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Tucows Press Releases
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– Company achieves record revenue/Establishes
itself as leader in hosted email market –
TORONTO, CANADA, February 9, 2005 - Tucows Inc. (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005.
Highlights for the fourth quarter included:
- A 10% year-over-year increase in net revenue to a record $12.7 million;
- Income from operations of $0.6 million;
- Net income of $1.0 million, the Company's fourteenth consecutive quarter of profitability;
- Cash flow from operations of $1.2 million, the Company's seventeenth consecutive quarter of positive cash flow from operations;
- A 14% year-over-year increase in deferred revenue to a record $37.9 million; and
- Signing of a definitive agreement with Critical Path, Inc. to acquire substantially all of Critical Path's hosted messaging assets. With this acquisition, Tucows becomes a leader in hosted email, further diversifies its revenue stream, adds customers and grows its infrastructure capabilities
Highlights for the fiscal year included:
- A 8% year-over-year increase in net revenue to $48.5 million;
- Income from operations of $1.9 million;
- Net income of $2.8 million;
- Cash flow from operations of $4.1 million.
"The fourth quarter caps off a year of significant achievement for Tucows" said Elliot Noss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tucows Inc. "We strengthened our shareholder base and improved our public market listing with our successful secondary offering. We diversified our revenue base and significantly expanded our presence in email with our acquisition of Critical Path's hosted email business. We strengthened and realigned our people to better reflect our new multi-service environment. We also posted a year of strong financial results with continued growth and profitability in the face of increased ICANN fees and a strengthening Canadian dollar."
We believe that these accomplishments will serve Tucows well for 2006 and beyond and will allow us to focus on our priorities for 2006. These priorities include integrating the Critical Path hosted email business, improving the user experience for Internet services like Blogware and email, increasing efficiency in the market for domain names by leveraging the secondary market and reaching a much broader segment of our channel with our billing and customer care solutions."
Summary Financial Results
Tucows Inc.
(Numbers in Thousands, Except Per Share Data)
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3 Months Ended Dec. 31, 2005 |
3 Months Ended Dec. 31, 2004 |
9 Months Ended Dec. 31, 2005 |
9 Months Ended Dec. 31, 2004* |
| Net Revenue |
12,658 |
11,522 |
48,517 |
44,717 |
| Income from Operations |
566 |
801 |
1,855 |
2,149 |
| Net Income |
1,034 |
3,865** |
2,773 |
5,500** |
| Net Income/Share |
0.01 |
0.06** |
0.04 |
0.08** |
| Cash Flow from Operations |
1,141 |
1,578 |
4,064 |
4,668 |
*Includes the recognition of deferred domain name revenue of approximately $1.1 million that was recognized as a result of one of our resellers becoming an accredited registrar and transferring all of its domain names from our tag to its own tag with the result that Tucows was no longer accountable for those transactions. Included in cost of revenue is $0.8 million previously deferred against these names in prepaid domain name registry fees.
**Includes a non-cash income tax benefit of $3.0 million or $0.04 per share, resulting from the reduction in our deferred tax asset valuation allowance.
Net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 increased 10% to $12.7 million from $11.5 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004. The increase was the result of a higher number of domain transactions, as well as higher revenue from ancillary services, which were partially offset by lower revenue from our content business due to the short-term impact of the relaunch of our web site earlier in the year.
Income from operations for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 was $0.6 million compared with $0.8 million for the corresponding quarter of last year. Income from operations for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 included a loss on foreign exchange of $21,000 compared with a gain of $204,000 for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004. Net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 was $1.0 million, or $0.01 per share, compared with $3.9 million, or $0.06 per share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004. Net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 included a non-cash income tax benefit of $3.0 million, or $0.04 per share, resulting from the reduction of the Company's deferred tax asset valuation allowance.
Deferred revenue at the end the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 was $37.9 million, an increase of 14% from $33.3 million at the end of the fourth quarter fiscal 2004 and an increase of 1% from $37.3 million at the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2005.
Cash, short-term investments and restricted cash at the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 increased to $19.2 million from $14.4 million at the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 and $18.4 million at the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2005. The increase compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2005 is the result of positive cash flow from operations for the fourth quarter of $1.1 million.
