertainties are discussed in IAC’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Other unknown or unpredictable factors that could also adversely affect IAC’s business, financial condition and results of operations may arise from time to time. In light of these risks and uncertainties, these forward-looking statements may not prove to be accurate. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which only reflect the views of IAC management as of the date of this press release. IAC does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements.
About IAC
IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) is a leading media and Internet company comprised of some of the world’s most recognized brands and products, such as HomeAdvisor, Vimeo, About.com, Dictionary.com, The Daily Beast, Investopedia, and Match Group’s online dating portfolio, which includes Match, OkCupid and Tinder. The company is headquartered in New York City and has offices worldwide.
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Exhibit 99.2
IAC Q4 2015 Management’s Prepared Remarks
Set forth below are IAC management’s prepared remarks relating to IAC’s earnings announcement for the 4th quarter of 2015. IAC will audiocast a conference call to answer questions regarding the Company’s 4th quarter financial results and these prepared remarks on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time. The live audiocast will be open to the public at www.iac.com/Investors. These prepared remarks will not be read on the call.
Match Group will audiocast a conference call to answer questions regarding their 4th quarter financial results and management’s prepared remarks on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The live audiocast will be open to the public at ir.matchgroupinc.com. These prepared remarks will not be read on their call.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
These prepared remarks contain references to certain non-GAAP measures which, as a reminder, include Adjusted EBITDA, to which we’ll refer in these prepared remarks as “EBITDA” for simplicity. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in conjunction with, but not as a substitute for, financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to our 4th quarter 2015 press release and the investor relations section of our website for all comparable GAAP measures and full reconciliations for all material non-GAAP measures.
Please see the Safe Harbor Statement at the end of these remarks.
Joey Levin, CEO, IAC
In the fourth quarter we successfully completed a $460 million IPO of Match Group and $1.25 billion of debt transactions, creating the 8th public company from what was once one IAC in 2005. Now IAC begins a new stage with four strong segments beyond Match Group — HomeAdvisor, Publishing, Applications, and Video. Our key businesses continue to perform well. At Match Group, subscriber growth accelerated to 30% in the 4th quarter, and HomeAdvisor grew domestic revenue 51%, marking the 9th straight quarter of revenue acceleration in its core domestic business. We also saw healthy revenue
growth at Vimeo, Premium Brands within our Publishing group, and the Consumer side of our Applications business.
Over the last 20+ years, IAC has acquired, created, built and assembled high performing businesses and category leaders, and, well before splits and spin-offs became fashionable with shareholders, we have consistently enabled our shareholders to own our businesses directly and separately when sensible. As a result, an investor who put $1 into IAC’s predecessor company, Silver King, in 1995 would today have nearly $12.50, versus $3.50 for $1 invested for the same period in the S&P 500. We’ve delivered these returns through smart acquisitions, through creating new companies, and with a healthy impatience on execution and patience on vision.
We are constantly looking for new businesses which are complementary to our existing companies or which could form the nucleus of a new and transforming category for IAC. We are rigorous in our analysis and seek to deploy our capital only where we see high returns in large addressable markets and at multiples which we believe ensure such returns. Fifteen of our last twenty acquisitions have been completed at single digit EBITDA multiples, and all but three of the twenty have been accretive to IAC. When we look at new businesses, we focus on businesses which we believe: (1) can create considerable value for both customers and investors, (2) can achieve significant scale in a large and dynamic category, (3) either have a great team or for which we have a great team, and (4) can benefit from our particular areas of experience and skills. With approximately $1.5 billion of cash on the IAC balance sheet, we intend to be both diligent and aggressive, as we’ve always been.
We also evaluate new opportunities against the option to acquire a greater interest in our existing businesses through share repurchases. In the personals business, we’ve been able to capitalize on unique acquisition opportunities over the last few years given an advantageous position as one of a limited number of acquirers in the category. But in other areas, we’ve remained a spectator as the private fundraising market for internet companies has been exceptionally rich, and opportunities for sensible acquisitions have been limited. Amidst the disconnect in valuations between public and private markets, we returned a great deal of capital to shareholders. We have opportunistically bought back over $3 billion in IAC shares since 2009 at an average price of $29.86 per share, and, given the significant level of cash flow IAC had on a standalone basis, we instituted a quarterly dividend in 2011 and have paid out nearly $400 million in dividends over the last 4+ years.
