Customer Engagement

eGain Reports Record Revenue in Second Quarter of Fiscal 2023

eGain

eGain (Nasdaq: EGAN), a leading knowledge platform for customer engagement automation, today announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 second quarter ended December 31, 2022.

“We delivered another quarter of record revenue, ahead of our guidance and consensus estimates, and generated over $7 million in cash from operations,” said Ashu Roy, eGain’s CEO. “While sales cycles continue to lengthen in the current environment, market interest in knowledge-powered customer engagement remains high.”

“Last week, we announced eGain Instant Answers™, a radically simple experience powered by Generative AI technology for knowledge users. Exciting innovation like this position us well as business conditions improve.”

Fiscal 2023 Second Quarter Financial Highlights

  • Total revenue was $25.6 million, up 11% year over year (15% in constant currency).
  • SaaS revenue was $23.4 million, up 15% year over year (18% in constant currency).
  • GAAP net loss was $104,000, or $0.00 per share on a basic and diluted basis, compared to GAAP net loss of $826,000, or $0.03 per share on a basic and diluted basis in Q2 2022.
  • Non-GAAP net income was $1.7 million, or $0.05 per share on a basic and diluted basis, compared to non-GAAP net income of $3.0 million, or $0.10 per share on a basic and $0.09 per share on a diluted basis in Q2 2022.
  • Cash flow from operations was $7.4 million, or 29% operating cash flow margin.
  • Total cash and cash equivalents were $80.9 million, compared to $68.5 million in Q2 2022.

Fiscal 2023 First Six Months Financial Highlights

  • Total revenue was $50.4 million, up 13% year over year (17% in constant currency).
  • SaaS revenue was $46.1 million, up 16% year over year (20% in constant currency).
  • GAAP net loss was $120,000, or $0.00 per share on a basic and diluted basis, compared to GAAP net loss of $275,000, or $0.01 per share on a basic and diluted basis in Q2 2022.
  • Non-GAAP net income was $3.7 million, or $0.12 per share on a basic basis and $0.11 per share on a diluted basis, compared to non-GAAP net income of $5.7 million, or $0.18 per share on a basic and $0.17 per share on a diluted basis in Q2 2022.
  • Cash provided from operations was $8.2 million, or an operating cash flow margin of 16%.

Fiscal 2023 Third Quarter Financial Guidance

For the third quarter of fiscal 2023 ending March 31, 2023, eGain expects:

  • Total revenue of between $23.0 million to $23.5 million.
  • Non-GAAP total revenue, adjusted for constant currency, of between $23.5 million to $24.0 million.
  • GAAP net loss of $1.2 million to $1.6 million, or $0.04 to $0.05 per share.
    • Includes stock-based compensation expense of approximately $1.6 million.
    • Includes depreciation and amortization of approximately $125,000.
  • Non-GAAP net income of breakeven to $400,000, or $0.00 to $0.01 per share.

Fiscal 2023 Financial Guidance

For the fiscal 2023 full year ending June 30, 2023, eGain expects:

  • Total revenue of between $97.0 million to $99.0 million.
  • Non-GAAP total revenue, adjusted for constant currency, of between $100.0 million to $102.0 million.
  • GAAP net loss of $700,000 to $2.7 million, or $0.02 to $0.08 per share.
    • Includes stock-based compensation expense of approximately $7.0 million.
    • Includes depreciation and amortization of approximately $600,000.
  • Non-GAAP net income of $4.3 million to $6.3 million, or $0.13 to $0.20 per share.

Guidance Assumption:

  • Weighted average shares outstanding are expected to be approximately 32.1 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2023 and 32.3 million for the full fiscal year 2023.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes certain non-GAAP financial measures as supplemental information relating to our operating results, including non-GAAP total revenue that is only adjusted for constant currency to provide better visibility into the underlying business trends and non-GAAP net income. The non-GAAP net income measure is adjusted for stock-based compensation expense. eGain’s management has analyzed the effect of these non-GAAP adjustments on our income tax provision and believes the change in our income tax provision would be minimal due to these non-GAAP adjustments being attributed to the U.S. jurisdiction where it has recorded full valuation allowance against the deferred taxes. Non-GAAP results are presented for supplemental informational purposes only and should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. eGain’s management uses these non-GAAP measures to compare our performance to that of prior periods for trend analysis and for budgeting and planning purposes. eGain believes that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing our financial measures with other software companies, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors, and that it allows for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in our financial and operational decision-making. Reconciliation tables of the most comparable GAAP financial measures to the non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release are included with the financial tables at the end of this release. eGain urges investors to review the reconciliation and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business. In addition, this presentation includes eGain’s projected non-GAAP total revenue, a non-GAAP measure used to describe eGain’s expected performance. We have not presented a reconciliation of this non-GAAP measure to eGain’s projected total revenue, the most comparable GAAP financial measure, because the reconciliation could not be prepared without unreasonable effort. The information necessary to prepare the reconciliation is not available on a forward-looking basis and cannot be accurately predicted. The unavailable information could have a significant impact on the calculation of the comparable GAAP financial measure.

Conference Call Information

eGain will discuss its fiscal 2023 second quarter results today via teleconference at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. To access the live call, dial +1 844-481-2704 (U.S. toll free) or +1 412-317-0660 (International) and ask to join the eGain earnings call. A live and archived webcast of the call will also be accessible on the “Investor relations” section of our website at www.egain.com. In addition, a phone replay of the conference call will be available starting two hours after the call and remain in effect for one week. To access the phone replay, dial 877-344-7529 (U.S. toll free) or 412-317-0088 (International). The replay access code is 3626258.

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