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| Credit quality, which is the most significant driver of net revenue and portfolio fair value, remains solid |
| And that's basically reflecting credit continues to perform better than our expectations |
| In the second quarter, we were once again able to deliver strong top and bottom line numbers |
| Our consistent performance as a result of our talented team executing on our balanced approach to growth by leveraging our world-class machine learning algorithms and technology across our diversified product offerings, namely us to quickly adapt to the current macroeconomic backdrop |
| Consumer has performed very well |
| Additionally, we were pleased to see solid credit quality across all of our businesses |
| Revenue in the second quarter was just shy of $0.5 billion, which is a 22% increase year-over-year and 3% sequentially demonstrating our ability to generate strong growth in an uncertain market environment |
| As a result of strong revenue growth and diligent credit management, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS increased 24% and 5% year-over-year to $126 million and $1.72, respectively |
| That being said, strong demand, especially on the consumer side of our business combined with continued solid credit performance, enabled us to be more aggressive with originations |
| It's nice to see the share repurchases and getting a lot of great value from that |
| But consumer demand was very, very strong |
| And as David mentioned in his remarks, capital returns, we view as a very good opportunity to return capital to our shareholders as part of our focus on valuation |
| We're turning away plenty of good demand and the credit metrics are improving – improving every month |
| As a result of our conscious decision to raise our unit economic targets and our proven ability to manage our portfolio, we continue to generate strong unit economics in our SMB portfolio as we have targeted those higher ROE and unit economic targets |
| As Steve will discuss in more detail, we are pleased to have recently raised more than $500 million of funding to support our SMB business and our receivables growth, reinforcing the strength of our performance of that portfolio |
| Turning to our consumer business, which performed exceptionally well in Q2, consumer revenue increased 19% year-over-year and 8% sequentially driven by strong demand for our consumer line of credit products |
| Credit metrics are very strong across our portfolio, evidenced by the fact that our consumer net charge-off rate declined to the lowest levels we have seen in the past several years |
| We remain confident that we are well positioned to quickly adapt to the evolving risks and opportunities in this macroeconomic environment |
| Job growth remains strong, wages are continued to rise, and inflation is easing |
| Turning to credit performance, overall credit was strong in the quarter as we continue to successfully manage credit through the current macroeconomic environment leading to continued solid profitability |
| In sum, our stable strong results continue to prove time and time again that we are skillful operators in a variety of environments |
| Our flexible online-only business model, nimble machine learning-powered credit risk management capabilities, diversified product offerings, and solid balance sheet position us well to continue to drive profitable growth, while also effectively managing risk |
| This quarter we continue to demonstrate our ability to deliver strong financial results and that our balanced approach to growth is working |
| Given the strong demand we're seeing across products combined with our stable credit performance, we certainly could grow originations faster |
| These expectations should lead to sequential adjusted EPS growth that is faster than revenue growth |
| We have demonstrated our ability to drive consistently strong results in a variety of macroeconomic environments, yet we continue to believe there is still a disconnect between our business fundamentals and our current valuation |
| This should lead to continued stable credit, resulting in a total company net revenue margin of around 60% |
| And finally, we continued to deliver strong profitability this quarter with adjusted earnings, a non-GAAP measure of $55 million |
| We are pleased to report another solid quarter of top and bottom line financial results that are in line with or better than our expectations as we continue to consistently deliver differentiated financial performance |
| Over the past four years, we have meaningfully diversified and de-risked our business, navigated significant macroeconomic swings and absorbed a rapid rise in market interest rates, while maintaining strong profit margins Through the first half of 2023 compared to the same period during 2019, we've nearly doubled our revenue and reduced our net charge-off rate by almost half, while delivering a solid after tax adjusted earnings margin of 11.6% |
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| We've been talking about a fairly weak competitive landscape, probably for the last two, three quarters |
| We just not – we're just not convinced the risk reward is there right now again given the uncertainty in the economy, an extra few percentages of origination growth for us this year is pretty inconsequential |
| Similar to the consumer portfolio net revenue margin last year, the small business net revenue margin this quarter of 57% is just below our target of 60% to 70% as recent vintages season and credit metrics move off of the unsustainably low levels that we experienced last year |
| In line with our expectations and typical seasonality for our business, adjusted EBITDA was flat compared to Q1 of this year and adjusted EPS was down 4% sequentially |
| Notably, net charge offs remained well below pre-COVID levels of 11.8% in Q2 of 2019 and 15.9% in Q2 of 2018 |
| Net charge-offs were 7.6% in the second quarter down from 8.2% last quarter |
| As we've previously noted, and as we've seen over the past year, in this macroeconomic environment, we expect there could be some quarter-to-quarter variability in credit metrics and net revenue margin in the near term for our consumer and small business portfolios |
| And if anything, maybe even continuing to weaken a bit |
| Is the slight trimming of that outlook all SMB related and if so, is there anything different? I mean, directionally it seems like credit and everything else is performing as well as consumer, but it does look like you pulled back a bit this second quarter |
| We're certainly not doubling our targets |
| Given the continued uncertainty in the macroeconomic environment, we are maintaining the higher than typical ROE targets across our products as we've discussed in prior quarters |
| So that's not something that's new that we expect to constrain volumes in the back half of the year |
| Can you talk about maybe what incrementally you were monitoring or would like to see to expand beyond I guess, your phrase, “moderately aggressive” origination growth last quarter? What else is out there in your mind that that's sort of casting a pall of uncertainty that maybe keeps you a little more restrained than you could be? David Fisher Yes, I just think the overall risk in the economy and the recession risk going forward and – I think we, like others aren't seeing anything particularly troubling right now, but we've never seen an economic environment quite like this and with the fed's aggressive stance could it tip the other way and be a harder landing than people expect? I think that's kind of what we're looking out for and as we've talked about historically, we're doing that by setting higher ROE targets than we have historically, but as I've also mentioned in the last two quarters we're also leaning into growth on the consumer side and have gotten more aggressive |
| But if we see other businesses weaken further that create bigger opportunities or as rates come back down, we think there might be additional ones, whether it's in the back half of this year but – or into 2024 |
| So there's a bit of a move lower on our lifetime loss expectation on the consumer portfolio, and that's being reflected in some of the slight uptick in fair value this quarter |
| The total company ratio of net charge-offs as a percentage of average combined loan and finance receivables for the first quarter, 7.6% compared to 8.2% last quarter, as the consumer quarterly net charge-off ratio declined to the lowest non-pandemic level we've seen since 2017 |
| And we've seen no signs of that changing, a bit surprisingly, actually |
| This may include temporarily falling above or below typical ranges as our portfolio season as credit metrics move off of the unsustainably low levels that we experienced last year and as we actively manage credit in our balanced approach to growth |
| And we have seen no major signs of increase and even some tightening over the last quarter |
| So we have, in either of our businesses, haven't seen any signs of the competitive environment increasing |
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