Double Digit Growth in Revenues, Operating Income and Adjusted EBITDA from Prior Quarter
Raising 2019 Expectations for the Second Time
On Track to Separate Product and IP Licensing Businesses into Two Independent Companies
TiVo Corporation (NASDAQ:TIVO) today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019.
"I am excited about the opportunity at TiVo," said Dave Shull, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Based on my experience with strategic transactions and operational transformations, we are making great progress on the separation of TiVo's Product and IP Licensing businesses. We remain on track to complete the separation in the first half of 2020. We are also laser-focused on execution and, in the quarter, we delivered strong financial results across a number of metrics. Our Intellectual Property Licensing business had a solid quarter as it benefited from expanding our relationship with Shaw Communications and our first social media customer win. On the Product side, we are streamlining the business and driving operational efficiencies to improve profitability. This leaner Product business is on track to launch innovative products to expand our personalized content discovery and monetization offerings in the second half of 2019."
TIVO SECOND QUARTER 2019 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS:
- Solid sequential revenue growth of 11% to $176.2 million.
- Strong progress optimizing the business to decrease the Company's cost structure to prepare TiVo for the separation of the two businesses.
- Operating income improved 2.5X while Adjusted EBITDA grew 67% from Q1.
- Revised and increased fiscal 2019 expectations for revenues and all profitability measures.
TIVO BUSINESS AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS:
Product
- 55 out of 56 existing North American TiVo MSO customers are now deploying our high-end TiVo User Experience 4.
- Our Android TV™ based IPTV version of TiVo User Experience 4 continues to expand. We now have five North American operators who will deploy this solution, up from two last quarter.
- Spotify renewed its license to TiVo's Music Metadata to power song and artist discovery on the Spotify platform.
- Discovery Communications, one of the leading content providers globally, has licensed TiVo's TV Viewership Data.
- TiVo has expanded its Sponsored Discovery advertising offering to include promotion of VOD movie transactions. The campaigns deliver strong performance results: a leading studio ran a campaign over three weekends to promote a new movie title. The campaign increased transactions by 81% by those who saw the campaign.
- TiVo's Personalized Content Discovery offering continues to add new language capabilities to support international customers, including adding Portuguese and Spanish to our Conversation offering.
Intellectual Property
IMPROVED BUSINESS OUTLOOK:
For fiscal year 2019, the Company raised its full-year outlook to:
SEPARATION PROCESS UPDATE:
TiVo announced last quarter its plan to split its Product and IP Licensing businesses into two separate independent companies. The Company believes the separation will unlock shareholder value and increase the flexibility of both businesses in pursuing new and growing market opportunities.
Both the Product and IP Licensing businesses need to have a strong, profitable operation with sufficient cash on hand and a balanced capital structure for us to successfully separate the companies. The Company is taking immediate steps to strengthen the businesses:
TiVo continues to make progress with the separation and is on track to complete this transaction in the first half of 2020. The Company anticipates that the spin-off will be tax-free to its stockholders and is actively pursuing a ruling from the IRS on that front, expecting a ruling in late 2019 or early 2020. The Company also anticipates filing its initial Form 10 by Q4 2019.
Throughout the separation process the Board of Directors is open to strategic transactions for each business that could create additional stockholder value and continues to be actively engaged in discussions with interested parties for each business.
CAPITAL ALLOCATION:
On July 24, 2019, TiVo's Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.08 per common share, to be paid on September 19, 2019 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on September 5, 2019.
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SECOND QUARTER 2019 SUMMARY FINANCIAL RESULTS:
SEGMENT RESULTS AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS - PRODUCT:
SEGMENT RESULTS AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS - IP LICENSING:
CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION
A replay of the audio webcast will be available on TiVo's website shortly after the live call ends, and we currently plan for it to remain on TiVo's website until the next quarterly earnings call. Additionally, a telephonic replay of the call will be accessible shortly after the live call ends through August 7, 2019 by dialing (855) 859-2056 (or international +1-404-537-3406) and entering conference ID 8448589.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Non-GAAP Cost of Licensing, Services and Software Revenues is defined as GAAP Cost of licensing, services and software revenues, excluding depreciation and amortization of intangible assets, excluding equity-based compensation and transaction, transition and integration expenses.
Non-GAAP Cost of Hardware Revenues is defined as GAAP Cost of hardware revenues, excluding depreciation and amortization of intangible assets, excluding equity-based compensation and transition and integration expenses.
Non-GAAP Research and Development Expenses is defined as GAAP research and development expenses excluding equity-based compensation, transition and integration expenses and retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses.
Non-GAAP Depreciation is defined as GAAP depreciation expenses excluding the impact of additional depreciation resulting from changes in the estimated useful lives of assets involved in facility rationalization actions.
Non-GAAP Total OpEx Excluding Goodwill Impairment is defined as GAAP Total Operating costs and expenses excluding goodwill impairment.
Non-GAAP Interest Expense is defined as GAAP interest expense, excluding accretion of contingent consideration, amortization or write-off of issuance costs, discounts on convertible debt and interest on escheat liability, plus the reclassification of the current period benefit (cost) of the interest rate swaps from gain (loss) on interest rate swaps.
Cash Taxes are defined as GAAP current income tax expense excluding changes in reserves for unrecognized tax benefits.
About TiVo Corporation
Forward Looking Statements
Android TV is a trademark of Google LLC.
See notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
See notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
(1) Due to their nature, changes in the mark-to-market of interest rate swaps have only been included in the outlook to the extent they have already occurred. Actual results may differ materially from the outlook.
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