Xero Limited · ASX:XRO

Xero — FY2016 Earnings Presentation

33 slides from Xero's earnings presentation, May 12, 2016

  1. Slide 1: Investor briefing: Full year results to 31 March 2016

    For personal use only Investor briefing FULL YEAR RESULTS TO 31 MARCH 2016 1 12 MAY 2016

  2. Slide 2: Important notice

    Important notice For personal use only This presentation is given on behalf of Xero Limited. (Company number NZ 1830488, AU ARBN 160661183 NZX/ASX:XRO) Information in this presentation: • is for general information purposes only, and is not an offer or invitation for subscription, purchase, or recomm

  3. Slide 3: Agenda

    CEO update For personal use only Financial update Agenda Outlook Q&A 3

  4. Slide 4: CEO update

    For personal use only CEO update Rod Drury Chief Executive, Founder 4

  5. Slide 5: Delivering on potential

    Delivering on potential For personal use only SUBSCRIBERS New Zealand 186 k Australia 312 k $ 258m United Kingdom 133 k 717,000 ANNUALISED COMMITTED SUBSCRIBERS GLOBALLY* MONTHLY REVENUE North America 62 k New markets 24 k 5 *As at 31 March 2016

  6. Slide 6: Delivered on guidance

    Delivered on guidance For personal use only Revenue Cash Operating efficiencies Xero expects FY16 subscription revenue to “Xero is focused on containing its full financial “Operating metrics are expected to “exceed $200m based on average June 2015 year cash outflow to similar levels to Xero’s prior im

  7. Slide 7: SaaS scorecard: what matters

    COMMON SAAS BUSINESS EVALUATION CRITERIA WE BELIEVE THESE MATTER TOO For personal use only 5 Acquire subscribers economically at scale 1 Grow subscribers worldwide Increased the LTV/CAC ratio to 4.8. ACMR passed $250m, added $99m ACMR and CMR churn* improved. 242k subscribers in FY16. Value added su

  8. Slide 8: Years of subscriber growth

    242k For personal use only 10 years of growth Subscribers (000’s) Subscriber net annual additions FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 8

  9. Slide 9: Execution across the company: total lifetime value

    Execution across Total lifetime value For personal use only the company $1.6b Improved all components of LTV growth: $1.5b March 2015 March 2016 Added $685m FY16 Subscribers 475,000 717,000 ARPU $28 $30 $0.8b CMR churn % 1.23% 1.19% $823m Gross margin 70% 76% LTV per sub $1,733 $2,103 $0b FY15 FY16

  10. Slide 10: Financial update

    For personal use only Financial update Sankar Narayan Chief Financial Officer 10

  11. Slide 11: Financial performance

    Financial H1 FY15 ($000s) H2 FY15 ($000s) H1 FY16 ($000s) H2 FY16 ($000s) For personal use only performance Total revenue 54,295 69,725 92,864 114,196 FY16 operating revenue growth of 67 % exceeds Gross profit 36,279 51,033 68,367 88,812 subscriber growth of 51 %. Gross margin 67 % 73 % 74 % 78 % P&

  12. Slide 12: Continuing quality growth

    Continuing quality growth For personal use only Adding revenue at similar rate to subscribers 12 month subscriber growth 12 month ACMR addition 242k $99m 222k $86m Sep 15 Mar 16 Sep 15 Mar 16 12

  13. Slide 13: Improving gross margin

    Improving Gross margin and % of revenue For personal use only gross margin $90m Increase in gross margin driven by ARPU 78 % growth and operating efficiencies Opportunities to further increase 74 % $60m gross margin: • AWS full migration planned H1 FY17 – 73 % reduces hosting costs • Economies of scal

  14. Slide 14: Customer acquisition costs as % of revenue

    Customer CAC as % of revenues For personal use only Acquisition Costs 80% Improved trend in sales and marketing costs • CAC costs predominantly drive subscriber acquisition delivering future high-margin revenues 73% • Investment in sales and marketing infrastructure to support continued growth Focus

  15. Slide 15: Product investment

    Product investment Product costs* as % of revenue For personal use only In deployment stage of two-year platform migration to PaaS – offers step change in 50% costs and innovation capability in the future Investment in security and audit processes to support the financial web 40% Product delivery foc

  16. Slide 16: Comprehensive migration to AWS

    Comprehensive migration to AWS For personal use only Unlock the commoditised innovation from PaaS to deliver future competitive advantage 24 MONTHS AGO 12 MONTHS AGO TODAY Discovery Prototype Build Migration Optimise Contract negotiations New deployment model & process Implementation model prototypi

  17. Slide 17: Improving EBITDA margins

    Improving EBITDA margins For personal use only EBITDA margin 0% EBITDA margin improvement driven by: • Gross margin increases EBITDA • CAC efficiencies excl. SBP* -20% • Scale benefits in product EBITDA • Improved G&A efficiencies -40% -60% H1 FY15 H2 FY15 H1 FY16 H2 FY16 17 *Employee share-based paymen

  18. Slide 18: Revenue growth funding investment

    Revenue growth Cash outflows* and revenue For personal use only funding investment $120m $60m Prudence in balancing cash usage and the growth opportunity Global greenfield opportunities support long $0m H1 FY15 H2 FY15 H1 FY16 H2 FY16 term growth Cash impact from currency movement was an adverse $6.

