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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast QuinStreet EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.21Consensus EPS $0.06Beat/MissBeat by +$0.15One Year Ago EPS$0.06QuinStreet Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$269.84 millionExpected Revenue$270.36 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$517.00 thousandYoY Revenue Growth+60.10%QuinStreet Announcement DetailsQuarterQ3 2025Date5/7/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateWednesday, May 7, 2025Conference Call Time5:00PM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by QuinStreet Q3 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 7, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 10 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to QuinStreet's Fiscal Third Quarter twenty twenty five Financial Results Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, all lines are in listen only mode. Following prepared remarks, there will be a Q and A session. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Senior Director of Investor Relations and Finance, Robert Amparo. Operator00:00:29Mr. Amparo, you may begin. Speaker 100:00:33Thank you, operator, and thank you, everyone, for joining us as we report QuinStreet's fiscal third quarter twenty twenty five financial results. Joining me on the call today are Chief Executive Officer, Doug Valenti and Chief Financial Officer, Greg Wong. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that the following discussion will contain forward looking statements. Forward looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected by such statements and are not guarantees of future performance. Factors that may cause results to differ from our forward looking statements are discussed in our recent SEC filings, including our most recent eight ks filing made today and our most recent 10 Q filing. Speaker 100:01:16Forward looking statements are based on assumptions as of today, and the company undertakes no obligation to update these statements. Today, we will be discussing both GAAP and non GAAP measures. A reconciliation of GAAP to non GAAP financial measures is included in today's earnings press release, which is available on our Investor Relations website at investor.quinstreet.com. With that, I will turn the call over to Doug Blanton. Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 100:01:43Thank you, Rob. Welcome, everyone. We delivered strong results again in Speaker 200:01:49the March, our fiscal Q3, growing revenue 60% year over year and adjusted EBITDA 145%. Financial services client vertical revenue grew 78% year over year, with auto insurance up 165%. Home services revenue grew 21% year over year to a new quarterly record. The continued strong results are due to the combination of our big market opportunities, exceptional value proposition, and strong competitive advantages, and to our execution focused culture. As always, our results include investments in a long list of high impact new product, media, and client expansion initiatives to fuel future performance. Speaker 200:02:50We expect to be able to continue to average double digit year over year revenue and profit growth in the short and long term. We strengthened our financial position further in fiscal Q3, ending the quarter with over $80,000,000 in cash and no bank debt. Growing cash flow and expanding margins continue to be top priorities and areas of active focus. Turning to our outlook. We are maintaining our full fiscal year twenty twenty five outlook as we move into the June, our fiscal Q4. Speaker 200:03:35Full fiscal year revenue is expected to be between $1,065,000,000 and $1,105,000,000 implying revenue growth of at least 18% year over year in fiscal Q4. Full fiscal year adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between 80 and $85,000,000 implying adjusted EBITDA growth of at least 89% year over year in fiscal Q4. The implied outlook range for fiscal Q4 is wider than our usual outlook range, reflecting our view that tariffs and tariff related uncertainties introduce risk and potential volatility to client spending. We are enthusiastic about our prospects, short and long term. We will continue to position QuinStreet to be resilient to a wide range of macroeconomic scenarios and to thrive as we pursue our big market opportunities. Speaker 200:04:49And we will prioritize expense and cash flow management, margin expansion and maintaining a strong balance sheet. With that, I'll turn the call over to Greg. Speaker 300:05:03Thank you, Doug. Hello and thanks to everyone for joining us today. Fiscal Q3 was another strong quarter for QuinStreet. We delivered double digit revenue growth year over year and continue to make progress on our profitability initiatives, further strengthening our financial position and highlighting the strong leverage in our business. For the March, total revenue grew 60% year over year and was $269,800,000 Adjusted net income was $12,400,000 or $0.21 per share. Speaker 300:05:41And adjusted EBITDA was $19,400,000 Looking at revenue by client vertical, our financial services client vertical represented 74% of Q3 revenue and grew 78% year over year to $199,700,000 The strong performance was largely driven by auto insurance, which grew 165% year over year. Our home services client vertical represented 24% of Q3 revenue and grew 21% year over year to $65,400,000 a record quarter for that business. Other revenue was the remaining $4,700,000 of Q3 revenue. Turning to the balance sheet, we closed the quarter with $82,000,000 of cash and equivalents and no bank debt. Moving to our outlook, we are maintaining our full fiscal year '20 '20 '5 expectations. Speaker 300:06:48Full fiscal year revenue is expected to be between $1,065,000,000 and $1,105,000,000 The full fiscal year adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between 80,000,000 and $85,000,000 As Doug noted, the implied outlook range for fiscal Q4 is wider than our usual outlook range, reflecting our view that tariff and tariff related uncertainties introduced risk and potential volatility to client spending. As a reminder, our full fiscal year outlook implies continued margin expansion in fiscal Q4. We continue to one, optimize media efficiencies and client results in auto insurance. Two, grow higher margin growth opportunities. And three, continue ongoing productivity improvements across our business. Speaker 300:07:49Taking a step back, the fundamentals of our business have never been better. We expect revenue in fiscal 'twenty five to grow over $1,000,000,000 or up at least 74% from just over $600,000,000 in fiscal 'twenty four. And we expect adjusted EBITDA in fiscal 'twenty five to grow even faster than revenue to at least $80,000,000 or up at least 293% from $20,000,000 in fiscal twenty four. Our market opportunities have never been bigger and our competitive advantages have never been stronger. Importantly, we strengthen both our financial and strategic positions for the future. Speaker 300:08:38And we remain confident with our ability to perform regardless of the macroeconomic environment. With that, I'll turn it over to the operator for Q and A. Operator00:08:49Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to decline from the polling process, please press the star followed by the number two. If you are using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. Operator00:09:13One moment, please, for your first question. Your first question comes from the line of Jason Kreher from Craig Hallum. