
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 3, 2015) - TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO)
Service and Technology revenues of $91.7 million in the fourth quarter were a record for the company, exceeding guidance
Adjusted EBITDA of $24.2 million, up 24% year-over-over, and Net Income of $7.1 million in the fourth quarter, both exceeding guidance
Total TiVo subscriptions were up 30% year-over-year, which included a 40% year-over-year increase in MSO subscriptions, bringing total annual subscription additions of almost 1.3 million; a record for the Company
Fourth quarter TiVo-Owned gross additions up 20% year-over-year and strongest net additions in 7 years
Sequential MSO and Digitalsmiths service revenue growth of 29% and 25%, respectively
Recently announced new distribution partnership with Frontier Communications and expanded Vodafone/ONO offering in Spain
Fourth quarter repurchases of $117 million or 9.7 million shares, bringing Fiscal Year 2015 repurchases to approximately $346 million and reducing basic shares outstanding by approximately 20% from the end of the prior fiscal year
TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), a leader in the advanced television entertainment market, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2015.
Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, said, The fourth quarter completed what was a strong year of execution for TiVo. Service and Technology revenue increased 9% and Adjusted EBITDA increased to $24.2 million. In the fourth quarter, we posted MSO subscription net additions of 324,000 and positive TiVo-Owned net additions of 16,000, our strongest TiVo-Owned net additions seven years. Total TiVo subscriptions now stand at almost 5.5 million, nearly 1.3 million more than at this time last year. During the quarter we made significant strides building new distribution relationships and expanding existing ones, including announcements with Frontier and Vodafone/ONO.
For the fourth quarter, service and technology revenues were $91.7 million. This compared to guidance of $87 million to $90 million and $84.0 million for the same quarter last year. TiVo reported Adjusted EBITDA of $24.2 million, compared to Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $21 million to $24 million, and compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $19.6 million in the same quarter last year. Net income was $7.1 million, compared to guidance of $2 million to $5 million and a net income of $710,000 in the same quarter last year.
Rogers continued, The nearly 1.3 million MSO subscription additions we delivered in Fiscal 2015 are an improvement from Fiscal 2014, underscoring the strength of our domestic and international operator partnerships. Additionally, the 29% sequential increase in MSO revenue in the fourth quarter helped almost double Fiscal Year 2015 MSO service revenue compared with Fiscal Year 2013. We now stand at about 5.5 million total TiVo subscriptions, a 30% increase over last year and we expect significant growth going forward as existing early phase relationships scale, and as we form new distribution relationships.
In terms of existing distribution relationships, we continue to drive increased penetration across our partners customer bases. Our European distribution partners now have well over 3 million TiVo subscriptions which we believe has created real value for these partners, highlighted by the fact that all our European MSO partners grew video customers in the fourth quarter. At the same time we continue to expand our product offerings to capture new opportunities. As an example, since acquiring ONO last year, Vodafone has engaged with TiVo to expand and improve its television offerings in Spain, including recently announced plans to integrate new TiVo cloud based services into the ONO television offering. This takes us above and beyond our existing relationship with ONO, which now reaches over 500,000 active users. We look forward to announcing further enhancements and products for Vodafone/ONO in Spain as the year progresses.
In North America, we continue to add high value MSO subscriptions at a rapid pace, and recently we moved above the one million subscription level. We expect this growth to continue as many of our North American deployments continue to have significant upside penetration opportunity. Further, the Cogeco deployment in Ontario is off to a solid start, with Quebec expected to launch soon.
In regard to new distribution, we recently announced a partnership with Frontier Communications one of the largest telecom operators in the U.S. The company has 2.7 million customer relationships today and will roughly double in size following the close of its proposed transaction with Verizon. The Frontier deal represents a new growth opportunity for TiVo because it is the first time we will have a major service provider distributing, installing, and promoting TiVo devices specifically for use with over-the-air video and over-the-top content. Frontier will make this solution its primary video offering for its customers who only subscribe to high-speed data service and has major aspirations for the future role TiVo can play in its broader service portfolio. Frontier intends to deploy the TiVo Roamio OTA DVR and TiVos whole-home television solutions across its full footprint, including its current 650,000 video customer base, with an initial roll-out expected in mid-2015.
Sales of our Digitalsmiths products and services grew 25% sequentially between the fourth quarter and the third quarter and we believe that these Digitalsmiths products can contribute meaningfully to our future growth and be an important element of our international product offering. We continued to roll out the Seamless Discovery platform to current operator partners who use the service to power their own user experience. We also announced the release of a product named Seamless Insight, an analytics
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