Glu Mobile Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Mar 14, 2012
Glu Mobile Inc. (GLUU, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-12-31.

Glu Mobile Inc has a market cap of $254.8 million; its shares were traded at around $4.04 with and P/S ratio of 3.9.

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Our net loss in 2011 was $21.1 million versus a net loss of $13.4 million in 2010. This increase in our net loss was primarily due to an increase in operating expenses of $14.8 million driven by additional personnel and facility costs associated with the acquisitions of Griptonite and Blammo and increased research and development and sales and marketing expenses associated with the development and launch of our freemium titles. This increase was partially offset by a decrease in our cost of revenues by $3.2 million due to a decrease in royalty-burdened revenues and impairments of advanced royalties, a $1.8 million increase in revenues due to continued growth in sales of our smartphone games and a decrease in other income and expenses of $2.0 million related primarily to lower interest charges as the MIG promissory notes were fully repaid and favorable foreign exchange revaluations in 2011 compared to 2010. Our operating results are also affected by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates of the currencies in which we incur meaningful operating expenses (principally the British Pound Sterling, Chinese Renminbi, Brazilian Real and Russian Ruble), and our customers reporting currencies, as we transact business in more than 70 countries in more than 20 different currencies, and these currencies fluctuated significantly in 2010 and 2011.

Our general and administrative expenses increased $894,000, or 6.8%, from $13.1 million in 2010 to $14.0 million in 2011. The increase in general and administrative expenses was primarily due to a $1.1 million increase in professional, consulting and outside service fees associated primarily with the external legal, audit and valuation services performed as part of the Griptonite and Blammo acquisitions and a $501,000 increase in stock-based compensation expense. We also had a $281,000 increase in salaries, benefits and variable compensation due primarily to a $317,000 increase in variable compensation under our employee bonus plans. However, salaries and benefit costs decreased in 2011 compared to 2010 despite headcount increasing from 56 in 2010 to 62 in 2011. This is due to the fact that costs attributable to the additional headcount that we added in the third and fourth quarters of 2011 did not fully offset lower salary costs from the first six months of 2011. The increase in general and administrative expenses was partially offset by a $1.0 million decrease in allocated facility and overhead costs due to increased research and development headcount in 2011. As a percentage of revenues, general and administrative expenses increased from 20.4% in 2010 to 21.2% in 2011. General and administrative expenses included $1.4 million of stock-based compensation expense in 2011 and $871,000 in 2010. We anticipate that our general and administrative expenses will increase slightly during 2012. In addition, we may also be exposed to continued fluctuations in the fair market value of the contingent consideration issued to the Blammo non-employee shareholders, as the fair value of the contingent consideration will be measured during each reporting period until the end of the earn-out period in March 2015.

increase in smartphone revenue. The decrease in feature phone revenues was primarily due to the continued migration of users from feature phones to smartphones where we were unable to capture the same market share as we have in our traditional carrier business. Foreign currency exchange rates also had a greater positive impact on our revenues during the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to the year ended December 31, 2010. Due to the diversification of our product portfolio, including the titles resulting from the acquisitions of MIG and Superscape, no single title represented 10% or more of sales in either 2009 or 2010. International revenues decreased by $6.0 million, from $41.4 million in 2009 to $35.4 million in 2010. This was primarily related to a $3.2 million, or 15.7%, decrease in our EMEA revenues, a $1.7 million, or 22.3%, decrease in our China revenues and an $893,000, or 8.7%, decrease in our Americas revenues, excluding U.S. revenues. The decline in our EMEA and Americas revenues, excluding U.S. revenues, was primarily due to declining sales in our feature phone business. The decline in our China revenues was primarily due to $700,000 of one-time revenues recorded from an APAC customer in the first quarter of 2009 and a decrease in the revenue share we receive through our revenue share arrangements with China Mobile that became effective in February 2010.

In 2010, net cash provided by operating activities was $2.2 million, compared to net cash provided by operating activities of $1.1 million in 2009. This increase in cash from operations was primarily due to a decrease in accounts receivable of $5.2 million due to declining sales of games for feature phones in our carrier-based business and improved cash collections, a $3.7 million decrease in our prepaid royalties, a $1.8 million increase in accrued compensation and a $1.1 million increase in accounts payable. In addition, we had adjustments for non-cash items, including amortization expense of $4.4 million, depreciation expense of $2.0 million, stock-based compensation expense of $1.6 million and impairment of prepaid royalties of $663,000. These amounts were partially offset by a net loss of $13.4 million and a decrease in accrued royalties of $5.3 million.

Our cash and cash equivalents were $32.2 million as of December 31, 2011, which includes $15.7 million in net proceeds that we received from the 2011 Public Offering and $10.3 million in cash that we acquired in August 2011 in connection with our acquisition of Griptonite. Cash and cash equivalents held outside of the U.S. in various foreign subsidiaries were $7.4 million and $4.7 million as of December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively. Under current tax laws and regulations, if cash and cash equivalents held outside the U.S. are distributed to the U.S. in the form of dividends or otherwise, we may be subject to additional U.S. income taxes and foreign withholding taxes. We have not provided deferred taxes on unremitted earnings attributable to foreign subsidiaries because these earnings are intended to be reinvested indefinitely. However, in 2009 and 2010 we repatriated certain distributable earnings from a subsidiary in China. No deferred tax asset was recognized since we do not believe the deferred tax asset will reverse in the foreseeable future

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