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Earnings HistoryForecast Adeia EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.23Consensus EPS $0.20Beat/MissBeat by +$0.03One Year Ago EPSN/AAdeia Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$83.22 millionExpected Revenue$84.17 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$950.00 thousandYoY Revenue GrowthN/AAdeia Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2023Date8/7/2023TimeN/AConference Call DateMonday, August 7, 2023Conference Call Time5:00PM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Adeia Q2 2023 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 7, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 7 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Day, everyone. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Adia's Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in a listen only mode. Following the presentation, the call will open up for questions. Operator00:00:14I would like to now turn the call over to Chris Chaney, Vice President of Investor Relations for Adia. Chris, please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:22Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us as we share with you details of our Q2 2023 financial results. With me on the call today are Paul Davis, our President and CEO and Keith Jones, our CFO. Paul will share with you some general observations regarding our Q2, and then Keith will give further details on our financial results and guidance. We will then conclude with a question and answer period. Speaker 100:00:50In addition to today's earnings release, there is an earnings presentation which you can access along with the webcast in the IR portion of our website. Before turning the call over to Paul, I would like to provide a few reminders. First, today's discussion contains forward looking statements that are predictions, projections or other statements about future events, which are based on management's current expectations and beliefs, and therefore, subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances. For more information on the risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from what we discuss today, please refer to the Risk Factors section in our SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10 ks and our quarterly report on Form 10 Q. Please note that the company does not intend to update or alter these forward looking statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after this call. Speaker 100:01:48To enhance investors' understanding of our ongoing economic performance, we will discuss non GAAP information during this call. We use non GAAP financial measures internally to evaluate and manage are operations. We have therefore chosen to provide this information to enable you to perform comparisons of our operating results as we do internally. We have provided reconciliations of these non GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in the earnings release, the earnings presentation and on the Investor Relations section of our website. A recording of this conference call will be available on the Investor Relations website atadia.com. Speaker 100:02:29Now I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Paul Davis. Speaker 200:02:33Thank you, Chris, and thank you everyone for joining us today. During the Q2, our deal momentum continued as we signed 9 agreements with a diverse group of pay TV, OTT, Consumer Electronics and Semiconductor customers in both domestic and international markets. We delivered another quarter of strong financial results with revenue of $83,200,000 and adjusted EBITDA of $51,700,000 We paid down approximately $20,000,000 of debt in the 2nd quarter, bringing our debt paydowns and separation to over $114,000,000 In addition, we are on track to expand our patent portfolios by 10% this year. I am also excited to announce that we have expanded our Board with the addition of Adam Rimer. Adam is a well respected executive with over 20 years of experience in the technology, media in Entertainment Industries, and he has hands on experience leading organizations in gaming, TV, film, music and live streaming. Speaker 200:03:47With his impressive track record of driving innovation at a wide variety of organizations, I am confident Adam will be a valued addition to our Board. Turning back to the quarter, our deal momentum continued. Of the 9 deals we signed in Q2, 8 were in Media and 1 was in Semiconductor. Within Media, we signed a significant long term license renewal with Cox Communications. With the Cox renewal, we have now signed 3 multi year renewals with the top 10 U. Speaker 200:04:19S. Pay TV providers in the first half of the year. These renewals continue to validate the strength of our media portfolio in this market. Additionally, we signed an important new license agreement with DAZN, a leading OTT provider of global sports programming. This is an exciting deal in an emerging market for us, and OTT will be a catalyst for our future growth as we continue to expand our customers in this market. Speaker 200:04:49Other deals we signed in the quarter included multi year renewals with NCO, a domestic provider of technology services to the hospitality industry Freeview Australia, a free digital TV service provider Technosat, a German provider of digital video consumer electronics products and Massillon Cable, a domestic pay TV operator. These deals illustrate the breadth of our portfolio and applicability to customers in multiple jurisdictions and markets. Our commitment to innovation drives deals with new customers and our high renewal rate, which has averaged over 90% the past several years. We grow our patent portfolios primarily through investment in internal R and D, where we strategically invest in new technologies, we anticipate emerging in our core markets and beyond. Growing our IP portfolio is important for several reasons. Speaker 200:05:47First, it allows us to retain our current customers we continue to maintain our core business and thus maintains the pre existing revenue base. Our customers benefit because they can utilize not only the patents existing in our portfolio when they initiated their license agreements, but they also typically get access to new IP we add during the term of those agreements. 