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| It's a significant opportunity with many years of growth, as well, as we mentioned a few things as well, like our mortgage initiative is really not in our ‘24 concepts, but we think it's a multi-year contributed organic growth as well |
| We feel confident in executing on our 2024 plan, as we outlined today of profitable growth and accelerating free cash flow conversion |
| We're capped off 2023 with strong results that we have continued to see in the first part of this year |
| Importantly, Q4 adjusted EBITDA margins improve sequentially, as we have maintained relatively stable SG&A cost on a quarter-over-quarter basis, while simultaneously working to align our sales implementation and support teams throughout the year |
| That in addition to just EBITDA growing faster than gross profit combined leads to the free cash flow acceleration |
| Our business continues to benefit from strong performance in both card base payment revenue, as well as other value added services such as, communication solutions and Instant Funding center funding, along with higher yields and business payments |
| In the fourth quarter, REPAY delivered solid results across all of our key metrics |
| We exited 2023 with a solid execution that has continued into January with consistent trends and strong growth |
| And we think we can get great shareholder value with the right opportunities there |
| We expect net leverage to naturally decline throughout this year from our strong profitability and cash flow generation, excluding any potential M&A |
| As we expect adjusted EBITDA to grow faster than revenue and gross profit during the year, leading to an acceleration of cash conversion |
| And so we feel like we have a really robust pipeline, coming to us via referrals from the 262 software partners and also, just with our direct sales force, we've added, you know, we reduced overall headcount in ‘23 |
| We plan to reduce overall CapEx spending, giving us the confidence to accelerate our free cash flow conversion throughout 2024, leading to free cash flow growth of approximately 60% year-over-year, and sustained mid to high teens growth thereafter |
| While we are relatively already in this continuous mission, we are starting to see improved growth, which we believe will drive higher returns over time |
| We added 10 new credit use to repay bringing our total credit union clients to 276 REPAYs vertical expertise and software integrations are a differentiated solution leading to a healthy sales pipeline |
| These new wins continue to give us the confidence that our investments towards creating software partnerships and further embedding our payment technology within existing integrations are leading to a strong sales pipeline with positive returns across REPAY |
| Additionally, in value added services our incident funding product continues to see significant growth with transactions up approximately 45% year-over-year |
| We had a very productive quarter for our Business Payment Segment, which grew gross profit by 25%, when excluding the impact of political media during 2022 |
| Our normalized gross profit growth was driven by sales penetration within software partners, and a strong implementation pipeline for enterprise and mid-market companies, within our healthcare property management, auto, and municipality verticals |
| While also optimizing transaction routing to deliver the best payment experiences to our clients and their customers |
| And while we have more work to do, we were seeing the sales pipeline develop, giving us confidence for our multi-year growth opportunity |
| As you can see from our results and outlook, we expect free cash flow conversion to improve throughout 2024, as we reduce CapEx, but also realize the benefits from investments we've made in sales product and technology over the past several years |
| So, we're very excited about that and can feel confident in rolling out that new metric |
| From a financial perspective, we demonstrated normalized organic revenue growth of 12% and gross profit growth of 13% while improving our free cash flow generation throughout the year |
| So, that's a nicely growing business for us |
| The biggest drivers would be you know, adjusted EBITDA growing faster than gross profits |
| So we're expecting strong growth and that's generally related to just the digital payment shift to digital payment trend |
| But that gives us a better opportunity for penetration |
| So we have a very healthy growing pipeline, largely a result of just the growing number of software relationships |
| This was primarily driven by the ongoing secular tailwinds within the consumer payments verticals we serve and the continued ramp of recent large client implementations |
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| Due to the uncertainty around volume timing, our 2024 outlook does not incorporate significant second half contributions from the mortgage debit acceptance opportunity, and the recently announced business payments enterprise software integration such as Blackbaud |
| And even further and even further down beyond ’24 |
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