  19. Slide 19: Key segment achievements

    Key segment achievements For personal use only FY15 FY16 Net change Group 475 k 717 k 51 % Subscribers ANZ 341 k 498 k 46 % Growth across segments Int 134 k 219 k 63 % Group $28.00 $30.00 7% ARPU Increase in ARPU highlighting product ANZ $27.80 $29.76 7% value and quality of subscriber base Int $28.

  20. Slide 20: ANZ contribution and International investment

    ANZ contribution ( $ m ) Contribution $35m For personal use only margin improving $0m H1 FY15 H2 FY15 H1 FY16 H2 FY16 Growth in ANZ contribution with a 127% increase in H2 over the prior year International investment* ( $ m ) Group contribution margin improved $15 m YoY $0m International investment*

  21. Slide 21: Australia & New Zealand

    Australia & New Zealand $178 m ACMR For personal use only $180m Market leader in small business accounting now exceeding 500,000 cloud subscribers $90m $64 m year on year increase in H2 ACMR compared to $51 m year on year increase in H1 $0m Sep 14 Mar 15 Sep 15 Mar 16 Price increases across ANZ with

  22. Slide 22: International: United Kingdom

    INTERNATIONAL $46 m ACMR United Kingdom For personal use only $50m The United Kingdom’s leading small business accounting solution* $25m Bank integration with most major banks $0m Successful introduction of payroll for UK Sep 14 Mar 15 Sep 15 Mar 16 subscribers enabling ARPU growth Industry accolade

  23. Slide 23: International: Xero country subscriber velocity

    INTERNATIONAL Xero country subscriber velocity North America AU For personal use only NZ Fast growing with over 62,000 subscribers UK Growth curve similar to other markets North America ROW Gradual transition of the US accounting industry to cloud providing time to develop channel Time Growth buildi

  24. Slide 24: International: North America

    INTERNATIONAL North America For personal use only Product Distribution Ecosystem & partnerships Xero increasingly winning product reviews Partner adoption increasing across the US Enabling accounting practices with over incumbent solutions large technology partnerships including Improving metrics an

  25. Slide 25: International: South East Asia

    INTERNATIONAL South East Asia For personal use only HONG KONG Unfilled demand from small business and accounting partners supports a presence in Asia 2m + PHILIPPINES TAM of small MALAYSIA businesses Single global platform means relatively low marginal cost to enter these new markets SINGAPORE Marke

  26. Slide 26: Outlook

    26 For personal use only Outlook

  27. Slide 27: Outlook

    Outlook For personal use only Operating efficiencies Cash usage Operating metrics to continue Cash usage in FY17 (based on FX rates at 1 improvement in FY17 as the Company April 2016) is forecast to reduce from FY16. continues to drive efficiencies through Xero is managing the business to cash flow au

  28. Slide 28: Rewiring the small business economy

    For personal use only Xero Network Enterprise Connect Connecting small businesses Large businesses automating to each other their supply chains Rewiring the small business economy Financial Web Government Connect Two way connectivity with Banks Connecting small businesses and to automate transaction

  29. Slide 29: Authoritative data source and signals

    $ 1 trillion Signals For personal use only transactions processed* Xero is a unique globally True insights into the authoritative data source small business economy How many small businesses are there? When am I likely to get paid? 180+ 700,000+ countries subscribers How many jobs do small businesse

  30. Slide 30: Proving ability to be the global small business platform

    Xero is proving its ability to be the For personal use only global small business platform Global greenfield growth potential with a large addressable market Delivering strong growth while improving margins Strong execution across multiple geographies with leadership positions Innovating without leg

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  32. Slide 32: Appendix: definitions

    Appendix For personal use only Subscribers Subscriber means each unique subscription to a Xero offered product that is purchased by an accounting partner or an end user and which is, or is available to be, deployed ACMR Annualised committed monthly revenue represents monthly recurring revenue at 31 M

  33. Slide 33: Beautiful accounting software

    For personal use only Beautiful accounting software www.xero.com

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