Everbridge Announces Strong Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Financial Results

Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management (CEM), today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020.

“We posted strong financial performance during 2020 despite challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing our top-line guidance every quarter and delivering 35% revenue growth for the full year,” said David Meredith, Chief Executive Officer of Everbridge. “We innovated to quickly develop new CEM solutions, such as our COVID-19 Shield™: Vaccine Distribution, to help our customers identify, manage, and respond to new threats against their people, assets and processes. Our fourth quarter results included high-water marks for the number of CEM and Public Warning wins. This momentum helped our International business and supported strong overall revenue growth. Finally, we signed and expanded new third-party reseller agreements that substantially extend our overall channel reach. As we look ahead to 2021, we remain excited about our future growth prospects and our ability to gain further traction with our CEM solutions.”

Fourth Quarter 2020 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue was $75.6 million, an increase of 32% compared to $57.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2019.
• GAAP operating loss was $(18.3) million, compared to a GAAP operating loss of $(10.2) million for the fourth quarter of 2019.
• Non-GAAP operating income was $1.3 million, compared to non-GAAP operating income of $2.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2019.
• GAAP net loss was $(24.6) million, compared to $(13.1) million for the fourth quarter of 2019. GAAP net loss per share was $(0.70), based on 35.1 million basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding, compared to $(0.39) for the fourth quarter of 2019, based on 33.8 million basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding.
• Non-GAAP net income was $1.0 million, compared to non-GAAP net income of $3.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2019. Non-GAAP diluted net income per share was $0.03, based on 36.1 million diluted weighted average common shares outstanding, compared to non-GAAP net income per share of $0.09 for the fourth quarter of 2019, based on 34.8 million diluted weighted average common shares outstanding.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $4.1 million, compared to $5.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2019.
• Cash flow from operations was an inflow of $19.4 million, reaching a record level, compared to an inflow of $1.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2019.
• Free cash flow was an all-time high of $15.9 million compared to an outflow of $(1.3) million for the fourth quarter of 2019.

Full Year 2020 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue was $271.1 million, an increase of 35% compared to $200.9 million for 2019.
• GAAP operating loss was $(72.2) million, compared to a GAAP operating loss of $(47.2) million for 2019.
• Non-GAAP operating loss was $(1.7) million, compared to non-GAAP operating loss of $(3.9) million for 2019.
• GAAP net loss was $(93.4) million, compared to $(52.3) million for 2019. GAAP net loss per share was $(2.70), based on 34.6 million basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding, compared to $(1.58) for 2019, based on 33.2 million basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding.
• Non-GAAP net loss was $(0.2) million, compared to $(1.8) million in 2019. Non-GAAP net loss per share was $(0.01), based on 34.6 million basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding, compared to $(0.05) for 2019, based on 33.2 million basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $8.0 million, compared to $5.2 million in 2019.
• Cash flow from operations was an inflow of $15.8 million compared to an inflow of $10.3 million for 2019.
• Free cash flow was an inflow of $2.9 million compared to an outflow of $(2.8) million for 2019.
• Cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments as of December 31, 2020 totaled $467.2 million, compared to $531.6 million as of December 31, 2019.
• Total deferred revenue increased 27% from $133.5 million as of December 31, 2019 to $170.1 million as of December 31, 2020.

Recent Business Highlights

• Ended the fourth quarter with 5,613 global enterprise customers, up from 5,024 at the end of the fourth quarter of 2019.
• In 2020, Everbridge customers used its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to send more than 5 billion interactions, an increase of greater than 40% compared to 3.5 billion interactions in 2019.
• Continued Public Warning momentum with another statewide win in Oregon to power public alerts and warning system for all residents and visitors.
• Announced COVID-19 Shield™: Vaccine Distribution, an extension to its CEM platform offering risk insights, logistics awareness and vaccine appointment management. Deployed its CEM Platform to power the digital vaccination distribution system for a variety of municipalities and organizations, including the entire state population of West Virginia, and the County of Sarasota, Florida, among others.
• Launched its enhanced Public Warning Center, the first-of-its-kind modular and multi-channel front-end interface featuring the ability to create and transmit a combination of cell broadcast and address-, group-, and location-based SMS alerts for countrywide alerting from a single console.
• Announced a partnership with Paris-based Atos SE (CAC40: ATO), a global leader in digital transformation and cybersecurity with 110,000 employees and annual revenue of € 12 billion, to expand CEM adoption worldwide.
• Announced that the United States General Services Administration (GSA) selected the company’s Mass Notification platform to better protect the federal agency’s employees, facilities, and operations across more than 700 federally owned and leased locations.
• Received an important new patent related to multi-media capabilities of its world-class Public Warning system, which already serves the entire populations of 11 countries in Europe, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, that delivers both traditional text alerts using Cell Broadcast (CB) and multimedia content such as audio, images, and video using Multicast Content Distribution (MCD) on 5G networks.
• Appointed Stacey Wu, former SVP of Global Marketing at Fortinet, as Everbridge’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Jessica Deckinger, former three-time CMO and veteran branding and communications executive, as Everbridge’s Chief Communications Officer.
• Continued to build reputation as an employer of choice with recognition from multiple publications as a top place to work and growth company of the year.