Developments During the Quarter
As previously announced, Tucows signed a definitive agreement with Critical Path, Inc. to acquire substantially all of Critical Path's hosted messaging assets, including the customer base, hosted messaging communications infrastructure, and other related assets. With the acquisition, Tucows becomes a leader in hosted email solutions, especially for Internet service providers and web hosting companies. The acquisition will further diversify Tucows's revenue stream, while providing the opportunity to strengthen relationships with existing customers and add new service provider customers.
Conference Call
Tucows will host a conference call today, Thursday, February 9, 2005, at 5:00 p.m. (ET) to discuss the company's fourth quarter fiscal 2005 results. To access the conference call via the Internet go to www.tucowsinc.com, and click on "Investor Relations."
For those unable to join the conference call at the scheduled time, it will be archived for replay both by telephone and via the Internet beginning approximately one hour following completion of the call. To access the archived conference call by telephone, dial 1-800-408-3053 or 416-695-5800 and enter the pass code 3175749 followed by the pound key. The telephone replay will be available until Thursday, February 16, 2005, at midnight. To access the archived conference call via the Internet, go to www.tucowsinc.com and click on "Investor Relations."
About Tucows
Tucows Inc. (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) provides Internet services and download libraries through a global distribution network of 6,000 service providers. This distribution network primarily consists of web hosting companies, ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and other Internet related service companies. These companies use Tucows' provisioned services to offer solutions to their customers: enterprises, small and medium businesses and consumers. Tucows is an accredited registrar with ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and earns most of its revenue from domain name registration services plus hosted email, spam and virus protection, Blogware, website building tools, the Platypus Billing System and digital certificates. For more information, please visit: www.tucowsinc.com
Contact:
Hilda Kelly
Investor Relations
Tucows Inc.
416-538-5493
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Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
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|
Tucows Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(Dollar amounts in U.S. dollars)
|
| |
|
December 31,
2005  |
|
December 31,
2004 |
| |
|
Assets
|
| Current assets: |
| Cash and cash equivalents |
$ |
17,348,088 |
$ |
13,914,988 |
| Short-term investments |
|
1,771,569 |
|
- |
| Restricted cash (note 1) |
|
60,000 |
|
460,398 |
| Interest receivable |
|
39,574 |
|
- |
| Accounts receivable |
|
1,439,329 |
|
1,111,082 |
| Prepaid expenses and deposits |
|
1,999,820 |
|
2,156,702 |
| Prepaid domain name registry and ancillary services fees, current portion |
|
18,175,988 |
|
15,601,786 |
| Deferred tax asset, current portion |
|
1,000,000
|
|
1,000,000
|
| Total current assets |
|
41,834,368 |
|
34,244,956 |
| |
| Prepaid domain name registry and ancillary services fees, long-term portion |
|
7,701,939 |
|
6,471,916 |
| Deferred acquisition costs |
|
46,034 |
|
- |
| Property and equipment |
|
1,542,671 |
|
1,017,237 |
| Deferred tax asset, long-term portion |
|
2,000,000 |
|
2,000,000 |
| Intangible assets |
|
1,006,080 |
|
1,242,240 |
| Goodwill |
|
1,951,067 |
|
964,467 |
| Investments |
|
353,737 |
