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Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2023Date8/11/2023TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateFriday, August 11, 2023Conference Call Time9:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsSoho House & Co Inc.'s Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Friday, May 9, 2025Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Soho House & Co Inc. Q2 2023 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 11, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 9 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Bhavesh, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Soho House and Co, Incorporated Second Quarter 2023 Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Operator00:00:32House. Thank you. I will now hand the call over to Thomas Allen, Chief Financial Officer. You may begin your conference. Speaker 100:00:41Thank you for joining us today to Soho Housing Co. 2nd Quarter Financial Results. My name is Thomas Allen, and I'm the Chief Financial Officer. I'm here with Andrew Carney, our CEO. Today's discussion contains forward looking statements that represent our beliefs or expectations about future events. Speaker 100:00:59All forward looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward looking statements. Some of the factors that may cause such differences are described in our SEC filings. Any forward looking statements represent our views only as of today, and we assume no obligation to update any forward looking statements if our views change. By now, you should have access to our Q2 earnings release, which can be found at soohouseco.com in the News and Events section. Additionally, we have posted our Q2 presentation, which can also be found in the News and Events section on our site. Speaker 100:01:33During the call, we also refer to certain non GAAP financial measures. These non GAAP measures should be considered in addition to and not as a substitute for or in isolation from our GAAP results. Reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measures are available in today's earnings press release. Now let me hand it over to Andrew. Speaker 200:01:50Thanks, Thomas, and good morning, everyone. I'm going to start by talking through the quarter's highlights, then provide an update on the progress we've made against our strategic priorities. I'll then hand over to Thomas to talk through our financial performance, give an update on our balance sheet and our raised 2023 guidance before we move on to Q and A. We're pleased to be announcing another strong set of results this quarter with further growth in membership, revenues capability. We are delighted to have more members be part of Sohu House. Speaker 200:02:18In the Q2, we added over 7,500 members, growing to 176,000, a year on year increase of 24% and a 5% rise quarter on quarter, which was ahead of expectations. We welcomed members in all regions and in particular new houses we have opened in the past few years that are still maturing. Remember more than half our houses we've opened since 2018. Our waitlist reached approximately 95,000, an increase of 6,000 quarter on quarter. We're really pleased to to see our largest sequential increase since Q1 'twenty two, which demonstrates the strong appeal of SOH House globally. Speaker 200:02:54Total revenues grew 19% year on year €289,000,000 underpinned by continued growth in our highly recurring membership revenues. In the quarter, they grew 35% year on year and 7% quarter on quarter. Our initiatives to drive better member experience help drive like for like in house sales approximately 20% above 2019 levels. That's an acceleration from the mid teens growth we saw in the Q1 as we benefited from improved visitation and spend per visit. Our focus on operational excellence continues to drive profitability higher with Q2 adjusted EBITDA of £32,000,000 Since going public, this is the first time we've reached over $30,000,000 of adjusted EBITDA in a quarter and also the first time we've reached over 10% EBITDA margins. Speaker 200:03:39We're proud of these milestones, and we expect to maintain the momentum we've built. These stronger results led us to deliver positive cash flow from operations in the quarter. As we did in Q1, we're raising our full year adjusted EBITDA guidance to reflect the results of this performance. Given the strength we're seeing in our membership and house performances, We're also raising guidance for our membership and the midpoint of our revenue metrics. More on that later. Speaker 200:04:05Now let me give you an update on progress we're making against our 2 strategic priorities, growing and enhancing the value of membership in delivering operational excellence to drive profitability and free cash flow. Our focus on rolling out initiatives to improve member experience continued in the Q2, and we're pleased with the results we've seen across our houses. As I mentioned, our like for like in house sales growth compared to 2019 accelerated up to approximately 20% from mid teens growth in Q1. We saw both spend per visit and visitation improve quarter on quarter with the U. K. Speaker 200:04:38And Europe having both the strongest quarters since the pandemic. We're really pleased with both regions' performance, in particular Europe bouncing back. All our houses had a great quarter, and it's really nice to see our recent newer houses, Rome, Paris, Tel Aviv, Stockholm and Copenhagen hitting their strides and delighting members. While our checking data suggests Europe and the U. K. Speaker 200:04:59Are benefiting from Americans traveling overseas again, As we said last quarter, we were quicker to introduce new initiatives in these regions and that approach is bearing fruit. It's also worth noting our American business growth remains stable. We're now in a good rhythm of implementing seasonal and local menu changes across all houses every quarter, with members being made aware of what's new through communication plus all our digital channels. We've also made changes to increase the breadth and variety of our in house food and beverage portfolio by introducing pop up experience like Maya, of our Mexican Californian restaurant at Ludlow House, Shoreditch House and Soho House Berlin and a Scorpius residency at Little Beach House Malibu. Our members have benefited from increased choice and have been sharing positive feedback. Speaker 200:05:45Together, these changes in F and B have driven an uplift in sales and profits. Service standards continue to be a top priority. We've introduced and completed new training across all our houses, which is steadily improving service. Outside our core Sohu House proposition, we continue to see strong growth in Friends memberships, which helped grow our other memberships by 40% year on year to approximately 72,000 members. One area which has been more challenging is house openings. Speaker 200:06:13We are seeing delays in delivering projects on time from our developers. While we were confident at the beginning of the year that we would deliver 5 to 7 houses, we now expect to open 4 after experiencing construction delays with Soho House Manchester. Soho House Bangkok opened in Q1. Soho House Mexico City is opening next month and Soho House Portland and Sao Paulo are planned to open through the end of the year. That said, we have still increased our Soho House membership by 14,000 year to date and raise our full year targets for 2023 membership revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Speaker 200:06:45We see the current global state of development as a short term challenge for new openings, the one that our existing houses can more than offset and our mid- to long term target of 5 to 7 new houses remains in place. Turning to our 2nd strategic priority, operational excellence. As a reminder, our strategy here is centered on 3 key areas. 