Tucows Inc. · NASDAQ:TCX

Tucows — Q1 2025 Earnings Presentation

29 slides from Tucows's earnings presentation, May 8, 2025

  1. Slide 1: Q1 2025 Investor presentation

    Q1 2025 Investor presentation 05.08.2025 Nasdaq (TCX) | TSX (TC)

  2. Slide 2: Safe harbor statement

    Safe harbor statement This presentation may contain forward-looking statements, relating to the Company’s operations or to the environment in which it operates, which are based on Tucows Inc.’s operations, estimates, forecasts and projections. These statements are not guarantees of future performanc

  3. Slide 3: Table of contents

    Table of contents 01 Quarterly Highlights 02 The Tucows Business 03 Tucows Domains Slide 4 Slide 10 Slide 16 04 Wavelo 05Ting 06 Investor Resources Slide 20 Slide 24 Slide 29

  4. Slide 4: Quarterly Business Highlights

    Quarterly Business Highlights

  5. Slide 5: Quarterly business highlights: Q1 2025

    Tucows | Quarterly business highlights: Q1 2025 ● Q1 continues trend following four consecutive ● Strong year over year growth in: years of revenue growth ○ Revenue +16% ● Year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter growth ○ Gross Margin +20% of all KPIs: ○ Adjusted EBITDA improved +91% ○ Revenue +8% Yo

  6. Slide 6: Consolidated business highlights

    Tucows | Quarterly business highlights Consolidatedbusiness Consolidated business 3 Months ended March 31 highlights highlights 2025 (In thousands of U.S. Dollars, except per share data) 2024 (unaudited) % Change (unaudited) (unaudited) Net Revenues 94,609 87,457 8% Gross Profit 23,531 18,316 28% Inc

  7. Slide 7: Adjustments for one-time impacts on Net Income (Loss) and EPS (Loss)

    Tucows | Quarterly business highlights Adjustments for one-time impacts on 3 Months ended March 31 Net Income (Loss) and EPS (Loss) (Amounts in thousands, except per share numbers) 2025 (unaudited) 2024 (unaudited) Net Income (Loss) for the period (15,133) (26,484) Less: Loss on debt extinguishment

  8. Slide 8: Operating Statistics

    Tucows | Quarterly KPI Summary Operating Statistics QUARTERLY YTD ANNUAL (Amounts in thousands) Q1/25 Q4/24 Q3/24 Q2/24 Q1/24 2025 2024 2023 TING INTERNET Internet Subscribers under management3 51.7 50.7 49.6 48.2 46.1 51.7 50.7 43.4 Internet Subscribers under management - Net adds3 1.0 1.1 1.4 2.1

  9. Slide 9: Quarterly KPI Summary

    Tucows | Quarterly KPI Summary Operating QUARTERLY YTD ANNUAL Statistics Q1 2025 Q4 2024 Q3 2024 Q2 2024 Q1 2024 2025 2024 2023 (Amounts in thousands) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) (Unaudited) REVENUE Ting $16,315 $15,749 $15,310 $14,571 $14,102

  10. Slide 10: Portfolio of tech businesses

    Portfolio of tech businesses Balancing cash generation with investment in long-term growth 10

  11. Slide 11: Business structure

    Tucows | business structure Corporate parent allocating capital and providing efficient shared services to three subsidiary companies DOMAIN SERVICES PLATFORM SERVICES FIBER INTERNET SERVICES Leading global provider Modernizing the utility and Delivering subscribed of wholesale and retail experience

  12. Slide 12: Investment summary

    Tucows | investment summary Consistent revenue and cash flow generation + growth opportunities through high volume, low-cost subscription services DOMAIN SERVICES PLATFORM SERVICES FIBER INTERNET SERVICES Reliable cash flow + global A visible revenue stream Outsized long-term growth relationships + do

  13. Slide 13: Proven track record of long-term performance

    Tucows | track record Proven track record of long-term performance 24 23 7.9% years consecutive years annual ROI2 as a public company of revenue growth1 since going public 1. Excluding the impact of a transitional revenue stream acquired and subsequently disposed of in 2018, and the impacts of chang

