Envestnet Reports Fourth Quarter 2023 Financial Results

BERWYN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Envestnet (NYSE: ENV), a leading provider of intelligent systems for wealth management and financial wellness, today reported financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2023.

“For 25 years it has been a privilege to be a part of and lead the amazing journey that is Envestnet — how foundational it is to the industry, our clients and the advisors who grow, serve and enrich the lives of millions of families,” said Bill Crager, Chief Executive Officer.

“The foundation of the business is strong and Envestnet has the right strategy and people to continue delivering for clients and the industry.”

Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter 2023 Compared to the Fourth Quarter 2022:

Total revenue increased 8% to $317.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 from $292.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2022. Asset-based recurring revenue increased 13% and represented 59% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023, compared to 57% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2022. Subscription-based recurring revenue decreased 3% and represented 37% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023, compared to 41% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2022. Professional services and other non-recurring revenue increased 115% for the fourth quarter of 2023 from the fourth quarter of 2022.

Total operating expenses increased 55% to $496.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 from $319.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2022. Direct expense increased 11% to $118.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 from $107.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2022. Employee compensation decreased 17% to $100.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 from $121.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2022. Employee compensation was 32% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023, compared to 41% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2022. General and administrative expense decreased 13% to $51.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 from $59.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2022. General and administrative expense was 16% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023, compared to 20% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2022. A goodwill impairment charge of $191.8 million was recognized for the fourth quarter of 2023.

Loss from operations was $178.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to $26.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2022. Net loss attributable to Envestnet, Inc. was $183.2 million, or $3.35 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to $36.5 million, or $0.85 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2022.

Adjusted revenue⁽¹⁾ increased 8% to $317.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 from $292.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2022. Adjusted EBITDA⁽¹⁾ increased 44% to $75.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 from $52.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2022. Adjusted net income⁽¹⁾ increased 44% to $43.0 million, or $0.65 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2023 from $29.9 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2022.

Financial Results for the Full Year 2023 Compared to the Full Year 2022:

Total revenue remained consistent at $1.2 billion for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. Asset-based recurring revenue increased 1% and represented 60% of total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. Subscription-based recurring revenue decreased 3% and represented 37% of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to 39% of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2022. Professional services and other non-recurring revenue increased 50% for the year ended December 31, 2023 from the year ended December 31, 2022.

Total operating expenses increased 11% to $1.5 billion for the year ended December 31, 2023 from $1.3 billion for the year ended December 31, 2022. Direct expense increased 1% to $473.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 from $470.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Employee compensation decreased 9% to $444.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 from $490.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Employee compensation was 36% of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023, compared to 40% of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2022. General and administrative expense decreased 4% to $210.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 from $218.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. General and administrative expense was 17% of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023, compared to 18% for the year ended December 31, 2022. A goodwill impairment charge of $191.8 million was recognized for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Loss from operations was $204.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to $66.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Net loss attributable to Envestnet, Inc. was $238.7 million, or $4.38 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to $80.9 million, or $1.59 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2022.

Adjusted revenue⁽¹⁾ remained consistent at $1.2 billion for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. Adjusted EBITDA⁽¹⁾ increased 16% to $250.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 from $215.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Adjusted net income⁽¹⁾ increased 14% to $140.2 million, or $2.12 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2023 from $122.5 million, or $1.86 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2022.

Balance Sheet and Liquidity

As of December 31, 2023, Envestnet had $91.4 million in cash and cash equivalents and $892.5 million in outstanding debt. Debt as of December 31, 2023 consisted of $317.5 million in convertible notes maturing in 2025 and $575.0 million in convertible notes maturing in 2027. Envestnet's $500.0 million revolving credit facility was undrawn as of December 31, 2023.

Segment Reporting

On October 1, 2023, the Company changed the composition of its reportable segments to reflect the way that the Company's chief operating decision maker reviews the operating results, assesses performance and allocates resources. As a result, the advisor-focused Wealth Analytics business has been reclassified from the Envestnet Data & Analytics segment to the Envestnet Wealth Solutions segment. The segment change does not impact nonsegment results or the Company's consolidated balance sheets, consolidated statements of operations or consolidated statements of cash flows. All segment information presented within this Exhibit 99.1 for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023 is presented in conjunction with the current organizational structure, with prior periods adjusted accordingly.