1st, leveraging data and member insight to operate and scale efficiently 2nd, expanding in house margins and third, having operational discipline as we grow. In the Q2, our teams control wages well with wages as a percentage of revenues improving by approximately 250 basis points versus Q2 'twenty two and 50 basis points compared with Q2 2019. Speaker 200:07:27Our in house F and B margins continue to be strong, up 2 40 basis points versus Q2 2019 on a like for like basis despite us rolling out new menus on a quarterly basis that we referenced earlier. Overall, our house level contribution margins improved approximately 400 basis points year over year and 150 quarter over quarter to 26%. This is the highest level we've seen since going public, a testament to our efforts. Our G and A expenses were in line with our internal expectations. As we alluded to in prior earnings calls, we expect G and A to be up in 2023 year over year given the significant growth of our business, especially in new regions like Latin America. Speaker 200:08:05G and in America. G and A leverage will be a contributor to our high guided adjusted EBITDA margins for the year. We've continued to deliver on driving higher occupancy and ADR, leading to RevPAR increasing 13% year over year at like for like properties and 36% versus the Q2 of 2019. So all in all, another great quarter delivering against our operational excellence initiatives. Now let me pass you to Thomas to give you more detail on the numbers and our guidance. Speaker 100:08:36Thanks, Andrew. Total revenue for the Q2 grew 19% year on year to $289,000,000 or 18% on a constant currency basis. Membership in house and other revenues rose 35%, 14% and 9% year on year respectively or 30 4%, 13%, 8% on a constant currency basis. House level contribution increased 45% year on year with house level margins up approximately 400 basis points to 26%. Other contribution was up 35% with the margin climbing 370 points to 20.5%. Speaker 100:09:11Giving more details on revenue, we saw continued strong revenue growth year over year, increasing revenue by $45,000,000 with 3 main drivers. Membership growth and pricing drove a $23,000,000 increase in membership revenues. Strong trading in our houses, especially in the UK and Europe led to a $16,000,000 increase in in house revenues. And other revenues were up $6,000,000 driven by strong SoHo Home and Scorpius sales growth as well as higher partnership revenues and management fees. Our 2nd quarter adjusted EBITDA was $31,800,000 up $16,400,000 year on year as we benefit from the profitability initiatives we have outlined and continued membership and revenue growth. Speaker 100:09:55Our adjusted EBITDA for the quarter also be consensus of $29,000,000 Now discussing our balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $177,000,000 of cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash and $590,000,000 of net debt. Our restricted cash was higher at the end of Q2 as we had to self insure a portion of our hurricane insurance to close on our Miami Beach House mortgage refinance. We felt this was a prudent thing to do, given we weren't in hurricane season and the risk in May that interest rates Would continue to rise, which they have. We have now secured this incremental hurricane insurance, so the cash is back in our bank and no longer restricted. Speaker 100:10:34Supporting our cash position, we generated $32,000,000 in adjusted EBITDA during the Q2 and had $2,000,000 of non cash rent. Offsetting, we had approximately $7,000,000 of cash interest expense, dollars 1,000,000 of cash taxes and $23,000,000 of net CapEx. Moving to guidance for 2023. The strength of our 2Q results has given us confidence to raise guidance across all metrics. We expect total Soho House members of more than 191,000 at year end, at least 18% higher compared to the end of 2022 and an increase from our prior guidance of over 190,000. Speaker 100:11:11We have seen very strong application flows over the past few quarters as shown through our record waitlist. Remember, we still have 23 houses or more than half of our total houses that have opened since the beginning of 2018. They are still very much in their ramp period, which has supported stronger than expected membership growth. We are narrowing the ranges and raising the midpoint of our 2023 revenue and EBITDA guidance metrics. For total membership revenues, we've increased our guidance at the midpoint by $3,500,000 to $360,000,000 to $367,000,000 total revenues at the midpoint by $5,000,000 to $1,120,000,000 to $1,190,000,000 and adjusted EBITDA by $3,000,000 at the midpoint to $126,000,000 to $134,000,000 The increases are driven primarily by stronger than expected 2Q results with FX only benefiting adjusted EBITDA by $1,000,000 in 2Q. Speaker 100:12:07Total revenue guidance is offset by the delay of Manchester to next year, but that does not have a material impact on adjusted EBITDA. Given macro uncertainty, we are generally leaving our organic second half expectations unchanged. With that, I'll pass it back to Andrew for some concluding remarks before we go into Q and A. Speaker 200:12:25Thanks, Thomas. We've had a strong second quarter delivering on the targets we set for the year. We've seen continued member and revenue growth underpinned by a strong and growing waitlist. Our operational excellence initiatives are continuing to Drive profitability and adjusted EBITDA was ahead of expectations for the Q3 in a row, leading us to increase our full year EBITDA guidance for the 2nd time this year. We've also made great progress on cash flow. Speaker 200:12:50We remain focused on delivering for our members and further driving membership value, and we are more confident than ever in the growth opportunities ahead for our business. I'd like to thank all our teams globally for their hard work and dedication throughout this year. With that, we will now hand over to questions to the operator. We can take the first question, please. And as a reminder, you can either ask your question over the phone or submit it over the webcast. Operator00:13:16Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Steven Zaccone from Citi. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 300:13:31Great. Good morning. Thank you for taking my question and congrats on the improvement here. I was curious if you could talk a little bit more about North America because I guess the commentary you gave that business is stable. It sounds like Continental Europe and the U. Speaker 300:13:45K. Had some of their best quarter. So how is member spend per visit trending in North America? How have some of the changes that you've made with regarding menus and stuff been received by members. And are there any houses in particular where you still feel like you have work to do? Speaker 200:14:04Hey, Stephen. It's Andrew. Let me start by answering I think I should give you an overall view of our demand. So we've seen demand really strong across F and B, bedrooms and events. And our weight is at an all time high. Speaker 200:14:18So footfall has continued to grow nicely with spend, which which I mentioned in my prepared comments. Yes, U. K. And Europe have been very good for us. It's nice to see a lot of our new initiatives driving high spend and paying off in the quarter. Speaker 200:14:32We have seen that in North America. So North America has increased and saw improvements well. All the changes on the local menus are in place. Service is starting to improve and gain traction, which drives member spend, as we've always talked about. If I think of June, June was the strongest growth month year to date across all our regions and North America. Speaker 200:14:57And also July is in line with trends that we're seeing in Q2. So North America is improving, like I said in my comments. The standouts are the changes we've done in Malibu. Putting Scorpius in Malibu has worked really well. We've had some really nice traction