TiVo Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results

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

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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

• Licensing business continues to perform strongly, signing 15 new and renewal IP Licensing deals in Q2.
• Shaw Communications, a leading Canadian connectivity company, entered into a multi-year extension of its Rovi patent portfolio license, and expanded the license to also cover the TiVo patent portfolio. The license provides coverage for all Shaw video platforms, including BlueSky TV, a syndicated X1 platform.
• Xumo, an ad-supported streaming video service platform, entered into a long-term intellectual property license.
• After quarter-end, LG Electronics Inc. entered into a global intellectual property license agreement.

IMPROVED BUSINESS OUTLOOK:

For fiscal year 2019, the Company raised its full-year outlook to:

Adjusted EBITDA, Non-GAAP Pre-tax Income, Non-GAAP Diluted Weighted Average Shares Outstanding and Cash Taxes are defined below in the section entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Information.” Reconciliations between GAAP and Non-GAAP amounts are provided in the tables below. In accordance with the SEC’s interpretations on the use of Non-GAAP financial measures, TiVo does not report net income or EPS on a non-GAAP basis; however, TiVo provides financial metrics, including Non-GAAP Pre-tax Income, Non-GAAP Diluted Weighted Average Shares Outstanding and Cash Taxes, to assist those wanting to calculate such measures on a Non-GAAP basis.

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:

• Streamlining the Product business operations to improve our stand-alone EBITDA and to allow us to reinvest to focus on strategic investments around platform footprint and monetization.
• Managing the IP Licensing costs to ensure the best return on litigation investments and to allow for targeted investments in the IP portfolio.
• Paid down $50 million in convertible debt in Q2 and expect to repay the remaining $295 million of 2020 Convertible Notes by their maturity date, from cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities on the balance sheet and our anticipated operating cash flow. Additionally, we plan to refinance our Term Loan B Facility before separation of the IP Licensing and Product 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:

• Total Revenues, net and Core Revenue benefited from expanding our license with Shaw Communications, to also include the TiVo patent portfolio, and adding our first social media customer.
• The increase in Total Revenues, net was partially offset by the absence of revenue from the now expired “Legacy Time Warp” agreements, that were entered into prior to the TiVo acquisition, and a $1.6 million decrease in Hardware revenue.
• The decrease in Total costs and expenses was the result of lower Amortization of intangible assets, the Company’s continuing cost reduction efforts and the timing of patent litigation costs, primarily related to the ongoing Comcast litigation.

SEGMENT RESULTS AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS – PRODUCT:

SEGMENT RESULTS AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS – IP LICENSING:

CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION

TiVo management will host a conference call today, July 31, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the financial and operational results. Investors and analysts interested in participating in the conference call are welcome to call (866) 621-1214 (or international +1-706-643-4013) and reference conference ID 8448589. The conference call may also be accessed via live webcast in the Investor Relations section of TiVo’s website at http://ir.tivo.com.

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

TiVo Corporation provides Non-GAAP information to assist investors in assessing its operations in the way that its management evaluates those operations. Non-GAAP Pre-Tax Income, Non-GAAP Cost of Licensing, Services and Software Revenues, Non-GAAP Cost of Hardware Revenues, Non-GAAP Research and Development Expenses, Non-GAAP Selling, General and Administrative Expenses, Non-GAAP Depreciation, Non-GAAP Total OpEx Excluding Goodwill Impairment, Non-GAAP Total OpEx, Non-GAAP Total COGS and OpEx, Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP Interest Expense are supplemental measures of the Company’s performance that are not required by, and are not determined in accordance with, GAAP. Non-GAAP financial information is not a substitute for any financial measure determined in accordance with GAAP.

Non-GAAP Pre-tax Income is defined as GAAP income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes, as adjusted for the effects of items such as amortization of intangible assets, equity-based compensation, accretion of contingent consideration, amortization or write-off of note issuance costs, discounts on convertible debt and mark-to-market adjustments for interest rate swaps and interest on escheat liabilities; as well as items which impact comparability that are required to be recorded under GAAP, but that the Company believes are not indicative of its core operating results such as goodwill impairment, restructuring and asset impairment charges, separation costs, transaction, transition and integration costs, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, earn-out settlements, CEO transition cash costs, remeasurement of contingent consideration, TiVo acquisition litigation, expenses in connection with the extinguishment or modification of debt, gain on settlement of acquired receivable, additional depreciation resulting from facility rationalization actions, other-than temporary impairment losses on strategic investments, gains on the sale of strategic investments and changes in escheat liabilities.

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 Selling, General and Administrative Expenses is defined as GAAP selling, general and administrative expenses excluding equity-based compensation, separation costs, transaction, transition and integration expenses, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, earn-out settlements, CEO transition cash costs, remeasurement of contingent consideration and gain on settlement of acquired receivable.

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 Total OpEx is defined as the sum of GAAP research and development and selling, general and administrative expenses, depreciation and gain on sale of patents excluding equity-based compensation, separation costs, transaction, transition and integration expenses, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, earnout settlements, CEO transition cash costs, remeasurement of contingent consideration, gain on settlement of acquired receivable and additional depreciation resulting from facility rationalization actions.

