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ACI Worldwide, Inc. Reports Financial Results for the Quarter and Full Year Ended December 31, 2019

February 27, 2020 6:00 AM

2019 HIGHLIGHTS

NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, announced financial results today for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2019.

“As previously announced, our 2019 results were impacted by a delayed contract. Notwithstanding the contract delay, 2019 was a positive year for ACI and we are very pleased with our business overall. The Speedpay acquisition brought us a leadership position in electronic bill payment and contributed to materially improved profitability in our On Demand segment. We also delivered strong growth in our Real-Time Payments and eCommerce solutions,” said Craig Saks, Interim President and CEO, ACI Worldwide. “We enter 2020 with a strong pipeline and solid growth expectations. Further, we are excited about the appointment of Odilon Almeida as our President and CEO and look forward to his leadership and contributions in realizing our long-term growth plans.”

FULL YEAR 2019 FINANCIAL SUMMARY

Full year 2019 revenue was $1.26 billion, up 25% from $1.0 billion in 2018. Adjusting for the Speedpay contribution, full year revenue grew 2% from 2018. Total recurring revenue increased 37% in the year to $891 million, or 71% of total revenue, from $652 million, or 65% of total revenue in 2018.

Net income in 2019 was $67 million compared to $69 million in 2018. Adjusted EBITDA in 2019 was $308 million, up 23% from $251 million in 2018.

In 2019, revenue from ACI’s On Demand segment was $679 million, up 57% from $433 million in 2018. On Demand segment net adjusted EBITDA margin improved to 19% from 5% in 2018. On Demand segment net adjusted EBITDA margins are adjusted for pass through interchange revenue of $322 million and $170 million, for 2019 and 2018, respectively.

ACI’s On Premise segment revenue was $579 million, up slightly from $577 million in 2018. On Premise segment adjusted EBITDA margin was 55%.

ACI ended 2019 with a 12-month backlog of $1.1 billion and a 60-month backlog of $5.8 billion. After adjusting for foreign currency fluctuations, our 12-month backlog increased $18 million and our 60-month backlog increased $144 million from 2018.

ACI ended 2019 with $121 million in cash on hand and a debt balance of $1.4 billion. During the year, the company repurchased 1.2 million shares for $36 million, or an average price of $29 per share and has $141 million remaining on its share repurchase authorization.

2020 GUIDANCE

For 2020 we expect total revenue to be between $1.48 billion and $1.51 billion, which represents approximately 18% to 20% growth over 2019. We expect 2020 adjusted EBITDA to be in a range of $425 million to $445 million, which represents approximately 38% to 45% growth over 2019. This excludes between $5 million and $10 million in significant transaction-related expenses and $10 million of one-time charges to implement cost reduction strategies.

We expect revenue to be between $285 million and $295 million in Q1 2020.

CONFERENCE CALL TO DISCUSS FINANCIAL RESULTS AND OUTLOOK

Management will host a conference call at 8:30 am ET today to discuss these results as well as 2020 guidance. Interested persons may access a real-time audio broadcast of the teleconference at http://investor.aciworldwide.com/ or use the following numbers for dial-in participation: US/Canada: (866) 914-7436, international: +1 (817) 385-9117. Please provide your name, the conference name ACI Worldwide, Inc. and conference code 2899342. There will be a replay of the call available for two weeks on (855) 859-2056 for US/Canada callers and +1 (404) 537-3406 for international participants.

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments (UP) company, powers electronic payments for more than 5,100 organizations around the world. More than 1,000 of the largest financial institutions and intermediaries, as well as thousands of global merchants, rely on ACI to execute $14 trillion each day in payments and securities. In addition, myriad organizations utilize our electronic bill presentment and payment services. Through our comprehensive suite of software solutions delivered on customers’ premises, in a third-party public cloud environment or through ACI’s private cloud, we provide real-time, immediate payments capabilities and enable the industry’s most complete omni-channel payments experience. To learn more about ACI, please visit www.aciworldwide.com. You can also find us on Twitter @ACI_Worldwide.

© Copyright ACI Worldwide, Inc. 2020.

ACI, ACI Worldwide, ACI Payment Systems, the ACI logo and all ACI product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of ACI Worldwide, Inc., or one of its subsidiaries, in the United States, other countries or both. Other parties’ trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.