putting our mayor concept, which is California Mexican into a few of our houses. Speaker 200:15:19But in general, we're feeling much more positive about North America. Speaker 300:15:24Okay, great. The other topic I wanted to hit on is the home business. So it seems to still be exceeding expectations despite the backdrop for big ticket discretionary spending being a bit challenging. So have you raised your outlook for Soho Home this year? And just Maybe give us a refresher how large it is today and where you think it can go over time? Speaker 200:15:50Good question, Stephen. So we've obviously talked to Soho Home a lot about Soho Home with you in the past. It is it does continue to exceed expectations. It's growing really nicely again this year, much more than what you hear of other folks in the home industries, particularly our age and other folks. We are very focused on profit this year within Soho Home and improving member experience. Speaker 200:16:15For example, we've just launched our first bathrooms collection for our members because our members kept asking us where they could find our bathrooms. So that's super exciting. I'm not going to talk about how big it is just yet. I think it's got another year of growth until we really start articulating that business. But yes, It's really strong for us. Speaker 200:16:34And again, it's interiors by Soho House. So it's everything we do at Soho Home is based on what our members are asking to do, and it continues to delight them and grow really nicely. Speaker 300:16:47Great. Thanks for all the detail. Take care. Operator00:16:53Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Sharon Zackfia from William Blair. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 400:17:01Hi, thanks for taking the question. I appreciate there has been a lot of complexity with opening new properties for you as well as others over the past few years. But can you talk about the house pipeline for 2024 and 2025 and kind of what that looks like, Maybe even breaking it down by where the focus is regionally. Speaker 200:17:23Sure. Hi, Sharon. Great to hear from you. So if you think about it, opening new houses is important, and we do have a great pipeline of 5% to 7% for the foreseeable future. But what matters most to us is membership growth and retention. Speaker 200:17:38We're really proud of the members we welcomed in our existing houses this quarter. We've delivered that 35 increase in membership revenues. We've opened 24 fantastic houses since 2018. And what you're seeing is they're really hitting their stride and a lot of them are now ahead of historical maturation curves. So I think we obviously are a membership business and we focus on membership. Speaker 200:18:01Houses are a part of that. Regarding today, developers are suffering from supply chain issues, labor availability. It's obviously a more expensive finance environment, and you've heard that on other earnings recently. I Speaker 500:18:16did want Speaker 200:18:17to talk a little bit about Manchester because we I did it in my prerecorded comments. The developers are renovating an old Granada studio building. It's built in the 1950s. It's got expensive structural work, and it's just taking a bit longer because as you know, we go in more historical buildings. We're not new builds. Speaker 200:18:38And Sometimes we have some lumps and bumps along the way on that. So the project is progressing well now. It hasn't impacted membership applications. And again, that is the key. So actually, our membership applications continue to grow, actually ahead of our expectations on Manchester. Speaker 200:18:56So that's the only one that's moving this year. If we think about the next 3 years, we do have a pipeline locked at 5 to 7. We continue to get favorable turns. So our turns haven't changed. We're still asset light in the favorable turns that we have. Speaker 200:19:11And we continue to grow in the key regions like North America, across Europe, some more growth outside of London here in the UK and some further growth in Asia. So that hasn't changed. There's just a few small lumps and bumps that we're managing. Speaker 400:19:28Thanks for that. And I know you've done a lot to improve the member experience. I guess when Talk to members either anecdotally or in a more systematic fashion. Where do members think there's been the most improvement? And Where do they think there's still the most opportunity to improve going forward? Speaker 200:19:50Yes. So we recently did another one of our surveys across all our members. And what they've noticed in the last 6 months is we've really improved food, which is one of the things that they really wanted us to do. So they've noticed The food becoming more local, different houses offering different offers, becoming more seasonal. They've noticed the improvements that we've made in communications and our digital channels, on our app, on our events. Speaker 200:20:18We've got a lot more choice in our events. We recently did Coachella for our members and House Festival. So they are seeing the things that we're really focused on. The one area that we continue to really focus to improve on is service. So a lot of our the next 6 months is going to be based around service and improving our service, improving quality of service, the speed of service, the friendliness of service. Speaker 200:20:44Across 10 of our largest houses, we've just introduced a new role called member host. So this is a new role that really when the members come into our houses, We greet them in a really friendly way. We take them to the table. We get them a drink. We know a lot more about them now, so we can really, really to help them have a better experience in our houses. Speaker 200:21:05But I would say a lot of things we've talked about our members notice and enjoy. And then the next focus for the next 6 months is definitely service. Speaker 400:21:15Okay. Thank you. Operator00:21:19Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Stephen Grambling from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 600:21:26Hey, thanks. Maybe a follow-up on the cadence of house builds. It seems like this year even with the lower house build. You're kind of hitting this positive cash from operations inflection. I guess, why have it Accelerate, do you feel like actually having a much more balanced growth rate may actually be providing optionality down the road? Speaker 200:21:54Great question, Stephen. Let Thomas answer that one. Speaker 100:21:58Thanks, Stephen. So So if you think about our pipeline, obviously, these are projects that we've committed to over the past few years. And so what's being delivered in the next Couple of years, really got locked in historically. A couple of quarters ago, we flowed our guidance Just because we didn't want to be aggressively trying to go out and find new deals and we really wanted to be picky around looking for what was best for our members and more could generate with the highest ROIs. We have a good pipeline, as Andrew highlighted earlier, to continue to deliver on our growth. Speaker 100:22:38And so we're going to deliver the pipeline that we have embedded. I mean, we are dealing with broad macro construction delays. And so that is having an impact on how many we can deliver this year. Speaker 600:22:55And then a quick clarification as a follow-up. I think I caught this in your remarks, but the core guidance, I think You said is unchanged. I think I saw that the FX moved by about $10,000,000 which looks like it's a little bit more than The increase in EBITDA, is it just a translation issue like that doesn't fully flow through to the bottom line? And Maybe any kind of color you can provide in terms of puts and takes there. Speaker 100:23:24Yes. So when we think about the guidance, we updated the midpoint of the guidance range for the year On revenue by $5,000,000 we had about a $10,000,000 benefit from FX and that was offset almost directly by a $10,000,000 impact from house delays. And so we're upgrading our guidance for the year by $5,000,000 on the top line. On EBITDA, we raised the midpoint of our guidance by $3,000,000 About $1,000,000 of that was FX And about $2,000,000 of that was improved organic trading. We're not seeing a big impact from the House Ways in terms of benefiting our performance for the year. Speaker 100:24:09Super helpful. Thank you. Operator00:24:13Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of George Kelly from Roth MKM. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 500:24:21Hey, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on a real strong quarter. So the first topic I wanted to cover is your house level contribution margin. Really nice improvement there sequentially and year over year. I was curious, I guess two questions on that. Speaker 500:24:39A, what were the biggest drivers? You mentioned a whole bunch of stuff in your prepared remarks, but are there 1 or 2 things that you could isolate just as being most meaningful in driving that margin improvement. And then second question on the same topic is, what initiatives have yet to play out that you're excited about and could those sort of bring us another like higher of contribution margin? Speaker 200:25:06Hi, George. Great to hear from you. Look, the team are doing a good job delivering on our initiatives that we laid out containing costs, ensuring the membership falls down to profits, improving margins on SMB. So we've just been very consistent on delivering that week in week out, which is what we articulated we were going to do at the beginning of the year. The things that I'm most excited about is continuing to be consistent on delivering those improvements on margin within F and B, on managing our costs as we grow, on reducing our G and A as we look through for the next 12 months because there's some really good opportunities there for us. Speaker 200:25:50So we're just continuing to be very focused on managing the core of our cost structure Speaker 500:25:59Okay. Thanks. And then second question for you on your wait list, the growing wait list. Curious, what does it tell you? I guess, is the broad question. Speaker 500:26:10And I'm just curious, like, does it give you a lot more confidence to take pricing in the future or are there other ways to monetize folks on that waitlist? I don't know through alternative membership offerings or like anything that's being contemplated there. And that's all I had. Thank you. Speaker 200:26:28Thanks, George. Look, we look nothing better than welcoming new members into our houses. It's what we do best. We are seeing very strong applications, the most in over a year across all our regions. We're super pleased with some of the newer houses Like Austin and Nashville and Paris and Rome and Tel Aviv, they're really, really starting to gain momentum with the local membership. Speaker 200:26:54If we think about our membership, our retention remains really strong, and that's one of our key metrics for driving that recurring revenues and delivering that 35% growth. Our application levels continue to be exceptional. So that's something that we obviously we worked really hard on, especially in our newer regions. So there's a lot of appetite for joining Soho House. We're not thinking about pricing this year yet. Speaker 200:27:21As a reminder, we did increase pricing for new members at the beginning of this year, higher than existing members. The existing member increase was below inflation. And we're not really thinking about monetizing that wait list. We have our friends, obviously, Soho friends that continues to grow and you saw those numbers in the quarter. But we're just focused really on growing our membership, retaining our members and delighting them when they're in our houses. Speaker 100:27:48I would just add, historically, we've increased prices most years. We didn't during COVID, but then for the past 2 years, we've had outsized price increases. So we always have them we always look at increasing prices every year. And so it's an assessment we'll make looking at the macro segment at the end of the year. Speaker 500:28:11Got you. Thank you. Operator00:28:15Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Joe Greff from JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 700:28:22Hello, everyone. Andrew, I have a question on the house pipeline and I know you talked extensively on it. Would you say that the House. Houses that you had originally planned to open in 2024 are also similarly delayed? Or do you actually see and above average growth year in houses benefiting from the delays in 2023. Speaker 700:28:46How are you thinking about next year? Speaker 200:28:50Hi, Joe. In short answer, no. Manchester moves into next year and the Current plan of 5 to 7 is still the plan for 2024. We have not seen any movement in that thus far. There's a nice pacing throughout the year. Speaker 200:29:09So like I said on my prepared comments, the only change we're seeing right now is Manchester. And that's why we're just reiterating that we've still got the 5% to 7% planned out each year for the next 3 years. And Yes, there's lots of macro challenges, but we're very focused and we have a fantastic team working with our partners to deliver them. Speaker 700:29:30Great. Frozen thank you for that. My next question is the Frozen member count spiked up in its It's up in absolute terms and it's also up as a percentage of total memberships by a wide margin over the last five quarters. What's driving that? Is that just a function of annual due increases? Speaker 700:29:51Or what's driving that? Speaker 200:29:54Candidly, no, it's actually normalizing. So it's below 2% of total members. It's always healthy for us to have frozen members. We are super flexible with our members. It's part of what we do, be it from member situation changes, they move, their family life changes. Speaker 200:30:14So that's I think it's a real value add of membership being able to freeze. And if you think, we're still below pre COVID levels on frozen. So we're not even where we used to be before COVID. So we're not concerned about frozen. It's a benefit to our members and we always embrace it when our members want to freeze. Speaker 100:30:33Joe, I'll just add that remember during COVID, we saw a big spike in frozen percentages and number members. Obviously, there's going to be a pause after people freeze. And so to Andrew's point, I think that we're normalizing and we're still Very happy that we're I think we're still sub 2% and then pre COVID, we're around 3% on average. Speaker 300:30:58Thank you. Operator00:31:02Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Julie Hoover from Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 800:31:09Hi, thank you for taking my question. Other revenues were really healthy this quarter. You touched on Soho Home already, but can you discuss where else you're seeing strength in that segment? And specifically, how is Scorpios doing this summer? Thank you. Speaker 200:31:23Sure. Let me have Thomas answer that question. Speaker 100:31:26Hey, Julie. So as You said, we've had strong we continue to have strong growth at Soho Home. Despite us focusing more on profit even than revenue there, We continue to see really good growth there. Management fees have continued to grow. Remember, we added 2 Nez last year. Speaker 100:31:48They're performing well. We're also seeing good organic growth in that segment. Scorpius is growing year over year. We have heard anecdotally that the Mykonos market is a little bit softer, but we continue to see strong growth there. And then finally, I'd highlight that our townhouses are performing very well. Speaker 100:32:10Remember, Those are hotels with restaurants, and so they're benefiting from really strong RevPAR trend. Speaker 800:32:20Great. Thank you very much. Operator00:32:24Thank you. There appear to be no further questions at this time. 