|
353,737 |
| Cash held in escrow |
|
621,412 |
|
1,009,650 |
| Total assets |
$ |
57,057,308
|
$ |
47,304,203
|
| |
|
|
| Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity |
| Current liabilities: |
| Accounts payable |
$ |
1,655,195 |
$ |
1,483,543 |
| Accrued liabilities |
|
1,417,035 |
|
2,688,738 |
| Customer deposits |
|
2,276,637 |
|
2,247,262 |
| Deferred revenue, current portion |
|
26,790,166 |
|
23,648,381 |
| Accreditation fees payable, current portion |
|
651,811
|
|
144,483
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| Total current liabilities |
|
32,790,844 |
|
30,212,407 |
| |
|
|
| Deferred revenue, long-term portion |
|
11,079,537 |
|
9,602,599 |
| Accreditation fees payable, long-term portion |
|
94,785 |
|
31,816 |
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| Stockholders' equity: |
|
|
|
|
| Preferred stock - no par value, 1,250,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding |
|
- |
|
- |
| Common stock - no par value, 250,000,000 shares authorized; 71,840,267 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2005 and 66,817,250 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2004 |
|
12,403,422 |
|
9,541,277 |
| Additional Paid-in Capital |
|
50,061,866 |
|
50,061,866 |
| Deficit |
|
(49,373,146)
|
|
(52,145,762)
|
| Total stockholders' equity |
|
13,092,142
|
|
7,457,381
|
| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity |
$ |
57,057,308
|
$ |
47,304,203
|
| |
Note 1:
The restricted cash represents margin security against a series of forward exchange contracts. |
Tucows Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Dollar amounts in U.S. dollars)
|
| |
Three months ended
December 31, |
Year ended
December 31, |
| |
2005
|
2004
|
2005
|
2004
|
| Net revenues |
$ |
12,658,399 |
$ |
11,521,955 |
$ |
48,517,039 |
$ |
44,717,155 |
| Cost of revenues |
| 8,160,474
|
| 6,907,776
|
| 30,645,004
|
| 27,566,066
|
| Gross profit |
| 4,497,925
|
| 4,614,179
|
| 17,872,035
|
| 17,151,089
|
| Operating expenses: |
| Sales and marketing (*) |
| 1,185,865 |
| 1,351,649 |
| 4,855,050 |
| 5,067,841 |
| Technical operations and development |
| 1,479,959 |
| 1,289,486 |
| 5,627,426 |
| 4,549,368 |
| General and administrative(*) |
| 987,877 |
| 811,985 |
| 4,346,224 |
| 4,107,981 |
| Depreciation of property and equipment |
| 219,527 |
| 301,259 |
| 951,692 |
| 1,118,734 |
| Amortization of intangible assets |
| 59,040 |
| 59,040 |
| 236,160 |
| 157,760 |
| Total operating expenses |
|
3,932,268
|
|
3,813,419
|
|
16,016,552
|
|
15,001,684
|
| Income from operations |
| 565,657 |
| 800,760 |
| 1,855,483 |
| 2,149,405 |
| Other Income: |
|
| Interest income, net |
| 165,565 |
| 64,216 |
| 462,424 |
| 200,501 |
| Other income |
| 302,734 |
| - |
| 302,734 |
| - |
| Total other income |
|
468,299
|
|
64,216
|
|
765,158
|
|
200,501
|
| Income before provision for income taxes |
| 1,033,956 |
| 864,976 |
| 2,620,641 |
| 2,349,906 |
| Provision for (recovery of) income taxes |
| -
|
| (3,000,000)
|
| (151,975)
|
| (3,150,432)
|
| Net income for the year |
$ |
1,033,956
|
$ |
3,864,976
|
$ |
2,772,616
|
$ |
5,500,338
|
| |
|
| Basic and diluted income per share |
$ |
0.01
|
$ |
0.06
|
$ |
0.04
|
$ |
0.08
|
| |
|
| Shares used in computing basic earnings per common share |
| 71,898,247
|
| 66,817,250
|
| 69,077,329
|
| 66,079,104
|
| |
| Shares used in computing diluted income per common share |
| 74,810,799
|
| 68,893,918
|
| 72,481,204
|
| 68,051,579
|
| |
| |
| (*) Stock-based compensation has been included in operating expenses as follows: |
| Sales and marketing |
$ | - |
$ | - |
$ | - |
$ | 16,835 |
| Technical operations and development |
