Everbridge Announces Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results

Company Delivers Solid Third Quarter Revenue and Improved Profitability

Everbridge, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management (CEM) and national public warning solutions, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023. Revenue for the third quarter was up 3% year-over-year to $114.2 million, and GAAP net income was $1.7 million, compared to a net loss of $(22.1) million for the third quarter of 2022.

“We delivered solid third quarter results as we continue to improve our go-to-market execution and overall operating efficiency,” said David Wagner, President and CEO of Everbridge. “We saw healthy year-over-year improvements, including our strongest recurring bookings quarter of the year, and efficiency improvements across the business allowing us to increase adjusted EBITDA by $8.5 million in the third quarter compared to last year.”

Patrick Brickley, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Everbridge, added, “Our improving profitability is supported by continued strength in our subscription revenue growth despite challenges associated with one-time services and perpetual software license revenue, which were down year-over-year. In the fourth quarter, we expect to further improve our earnings while, at the same time, our one-time revenues are now expected to decrease by about $6 million compared to the fourth quarter of 2022. Our 2023 full-year guidance represents an approximately 100% year-over-year improvement in adjusted EBITDA.”

Wagner continued, “As we look forward, we believe consistent growth in our subscription revenues, strong expense management, and our streamlined product portfolio have us positioned for meaningful growth in profitability in 2024, which will keep us on track towards our goal of reaching the ‘Rule of 40’ by 2027.”

Third Quarter 2023 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue was $114.2 million, an increase of 3% compared to $111.4 million for the third quarter of 2022. Revenue from subscription services was $104.3 million, an increase of 8% compared to $96.8 million for the third quarter of 2022. Revenue from professional services, software licenses and other was $9.8 million, a decrease of 33% compared to $14.6 million for the third quarter of 2022.
• GAAP operating loss was $(12.7) million, compared to $(19.2) million for the third quarter of 2022.
• Non-GAAP operating income was $18.6 million, compared to $9.8 million for the third quarter of 2022.
• GAAP net income was $1.7 million, compared to GAAP net loss of $(22.1) million for the third quarter of 2022. GAAP basic net income per share was $0.04, based on 40.8 million basic weighted average common shares outstanding, GAAP diluted net loss per share was $(0.23) taking into the account the dilutive effect of convertible notes, based on 43.8 million diluted weighted average common shares outstanding, compared to $(0.56) of basic and diluted net income per share for the third quarter of 2022, based on 39.7 million basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding.
• Non-GAAP net income was $20.2 million, compared to $12.3 million in the third quarter of 2022. Non-GAAP diluted net income per share was $0.46, based on 44.0 million diluted weighted average common shares outstanding, compared to $0.27 for the third quarter of 2022, based on 46.1 million diluted weighted average common shares outstanding.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $23.7 million, compared to $15.2 million in the third quarter of 2022.
• Cash flow from operations was an inflow of $17.0 million, compared to $18.0 million for the third quarter of 2022.
• Adjusted for one-time cash payments related to our 2022 Strategic Realignment program, adjusted free cash flow was an inflow of $15.5 million, compared to $15.4 million for the third quarter of 2022.

Recent Business Highlights

• Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) was $399 million, up 8% year-over-year.
• CEM customer count increased to 405, up 32 sequentially and 59% year-over-year.
• Unveiled Everbridge 360^TM, new product innovation for customers to automate and simplify the management of critical events across a powerful, unified dashboard.
• Awarded new patent in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), relevant to technology used in analytics dashboards for critical event management software systems.
• Provided cell broadcast emergency alerting capabilities to successfully power the German government’s nationwide public warning system on Nationwide Warning Day, in conjunction with leading German mobile network operators (MNOs).
• Announced the City of Glendale, Arizona as the latest U.S. city to deploy Everbridge to safeguard residents and visitors during emergencies and large-scale events.
• Demonstrated the use of artificial intelligence technology within public warning capabilities at the 2023 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) workshop in Switzerland.
• Joined government and humanitarian leaders to showcase the technology and commitment to drive innovation and excellence in public warning systems at the Creating Effective Warnings for All conference in London.

Financial Outlook

Based on information available as of today, Everbridge is issuing guidance for the fourth quarter and full year 2023 as indicated below.

(All figures in millions, except per share data)

Revenue

Based on information available as of today, Everbridge is issuing detailed revenue guidance for the fourth quarter and full year 2023. The following table presents disaggregated revenue by source for the fourth quarter and full year 2022 and guidance for the fourth quarter and full year 2023.

