OneSpan Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Financial Results

• Fourth quarter revenue decreased 4% year-over-year to $56.6 million; full year revenue increased 2% year-over-year to $219.0 million

• Fourth quarter subscription revenue increased 28% year-over-year to $23.8 million; full year subscription revenue increased 30% year-over-year to $89.2 million

• Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) increased 12% year-over-year to $138.7 million¹

• Net Retention Rate (NRR) of 107%²

OneSpan Inc. (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022.

“We substantially redefined OneSpan during 2022 and ended the year with strong momentum, exceeding our expectations for revenue and adjusted EBITDA,” stated OneSpan CEO, Matt Moynahan. “With significant improvements in operational rigor and financial discipline, we are well positioned to continue our transformational journey. Key priorities for 2023 include new enterprise logo acquisition and market share gains along with profitability and margin expansion discipline.”

Key Financial Results

Fourth Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue was $56.6 million, a decrease of 4% compared to $59.2 million for the same quarter of 2021. Changes in foreign exchange rates as compared to the prior year period negatively impacted fourth quarter 2022 revenue by approximately $2.9 million.³ Digital Agreements revenue was $12.4 million, an increase of 15% year-over-year. Security Solutions revenue was $44.2 million, a decrease of 9% year-over-year.
• ARR increased 12% year-over-year to $138.7 million. Changes in foreign exchange rates as compared to the prior year period negatively impacted ARR by approximately $3.9 million.³
• Gross profit was $38.0 million, or 67% gross margin, compared to $37.5 million, or 63% in the same period last year.
• Operating loss was $4.0 million, compared to operating loss of $6.0 million in the same period last year.
• Net loss was $3.1 million, or $0.08 per diluted share compared to $13.8 million, or $0.35 per diluted share in the same period last year. Non-GAAP net income was $1.2 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to Non-GAAP loss of $9.3 million, or $0.24 per diluted share in the same period last year.⁴
• Adjusted EBITDA was $3.2 million compared to $(0.6) million in the same period last year. Changes in foreign exchange rates as compared to the prior year period negatively impacted fourth quarter Adjusted EBITDA by approximately $1.1 million.⁴
• Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $98.8 million at December 31, 2022. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we repurchased $5.7 million in shares of our common stock, compared to $7.5 million in shares repurchased during the year ended December 31, 2021.

Full Year 2022 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue was $219.0 million, an increase of 2% compared to $214.5 million for the same period of 2021. Changes in foreign exchange rates as compared to the prior year period negatively impacted 2022 revenue by approximately $12.2 million.³ Digital Agreements revenue was $48.4 million, an increase of 19% year-over-year. Security Solutions revenue was $170.6 million, a decrease of 2% year-over-year.
• Gross profit was $148.6 million, or 68% gross margin, compared to $142.9 million, or 67% in the same period last year.
• Operating loss was $27.1 million, compared to $26.1 million in the same period last year.
• Net loss was $14.4 million, or $0.36 per diluted share compared to $30.6 million, or $0.77 per diluted share in the same period last year. Non-GAAP net loss was $1.8 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, compared to $16.2 million, or $0.41 per diluted share in the same period last year.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $6.4 million compared to $(5.1) million in the same period last year. Changes in foreign exchange rates as compared to the prior year period negatively impacted Adjusted EBITDA by approximately $1.1 million.

Recent Business Highlights

• Announced the acquisition of ProvenDB, which we expect to provide a foundational architecture for future blockchain solutions, including secure vaulting, for Web3. This acquisition closed on February 22, 2023.
• Introduced a new and disruptive enterprise pricing model for secure digital agreements, enabling simplified, flexible, and cost effective pricing to help customers drive business outcomes without overbuying and under-consuming licenses and transactions at the most favorable price-per-value in the industry.
• Launched OneSpan Notary to enable notaries and customers to complete agreements and notarize documents in a secure and trusted environment. OneSpan Notary offers a streamlined user experience while offering high levels of security.

