TransUnion Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the TransUnion twenty twenty five First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen only mode. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Greg Mardi, Vice President, Investor Relations.

Operator

Please go ahead.

Gregory Bardi
Gregory Bardi
VP-IR at TransUnion

Good morning and thank you for attending today. Joining me on the call are Chris Cartwright, President and Chief Executive Officer and Todd Cello, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We posted our earnings release and slides to accompany this call on the TransUnion Investor Relations website this morning, and they can also be found in the current report on Form eight ks that we filed this morning. Our earnings release and the accompanying slides include various schedules, which contain more detailed information about revenue, operating expenses and other items, as well as certain non GAAP disclosures and financial measures along with their corresponding reconciliations of these non GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures. Today's call will be recorded and a replay will be available on our website.

Gregory Bardi
Gregory Bardi
VP-IR at TransUnion

We will also be making statements during this call that are forward looking. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements because of factors discussed in today's earnings release and the comments made during this conference call and in our most recent Form 10 ks, Forms 10 Q and other reports and filings with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward looking statement. With that, let me turn it over to Chris.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Thanks, Greg. Let me add my welcome and share our agenda for the call this morning. First, I'll provide the highlights of our first quarter twenty twenty five results and a brief overview of what we are experiencing across our markets. Second, I'll discuss progress toward our 2025 strategic priorities. Finally, Todd will detail our first quarter results and 2025 guidance.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

He'll also offer perspective on how our diversified portfolio positions us to navigate current market uncertainty. In the first quarter, TransUnion exceeded financial results on all key metrics. For a fifth straight quarter, we delivered high single digit organic revenue growth and double digit adjusted diluted EPS growth, once again highlighting our ability to drive strong results in a subdued macro environment. Revenue grew 8% on an organic constant currency basis, above our 5% to 6% guidance. Excluding mortgage, our growth of 6% also exceeded expectations.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Our U. S. Market segment delivered 9% growth in the quarter. Within that financial services grew 15% in total and growth excluding mortgage accelerated to 9%. Across all lending types, we continue to outperform overall volume growth by driving new business wins across our solution suite.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Consumer lending and auto both grew double digits and card and banking grew mid single digits. Activity from FinTech lenders picked up supported by improved funding and heightened consumer demand for debt consolidation products. Mortgage was up 27% modestly above expectations due to favorable pricing and additional non triburo mortgage revenue. Mortgage inquiries were down roughly 10%. Emerging verticals grew 6% led by double digit growth in insurance as well as improved growth across our diversified verticals.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Tech retail and e commerce and telecommunications verticals accelerated to mid single digits growth benefiting from improved bookings and revenue performance in our marketing and communication solutions. Tenant and employment screening grew high single digits against healthy industry volumes as we lapped the impact of our product recalibration due to revised regulations and increased new business wins. Consumer Interactive declined 1% as anticipated as we continue to turn around the segment. We expect to complete the launch of our new freemium solution later this quarter. And international grew 6% on a constant currency basis.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

As expected, India grew 1% as we lapped robust activity in the prior year. We remain confident in reaccelerating our growth rate in India throughout 2025 supported by growth in our non consumer business, new business wins and increases in consumer lending activity. The Reserve Bank of India has continued its pro growth actions recently with another interest rate cut in April and the reauthorization of lending by several important non bank finance companies that were restricted in 2024. We expect that lending conditions will further strengthen as the year progresses. The rest of our international markets grew high single digits including The UK which delivered very strong 9% plus growth.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Our strong financial results supported progress against our refreshed capital allocation strategy. Our leverage ratio declined to 2.9 times down from 3.5 times a year ago. We repurchased 10,000,000 of shares in March and April, our first share repurchase since 2017. We anticipate greater flexibility for capital deployment including share repurchases as the year unfolds. We will balance capital deployment against our goal to delever below 2.5 times before funding the Mexico acquisition later this year.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

We achieved strong results despite subdued market conditions in the first quarter overcoming elevated interest rates and softening business and consumer sentiment. Looking ahead, we are maintaining our organic growth guidance for the full year balancing our strong start and conservative volume assumptions against ongoing market uncertainty. As a reminder, the high end of our guidance in February assumed subdued yet stable lending volumes over the course of 2025, underpinned by healthy conditions for both consumers and our customers. S.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Economy entered 2025 with low unemployment, modest real wage growth and manageable inflation. Our customers were cautiously optimistic supported by stable consumer finances, low delinquencies, replenished deposits and improved access to the capital markets. In the first quarter, revenue and loan volumes tracked ahead of our expectations for U. S. Financial services.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Volume trends remained consistent through the April. Our international portfolio including India continues to perform well as anticipated. A continuation of these trends would support results at or above the high end of our guidance. That said, recent proposals in The U. S.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Around tariffs, trade and fiscal policy have added risk around the trajectory of employment, inflation, interest rates and global economic growth. The ten year U. S. Treasury rate has fluctuated over the last two months and remains elevated, although below its mid January peak. The Fed is maintaining a cautious approach on monetary policy, opting to wait for more clarity on potential impacts of policy.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

We are actively monitoring market dynamics and the impact of policy changes on consumers and our customers. Now Todd will provide additional details on our guidance assumptions, our portfolio dynamics and how we plan to manage the business if conditions soften. I'll spend the rest of my time this morning detailing our recent progress on the three pillars of our transformation enhancing our global operating model, completing our technology modernization and accelerating innovation across our solutions portfolio. We continue to refine and enhance our global operating model to standardize how we operate and build scale across the organization. In 2025, we plan to further develop our best in class global capability centers and improve collaboration across our functional matrix to accelerate solutions innovation.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