Correction of Immaterial Error

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company identified that the arrangement with a third-party for the use of cloud hosted virtual servers which was previously accounted for as a finance lease transaction and included as a component of property and equipment, net in the consolidated balance sheets should have been recognized as a prepayment included within prepaid expenses and other current assets and other assets in the consolidated balance sheets. The Company concluded that the classification of these transactions was immaterial in prior period financial statements and that amendment of previously filed reports was not required. However, the Company corrected this immaterial error in the prior periods reported within this Exhibit 99.1.

Outlook

Envestnet provided the following outlook for the first quarter ending March 31, 2024. This outlook is based on the market value of assets under management or administration on December 31, 2023. We caution that we cannot predict the market value of these assets on any future date. See “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

Conference Call

Envestnet will host a conference call to discuss fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results today at 5:00 p.m. ET. The live webcast and accompanying presentation can be accessed from Envestnet’s investor relations website at http://investor.envestnet.com/. A replay of the webcast will be available on the investor relations website following the call.

About Envestnet

Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV) is transforming the way financial advice and insight are delivered. Our mission is to empower financial advisors and service providers with innovative technology, solutions and intelligence. Envestnet's clients include more than 108,000 advisors, 16 of the 20 largest U.S. banks, 48 of the 50 largest wealth management and brokerage firms, over 500 of the largest RIAs and hundreds of FinTech companies, all of which leverage Envestnet technology and services that help drive better outcomes for enterprises, advisors and their clients.

For more information on Envestnet, please visit www.envestnet.com and follow us on Twitter @ENVintel.

(1) Non-GAAP Financial Measures

“Adjusted revenue” excludes the effect of purchase accounting on the fair value of acquired deferred revenue. On January 1, 2022, the Company adopted ASU 2021-08 whereby it now accounts for contract assets and contract liabilities obtained upon a business combination in accordance with ASC 606. Prior to the adoption of ASU 2021-08, we recorded at fair value the acquired deferred revenue for contracts in effect at the time the entities were acquired. Consequently, revenue related to acquired entities for periods subsequent to the acquisition did not reflect the full amount of revenue that would have been recorded by these entities had they remained stand-alone entities. Adjusted revenue has limitations as a financial measure, should be considered as supplemental in nature and is not meant as a substitute for revenue prepared in accordance with GAAP.

“Adjusted EBITDA” represents net income (loss) before deferred revenue fair value adjustment, interest income, interest expense, income tax provision (benefit), depreciation and amortization, goodwill impairment, non-cash compensation expense, restructuring charges and transaction costs, severance expense, fair market value adjustment on investment in private company, litigation, regulatory and other governance related expenses, foreign currency, non-income tax expense adjustment, dilution gain on equity method investee share issuance, loss allocations from equity method investments and (income) loss attributable to non-controlling interest.

“Adjusted net income” represents net income (loss) before income tax provision (benefit), deferred revenue fair value adjustment, non-cash interest expense, cash interest on our Convertible Notes, goodwill impairment, non-cash compensation expense, restructuring charges and transaction costs, severance expense, amortization of acquired intangibles, fair market value adjustment to investment in private company, litigation, regulatory and other governance related expenses, foreign currency, non-income tax expense adjustment, dilution gain on equity method investee share issuance, loss allocations from equity method investments and (income) loss attributable to non-controlling interest. Reconciling items are presented gross of tax, and a normalized tax rate is applied to the total of all reconciling items to arrive at adjusted net income. The normalized tax rate is based solely on the estimated blended statutory income tax rates in the jurisdictions in which we operate. We monitor the normalized tax rate based on events or trends that could materially impact the rate, including tax legislation changes and changes in the geographic mix of our operations.