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 400:09:25Great. Thank you, guys. This is Cal on for Jason. So maybe first, can you just provide some insight into your conversations with auto carriers and just your view on if they can absorb some of this pressure on profitability and potentially take rate, just kind of the runway that they might have there to absorb any of these tariff pressures? Speaker 200:09:46Yeah, Cal. Our conversations are much different than the auto carrier executives have stated publicly, the big ones in fact. And that is that the tariffs, if fully implemented, are likely to have a negative effect on their loss ratios because they could increase claim costs. That said, they also enter this period, or are performing during this period with exceptionally strong, strongly positive combined ratios, and could likely absorb a very wide range of actual tariff implementations, and still be in very good financial shape. The problem everybody has is none of us really know exactly what is and isn't going to be implemented at what rate and where. Speaker 200:10:42Right now, we have seen no material reductions from any of the clients in any of the verticals, including auto insurance, based on tariffs and tariff planning. And it's a little bit of a wait and see, because I think we have also not seen as strong a ramps as we might see if given the strong financial results and economics of clients are delivering, we would expect even stronger ramps than this, and we're not seeing that yet. And I think that's because folks are kind of in wait and see mode and wanting to know more about what exactly is going to happen with the tariffs before making decisions to be even more aggressive. I would expect if and as the tariff air clears, you're going to see a lot of more aggressiveness, again, given the very strong operating and financial results the carriers are reporting. But again, we're seeing kind of just stable mode, just a stable spend right now. Speaker 400:11:54Great. Thanks. And then just maybe as a follow-up, we saw some nice EBITDA margin improvement in the quarter and you're guiding to another healthy uptick here in Q4. So just curious how you're approaching margin expansion versus investments in the business and the different levers that you have to sustain this margin improvement? Speaker 200:12:12That's a great question. We're continuing to invest very aggressively, as I indicated in my script, in new growth initiatives as we always do. That's the vast majority really of our operating expenses are going toward future growth and margin expansion initiatives. In terms of margin expansion, they're just across the board opportunities that we are executing against. Let me give you some examples though, it's a fair question. Speaker 200:12:41First and foremost, of course, is top line leverage. Our media margins come into as revenue grows and our revenue grows a lot faster than our semi fixed cost base. So you have a natural upward tug on adjusted EBITDA as we continue to grow revenue, and we expect to continue to grow revenue double digits. And of course, we do not expect to continue to grow operating expenses at the same rate. Second, though, we have a lot of new media initiatives that are showing a lot of success. Speaker 200:13:11We are, for example, growing big new scale areas of proprietary media across the company, and especially in auto insurance. That proprietary media has grown very rapidly, is now about half of our media margin or margin dollars produced from media in auto insurance, and comes in about two times the margin of our third party media sources. We are still completely committed to third party media, keeps us aware of the market, it gives us a lot of insight. We are a great partner for those third party providers. But that proprietary media growth, which is a big initiative at the company, is showing great success, great growth, and great margin, and we've got a lot, lot more runway to go there. Speaker 200:14:01So that's a big one. Another big one is in auto insurance, we're converting a number of big media partnerships to fee based relationships because that better reflects the nature of those relationships, some of the bigger scale, lower margin opportunities. We're going to be converting to a platform fee model. Some might refer to it as a private exchange model, which one of our competitors, of course, is much more active in that market. We have a great private exchange product that's now been adopted by a number of partners, and we're looking to convert some of the partnerships that have lower margin into that model because I think it better reflects the nature of the relationship and is really a better reflection of that part of the market in which we're happy to participate in and to be more aggressive in. Speaker 200:14:52That's going to be a continued good lever for us on the margin side, particularly again in auto insurance. On top of the media initiatives, have a lot of product initiatives going on. We've got new products that we've been rolling out that have more than doubled this year to serve agencies and agency like entities, whereas historically we've been dominantly providing our products, of course, to the direct carriers. And those products, again, are growing very rapidly and are coming in at about twice the margin of our historic direct to carrier click product. On top of that, we continue to scale our brand new product areas and they're getting to decent scale now, including QRP and our three sixty Finance product. Speaker 200:15:40We expect both to be better than breakeven this year after spending a lot of time and money getting those products to the point where you can scale them to getting to more than breakeven and getting to good scale and getting to the point we're going to expect them to be inflecting, and they've already begun to do so. So we're excited about those products and their effect on margins. Also in our personal loans area, we are very early and we're very narrow in our footprint there. And we now know that of the over 2,000,000 qualified consumers we see every month in that business, we're only really engaging with about a third of them. And a relatively small portion of them do we match to a product. Speaker 200:16:28We now know the products that they want, and we're adding those clients and have added a number of clients to better service that traffic flow, which will give us a lot more pure margin on the inquiries we already see and the ability to go out and source even more. So that's an area that we expect pretty dramatic margin expansion in over the next couple of years. In home services, is a great business for us already, of course, we're continuing to scale trades we're already in. And as we scale those trades, we're doing it in a very smart way by making sure that we're adding clients in geos where we don't have full coverage or we don't have adequate coverage. And that gives us better yield, better margin, better media buying power, and up goes the whip from there. Speaker 200:17:17So our growth in home services is really focused on margin, expanding growth and buying power growth. And that cadence is really working very well for us. So across the business, a lot of margin expansion opportunities, lot of success already. These are not things we're dreaming about. These are things we're doing. Speaker 200:17:40A lot more runway on all of them to go. Speaker 400:17:44Great. Really appreciate all the color there. Thanks and congrats on the quarter. Speaker 200:17:48Thank you, Cal. Operator00:17:53Your next question comes from the line of Patrick Shaw from Barrington Research. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:18:01Hi, thanks for taking the question. Maybe touching back on home services. I was just wondering how you're seeing any of the tariffs impact that side of the business. Speaker 200:18:17Yeah, Patrick, we had not really heard much from our clients about the tariffs until fairly recently. And again, we have had no clients reduce spend because of anticipation or anxiety about tariffs. But we have heard from clients that they are concerned in certain pockets that the tariffs could meaningfully increase their costs and that then they would have to figure out whether or not they'd be able to pass those along. And if not, what that would mean for their economics and what that would mean for their marketing budgets. So we have not heard it across the board. Speaker 200:18:53We've heard it in pockets. Obviously it's a pretty diverse marketplace, a pretty diverse industry. And so some folks who are more leveraged to say China for sure would feel a much bigger impact depending on how again the tariffs get implemented. And they're beginning to let us know that they're doing planning around what happens and what they would do. The great news is, it's a very diverse marketplace, very diverse industry. Speaker 200:19:27We're already making plans ourselves to make sure we're leaning into areas that are likely to be less impacted rather than more impacted. And we have the ability to make sure that we shift our efforts and our focus to those places. The other thing to think about, and this was mentioned by one of our competitors and is something that folks know that if and as the tariffs lead to macroeconomic issues or difficulties, one of the things we also see is that many of these clients buy more inquiries from people like us when the market gets softer because of either pricing due to tariffs or demand reductions due to a recession. So exactly how it'll shake out, we don't know. It's one of the reasons we're providing a broader range in the fourth quarter, in our fiscal fourth quarter, the calendar second quarter. Speaker 200:20:21But right now, still strong demand, strong performance, and we're preparing ourselves to be sure that we're ready in case that changes. Hopefully it will not, but again, I don't think any of us know exactly how this is going to play out. Speaker 500:20:40Okay. Then I realize that with the guidance that you provided, that there's a wide range of outcomes with the tariffs. So maybe it's a little premature to ask about the next fiscal year. But can you maybe talk about how you're seeing that shape up in terms of like either a return to the traditional seasonality of revenue trends or if you think that I think you've kind of addressed this with the continued ramp or if there should still be kind of a ramp of growth to kind of exceed those trends? Speaker 200:21:13Yes, it's a fair question. We have not completed the planning cycle yet for next fiscal year. As you can imagine, sands tariffs, I would expect pretty strong double digit top and adjusted EBITDA line growth with likely stronger growth on the adjusted EBITDA line. And I would expect generally a return to relatively normal seasonality, but for the fact that there has been a little bit of a modification to buying patterns, I think, based on waiting to see what's going to happen with the tariffs. Rather than there being a downward shift in spending from our clients, what we've more seen is a reluctance to ramp the way they normally would, given the performance that we know they're getting from our channel. Speaker 200:22:16And so I don't know exactly how that would shape out and shape the curve, the seasonality curve next year. Again, without any tariff effects, strong double digit revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA margin growth, probably a return, generally speaking, to the seasonality patterns we've seen historically, but for the fact that there's been some modification to the curve just based on the anticipation of tariffs. But then if you throw tariffs and their implementation and all the permutations of what that might look like into the mix, I think we still have good strong revenue and adjusted EBITDA, but in terms of the rates of growth and the shape of the curve, it's just too complicated to sort out. Okay, Speaker 600:23:09thank you. Speaker 200:23:11Thank you, Patrick. Operator00:23:16Your next question comes from the line of John Campbell from Stephens Inc. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 700:23:23Hey, good afternoon. This is Oscar Nieves on for John at Stephens. So my first question, I think, for Greg. You reported that cash exiting the quarter was at $80,000,000 So given that cash level on hand and how the stock has performed over the last few months, have you guys considered engaging in any buybacks? Speaker 300:23:49Hey, Oscar. Capital allocation strategy has not changed at all. First and foremost, we are going to look to grow the business either through internal investments, through M and A or through partnerships. We have shown the ability to buy back shares. But I think also in this environment, it's super prudent to make sure you build up a strong balance sheet. Speaker 300:24:16And so kind of that's where we're focused right now from a capital allocation standpoint. Speaker 700:24:22Okay, yeah, that's fair. I have another one for you, Greg. I think Doug alluded to this earlier, but we know that, this quarter tends to be the seasonally strongest. And and last quarter, as you mentioned, was skewed by a big spike in spend by top customers. But looking ahead, I'm hoping that you can touch on your level of confidence in the ability to grow up or near this type of base. Speaker 700:24:47And that's looking ahead to fiscal year twenty six. Speaker 300:24:51Yeah, I mean, and I can let Doug comment on that as well, but we feel very good about our ability to continue to grow double digits across our business, both in the short and long term. So our markets are early, our positions in our markets are early, and the overarching trend of the shift from offline marketing to online and within online from traditional to performance marketing gives us a lot of runway for a lot of years to grow double digits. And so, yeah, I have no lack of confidence in our ability to continue to grow double digits for a long time to come. Speaker 200:25:32All right, I'll get back Speaker 600:25:33in the queue. Thank you. Thank you, Oscar. Operator00:25:41Your next question comes from the line of Zach Cummins from Riley Securities. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 800:25:49Yes. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions. I really wanted to ask a little bit more about your auto insurance business. I mean, can you give us a sense of how that performed on a sequential basis versus Q2? Speaker 800:25:59And it sounds like you're trying to be a little more prudent in terms of just the margin profile of the business that you're doing on that side. So just curious of how maybe your approach has evolved a little bit on the auto insurance side. Speaker 200:26:15Were down sequentially about little over 10% sequentially. Which the whole industry pretty much was because the December was an exceptionally strong quarter for the auto insurers because they had such strong combined ratios going into the end of the calendar year and extraordinary budgets available. So that was, I think we talked about this last quarter. So we were, which is unusual for Q4, calendar Q4 to be the December to be that strong and very unusual for us to be down sequentially in this quarter. But it was just the nature of the fact that that was such an extraordinarily strong quarter. Speaker 200:26:58So this quarter, we've seen a still very strong level of spend, obviously from the numbers, from the auto insurance carriers. But a little bit more of them being prudent about entering a new calendar year because their loss ratios and their budgets reset. They don't want to get so far over their skis and hurt themselves in the back half of the year. So we're seeing good strong spin levels. In terms of our approach, we're doing what we've always done, which is we want to build a good, strong, sustainable, profitable business in auto insurance just like we do everywhere else. Speaker 200:27:37We are adapting our approach to the fact that the market did come out so strong and that there was so much demand relative to media. What we don't want to do is chase all that media down to nothing in terms of margins. That doesn't make sense to us. So we are being a little bit more prudent in terms of how we mix our media. You heard me talk about that in terms of the growth of proprietary media, where we're not having to compete down to the lowest possible denominator and margin with everybody trying to get it to fill demand. Speaker 200:28:10You heard me talk a little bit about private exchange model, which we're happy to lean into. Have a great product there. We have some partners on it that are very happy with it. We expect to convert some more partners to it. We expect to go out and probably conquest some partners from some of our competitors with it. Speaker 200:28:26We are happy to lean into that part of the market. If margins are going to be relatively low with some of these publisher or media partnerships, then we may as well convert it to a fee based model where we don't have the overhead associated