A world class global operating model requires strong leaders and we made key additions in the quarter. Tiffany Chambers is our new Chief Operations Officer. She joins us from Bank of America where she most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of its Retail Banking Division. Prior to that she served as Chief Operating Officer for the bank's Global Banking and Markets, Risk, Finance and Infrastructure Technology team. At TransUnion, Tiffany will focus on delivering premium experiences for consumers and customers, overseeing activities including consumer relations, customer delivery and relationship management, TU's Global Capability Centers and our Procurement and Real Estate.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Mohamed Abdul Sadek has also assumed the role of Chief Global Solutions Officer. He joins us from Mastercard where he held several executive roles and served on the company's management committee. In his last position, Mohammad was responsible for the Business and Markets Insight Group where he developed and commercialized products that grew into a multibillion dollar operation. The group delivered data insights and analytics solutions across over 100 countries using Mastercard and customer data. He was also responsible for the global consulting business that provided advisory services to financial institutions and retail and commerce organization.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Mohamed's focus will be to advance innovation across TransUnion's global product portfolio. Now Tiffany and Mohamed represent the high quality of talent that we're attracting as we scale our business to drive greater innovation and service to our customers and consumers. Our operating model optimization complements the next pillar of our transformation, which is modernizing our technology into a global configurable cloud based platform. We delivered on key milestones in the first quarter to migrate U. S.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Credit customers to One True. We are initially focused on dual running over 90 U. S. Credit customers on One True in our legacy platforms simultaneously. The One True platform is managing well the scale and complexity of these many challenging workloads and we've planned additional rollouts in the coming months.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

We are achieving notable performance and innovation improvements on the new platform including over 50% faster processing speeds, enhanced cyber security and compliance and rapid development and deployment of new scores and attributes. This quarter, we launched a proprietary AI powered tool for our developers called One True Assist. One True Assist leverages advanced language models to help our developers auto generate repetitive code, convert code between languages and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. True Assist can be used across the One True software development lifecycle and we're already seeing a 20% to 50% lift in our developers productivity from leveraging the tool. We expect to expand our adoption and use cases of this tool throughout the year.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

And finally, we began mobilizing our teams internationally for the migration of Canada, UK and The Philippines to One True in 2026. We will begin key capability development over the course of this year. And our final transformation pillar is accelerating innovation and growth across our solutions. We continue to make strong progress across our product suites. In February, we discussed the reinvigoration of our Consumer Interactive business.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Throughout the quarter, we performed initial testing and consumer migrations to our new freemium offering in The U. S, positioning us for a full rollout by the end of the second quarter. We also completed the acquisition of Menevo on April infrastructure enables lenders and banks to deliver highly personalized credit offers to consumers through freemium websites and other online publishers. We're already adding new publishers and top tier lenders to the platform to complete a robust marketplace. And we experienced strong demand for our TrueIQ analytics suite, including a sizable pipeline and increasing revenue realization for data enrichment.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

We also continue to build out functionality for our end to end credit marketing suite that we call advanced acquisition. We launched Credit Strategy Studios beta program with multiple customers and with many more in the pipeline. In fraud, we onboarded new customers on the TruValidate integrated solutions with increasing customer interest. We also launched our new global device risk machine learning model, which delivers a material lift in predictiveness for account origination and some account management and login use cases. Marketing also delivered a solid first quarter with strong bookings as well as strong retention rates during a key renewal season for many of our true audience customers.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

And Trusted Call Solutions had another strong quarter of broad based growth across verticals. We remain on track to deliver $150,000,000 of TCS revenue in 2025, up from $115,000,000 in 2024. And now Todd will provide further details on our first quarter financial results and our full year 2025 outlook. Todd?

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Thanks, Chris. And let me add my welcome to everyone. As Chris mentioned, in the first quarter, we exceeded our guidance across all key financial metrics, driven by outperformance, particularly in U. S. Financial Services and Emerging Verticals.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

First quarter consolidated revenue increased 7% on a reported and 8% on an organic constant currency basis. There was no impact from acquisitions and a 1% headwind from foreign currency. Our business grew 6% on an organic constant currency basis, excluding mortgage from both the first quarter of twenty twenty four and 2025. Adjusted EBITDA increased 11% on a reported and 12% on a constant currency basis. Our adjusted EBITDA margin was 36.2%, up 115 basis points and above the high end of our expectations due primarily to revenue flow through, annualization of transformation savings and timing of certain investments.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Adjusted diluted earnings per share was 1.05 an increase of 15%. Finally, in the first quarter, we took $30,000,000 of onetime charges related to our transformation program, dollars 10,000,000 for operating model optimization and $20,000,000 for technology transformation. To date, we have incurred $287,000,000 of one time transformation expenses over the course of the program. Looking at segment financial performance for the first quarter, U. S.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Markets revenue was up 9% compared to the year ago quarter. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 37.4% or up 120 basis points, driven by revenue growth and transformation savings. Financial Services revenue grew 15% or 9% excluding mortgage. Our Credit Card and Banking business was up 5% against tempered online and batch volumes. We saw healthy new business wins for trusted call solutions and the broader TrueIQ analytics suite.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Consumer lending revenue grew 11%. We experienced strong marketing and online volumes as fintech lenders continued to reenter the market. We also delivered new fraud wins as we expand our solutions suite to this customer set. Our auto business grew 14%. Volumes were flattish year over year in January and February, but picked up in March, likely due to a pull forward of demand ahead of tariffs.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