  14. Slide 14: Annual historical financial performance

    Tucows | Annual historical financial performance Revenue (US$ millions) Adj. EBITDA1,2 (US$ millions) NOTE: Revenue for 2020 and 2021 reflects the impact of change in Mobile business model to Wavelo in Q3 2020. 1. Adjusted EBITDA excludes depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, income tax pr

  15. Slide 15: Market & financial data

    Tucows | market & financial data TCX (NASDAQ) US$16.55 | TC (TSX) CA$22.74 Share Price1 ~11.06m ~US$179.m US$38.1m Shares out1 Market cap1 Cash2,3 US$192.1m US$410.8m Tucows Debt Excluding Ting2 Ting Debt2 1 At May 7/2025. 2 At March 31/2025. 3 Unrestricted cash balance 15

  16. Slide 16: Reliable cash flow + capital light

    Reliable cash flow + capital light

  17. Slide 17: Highly efficient operation

    Highly efficient operation Reliable cash flow Leading global provider of Global network of resellers wholesale and retail domain Renewal rates above industry average registration and related World’s largest wholesale domain registrar services World’s second-largest domain registrar 17

  18. Slide 18: Domains business highlights

    Tucows Domains | business highlights ~24.3 million ~1.9 million Domains under management Domain transactions every month Global footprint in Global network of >195 >35,000 countries reseller customers Services offered today Services being introduced domain registration hosting SSL certificates billin

  19. Slide 19: Domains strategic priorities

    Tucows Domains | strategic priorities Managing for margin Modernizing tech stack to create a true platform for domains ecosystem Development of new Value Added Services to distribute through the reseller channel 19

  20. Slide 20: Visible revenue stream and strong growth potential for SaaS in a large, critical, and underserved space

    Visible revenue stream and strong growth potential for SaaS in a large, critical, and underserved space

  21. Slide 21: Modernizing the utility and experience from software that powers communications

    Launched at a critical time for the global telecommunications industry – CSPs are competing to deliver more Modernizing the utility and value from their networks experience from software that powers communications Leveraging: and connectivity Global race to 5G around the world Fiber proliferation IO

  22. Slide 22: Wavelo: the premise

    Wavelo | the premise Building the modern alternative to outdated and inflexible OSS/BSS Wavelo is solving decades of poor customer experience in telecom that is the result of antiquated core systems (or systems of record) that pass their inefficiency onto the customer. Flexible, cloud-based, event-dr

  23. Slide 23: Wavelo: the opportunity

    Wavelo | the opportunity Macro trends $2.5T ~$550B ~$130B Global telecom services Telecom managed services Global OSS/BSS spending revenue by 20281 spending by 20282 by 20283 Anchor mobile customer Anchor internet customer A neglected space with large and growing need for a solution Future customer

  24. Slide 24: Outsized long-term growth as an early mover in next generation telecom infrastructure & services

    Outsized long-term growth as an early mover in next generation telecom infrastructure & services

  25. Slide 25: Capitalizing on the U.S. coax-to-fiber transition by delivering subscribed services

    “A billion fiber optic connections to the Internet are coming online in just a few years. A large majority of them will be in Asia, primarily led by China. These connections have already proven to Capitalizing on the U.S. be future-proof, capable of reaching not just gigabit speeds, but multi-gigabit

  26. Slide 26: Ting: the opportunity

    Ting | the opportunity US Telecom infrastructure is making a generational transition from copper and coax to fiber Ting has established fiber 70% of US households do not footprints around the US and is yet have access to fiber. partner ISP for other builders ISP customers are consistently Ting has the

  27. Slide 27: Ting: key assumptions

    Ting | key assumptions Cost to build per serviceable address Annual gross margin per subscriber 1 ~ $1,650 $1,000 Monthly price2 Expected take rate $893 $139 20% 50% Home Business year 1 year 5 1. Cost of installation varies but starts at $200/home or $400/business, and does not include the cost of

  28. Slide 28: Ting: key assumptions

    Ting | key assumptions Cost to build per serviceable address Profit Margin 1 ~ $1,650 60-75% Churn Expected take rate 0.6-0.75%/mo 20% 50% year 1 year 5 1. Cost of installation varies but starts at $200/home or $400/business, and does not include the cost of the drop fiber. This assumption was update

  29. Slide 29: Investor Resources

    Investor Resources tucows.com/investors ir@tucows.com

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