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There are 9 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Bhavesh, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Soho House and Co, Incorporated Second Quarter 2023 Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Operator00:00:32House. Thank you. I will now hand the call over to Thomas Allen, Chief Financial Officer. You may begin your conference. Speaker 100:00:41Thank you for joining us today to Soho Housing Co. 2nd Quarter Financial Results. My name is Thomas Allen, and I'm the Chief Financial Officer. I'm here with Andrew Carney, our CEO. Today's discussion contains forward looking statements that represent our beliefs or expectations about future events. Speaker 100:00:59All forward looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward looking statements. Some of the factors that may cause such differences are described in our SEC filings. Any forward looking statements represent our views only as of today, and we assume no obligation to update any forward looking statements if our views change. By now, you should have access to our Q2 earnings release, which can be found at soohouseco.com in the News and Events section. Additionally, we have posted our Q2 presentation, which can also be found in the News and Events section on our site. Speaker 100:01:33During the call, we also refer to certain non GAAP financial measures. These non GAAP measures should be considered in addition to and not as a substitute for or in isolation from our GAAP results. Reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measures are available in today's earnings press release. Now let me hand it over to Andrew. Speaker 200:01:50Thanks, Thomas, and good morning, everyone. I'm going to start by talking through the quarter's highlights, then provide an update on the progress we've made against our strategic priorities. I'll then hand over to Thomas to talk through our financial performance, give an update on our balance sheet and our raised 2023 guidance before we move on to Q and A. We're pleased to be announcing another strong set of results this quarter with further growth in membership, revenues capability. We are delighted to have more members be part of Sohu House. Speaker 200:02:18In the Q2, we added over 7,500 members, growing to 176,000, a year on year increase of 24% and a 5% rise quarter on quarter, which was ahead of expectations. We welcomed members in all regions and in particular new houses we have opened in the past few years that are still maturing. Remember more than half our houses we've opened since 2018. Our waitlist reached approximately 95,000, an increase of 6,000 quarter on quarter. We're really pleased to to see our largest sequential increase since Q1 'twenty two, which demonstrates the strong appeal of SOH House globally. Speaker 200:02:54Total revenues grew 19% year on year €289,000,000 underpinned by continued growth in our highly recurring membership revenues. In the quarter, they grew 35% year on year and 7% quarter on quarter. Our initiatives to drive better member experience help drive like for like in house sales approximately 20% above 2019 levels. That's an acceleration from the mid teens growth we saw in the Q1 as we benefited from improved visitation and spend per visit. Our focus on operational excellence continues to drive profitability higher with Q2 adjusted EBITDA of £32,000,000 Since going public, this is the first time we've reached over $30,000,000 of adjusted EBITDA in a quarter and also the first time we've reached over 10% EBITDA margins. Speaker 200:03:39We're proud of these milestones, and we expect to maintain the momentum we've built. These stronger results led us to deliver positive cash flow from operations in the quarter. As we did in Q1, we're raising our full year adjusted EBITDA guidance to reflect the results of this performance. Given the strength we're seeing in our membership and house performances, We're also raising guidance for our membership and the midpoint of our revenue metrics. More on that later. Speaker 200:04:05Now let me give you an update on progress we're making against our 2 strategic priorities, growing and enhancing the value of membership in delivering operational excellence to drive profitability and free cash flow. Our focus on rolling out initiatives to improve member experience continued in the Q2, and we're pleased with the results we've seen across our houses. As I mentioned, our like for like in house sales growth compared to 2019 accelerated up to approximately 20% from mid teens growth in Q1. We saw both spend per visit and visitation improve quarter on quarter with the U. K. Speaker 200:04:38And Europe having both the strongest quarters since the pandemic. We're really pleased with both regions' performance, in particular Europe bouncing back. All our houses had a great quarter, and it's really nice to see our recent newer houses, Rome, Paris, Tel Aviv, Stockholm and Copenhagen hitting their strides and delighting members. While our checking data suggests Europe and the U. K. Speaker 200:04:59Are benefiting from Americans traveling overseas again, As we said last quarter, we were quicker to introduce new initiatives in these regions and that approach is bearing fruit. It's also worth noting our American business growth remains stable. We're now in a good rhythm of implementing seasonal and local menu changes across all houses every quarter, with members being made aware of what's new through communication plus all our digital channels. We've also made changes to increase the breadth and variety of our in house food and beverage portfolio by introducing pop up experience like Maya, of our Mexican Californian restaurant at Ludlow House, Shoreditch House and Soho House Berlin and a Scorpius residency at Little Beach House Malibu. Our members have benefited from increased choice and have been sharing positive feedback. Speaker 200:05:45Together, these changes in F and B have driven an uplift in sales and profits. Service standards continue to be a top priority. We've introduced and completed new training across all our houses, which is steadily improving service. Outside our core Sohu House proposition, we continue to see strong growth in Friends memberships, which helped grow our other memberships by 40% year on year to approximately 72,000 members. One area which has been more challenging is house openings. Speaker 200:06:13We are seeing delays in delivering projects on time from our developers. While we were confident at the beginning of the year that we would deliver 5 to 7 houses, we now expect to open 4 after experiencing construction delays with Soho House Manchester. Soho House Bangkok opened in Q1. Soho House Mexico City is opening next month and Soho House Portland and Sao Paulo are planned to open through the end of the year. That said, we have still increased our Soho House membership by 14,000 year to date and raise our full year targets for 2023 membership revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Speaker 200:06:45We see the current global state of development as a short term challenge for new openings, the one that our existing houses can more than offset and our mid- to long term target of 5 to 7 new houses remains in place. Turning to our 2nd strategic priority, operational excellence. As a reminder, our strategy here is centered on 3 key areas. 