In total, auto volumes in the first quarter were up modestly with growth driven by price realization as well as new wins in credit and communication solutions. For mortgage, revenue grew 27% compared to inquiry volumes down roughly 10%. Mortgage accounts for about 11% of TransUnion's trailing twelve month revenue. Emerging verticals growth accelerated to 6% in the quarter, led again by double digit growth in Insurance. Tech, Retail and eCommerce, Telco, Tenant and Employment all improved and delivered mid single digit or higher growth and Media grew low single digit.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Public sector declined modestly as the business lapsed strong double digit growth in the first half of last year. In Insurance, strong growth was supported by stable market conditions. Key segments of the Insurance market are expanding new business activity and posting solid results with marketing activity continuing to recover as rate adequacy improves, especially in personal lines auto. Insurance shopping remains active. We continue to deliver broad based new business wins, including in core credit and driving history as well as trusted call solutions and our modern marketing products.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Turning to Consumer Interactive. Revenue decreased 1%. As Chris noted, we made substantial progress towards launching our freemium offering later this quarter. We believe a key step in returning Consumer Interactive to sustainable growth over the long term. For my comments about International, all revenue growth comparisons will be in constant currency.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

For the total segment, revenue grew 6%. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 45.3%, up 10 basis points. Now let's dig into the specifics for each region. India grew 1% as anticipated as we lapped last year's robust activity. Commercial credit and new products like our API marketplace drove growth, offsetting declines in consumer credit volumes.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

We expect India growth to improve in the second quarter with further acceleration in the second half of the year, supporting our guidance for 10% growth for the full year. Our U. K. Business performed better than expected, growing 9%. We benefited from strong batch and online activity from our largest banking customers, continued improvement from FinTechs and new business wins across our diversified markets.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

In Canada, we grew 7% in a muted market, driven by wins in Financial Services and Consumer Indirect as well as healthy insurance activity. In Latin America, revenue also grew 7% with modest growth in Colombia and Brazil and double digit growth in our other Latin American countries. In Asia Pacific, we grew 8% led by strength in The Philippines. In The Second Quarter, we expect modestly negative growth in Asia Pacific as we lap onetime consulting revenue in the prior year. Finally, Africa increased 10% with broad based growth led by our retail and insurance verticals.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Turning to the balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $5,100,000,000 of debt and $610,000,000 of cash. Our leverage ratio at quarter end was 2.9 times. Through mid April, we repurchased $10,000,000 of shares, our first share repurchases since 2017. Consistent with our refreshed capital allocation approach, we will take a balanced approach to deploying capital over the remainder of the year.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

We remain focused on delevering to under 2.5 times. We plan to balance debt prepayment and share repurchases throughout the year based on market conditions. We also plan to preserve capital ahead of our TransUnion de Mexico acquisition, which we expect will close later this year. Turning to guidance. As Chris mentioned, we are maintaining our organic growth assumptions for the year.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

The only change to guidance from February is the incorporation of the acquisition of Monevo. Based on the trajectory in the first quarter and early April, our financial performance is tracking at or above the high end of our full year guidance. In that regard, we believe we can manage some level of U. S. Lending activity softening within our guidance range.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Conditions clearly remain fluid and we will monitor and update as appropriate. That brings us to our outlook for the second quarter. We expect FX to be a 1% headwind to revenue and adjusted EBITDA. We expect our Monevo acquisition to add 1% to revenue. Based on Monevo's geographic mix, its revenue will be reported mostly in our U.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

K. Business with a portion also in Consumer Interactive. We expect revenue to be between $1,076,000,000 and $1,095,000,000 or up three to 5% on an organic constant currency basis. Our revenue guidance includes approximately two points of tailwind from mortgage. In the second quarter, we expect mortgage inquiries to decline mid single digits.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Excluding mortgage, we expect the business to grow 1% to 3% on an organic constant currency basis. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $375,000,000 and $386,000,000 flat to up 3%. We expect adjusted EBITDA margin of 34.8% to 35.3%, down 90 basis points to 130 basis points as certain expenses shifted from the first to the second quarter. Our margin for the first half of the year is expected to be approaching 36%, similar to our expectation for the full year. We also expect our adjusted diluted earnings per share to be between $0.95 and $0.99 down 4% to flat.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Turning to the full year. We anticipate FX to be a 1% headwind to revenue and adjusted EBITDA and the Monevo acquisition to contribute 05% to revenue. We expect revenue to come in between 4,358,000,000.000 and $4,417,000,000 We continue to expect organic constant currency revenue growth of 4.5% to 6% or 2.5% to 4% excluding mortgage. These growth rates include 1% headwind from lapping against last year's large breach win, which occurred in last year's third quarter. Our business segment organic constant currency growth guidance is also unchanged.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

We expect U. S. Markets to grow mid single digit or up low single digit excluding mortgage. We anticipate financial services to be up low double digit or mid single digit excluding mortgage. We expect mortgage revenue to increase about 20% against modest declines in mortgage inquiries.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

