LiveRamp Announces First Quarter Results

LiveRamp^® (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data collaboration platform, today announced its financial results for the fiscal 2024 first quarter ended June 30, 2023.

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Q1 Financial Highlights¹

• Total revenue was $154million, up 8%
• Subscription revenue was $122 million, up 5%, and accounted for 79% of total revenue.
• Marketplace & Other revenue was $32 million, up 21%.
• GAAP gross profit was $108 million, up 7%. GAAP gross margin of 70% contracted by 1 percentage point. Non-GAAP gross profit was $112 million, up 5%. Non-GAAP gross margin of 73% contracted by 2 percentage points.
• GAAP operating income was $2 million compared to a loss of $26 million. GAAP operating margin was 1% compared to negative 18%. Non-GAAP operating income was $21 million compared to $4 million. Non-GAAP operating margin of 14% expanded by 11 percentage points.
• GAAP diluted loss per share was $0.02 and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.29.
• Net cash provided by operating activities was $26 million compared to a use of $33 million. Operating cash flow benefited from a $29 million tax refund for fiscal 2021.
• Repurchased approximately 835,000 shares for $20 million in the first quarter.

A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results is provided in the schedules to this press release.

"We’re off to a strong start to the fiscal year, with first quarter revenue and operating income exceeding our expectations, operating margin expanding by double-digits and our first quarter ever with positive GAAP operating income,” said LiveRamp CEO Scott Howe. “Our data collaboration platform remains in high demand with the world’s most sophisticated marketers, helping them deliver relevant messages and measure results across all addressable channels, including social networks, the open web, programmatic, retail media networks and connected TV.”

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¹Unless otherwise indicated, all comparisons are to the prior year period.

GAAP and Non-GAAP Results

The following table summarizes the Company’s financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2023 ($ in millions):

A detailed discussion of our non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results is provided in the schedules attached to this press release.

Additional Business Highlights & Metrics

• The Company’s globally scaled Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) has more than 165 supply-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-side platforms (DSPs) live or committed to bid on RampID™ and ATS, including The Trade Desk, Xander, Amobee, Criteo, Adobe Ad Cloud, and Roku Oneview.
• To date, over 14,000 publisher domains and over 70% of the comScore 100 publishers, have adopted ATS, including Amazon Publisher Services, Microsoft, Hearst, CafeMedia, Leaf Group, Prisma Media and Burda. Through these integrations, LiveRamp is now connected to over 90% of consumer time spent online in the US.
• In May 2023 we integrated Google Display & Video 360's PAIR (Publisher Advertiser Identity Reconciliation) into the LiveRamp platform and started running brand campaigns. With PAIR, publishers and marketers can securely and privately reconcile their first-party data for marketing use cases on Display & Video 360, Google's DSP. This step forward unlocks additional scale across inventory already impacted by third-party cookie changes, while also providing a sustainable solution for the future across all channels, including Connected TV.
• In June 2023 our native applications for identity resolution debuted in the Snowflake Native App Framework. This means LiveRamp customers can seamlessly access our identity resolution and activation capabilities directly in their Snowflake data environment, eliminating the need to move or copy data and, thereby, reducing security and privacy risks.
• LiveRamp has 915 direct subscription customers, up from 910 in the prior year period.
• LiveRamp has 96 customers whose subscription contracts exceed $1 million in annual revenue, up from 90 in the prior year period.
• During the first quarter, subscription net retention was 98% and platform net retention was 102%.
• Current remaining performance obligations (CRPO), which is contracted and committed revenue expected to be recognized over the next 12 months, was $351 million, up 19% compared to the prior year period.

Financial Outlook

LiveRamp’s non-GAAP operating income guidance excludes the impact of non-cash stock compensation, purchased intangible asset amortization, and restructuring and related charges.

For the second quarter of fiscal 2024, LiveRamp expects to report:

• Revenue of $152 million, an increase of 3%
• GAAP operating income of $1 million
• Non-GAAP operating income of $19 million

For fiscal 2024, LiveRamp updates its guidance and expects to report:

• Revenue of between $620 million and $630 million, an increase of between 4% and 6%
• GAAP operating income of between $2 million and $5 million
• Non-GAAP operating income of between $90 million and $93 million

Conference Call

LiveRamp will hold a conference call today at 1:30 p.m. PT to further discuss this information. Interested parties are invited to listen to the call which will be broadcast via the Internet and can be found on LiveRamp’s investor site. A slide presentation will be referenced during the call and can be accessed here.

About LiveRamp

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners. Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders, turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements. LiveRamp is based in San Francisco, California with offices worldwide. Learn more at LiveRamp.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended (the “PSLRA”). These statements, which are not statements of historical fact, may contain estimates, assumptions, projections and/or expectations regarding the Company’s financial position, results of operations for fiscal 2024 and beyond, market position, product development, growth opportunities, economic conditions, and other similar forecasts and statements of expectation. Forward-looking statements are often identified by words or phrases such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “plan,” “expect,” “believe,” “intend,” “foresee,” or the negative of these terms or other similar variations thereof.

These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause the Company’s actual results and experiences to differ materially from the anticipated results and expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements.

Among the factors that may cause actual results and expectations to differ from anticipated results and expectations expressed in forward-looking statements are uncertainties related to rising interest rates, cost increases, the possibility of a recession, general inflationary pressure, and the associated impacts of these potential events on our suppliers, customers and partners; the Company’s dependence upon customer renewals; new customer additions and upsell within our subscription business; our reliance upon partners, including data suppliers; competition; and attracting and retaining talent. Additional risks include maintaining our culture and our ability to innovate and evolve while operating in a hybrid work environment, with some employees working remotely at least some of the time within a rapidly changing industry, while also avoiding disruption from reductions in our current workforce as well as disruptions resulting from acquisition, divestiture and other activities affecting our workforce. Our global workforce strategy could possibly encounter difficulty and not be as beneficial as planned. Our international operations are also subject to risks, including the performance of third parties as well as impacts from war and civil unrest, that may harm the Company’s business. The risk of a significant breach of the confidentiality of the information or the security of our or our customers’, suppliers’, or other partners’ data and/or computer systems, or the risk that our current insurance coverage may not be adequate for such a breach, that an insurer might deny coverage for a claim or that such insurance will continue to be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, could be detrimental to our business, reputation and results of operations. Other business risks include unfavorable publicity and negative public perception about our industry; interruptions or delays in service from data center or cloud hosting vendors we rely upon; and our dependence on the continued availability of third-party data hosting and transmission services. Our clients’ ability to use data on our platform could be restricted if the industry’s use of third-party cookies and tracking technology declines due to technology platform changes, regulation or increased user controls. Changes in regulations relating to information collection and use represents a risk, as well as changes in tax laws and regulations that are applied to our customers which could cause enterprise software budget tightening. In addition, third parties may claim that we are infringing their intellectual property or may infringe our intellectual property which could result in competitive injury and / or the incurrence of significant costs and draining of our resources.

For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, please refer to LiveRamp’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year 2023 ended March 31, 2023, and LiveRamp's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q issued in fiscal year 2024.

The financial information set forth in this press release reflects estimates based on information available at this time.

LiveRamp assumes no obligation and does not currently intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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