Website design and e-commerce platform provider Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) reported results in line with analyst expectations in Q4 FY2022 quarter, with revenue up 8.13% year on year to $355 million. Wix made a GAAP loss of $39 million, improving on its loss of $111 million, in the same quarter last year.
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Wix (WIX) Q4 FY2022 Highlights:
- Revenue: $355 million vs analyst estimates of $351.9 million (0.9% beat)
- EPS (non-GAAP): $0.61 vs analyst estimates of $0.10 ($0.5 beat)
- Management's revenue guidance for upcoming financial year 2023 is $1.52 billion at the midpoint, in line with analyst expectations and predicting 9.72% growth (vs 9.34% in FY2022)
- Free cash flow of $38.6 million, up from negative free cash flow of $22.6 million in previous quarter
- Gross Margin (GAAP): 63.7%, up from 60.7% same quarter last year
"In the face of a dynamic macroeconomic environment this year, we shifted our focus toward tightening spending and becoming more efficient in the execution of our priorities. Through all of this, we continued to lead through innovation. We released hundreds of new products and features throughout 2022 to improve our platform for self creators and partners. Among the most notable releases this year were Wix Blocks for developers, our new Wix Editor, Wix Portfolio and our new AI Text Creator," said Avishai Abrahami, Wix Co-founder and CEO.
Founded in 2006 in Tel Aviv, Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) offers a free and easy to operate website building platform.
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Sales Growth
As you can see below, Wix's revenue growth has been solid over the last two years, growing from quarterly revenue of $278.1 million in Q4 FY2020, to $355 million.
Wix's quarterly revenue was only up 8.13% year on year, which might disappoint some shareholders. We can see that the company increased revenue by $9.24 million quarter on quarter accelerating up on $581 thousand in Q3 2022.
For the upcoming financial year management expects revenue to be $1.52 billion at the midpoint, growing 9.72% compared to 9.29% increase in FY2022.
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Profitability
What makes the software as a service business so attractive is that once the software is developed, it typically shouldn't cost much to provide it as an ongoing service to customers. Wix's gross profit margin, an important metric measuring how much money there is left after paying for servers, licenses, technical support and other necessary running expenses was at 63.7% in Q4.
That means that for every $1 in revenue the company had $0.64 left to spend on developing new products, marketing & sales and the general administrative overhead. While it improved significantly from the previous quarter this would still be considered a low gross margin for a SaaS company and we would like to see the improvements continue.
Key Takeaways from Wix's Q4 Results
With a market capitalization of $4.75 billion Wix is among smaller companies, but its more than $244.7 million in cash and the fact it is operating close to free cash flow break-even put it in a robust financial position to invest in growth.
We liked to see that Wix guided for revenue growth next year to continue. And we were also glad that the revenue guidance for the rest of the year exceeded expectations. On the other hand, revenue growth was quite weak. Zooming out, we think this was still a decent, albeit mixed, quarter, showing the company is staying on target. The company currently trades at $83.55 per share.
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