We expect emerging verticals to be up mid single digit. We anticipate Consumer Interactive decreasing low single digit, but increasing low single digit when excluding the impact of last year's large breach win. We anticipate international growing high single digit. Turning back to total company outlook. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $1,549,000,000 and $1,590,000,000 up 3% to 6%, unchanged from February.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

That would result in adjusted EBITDA margin of 35.6% to 36%, down 40 basis points to flat. We expect limited adjusted EBITDA from Monivo in 2025 due to one time integration investment in the business, resulting in a 20 basis point drag to full year margins. We expect Monevo to scale to company level margins over time. We anticipate adjusted diluted earnings per share to be $3.93 to $4.08 flat to up 4%. Depreciation and amortization is expected to be approximately $570,000,000 We expect the portion excluding step up amortization from our 2012 change in control and subsequent acquisitions to be about $285,000,000 as technology modernization initiatives go into production and start to depreciate.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

We anticipate net interest expense will be about $195,000,000 for the full year, and we expect our adjusted tax rate to be approximately 26.5. Capital expenditures are expected to be about 8% of revenue. We expect to incur 100,000,000 to $120,000,000 in one time charges in 2025 related to the last year of our transformation program. Given those investments, we continue to expect our free cash flow conversion as a percentage of adjusted net income to be roughly 70% in 2025. Before turning it back to Chris, I want to provide perspective on our portfolio resiliency and our ability to navigate a changing economic environment.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Over the last decade, TransUnion has grown revenue organically at high single digit compounded annual growth rate and adjusted diluted earnings per share at a double digit CAGR. We delivered growth in each of the last five years despite periods of significant headwinds in key end markets. We grew 3% during COVID impacted 2020 and three percent in 2022 and 2023 despite sharp increases in interest rates and broad based slowdown in U. S. Lending volumes.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

This track record of growth is underpinned by our diversified and growthful portfolios across solutions, verticals and geographies. For example, U. S. Financial Services now accounts for one third of total revenue compared to 60% in 02/2007. We believe our business is stronger than ever in terms of the breadth of solutions expertise that we can deliver to help customers navigate a dynamic market environment.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Our ongoing transformation fortifies these strengths, enhancing our innovation and quality of service, while delivering efficiencies across our business. Slide 15 provides a breakdown of our U. S. Financial Services revenue by lending category. We believe our portfolio is broadly representative of the overall consumer lending ecosystem.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Through mid April, trends remain consistent with prior year and our guidance. That said, we are keenly aware of broader business and consumer uncertainty in the current environment. We plan to actively monitor risks and market dynamics. Taking a step back, I want to provide a couple of considerations for our U. S.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Financial Services business. As we discussed in February, current volumes are already at subdued below trend levels. Mortgage volumes are historically low at 50% below 2022 levels, while other lending types are also below robust 2022 levels. Additionally, consumer consumption is not the only driver of credit activity. If slowing economic growth leads to lower interest rates, refinancing opportunities would increase, most notably in mortgage.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Higher refinancing activity drove U. S. Financial Services growth in 2020. For context, there are 7,000,000 mortgages in The U. S.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

With interest rates above 6%, which compares to $5,000,000 total mortgage originations in 2024. That said, the current refinancing opportunity is limited with mortgage rates still in the high 6% range. Another lending type that we would expect to see good demand in a slowing economy is our consumer lending and fintech business, whether for loans to consolidate higher cost debt or for loans to manage near term financing needs. Finally, we've significantly broadened our solutions suite to U. S.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Financial services in recent years and not all of our revenue is generated from online or batch marketing credit volumes. Portfolio review and analytics enablement solutions account for a little under 10% of financial services revenue and demand is likely to be more resilient during peaks of market stress. Non credit solutions including fraud and communications account for an additional 20%. Most of this revenue is within our non mortgage lines of the business. The remaining two thirds of our portfolio is diversified across solutions, verticals and geographies.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

In emerging verticals, our largest vertical insurance is highly relevant in all economic scenarios and remains on a strong trajectory. The rest of emerging verticals consist of a broad range of solutions serving a diversified set of customers. Fraud and communication solutions are largely a cyclical. Marketing Solutions performed well even in 2020 due to its strong relationship with customers and 70% subscription revenue base. In Consumer Interactive, our offering is highly relevant in periods of economic stress and and we will be well positioned going forward with our freemium offering.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Additionally, ID protection is by nature a long term engagement and our breach solutions are episodic but a cyclical. Our international business tilts credit oriented, but is also diversified and indexed to faster growing economies. We have a track record of outperforming our underlying markets growing double digits every year over the last decade except for 2020. TransUnion has a seasoned management team with experience operating through economic cycles. We plan to prudently manage costs based on market conditions.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

We remain committed to completing the final phase of our business transformation, which will continue to generate value through structural cost savings and accelerated innovation. The last several years of investment have started to bear fruit and our 2025 investments ensure that we harvest the benefit of that hard work. These benefits include the continuing scaling and enhancement of our global capability center network, which currently has over 5,000 employees. Our global operating model with increased centralization and standardization of work enables us to manage costs more dynamically as conditions evolve. Should we see signs of deteriorating lending volumes or pressures on business and consumer activity, we have a plan ready to offset some of the potential near term earnings pressure with cost mitigation actions.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Initial scope for potential reductions would be managing hiring levels, third party spend and travel and entertainment. In addition, we'll analyze the prioritization and timing of growth investments based on environmental conditions. We're not yet actioning these initiatives given still healthy activity. With that, I will now turn the call back to Chris for final comments.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Thanks, Todd. As we laid out, we're well positioned and prepared to navigate this period of economic uncertainty. At the same time, I remain highly confident in the long term growth opportunity in front of us and our ability to execute against it. We're competing in attractive markets and our transformation positions us for a new generation of growth. From a market perspective, the secular trends that have underpinned the last decade of growth remain intact.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Our core U. S. Credit market is mature and growthful. We continue to experience increasing customer demand for alternative data and advanced analytics to strengthen credit assessment and engage with consumers. While credit volumes can be cyclical, we expect volumes to grow over the long term particularly in areas like mortgage that are well below historical trends.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