(Dollars in millions)

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About Everbridge

Everbridge (Nasdaq: EVBG) empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™. For more information, visit https://www.everbridge.com/, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter. Everbridge… Empowering Resilience.

Key Performance Metric

Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) is defined as the expected recurring revenue in the next twelve months from active customer contracts, assuming no increases or reductions in the subscriptions from that cohort of customers. Investors should not place undue reliance on ARR as an indicator of future or expected results. Our presentation of this metric may differ from similarly titled metrics presented by other companies and therefore comparability may be limited.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release contains the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating income/(loss), non-GAAP net income/(loss), non-GAAP net income/(loss) per share, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, adjusted free cash flow and adjusted EBITDA margin.

Non-GAAP operating income/(loss) excludes amortization of acquired intangible assets, stock-based compensation, costs related to the 2022 Strategic Realignment, Anvil legal dispute accrual and change in fair value of contingent consideration. Non-GAAP net income/(loss) excludes amortization of acquired intangible assets, stock-based compensation, costs related to the 2022 Strategic Realignment, Anvil legal dispute accrual, change in fair value of contingent consideration, accretion of interest on convertible senior notes, gain (loss) on extinguishment of debt, capped call modification and change in fair value and the tax impact of such adjustments. EBITDA represents net income/(loss) before interest income and interest expense, income tax expense and benefit and depreciation and amortization expense. Adjusted EBITDA represents EBITDA as further adjusted for stock-based compensation expense, costs related to the 2022 Strategic Realignment, Anvil legal dispute accrual, change in fair value of contingent consideration and gain (loss) on extinguishment of debt, capped call modification and change in fair value. Free cash flow represents cash provided by (used in) operating activities minus cash used for capital expenditures and capitalized software development costs. Adjusted free cash flow represents free cash flow as further adjusted for cash payments for the 2022 Strategic Realignment.

We believe that these non-GAAP measures of financial results provide useful information to management and investors regarding certain financial and business trends relating to Everbridge's financial condition and results of operations. We use these non-GAAP measures for financial, operational and budgetary decision-making purposes, to understand and evaluate our core operating performance and trends, and to generate future operating plans. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information regarding past financial performance and future prospects, and permit us to more thoroughly analyze key financial metrics used to make operational decisions. We believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing our financial measures with other software companies, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors.

We do not consider these non-GAAP measures in isolation or as an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. The principal limitation of these non-GAAP financial measures is that they exclude significant expenses and income that are required by GAAP to be recorded in the Company's financial statements. In addition, they are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgment by management about which expenses and income are excluded or included in determining these non-GAAP financial measures. In order to compensate for these limitations, management presents non-GAAP financial measures in connection with GAAP results. We urge investors to review the reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures, which are included in this press release, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated opportunity and trends for growth in our critical communications and enterprise safety applications and our overall business, our market opportunity, our expectations regarding sales of our products, our goal to maintain market leadership and extend the markets in which we compete for customers, and anticipated impact on financial results for the fourth quarter of 2023 and the full fiscal year 2023. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. Words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “should,” “believe,” “target,” “project,” “goals,” “estimate,” “potential,” “predict,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “intend,” variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond our control. Our actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including but not limited to: the ability of our products and services to perform as intended and meet our customers’ expectations; our ability to successfully integrate businesses and assets that we may acquire; our ability to attract new customers and retain and increase sales to existing customers; our ability to increase sales of our Mass Notification application and/or ability to increase sales of our other applications; developments in the market for targeted and contextually relevant critical communications or the associated regulatory environment; our estimates of market opportunity and forecasts of market growth may prove to be inaccurate; we have not been profitable on a consistent basis historically and may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future; the lengthy and unpredictable sales cycles for new customers; nature of our business exposes us to inherent liability risks; our ability to attract, integrate and retain qualified personnel; our ability to maintain successful relationships with our channel partners and technology partners; our ability to manage our growth effectively; our ability to respond to competitive pressures; potential liability related to privacy and security of personally identifiable information; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights, and the other risks detailed in our risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including but not limited to, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the SEC on February 24, 2023 and other subsequent filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent our views as of the date of this press release. We undertake no intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.

All Everbridge products are trademarks of Everbridge, Inc. in the USA and other countries. All other product or company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

GAAP and Non-GAAP diluted weighted-average shares include dilutive potential common shares related to convertible notes and stock-based compensation grants.

The following tables reconcile our net income (loss) to EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow and net income (loss) margin to EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin (dollars in thousands):