OneSpan Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Financial Results

• Fourth quarter revenue grew 11% year-over-year to $62.9 million; full year revenue grew 7% year-over-year to $235.1 million
• Fourth quarter subscription revenue grew 15% year-over-year to $27.3 million; full year subscription revenue grew 19% year-over-year to $106.4 million
• Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) grew 11% year-over-year to $154.6 million1
• Net Retention Rate (NRR) of 110%2

OneSpan Inc. (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.

“We ended the year on a high note led by strong operational rigor and accelerated cost reduction actions over the second half of 2023, resulting in 3% GAAP operating margin and 18% adjusted EBITDA margin in the fourth quarter, a dramatic improvement from the prior year,” stated OneSpan interim CEO, Victor Limongelli. “We will continue to focus on driving efficient revenue growth, profitability and cash flow in 2024.”

Fourth Quarter 2023 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue was $62.9 million, an increase of 11% compared to $56.6 million for the same quarter of 2022. Digital Agreements revenue was $14.5 million, an increase of 17% year-over-year. Security Solutions revenue was $48.4 million, an increase of 10% year-over-year.
• ARRgrew 11% year-over-year to $154.6 million.
• Gross profit was $43.5 million, or 69% gross margin, compared to $38.0 million, or 67% in the same period last year.
• Operating income was $1.8 million, compared to operating loss of $4.0 million in the same period last year.
• Net income was $0.4 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to net loss of $3.1 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the same period last year. Non-GAAP net income was $7.5 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, compared to $1.2 million, or $0.03 per diluted share in the same period last year.3
• Adjusted EBITDA was $11.2 million, compared to $3.2 million in the same period last year.
• Cash and cash equivalents were $42.5 million at December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we used $29.2 million, net of fees and expenses, to repurchase shares of our common stock, including $25.4 million in conjunction with our modified Dutch tender offer we completed in December 2023. We used $5.7 million, net of fees and expenses, to repurchase shares of our common stock during the year ended December 31, 2022.

Full Year 2023 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue was $235.1 million, an increase of 7% compared to $219.0 million for the same period of 2022. Digital Agreements revenue was $50.9 million, an increase of 5% year-over-year. Security Solutions revenue was $184.2 million, an increase of 8% year-over-year.
• Gross profit was $157.7 million, or 67% gross margin, compared to $148.6 million, or 68% in the same period last year.
• Operating loss was $28.9 million, compared to $27.1 million in the same period last year.
• Net loss was $29.8 million, or $0.74 per diluted share compared to $14.4 million, or $0.36 per diluted share in the same period last year. Non-GAAP net income was $0.0 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, compared to net loss of $1.8 million, or $0.05 per diluted share in the same period last year.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $12.0 million compared to $6.4 million in the same period last year.

Financial Outlook

For the Full Year 2024, OneSpan expects:

• Revenue to be in the range of $238 million to $246 million, consistent with our previously communicated target range of low to mid-single digit growth.
• ARR to be in the range of $160 million to $168 million.
• Adjusted EBITDAto be in the range of $47 million to $52 million, consistent with the low to mid-range of our previously communicated target of 20% to 23% margin for the year.3

Conference Call Details

In conjunction with this announcement, OneSpan Inc. will host a conference call today, March 6, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. EST. During the conference call, Mr. Victor Limongelli, Interim CEO, and Mr. Jorge Martell, CFO, will discuss OneSpan’s results for the fourth quarter and full year 2023.

For investors and analysts accessing the conference call by phone, please refer to the press release dated January 10, 2024, announcing the date of OneSpan’s fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings release. It can be found on the OneSpan investor relations website at investors.onespan.com.

The conference call is also available in listen-only mode at investors.onespan.com. Shortly after the conclusion of the call, a replay of the webcast will be available on the same website for approximately one year.

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1. ARR is calculated as the approximate annualized value of our customer recurring contracts as of the measurement date. These include subscription, term-based license, and maintenance and support contracts and exclude one-time fees. To the extent that we are negotiating a renewal with a customer within 90 days after the expiration of a recurring contract, we continue to include that revenue in ARR if we are actively in discussion with the customer for a new recurring contract or renewal and the customer has not notified us of an intention to not renew. See our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 for additional information describing how we define ARR, including how ARR differs from GAAP revenue.
2. NRR is defined as the approximate year-over-year growth in ARR from the same set of customers at the end of the prior year period.
3. An explanation of the use of Non-GAAP financial measures is included below under the heading “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.” A reconciliation of each Non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure has also been provided in the tables below. We are not providing a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA guidance to GAAP net income, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, because we are unable to predict certain items included in GAAP net income without unreasonable efforts.