with what we might have in more of a rev share based model. So we like that and we'll mix that in. So we are adapting to the market. And I think we're adapting in a way that I'm very excited about. Speaker 200:28:54And we're showing real success adaptation. And I think you're going to continue to see it show up in the performance of the business on the margin line. Speaker 800:29:07Understood. And just my one follow-up question is really, can you speak to the trends across the different auto insurance carriers that you've seen and talked to here in kind of recent months? I know throughout the last couple of quarters, it's really been outsized contribution from a couple of the top carriers. I'm just wondering if that dynamic has shifted a little bit here in recent months. Speaker 200:29:29I'll talk generically, of course, because it's not my role to talk specifically about what my clients are doing or not doing. But here at QuinStreet, we have the broadest footprint of engagement with the most clients spending over $1,000,000 a month with us that we've ever had. And that's super exciting for us, because the market historically has been narrower for sure. But generally speaking, over the past couple of quarters, that market has broadened quite a bit. I would say while the spin patterns haven't necessarily stayed exactly the same, the general trends going forward, we would expect to continue to be that there are a lot more carriers spending a lot more of their budgets online and a lot more of that online budget being spent in performance and in particular with us, because we're seeing those carriers commit to the channel And we're seeing them commit to building the capabilities that make you successful in this channel, which tend to be much more data and analytics based than they have been in other channels historically. Speaker 200:30:48And so it takes time, it takes work, but because of the leadership of some of the carriers that have been so successful in this channel, I think others have a real felt need to follow and to figure out how to get it right. And so I think the general trends are broader, more clients spending more, better, deeper engagement with us on performance and on the things that make performance work. In terms of short term patterns, they're shifting all over the place because of the new calendar year and tariff concerns and all the other things that are going on. But I'd kind of read through that and assume that the broader pattern is more what I just talked about. Speaker 300:31:37Yeah, and Zach, just to give you just some numbers related to that. We said our auto insurance grew 165%. If you exclude our largest client, the rest of the auto insurance business grew over 150%. So very broad based ramp from a lot of carriers Douglas said. Speaker 800:31:56Understood. Well, thanks for taking my questions and best of luck with the rest of the quarter. Speaker 200:32:01Thank you, Zach. Operator00:32:11The next question comes from the line of Chris Sakai from Singular Research. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:32:20Yes, hi. Speaker 900:32:23Just kind of want to ask about auto insurance. And I mean, we seeing is this your opinion? Are we seeing that the tariffs, anything with tariffs on cars has to do maybe with a lower demand for auto insurance advertising? Is that what we're seeing with this sort of hiccup or decline sequentially in auto insurance? And how should we see this going out for the rest of the year? Speaker 200:32:56We are not seeing that yet, Chris. The sequential decline from the December is really just due to the fact that December was an extraordinarily big quarter for auto insurance clients spending online because of the strength of their financial results last calendar year. So what we're seeing this quarter is really more normalized for continued very strong growth year over year, of course, the March, but not at the extraordinary levels that we saw due to the factors I just talked about in the December. We're seeing good stable spend this quarter and extending into the current quarter. Let me say March extending into the current quarter. Speaker 200:33:47I do think that we are not seeing quite as aggressive of a ramp yet as we expect to see given how strong the financial results are for the carriers. They're reporting publicly very, very strong combined ratio results in the eighties, which is really, really good. And they're willing to spend up well into the nineties. And they don't have to because the results are good. So I think the effect of tariffs right now is that they're probably holding back on ramping their spend as much as they will even beyond where we are right now until they know what the tariff impact is on their business and on their claims costs. Speaker 200:34:33But we have not seen any carriers yet reduce their spend and tell us that they're doing that, reduce their spend based on tariffs and tariff results because the tariffs aren't actually enacted yet, A and B, their results are actually really strong. So that is not what we're seeing. Speaker 900:34:56Okay, sounds good. And thanks for that. Have you seen any early signs of success in any other new verticals or client segments? Speaker 200:35:07We are across the board, really. We have seen extraordinary growth in our new products aimed at the agency side of the insurance market, which is a place we've really not participated historically. Big, strong triple digit growth and now running at well over 10 figures a year in terms of the run rate at this point. Ramp two, we have ramped to that very quickly. And we're going to see we have a lot more to do there. Speaker 200:35:45A lot more opportunity. That's half of the online market. And we're a very small share of that and we expect to be a very good share of that in coming quarters and years. So that's one area that's a real standout opportunity. We're also seeing good success in some other segments of insurance. Speaker 200:36:04I won't talk about them, but they're big areas as well. I won't talk about just because of competitive sensitivities and we want to roadmap it for people. We continue to see great success in our home services business, adding new trades. We've added several new trades this year, a number which are getting to good scale while we continue to ramp the trades we were already in to greater scale. And we expect to add good numbers of new trades each year over the next ten years. Speaker 200:36:37So that has continued to be a good success and is creating new footprint for strong growth going forward in home services. In our credit cards business, we're adding new media and new products. And in our banking business, the same thing. We're seeing good success there. And then in our personal loans business, we have a roadmap now to pretty dramatically broaden our offerings to that customer base because we have more demand from consumers than we have clients and products to fill that demand, which is exciting for us because it's easier to get the clients and products than it is to get the consumers. Speaker 200:37:16So we are adding at a pretty rapid clip more products and clients that can better serve and serve segments of those consumers that today we don't have anything to match them to. So I would say, yeah, across the board, a lot of good strong momentum on growth initiatives in new verticals, if you will, whether you define that as another more trades in home services or more areas and segments of insurance, or more products to serve consumers that we're already seeing in the credit businesses. Speaker 500:37:54Okay. Great. Thanks for the answers, Doug. Speaker 200:37:57Thank you, Chris. Operator00:38:11Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. Thank you, everyone, for taking the time to join QuinStreet's earnings call. Replay information is available on the earnings press release issued this afternoon. This concludes today's call. Operator00:38:24Thank you.Read morePowered by Key Takeaways QuinStreet delivered Q3 revenue of $269.8 million (+60% YoY) and adjusted EBITDA of $19.4 million (+145% YoY), driven by a 78% rise in financial services revenue (auto insurance +165%) and a record 21% increase in home services. The company ended the quarter with over $80 million in cash, no bank debt, and reaffirmed full‐year guidance of $1.065–1.105 billion in revenue (implying ≥18% YoY growth in Q4) and $80–85 million in adjusted EBITDA (implying ≥89% YoY growth in Q4). Margin expansion initiatives include ramping proprietary media (now ~50% of auto insurance media margin at ~2× third‐party margins), converting select partnerships to a fee‐based exchange model, and rolling out higher‐margin products for agencies, QRP, 360 Finance, and personal loans. While no clients have cut spending to date, management widened the Q4 outlook range due to tariff‐related risks and noted some customers are pacing budgets pending clarity on potential cost impacts. Looking ahead, QuinStreet expects to sustain double‐digit revenue and profit growth, prioritizing expense and cash flow management, margin expansion, strong balance sheet maintenance, and strategic reinvestment over share buybacks. AI Generated. 