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| Operating income was 20.4 million and operating margin was 42% compared to 10.7 million and 24% in last year's fourth quarter, an increase in revenue and gross profit margin, lower operating expenses and the reallocation of certain expenses to digital agreements in 2023 accounted for the improved performance |
| As you can see from our Q4 results, we are making progress and I believe we are positioned to achieve our 2024 targets |
| As a reminder, we had very strong renewals in the first quarter of 2023 |
| Turning to our business units during the quarter both segments had double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, driven primarily by expansion of existing customers, and a sequential increase in profitability, which benefited from increased revenue and lower operating expenses, partially attributed to restructuring activities |
| But one of the things that really struck me, as I got involved over the last 60 days is the strength of the customer relationships, we have |
| The adjustments we made to our operating model in 2023, to rebalance our cost structure with respect to growth profile, combined with our focus on operational rigor in driving efficient growth resulted in our expectation of a substantial improvement in our 2024 cash generation and profitability |
| I have met many of them in my first few months, and I've seen firsthand their strong work ethic and dedication to operational excellence |
| We saw a double-digit growth in DIGIPASS hardware tokens in the fourth quarter, which benefited in part from a few hardware deals that were originally expected to close in the first quarter of 2024 |
| I believe our decisions to focus on driving efficient revenue growth with increased profitability and cash generation for the right strategic and operational decisions for OneSpan, it will help us to achieve our commitment to create and return value to our shareholders |
| I have been with OneSpan only a couple of months, and I'm confident that we will be able to reorient our offerings over time towards areas more highly valued by our customers and prospects |
| This customer is using our e-signatures in more than 100 use cases across its organization, and comment on the outstanding level of support from our professional services and support teams, the ease of integration and great ROI |
| Their hard work across the board in 2023 resulted in a strong end to the year including 11% year-over-year revenue growth to $63 million, 11% ARR growth to $155 million and adjusted EBITDA of $11.2 million or 18% of revenue, representing our highest quarterly adjusted EBITDA margin in several years |
| We expect improved performance from our sales team this year, have a goal of continuous improvement, and we'll strive to deliver more value to our customers every month |
| When I joined the company two months ago, I was already impressed with its strong customer relationships, solution set and the difficult but important decisions it had made to right size, its cost structure and refocus on driving efficient revenue, growth, profitability, and cash flow |
| Fourth quarter 2023 revenue grew to 11% to $62.9 million, as compared to the same period last year driven by 17% growth in digital agreements and 10% growth in security solutions |
| Our restructuring efforts and focus on efficient growth contributed to the Q4 2023 sequential improvement |
| We also had a significant security software win in the healthcare vertical with an existing e-signature customer |
| Subscription revenue grew 13% to 14.1 million in the fourth quarter and 28% to 60.6 million for the full year driven primarily by our on-premise mobile security and authentication solutions |
| Fourth quarter gross margin was 69%, compared to 67% in the prior year quarter, driven primarily by favorable product mix and a 1.4 million inventory right of reversal of an impairment charge taken into second quarter 2023 partially offset by a depreciation of software capitalized cost, which we began depreciating in 2023 |
| Q4 security solutions subscription revenue grew 13% driven by growth in mobile security and authentication software products |
| Subscription revenue grew 15% to 27.4 million in the fourth quarter, led by 17% growth in digital agreements, including 28% growth in SaaS revenue, consistent primarily of our e-signature solution |
| For the year SaaS revenue grew 22% to 45 and a half million dollars |
| ARR grew 10% year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $101 million |
| Today, I'm even more impressed |
| Subscription ARR grew 18% to $49 million |
| And there's certainly been a lot of change over the last six months and the team's executed very, very well |
| Consistent with the changes we made in our operating model last year, we expect to generate positive cash flows from operations in 2024 |
| On the hardware, we did have a very strong Q4 2023 because of the product mix |
| We are driving towards our goal of attaining a level of 30% under the rule of 40 framework by the time we exit this year, I am working with the team to better leverage our competitive advantages and improve our growth profile as we mature our sales and marketing organizations, focus on streamlining our cost structure and enhance our operational efficiency |
| DIGIPASS hardware token revenue grew 16% in the fourth quarter and 3% for the full year 2023 and included a few contracts that closed in the quarter that were originally expected to close in the first quarter of 2024 |
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| For the full year of 2023 maintenance and support revenue declined 4% as compared to 6% for the full year 2022 |
| Maintenance and support revenue declined 0.1 million year-over-year to 11.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 |
| Professional services and other revenue which includes perpetual software licenses declined by 0.2 million in Q4 to 1.7 million and by 1.7 million to 6.4 million for the full year 2023 |
| We expect this revenue line to trend lower in the coming quarters as customers complete their migrations to the cloud |
| The decline in gross margin is primarily attributed to the appreciation of software capitalization costs in 2023, and credit from a cloud service provider in 2022 that did not repeat in 2023 |
| Operating loss was 0.7 million as compared to an operating profit of 2.5 million in Q4 last year, and an operating loss of 4.7 million last quarter |
| We should be expecting maintenance and support in both digital agreements and security solutions to continue to decline |
| We expect the sunsetting of products to result in a modest sequential decline in first quarter, 2024, ARR and NRR primarily related to the timing of contract expirations |
| Was there anything like one-time in nature that created a headwind because I mean, we're talking about like, huge cost saving numbers |
| Maintenance and support revenue, which consists primarily of revenue from on-premise, perpetual and subscription contracts declined 0.1 million year-over-year in Q4 2023 to 10.3 million |
| And then, Victor, I guess, just more kind of high level, haven't been here for a few months now, just where do you see the opportunities to drive higher levels of growth on a sustainable basis, as we all know that business has struggled to really achieve that for a long time now |
| Fourth quarter GAAP operating income was 1.8 million compared to an operating loss of 4 million in the fourth quarter of last year |
| And non-GAAP loss per share of $0.05 for the full year of 2022 |
| So that's why, when you look at this year Q1, 2024, you would expect, not only seasonally lower revenue on hardware which is normal for a company our case |
| What surprised me, I don't know if surprise is exactly the right word |
| This change combined with an expected increase in depreciation has suffered capitalization costs, which we started appreciating in 2023 is suspected to reduce digital agreements gross margin by approximately 700 basis points in 2024 |
| This compares to 2022 GAAP operating loss of 27.1 million, which included 13.3 million in restructuring and 4.3 million in other one-time costs |
| So you would expect that to continue to decrease |
| On the security side, again, you expect a lower because of the perpetual to turn conversions |
| Consequently, actual results could differ materially from the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements |
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