Home services online marketplace ANGI (NASDAQ: ANGI) reported Q1 FY2023 results that beat analyst expectations, with revenue down 10% year on year to $392.4 million. Angi made a GAAP loss of $15 million, improving on its loss of $33.3 million, in the same quarter last year.
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Angi (ANGI) Q1 FY2023 Highlights:
- Revenue: $392.4 million vs analyst estimates of $384.3 million (2.11% beat)
- EPS: -$0.03 vs analyst estimates of -$0.06 ($0.03 beat)
- Free cash flow of $7.2 million, up from negative free cash flow of $5.1 million in previous quarter
- Gross Margin (GAAP): 89.3%, up from 77.3% same quarter last year
- Domestic Customer Service Requests : 6 million, down 0.7 million year on year
Created by IAC’s mergers of Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor, ANGI (NASDAQ: ANGI) operates the largest online marketplace for home services in the US.
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Sales Growth
Angi's revenue growth over the last three years has been unremarkable, averaging 10.7% annually. This quarter, Angi beat analyst estimates but reported a rather lacklustre 10% year on year revenue decline.
Before the earnings results were announced, Wall St analysts covering the company were estimating revenues to decline -7.39% over the next twelve months.
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Usage Growth
As a gig economy marketplace, Angi generates revenue growth by the volume of services its users order (e.g. rides, deliveries, freelance jobs) and how much commission it earns from each service unit provided.
Angi has been struggling over the last two years as the number of service requests, a key usage metric for the company, declined 9.02% annually to 6 million. This is one of the lowest levels of growth in the consumer internet sector.
In the number of service requests decreased by 0.7 million, a 10.4% drop year on year.
Key Takeaways from Angi's Q1 Results
Since it has still been burning cash over the last twelve months it is worth keeping an eye on Angi’s balance sheet, but we note that with a market capitalization of $1.3 billion and more than $327.5 million in cash, the company has the capacity to continue to prioritise growth over profitability.
It was good to see Angi outperform Wall St’s revenue expectations this quarter despite a miss on service requests. That feature of these results as well as a meaningful EBITDA beat really stood out as positives. On the other hand, there was a decline in number of users and the revenue growth was somewhat weak. Overall, this quarter's results were mixed but overall encouraging. The company is up 8.43% on the results and currently trades at $2.7 per share.
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