Castlight Health Announces First Quarter 2014 Results

Castlight Health, Inc. (NYSE: CSLT), a pioneer of the Enterprise Healthcare Cloud, today announced results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2014.

“We had a very strong first quarter across our business,” said Giovanni Colella, M.D., co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Castlight Health. “Demand continues to grow from large enterprises interested in adopting Castlight’s Enterprise Healthcare Cloud platform to gain control over their healthcare spending. During the first quarter we added customers from diverse sectors, including large employers such as Comcast, Freescale Semiconductor and the State of Kansas.”

Colella continued, “Further, we executed 29 customer implementations during the first quarter, including successful launches for a number of Fortune 500 companies. This was nearly three times as many deployments as we had executed in any previous quarter, which gives us great confidence in our ability to meet the increasing demand that we are seeing in the market.”

Financial Performance for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2014

• Total revenue for the first quarter of 2014 was $8.4 million, an increase of 339% from the first quarter of 2013. Subscription revenue was $7.5 million, an increase of 329% on a year-over-year basis. Professional services revenue was $0.9 million, an increase of 443% compared with the same period last year.
• Gross margin for the first quarter of 2014 was 21.4%, compared to a gross loss of 70.8% in the first quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP gross margin for the first quarter of 2014 was 23.1% compared to a gross loss of 69.2% in the first quarter of 2013.
• Operating loss for the first quarter of 2014 was $24.3 million, compared to an operating loss of $11.5 million during the first quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP operating loss for the first quarter of 2014 was $19.3 million, compared to a non-GAAP operating loss of $11.1 million during the first quarter of 2013.
• Net loss per basic and diluted share was ($0.90) in the first quarter of 2014, compared to a loss of ($1.24) per share in the first quarter of 2013. The first quarter of 2014 non-GAAP loss per share was ($0.72), compared to a loss of ($1.19) per share in the first quarter of 2013. For both GAAP and non-GAAP purposes, the weighted average basic and diluted share count for the first quarter of 2014 was 27.0 million compared to 9.3 million in the first quarter of 2013.
• Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were $239.7 million at the end of the first quarter of 2014, up from $67.2 million at the end of last quarter. The increase in cash was due to net proceeds of over $185 million from the company’s initial public offering. Cash used in operations for the first quarter of 2014 was $16.1 million, compared to $12.2 million used in operations in the first quarter of 2013.

A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results has been provided in this press release in the accompanying tables. An explanation of these measures is also included below under the heading “Non-GAAP Financial Measures”.

Business Outlook

Q2 2014 Guidance: Revenue for the company’s second fiscal quarter is expected to be in the range of $9.3 million to $9.6 million, an increase of 300% to 313% year over year. Non-GAAP operating loss is expected to be in the range of ($20.0) million to ($20.5) million. Non-GAAP basic and diluted loss per share is expected to be in the range of ($0.22) to ($0.23) based on 90.0 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares outstanding.

Full Year 2014 Guidance: Revenue for the company’s full year 2014 is expected to be in the range of $40.0 million to $41.0 million, an increase of 208% to 216% year over year. Non-GAAP operating loss is expected to be in the range of ($75.5) million to ($76.9) million. Non-GAAP basic and diluted loss per share is expected to be in the range of ($1.01) to ($1.03) based on 75.0 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares outstanding.

For both the second quarter and the full year 2014, non-GAAP estimates exclude the effects of stock-based compensation expense and warrant expense.

Quarterly Conference Call

Castlight Health will host a conference call to discuss its first quarter results today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time). A live audio webcast of the conference call, together with detailed financial information, can be accessed through the company's Investor Relations Web site at http://ir.castlighthealth.com. In addition, an archive of the audiocast can be accessed through the same link. Participants who choose to call in to the conference call can do so by dialing domestically 1-877-407-0789 or internationally at 1-201-689-8562. A replay will be available at 1-877-870-5176 or 1-858-384-5517, passcode 13580401, until midnight (Eastern Time) May 14, 2014.

About Castlight Health

Castlight Health (NYSE: CSLT) is a pioneer of the Enterprise Healthcare Cloud. Founded in 2008, San Francisco-based Castlight makes healthcare data actionable, empowering our enterprise customers to gain control over their healthcare spending and transforming how companies and employees engage in healthcare. With Castlight, employers can implement technology-enabled benefit designs, integrate disparate healthcare applications, and provide meaningful information to employees and their families. More than 100 companies, ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises, have selected Castlight. For more information visit www.castlighthealth.com. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and Like us on Facebook. Source: Castlight Health.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement Castlight Health’s financial statements presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), we also use and provide investors and others with non-GAAP measures of certain components of financial performance, including non-GAAP gross margin (loss), non-GAAP operating expense, non-GAAP operating loss and non-GAAP net loss per share. These non-GAAP financial measures differ from GAAP financial measures in that they exclude stock-based compensation, expense for a warrant issued to a third party service provider and the associated tax impact of these items, where applicable.

We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors and others, facilitate the analysis of the company’s core operating results and comparison of operating results across reporting periods, and can help enhance overall understanding of the company’s historical financial performance.

We have provided a reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, except that we have not reconciled our non-GAAP operating loss and net loss per share guidance for the second quarter and full fiscal year of 2014 to comparable GAAP operating loss and net loss per share guidance because we do not provide guidance for share-based compensation expense and warrant expense, which are reconciling items between GAAP and non-GAAP operating loss. The factors that may impact our future share-based compensation expense and warrant expense are out of our control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted, and therefore we are unable to provide such guidance without unreasonable effort.

These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for or in isolation from, measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Further, these non-GAAP measures may differ from the non-GAAP information used by other companies, including peer companies, and therefore comparability may be limited. Castlight Health encourages investors and others to review the company’s financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.

Safe Harbor For Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding Castlight Health’s first quarter and full year fiscal 2014 revenue projections, and our expectations for future performance of our business, market growth and business conditions. The words “believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “expect,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If the risks materialize or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors and new applications and marketing initiatives by our competitors; (iv) our ability to manage our growth effectively; (v) our limited operating history, which makes it difficult to predict future results; (vi) the development of the market for enterprise healthcare cloud services; (vii) acceptance of our applications and services by customers; (viii) breaches in our security measures or unauthorized access to our customers’ data; and (ix) the fact that changes in sales may not be immediately reflected in our results due to our subscription model. Further information on risks that could affect Castlight Health’s results and/or cause actual results to vary from expectations is included in the prospectus for our initial public offering, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 14, 2014. Further information on potential risks that could affect actual results will be included in other filings that Castlight Health makes with the SEC from time to time.

The forward-looking statements made in this press release represent Castlight Health’s expectations as of the date of this press release. We assume no obligation to, and do not intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.

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