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There are 10 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to QuinStreet's Fiscal Third Quarter twenty twenty five Financial Results Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, all lines are in listen only mode. Following prepared remarks, there will be a Q and A session. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Senior Director of Investor Relations and Finance, Robert Amparo. Operator00:00:29Mr. Amparo, you may begin. Speaker 100:00:33Thank you, operator, and thank you, everyone, for joining us as we report QuinStreet's fiscal third quarter twenty twenty five financial results. Joining me on the call today are Chief Executive Officer, Doug Valenti and Chief Financial Officer, Greg Wong. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that the following discussion will contain forward looking statements. Forward looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected by such statements and are not guarantees of future performance. Factors that may cause results to differ from our forward looking statements are discussed in our recent SEC filings, including our most recent eight ks filing made today and our most recent 10 Q filing. Speaker 100:01:16Forward looking statements are based on assumptions as of today, and the company undertakes no obligation to update these statements. Today, we will be discussing both GAAP and non GAAP measures. A reconciliation of GAAP to non GAAP financial measures is included in today's earnings press release, which is available on our Investor Relations website at investor.quinstreet.com. With that, I will turn the call over to Doug Blanton. Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 100:01:43Thank you, Rob. Welcome, everyone. We delivered strong results again in Speaker 200:01:49the March, our fiscal Q3, growing revenue 60% year over year and adjusted EBITDA 145%. Financial services client vertical revenue grew 78% year over year, with auto insurance up 165%. Home services revenue grew 21% year over year to a new quarterly record. The continued strong results are due to the combination of our big market opportunities, exceptional value proposition, and strong competitive advantages, and to our execution focused culture. As always, our results include investments in a long list of high impact new product, media, and client expansion initiatives to fuel future performance. Speaker 200:02:50We expect to be able to continue to average double digit year over year revenue and profit growth in the short and long term. We strengthened our financial position further in fiscal Q3, ending the quarter with over $80,000,000 in cash and no bank debt. Growing cash flow and expanding margins continue to be top priorities and areas of active focus. Turning to our outlook. We are maintaining our full fiscal year twenty twenty five outlook as we move into the June, our fiscal Q4. Speaker 200:03:35Full fiscal year revenue is expected to be between $1,065,000,000 and $1,105,000,000 implying revenue growth of at least 18% year over year in fiscal Q4. Full fiscal year adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between 80 and $85,000,000 implying adjusted EBITDA growth of at least 89% year over year in fiscal Q4. The implied outlook range for fiscal Q4 is wider than our usual outlook range, reflecting our view that tariffs and tariff related uncertainties introduce risk and potential volatility to client spending. We are enthusiastic about our prospects, short and long term. We will continue to position QuinStreet to be resilient to a wide range of macroeconomic scenarios and to thrive as we pursue our big market opportunities. Speaker 200:04:49And we will prioritize expense and cash flow management, margin expansion and maintaining a strong balance sheet. With that, I'll turn the call over to Greg. Speaker 300:05:03Thank you, Doug. Hello and thanks to everyone for joining us today. Fiscal Q3 was another strong quarter for QuinStreet. We delivered double digit revenue growth year over year and continue to make progress on our profitability initiatives, further strengthening our financial position and highlighting the strong leverage in our business. For the March, total revenue grew 60% year over year and was $269,800,000 Adjusted net income was $12,400,000 or $0.21 per share. Speaker 300:05:41And adjusted EBITDA was $19,400,000 Looking at revenue by client vertical, our financial services client vertical represented 74% of Q3 revenue and grew 78% year over year to $199,700,000 The strong performance was largely driven by auto insurance, which grew 165% year over year. Our home services client vertical represented 24% of Q3 revenue and grew 21% year over year to $65,400,000 a record quarter for that business. Other revenue was the remaining $4,700,000 of Q3 revenue. Turning to the balance sheet, we closed the quarter with $82,000,000 of cash and equivalents and no bank debt. Moving to our outlook, we are maintaining our full fiscal year '20 '20 '5 expectations. Speaker 300:06:48Full fiscal year revenue is expected to be between $1,065,000,000 and $1,105,000,000 The full fiscal year adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between 80,000,000 and $85,000,000 As Doug noted, the implied outlook range for fiscal Q4 is wider than our usual outlook range, reflecting our view that tariff and tariff related uncertainties introduced risk and potential volatility to client spending. As a reminder, our full fiscal year outlook implies continued margin expansion in fiscal Q4. We continue to one, optimize media efficiencies and client results in auto insurance. Two, grow higher margin growth opportunities. And three, continue ongoing productivity improvements across our business. Speaker 300:07:49Taking a step back, the fundamentals of our business have never been better. We expect revenue in fiscal 'twenty five to grow over $1,000,000,000 or up at least 74% from just over $600,000,000 in fiscal 'twenty four. And we expect adjusted EBITDA in fiscal 'twenty five to grow even faster than revenue to at least $80,000,000 or up at least 293% from $20,000,000 in fiscal twenty four. Our market opportunities have never been bigger and our competitive advantages have never been stronger. Importantly, we strengthen both our financial and strategic positions for the future. Speaker 300:08:38And we remain confident with our ability to perform regardless of the macroeconomic environment. With that, I'll turn it over to the operator for Q and A. Operator00:08:49Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to decline from the polling process, please press the star followed by the number two. If you are using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. Operator00:09:13One moment, please, for your first question. Your first question comes from the line of Jason Kreher from Craig Hallum. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 400:09:25Great. Thank you, guys. This is Cal on for Jason. So maybe first, can you just provide some insight into your conversations with auto carriers and just your view on if they can absorb some of this pressure on profitability and potentially take rate, just kind of the runway that they might have there to absorb any of these tariff pressures? Speaker 200:09:46Yeah, Cal. Our conversations are much different than the auto carrier executives have stated publicly, the big ones in fact. And that is that the tariffs, if fully implemented, are likely to have a negative effect on their loss ratios because they could increase claim costs. That said, they also enter this period, or are performing during this period with exceptionally strong, strongly positive combined ratios, and could likely absorb a very wide range of actual tariff implementations, and still be in very good financial shape. The problem everybody has is none of us really know exactly what is and isn't going to be implemented at what rate and where. Speaker 200:10:42Right now, we have seen no material reductions from any of the clients in any of the verticals, including auto insurance, based on tariffs and tariff planning. And it's a little bit of a wait and see, because I think we have also not seen as strong a ramps as we might see if given the strong financial results and economics of clients are delivering, we would expect even stronger ramps than this, and we're not seeing that yet. And I think that's because folks are kind of in wait and see mode and wanting to know more about what exactly is going to happen with the tariffs before making decisions to be even more aggressive. I would expect if and as the tariff air clears, you're going to see a lot of more aggressiveness, again, given the very strong operating and financial results the carriers are reporting. But again, we're seeing kind of just stable mode, just a stable spend right now. Speaker 400:11:54Great. Thanks. And then just maybe as a follow-up, we saw some nice EBITDA margin improvement in the quarter and you're guiding to another healthy uptick here in Q4. So just curious how you're approaching margin expansion versus investments in the business and the different levers that you have to sustain this margin improvement? Speaker 200:12:12That's a great question. We're continuing to invest very aggressively, as I indicated in my script, in new growth initiatives as we always do. That's the vast majority really of our operating expenses are going toward future growth and margin expansion initiatives. In terms of margin expansion, they're just across the board opportunities that we are executing against. Let me give you some examples though, it's a fair question. Speaker 200:12:41First and foremost, of course, is top line leverage. Our media margins come into as revenue grows and our revenue grows a lot faster than our semi fixed cost base. So you have a natural upward tug on adjusted EBITDA as we continue to grow revenue, and we expect to continue to grow revenue double digits. And of course, we do not expect to continue to grow operating expenses at the same rate. Second, though, we have a lot of new media initiatives that are showing a lot of success. Speaker 200:13:11We are, for example, growing big new scale areas of proprietary media across the company, and especially in auto insurance. That proprietary media has grown very rapidly, is now about half of our media margin or margin dollars produced from media in auto insurance, and comes in about two times the margin of our third party media sources. We are still completely committed to third party media, keeps us aware of the market, it gives us a lot of insight. We are a great partner for those third party providers. But that proprietary media growth, which is a big initiative at the company, is showing great success, great growth, and great margin, and we've got a lot, lot more runway to go there. Speaker 200:14:01So that's a big one. Another big one is in auto insurance, we're converting a number of big media partnerships to fee based relationships because that better reflects the nature of those relationships, some of the bigger scale, lower margin opportunities. We're going to be converting to a platform fee model. Some might refer to it as a private exchange model, which one of our competitors, of course, is much more active in that market. We have a great private exchange product that's now been adopted by a number of partners, and we're looking to convert some of the partnerships that have lower margin into that model because I think it better reflects the nature of the relationship and is really a better reflection of that part of the market in which we're happy to participate in and to be more aggressive in. Speaker 200:14:52That's going to be a continued good lever for us on the margin side, particularly again in auto insurance. On top of the media initiatives, have a lot of product initiatives going on. We've got new products that we've been rolling out that have more than doubled this year to serve agencies and agency like entities, whereas historically we've been dominantly providing our products, of course, to the direct carriers. And those products, again, are growing very rapidly and are coming in at about twice the margin of our historic direct to carrier click product. On top of that, we continue to scale our brand new product areas and they're getting to decent scale now, including QRP and our three sixty Finance product. Speaker 200:15:40We expect both to be better than breakeven this year after spending a lot of time and money getting those products to the point where you can scale them to getting to more than breakeven and getting to good scale and getting to the point we're going to expect them to be inflecting, and they've already begun to do so. So we're excited about those products and their effect on margins. Also in our personal loans area, we are very early and we're very narrow in our footprint there. And we now know that of the over 2,000,000 qualified consumers we see every month in that business, we're only really engaging with about a third of them. And a relatively small portion of them do we match to a product. Speaker 200:16:28We now know the products that they want, and we're adding those clients and have added a number of clients to better service that traffic flow, which will give us a lot more pure margin on the inquiries we already see and the ability to go out and source even more. So that's an area that we expect pretty dramatic margin expansion in over the next couple of years. In home services, is a great business for us already, of course, we're continuing to scale trades we're already in. And as we scale those trades, we're doing it in a very smart way by making sure that we're adding clients in geos where we don't have full coverage or we don't have adequate coverage. And that gives us better yield, better margin, better media buying power, and up goes the whip from there. Speaker 200:17:17So our growth in home services is really focused on margin, expanding growth and buying power growth. And that cadence is really working very well for us. So across the business, a lot of margin expansion opportunities, lot of success already. These are not things we're dreaming about. These are things we're doing. Speaker 200:17:40A lot more runway on all of them to go. Speaker 400:17:44Great. Really appreciate all the color there. Thanks and congrats on the quarter. Speaker 200:17:48Thank you, Cal. Operator00:17:53Your next question comes from the line of Patrick Shaw from Barrington Research. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:18:01Hi, thanks for taking the question. Maybe touching back on home services. I was just wondering how you're seeing any of the tariffs impact that side of the business. Speaker 200:18:17Yeah, Patrick, we had not really heard much from our clients about the tariffs until fairly recently. And again, we have had no clients reduce spend because of anticipation or anxiety about tariffs. But we have heard from clients that they are concerned in certain pockets that the tariffs could meaningfully increase their costs and that then they would have to figure out whether or not they'd be able to pass those along. And if not, what that would mean for their economics and what that would mean for their marketing budgets. So we have not heard it across the board. Speaker 200:18:53We've heard it in pockets. Obviously it's a pretty diverse marketplace, a pretty diverse industry. And so some folks who are more leveraged to say China for sure would feel a much bigger impact depending on how again the tariffs get implemented. And they're beginning to let us know that they're doing planning around what happens and what they would do. The great news is, it's a very diverse marketplace, very diverse industry. Speaker 200:19:27We're already making plans ourselves to make sure we're leaning into areas that are likely to be less impacted rather than more impacted. And we have the ability to make sure that we shift our efforts and our focus to those places. The other thing to think about, and this was mentioned by one of our competitors and is something that folks know that if and as the tariffs lead to macroeconomic issues or difficulties, one of the things we also see is that many of these clients buy more inquiries from people like us when the market gets softer because of either pricing due to tariffs or demand reductions due to a recession. So exactly how it'll shake out, we don't know. It's one of the reasons we're providing a broader range in the fourth quarter, in our fiscal fourth quarter, the calendar second quarter. Speaker 200:20:21But right now, still strong demand, strong performance, and we're preparing ourselves to be sure that we're ready in case that changes. Hopefully it will not, but again, I don't think any of us know exactly how this is going to play out. Speaker 500:20:40Okay. Then I realize that with the guidance that you provided, that there's a wide range of outcomes with the tariffs. So maybe it's a little premature to ask about the next fiscal year. But can you maybe talk about how you're seeing that shape up in terms of like either a return to the traditional seasonality of revenue trends or if you think that I think you've kind of addressed this with the continued ramp or if there should still be kind of a ramp of growth to kind of exceed those trends? Speaker 200:21:13Yes, it's a fair question. We have not completed the planning cycle yet for next fiscal year. As you can imagine, sands tariffs, I would expect pretty strong double digit top and adjusted EBITDA line growth with likely stronger growth on the adjusted EBITDA line. And I would expect generally a return to relatively normal seasonality, but for the fact that there has been a little bit of a modification to buying patterns, I think, based on waiting to see what's going to happen with the tariffs. Rather than there being a downward shift in spending from our clients, what we've more seen is a reluctance to ramp the way they normally would, given the performance that we know they're getting from our channel. Speaker 200:22:16And so I don't know exactly how that would shape out and shape the curve, the seasonality curve next year. Again, without any tariff effects, strong double digit revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA margin growth, probably a return, generally speaking, to the seasonality patterns we've seen historically, but for the fact that there's been some modification to the curve just based on the anticipation of tariffs. But then if you throw tariffs and their implementation and all the permutations of what that might look like into the mix, I think we still have good strong revenue and adjusted EBITDA, but in terms of the rates of growth and the shape of the curve, it's just too complicated to sort out. Okay, Speaker 600:23:09thank you. Speaker 200:23:11Thank you, Patrick. Operator00:23:16Your next question comes from the line of John Campbell from Stephens Inc. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 700:23:23Hey, good afternoon. This is Oscar Nieves on for John at Stephens. So my first question, I think, for Greg. You reported that cash exiting the quarter was at $80,000,000 So given that cash level on hand and how the stock has performed over the last few months, have you guys considered engaging in any buybacks? Speaker 300:23:49Hey, Oscar. Capital allocation strategy has not changed at all. First and foremost, we are going to look to grow the business either through internal investments, through M and A or through partnerships. We have shown the ability to buy back shares. But I think also in this environment, it's super prudent to make sure you build up a strong balance sheet. Speaker 300:24:16And so kind of that's where we're focused right now from a capital allocation standpoint. Speaker 700:24:22Okay, yeah, that's fair. I have another one for you, Greg. I think Doug alluded to this earlier, but we know that, this quarter tends to be the seasonally strongest. And and last quarter, as you mentioned, was skewed by a big spike in spend by top customers. But looking ahead, I'm hoping that you can touch on your level of confidence in the ability to grow up or near this type of base. Speaker 700:24:47And that's looking ahead to fiscal year twenty six. Speaker 300:24:51Yeah, I mean, and I can let Doug comment on that as well, but we feel very good about our ability to continue to grow double digits across our business, both in the short and long term. So our markets are early, our positions in our markets are early, and the overarching trend of the shift from offline marketing to online and within online from traditional to performance marketing gives us a lot of runway for a lot of years to grow double digits. And so, yeah, I have no lack of confidence in our ability to continue to grow double digits for a long time to come. Speaker 200:25:32All right, I'll get back Speaker 600:25:33in the queue. Thank you. Thank you, Oscar. Operator00:25:41Your next question comes from the line of Zach Cummins from Riley Securities. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 800:25:49Yes. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions. I really wanted to ask a little bit more about your auto insurance business. I mean, can you give us a sense of how that performed on a sequential basis versus Q2? Speaker 800:25:59And it sounds like you're trying to be a little more prudent in terms of just the margin profile of the business that you're doing on that side. So just curious of how maybe your approach has evolved a little bit on the auto insurance side. Speaker 200:26:15Were down sequentially about little over 10% sequentially. Which the whole industry pretty much was because the December was an exceptionally strong quarter for the auto insurers because they had such strong combined ratios going into the end of the calendar year and extraordinary budgets available. So that was, I think we talked about this last quarter. So we were, which is unusual for Q4, calendar Q4 to be the December to be that strong and very unusual for us to be down sequentially in this quarter. But it was just the nature of the fact that that was such an extraordinarily strong quarter. Speaker 200:26:58So this quarter, we've seen a still very strong level of spend, obviously from the numbers, from the auto insurance carriers. But a little bit more of them being prudent about entering a new calendar year because their loss ratios and their budgets reset. They don't want to get so far over their skis and hurt themselves in the back half of the year. So we're seeing good strong spin levels. In terms of our approach, we're doing what we've always done, which is we want to build a good, strong, sustainable, profitable business in auto insurance just like we do everywhere else. Speaker 200:27:37We are adapting our approach to the fact that the market did come out so strong and that there was so much demand relative to media. What we don't want to do is chase all that media down to nothing in terms of margins. That doesn't make sense to us. So we are being a little bit more prudent in terms of how we mix our media. You heard me talk about that in terms of the growth of proprietary media, where we're not having to compete down to the lowest possible denominator and margin with everybody trying to get it to fill demand. Speaker 200:28:10You heard me talk a little bit about private exchange model, which we're happy to lean into. Have a great product there. We have some partners on it that are very happy with it. We expect to convert some more partners to it. We expect to go out and probably conquest some partners from some of our competitors with