Financial Outlook

For the Full Year 2023, OneSpan expects:

• Revenue to be in the range of $232 million to $242 million, representing a growth rate of 6% - 11%
• ARR to be in the range of $157 million to $164 million, representing a growth rate of 13% - 18%
• Adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $3 million to $6 million⁴

We are revising our expected long-term financial targets as follows:

• Revenue to grow at a 12% - 14% CAGR through 2025, as compared to our previous target of 10% - 12%
• ARR to grow at a 20% or higher CAGR through 2025, consistent with our previous target
• NRR to exceed 120% exiting 2025, consistent with our previous target
• Gross profit margin to exceed 70% in 2025, as compared to our previous target of approximately 70%
• Adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of 10% - 12% in 2025, as compared to our previous target of 8% - 10%

Conference Call Details

In conjunction with this announcement, OneSpan Inc. will host a conference call today, February 28, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. EST. During the conference call, Mr. Matthew Moynahan, CEO, and Mr. Jorge Martell, CFO, will discuss OneSpan’s results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022.

To access the conference call, dial 844-200-6205 for the U.S. or Canada and 1-929-526-1599 for international callers. The access code is 265194.

The conference call is also available in listen-only mode at investors.onespan.com. The recorded version of the conference call will be available on the OneSpan website as soon as possible following the call and will be available for replay for approximately one year.

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 the outcomes we expect from our strategic transformation plan; our plans for managing our Digital Agreements and Security Solutions segments; our expectations for our use of technology acquired in our ProvenDB acquisition; the potential benefits, performance and functionality of our products and solutions, including future offerings; our expected financial results for full year 2023; our expected long-term financial targets; 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", “target”, "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 strategic transformation plan; our ability to attract new customers and expand sales to existing customers; our ability to effectively develop and expand our sales and marketing capabilities; our ability to hire, train, and retain sales and other employees necessary to implement our strategic transformation plan; our ability to successfully develop and market new product offerings and enhancements; the loss of one or more large customers; difficulties enhancing and maintaining our brand recognition; competition; lengthy sales cycles; departures of senior management or other key employees; changes in customer requirements; interruptions or delays in the performance of our products and solutions; real or perceived malfunctions or errors in our products; the potential effects of technological changes; economic recession, inflation, and political instability; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and actions taken to contain it; our ability to effectively manage third party partnerships, acquisitions, divestitures, alliances, or joint ventures; security breaches or cyber-attacks; 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; reliance on third parties for certain products and data center services; 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K, as updated by the “Risk Factors” section of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. 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.

Segment Information

In May 2022, we announced a three-year strategic transformation plan that begins on January 1, 2023. We believe this transformation plan will enable us to build on our strong solution portfolio and market position, enhance our enterprise go-to-market strategy, accelerate revenue growth, and drive efficiencies to support margin expansion and increased profitability. 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. We expect to manage Digital Agreements for accelerated growth and market share gains and Security Solutions for cash flow given its more modest growth profile.

• 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 our OneSpan Sign e-signature solution and recently introduced OneSpan Notary and Virtual Room solutions. As our transformation plan progresses, we expect to include other cloud-based security modules associated with the secure transaction lifecycle of identity verification, authentication, virtual interaction and transactions, and secure digital vaulting (storage) in the Digital Agreements segment. This segment also includes costs attributable to our transaction cloud platform.

• Security Solutions. Security Solutions consist of our broad portfolio of software products and/or software development kits (SDKs) that are used to build applications designed to defend against attacks on digital transactions across online environments, devices and applications. These solutions, which are largely on-premises software products, include identity verification, multi-factor authentication and transaction signing, such as mobile application security, mobile software tokens, and Digipass authenticators that are not cloud connected devices.

Segment operating income consists of the revenues generated by a segment, less the direct costs of revenue, sales and marketing, research and development, amortization and restructuring and other related expenses 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. Financial results by operating segment are included below under Segment and consolidated operating results.

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 Diluted Net Income (Loss) Per 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 before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, long-term incentive compensation, and certain non-recurring items, including acquisition related costs, lease exit 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, impairment of intangible assets, 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 Diluted Net Income (Loss) Per Share

We define Non-GAAP Net Income (Loss) and Non-GAAP Diluted Net Income (Loss) Per Share as net income (loss) or diluted net income (loss) per share, as applicable, before the consideration of long-term incentive compensation expenses, the amortization of intangible assets, impairment 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.

Long-term incentive compensation for management and others is directly tied to performance, and this measure allows management to see the relationship of the cost of incentives to the performance of the business operations directly if such incentives are based on that period’s performance. To the extent that such incentives are based on performance over a period of several years, there may be periods that have significant adjustments to the accruals in the period that relate to a longer period of time, which can make it difficult to assess the results of the business operations in the current period. In addition, the Company’s long-term incentives generally reflect the use of restricted stock unit grants or cash awards, while other companies may use different forms of incentives that have different cost impacts, which makes a 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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