2nd, expanding our portfolio also attracts new customers as they find value in our innovations, which enable them to differentiate their products and services in their markets. We take great pride in our long history of being pioneers and innovators in both the media and semiconductor markets, that history of success is based on being a visionary of emerging trends that derive the evolution of technology. Our R and D teams are always focused on the future and what technologies will be adopted and our customers' upcoming products. Speaker 200:06:43Our focus on advanced R and D and IP development have positioned us particularly well in both our media we are in Semiconductor Businesses to capitalize on the recent explosion of generative AI. In our Media business, we have been investing in AI enabling technologies such as computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing for years. Today our portfolio contains significant coverage in these areas, and this has helped drive license agreements in multiple verticals of our media business. And we believe these and other innovations will enable us to expand our customer base in new media verticals, such as adtech and e commerce. Generative AI also requires high performance computing and advancements in semiconductor technologies. Speaker 200:07:35The demand for emerging logic nodes, next generation high bandwidth memory and advanced system packaging is increasing to meet those needs. Our advanced processing node portfolio and our investment in hybrid bonding have established us as a recognized pioneer we will be conducting a few key initiatives in enabling technologies that will drive tomorrow's AI. Before I turn the call over to Keith to further discuss our financials, I would like to briefly provide an update on our measures of success. I am very pleased with the progress we have made to date in each of these key areas. Future revenue growth will be primarily driven by opportunities in OTT, such as our recent deal with DAZN, in addition to adjacent market opportunities such as adtech, automotive, e commerce, gaming, music streaming and sports gambling. Speaker 200:08:30Importantly, these adjacent markets are entirely greenfield opportunities, and we believe they can be significant revenue contributors in the future. We continue to make progress in OTT in our adjacent markets and customer engagements are at various stages. We also remain very excited about our hybrid bonding and advanced processing node portfolios applicability in the logic market for our semiconductor business. As we see these technologies being a catalyst for leading edge logic devices. Our pipeline of deals remains diverse and robust, we believe our deal momentum will continue for the rest of the year. Speaker 200:09:12Lastly, as noted earlier, we remain on track to grow our patent portfolios 10% this year. With that, let me turn the call over to Keith to cover our Q2 financial results and our guidance for 2023. Speaker 300:09:27Thank you, Paul. I am very pleased to be speaking with you today to share details of our Q2 2023 Financial Results. Our 2nd quarter results were very much in line with the guidance provided during our last call. Revenue for the Q2 was $83,200,000 a decrease of 29% from the prior quarter. Last quarter, when we gave color on the revenue trends we expected to see during the course of the year, we noted that the Q2 would be the low point due to certain renewals we anticipated closing in the second half of the year. Speaker 300:10:02And we also noted that we expected the first half of the year and the second half of the year to be evenly split relative to the midpoint of the annual guidance we provided. In the first half of the year, we delivered revenue of $200,500,000 This is exactly in line with what we laid out in last orders call and with our strong pipeline, we remain on track to reach our full year revenue guidance. We generated revenue from the execution of 9 license agreements in the quarter, including a significant renewal with Cox Communications in a new license agreement with OTT sports program provider DAZN. 7 of the 9 license agreements we signed in the Q2 were renewals. Our renewal rate remains very strong at greater than 90%. Speaker 300:11:00As Paul discussed, this is driven by our ongoing dedication to growing and evolving our IP portfolios, which are fueled by our continued investments in R and D. Now I'd like to discuss our operating expenses, for which I will be referring to non GAAP numbers only. For the Q2, operating expenses were $31,900,000 Speaker 400:11:26we are now flat compared to the prior quarter. Speaker 300:11:27Research and development expenses were relatively consistent as we remain committed to growing our IP portfolios. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased $377,000 or 2%, primarily due to higher expenses related to personal costs as we continue to build out our sales administrative teams. Litigation expense was $2,300,000 a decrease of $288,000 from the prior quarter due to the timing of expenses related to various legal matters. Interest expense during the Q2 was $15,500,000 we are down $398,000 from the prior quarter due to the continued debt repayments. Our current effective interest rate, which includes amortization of debt issuance costs, remains at approximately 9.5%. Speaker 300:12:22Effective July 1st, the variable component of our interest rate will be based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate or SOFR due to the discontinuation of LIBOR going forward. This change will not have an impact on our interest expense as both rates mirror each other. Other income was $1,600,000 and was primarily related to interest income recognized on revenue agreements with long term billing structures under ASC 606 and due to interest earned on our cash and investment portfolio. Our adjusted EBITDA for the Q2 was $51,700,000 