Company News

DALLAS, November 11, 2020 – Thryv Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:THRY), the provider of Thryv® software, the end-to-end client experience platform for small businesses, today announced financial results for third quarter and provided forward-looking guidance for the remainder of 2020.

Key highlights:

• Total revenue was $240.3 million for the quarter, a decrease of 25% from the third quarter of 2019
• Revenue from the SaaS business was $31.8 million for the quarter, an increase of 2% from the third quarter of 2019
• Marketing Services revenue was $208.5 million for the quarter, a decrease of 28% from the third quarter of 2019
• Net loss was $0.1 million, or $0.00 per share, basic and diluted, for the quarter, compared to net loss of $0.3 million, or ($0.01) per share, basic and diluted, in the third quarter of 2019
• Loss before income taxes was $24.4 million for the quarter, compared to income before income taxes of $1.1 million in the third quarter of 2019
• Adjusted EBITDA was $69.3 million for the quarter, representing a 28.8% Adjusted EBITDA margin; compared to $98.3 million, or a 30.8% Adjusted EBITDA margin, in the third quarter of 2019
• Net Leverage of 1.4x for the quarter, as defined by the Thryv, Inc. Credit Agreement

“This was a milestone quarter for Thryv as we re-entered the market as a public entity and saw our SaaS business return to growth,” said Thryv CEO Joe Walsh. “While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to hurt local businesses across America, the Thryv software platform helped small and medium-sized businesses survive by enabling them to do business virtually.”

“We continue to see a more engaged set of clients and higher usage of our software and expect that positive trend to continue into 2021. The direct listing on the Nasdaq underscored our belief in the long-term growth prospects of this business and the strategic steps we are taking to drive consistent value to shareholders.”

Thryv serves approximately 350,000 small-to medium-sized businesses (“SMB”) clients through two segments: SaaS and Marketing Services. Our SaaS offerings include Thryv, our flagship SMB end-to-end customer experience platform, and Thryv Leads, an automated lead generation service that integrates with our Thryv platform. Our Marketing Services segment provides both print and digital solutions, including our owned and operated Print Yellow Pages (“PYP”), which carry the “The Real Yellow Pages” tagline, our proprietary Internet Yellow Pages (“IYP”), known by the Yellowpages.com, Superpages.com, and Dexknows.com URLs and other digital media solutions.

Outlook
“For fiscal year 2020, we expect SaaS revenue of $128 million,” said Thryv CFO Paul Rouse. “This represents flat year-over-year growth when compared to fiscal year 2019. This implies SaaS revenue of $33 million for the fourth quarter, representing an anticipated year-over year increase in the low single digits. We believe SaaS will end 2020 with a solid run-rate and we are confident that momentum will continue into 2021.”

In addition, for fiscal year 2020, we expect Marketing Services revenue in the range of $955 million to $965 million. This implies Marketing Services revenue in the range of $190 million to $200 million for the fourth quarter.”

For fiscal year 2020, Thryv expects Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $358 million to $363 million, which we calculate to an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 33% for fiscal year 2020 and implies fourth quarter Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $58 million to $63 million.

Non-GAAP Measures
In addition to financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), this press release and the accompanying tables contain, and the conference call will contain, non-GAAP financial measures. We present non-GAAP measures including: Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin, and Free Cash Flow. The non-GAAP financial information is presented for supplemental informational purposes only and is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to the supplemental information presented in the tables for reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release to the most comparable GAAP financial measures.

We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about our financial performance, enhance the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects and allow for greater transparency with respect to important metrics used by our management for financial and operational decision-making. We believe that these measures provide an additional tool for investors to use in comparing our core financial performance over multiple periods with other companies in our industry. However, it is important to note that the particular items we exclude from, or include in, our non-GAAP financial measures may differ from the items excluded from, or included in, similar non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies in the same industry.

The Company is unable to reconcile the forward-looking non-GAAP measures, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin, discussed during today’s third quarter 2020 earnings call because not all of the information necessary for a quantitative reconciliation of these forward-looking non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, is available to the Company without unreasonable efforts. For the same reasons, the Company is unable to address the significance of the unavailable information; however, the GAAP measures could be materially different than the non-GAAP measures.

Earnings Conference Call Information
Thryv will host a conference call on Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern Time) to discuss the Company’s third quarter 2020 results. The conference call will be available via the Internet at www.thryv.com. There will be several slides accompanying the webcast. Please go to the website at least 15 minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary software. The recorded webcast will also be available on the Company’s website.

If you are unable to participate in the conference call, a replay will be available. To access the replay, please dial (888) 869-1189 or (706) 643-5902 and enter “1446957”.

About Thryv, Inc.
Thryv, Inc. owns the easy-to-use Thryv® end-to-end customer experience software built for small business that helps over 40,000 SaaS clients with the daily demands of running a business. With Thryv, they can get the job, manage the job and get credit. Thryv’s award-winning platform provides modernized business functions, allowing small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB) to reach more customers, stay organized, get paid faster and generate reviews. These include building a digital customer database, automated marketing through email and text, updating business listings across the internet, scheduling online appointments, sending notifications and reminders, managing ratings and reviews, generating estimates and invoices and processing payments.

Thryv supports SMBs with Hub by Thryv™, a software console that enables businesses with multiple locations, such as franchises, to manage and oversee their operations using the Thryv software.

Thryv also provides consumer services through our search, display and social media management products—and connects local businesses via The Real Yellow Pages® from the over 30 million monthly visitors of DexKnows.com®, Superpages.com® and Yellowpages.com search portals; and local print directories. For more information about the company, visit thryv.com.

Thryv delivers business services to more than 360,000 SMBs across America that enable them to compete and win in today’s economy.

Learn more about Thryv on LinkedIn and Medium.

Forward-Looking Statements
Some statements included in this release constitute forward-looking statements. Statements that include the words “may”, “will”, “could”, “should”, “would”, “believe”, “anticipate”, “forecast”, “estimate”, “expect”, “preliminary”, “intend”, “plan”, “project”, “outlook” and similar statements of a future or forward-looking nature identify forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these statements, as they are not guarantees of future performance. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations with respect to our financial performance and future events with respect to our business and industry in general. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. We believe that these factors include, but are not limited to, the risks related to the following: risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company’s ability to maintain adequate liquidity to fund operations; the Company’s future operating and financial performance; limitations on our operating and strategic flexibility and the ability to operate our business, finance our capital needs or expand business strategies under the terms of our credit facilities; our ability to retain existing business and obtain and retain new business; general economic or business conditions affecting the markets we serve; declining use of print yellow page directories by consumers; our ability to collect trade receivables from clients to whom we extend credit; credit risk associated with our reliance on small and medium sized businesses as clients; our ability to attract and retain key managers; increased competition in our markets; our ability to obtain future financing due to changes in the lending markets or our financial position; our ability to maintain agreements with major Internet search and local media companies; reduced advertising spending and increased contract cancellations by our clients, which causes reduced revenue; and our ability to anticipate or respond effectively to changes in technology and consumer preferences. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by such cautionary statements.

If one or more events related to these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual results may differ materially from what we anticipate. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof and, other than as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Media Contact:
Paige Blankenship
Thryv, Inc.
972.453.3012
[email protected]

Investor Contacts: 
Cameron Lessard
Thryv, Inc.
214.773.7022
[email protected]

KJ Christopher
Thryv, Inc.
972.453.7068
[email protected]