To supplement our financial results presented on a GAAP basis, we use the non-GAAP measures indicated in the tables, which exclude significant transaction-related expenses, one-time charges to implement cost reduction strategies, as well as other significant non-cash expenses such as depreciation, amortization and stock-based compensation, that we believe are helpful in understanding our past financial performance and our future results. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to our GAAP results and are not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. Management generally compensates for limitations in the use of non-GAAP financial measures by relying on comparable GAAP financial measures and providing investors with a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures only in addition to and in conjunction with results presented in accordance with GAAP.

We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures reflect an additional way to view aspects of our operations that, when viewed with our GAAP results, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting our business. Certain non-GAAP measures include:

ACI is also presenting adjusted operating free cash flow, which is defined as net cash provided by operating activities and net after-tax payments associated with significant transaction-related expenses, less capital expenditures. Adjusted operating free cash flow is considered a non-GAAP financial measure as defined by SEC Regulation G. We utilize this non-GAAP financial measure, and believe it is useful to investors, as an indicator of cash flow available for debt repayment and other investing activities, such as capital investments and acquisitions. We utilize adjusted operating free cash flow as a further indicator of operating performance and for planning investment activities. Adjusted operating free cash flow should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, net cash provided by operating activities. A limitation of adjusted operating free cash flow is that it does not represent the total increase or decrease in the cash balance for the period. This measure also does not exclude mandatory debt service obligations and, therefore, does not represent the residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures. We believe that adjusted operating free cash flow is useful to investors to provide disclosures of our operating results on the same basis as that used by our management.

ACI backlog includes estimates for SaaS and PaaS, license, maintenance, and services revenue specified in executed contracts but excluded from contracted revenue that will be recognized in future periods, as well as revenue from assumed contract renewals to the extent that we believe recognition of the related revenue will occur within the corresponding backlog period. We have historically included assumed renewals in backlog estimates based upon automatic renewal provisions in the executed contract and our historic experience with customer renewal rates.

Backlog is considered a non-GAAP financial measure as defined by SEC Regulation G. Our 60-month backlog estimates are derived using the following key assumptions:

Estimates of future financial results are inherently unreliable. Our backlog estimates require substantial judgment and are based on a number of assumptions as described above. These assumptions may turn out to be inaccurate or wrong, including, but not limited to, reasons outside of management’s control. For example, our customers may attempt to renegotiate or terminate their contracts for a number of reasons, including mergers, changes in their financial condition, or general changes in economic conditions in the customer’s industry or geographic location, or we may experience delays in the development or delivery of products or services specified in customer contracts which may cause the actual renewal rates and amounts to differ from historical experiences. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates may also impact the amount of revenue actually recognized in future periods. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that contracts included in backlog estimates will actually generate the specified revenue or that the actual revenue will be generated within the corresponding 60-month period.

Backlog estimates should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, reported revenue and contracted but not recognized revenue (including deferred revenue).

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Generally, forward-looking statements do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and may include words or phrases such as “believes,” “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” and words and phrases of similar impact. The forward-looking statements are made pursuant to safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: (i) our leadership position in electronic bill payment; (ii) our strong pipeline and solid growth expectations; (iii) expectations regarding our to-be-appointed President and CEO; (iv) expectations regarding revenue and adjusted EBITDA in 2020; and (v) expectations regarding Q1 2020 revenue.

All of the foregoing forward-looking statements are expressly qualified by the risk factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such factors include, but are not limited to, increased competition, the success of our Universal Payments strategy, demand for our products, restrictions and other financial covenants in our debt agreements, consolidations and failures in the financial services industry, customer reluctance to switch to a new vendor, the accuracy of management’s backlog estimates, failure to obtain renewals of customer contracts or to obtain such renewals on favorable terms, delay or cancellation of customer projects or inaccurate project completion estimates, volatility and disruption of the capital and credit markets and adverse changes in the global economy, events outside of our control including natural disasters, wars, and outbreaks of disease, our ability to attract and retain senior management personnel and skilled technical employees, our existing levels of debt, potential adverse effects from the impending replacement of LIBOR, impairment of our goodwill or intangible assets, litigation, future acquisitions, strategic partnerships and investments, integration of and achieving benefits from the Speedpay acquisition, the complexity of our products and services and the risk that they may contain hidden defects or be subjected to security breaches or viruses, compliance of our products with applicable legislation, governmental regulations and industry standards, our ability to protect customer information from security breaches or attacks, our compliance with privacy regulations, our ability to adequately defend our intellectual property, exposure to credit or operating risks arising from certain payment funding methods, the cyclical nature of our revenue and earnings and the accuracy of forecasts due to the concentration of revenue-generating activity during the final weeks of each quarter, business interruptions or failure of our information technology and communication systems, our offshore software development activities, risks from operating internationally, including fluctuations in currency exchange rates, exposure to unknown tax liabilities, and volatility in our stock price. For a detailed discussion of these risk factors, parties that are relying on the forward-looking statements should review our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