1st, leveraging data and member insight to operate and scale efficiently 2nd, expanding in house margins and third, having operational discipline as we grow. In the Q2, our teams control wages well with wages as a percentage of revenues improving by approximately 250 basis points versus Q2 'twenty two and 50 basis points compared with Q2 2019. Speaker 200:07:27Our in house F and B margins continue to be strong, up 2 40 basis points versus Q2 2019 on a like for like basis despite us rolling out new menus on a quarterly basis that we referenced earlier. Overall, our house level contribution margins improved approximately 400 basis points year over year and 150 quarter over quarter to 26%. This is the highest level we've seen since going public, a testament to our efforts. Our G and A expenses were in line with our internal expectations. As we alluded to in prior earnings calls, we expect G and A to be up in 2023 year over year given the significant growth of our business, especially in new regions like Latin America. Speaker 200:08:05G and in America. G and A leverage will be a contributor to our high guided adjusted EBITDA margins for the year. We've continued to deliver on driving higher occupancy and ADR, leading to RevPAR increasing 13% year over year at like for like properties and 36% versus the Q2 of 2019. So all in all, another great quarter delivering against our operational excellence initiatives. Now let me pass you to Thomas to give you more detail on the numbers and our guidance. Speaker 100:08:36Thanks, Andrew. Total revenue for the Q2 grew 19% year on year to $289,000,000 or 18% on a constant currency basis. Membership in house and other revenues rose 35%, 14% and 9% year on year respectively or 30 4%, 13%, 8% on a constant currency basis. House level contribution increased 45% year on year with house level margins up approximately 400 basis points to 26%. Other contribution was up 35% with the margin climbing 370 points to 20.5%. Speaker 100:09:11Giving more details on revenue, we saw continued strong revenue growth year over year, increasing revenue by $45,000,000 with 3 main drivers. Membership growth and pricing drove a $23,000,000 increase in membership revenues. Strong trading in our houses, especially in the UK and Europe led to a $16,000,000 increase in in house revenues. And other revenues were up $6,000,000 driven by strong SoHo Home and Scorpius sales growth as well as higher partnership revenues and management fees. Our 2nd quarter adjusted EBITDA was $31,800,000 up $16,400,000 year on year as we benefit from the profitability initiatives we have outlined and continued membership and revenue growth. Speaker 100:09:55Our adjusted EBITDA for the quarter also be consensus of $29,000,000 Now discussing our balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $177,000,000 of cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash and $590,000,000 of net debt. Our restricted cash was higher at the end of Q2 as we had to self insure a portion of our hurricane insurance to close on our Miami Beach House mortgage refinance. We felt this was a prudent thing to do, given we weren't in hurricane season and the risk in May that interest rates Would continue to rise, which they have. We have now secured this incremental hurricane insurance, so the cash is back in our bank and no longer restricted. Speaker 100:10:34Supporting our cash position, we generated $32,000,000 in adjusted EBITDA during the Q2 and had $2,000,000 of non cash rent. Offsetting, we had approximately $7,000,000 of cash interest expense, dollars 1,000,000 of cash taxes and $23,000,000 of net CapEx. Moving to guidance for 2023. The strength of our 2Q results has given us confidence to raise guidance across all metrics. We expect total Soho House members of more than 191,000 at year end, at least 18% higher compared to the end of 2022 and an increase from our prior guidance of over 190,000. Speaker 100:11:11We have seen very strong application flows over the past few quarters as shown through our record waitlist. Remember, we still have 23 houses or more than half of our total houses that have opened since the beginning of 2018. They are still very much in their ramp period, which has supported stronger than expected membership growth. We are narrowing the ranges and raising the midpoint of our 2023 revenue and EBITDA guidance metrics. For total membership revenues, we've increased our guidance at the midpoint by $3,500,000 to $360,000,000 to $367,000,000 total revenues at the midpoint by $5,000,000 to $1,120,000,000 to $1,190,000,000 and adjusted EBITDA by $3,000,000 at the midpoint to $126,000,000 to $134,000,000 The increases are driven primarily by stronger than expected 2Q results with FX only benefiting adjusted EBITDA by $1,000,000 in 2Q. Speaker 100:12:07Total revenue guidance is offset by the delay of Manchester to next year, but that does not have a material impact on adjusted EBITDA. Given macro uncertainty, we are generally leaving our organic second half expectations unchanged. With that, I'll pass it back to Andrew for some concluding remarks before we go into Q and A. Speaker 200:12:25Thanks, Thomas. We've had a strong second quarter delivering on the targets we set for the year. We've seen continued member and revenue growth underpinned by a strong and growing waitlist. Our operational excellence initiatives are continuing to Drive profitability and adjusted EBITDA was ahead of expectations for the Q3 in a row, leading us to increase our full year EBITDA guidance for the 2nd time this year. We've also made great progress on cash flow. Speaker 200:12:50We remain focused on delivering for our members and further driving membership value, and we are more confident than ever in the growth opportunities ahead for our business. I'd like to thank all our teams globally for their hard work and dedication throughout this year. With that, we will now hand over to questions to the operator. We can take the first question, please. And as a reminder, you can either ask your question over the phone or submit it over the webcast. Operator00:13:16Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Steven Zaccone from Citi. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 300:13:31Great. Good morning. Thank you for taking my question and congrats on the improvement here. I was curious if you could talk a little bit more about North America because I guess the commentary you gave that business is stable. It sounds like Continental Europe and the U. Speaker 300:13:45K. Had some of their best quarter. So how is member spend per visit trending in North America? How have some of the changes that you've made with regarding menus and stuff been received by members. And are there any houses in particular where you still feel like you have work to do? Speaker 200:14:04Hey, Stephen. It's Andrew. Let me start by answering I think I should give you an overall view of our demand. So we've seen demand really strong across F and B, bedrooms and events. And our weight is at an all time high. Speaker 200:14:18So footfall has continued to grow nicely with spend, which which I mentioned in my prepared comments. Yes, U. K. And Europe have been very good for us. It's nice to see a lot of our new initiatives driving high spend and paying off in the quarter. Speaker 200:14:32We have seen that in North America. So North America has increased and saw improvements well. All the changes on the local menus are in place. Service is starting to improve and gain traction, which drives member spend, as we've always talked about. If I think of June, June was the strongest growth month year to date across all our regions and North America. Speaker 200:14:57And also July is in line with trends that we're seeing in Q2. So North America is improving, like I said in my comments. The standouts are the changes we've done in Malibu. Putting Scorpius in Malibu has worked really well. We've had some really nice traction putting our mayor concept, which is California Mexican into a few of our houses. Speaker 200:15:19But in general, we're feeling much more positive about North America. Speaker 300:15:24Okay, great. The other topic I wanted to hit on is the home business. So it seems to still be exceeding expectations despite the backdrop for big ticket discretionary spending being a bit challenging. So have you raised your outlook for Soho Home this year? And