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| Two, we are well-positioned to benefit from the significant positive inflection in auto insurance client spending, which has indeed begun in January |
| We met or exceeded our objectives in the quarter and continued recent positive themes, including growing non-insurance businesses at strong rates year-over-year, investing in and making good progress on growth initiatives across the business, and positioning ourselves well for the re-ramp of auto insurance client spending |
| One of the fundamentals, if you look at the reported combined ratios and/or profitability of the auto insurance carriers over the past couple of quarters, dramatically better, dramatically better and consistently better than they were, last year, the year before and the year before that |
| I am particularly proud of those accomplishments, given that we were facing the bottom of the insurance cycle, and our toughest seasonal quarter |
| The significant positive inflection in auto insurance client spending that we expected to begin in January has indeed begun |
| And as a result of that, we're seeing fundamentally combined ratios and profitability reports very strong from all the major carriers in that you guys have seen that |
| I think we're -- we feel like and the clients seem to be indicated that the outlook is quite positive for as they can see |
| Accordingly, we expect strong sequential total company revenue growth and rapid EBITDA expansion in the current March quarter and further strong sequential total company revenue growth and rapid EBITDA expansion again in the June quarter |
| In fact, we've significantly gained share on the media side through this period |
| We have a great position in it |
| Looking ahead to fiscal year 2025, which begins soon in July, while detailed planning is not yet completed, I am already confident that we will expect strong double-digit full year revenue growth over fiscal 2024 |
| We have maintained positive adjusted EBITDA and a strong balance sheet throughout, thanks to strong capabilities, disciplined execution, and a resilient business model |
| Our business model and strong financial foundation allowed us to continue to invest in the future during this period despite the conditions in auto insurance |
| So, we think it's highly accretive big market opportunity |
| We are now incredibly well-positioned for the near and long-term |
| We have the best products and services in the market |
| We have big growth opportunities in the expansion of our existing client verticals and in exciting new contiguous markets and product areas |
| Our capabilities and competitive advantages are clear and strong, and we are improving them and expanding our market opportunities at a rate unprecedented in company history or I would argue, in the history of our industry |
| I think there's a chance we will do better than the low end, but we're -- we like to ramp, as I said earlier, this quarter over last quarter, we're representing about a $45 million ramp over -- in terms of sequential growth |
| We have phenomenal capabilities |
| Fiscal Q2 was another solid quarter for QuinStreet |
| That being said, we are excited about the significant inflection of auto insurance client spending, which indeed began in January |
| But of course, we've still got a lot of great initiatives and growth and momentum in Home Services, which is the $200-and-something million in your business and first loan, which is a $100-and-something-million business and credit cards as we see more promotions in the market is likely to benefit from those |
| John Campbell On the -- so on the guidance, I mean, it's certainly encouraging that it feels like it's the kind of early stages of the insurance recovery |
| And three, we expect strong sequential revenue growth and rapid adjusted EBITDA expansion in the March quarter and again in the June quarter |
| December was a successful quarter |
| I mean the amount of budget we had in December was -- began -- was meaningfully better than November then we had that surge, I just talked about percentage-wise in January over December |
| We did have -- we had positive cash flow we have or positive operating cash flow case adjusted EBITDA, if you will |
| All that while delivering solidly positive adjusted EBITDA and maintaining our strong balance sheet |
| I am not in an industry -- at Insurance industry analyst, but I think if you read the analysts that follow the industry, their view is likely to be that this is -- we're likely at the beginning of a multiyear positive cycle because of all the carriers have gone through on the product side, on the footprint side and now all the rate increases they've had |
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| This has been the worst auto insurance cycle in anyone's memory because it was such a deep, fundamentally hard thing to get out of between the COVID's effect on driving behaviors, but also on inflation and supply chain |
| Credit cards was actually down a little bit versus the previous year, but it was just nothing to see there other than a real tough comp |
| We have limited a fierce macroeconomic storm in auto insurance, our biggest vertical |
| But we don't think the top end is crazy |
| I would say that we -- if we're going to air therefore, we're likely to be a little bit more conservative in this quarter because we're still earlier in the ramp than we will be next quarter, I guess, is something you noted -- and I would say that, that would be our bias |
| So, we're not -- we're actually reflecting at the bottom end of the range, a slowing of the sequential ramp |
| And including things like tough used car markets and because there weren't enough new cars to buy |
| Someone mentioned he had heard from an agent that there are certain states unwilling to ensure certain cars because of at risk that have come up in the past couple of years |
| We think, generally speaking, in our experience and in talking with our clients that higher rates are having a number of effects |
| Beyond that, you could assume that it may be tougher for consumers to invest in bigger projects because of interest rates if they need to borrow |
| They really had a very dramatic effect on insurance carriers and it's taken them a long time to untangle it much longer than usual |
| Adjusted net loss was $2.3 million or $0.04 per share, and adjusted EBITDA was $417,000 |
| Within the quarter, we saw the auto insurance cycle bottom out in November |
| So, we would -- we think there's -- certainly means we think there's a chance we won't get to the high end |
| And I know you mentioned the unpredictability of any of these things these cycles |
| And most of the other players in the market had debt and/or we're much more deeply tied to the auto insurance cycle or how do the problems like mortgage and just did not have the capacity to do what we've been able to do in terms of aggressive investment through the cycle |
| That's why Greg referred to it as generational, I referred to it as a fierce storm -- macroeconomic storm |
| So, we're subject to big weather events, which are really short cycles |
| I can tell you that we're pretty much at the end of that cycle and you're going to see that capitalized software development cost drop pretty significantly this quarter forward |
| I know there were a number of big states that have effectively been shut off since April or so of last year |
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