From our core and credit, we have thoughtfully expanded into attractive solutions areas and verticals. We see momentum and a right to win in the multibillion dollar and highly complementary fraud, marketing and communications markets. We plan to deepen our customer relationships across our verticals with these highly relevant solutions. And we also have a best in class international business indexed to geographies with large populations and emerging credit penetration. We will continue to diffuse our innovation across these geographies.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Over the past several years, we embarked on a significant business transformation to support this next generation of growth and we're now transitioning from a period of rapid investment and change to a period of execution and value creation. In the last few years, we integrated three sizable acquisitions. We modernized our technology and we optimized our global operating model and bolstered our product function and capabilities. Additionally, this year we made key steps to reinvigorate our Consumer Interactive business and announced an acquisition of the largest consumer credit bureau in Mexico. This hard work is already driving stronger financial performance and we believe it positions us to accelerate organic revenue and earnings growth independent of the credit cycle.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

With that, let me turn it back to Greg.

Gregory Bardi
Gregory Bardi
VP-IR at TransUnion

That concludes our prepared remarks. For the Q and A, we ask that you each ask only one question so that we can include more participants. Operator, we can begin the Q and A.

Operator

We will now begin the question and answer session. The first question comes from Jeff Meuler with Baird. Go ahead.

Jeffrey Meuler
Analyst at Robert W. Baird

Yes. Thank you. Good morning. Nice quarter. I want to ask on the confidence on the reacceleration in India.

Jeffrey Meuler
Analyst at Robert W. Baird

Is it based on the expected benefits from the RBI pivot and the easing comps? Or are you starting to see a pickup in your business like bookings growth or you're seeing a pickup in consumer lending activity or if you could size up kind of like the non bank financial lending and impactful that was in 2024? Thanks.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Yes. Thanks for the question, Jeff. You cited two reasons where we might be optimistic for the reacceleration. And I would say both are true. We are selling particularly well in India.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

We have a new suite of analytics solutions based on the One True platform and the data conversion that we've done that we're taking to market in India. But we also think that the RBI's posture, which is growth oriented now, supports increased consumer lending activity. Quick recap, in late twenty twenty three, the RBI under previous leadership got concerned about the level of growth in personal lending in India. They thought there was a bit too much leverage in the system. They prefer a loan to deposit ratio of about 70%.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

It had stretched to 78%. The area we are was also concerned that certain lenders were not doing appropriate affordability analysis. So they sidelined some FinTech lenders, they kept rates higher for longer, they curtailed lending across the space in order to get that deposit or rather loan to deposit ratio back to a level they're comfortable with. With a change in administration and also a year of reduced GDP growth, The RBIs clearly said that they're balancing growth along with safety and soundness equally. They've put through two rate cuts.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

They've communicated that they don't feel there's too much leverage in the market currently. They've allowed the certain lenders that were restricted in 2024 to get back into the game. And yes, we are seeing improvements in activity in India. Now of course, as you mentioned, we got a big comp this quarter against prior year. It was probably another 30% quarter previously, got a big comp in Q2.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

But we do expect reacceleration quarter by quarter over the year. We're guiding to 10% growth in India. We would exit the fourth quarter at high teens growth at least, and we're feeling pretty good about how the Indian market is developing against that. Remember, it took about four quarters for the deceleration's full impact to show up in our numbers. And so it's going to take some number of quarters for the reacceleration to take full grip.

Jeffrey Meuler
Analyst at Robert W. Baird

Thank you.

Operator

The next question comes from Andrew Steinerman with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Andrew Steinerman
Andrew Steinerman
Equity Research Analyst - Business & Info Services at JP Morgan

Hey, Todd. Two quick questions. One, are you still expecting free cash flow conversion to be about 90% next year? I mean that was on a slide a quarter ago. And also, if you could tell us how you think U.

Andrew Steinerman
Andrew Steinerman
Equity Research Analyst - Business & Info Services at JP Morgan

S. Markets financial services will trend in the current quarter, the second quarter? I definitely see you're talking about low double digit for the year.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Good morning, Andrew. Thanks for the both questions. Let me take the free cash flow question first. As you are aware, over the last several years, we've made significant investments to support our transformation program, which we talked about in our prepared remarks. That needless to say has been a significant use of cash for our business.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

This year, we still have a good line of sight to being able to achieve about 70% free cash flow conversion as we had guided in February. And when we think about 2026 and beyond with the transformation program ending in the one time spend related to that, And as a reminder, this year we have between 100,000,000 and $120,000,000 to spend there. And the second piece is we also expect to bring our capital expenditures as a percentage of revenue down from 8% to 6%. So the combination of those two factors plus anticipated operating performance showing itself through adjusted EBITDA will get us to a point where we're at a 90% plus free cash flow conversion in 2026.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Yes. And Andrew, look, I'd remind you and everybody on the call that we won't have an add back next year because our tech modernization will be it's the phase that we outlined will be behind us. And I'm reiterating our confidence in achieving the level of savings we previously conveyed and the timing of those savings.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Okay. So Andrew, second question pertained the financial services and growth that we're expecting for the remainder of the year, right? Second quarter for the second quarter is what looking for. Okay, great. So as you can see, you look at our results for the first quarter, we're needless to say pleased overall with the performance that we had with financial services up 15%, nine % excluding mortgage.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

