Expensify Announces Q4 and Full Year Fiscal 2024 Results

Business Wire 27-Feb-2025 4:00 PM

The company generated $23.9 million in Operating Cash Flow and $23.9 million in free cash flow in fiscal year 2024, Q4 revenue increased 5% from Q3 2024.

Expensify, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXFY), a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money across expenses, corporate cards and bills, today released a letter to shareholders from Founder and CEO David Barrett alongside results for its quarter and year ended December 31, 2024.

A Message From Our Founder

Quite simply, another great quarter, capping off an exciting year. The numbers speak for themselves:

• Q4 Revenue is up 5% q/q, FY24 Net loss is down 76% y/y and FY24 Adjusted EBITDA is up 199% y/y – to a whopping $39.4 million.
• We generated $23.9 million in Operating Cash Flow and $23.9 million in free cash flow – beating the high end of our 2024 forecast by 19% even after raising it multiple times throughout the year.
• Expensify Card spend is up 44% y/y, and interchange is up 54% y/y – essentially all of which is revenue now that we've effectively completed our migration to the new card program (which treats interchange as revenue, not as a contra expense, and earns more interchange per swipe).
• And my personal favorite, we paid off $22.7 million in debt – making us debt free.

These results weren't easy, and are the early results of our integration of "deep AI" – not surface level, gimmicky features, but AI applied to complex systems that have previously required large teams of human agents. For example:

• We have virtually eliminated human intervention in the SmartScan process, and now leverage a highly tuned and backtested AI model that results in faster, more accurate scans, across more languages and complex formats than ever – at 25% the cost.
• We made a major upgrade to our hybrid-AI Concierge system, where AI takes a first pass at every new conversation, resulting in ~80% fewer "escalations" to our human team in February '25. Not only has this increased the speed and accuracy of "basic" customer requests, it has freed up substantially more time for our human team to proactively engage with customers via account management calls.
• We are evaluating the transcripts of every customer call based on documented best practices, providing real-time feedback to our sales team and support staff (as well as detailed performance indicators to their managers). This has resulted in a 97% increase in "perfect calls" (as measured by our team covering every point correctly before hanging up) in January '25 alone.

But that's certainly not all, and is really just a preview of much more impactful projects underway:

• We are planning to add "Concierge everywhere", transforming NewDot's chat-first design into an AI-first experience. If you have a question or want to make a change on basically anything, just ask Concierge in the chat attached to that thing – be that changing a workspace setting, asking about a particular employee's spending patterns, performing a flux analysis across multiple accounting periods, or just fixing an expense violation in natural text. Yes, Expensify Chat can be used like Slack to collaborate with co-workers. But it's better to think of it like ChatGPT: New Expensify is a tool for "chatting" with Concierge and your colleagues, right in the context of what you're analyzing.
• We are working on integrating artificial engineers into our development team. Early work on this was recently published by OpenAI, which has selected the "paid open source" contributor program behind the official Expensify app as the basis of its SWE-Lancer coding benchmark. This benchmark evaluates how many of Expensify's real-world, paid freelance projects can be successfully implemented using best-of-breed LLMs. We are betting our unique corporate structure will enable us to seamlessly integrate GenAI engineering on a meaningful scale, just like we've already done with our global network of human freelance engineers.

Granted, it's tough to talk about AI because it is so cliche and noisy, with everyone clamoring to outdo each other with ever more grandiose claims. It's hard to say anything without earning eye rolls in return. But make no mistake:

Expensify is gunning for AI supremacy in fintech. And I think we are better positioned than any competitor to achieve it.

That might sound like wishful thinking, which is why our midwestern sensibilities make us shy to talk about it. But that's the plan, and we feel very, very proud of the progress made down that path in the last year – and super excited about the years to come. Thank you for coming along with us on this journey. It's been quite a ride!

-david

Founder and CEO of Expensify

Financial

Fourth Quarter 2024 Highlights

• Revenue was $37.0 million, an increase of 5% compared to the same period last year.
• Generated $7.4 million of cash from operating activities.
• Free cash flow was $6.3 million.
• Net loss was $1.3 million, compared to $7.2 million for the same period last year.
• Non-GAAP net income was $8.7 million.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $12.4 million.
• Interchange derived from the Expensify Card grew to $5.1 million, an increase of 62% compared to the same period last year.
• See Financial Outlook section for Free Cash Flow guidance for fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

Full Year Fiscal 2024 Highlights

• Revenue was $139.2 million, a decrease of 8% compared to the prior year.
• Generated $23.9 million of cash from operating activities.
• Free cash flow was $23.9 million.
• Net loss was $10.1 million, compared to $41.5 million for the prior year.
• Non-GAAP net income was $23.5 million.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $39.4 million.
• Interchange derived from the Expensify Card grew to $17.2 million, an increase of 54% compared to the prior year.

Business

Fourth Quarter 2024 Highlights

• Paid members - Paid members were 687,000, a decrease of 4% from the same period last year, however a slight increase compared to Q3 2024's paid members of 684,000.
• Expanded AI Support - expanded enterprise client relationship with OpenAI to provide 80% of tier 1 support through AI driven responses.
• Expensify Travel - The company launched its travel product, adding fee-based and transactional revenue opportunities to the business.

2024 Highlights

• Debt reduction - The company reduced its debt by $22.7 million in 2024.
• Share purchases - The company's employees purchased $4.1 million worth of Class A common stock via the company's Stock Purchase and Matching Plan in 2024.
• Expensify Card migration - The company completed its migration to its new card program with substantially all Expensify Card spend now under the new program.

Financial Outlook

Expensify's outlook statements are based on current estimates, expectations and assumptions and are not a guarantee of future performance. The following statements are forward-looking and actual results could differ materially depending on market conditions and the factors set forth under "Forward-Looking Statements" below. There can be no assurance that the Company will achieve the results expressed by this guidance.