At the moment, neither Match Group nor IAC is currently positioned to pay a quarterly dividend: Match Group has leverage of greater than 3.5x, and IAC now has a smaller base of cash flow given the separation of Match Group. We expect Match Group, excluding any incremental acquisitions, to deleverage its balance sheet through operating growth, cash flow generation, and debt repayment. At the same time, IAC is well-capitalized to acquire assets and generate high returns for shareholders. Thus, we have announced that we are ceasing our quarterly dividend, but may reinstate the dividend at either IAC or Match Group in the future. This does not mean, of course, that we won’t be disciplined stewards of capital, as we have been for more than two decades — it simply means that our capital will be focused on high-return acquisitions and opportunistic share buybacks for the time being.
With a strong balance sheet and our extended Google agreement, we have confidence in a strong base of cash flow at IAC going forward. Our Search & Applications business, which we will now report in two segments — Publishing and Applications — has been the largest cash flow contributor at IAC for the last 7 years and, with the new Google agreement, will continue to be so for several more. The Search & Applications businesses produced approximately $300 million in EBITDA in 2015, and we expect that they will collectively generate approximately $200-$225 million of EBITDA in 2016 and grow from there. Roughly 70% of the former segment’s EBITDA will land in the new Applications segment and 20% in the new Publishing segment (including incremental investment at The Daily Beast, which is moving into Publishing, and excluding PriceRunner, which is moving into Other). More than 3/4 of the decline from 2015 to 2016 in what formerly comprised the Search & Applications segment comes from our legacy search business and the partnership (previously B2B) portion of Applications. We expect the EBITDA from our premium publishing brands and consumer applications businesses to be down together only mid-single digits in 2016 after all of the changes with the agreement take hold. This new contract signals a real victory as it positions us well for long-term growth in the best of these businesses in return for the expansion of existing consumer-friendly practices that we support, and a rate adjustment on mobile that we believe still leaves us well-positioned in the market. The four year contract term reaffirms our 10-year relationship with Google and creates a firm foundation for growth in these businesses for years to come.
HomeAdvisor
HomeAdvisor continued its incredible run of accelerating domestic revenue growth in the 4th quarter, reminiscent of the stretch we saw at the online travel businesses in the early 2000’s. For the full year, the core domestic business grew revenue 43% while the overall business grew revenue 27%.
The key to HomeAdvisor’s success over the last 2 years has been the growth in size and quality of our domestic service professional network, now in excess of 106,000 paying service professionals, up approximately 45% year-over-year. Additionally, the average revenue per service professional was up nearly 10%, as we are attracting higher-quality service professionals. We made significant investments in our salesforce to do this, with sales expense growing modestly faster than revenue in 2015. We’ve also significantly improved retention — our annual retention has increased more than 2,000 basis points over the last year, which is a huge achievement in an industry where independent service provider turnover broadly is estimated around 30% annually, and, to maintain quality in the network, an additional level of “forced churn” is required. For the most part, we are keeping the pros we want in the network, because the service works for them. Based on current retention rates, which we aspire to drive yet higher, we currently estimate the revenue LTV for service professionals sold over the last 3 quarters has increased by more than 30% versus the prior year period.
We’ve also invested heavily in our brand and in our product. We tripled our TV expenditure in 2015 and grew our marketing spend nearly 60%, in turn growing our total service requests from consumers 49% to nearly 10 million service requests domestically in 2015. We expect to exceed a million service requests per month in 2016. We’ve also increased our repeat rate double digits percent over the last 2 years — and that number still has a great deal of room for improvement. In terms of product, we’ve dramatically improved the HomeAdvisor mobile user experience this last year and seen our mobile business more than double. We have also introduced two new products, InstantConnect and InstantBooking, which meaningfully advance the consumer and service professional user experience and together now account for nearly 10% of all service requests, up from essentially zero at the beginning of 2015. As you might imagine from their names, InstantConnect connects a consumer on our platform directly by phone with the appropriate home service professional for their specific job in their specific geographic area, allowing the consumer and the pro to work out the details. Our InstantBooking product goes a step further, and simply allows the consumer to directly book an appointment with the right service pro instantly on our platform. We’re only able to deliver these next-level consumer experiences because of the depth, breadth, and geographic diversity of our service pro network, and because they are meaningfully engaged on our platform. We are really pleased with the rapid adoption of these products and even more so with the satisfaction levels we have seen, with Net Promoter Scores (NPS) on these products for both consumers and professionals materially higher than on the standard HomeAdvisor service.