it. Speaker 200:28:26We are happy to lean into that part of the market. If margins are going to be relatively low with some of these publisher or media partnerships, then we may as well convert it to a fee based model where we don't have the overhead associated with what we might have in more of a rev share based model. So we like that and we'll mix that in. So we are adapting to the market. And I think we're adapting in a way that I'm very excited about. Speaker 200:28:54And we're showing real success adaptation. And I think you're going to continue to see it show up in the performance of the business on the margin line. Speaker 800:29:07Understood. And just my one follow-up question is really, can you speak to the trends across the different auto insurance carriers that you've seen and talked to here in kind of recent months? I know throughout the last couple of quarters, it's really been outsized contribution from a couple of the top carriers. I'm just wondering if that dynamic has shifted a little bit here in recent months. Speaker 200:29:29I'll talk generically, of course, because it's not my role to talk specifically about what my clients are doing or not doing. But here at QuinStreet, we have the broadest footprint of engagement with the most clients spending over $1,000,000 a month with us that we've ever had. And that's super exciting for us, because the market historically has been narrower for sure. But generally speaking, over the past couple of quarters, that market has broadened quite a bit. I would say while the spin patterns haven't necessarily stayed exactly the same, the general trends going forward, we would expect to continue to be that there are a lot more carriers spending a lot more of their budgets online and a lot more of that online budget being spent in performance and in particular with us, because we're seeing those carriers commit to the channel And we're seeing them commit to building the capabilities that make you successful in this channel, which tend to be much more data and analytics based than they have been in other channels historically. Speaker 200:30:48And so it takes time, it takes work, but because of the leadership of some of the carriers that have been so successful in this channel, I think others have a real felt need to follow and to figure out how to get it right. And so I think the general trends are broader, more clients spending more, better, deeper engagement with us on performance and on the things that make performance work. In terms of short term patterns, they're shifting all over the place because of the new calendar year and tariff concerns and all the other things that are going on. But I'd kind of read through that and assume that the broader pattern is more what I just talked about. Speaker 300:31:37Yeah, and Zach, just to give you just some numbers related to that. We said our auto insurance grew 165%. If you exclude our largest client, the rest of the auto insurance business grew over 150%. So very broad based ramp from a lot of carriers Douglas said. Speaker 800:31:56Understood. Well, thanks for taking my questions and best of luck with the rest of the quarter. Speaker 200:32:01Thank you, Zach. Operator00:32:11The next question comes from the line of Chris Sakai from Singular Research. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:32:20Yes, hi. Speaker 900:32:23Just kind of want to ask about auto insurance. And I mean, we seeing is this your opinion? Are we seeing that the tariffs, anything with tariffs on cars has to do maybe with a lower demand for auto insurance advertising? Is that what we're seeing with this sort of hiccup or decline sequentially in auto insurance? And how should we see this going out for the rest of the year? Speaker 200:32:56We are not seeing that yet, Chris. The sequential decline from the December is really just due to the fact that December was an extraordinarily big quarter for auto insurance clients spending online because of the strength of their financial results last calendar year. So what we're seeing this quarter is really more normalized for continued very strong growth year over year, of course, the March, but not at the extraordinary levels that we saw due to the factors I just talked about in the December. We're seeing good stable spend this quarter and extending into the current quarter. Let me say March extending into the current quarter. Speaker 200:33:47I do think that we are not seeing quite as aggressive of a ramp yet as we expect to see given how strong the financial results are for the carriers. They're reporting publicly very, very strong combined ratio results in the eighties, which is really, really good. And they're willing to spend up well into the nineties. And they don't have to because the results are good. So I think the effect of tariffs right now is that they're probably holding back on ramping their spend as much as they will even beyond where we are right now until they know what the tariff impact is on their business and on their claims costs. Speaker 200:34:33But we have not seen any carriers yet reduce their spend and tell us that they're doing that, reduce their spend based on tariffs and tariff results because the tariffs aren't actually enacted yet, A and B, their results are actually really strong. So that is not what we're seeing. Speaker 900:34:56Okay, sounds good. And thanks for that. Have you seen any early signs of success in any other new verticals or client segments? Speaker 200:35:07We are across the board, really. We have seen extraordinary growth in our new products aimed at the agency side of the insurance market, which is a place we've really not participated historically. Big, strong triple digit growth and now running at well over 10 figures a year in terms of the run rate at this point. Ramp two, we have ramped to that very quickly. And we're going to see we have a lot more to do there. Speaker 200:35:45A lot more opportunity. That's half of the online market. And we're a very small share of that and we expect to be a very good share of that in coming quarters and years. So that's one area that's a real standout opportunity. We're also seeing good success in some other segments of insurance. Speaker 200:36:04I won't talk about them, but they're big areas as well. I won't talk about just because of competitive sensitivities and we want to roadmap it for people. We continue to see great success in our home services business, adding new trades. We've added several new trades this year, a number which are getting to good scale while we continue to ramp the trades we were already in to greater scale. And we expect to add good numbers of new trades each year over the next ten years. Speaker 200:36:37So that has continued to be a good success and is creating new footprint for strong growth going forward in home services. In our credit cards business, we're adding new media and new products. And in our banking business, the same thing. We're seeing good success there. And then in our personal loans business, we have a roadmap now to pretty dramatically broaden our offerings to that customer base because we have more demand from consumers than we have clients and products to fill that demand, which is exciting for us because it's easier to get the clients and products than it is to get the consumers. Speaker 200:37:16So we are adding at a pretty rapid clip more products and clients that can better serve and serve segments of those consumers that today we don't have anything to match them to. So I would say, yeah, across the board, a lot of good strong momentum on growth initiatives in new verticals, if you will, whether you define that as another more trades in home services or more areas and segments of insurance, or more products to serve consumers that we're already seeing in the credit businesses. Speaker 500:37:54Okay. Great. Thanks for the answers, Doug. Speaker 200:37:57Thank you, Chris. Operator00:38:11Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. Thank you, everyone, for taking the time to join QuinStreet's earnings call. Replay information is available on the earnings press release issued this afternoon. This concludes today's call. Operator00:38:24Thank you.Read morePowered by