I think what's important there is some strong reacceleration that we've seen in consumer lending, particularly with the FinTechs. We also saw some good strength in auto and card and banking is held on relatively good with mortgage up, but really price driven. Inquiries were down. So with that is the foundation moving into the second quarter. As again, we've said in our prepared remarks, we haven't seen any impact at this point.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

We're obsessed with looking at the data on a day to day basis and what our customers' activity and up to walking into this call this morning, really haven't seen any impact at this point. But it doesn't mean that we're not looking at it and monitoring it. We're not complacent. But if the trends persist, we would expect consumer lending to continue to be strong as we go forward. Again, card and banking, and you know this because you're at JPMorgan.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

I mean, the commentary that came from the banks was relatively optimistic, but with the appropriate caution based on the unknowns. So that's what we're seeing from our card and banking customers. In auto, again, we talked about this in our prepared remarks. January and February were a little bit softer. We saw a stronger March and we felt that that might have been an anticipation of a pull forward of demand because of the anticipation of tariffs.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

So that's an area that we're going to continue to watch close, but again trends have been relatively okay in that space. And mortgage, as you know, the most cyclical part of our business, you can all see what's happened with the thirty year mortgage rate and it's ticked up to the high 6s. So with that, we've a corresponding decline in volumes early on in the quarter. But the net net on all of this, things when you look at across all four lines that we continue to trend favorably.

Andrew Steinerman
Andrew Steinerman
Equity Research Analyst - Business & Info Services at JP Morgan

Sounds good. Thank you.

Operator

The next question comes from Toni Kaplan with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Toni Kaplan
Toni Kaplan
Executive Director, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Morgan Stanley

Thanks so much. Maybe just following on the last question thought process, if you look at the organic bridge from you grew 8% organically in 1Q overall, the guide for 2Q basically at the midpoint is about four percent. But so far, no change to demand or anything that you're seeing. India expecting to get better sequentially as you go through the year. Just like help us out, in addition to just conservatism, what sort of is the change or what could impact 2Q that's worse than what you in the guide than what you saw

Toni Kaplan
Toni Kaplan
Executive Director, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Morgan Stanley

Thanks.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Okay. Thanks, Toni. I'll take that question from you. And I think maybe let's take a look at this more from overall view looking at our guidance. Clearly, you've seen our Q1 results, you have our Q2 guide and you see the full year.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

And we didn't change the full year guidance. So with 7% growth or 8% on a constant currency basis and we compare that to 4.5% to 6% organic constant currency growth. Needless to say that that implies that there's a step down from Q1. And as we said in my prepared remarks, if trends continue from what we saw in Q1 and what we've seen thus far, we have good visibility to exceeding the high end of the full year guidance that we provided. But right now, there's just a significant amount of uncertainty that we're navigating.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

So we felt that the prudent thing for us to do was to maintain at the full year guide that we provided in February. So that does provide us some room in the event that we do see any type of deterioration with the consumer. And in general, we see a consumer that's still broadly healthy with real wage growth and high employment and they're reasonably using credit, and delinquencies at this point across the four lines of business that I just went through on Andrew's question in financial services, delinquencies are good. They're back at a level pre pandemic, but historically they're still in a good spot. So in general, we're still dealing with a very healthy consumer.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

You look at the guide then and you can look at the first half versus the second half with the pieces that we've provided. And in essence what it's calling for is about the same amount of growth in Q2 and also in the second half of the year. And from an earnings perspective, see the same thing with adjusted diluted EPS. Our guide of $4.8 is roughly split half and half throughout the year. So the things that we talked about with financial services are could be continue if that continues, that will be a positive.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Chris just gave a response on India. That's clearly could be a positive. Our emerging verticals had a very strong quarter at 6%. We went through the details there. Those trends, if those continue, all in all, the net net of this is the trajectory of the business is pretty solid, but we're being watchful of events in a macro perspective.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Yes. And just going back to the beginning of the year when we first communicated the guide for 2025, we were clear that we intended to be prudently conservative in an environment with a lot of uncertainties. So we did not assume a reduction in interest rates over the course of the year. We did not assume an improvement in volumes in any category in the second half. And as Todd pointed out, volumes in financial services in The U.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

S. Are at historically low levels, right? So this just feels like a beat and hold environment, not a beat and raise environment and our guidance for the Q2 in the year reflects that.

Jeffrey Meuler
Analyst at Robert W. Baird

Thank

Operator

you. The next question comes from Faiza Alwy with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Faiza Alwy
Faiza Alwy
Managing Director, US Company Research at Deutsche Bank

Yes. Hi. Thank you. I wanted to ask about emerging verticals. And when you were talking about the resiliency in the business, I think you mentioned that 70 of the business is subscription based.

Faiza Alwy
Faiza Alwy
Managing Director, US Company Research at Deutsche Bank

So maybe give us a bit more color on the various pieces within emerging verticals and the resiliency that you would expect in a slowing environment?