Financial Outlook

Based on information available as of today, Everbridge is issuing guidance for the first quarter and full year 2021 as indicated below.

(All figures in millions, except per share data)

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About Everbridge, Inc.

Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to Keep People Safe and Businesses Running™. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,600 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans. Everbridge serves 8 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 9 of the 10 largest U.S.-based investment banks, 47 of the 50 busiest North American airports, 9 of the 10 largest global consulting firms, 8 of the 10 largest global automakers, 9 of the 10 largest U.S.-based health care providers, and 7 of the 10 largest technology companies in the world. Everbridge is based in Boston with additional offices in 20 cities around the globe. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter and Facebook.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release contains the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP cost of revenue, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP sales and marketing, non-GAAP research and development, non-GAAP general and administrative, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income/(loss), non-GAAP net income/(loss), non-GAAP net income/(loss) per share, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow.

Non-GAAP operating income/(loss) excludes stock-based compensation, change in fair value of contingent consideration and amortization of acquired intangible assets. Non-GAAP net income/(loss) excludes stock-based compensation, change in fair value of contingent consideration, amortization of acquired intangible assets, accretion of interest on convertible senior notes and loss on extinguishment of convertible notes. Adjusted EBITDA represents net income/(loss) before interest income and interest expense, income tax expense and benefit, depreciation and amortization expense, loss on extinguishment of convertible notes, change in fair value of contingent consideration and stock-based compensation expense. Free cash flow is cash flow from operations, less cash used for capital expenditures and additions to capitalized software development costs.

We believe that these non-GAAP measures of financial results provide useful information to management and investors regarding certain financial and business trends relating to Everbridge's financial condition and results of operations. We use these non-GAAP measures for financial, operational and budgetary decision-making purposes, to understand and evaluate our core operating performance and trends, and to generate future operating plans. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information regarding past financial performance and future prospects, and permit us to more thoroughly analyze key financial metrics used to make operational decisions. We believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing our financial measures with other software companies, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors.

We do not consider these non-GAAP measures in isolation or as an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. The principal limitation of these non-GAAP financial measures is that they exclude significant expenses and income that are required by GAAP to be recorded in the Company's financial statements. In addition, they are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgment by management about which expenses and income are excluded or included in determining these non-GAAP financial measures. In order to compensate for these limitations, management presents non-GAAP financial measures in connection with GAAP results. We urge investors to review the reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures, which are included in this press release, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated opportunity and trends for growth in our critical communications and enterprise safety applications and our overall business, our market opportunity, our expectations regarding sales of our products, our goal to maintain market leadership and extend the markets in which we compete for customers, and our expected financial results for the first quarter of 2021 and the full fiscal year 2021. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. Words such as "expect," "anticipate," "should," "believe," "target," "project," "goals," "estimate," "potential," "predict," "may," "will," "could," "intend," variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond our control. Our actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including but not limited to: the ability of our products and services to perform as intended and meet our customers’ expectations; our ability to attract new customers and retain and increase sales to existing customers; our ability to increase sales of our Mass Notification application and/or ability to increase sales of our other applications; our ability to successfully integrate businesses and assets that we have acquired or may acquire in the future; the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on our operations and those of our customers and suppliers; developments in the market for targeted and contextually relevant critical communications or the associated regulatory environment; our estimates of market opportunity and forecasts of market growth may prove to be inaccurate; we have not been profitable on a consistent basis historically and may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future; the lengthy and unpredictable sales cycles for new customers; nature of our business exposes us to inherent liability risks; our ability to attract, integrate and retain qualified personnel; our ability to maintain successful relationships with our channel partners and technology partners; our ability to manage our growth effectively; our ability to respond to competitive pressures; potential liability related to privacy and security of personally identifiable information; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights, and the other risks detailed in our risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including but not limited to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the SEC on February 28, 2020. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent our views as of the date of this press release. We undertake no intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.

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