reflecting an adjusted EBITDA margin of 62%. Depreciation expense for the quarter was approximately $385,000 our non GAAP income tax rate remained constant at 23% for the quarter. Speaker 300:13:22Our income tax expense consists primarily of federal and state domestic taxes as well as Korean withholding taxes. We will now begin the Q2. We ended the Q2 with $84,300,000 in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. During the quarter, we generated $28,700,000 in cash from operations. Additionally, we made $20,100,000 in principal payments on our debt. Speaker 300:13:56As a result, we ended the quarter with a term loan balance of $645,500,000 also during the Q2, we paid a cash dividend of $0.05 per share of common stock. Additionally, our Board approved the payment of another $0.05 per share dividend to be paid on September 18th to shareholders of record as of August 28th. Now I will go over our guidance for the full year 2023. Our progress is in line with what we communicated during our last earnings call, and we remain on track for achieving the full year annual guidance we set forth in. With that, we reiterate our full year 2023 guidance with our revenue expectation of $385,000,000 to $415,000,000 As a reminder, our quarterly revenue can be lumpy from quarter to quarter as we tend to do a somewhat small number of large agreements that can impact the timing of revenue from quarter to quarter. Speaker 300:15:05We expect operating expenses to be in the range of $135,000,000 to $145,000,000 We expect interest expense to be in the range of $64,000,000 to $67,000,000 and we expect other income to be in the range of $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 we expect a resulting adjusted EBITDA margin of 66%. Additionally, we expect cash flows from operations to be in the range of $185,000,000 to $215,000,000 we expect the non GAAP tax rate to remain consistent at roughly 23% for the full year. We have also updated our guidance for the GAAP tax rate, as it has been impacted by foreign currency remeasurements associated with the Korean withholding taxes, which we are expected to receive a refund for in future years. As this is merely a remeasurement, it does not affect our cash taxes paid nor our non GAAP tax rate. We also continue to expect capital expenditures to be approximately $5,000,000 for the full year. Speaker 300:16:20The first half of twenty twenty three has progressed as we have planned. With 9 deals signed in the Q2, our deal momentum has remained strong. And I am very optimistic our funnel of deals for the second half of the year positions us well to achieve our full year goals. Our strong performance further reinforces our current baseline revenue of $375,000,000 and with the strength of our pipeline, we are excited about the future growth opportunities that will allow our baseline revenue to grow. That brings it into our prepared remarks. Speaker 300:16:56And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to the operator to begin our question and answer session. Operator? Speaker 500:17:04Thank you, Mr. Jones. And just a reminder, if you do find your we'll take our first question this afternoon from Hamed Khorsand at BWS Financial. Speaker 400:17:25Hi. Just one clarification, you're talking about your patent portfolio expanding, is that all internal innovation? Or are you looking at acquiring patents in the near term? Speaker 200:17:37Hi, Ahmed. Good question. Yes, we are so far the growth has been almost entirely organic R and D which is what we focus on, we do look for opportunities though to acquire portfolios as well to augment our own internal R and D Speaker 400:17:59efforts. Okay. And then as far as the free cash flow is concerned, do you think it's going to be linear for the rest of the year as far as what you generate? And do you think you're over the hump as far as interest expense Rising in this environment as you're paying it down. Speaker 300:18:17Hey, Hamlet. How are you doing? In terms of the free cash flow, we actually expect that to kind of go in the same general directions that are revenues. So to the extent that we have the deal being signed and the timing of billings. So we see volatility and we saw that from Q1 to Q2. Speaker 300:18:36And we would anticipate seeing a bit of that in Q3, with Q3 kind of being somewhat relatively consistent and then having a little bit more forward momentum as we close out the year. But in terms of the interest rate, we're still relatively conservative, so we're still baking in some further increases. So with that, we're kind of keeping that guidance the same on interest expense. Speaker 400:19:12Okay. And then Paul, I know in the last couple of quarters you've talked about music streaming being one of your focuses as being an area to expand on, is that still the case or do you think that you would get new licensees from other end markets first? Speaker 200:19:30Yeah. It's still the most likely to be first. I think we're focused on music streaming, adtech and e commerce is kind of the soonest of the adjacent markets. But music streaming would still be my expectation of what would come in first. Speaker 400:19:50Okay. Thank you. Speaker 200:19:52Thanks, thanks, Alman. Speaker 500:19:55Thank you. We take our next question now from Nick Zangler at Stephens. Speaker 600:20:01Hey guys, how's it going? So it sounds like performance this quarter was in line with your expectations. And obviously, we saw most of the contracts signed in the quarter. They were renewals and but you did get the new OTT media licensee in Dizon, can you just talk about the full year revenue guide here? It remains unchanged. Speaker 600:20:25What has to happen To hit the low end of that guide and what has to happen to hit the high end of the guide knowing that we've got a few months left, 5 months left here. We've got one, I guess, new licensee signed in DAZN, as of recently. But maybe you could just talk about those two scenarios and then if you can just peel back the onion on maybe how many Deals you're currently working on and expectations or likelihood that they do get signed by year