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Okay. Good morning Faiza. I'll take that question. On the emerging verticals and just right off the start, as far as the subscription number that you're referencing, that's our marketing business only where we have about 70% of the revenues are subscription based. So it's not across the entire emerging verticals.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

So when you do look at the emerging verticals, we do have a broad set of customers. Let me walk you through each one of them and I can give you some color on what we saw in the quarter, but I think more importantly the resiliency of each one of these businesses as we go forward in an uncertain type of market. So starting with insurance, we were pleased low double digit growth. We saw good marketing and shopping activity. Trends in general continue to be positive.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

If you think about that in a slower growth type of environment, the insurance business typically outperforms in that market as consumers shop for lower insurance rates and that shopping activity is a benefit for our business. Moving along in the emerging verticals, our tenant and employment returned to a good high single digit growth. You may recall that we did some recalibration of our products a couple of years ago. So that's been a positive. And as a result of that, we've seen some new business ramping up and we've also seen an increase in consumer move rates as well.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Tenant employment in a downturn typically is also a positive. If consumers aren't taking out a mortgage, they're more prone to rent and that rental activity is a positive for that business. Our telecommunications vertical, our technology retail and e commerce and media, a lot of those three verticals within the emerging verticals are primarily led by products and services that we acquired through the NuStar acquisition. And what we've seen there is growth improving. We've seen strong performance in particular in communications.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

And as everyone knows Trusted Call Solutions has been a significant positive for us. We still expect that business to grow from $115,000,000 to $150,000,000 this year. So substantial growth there. Communications also has a lot of the legacy of telecommunication capabilities that we acquired from NuStar and those businesses performed actually pretty well in the quarter. So we saw mid single digit growth across telco, tech, retail and e commerce.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

And in media, saw low single digit growth. What's important there in media is the point you started your question with 70% of that business is subscription based. So there's some insulation. Telecommunications and tech, retail and e commerce will probably be more of a neutral in a downturn type of scenario. Media, we'd say would be probably more of a negative and just simply from the perspective of our customers may build less audiences.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

But our products in marketing are highly relevant as it pertains to identity and as well as the analytic capabilities of doing campaign management. And then finally to kind of round it out, our public sector business, we talked about in our prepared remarks that declined. It was really year over year comps. But as we think about where government is headed and not just the federal government, but we support the state government as well too. Our products and services really get into fraud, insider threat, mitigation and ID.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

So if you think about like welfare payments and making certain that they go to the right consumer, our products and services will serve that well. So we look at that as probably a neutral to maybe positive in a downturn. And then finally, last

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

one is

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

collections. Collections is typically a countercyclical play. So if delinquencies do tick up, unfortunately, this is a business that does increase. So it just shows the resiliency of our portfolio. So in a downturn, you would see a positive there.

Faiza Alwy
Faiza Alwy
Managing Director, US Company Research at Deutsche Bank

Great. Thank you for all the detail.

Operator

The next question comes from Jason Haas with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Jason Haas
Jason Haas
Director & Senior Equity research Analyst at Wells Fargo

Hey, good morning and thanks for taking my question. I was curious, it looks like your guidance implies that the outperformance of mortgage revenue versus increase will moderate in the remainder of the year. So can you just talk about that dynamic and why you're expecting that? Thanks.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

Okay. Morning, Jason. So yes, as far as the quarter is concerned on mortgage, as you saw, we grew 27% with volumes down 10%. So that gap if you do the math is about 37. Primarily where that's coming from for us is pricing realization was a little bit better.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

But also as a reminder, the way that we report out our mortgage businesses, we include everything that we do with mortgage in that number. And so what I mean by that is we are including pre qualification as well as home equity and where we're a little bit different than other players in the market is with our batch marketing, where we're helping mortgage lenders identify potential consumers maybe in the market for a mortgage. As the remainder of the year goes on, we're expecting revenue to grow 20% and we're saying volumes are going to be down modestly. So that gap that I just talked about shrinks a little bit. So if we look at the volumes themselves, and as I said, we include everything that we have in our mortgage number.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

But we know you're looking for the pieces here. So if we were to exclude pre qualification and just included the Tribeuro inquiries on mortgage origination, we would be in a similar spot than other numbers that you've seen in the market. So we're seeing, in essence the same thing. And as far as what we're assuming for the rest of the year, as I've said in the previous responses, simply a continuation of the trends that we've seen thus far. To the point Chris just made, we came into the year with that assumption.

Todd Cello
Todd Cello
Executive VP & CFO at TransUnion

We did not assume any interest rate cut benefit and we're going to continue to hold that posture.

Jason Haas
Jason Haas
Director & Senior Equity research Analyst at Wells Fargo

Got it. That's helpful. Thank you.

Operator

The next question comes from Ashish Sabadra with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Ashish Sabadra
Ashish Sabadra
Information & Business Services Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

Thanks for taking my question. I just wanted to clarify one quick thing. On autos, there was a comment on some pull forward in March. I was just curious if you saw any pull forward in any of the other segments within financial services or consumer lending? Thanks.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Yes. The short answer to that is no. What I would point out about some of the performance of some of the loan categories, we've been saying for some time that we felt consumer lending and the FinTechs in particular were positioned to rebound. At the end of last year, you saw a good number of the largest and best known of the FinTechs get material funding that position them to compete in the loan consolidation market. We think that's a real good opportunity.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

We think it's countercyclical. As you know, coming out of the pandemic, card issuance was quite high as credit scores had drifted up due to forbearance. A lot of those consumers, particularly the ones further down the risk spectrum, they used their cards vigorously and they've developed material loan balances. So they're revolving a good deal of debt at a fairly high interest rate. It's a situation that's ripe for debt consolidation.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

And I think that our FinTechs and consumer lending in general is positioned to take advantage of that.