Free Cash Flow

Expensify estimates Free Cash Flow of $16.0 million - $20.0 million for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

The Company does not provide a reconciliation for free cash flow estimates on a forward-looking basis because it is unable, without making unreasonable efforts, to provide a meaningful or reasonably accurate calculation or estimation of net cash provided by operating activities and certain reconciling items on a forward-looking basis, which could be significant to the Company's results.

Stock Based Compensation

An estimate of expected stock-based compensation for the next four fiscal quarters is as follows, which is driven primarily by the pre-IPO grant of RSUs issued to all employees (which vest quarterly over eight years with approximately four years remaining).

Est. stock-based compensation (millions)

Availability of Information on Expensify's Website

Investors and others should note that Expensify routinely announces material information to investors and the marketplace using SEC filings, press releases, public conference calls, webcasts and the Expensify Investor Relations website at https://ir.expensify.com. While not all of the information that the Company posts to its Investor Relations website is of a material nature, some information could be deemed to be material. Accordingly, the Company encourages investors, the media and others interested in Expensify to review the information that it shares on its Investor Relations website.

Conference Call

Expensify will host a video call to discuss the financial results and business highlights at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time today. An investor presentation and the video call information is available on Expensify's Investor Relations website at https://ir.expensify.com. A replay of the call will be available on the site for three months.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), we provide certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net income, and free cash flow.

We believe our non-GAAP financial measures are useful in evaluating our business, measuring our performance, identifying trends affecting our business, formulating business plans and making strategic decisions. Accordingly, we believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our results of operations in the same manner as our management team. These non-GAAP financial measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only, should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from similarly titled metrics or measures presented by other companies. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for financial information presented under GAAP. There are a number of limitations related to the use of non-GAAP financial measures versus comparable financial measures determined under GAAP. For example, other companies in our industry may calculate these non-GAAP financial measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance. All of these limitations could reduce the usefulness of these non-GAAP financial measures as analytical tools. Investors are encouraged to review the related GAAP financial measures and the reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and to not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business. A reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with GAAP is at the end of this press release.

Adjusted EBITDA. We define adjusted EBITDA as net loss from operations excluding provision for income taxes, interest and other expenses, net, depreciation and amortization and stock-based compensation.

Non-GAAP net income. We define Non-GAAP net income as net loss from operations excluding stock-based compensation.

Free cash flow. We define Free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities excluding changes in settlement assets and settlement liabilities, which represent funds held for customers and customer funds in transit, respectively, reduced by the purchases of property and equipment and software development costs.

The tables at the end of the Consolidated Financial Statements provide reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure to each of these non-GAAP financial measures.

Forward-Looking Statements

Forward-looking statements in this press release, or made during the earnings call, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1955. These statements include statements regarding our strategy, future financial condition, future operations, future cash flow, projected costs, prospects, plans, objectives of management and expected market growth, product developments and their potential impact and our stock-based compensation estimates and involve known and unknown risks that are difficult to predict. As a result, our actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as "may," "will," "shall," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "could," "intends," "target," "projects," "contemplates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "goal," "ambition," "objective," "seeks," "outlook," or "continue" or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern our expectations, strategy, plans, or intentions. Such forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by us and our management, are inherently uncertain. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: the impact on inflation on us and our members; our borrowing costs have and may continue to increase as a result of increases in interest rates; our expectations regarding our financial performance and future operating performance; our ability to attract and retain members, expand usage of our platform, sell subscriptions to our platform and convert individuals and organizations into paying customers; the timing and success of new features, integrations, capabilities and enhancements by us, or by competitors to their products, or any other changes in the competitive landscape of our market; the amount and timing of operating expenses and capital expenditures that we may incur to maintain and expand our business and operations to remain competitive; the sufficiency of our cash, cash equivalents and investments to meet our liquidity needs; our ability to make required payments under and to comply with the various requirements of our current and future indebtedness; our cash flows, the prevailing stock prices, general economic and market conditions and other considerations that could affect the specific timing, price and size of repurchases under our stock repurchase program or our ability to fund any stock repurchases; geopolitical tensions, including the war in Ukraine and the conflict in Israel, Gaza and surrounding areas; our ability to effectively manage our exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; the expenses associated with being a public company; the size of our addressable markets, market share and market trends; anticipated trends, developments and challenges in our industry, business and the highly competitive markets in which we operate; any adverse impact on our business operations as a result of using artificial intelligence or other machine learning technologies in our services; our expectations regarding our income tax liabilities and the adequacy of our reserves; our ability to effectively manage our growth and expand our infrastructure and maintain our corporate culture; our ability to identify, recruit and retain skilled personnel, including key members of senior management; the safety, affordability and convenience of our platform and our offerings; our ability to successfully defend litigation brought against us; our ability to successfully identify, manage and integrate any existing and potential acquisitions of businesses, talent, technologies or intellectual property; general economic conditions in either domestic or international markets, and geopolitical uncertainty and instability, and their effects on software spending; our protections against security breaches, technical difficulties, or interruptions to our platform; our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our intellectual property; and other risks discussed in our filings with the SEC. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements set forth above. We caution you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which are made only as of the date of this press release. We do not undertake or assume any obligation to update publicly any of these forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, new information or future events, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting forward-looking statements, except to the extent required by applicable law. If we update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that we will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements.

About Expensify

Expensify helps 15 million people worldwide track expenses, book travel, reimburse employees, manage corporate cards, send invoices, and pay bills—all in one place. Whether you're self-employed, running a small business, managing a team, or overseeing global finances, let Expensify handle your travel and expense, at the speed of chat.

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