ACI WORLDWIDE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(unaudited and in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

December 31,

2019

2018

ASSETS

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents

$

121,398

$

148,502

Receivables, net of allowances

359,197

348,182

Settlement assets

391,039

32,256

Prepaid expenses

24,542

23,277

Other current assets

24,200

14,260

Total current assets

920,376

566,477

Noncurrent assets

Accrued receivables, net

213,041

189,010

Property and equipment, net

70,380

72,729

Operating lease right-of-use assets

57,382

Software, net

234,517

137,228

Goodwill

1,280,525

909,691

Intangible assets, net

356,969

168,127

Deferred income taxes, net

51,611

27,048

Other noncurrent assets

72,733

52,145

TOTAL ASSETS

$

3,257,534

$

2,122,455

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Current liabilities

Accounts payable

$

37,010

$

39,602

Settlement liabilities

368,719

31,605

Employee compensation

29,318

38,115

Current portion of long-term debt

34,148

20,767

Deferred revenue

65,784

104,843

Other current liabilities

76,971

61,688

Total current liabilities

611,950

296,620

Noncurrent liabilities

Deferred revenue

53,155

51,292

Long-term debt

1,339,007

650,989

Deferred income taxes, net

32,053

31,715

Operating lease liabilities

46,766

Other noncurrent liabilities

44,635

43,608

Total liabilities

2,127,566

1,074,224

Commitments and contingencies

Stockholders’ equity

Preferred stock

Common stock

702

702

Additional paid-in capital

667,658

632,235

Retained earnings

930,830

863,768

Treasury stock

(377,639

)

(355,857

)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

(91,583

)

(92,617

)

Total stockholders’ equity

1,129,968

1,048,231

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

$

3,257,534

$

2,122,455

ACI WORLDWIDE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(unaudited and in thousands, except per share amounts)

For the Three Months Ended
December 31,

For the Years Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Revenues

Software as a service and platform as a service

$

203,661

$

110,626

$

677,669

$

433,025

License

122,584

137,991

288,261

280,556

Maintenance

53,738

53,065

213,409

219,145

Services

19,937

18,268

78,955

77,054

Total revenues

399,920

319,950

1,258,294

1,009,780

Operating expenses

Cost of revenue (1)

173,104

104,281

617,453

430,351

Research and development

34,601

32,969

146,573

143,630

Selling and marketing

30,875

24,576

123,684

117,881

General and administrative

27,174

20,399

135,296

107,422

Depreciation and amortization

31,753

21,311

111,532

84,585

Total operating expenses

297,507

203,536

1,134,538

883,869

Operating income

102,413

116,414

123,756

125,911

Other income (expense)

Interest expense

(18,109

)

(9,875

)

(64,033

)

(41,530

)

Interest income

2,949

2,893

11,967

11,142

Other, net

3,399

(688

)

520

(3,724

)

Total other income (expense)

(11,761

)

(7,670

)

(51,546

)

(34,112

)

Income before income taxes

90,652

108,744

72,210

91,799

Income tax expense

35,166

21,054

5,148

22,878

Net income

$

55,486

$

87,690

$

67,062

$

68,921

Income per common share

Basic

$

0.48

$

0.76

$

0.58

$

0.59

Diluted

$

0.47

$

0.74

$

0.57

$

0.59

Weighted average common shares outstanding

Basic

115,695

116,066

116,175

116,057

Diluted

118,898

117,852

118,571

117,632

(1) The cost of revenue excludes charges for depreciation but includes amortization of purchased and developed software for resale.