$ | - |
$ | 69,737 |
$ | - |
$ | 69,737 |
| General and administrative |
$ | - |
$ | - |
$ | - |
$ | 3,759 |
Tucows Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Dollar amounts in U.S. dollars)
|
| |
Three months ended
December 31, |
Year ended
December 31, |
| |
2005
|
2004
|
2005
|
2004
|
| Cash provided by (used in): |
|
| Operating activities: |
|
| Net income for the year |
$ |
1,033,956 |
$ |
3,864,976 |
$ |
2,772,616 |
$ |
5,500,338 |
| Items not involving cash: |
|
| Depreciation of property and equipment |
| 219,527 |
| 301,259 |
| 951,692 |
| 1,118,734 |
| Amortization of intangible assets |
| 59,040 |
| 59,040 |
| 236,160 |
| 157,760 |
| Unrealized change in the fair value of forward contracts |
| 212,668 |
| 100,032 |
| 30,119 |
| (88,743) |
| Stock-based compensation |
| - |
| 69,737 |
| - |
| 69,737 |
| Amortization of stock-based compensation |
| - |
| - |
| - |
| 20,593 |
| Deferred taxes |
| - |
| (3,000,000) |
| - |
| (3,000,000) |
| Change in non-cash operating working capital: |
|
| Interest receivable |
| 76,165 |
| - |
| (39,574) |
|
- |
| Accounts receivable |
| (76,442) |
| (89,847) |
| (328,247) |
|
(546,762) |
| Prepaid expenses and deposits |
| (524,722) |
| (180,526) |
| 126,763 |
| (1,333) |
| Prepaid domain name registry fees |
| (430,973) |
|
(806,264) |
| (3,804,225) |
| (3,732,942) |
| Accounts payable |
| (60,214) |
| 139,182 |
| 171,652 |
| (148,751) |
| Accrued liabilities |
| (326,808) |
| (42,295) |
| (1,271,703) |
| 403,404 |
| Customer deposits |
| 106,747 |
| 241,361 |
| 29,375 |
| 77,772 |
| Deferred revenue |
| 550,242 |
| 745,203 |
| 4,618,723 |
| 4,661,788 |
| Accreditation fees payable |
| 302,241
|
| 176,299
|
| 570,297
|
| 176,299
|
| Cash provided by operating activities |
| 1,141,427
|
| 1,578,157
|
| 4,063,648
|
| 4,667,894
|
| |
| Financing activities: |
|
| Proceeds received on exercise of stock options |
| 49,254 |
| - |
| 300,870 |
| 726,050 |
| Net proceeds received on isuance of common stock, net of issue costs |
| -
|
| -
|
| 1,574,675
|
| -
|
| Cash provided by financing activities |
| 49,254
|
| -
|
| 1,875,545
|
| 726,050
|
| |
| Investing activities: |
|
| Additions to property and equipment |
| (349,445) |
| (538,220) |
| (1,477,126) |
| (1,034,709) |
| Investment in short-term investments |
| 5,999,884 |
| - |
| (1,771,569) |
| - |
| Decrease (increase) in restricted cash - being margin security against forward exchange contracts |
| 240,000 |
| (247,898) |
| 400,398 |
| (327,898) |
| Deferred acquisition costs |
| (46,034) |
| - |
| (46,034) |
| - |
| Acquisition of Boardtown Corporation, net of cash acquired |
| - |
| - |
| - |
| (2,019,510) |
| Increase in cash held in escrow |
| (2,330)
|
| (9,650)
|
| 388,238
|
| (1,009,650)
|
| Cash provided by (used in) investing activities |
| 5,842,075
|
| (795,768)
|
| (2,506,093)
|
| (4,391,767)
|
| |
| Increase in cash and cash equivalents |
| 7,032,756 |
| 782,389 |
| 3,433,100 |
| 1,002,177 |
| Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year |
| 10,315,332
|
| 13,132,599
|
| 13,914,988
|
| 12,912,811
|
| Cash and cash equivalents, end of year |
$ |
17,348,088
|
$ |
13,914,988
|
$ |
17,348,088
|
$ |
13,914,988
|
| |
| Supplemental cash flow information: |
|
| Interest paid |
$ |
- |
$ |
- |
$ |
300 |
$ |
166 |
| |
| Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities: |
|
| Common stock issued on the acquisition of Boardtown Corporation |
$ |
- |
$ |
- |
$ |
986,600 |
$ |
274,540 |
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Tucows Inc.
96 Mowat Ave
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M6K 3M1
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