• Marketplace Revenue- 141% YoY
+ Marketplace- 165%
+Services - 90% YoY
- Marketplace = combination of visits+conversion+AoV)
• Home improvement is still one of highest spend
CFO indicated that April is already momentum. Essential part.
4/ $ETSY Buyers:
Acceleration in the buyer growth!
•Active Buyers -90% YoY
•GMS per Active Buyer also grew 20% YoY
• The repeat and habitual buyer is phenomenal
• Mgmt is now focused on getting more new buyers from their new cohort to become habitual buyers
Look at that!📈
5/ $ETSY Sellers growth acceleration!
•Active Sellers - 4.5M
•Active Sellers - 67%
• $ETSY Ads & off-site Ads is helping momentum for sellers
Personally, the acceleration btw buyers x sellers is one of the most powerful aspects of $ETSY long-term viability, moat and success!
6/ On Take rate:
This was one of their best take rates in a while and continues to show continuous improvement.
Although mgmt. warned it may decline slightly, overall this is so important to how the company generates revenue and key.
I'm interested to see how it evolves!
7/ Bottom-line results:
• Net Income - 10x YoY
• ~33% Adj. EBITDA Margin
• FCF growth 📈+Cash Balance of +$1.7B (I believe acquisition is soon)
• They expect to increase spending on marketing, ads and more hiring of technical employees more to further improve the products.
8/ Outlook: Only Q2 Guidance:
Rev: $493-$536M(in-line), growth of 25%
GMS Growth:15%
Adj. EBITDA Margin: 25%
Love how EBITDA is accelerating despite the company's increased spend.
They were conservative and cautious on guidance which is why stock is down. I think they'll beat!
10/ Notables during the call:
- Expect more advertising spend
- Lots of discussion about growth in April.
- Reverb's marketplace acquisition is complete and is showing momentum.
- I really like how management is very cautious about Q2 and the future.
Future is bright!
10/ I love to zoom out and think big picture on quarterly earnings :)
My conviction just got higher after this report. My full thread on why I am big believer in $ETSY long-term and my full thesis below 👇
My Q1 High level overview:
• Q1 Non-GAAP EPS: $0.28
• Revenue of $198M (50% YoY) beats
• Chegg Services subscribers, up 64% YoY to 4.8M from Q4's 4.4M
• Notable is the 32% EBITDA margin acceleration & QoQ sequential growth across the business⬇️
2/ As a refresher, this is a business breakdown/ structure of $CHGG
-Revenues come from $CHGG Services & Required Materials.
- $CHGG Services primarily includes Chegg Study, Writing, Math Solver, Study Pack, Thinkful, and Mathway.
-Required Materials includes print/e-textbooks
3/ $CHGG - Solid description of the value proposition.
This line stood-out from the earnings call as it best describes the company.
Outline of this Thread - What To Do:
• Pre & Post Earnings
• During the Earnings Call
• Key Metrics to track
• The Psychology
Earning can be a merging of multiple expectations (h/t @jackbutcher)
A Comprehensive guide below:🧵
2/ Why should you care:
• Earnings report (ER) are crucial times
• *Many* Institutions have their expectations & are ready to increase/Initiate/Decrease position which lead to big stock movements
• It determines future of a stock
The company's culture has been strong through the pandemic.
Beyond the valley's ideologies, the move of their HQ to Denver from California is partly a hint of the major work they will be doing with helping scale AI solutions for heavy industrial clients in TX