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| These additional consulting services expand and enhance the value that our customers gain from fully utilizing our solutions |
| We are confident that our software solutions will continue bringing positive change to the health care institutions nationwide |
| We expect 2024 operations bookings to grow well above our 2023 levels |
| I'm very pleased with the momentum our team has created, and I'm excited by our prospects and outlook |
| As I said, we believe that the capital and human resource flexibility that this hosted solution provides to mid-size and smaller hospitals, coupled with the minimal initial capital outlay, tremendously expands our addressable market and opens up future growth channels for Spok |
| We do not have much in the way of our forecast for this right now, but it is something I think that bodes well for the future, and it is an exciting opportunity for us |
| With respect to wireless revenue, 2023 performance continues to be primarily driven by improvement in average revenue per unit, or ARPU, which saw growth of $0.37 on a year-over-year basis |
| In fact, January was a company record and February has been strong as well |
| I'm proud to report that for the first time in Spok's history, we were able to grow consolidated total revenue with revenue growth for both wireless and software |
| We expect to do a lot better than we did last year |
| While the dividend level we declared when we announced our pivot in February of 2022 may have initially seemed high, we believe Spok has struck an excellent balance between making the necessary investments to fuel future growth, while continuing to generate cash flow and returning capital to our stockholders |
| We believe we are on a sustainable path to continue paying our quarterly dividend at these levels for the foreseeable future and are encouraged by our prospects |
| We are pleased to report that we have continued to execute on our business plan, and in 2023 we generated GAAP net income of $15.7 million, or $0.77 per diluted share, which represents a sharp increase from breakeven adjusted GAAP net income in the prior year period |
| Significant accomplishments were made regarding top-line revenue growth, record profitability levels, continued expense management, cash flow generation, progress on our product roadmap and development, augmentation of our sales team, generating six-figure customer contracts and multi-year engagements, GenA pager placements, maintenance contract bookings and retention, increased professional services revenue, coupled with improvements in resource utilization, and enhancing our industry reputation and improving our customer satisfaction scores |
| As we have discussed in previous quarterly calls, we expect continued progress on our product development roadmap will lead to further growth of our operations bookings in the coming years and maintenance revenue along with it |
| With that said, the performance of our maintenance revenue has exceeded our expectations |
| Professional services revenue was a strong $14.7 million for 2023 versus $12.6 million in 2022 and continued to accelerate throughout 2023 |
| I think these are nice, good, conservative estimates we have given you |
| We are seeing further sustained improvement in resource utilization, delivering on our internal initiatives to better align total resources with our backlog and driving a higher rate of margin in net cash flow |
| Nice guide, solid quarter |
| We expect to have a good year this year |
| But we are all optimistic that this is going to be a good avenue for us in the future |
| Let me preface my comments by saying how proud I am of our Spok team and our ability to generate very impressive performance in 2023, while staying true to our mission |
| Lastly, as Vince pointed out earlier in the call, adjusted EBITDA was a record $30.3 million in 2023, up more than 100% from $15 million in 2022, reflecting the progress made to date with our strategic pivot |
| More importantly, this represents the second consecutive year that we expect to grow consolidated revenue from the prior year based on the midpoint of our guidance, with a nearly 4% annual growth rate at the high end of our guidance |
| Hopefully, this performance gives you a good indication of the momentum that our sales team is generating in the marketplace and the confidence we have as we work our way through 2024 with a solid sales pipeline, both in terms of size and quality |
| I believe Spok is finally receiving recognition as a top-performing company among its peers and will continue to look for opportunities to tell our story to the investment community and focus on investor marketing activities, though we know the ultimate attraction will come as a result of our consistent and successful business execution |
| Accolades such as these do not come if you don't have a best-in-class product offering and a solid reputation with your customers |
| Spok has an amazing blue chip customer base |
| Lastly, our adjusted EBITDA guidance for 2024 is $27.5 million to $32.5 million, improving on our strong performance in 2023 at the midpoint of the guidance range when considering the additional costs we expect to incur in 2024, resulting from the aforementioned salary increases, with opportunity for high single-digit growth at the high end of the guidance range |
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| Given a unit churn of 4% to 6%, we do not believe future incremental pricing increases and higher ARPU products, like the GenA pager, will be sufficient to completely offset revenue decline realized from net unit loss |
| Full year 2023 adjusted operating expenses, which excludes depreciation, amortization, and accretion, and severance and restructuring costs, totaled $112.7 million, down nearly 9% from the prior year |
| While we believe the demand for our wireless services will continue to decline on a secular basis, as reflected in declining pager units and service, we are hopeful that our focus on pricing and other initiatives, like the Gen-A pager, will continue to further offset revenue lost through pager unit decline |
| While we did see an increase in unit churn during the second half, relative to what we've experienced over the previous 18 months, net unit churn continues to remain at historically low levels, as net units and service declined by roughly 6.5% from the prior year period |
| While it's easier to move sales through the various stages of the pipeline, the ultimate closing of a contract is a bit harder to predict and by a matter of days can impact the quarterly total significantly |
| In the fourth quarter, it just happened that some of that calculation was wrong and it slipped into January |
| Then my second one is going to be, if we think about software bookings, and you mentioned there was a push-out in Q4 into Q1, I was wondering if you could quantify the amount that was actually pushed out |
| While these types of cancellations can be difficult to foresee on an individual basis, we would expect a reversion to the mean, if you will, in line with broader trends of roughly 4% to 6% we have experienced over the last several years |
| While driving our top line, we also continued our focus on expense management as operating expense levels for the year were down more than 12% from 2022 |
| And I do not want to make promises on things until we – it is not our style to make promises on things until we have a track record and we see it |
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