just Maybe give us a refresher how large it is today and where you think it can go over time? Speaker 200:15:50Good question, Stephen. So we've obviously talked to Soho Home a lot about Soho Home with you in the past. It is it does continue to exceed expectations. It's growing really nicely again this year, much more than what you hear of other folks in the home industries, particularly our age and other folks. We are very focused on profit this year within Soho Home and improving member experience. Speaker 200:16:15For example, we've just launched our first bathrooms collection for our members because our members kept asking us where they could find our bathrooms. So that's super exciting. I'm not going to talk about how big it is just yet. I think it's got another year of growth until we really start articulating that business. But yes, It's really strong for us. Speaker 200:16:34And again, it's interiors by Soho House. So it's everything we do at Soho Home is based on what our members are asking to do, and it continues to delight them and grow really nicely. Speaker 300:16:47Great. Thanks for all the detail. Take care. Operator00:16:53Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Sharon Zackfia from William Blair. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 400:17:01Hi, thanks for taking the question. I appreciate there has been a lot of complexity with opening new properties for you as well as others over the past few years. But can you talk about the house pipeline for 2024 and 2025 and kind of what that looks like, Maybe even breaking it down by where the focus is regionally. Speaker 200:17:23Sure. Hi, Sharon. Great to hear from you. So if you think about it, opening new houses is important, and we do have a great pipeline of 5% to 7% for the foreseeable future. But what matters most to us is membership growth and retention. Speaker 200:17:38We're really proud of the members we welcomed in our existing houses this quarter. We've delivered that 35 increase in membership revenues. We've opened 24 fantastic houses since 2018. And what you're seeing is they're really hitting their stride and a lot of them are now ahead of historical maturation curves. So I think we obviously are a membership business and we focus on membership. Speaker 200:18:01Houses are a part of that. Regarding today, developers are suffering from supply chain issues, labor availability. It's obviously a more expensive finance environment, and you've heard that on other earnings recently. I Speaker 500:18:16did want Speaker 200:18:17to talk a little bit about Manchester because we I did it in my prerecorded comments. The developers are renovating an old Granada studio building. It's built in the 1950s. It's got expensive structural work, and it's just taking a bit longer because as you know, we go in more historical buildings. We're not new builds. Speaker 200:18:38And Sometimes we have some lumps and bumps along the way on that. So the project is progressing well now. It hasn't impacted membership applications. And again, that is the key. So actually, our membership applications continue to grow, actually ahead of our expectations on Manchester. Speaker 200:18:56So that's the only one that's moving this year. If we think about the next 3 years, we do have a pipeline locked at 5 to 7. We continue to get favorable turns. So our turns haven't changed. We're still asset light in the favorable turns that we have. Speaker 200:19:11And we continue to grow in the key regions like North America, across Europe, some more growth outside of London here in the UK and some further growth in Asia. So that hasn't changed. There's just a few small lumps and bumps that we're managing. Speaker 400:19:28Thanks for that. And I know you've done a lot to improve the member experience. I guess when Talk to members either anecdotally or in a more systematic fashion. Where do members think there's been the most improvement? And Where do they think there's still the most opportunity to improve going forward? Speaker 200:19:50Yes. So we recently did another one of our surveys across all our members. And what they've noticed in the last 6 months is we've really improved food, which is one of the things that they really wanted us to do. So they've noticed The food becoming more local, different houses offering different offers, becoming more seasonal. They've noticed the improvements that we've made in communications and our digital channels, on our app, on our events. Speaker 200:20:18We've got a lot more choice in our events. We recently did Coachella for our members and House Festival. So they are seeing the things that we're really focused on. The one area that we continue to really focus to improve on is service. So a lot of our the next 6 months is going to be based around service and improving our service, improving quality of service, the speed of service, the friendliness of service. Speaker 200:20:44Across 10 of our largest houses, we've just introduced a new role called member host. So this is a new role that really when the members come into our houses, We greet them in a really friendly way. We take them to the table. We get them a drink. We know a lot more about them now, so we can really, really to help them have a better experience in our houses. Speaker 200:21:05But I would say a lot of things we've talked about our members notice and enjoy. And then the next focus for the next 6 months is definitely service. Speaker 400:21:15Okay. Thank you. Operator00:21:19Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Stephen Grambling from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 600:21:26Hey, thanks. Maybe a follow-up on the cadence of house builds. It seems like this year even with the lower house build. You're kind of hitting this positive cash from operations inflection. I guess, why have it Accelerate, do you feel like actually having a much more balanced growth rate may actually be providing optionality down the road? Speaker 200:21:54Great question, Stephen. Let Thomas answer that one. Speaker 100:21:58Thanks, Stephen. So So if you think about our pipeline, obviously, these are projects that we've committed to over the past few years. And so what's being delivered in the next Couple of years, really got locked in historically. A couple of quarters ago, we flowed our guidance Just because we didn't want to be aggressively trying to go out and find new deals and we really wanted to be picky around looking for what was best for our members and more could generate with the highest ROIs. We have a good pipeline, as Andrew highlighted earlier, to continue to deliver on our growth. Speaker 100:22:38And so we're going to deliver the pipeline that we have embedded. I mean, we are dealing with broad macro construction delays. And so that is having an impact on how many we can deliver this year. Speaker 600:22:55And then a quick clarification as a follow-up. I think I caught this in your remarks, but the core guidance, I think You said is unchanged. I think I saw that the FX moved by about $10,000,000 which looks like it's a little bit more than The increase in EBITDA, is it just a translation issue like that doesn't fully flow through to the bottom line? And Maybe any kind of color you can provide in terms of puts and takes there. Speaker 100:23:24Yes. So when we think about the guidance, we updated the midpoint of the guidance range for the year On revenue by $5,000,000 we had about a $10,000,000 benefit from FX and that was offset almost directly by a $10,000,000 impact from house delays. And so we're upgrading our guidance for the year by $5,000,000 on the top line. On EBITDA, we raised the midpoint of our guidance by $3,000,000 About $1,000,000 of that was FX And about $2,000,000 of that was improved organic trading. We're not seeing a big impact from the House Ways in terms of benefiting our performance for the year. Speaker 100:24:09Super helpful. Thank you. Operator00:24:13Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of George Kelly from Roth MKM. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 500:24:21Hey, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on a real strong quarter. So the first topic I wanted to cover is your house level contribution margin. Really nice improvement there sequentially and year over year. I was curious, I guess two questions on that. Speaker 500:24:39A, what were the biggest drivers? You mentioned a whole bunch of stuff in your prepared remarks, but are there 1 or 2 things that you could isolate just as being most meaningful in driving that margin improvement. And then second question on the same topic is, what initiatives have yet to play out that you're excited about and could those sort of bring us another like higher of contribution margin? Speaker 200:25:06Hi, George. Great to hear from you. Look, the team are doing a good job delivering on our initiatives that we laid out containing costs, ensuring the membership falls down to profits, improving margins on SMB. So we've just been very consistent on delivering that week in week out, which is what we articulated we were going to do at the beginning of the year. The things that I'm most excited about is continuing to be consistent on delivering those improvements on margin within F and B, on managing our costs as we grow, on reducing our G and A as we look through for the next 12 months because there's some really good opportunities there for us. Speaker 200:25:50So we're just continuing to be very focused on managing the core of our cost structure Speaker 500:25:59Okay. Thanks. And then second question for you on your wait list, the growing wait list. Curious, what does it tell you? I guess, is the broad question. Speaker 500:26:10And I'm just curious, like, does it give you a lot more confidence to take pricing in the future or are there other ways to monetize folks on that waitlist? I don't know through alternative membership offerings or like anything that's being contemplated there. And that's all I had. Thank you. Speaker 200:26:28Thanks, George. Look, we look nothing better than welcoming new members into our houses. It's what we do best. We are seeing very strong applications, the most in over a year across all our regions. We're super pleased with some of the newer houses Like Austin and Nashville and Paris and Rome and Tel Aviv, they're really, really starting to gain momentum with the local membership. Speaker 200:26:54If we think about our membership, our retention remains really strong, and that's one of our key metrics for driving that recurring revenues and delivering that 35% growth. Our application levels continue to be exceptional. So that's something that we obviously we worked really hard on, especially in our newer regions. So there's a lot of appetite for joining Soho House. We're not thinking about pricing this year yet. Speaker 200:27:21As a reminder, we did increase pricing for new members at the beginning of this year, higher than existing members. The existing member increase was below inflation. And we're not really thinking about monetizing that wait list. We have our friends, obviously, Soho friends that continues to grow and you saw those numbers in the quarter. But we're just focused really on growing our membership, retaining our members and delighting them when they're in our houses. Speaker 100:27:48I would just add, historically, we've increased prices most years. We didn't during COVID, but then for the past 2 years, we've had outsized price increases. So we always have them we always look at increasing prices every year. And so it's an assessment we'll make looking at the macro segment at the end of the year. Speaker 500:28:11Got you. Thank you. Operator00:28:15Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Joe Greff from JPMorgan. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 700:28:22Hello, everyone. Andrew, I have a question on the house pipeline and I know you talked extensively on it. Would you say that the House. Houses that you had originally planned to open in 2024 are also similarly delayed? Or do you actually see and above average growth year in houses benefiting from the delays in 2023. Speaker 700:28:46How are you thinking about next year? Speaker 200:28:50Hi, Joe. In short answer, no. Manchester moves into next year and the Current plan of 5 to 7 is still the plan for 2024. We have not seen any movement in that thus far. There's a nice pacing throughout the year. Speaker 200:29:09So like I said on my prepared comments, the only change we're seeing right now is Manchester. And that's why we're just reiterating that we've still got the 5% to 7% planned out each year for the next 3 years. And Yes, there's lots of macro challenges, but we're very focused and we have a fantastic team working with our partners to deliver them. Speaker 700:29:30Great. Frozen thank you for that. My next question is the Frozen member count spiked up in its It's up in absolute terms and it's also up as a percentage of total memberships by a wide margin over the last five quarters. What's driving that? Is that just a function of annual due increases? Speaker 700:29:51Or what's driving that? Speaker 200:29:54Candidly, no, it's actually normalizing. So it's below 2% of total members. It's always healthy for us to have frozen members. We are super flexible with our members. It's part of what we do, be it from member situation changes, they move, their family life changes. Speaker 200:30:14So that's I think it's a real value add of membership being able to freeze. And if you think, we're still below pre COVID levels on frozen. So we're not even where we used to be before COVID. So we're not concerned about frozen. It's a benefit to our members and we always embrace it when our members want to freeze. Speaker 100:30:33Joe, I'll just add that remember during COVID, we saw a big spike in frozen percentages and number members. Obviously, there's going to be a pause after people freeze. And so to Andrew's point, I think that we're normalizing and we're still Very happy that we're I think we're still sub 2% and then pre COVID, we're around 3% on average. Speaker 300:30:58Thank you. Operator00:31:02Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Julie Hoover from Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 800:31:09Hi, thank you for taking my question. Other revenues were really healthy this quarter. You touched on Soho Home already, but can you discuss where else you're seeing strength in that segment? And specifically, how is Scorpios doing this summer? Thank you. Speaker 200:31:23Sure. Let me have Thomas answer that question. Speaker 100:31:26Hey, Julie. So as You said, we've had strong we continue to have strong growth at Soho Home. Despite us focusing more on profit even than revenue there, We continue to see really good growth there. Management fees have continued to grow. Remember, we added 2 Nez last year. Speaker 100:31:48They're performing well. We're also seeing good organic growth in that segment. Scorpius is growing year over year. We have heard anecdotally that the Mykonos market is a little bit softer, but we continue to see strong growth there. And then finally, I'd highlight that our townhouses are performing very well. Speaker 100:32:10Remember, Those are hotels with restaurants, and so they're benefiting from really strong RevPAR trend. Speaker 800:32:20Great. Thank you very much. Operator00:32:24Thank you. There appear to be no further questions at this time. I'll now hand the call back to Thomas Allen for concluding remarks. Speaker 100:32:33Thank you everyone for joining the call today. Please reach out if you have any follow-up questions. We look forward to talking to you all again after our Q3 results. Operator00:32:43Thank you. This does conclude today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You mayRead morePowered by