All of this investment decreased margins and held EBITDA essentially flat in 2015. In 2016, we plan to continue to invest in our brand, our product, and our market position, but given the overall revenue scale in the business today, we could end up doubling EBITDA for the year notwithstanding the investment. We remain focused on long-term market leadership over near-term margins, but as marketing and sales investment growth decelerates in 2016 relative to 2015 and we simultaneously begin to enjoy the benefit of greater retention and revenue per service professional, we will see some of the revenue growth drop down to the bottom line if we grow, as we expect in 2016, at or above the growth rate we saw in 2015.
Publishing
We restructured Search & Applications into our new Publishing and Applications segments to bring separate focus to what have become discrete businesses with unique strategies and opportunities. On one side, we are tightening our focus on digital publishing. There are still tens of billions in offline print ad spend, shifting from offline to online at an estimated rate of more than $1 billion a year, creating tremendous opportunities for those who cultivate the right audiences. In looking at our assets, we’d clearly assembled a group of Publishing assets well-positioned across a number of content categories, all while operating profitably and at significant scale, but the audience reach of the collection was not widely appreciated. Accordingly, in December of 2015, we announced the launch of IAC Publishing, bringing together our collection of premier properties to create a clear digital publishing entity with almost $700 million in revenues in 2015. These properties, each with its own heft in brand and audience, are now together on top of a platform which allows us to extract maximum leverage from investments in core areas like revenue generation and optimization, technology, analytics and marketing across the entire group. In addition, we’re also better organized to take advantage of our overall audience size and data with advertisers.
Our Premium Brands — comprised of About.com, The Daily Beast, Investopedia and Dictionary — finished out the year on a very strong note, with revenues up 14% in Q4 and nearly 30% in 2015. These properties alone reach over 100 million domestic users per comScore, placing Premium Brands as a top 10 publisher of original content with over $300 million in revenue last year.
At About, page views per visit and time-on-site are up double digits year-over-year (14% and 13%, respectively) as a result of continued work and improvements in product and UI. Overall RPM is up 25%, driven by both an increase in direct sales (up 73% in the 4th quarter and 43% for the full year) and continued improvements in programmatic revenue. We’re also continuing to see nice growth in traffic
from new channels, with page views from social, email and other new channels up 3x year-over-year. As we’ve said before, we are underpenetrated in these channels and expect to see continued growth as we invest further in social product and distribution. Results would have been even stronger here, but for softness in distribution via Google SEO, as traffic from the search engine remains fickle and we believe recent adjustments have favored vertical publishers over horizontal properties — a trend that has benefited us in connection with a site like Investopedia, but has been a drag at About. Ultimately, we believe that quality content will always do well in search, and our focus remains on empowering About’s experts to produce the best content in their categories. But we are also going to begin to stress the strength we have in particular verticals. On a standalone basis, About’s traffic in Health, Travel, Home and Leisure and Entertainment are top 10 sites in their respective categories and we are working to position them as deep verticals in those categories for the benefit of traffic and ad sales.
Investopedia finished the year with total traffic up 22%, driven by success across the board from all sources, and Q4 set new records for both traffic and revenue. NPS scores for the property improved sequentially every quarter for the entire year, further highlighting the positive impact from the investments we are making in content and customer experience. The Daily Beast had nearly 18 million monthly uniques in December (per comScore), larger than The Atlantic, Vox, Salon and Gawker brands, and up over 40% year-over-year, growing faster than BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post. It’s a testament to the success we are having in delivering intelligent and irreverent journalism with what we believe is one of the best editorial staffs in the business, not just in digital.
Looking forward, we expect Premium Brands to drive further revenue gains and traffic growth, particularly in social. On the revenue side, programmatic yield across the properties is up 28%. The trend toward native advertising has also been a favorable one, principally at The Daily Beast and About, where native campaigns combined with content marketing services command healthy CPMs and help circumvent ad blockers. In 2016, we will see some downward adjustment in revenue as a result of a shift to our new contract terms particularly related to mobile traffic. The impact of the decrease in revenue share in mobile will primarily negatively impact About, commencing in Q2.
As expected, at Ask and our other direct marketing brands, revenue declined another 7% sequentially in the 4th quarter. We continued to deal with changes in Google’s ecosystem over the course of 2015 that have impacted our ability to market. We expect these trends to continue in 2016 as the mobile impact rolls in under the new contract.