About OneSpan

OneSpan helps organizations accelerate digital transformations by enabling secure, compliant, and refreshingly easy customer agreements and transaction experiences. Organizations requiring high assurance security, including the integrity of end-users and the fidelity of transaction records behind every agreement, choose OneSpan to simplify and secure business processes with their partners and customers. Trusted by global blue-chip enterprises, including more than 60% of the world’s largest 100 banks, OneSpan processes millions of digital agreements and billions of transactions in 100+ countries annually.

For more information, go to www.onespan.com. You can also follow @OneSpan on Twitter or visit us on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable U.S. securities laws, including statements regarding our 2024 financial guidance and our plans to continue to focus on driving efficient revenue growth, profitability and cash flow in 2024; our plans for managing our Digital Agreements and Security Solutions segments; and our general expectations regarding our operational or financial performance in the future. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "seek", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "anticipate", “expect", "intend", "continue", "outlook", "may", "will", "should", "could", or "might", and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could materially affect our business and financial results include, but are not limited to: our ability to execute our updated strategic transformation plan and cost reduction and restructuring actions in the expected timeframe and to achieve the outcomes we expect from them; unintended costs and consequences of our cost reduction and restructuring actions, including higher than anticipated restructuring charges, disruption to our operations, litigation or regulatory actions, reduced employee morale, attrition of valued employees, adverse effects on our reputation as an employer, loss of institutional know-how, slower customer service response times, and reduced ability to complete or undertake new product development projects and other business, product, technical, compliance or risk mitigation initiatives; our ability to attract new customers and retain and expand sales to existing customers; our ability to successfully develop and market new product offerings and product enhancements; changes in customer requirements; the potential effects of technological changes; the loss of one or more large customers; difficulties enhancing and maintaining our brand recognition; competition; lengthy sales cycles; challenges retaining key employees and successfully hiring and training qualified new employees; security breaches or cyber-attacks; real or perceived malfunctions or errors in our products; interruptions or delays in the performance of our products and solutions; reliance on third parties for certain products and data center services; our ability to effectively manage third party partnerships, acquisitions, divestitures, alliances, or joint ventures; economic recession, inflation, and political instability; claims that we have infringed the intellectual property rights of others; price competitive bidding; changing laws, government regulations or policies; pressures on price levels; component shortages; delays and disruption in global transportation and supply chains; impairment of goodwill or amortizable intangible assets causing a significant charge to earnings; actions of activist stockholders; and exposure to increased economic and operational uncertainties from operating a global business, as well as other factors described in the “Risk Factors” section of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as updated by the “Risk Factors” section of our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q (if any). Our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and other important information can be found in the Investor Relations section of our website at investors.onespan.com. We do not have any intent, and disclaim any obligation, to update the forward-looking information to reflect events that occur, circumstances that exist or changes in our expectations after the date of this press release, except as required by law.

Unless otherwise noted, references in this press release to “OneSpan”, “Company”, “we”, “our”, and “us” refer to OneSpan Inc. and its subsidiaries.

Operating Segments

In May 2022, we announced a three-year strategic transformation plan that began on January 1, 2023. In conjunction with the strategic transformation plan and to enable a more efficient capital deployment model, effective with the quarter ended June 30, 2022, we began reporting under the following two lines of business, which are our reportable operating segments: Digital Agreements and Security Solutions.

• Digital Agreements. Digital Agreements consists of solutions that enable our clients to secure and automate business processes associated with their digital agreement and customer transaction lifecycles that require consent, non-repudiation and compliance. These solutions, which are largely cloud-based, include OneSpan Sign e-signature, OneSpan Notary and OneSpan Trust Vault. This segment also includes costs attributable to our transaction cloud platform.
• Security Solutions. Security Solutions consists of our broad portfolio of software products, software development kits (SDKs) and Digipass authenticator devices that are used to build applications designed to defend against attacks on digital transactions across online environments, devices, and applications. The software products and SDKs included in the Security Solutions segment are largely on-premises software products and include identity verification, multi-factor authentication and transaction signing solutions, such as mobile application security and mobile software tokens.

