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| And so, again, overall, a very strong quarter for Vista, but also in particular in Europe |
| Many of the new products that we've launched, especially in the photo products, home decor, some of our apparel gifts are showing nice growth |
| It goes back to the multi-year repositioning of the brand, the increasing awareness of our product breadth, accelerating into growth, areas of higher value products like promotional products, improving the customer experience |
| And finally, in terms of increasing the number of customers going forward, we're optimistic about this |
| The improvement in repeat customers of course, helps and we're happy about that and we are also focusing on driving repeat business by giving better value to these customers |
| This benefited from gross margin expansion from leverage and advertising spend and reduced operating expenses |
| Adjusted EBITDA expansion over the last three quarters has been very significant |
| We are also financially excited to continue on the path to grow our profit and cash flow, very much in line with what we've been speaking about for the last year and to continue as we do so, nonetheless, to invest in the development of new capabilities, new customer value propositions that will continue to build our intrinsic value per share |
| Adjusted free cash flow for the quarter increased significantly year-over-year by just over $63 million with a higher adjusted EBITDA and also a significantly more favorable in net working capital compared to the year ago period, which was helped by returns to more normalized inventory patterns |
| We're excited to be leveraging a stronger set of tools and capabilities to deliver great customer experiences stronger really than we've had in years |
| And they've had an earlier impact on value per customer, but they clearly now are improving our ability to acquire more customers |
| The product is very relevant in today's world, and we're optimistic |
| And in some of our multiple investor days over the last couple of years, we've shown charts and data, how We've greatly reduced economically negative results in our lowest decile or deciles, and we've strongly grown gross profit customer overall and in our top deciles, and very much driven by our top deciles |
| They like more, but importantly, the retention is strong in customer cash flows for us even after split the split we do with Wix are better |
| Vista segment EBITDA grew $44 million versus last year, which similar to last quarter was driven by a balanced mix of revenue growth, gross margin expansion, lower advertising spend as a percentage of revenue, which decreased and materially lower operating costs as a result of the cost reductions that we announced back in March |
| Importantly, in Vista, We're also seeing continued improvements in per customer value, which is a trend that's been in place for the past several years |
| So, we feel good about that |
| And the trend in repeat customer count also improved sequentially |
| We're focused on optimizing the experience of the Wix product, which is an excellent product for customers in the small business space |
| So the category will benefit from overall new product introduction will also benefit from overall experience improvements on the site |
| Given our strong Q1 profitability and cash flow performance, we're raising our FY 2024 adjusted EBITDA guidance to at least $425 million, and we continue to expect that to convert to free cash flow at approximately 40% |
| The Q1 results position us well within the context of that range that we talked about |
| So we feel good about that as well |
| And as noted in our prior remarks, we're seeing that happen, and that will benefit consumers as well |
| First of all, we delivered solid results in the first quarter |
| I would say that even beyond just the revenue growth in Europe being just above 10%, gross profit grew at a higher rate there and contribution profit grew at an even higher rate |
| Consolidated profits were very strong |
| We feel good about our OpEx levels |
| I think important to note that, in Upload and Print, despite lower overall growth segment EBITDA still grew year-over-year, and that was helped by, lower input costs that we've experienced so far this quarter |
| And it's a trend that, has benefited the Cimpress overall in the long-term |
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| We also, saw softer revenue trends in our reseller channels, which just from an overall Cimpress perspective, is relatively small |
| In Vista consumer revenue has declined in the last few years and some of that is just from behavior change that happened through the pandemic, especially in invitations and announcements, that's probably the most pronounced |
| We do expect that from an overall perspective in the December quarter that consumer will still put some pressure on the Vista growth rate, as we mentioned back in Investor Day |
| So, in a lot of ways, it was a strong quarter, but revenue growth rates declined sequentially in all segments and are lower than your annual growth expectation |
| And yes, we do expect there to be some pressure on Vista growth from consumer |
| And that's -- last year's level was down from FY 2022, which was a high of $65 million |
| So listen, I think overall, is there a risk? There always is because there's always uncertainties from a macro perspective |
| And then we said that we have currency headwinds this year of about $20 million for the year |
| And that's one reason that growth was lower for print group |
| But of course, there's always macro risk to some extent |
| From a consumer perspective, it has come down overall in the mix, Cimpress overall to less than 10% of our overall revenue |
| And then I would also just keep in mind that the expectations that we set coming into the year was that we were going to have lower growth, and particularly in our Upload and Print businesses as we lap pricing changes from last year and so on |
| So, it's still a tough comp |
| Paper costs have been coming down after what was very sharp increases that we experienced over the last two years |
| So, we do expect that will continue to be somewhat of a headwind, to near-term growth for those businesses that have more concentration and resellers |
| Growth did vary by segment and it was also reduced by approximately 200 basis points from year-over-year revenue timing changes |
| Repeat customers were still down slightly year-over-year, but that is a trailing metric after the new customer acquisitions |
| We thought our Upload and Print businesses were nearing the end of an investment cycle, but we were surprised to see the uptick in capital expenditures this past quarter |
| So, down quite a bit |
| There's I had mentioned in the opening remarks, there's about 200 basis points of timing impacts too that that are a drag on consolidated growth rate |
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