end. Speaker 300:20:58Well, Nick, one of the things I love about my job is going into sales meetings and looking at our pipeline. It's absolutely exciting to me. And for us and when we grow and thinking about how we're going to get to the next level and then kind of maximize our opportunities, it's just a matter of timing. And it's a matter of timing in light of the economics that we're trying to reach in these deals. So frankly, we could close out a lot more deals and we could have some slightly different inflection points for our revenue, but to us, that would be sacrificing long term benefit to the company. Speaker 300:21:33So really what I'm getting at is that the pipeline is there. There's nothing in it that's fleeting. It's really going to come down that have we reached the economic terms that we like at that point in time? And to the extent that we don't, we'll let things play out a little bit more. So that's really entirely the difference between us being at the low end of the range or the high Speaker 200:21:58Yes. I would just add, Nick, that what Keith mentioned last quarter and what he said earlier on this call is we had a few renewals that we fully anticipated being in the second half of the year, and that's still our current expectation. And that's really the fluctuation you see in that quarter to quarter, but we still have high confidence in our guidance range. Speaker 600:22:25Got it. And I guess with that said, and I know you guys don't provide quarterly guidance, but How would you recommend The Street model, I guess, 3Q relative to 4Q? Any way to kind of Frame that split between what 3Q and 4Q look like given the full year outlook? Speaker 300:22:47It's a great question. Really, because of that volatility we talked about we're really going to just focus on the back half in total is that relative to the midpoint of $400,000,000 and we said it's being evenly split, that's what we're focusing. So there could be a little bit of volatility from 1 quarter to next from Q3 to Q4. But in any event, that 200, relative to the midpoint of guidance, we remain confident. Speaker 600:23:21Got it. All right. Last one. I'm glad you guys talked about it. Everyone has to these days, artificial intelligence. Speaker 600:23:27Can you just expand on the ways in which Adia does support the proliferation of AI. And if there's any way you could either tie your current revenue base or maybe your Pat and portfolio, 2 AI use cases at least just to gauge your current exposure or how you think about exposure currently? Thanks. Speaker 200:23:50Sure, Nick. Happy to expand on that. And I'd really look at it both from the media and the semiconductor part of our business differently. But starting with media, we've always been an innovator using AI like natural language processing, machine learning technology that is part of our current portfolio. It's been part of our innovations that have actually helped drive current current license agreements that we have. Speaker 200:24:18We're also today focused on AI technologies, primarily around you know, kind of VR, AR, mixed reality, use cases as we see, you know, those developing, in the marketplace. Going forward though, what excites me in media is really the AI economy broadly as there's a proliferation of more content out there that's using AI and how we can capitalize on that development as well. So for us, this generative AI explosion is very exciting as we look forward in the media space and how much more we're going to be out there in terms of our efforts and how our portfolio will continue to apply. So our R and D team, led by Serhad Dokhan is focused on this area. They talk about AI all the time, and we've got key inventors that have always been and continue to be looking at ways that they can use AI in our innovation cycle. Speaker 200:25:18You know, on the semi side, it's really, you know, what, What has driven the ability, you know, AI has been around for a while. The current, generative AI explosion that you're seeing today is because semiconductors now are able to process so much of this, right? And the next generation of semiconductor chips that are going to continue to be able to process more and more on the edge in particular is going to need advancements in semiconductor technologies. And our hybrid bonding in our advanced processing node portfolios fit within that perfectly. And so we're very excited about that development as well and how we can continue to add to the ecosystem that's driving this development. Speaker 600:26:04Much appreciated, guys. Thank you. Speaker 200:26:06Thanks Speaker 500:26:08Nick. Thank you. We're going to pass now to Matthew Galinko. Excuse me, Mr. Davis, Mr. Speaker 500:26:16Jones, it looks like we lost Mr. Dalenko. Ladies and gentlemen, any Speaker 600:26:36we will be conducting a few questions. And Mr. Davis, it appears we Speaker 500:26:40have no further questions today. I'd like to turn the conference back to you for any closing comments. Speaker 200:26:45Thank you, operator. Our 2nd quarter results were in line with our expectations. We continue to make progress executing our strong deal pipeline, and we remain on track to meet our goals set out earlier this year. Also, we will be meeting with investors in the next couple of weeks we will be attending the BWS Conference on August 17th, the Rosenblatt Age of AI Conference on August 23rd and the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference on August 30. We look forward to discussing our progress at these and other events later in the year. Speaker 200:27:21Thank you for joining us today. Speaker 500:27:26Thank you. 