Ashish Sabadra
Ashish Sabadra
Information & Business Services Analyst at RBC Capital Markets

That's great color and congrats on solid results.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is there time for another question?

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Sure. Yes.

Operator

Okay. That question comes from Andrew Nicholas with William Blair. Please go ahead.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Hi, good morning. This is

Thomas Roesch
Equity Research Associate at William Blair

Don Rush on for Andrew Nicholas. Thanks for taking my question. Last quarter you mentioned you guys planned on high grading 50 of your largest U. S. Credit customers, out of OneTrue.

Thomas Roesch
Equity Research Associate at William Blair

I was just wondering if you provide color on how that transition went, if you're seeing any early material benefits? And then relatedly, I know you cited you're confident that $35,000,000 expense savings in 2026. I was wondering, I'm halfway through the year, if you think there's any upside to that number? Thank you.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Yes. Thanks for the question, Rajan. Yes, we had communicated 50 and it was 50 of the largest and most complicated customers. We're running 50 in parallel on one true. We actually increased the total number to 90 and we're seeing it's going pretty well and we're seeing some real material performance benefits.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Generally speaking, response times are about half on One True relative to our heritage or legacy platforms. So we're seeing materially faster processing of online and batch transactions. We as part of this migration, we migrated the customer that has the largest batch job with TransUnion, the largest standing batch job. It takes about eighteen hours, nineteen hours to run. It's now down to ten hours and with some further engineering refinement, it will be down to six hours.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

So you're seeing kind of the order of magnitude of improvement that we're talking about on the processing speed side. Additionally, we're able to develop new data sets, new data attributes and analytics far faster on OneTrue, right? It is a standardized consolidated cloud native platform from the data layer all the way up to the business logic and the deployment of all of that in our seven different product solutions. And look the data governance and cyber security is just far more rigorous, not that it was ever a concern, but you just can never be secure enough. And we have a lot of contractual and geographic regulatory issues that we have to make sure that we comply with and we've got much better functionality.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

So, so far very pleased with the migration to One True and we're going to continue to migrate customers and workloads over in the second quarter. And look in terms of additional savings, as I mentioned, we are already planning the migration of some of

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

our

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

other geographies, The UK, Canada, The Philippines to One True in 2026. So that planning work is taking place currently. And yes, we expect strong efficiencies once we have migrated those geographies over to One True. We never really tried to model that, but the hope is that we'll have a dynamic where we're saving a good deal and we can redeploy that for growth and also to support expanding margins over time.

Operator

The last question today will come from Manav Patnaik with Barclays. Please go ahead.

Manav Patnaik
Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst at Barclays Investment Bank

Thank you. Appreciate it. I guess I'd just like to squeeze in, Chris, maybe some of your thoughts on the I guess there were two mergers. One is the Capital One Discover and just your exposure to those banks. And then it sounds like true work required by Checkers.

Manav Patnaik
Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst at Barclays Investment Bank

So just curious what how you guys have played your equity stake in that?

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

Yes. Thanks for the questions Manav. Well, terms of the big card issuer mergers, both of them are significant clients and we have good relationships with both. And we understand the kind of the industrial logic of the acquisition and we're going be highly engaged in helping them manage their change and just look forward to ongoing collaboration. With regard to TrueWork, where we had a minority investment and a distribution partnership and their acquisition by Checkr, who's also a client, we do a lot of data collaboration with Checkr.

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

We've got good relationships there. We have rolled our minority stake into the combined transaction and we look forward to continuing to work with them on the distribution

Chris Cartwright
Chris Cartwright
President and CEO at TransUnion

partnership.

Gregory Bardi
Gregory Bardi
VP-IR at TransUnion

Perfect. Thanks for all the questions and I think that's a good place to end. Thanks and have a great rest of the day.

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

Executives
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      Chris Cartwright
      President and CEO
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      Todd Cello
      Executive VP & CFO
Analysts

Key Takeaways

  • TransUnion delivered a 1Q ’25 organic constant-currency revenue growth of 8% (above the 5–6% guide) and 15% adjusted diluted EPS growth, marking the fifth consecutive quarter of strong outperformance.
  • The U.S. Markets segment grew 9%, with Financial Services up 15% (9% excluding mortgage) driven by double-digit gains in consumer lending and auto, while mortgage revenue rose 27% despite a 10% decline in inquiries.
  • Key transformation milestones include migrating 90 top U.S. credit customers to the cloud-native OneTrue platform—achieving >50% faster processing, enhanced security, and an AI-powered developer tool boosting productivity by 20–50%.
  • Capital allocation progress: net leverage down to 2.9× from 3.5× a year ago, first $10 million share repurchase since 2017, and a plan to balance further buybacks with deleveraging below 2.5× ahead of the Mexico acquisition.
  • The company reaffirmed its full-year 2025 outlook of 4.5–6% organic revenue growth (2.5–4% ex-mortgage) and EPS of $3.93–4.08, maintaining prudent assumptions amid ongoing macro uncertainty.
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