ACI WORLDWIDE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(unaudited and in thousands)

For the Three Months Ended
December 31,

For the Years Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Cash flows from operating activities:

Net income

$

55,486

$

87,690

$

67,062

$

68,921

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash flows from operating activities:

Depreciation

6,176

5,909

24,092

23,805

Amortization

27,850

18,552

98,477

73,545

Amortization of operating lease right-of-use assets

5,057

15,934

Amortization of deferred debt issuance costs

1,219

756

4,128

4,637

Deferred income taxes

17,183

1,405

(22,140

)

(5,734

)

Stock-based compensation expense

6,435

(282

)

36,763

20,360

Other

2,744

575

5,175

2,007

Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of impact of acquisitions:

Receivables

(53,744

)

(73,203

)

(19,054

)

(14,760

)

Accounts payable

711

9,983

(7,703

)

5,766

Accrued employee compensation

(12,569

)

(9,776

)

(10,829

)

(9,684

)

Current income taxes

7,399

5,314

(1,137

)

(5,115

)

Deferred revenue

(19,826

)

14,266

(37,561

)

14,219

Other current and noncurrent assets and liabilities

4,590

22,281

(15,558

)

5,965

Net cash flows from operating activities

48,711

83,470

137,649

183,932

Cash flows from investing activities:

Purchases of property and equipment

(4,360

)

(1,831

)

(23,099

)

(18,265

)

Purchases of software and distribution rights

(6,350

)

(3,752

)

(24,915

)

(25,628

)

Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired

(757,268

)

Other

(6,725

)

(25,199

)

(1,467

)

Net cash flows from investing activities

(17,435

)

(5,583

)

(830,481

)

(45,360

)

Cash flows from financing activities:

Proceeds from issuance of common stock

929

772

3,591

3,098

Proceeds from exercises of stock options

6,308

1,269

12,985

19,674

Repurchase of stock-based compensation awards for tax withholdings

(1,164

)

(3,986

)

(2,588

)

Repurchases of common stock

(35,617

)

(54,527

)

Proceeds from senior notes

400,000

Redemption of senior notes

(300,000

)

Proceeds from revolving credit facility

280,000

109,000

Repayment of revolving credit facility

(26,000

)

(41,000

)

(111,000

)

Proceeds from term portion of credit agreement

500,000

Repayment of term portion of credit agreement

(9,738

)

(3,957

)

(28,900

)

(109,289

)

Payments for debt issuance costs

(66

)

(12,830

)

(7,319

)

Payments on or proceeds from other debt, net

1,189

(2,421

)

(7,020

)

(4,753

)

Net cash flows from financing activities

(28,476

)

(4,403

)

667,223

(57,704

)

Effect of exchange rate fluctuations on cash

(2,983

)

(1,324

)

(1,495

)

(2,076

)

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

(183

)

72,160

(27,104

)

78,792

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

121,581

76,342

148,502

69,710

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

$

121,398

$

148,502

$

121,398

$

148,502

Adjusted EBITDA (millions)

For the Three Months Ended
December 31,

For the Years Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Net income

$

55.5

$

87.7

$

67.1

$

68.9

Plus:

Income tax expense

35.2

21.1

5.1

22.9

Net interest expense

15.2

7.0

52.1

30.4

Net other (income) expense

(3.4

)

0.7

(0.5

)

3.7

Depreciation expense

6.2

5.9

24.1

23.8

Amortization expense

27.9

18.6

98.5

73.5

Non-cash stock-based compensation expense

6.4

(0.3

)

36.8

20.4

Adjusted EBITDA before significant transaction-related expenses

$

143.0

$

140.7

$

283.2

$

243.6

Significant transaction-related expenses

2.7

0.9

24.9

7.4

Adjusted EBITDA

$

145.7

$

141.6

$

308.1

$

251.0

Segment Information (millions)

For the Three Months Ended
December 31,

For the Years Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Revenue

ACI On Premise

$

196.2

$

209.3

$

579.3

$

576.8

ACI On Demand

203.7

110.7

679.0

433.0

Total

$

399.9

$

320.0

$

1,258.3

$

1,009.8

Segment Adjusted EBITDA

ACI On Premise

$

136.4

$

152.4

$

321.3

$

323.9

ACI On Demand

30.9

16.3

66.5

12.0

Reconciliation of Adjusted Operating Free Cash Flow (millions)

For the Three Months Ended
December 31,

For the Years Ended
December 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

Net cash flows from operating activities

$

48.7

$

83.5

$

137.6

$

183.9

Net after-tax payments associated with significant transaction-related expenses

0.4

0.6

18.4

7.5

Less: capital expenditures

(10.7

)

(5.6

)

(48.0

)

(43.9

)

Adjusted Operating Free Cash Flow

$

38.4

$

78.5

$

108.0

$

147.5

John Kraft, Vice President, Investor Relations & Strategic Analysis

ACI Worldwide

239-403-4627

[email protected]

Source: ACI Worldwide, Inc.

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