Non-GAAP Total COGS and OpEx is defined as GAAP Total Operating costs and expenses, excluding depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, goodwill impairment, restructuring and asset impairment charges, equity-based compensation, separation costs, transaction, transition and integration expenses, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, earnout settlements, CEO transition cash costs, remeasurement of contingent consideration and gain on settlement of acquired receivable.

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as GAAP operating income (loss) excluding depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, goodwill impairment, restructuring and asset impairment charges, equity-based compensation, strategic review costs, separation costs, transaction, transition and integration costs, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, earn-out settlements, CEO transition cash costs, remeasurement of contingent consideration and gain on settlement of acquired receivable.

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.

Non-GAAP Diluted Weighted Average Shares Outstanding is defined as GAAP diluted weighted average shares outstanding except for periods of a GAAP loss. In periods of a GAAP loss, GAAP diluted weighted average shares outstanding are adjusted to include dilutive common share equivalents outstanding that were excluded from GAAP diluted weighted average shares outstanding because the Company had a loss and therefore these shares would have been anti-dilutive.

The Company’s management evaluates and makes decisions about its business operations primarily based on Non-GAAP financial information. Management uses Non-GAAP financial measures as the basis for decision-making as they exclude items management does not consider to be “core costs” or “core proceeds”. For each Non-GAAP financial measure, the adjustment provides management with information about the Company’s underlying operating performance that enables a more meaningful comparison to its historical and projected financial performance in different reporting periods. For example, since the Company does not acquire or dispose of businesses on a predictable cycle, management excludes the amortization of intangible assets, separation costs, transition and integration costs, retention earn-outs payable to former shareholders of acquired businesses, earnout settlements, CEO transition cash costs, remeasurement of contingent consideration, TiVo Acquisition litigation, and gain on settlement of acquired receivables from its Non-GAAP financial measures in order to make more consistent and meaningful evaluations of the Company’s operating expenses as these items may be significantly impacted by the timing and magnitude of acquisitions. Management also excludes the effect of goodwill impairment, restructuring and asset impairment charges, expenses in connection with the extinguishment or modification of debt, gain on the settlement of acquired receivable, additional depreciation resulting from facility rationalization actions, other-than-temporary impairment losses on strategic investments, gains on the sale of strategic investments and changes in escheat liability. Management excludes the impact of equity-based compensation to provide meaningful supplemental information that allows investors greater visibility to the underlying performance of our business operations, facilitates comparison of our results with other periods, and may facilitate comparison with the results of other companies in our industry, as well as to provide the Company’s management with an important tool for financial and operational decision-making and for evaluating the Company’s performance over different periods of time. Due to varying valuation techniques, reliance on subjective assumptions and the variety of award types and features that may be in use, we believe that providing Non-GAAP financial measures excluding equity-based compensation allows investors to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies. Management excludes the accretion of contingent consideration, amortization or write-off of note issuance costs and discounts on convertible debt, mark-to-market adjustments for interest rate swaps and interest on escheat liability when management evaluates the Company’s expenses. Management reclassifies the current period benefit (cost) of the interest rate swaps from gain (loss) on interest rate swaps to interest expense in order for Non-GAAP Interest Expense to reflect the effects of the interest rate swaps as these interest rate swaps were entered into to control the effective interest rate the Company pays on its debt.

Management uses these Non-GAAP financial measures to help it make decisions, including decisions that affect operating expenses and operating margin. Management believes that making Non-GAAP financial information available to investors, in addition to GAAP financial information, may facilitate more consistent comparisons between the Company’s performance over time with the performance of other companies in our industry, which may use similar financial measures to supplement their GAAP financial information.

Management recognizes that these Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools, including the fact that management must exercise judgment in determining which types of items to exclude from the Non-GAAP financial information. In addition, as other companies, including companies similar to TiVo Corporation, may calculate their Non-GAAP financial measures differently than the Company calculates its Non-GAAP financial measures, these Non-GAAP financial measures may have limited usefulness to investors when comparing financial performance among companies. Management believes, however, that providing Non-GAAP financial information, in addition to GAAP financial information, facilitates consistent comparison of the Company’s financial performance over time. The Company provides Non-GAAP financial information to the investment community, not as an alternative, but as an important supplement to GAAP financial information; to enable investors to evaluate the Company’s core operating performance in the same way that management does. Reconciliations for each Non-GAAP financial measure to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure are provided in the tables below.

About TiVo Corporation

TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) is a global leader in entertainment technology and audience insights. TiVo delivers innovative products and licensable technologies that revolutionize how people find content across a changing media landscape. TiVo enables the world’s leading media and entertainment providers to deliver the ultimate entertainment experience. Explore the next generation of entertainment at tivo.com, forward.tivo.com or follow us on Twitter @tivo or @tivoforbusiness.

Forward Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, future growth, profitability and success of the Company’s Product and IP Licensing businesses, the success of the Company’s plans to separate the Product and IP Licensing businesses into two independent companies, the tax treatment of the spin-off, the realization of stockholder value resulting from separation of the businesses, growth of certain markets for intellectual property licensing, as well as future business strategies, future product offerings and deployments, and technology and intellectual property licenses with various customers.

Contacts

Investor Relations
Debi Palmer

TiVo Corporation

+1 818-295-6651

[email protected]

Press Relations
Lerin O’Neill

TiVo Corporation

+1 408-562-8455

[email protected]

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