Segment operating income consists of the revenues generated by a segment, less the direct costs of revenue, sales and marketing, research and development expenses, amortization expense, and restructuring and other related charges that are incurred directly by a segment. Unallocated corporate costs include costs related to administrative functions that are performed in a centralized manner that are not attributable to a particular segment.

Prior to 2023, the Company allocated certain cost of goods sold and operating expenses to its two reportable operating segments using a direct cost allocation and an allocation based on revenue split between the segments. As a result of the ongoing strategic transformation, the Company refined its operating segment allocation methodology to better align internal and external costs more directly to where the employee efforts are being spent on each segment moving forward. The revised methodology was applied on a prospective basis beginning in 2023. As a result of this change, there was an increase in cost of goods sold and operating expenses being allocated to the Digital Agreements segment, which better aligns with the investments the Company is making to grow that segment as compared to its Security Solutions segment.

Segment and consolidated operating results (in thousands, except percentages)(unaudited):

Revenue by major products and services (in thousands, unaudited):

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We report financial results in accordance with GAAP. We also evaluate our performance using certain Non-GAAP financial metrics, namely Adjusted EBITDA, Non-GAAP Net Income (Loss) and Non-GAAP Net Income (Loss) Per Diluted Share. Our management believes that these measures, when taken together with the corresponding GAAP financial metrics, provide useful supplemental information regarding the performance of our business, as further discussed in the descriptions of each of these Non-GAAP metrics below.

These Non-GAAP financial measures are not measures of performance under GAAP and should not be considered in isolation or as alternatives or substitutes for the most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. While we believe that these Non-GAAP financial measures are useful for the purposes described below, they have limitations associated with their use, since they exclude items that may have a material impact on our reported results and may be different from similar measures used by other companies. Additional information about the Non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliations to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures appear below.

Adjusted EBITDA

We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, long-term incentive compensation, restructuring and other related charges, and certain non-recurring items, including acquisition related costs, rebranding costs, and non-routine shareholder matters. We use Adjusted EBITDA as a simplified measure of performance for use in communicating our performance to investors and analysts and for comparisons to other companies within our industry. As a performance measure, we believe that Adjusted EBITDA presents a view of our operating results that is most closely related to serving our customers. By excluding interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, long-term incentive compensation, restructuring costs, and certain other non-recurring items, we are able to evaluate performance without considering decisions that, in most cases, are not directly related to meeting our customers’ requirements and were either made in prior periods (e.g., depreciation, amortization, long-term incentive compensation, non-routine shareholder matters), deal with the structure or financing of the business (e.g., interest, one-time strategic action costs, restructuring costs, impairment charges) or reflect the application of regulations that are outside of the control of our management team (e.g., taxes). In addition, removing the impact of these items helps us compare our core business performance with that of our competitors.

Non-GAAP Net Income (Loss) and Non-GAAP Net Income (Loss) Per Diluted Share

We define Non-GAAP Net Income (Loss) and Non-GAAP Net Income (Loss) Per Diluted Share as net income (loss) or net income (loss) per diluted share, as applicable, before the consideration of long-term incentive compensation expenses, the amortization of intangible assets, restructuring costs, and certain other non-recurring items. We use these measures to assess the impact of our performance excluding items that can significantly impact the comparison of our results between periods and the comparison to competitor results.

We exclude long-term incentive compensation expense because our long-term incentives generally reflect the use of restricted stock unit grants or cash incentive grants, including incentives directly tied to the performance of the business, while other companies may use different forms of incentives that have different cost impacts, which makes comparison difficult. We exclude amortization of intangible assets as we believe the amount of such expense in any given period may not be correlated directly to the performance of the business operations and that such expenses can vary significantly between periods as a result of new acquisitions, the full amortization of previously acquired intangible assets, or the write down of such assets due to an impairment event. However, intangible assets contribute to current and future revenue, and related amortization expense will recur in future periods until expired or written down.

We also exclude certain non-recurring items including one-time strategic action costs and non-recurring shareholder matters, as these items are unrelated to the operations of our core business. By excluding these items, we are better able to compare the operating results of our underlying core business from one reporting period to the next.

We make a tax adjustment based on the above adjustments resulting in an effective tax rate on a Non-GAAP basis, which may differ from the GAAP tax rate. We believe the effective tax rates we use in the adjustment are reasonable estimates of the overall tax rates for the Company under its global operating structure.

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