“Adjusted net income per diluted share” represents adjusted net income attributable to common stockholders divided by the diluted number of weighted-average shares outstanding. For purposes of the adjusted net income per share calculation, we assume all potential shares to be issued in connection with our Convertible Notes are dilutive.

For further information see reconciliations of Non-GAAP Financial Measures on pages 11-16 of this press release, and the section entitled "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" in the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or our Investor Relations website at http://investor.envestnet.com/. Reconciliations are not provided for guidance on such measures as the Company is unable to predict the amounts to be adjusted, such as the GAAP tax provision. The Company’s Non-GAAP Financial Measures should not be viewed as a substitute for revenue, net income (loss) or net income (loss) per share determined in accordance with GAAP.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The forward-looking statements made in this press release and its attachments concerning, among other things, Envestnet, Inc.’s expected financial performance and outlook for the first quarter and full year of 2024, its strategic and operational plans and growth strategy are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties and our actual results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Furthermore, reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed by the forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, our ability to recruit and retain senior executive leadership and other key employees and to successfully manage transitions, including the transition of our chief executive officer; adverse economic or global market conditions, including periods of rising inflation and market interest rates, and governmental responses to such conditions; the conflicts in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine, including related sanctions and their impact on the global economy and capital markets; the concentration of our revenue from the delivery of our solutions and services to clients in the financial services industry; our reliance on a limited number of clients for a material portion of our revenue; the renegotiation of fees by our clients; changes in the estimates of fair value of reporting units or of long-lived assets, particularly goodwill and intangible assets; the amount of our debt, our ability to service our debt and risks associated with derivative transactions associated with our debt; limitations on our ability to access information from third parties or charges for accessing such information; the targeting of some of our sales efforts at large financial institutions and large financial technology companies which prolongs sales cycles, requires substantial upfront sales costs and results in less predictability in completing some of our sales; changes in investing patterns on the assets on which we derive revenue and the freedom of investors to redeem or withdraw investments generally at any time; the impact of fluctuations in market conditions and interest rates on the demand for our products and services and the value of assets under management or administration; increased geopolitical unrest and other events outside of our control that could adversely affect the global economy or specific international, regional and domestic markets; our ability to keep up with rapid technological change, evolving industry standards or changing requirements of clients; risks associated with our international operations; the competitiveness of our solutions and services as compared to those of others; liabilities associated with potential, perceived or actual breaches of fiduciary duties and/or conflicts of interest; harm to our reputation; the failure to protect our intellectual property rights; our reliance on outsourcing arrangements; activist shareholders hindering the execution of our business strategy, diverting board and management attention and resources and causing us to incur substantial expenses; public health crises, pandemics or similar events; our ability to successfully identify potential acquisition candidates, complete acquisitions and successfully integrate acquired companies; our ability to successfully execute the conversion of clients’ assets from their technology platform to our technology platforms in a timely and accurate manner; our ability to introduce new solutions and services and enhancements; regulatory compliance failures; our ability to maintain the security and integrity of our systems and facilities and to maintain the privacy of personal information and potential liabilities for cybersecurity breaches; the effect of privacy laws and regulations, industry standards and contractual obligations and changes to these laws, regulations, standards and obligations on how we operate our business and the negative effects of failure to comply with these requirements; failure by our customers to obtain proper permissions or waivers for our use of disclosure of information; adverse judicial or regulatory proceedings against us; failure of our solutions, services or systems, or those of third parties on which we rely, to work properly; potential liability for use of inaccurate information by third parties provided by us; the occurrence of a deemed “change of control”; the uncertainty of the application and interpretation of certain tax laws; issuances of additional shares of common stock or issuances of shares of preferred stock or convertible securities on our existing stockholders; general economic, political and regulatory conditions; global events, natural disasters, environmental disasters, terrorist attacks and pandemics, including their impact on the economy and trading markets; management’s response to these factors. More information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties and factors is contained in our filings with the SEC which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or our Investor Relations website at http://investor.envestnet.com/. You are cautioned not to unduly rely on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All information in this press release and its attachments is as of February 22, 2024 and, unless required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events after the date of this press release or to report the occurrence of unanticipated events.