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Email Address About AdeiaAdeia (NASDAQ:ADEA), together with its subsidiaries, operates as a media and semiconductor intellectual property licensing company in the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and internationally. The company licenses its patent portfolios across various markets, including multichannel video programming distributors comprising cable, satellite, and telecommunications television providers that aggregate and distribute linear content over networks, as well as television providers that aggregate and stream linear content over broadband networks; over-the-top video service providers and social media companies, such as subscription video-on-demand and advertising-supported streaming service providers, as well as content providers, networks, and media companies. It also licenses consumer electronics manufacturers, which includes producers of smart televisions, streaming media devices, video game consoles, mobile devices, content storage devices, and other connected media devices; semiconductors, including providers of sensors, radio frequency components, memory, and logic devices; and social media companies that allow users to stream and upload user-generated content. The company licenses its innovations under the Adeia brand name. Adeia Inc. was formerly known as Xperi Corporation and changed its name to Adeia Inc. in December 2019. 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There are 7 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Day, everyone. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Adia's Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in a listen only mode. Following the presentation, the call will open up for questions. Operator00:00:14I would like to now turn the call over to Chris Chaney, Vice President of Investor Relations for Adia. Chris, please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:22Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us as we share with you details of our Q2 2023 financial results. With me on the call today are Paul Davis, our President and CEO and Keith Jones, our CFO. Paul will share with you some general observations regarding our Q2, and then Keith will give further details on our financial results and guidance. We will then conclude with a question and answer period. Speaker 100:00:50In addition to today's earnings release, there is an earnings presentation which you can access along with the webcast in the IR portion of our website. Before turning the call over to Paul, I would like to provide a few reminders. First, today's discussion contains forward looking statements that are predictions, projections or other statements about future events, which are based on management's current expectations and beliefs, and therefore, subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances. For more information on the risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from what we discuss today, please refer to the Risk Factors section in our SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10 ks and our quarterly report on Form 10 Q. Please note that the company does not intend to update or alter these forward looking statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after this call. Speaker 100:01:48To enhance investors' understanding of our ongoing economic performance, we will discuss non GAAP information during this call. We use non GAAP financial measures internally to evaluate and manage are operations. We have therefore chosen to provide this information to enable you to perform comparisons of our operating results as we do internally. We have provided reconciliations of these non GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in the earnings release, the earnings presentation and on the Investor Relations section of our website. A recording of this conference call will be available on the Investor Relations website atadia.com. Speaker 100:02:29Now I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Paul Davis. Speaker 200:02:33Thank you, Chris, and thank you everyone for joining us today. During the Q2, our deal momentum continued as we signed 9 agreements with a diverse group of pay TV, OTT, Consumer Electronics and Semiconductor customers in both domestic and international markets. We delivered another quarter of strong financial results with revenue of $83,200,000 and adjusted EBITDA of $51,700,000 We paid down approximately $20,000,000 of debt in the 2nd quarter, bringing our debt paydowns and separation to over $114,000,000 In addition, we are on track to expand our patent portfolios by 10% this year. I am also excited to announce that we have expanded our Board with the addition of Adam Rimer. Adam is a well respected executive with over 20 years of experience in the technology, media in Entertainment Industries, and he has hands on experience leading organizations in gaming, TV, film, music and live streaming. Speaker 200:03:47With his impressive track record of driving innovation at a wide variety of organizations, I am confident Adam will be a valued addition to our Board. Turning back to the quarter, our deal momentum continued. Of the 9 deals we signed in Q2, 8 were in Media and 1 was in Semiconductor. Within Media, we signed a significant long term license renewal with Cox Communications. With the Cox renewal, we have now signed 3 multi year renewals with the top 10 U. Speaker 200:04:19S. Pay TV providers in the first half of the year. These renewals continue to validate the strength of our media portfolio in this market. Additionally, we signed an important new license agreement with DAZN, a leading OTT provider of global sports programming. This is an exciting deal in an emerging market for us, and OTT will be a catalyst for our future growth as we continue to expand our customers in this market. Speaker 200:04:49Other deals we signed in the quarter included multi year renewals with NCO, a domestic provider of technology services to the hospitality industry Freeview Australia, a free digital TV service provider Technosat, a German provider of digital video consumer electronics products and Massillon Cable, a domestic pay TV operator. These deals illustrate the breadth of our portfolio and applicability to customers in multiple jurisdictions and markets. Our commitment to innovation drives deals with new customers and our high renewal rate, which has averaged over 90% the past several years. We grow our patent portfolios primarily through investment in internal R and D, where we strategically invest in new technologies, we anticipate emerging in our core markets and beyond. Growing our IP portfolio is important for several reasons. Speaker 200:05:47First, it allows us to retain our current customers we continue to maintain our core business and thus maintains the pre existing revenue base. Our customers benefit because they can utilize not only the patents existing in our portfolio when they initiated their license agreements, but they also typically get access to new IP we add during the term of those agreements. 