Applications
On the other side of the house, we reorganized our Applications businesses under a single management team to better attack opportunities in digital software across both desktop and mobile. IAC Applications finished out the year essentially flat, with revenue of $761 million and EBITDA of $184 million. During the 4th quarter, we generated more than 1 million installs a day.
The Consumer segment of this business — where we develop and market our own applications — remains a powerhouse on desktop with more than 36 million daily active users spread across 120 products on desktop, and also encompasses 3.2 million daily active users spread across 53 products on mobile and 1.3 million paid subscribers to SlimWare software products.
The strength in this business has been our consistent and proven ability to develop and market new products which expand our portfolio and generate growth. With 2 billion desktop computer users in today’s mobile-saturated world, we continue to see robust demand for desktop apps, whether that be a utility for searching for online TV and video, file conversion, or personalized local weather. Increasingly, our desktop browser products are distributed through native browser app stores across Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox, which, similar to mobile app stores, offer developers opportunities to reach audiences and leverage the features and functions of the platforms. In this ecosystem we’ve created successful digital consumer products by listening to our audience and other signals to identify new categories, build quickly, and then market to meet the demand.
The headwind in this business has principally been in making adjustments to competitive and other changes by the browsers and Google. With each change, we’ve consistently adjusted and returned to growth, and we expect the same to happen now as we transition to our new search contract terms. In Applications, the impact comes as a result of our shift toward “opt-in” and native applications, meaning apps or extensions that are native to the app store for a given browser. These native apps will typically yield a single consumer search touchpoint (e.g., a homepage) rather than a series of browser changes. The overall trend toward native applications is to a large extent inexorable as each of the major browsers have clearly signaled their intentions to build out their native stores and push developers to adopt them. While near-term negative to our Applications business, we believe this trend is a positive result for consumers and, over the long term, provides us with a simpler and very effective channel to reach the world’s 2
billion desktop users. That trend, combined with locking up a great deal with Google, should set up the business well for the future.
We have also seen a headwind in RPQ, which was down 13% in the 4th quarter versus the prior year as a result of both geographic mix and movements in the Google network RPQ and changes we’ve made to benefit the customer experience, which had the effect of decreasing RPQ but increasing overall queries. At times over the years, we have seen moves of plus or minus 10% or more in RPQ in a particular period, but the overall trend has been positive. Fortunately, when RPQ falls on the revenue side, cost of acquisition also falls on the expense side, so we are able to continue to market and grow our installs — albeit at a lower dollar margin per install. If history is any indicator, we expect RPQ to recover, and we saw early signs of improvement in January.
In mobile, Apalon continues to expand its product line and audience, with Q4 revenue up over 2x year-over-year and MAUs up double digits due to continued success in distributing well-crafted mobile applications in non-gaming categories. Notable hits in 2015 included a beautifully designed alarm clock that determines optimal wakeup time and “Speak and Translate”, which received Apple’s “Best of 2015” in France and Russia and achieved the #1 rank in iOS Paid Reference Apps in over 140 countries since its launch, according to App Annie. Apalon and the Slimware subscription business together remain small on a percentage basis, accounting for about 8% of Consumer revenue, but we expect subscriptions and mobile apps to reach into the double digits as a percent of total Consumer revenue in 2016 and continue to grow from there.
Overall, we expect the Consumer segment to hold relatively flat for the year on both revenue and EBITDA and to be in a position to return to growth by year end.
In our Partnerships business, as we’ve long discussed, we continue to see erosion and expect to see further decline in 2016 given both secular trends and the loss of some partners that we expect will look for alternative solutions as we transition toward “opt-in.” We continue to appeal to branded partners that put high value on customer experience, but we will see further declines elsewhere and have begun to restructure the operations accordingly.
Video
In our Video segment, Vimeo continues to grow as it expands its footprint with creators and consumers. The service completed a year in which it reached 676,000 subscribers on 19% year-over-year growth, grew subscription revenue 23% and more than doubled gross video on demand sales in its video marketplace with more than 1.2 million buyers, up 21% quarter-over-quarter and 2.5x year-over-year.
Successful VOD titles included works such as Con Man, one of the five largest crowdfunded video projects of all time, Rolodex of Hate, a comedy stand-up special from drag queen Bianca Del Rio, and Oscar’s Hotel, a paid series created by a number of video stars who built their careers in ad-supported online video and who are now generating revenue through a paying audience on Vimeo. In addition, overall video uploads, plays, and viewers reached all-time highs, with Vimeo holding the #4 position among US video sites for the fifth consecutive month, behind only YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo. Worldwide, Vimeo reached over 200 million unique viewers in December according to comScore, representing a huge opportunity for our creators.
But our ambition is greater. Over its history, Vimeo has attracted creators who value our clean interface and creator-friendly business model. As Vimeo attracts more, and a greater share of, quality creators through the right platform features to share and sell video, and we leverage our viewer traffic and VOD consumer base as a consumer destination, we see Vimeo emerging as a leader in the online video marketplace. We are seeing fantastic growth in our marketplace and have just begun to scratch the surface on connecting the hundreds of millions of viewers that Vimeo reaches each month with more and more of our creators’ distinctive, ad-free content.
Jeff Kip, Executive Vice President, IAC
As discussed above, consolidated HomeAdvisor revenue growth, at 27%, trailed the growth of the core domestic business (approaching 85% of total revenue), at 51%, in the 4th quarter. This gap has existed all year given the exit of the loss-making European revenue streams at the end of the 4th quarter last year, but it grew a little wider in Q4 because of accounting adjustments made at the time of the restructuring in 2014. Going forward, we expect the gap to narrow as we annualize the restructuring and the international businesses again shows growth. For the 1st quarter, we expect to see consolidated revenue growth accelerate from the 4th quarter as domestic growth continues apace and we annualize the European restructuring. The business will be modestly profitable overall, compared to a loss in the 1st quarter of 2015.
In the segment formerly known as Search & Applications, we had nearly $4 million in restructuring charges in the quarter primarily related to cost rationalization in the Partnerships business. In the Publishing businesses, for the first quarter, we expect moderate revenue declines and a modestly higher EBITDA decline than the 4th quarter. For the Applications businesses, we expect both revenue and EBITDA declines in the 1st quarter to increase from the 4th quarter rates as a result of both the RPQ trends and the ongoing declines in Partnerships revenue, as discussed. For the full year, we expect Publishing revenue to come down somewhat more in 2016 than it did in 2015, driven entirely by the erosion in the Ask & Other businesses. Applications revenue will fall as well in 2016, although not as much as Publishing revenue, driven entirely by declines in the legacy Partnership businesses.
The Video segment grew nicely in both the 4th quarter and for the full year. For both the 1st quarter and the full year of 2016, we expect revenue to grow at or above the 2015 full year rate. In 2015, we made material investments in both Vimeo and DailyBurn, and based on those investments we expect to see improved profitability in the segment. While we are still net investing in those businesses, we expect to reduce the losses in the segment meaningfully in 2016, with a significant majority of the losses coming in the 1st quarter.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release and our conference call, which will be held at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time on February 3, 2016, may contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The use of words such as “anticipates,” “estimates,” “expects,” “plans” and “believes,” among others, generally identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements relating to: IAC’s future financial performance, IAC’s business prospects, strategy and anticipated trends in the industries in which IAC’s businesses operate and other similar matters. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions about future events, which are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially from those contained in these forward-looking statements for a variety of reasons, including, among others: changes in senior management at IAC and/or its businesses, changes in our relationship with, or policies implemented by, Google, adverse changes in economic conditions, either generally or in any of the markets in which IAC’s businesses operate, adverse trends in
any of the industries in which IAC’s businesses operate (primarily the online advertising, general advertising and dating industries), our dependence on third parties to drive traffic to our various websites and distribute our products and services in a cost-effective manner, our ability to attract and convert visitors to our various websites into users and customers, our ability to offer new or alternative products and services in a cost-effective manner and consumer acceptance of these products and services, our ability to build, maintain and/or enhance our various brands, our ability to develop and monetize mobile versions of our various products and services, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, changes in industry standards and technology, the integrity and scalability or our systems and infrastructure (and those of third parties), our ability to protect our systems from cyberattacks, operational and financial risks relating to acquisitions, our ability to expand successfully into international markets and regulatory changes. Certain of these and other risks and uncertainties are discussed in IAC’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Other unknown or unpredictable factors that could also adversely affect IAC’s business, financial condition and results of operations may arise from time to time. In light of these risks and uncertainties, these forward-looking statements may not prove to be accurate. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which only reflect the views of IAC management as of the date of this press release. IAC does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements.
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