2nd, expanding our portfolio also attracts new customers as they find value in our innovations, which enable them to differentiate their products and services in their markets. We take great pride in our long history of being pioneers and innovators in both the media and semiconductor markets, that history of success is based on being a visionary of emerging trends that derive the evolution of technology. Our R and D teams are always focused on the future and what technologies will be adopted and our customers' upcoming products. Speaker 200:06:43Our focus on advanced R and D and IP development have positioned us particularly well in both our media we are in Semiconductor Businesses to capitalize on the recent explosion of generative AI. In our Media business, we have been investing in AI enabling technologies such as computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing for years. Today our portfolio contains significant coverage in these areas, and this has helped drive license agreements in multiple verticals of our media business. And we believe these and other innovations will enable us to expand our customer base in new media verticals, such as adtech and e commerce. Generative AI also requires high performance computing and advancements in semiconductor technologies. Speaker 200:07:35The demand for emerging logic nodes, next generation high bandwidth memory and advanced system packaging is increasing to meet those needs. Our advanced processing node portfolio and our investment in hybrid bonding have established us as a recognized pioneer we will be conducting a few key initiatives in enabling technologies that will drive tomorrow's AI. Before I turn the call over to Keith to further discuss our financials, I would like to briefly provide an update on our measures of success. I am very pleased with the progress we have made to date in each of these key areas. Future revenue growth will be primarily driven by opportunities in OTT, such as our recent deal with DAZN, in addition to adjacent market opportunities such as adtech, automotive, e commerce, gaming, music streaming and sports gambling. Speaker 200:08:30Importantly, these adjacent markets are entirely greenfield opportunities, and we believe they can be significant revenue contributors in the future. We continue to make progress in OTT in our adjacent markets and customer engagements are at various stages. We also remain very excited about our hybrid bonding and advanced processing node portfolios applicability in the logic market for our semiconductor business. As we see these technologies being a catalyst for leading edge logic devices. Our pipeline of deals remains diverse and robust, we believe our deal momentum will continue for the rest of the year. Speaker 200:09:12Lastly, as noted earlier, we remain on track to grow our patent portfolios 10% this year. With that, let me turn the call over to Keith to cover our Q2 financial results and our guidance for 2023. Speaker 300:09:27Thank you, Paul. I am very pleased to be speaking with you today to share details of our Q2 2023 Financial Results. Our 2nd quarter results were very much in line with the guidance provided during our last call. Revenue for the Q2 was $83,200,000 a decrease of 29% from the prior quarter. Last quarter, when we gave color on the revenue trends we expected to see during the course of the year, we noted that the Q2 would be the low point due to certain renewals we anticipated closing in the second half of the year. Speaker 300:10:02And we also noted that we expected the first half of the year and the second half of the year to be evenly split relative to the midpoint of the annual guidance we provided. In the first half of the year, we delivered revenue of $200,500,000 This is exactly in line with what we laid out in last orders call and with our strong pipeline, we remain on track to reach our full year revenue guidance. We generated revenue from the execution of 9 license agreements in the quarter, including a significant renewal with Cox Communications in a new license agreement with OTT sports program provider DAZN. 7 of the 9 license agreements we signed in the Q2 were renewals. Our renewal rate remains very strong at greater than 90%. Speaker 300:11:00As Paul discussed, this is driven by our ongoing dedication to growing and evolving our IP portfolios, which are fueled by our continued investments in R and D. Now I'd like to discuss our operating expenses, for which I will be referring to non GAAP numbers only. For the Q2, operating expenses were $31,900,000 Speaker 400:11:26we are now flat compared to the prior quarter. Speaker 300:11:27Research and development expenses were relatively consistent as we remain committed to growing our IP portfolios. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased $377,000 or 2%, primarily due to higher expenses related to personal costs as we continue to build out our sales administrative teams. Litigation expense was $2,300,000 a decrease of $288,000 from the prior quarter due to the timing of expenses related to various legal matters. Interest expense during the Q2 was $15,500,000 we are down $398,000 from the prior quarter due to the continued debt repayments. Our current effective interest rate, which includes amortization of debt issuance costs, remains at approximately 9.5%. Speaker 300:12:22Effective July 1st, the variable component of our interest rate will be based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate or SOFR due to the discontinuation of LIBOR going forward. This change will not have an impact on our interest expense as both rates mirror each other. Other income was $1,600,000 and was primarily related to interest income recognized on revenue agreements with long term billing structures under ASC 606 and due to interest earned on our cash and investment portfolio. Our adjusted EBITDA for the Q2 was $51,700,000 reflecting an adjusted EBITDA margin of 62%. Depreciation expense for the quarter was approximately $385,000 our non GAAP income tax rate remained constant at 23% for the quarter. Speaker 300:13:22Our income tax expense consists primarily of federal and state domestic taxes as well as Korean withholding taxes. We will now begin the Q2. We ended the Q2 with $84,300,000 in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. During the quarter, we generated $28,700,000 in cash from operations. Additionally, we made $20,100,000 in principal payments on our debt. Speaker 300:13:56As a result, we ended the quarter with a term loan balance of $645,500,000 also during the Q2, we paid a cash dividend of $0.05 per share of common stock. Additionally, our Board approved the payment of another $0.05 per share dividend to be paid on September 18th to shareholders of record as of August 28th. Now I will go over our guidance for the full year 2023. Our progress is in line with what we communicated during our last earnings call, and we remain on track for achieving the full year annual guidance we set forth in. With that, we reiterate our full year 2023 guidance with our revenue expectation of $385,000,000 to $415,000,000 As a reminder, our quarterly revenue can be lumpy from quarter to quarter as we tend to do a somewhat small number of large agreements that can impact the timing of revenue from quarter to quarter. Speaker 300:15:05We expect operating expenses to be in the range of $135,000,000 to $145,000,000 We expect interest expense to be in the range of $64,000,000 to $67,000,000 and we expect other income to be in the range of $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 we expect a resulting adjusted EBITDA margin of 66%. Additionally, we expect cash flows from operations to be in the range of $185,000,000 to $215,000,000 we expect the non GAAP tax rate to remain consistent at roughly 23% for the full year. We have also updated our guidance for the GAAP tax rate, as it has been impacted by foreign currency remeasurements associated with the Korean withholding taxes, which we are expected to receive a refund for in future years. As this is merely a remeasurement, it does not affect our cash taxes paid nor our non GAAP tax rate. We also continue to expect capital expenditures to be approximately $5,000,000 for the full year. Speaker 300:16:20The first half of twenty twenty three has progressed as we have planned. With 9 deals signed in the Q2, our deal momentum has remained strong. And I am very optimistic our funnel of deals for the second half of the year positions us well to achieve our full year goals. Our strong performance further reinforces our current baseline revenue of $375,000,000 and with the strength of our pipeline, we are excited about the future growth opportunities that will allow our baseline revenue to grow. That brings it into our prepared remarks. Speaker 300:16:56And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to the operator to begin our question and answer session. Operator? Speaker 500:17:04Thank you, Mr. Jones. And just a reminder, if you do find your we'll take our first question this afternoon from Hamed Khorsand at BWS Financial. Speaker 400:17:25Hi. Just one clarification, you're talking about your patent portfolio expanding, is that all internal innovation? Or are you looking at acquiring patents in the near term? Speaker 200:17:37Hi, Ahmed. Good question. Yes, we are so far the growth has been almost entirely organic R and D which is what we focus on, we do look for opportunities though to acquire portfolios as well to augment our own internal R and D Speaker 400:17:59efforts. Okay. And then as far as the free cash flow is concerned, do you think it's going to be linear for the rest of the year as far as what you generate? And do you think you're over the hump as far as interest expense Rising in this environment as you're paying it down. Speaker 300:18:17Hey, Hamlet. How are you doing? In terms of the free cash flow, we actually expect that to kind of go in the same general directions that are revenues. So to the extent that we have the deal being signed and the timing of billings. So we see volatility and we saw that from Q1 to Q2. Speaker 300:18:36And we would anticipate seeing a bit of that in Q3, with Q3 kind of being somewhat relatively consistent and then having a little bit more forward momentum as we close out the year. But in terms of the interest rate, we're still relatively conservative, so we're still baking in some further increases. So with that, we're kind of keeping that guidance the same on interest expense. Speaker 400:19:12Okay. And then Paul, I know in the last couple of quarters you've talked about music streaming being one of your focuses as being an area to expand on, is that still the case or do you think that you would get new licensees from other end markets first? Speaker 200:19:30Yeah. It's still the most likely to be first. I think we're focused on music streaming, adtech and e commerce is kind of the soonest of the adjacent markets. But music streaming would still be my expectation of what would come in first. Speaker 400:19:50Okay. Thank you. Speaker 200:19:52Thanks, thanks, Alman. Speaker 500:19:55Thank you. We take our next question now from Nick Zangler at Stephens. Speaker 600:20:01Hey guys, how's it going? So it sounds like performance this quarter was in line with your expectations. And obviously, we saw most of the contracts signed in the quarter. They were renewals and but you did get the new OTT media licensee in Dizon, can you just talk about the full year revenue guide here? It remains unchanged. Speaker 600:20:25What has to happen To hit the low end of that guide and what has to happen to hit the high end of the guide knowing that we've got a few months left, 5 months left here. We've got one, I guess, new licensee signed in DAZN, as of recently. But maybe you could just talk about those two scenarios and then if you can just peel back the onion on maybe how many Deals you're currently working on and expectations or likelihood that they do get signed by year end. Speaker 300:20:58Well, Nick, one of the things I love about my job is going into sales meetings and looking at our pipeline. It's absolutely exciting to me. And for us and when we grow and thinking about how we're going to get to the next level and then kind of maximize our opportunities, it's just a matter of timing. And it's a matter of timing in light of the economics that we're trying to reach in these deals. So frankly, we could close out a lot more deals and we could have some slightly different inflection points for our revenue, but to us, that would be sacrificing long term benefit to the company. Speaker 300:21:33So really what I'm getting at is that the pipeline is there. There's nothing in it that's fleeting. It's really going to come down that have we reached the economic terms that we like at that point in time? And to the extent that we don't, we'll let things play out a little bit more. So that's really entirely the difference between us being at the low end of the range or the high Speaker 200:21:58Yes. I would just add, Nick, that what Keith mentioned last quarter and what he said earlier on this call is we had a few renewals that we fully anticipated being in the second half of the year, and that's still our current expectation. And that's really the fluctuation you see in that quarter to quarter, but we still have high confidence in our guidance range. Speaker 600:22:25Got it. And I guess with that said, and I know you guys don't provide quarterly guidance, but How would you recommend The Street model, I guess, 3Q relative to 4Q? Any way to kind of Frame that split between what 3Q and 4Q look like given the full year outlook? Speaker 300:22:47It's a great question. Really, because of that volatility we talked about we're really going to just focus on the back half in total is that relative to the midpoint of $400,000,000 and we said it's being evenly split, that's what we're focusing. So there could be a little bit of volatility from 1 quarter to next from Q3 to Q4. But in any event, that 200, relative to the midpoint of guidance, we remain confident. Speaker 600:23:21Got it. All right. Last one. I'm glad you guys talked about it. Everyone has to these days, artificial intelligence. Speaker 600:23:27Can you just expand on the ways in which Adia does support the proliferation of AI. And if there's any way you could either tie your current revenue base or maybe your Pat and portfolio, 2 AI use cases at least just to gauge your current exposure or how you think about exposure currently? Thanks. Speaker 200:23:50Sure, Nick. Happy to expand on that. And I'd really look at it both from the media and the semiconductor part of our business differently. But starting with media, we've always been an innovator using AI like natural language processing, machine learning technology that is part of our current portfolio. It's been part of our innovations that have actually helped drive current current license agreements that we have. Speaker 200:24:18We're also today focused on AI technologies, primarily around you know, kind of VR, AR, mixed reality, use cases as we see, you know, those developing, in the marketplace. Going forward though, what excites me in media is really the AI economy broadly as there's a proliferation of more content out there that's using AI and how we can capitalize on that development as well. So for us, this generative AI explosion is very exciting as we look forward in the media space and how much more we're going to be out there in terms of our efforts and how our portfolio will continue to apply. So our R and D team, led by Serhad Dokhan is focused on this area. They talk about AI all the time, and we've got key inventors that have always been and continue to be looking at ways that they can use AI in our innovation cycle. Speaker 200:25:18You know, on the semi side, it's really, you know, what, What has driven the ability, you know, AI has been around for a while. The current, generative AI explosion that you're seeing today is because semiconductors now are able to process so much of this, right? And the next generation of semiconductor chips that are going to continue to be able to process more and more on the edge in particular is going to need advancements in semiconductor technologies. And our hybrid bonding in our advanced processing node portfolios fit within that perfectly. And so we're very excited about that development as well and how we can continue to add to the ecosystem that's driving this development. Speaker 600:26:04Much appreciated, guys. Thank you. Speaker 200:26:06Thanks Speaker 500:26:08Nick. Thank you. We're going to pass now to Matthew Galinko. Excuse me, Mr. Davis, Mr. Speaker 500:26:16Jones, it looks like we lost Mr. Dalenko. Ladies and gentlemen, any Speaker 600:26:36we will be conducting a few questions. And Mr. Davis, it appears we Speaker 500:26:40have no further questions today. I'd like to turn the conference back to you for any closing comments. Speaker 200:26:45Thank you, operator. Our 2nd quarter results were in line with our expectations. We continue to make progress executing our strong deal pipeline, and we remain on track to meet our goals set out earlier this year. Also, we will be meeting with investors in the next couple of weeks we will be attending the BWS Conference on August 17th, the Rosenblatt Age of AI Conference on August 23rd and the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference on August 30. We look forward to discussing our progress at these and other events later in the year. Speaker 200:27:21Thank you for joining us today. Speaker 500:27:26Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen, that will conclude the Adia Q2 2023 earnings I'd like to thank you all so much for joining us and wish you all a great day.Read morePowered by