Skillz Inc. (NYSE: SKLZ) (“Skillz” or the “Company”), the leading mobile games platform bringing fair competition to players worldwide, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023.
2023 Second Quarter Financial Highlights:
- Revenue of $40.2 million compared to $71.8 million in Q2 2022
- Gross profit of $36.5 million compared to $62.8 million in Q2 2022
- Net loss of $(22.0) million compared to $(62.6) million in Q2 2022
- Adjusted EBITDA1 of $(20.2) million compared to $(34.0) million in Q2 2022
- Paying monthly active users (PMAU)2 of 200,000 compared to 420,000 in Q2 2022
- Average Revenue Per Paying Monthly Active User (ARPPU)3 of $68.18 compared to $56.79 in Q2 2022
- Total operating expenses of $72.1 million compared $118.9 million in Q2 2022
- Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities of $361.4 million as of June 30, 2023
- Reduced outstanding debt by $159.8 million resulting in total outstanding debt as of June 30, 2023 of $129.7 million
1 Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure metric; for a reconciliation of each non-GAAP measure against its most comparable GAAP metric, please see the section titled “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this press release. |
2 “Paying Monthly Active Users” or “PMAUs” means the number of end-users who entered into a paid contest hosted on Skillz’ platform at least once in a month, averaged over each month in the period. |
3 “Average Revenue Per Paying Monthly Active User” or “ARPPU” means the average revenue in a given month divided by Paying MAUs in that month, averaged over the period and does not include a deduction for end-user incentives that are included in sales and marketing expense. |
“The second quarter was a productive period for Skillz marked by further progress against our strategic initiatives with a focus on developing an array of new product features that will increase consumer engagement and retention. Additionally, we've focused on optimizing our user acquisition strategy to enhance developer success and attract new content onto the platform,” said Andrew Paradise, Skillz’ CEO. “Importantly, in June we rolled out an exciting new feature which offers daily challenges on our two highest revenue producing games as part of a robust 18-month new product pipeline which will support timely new feature introductions going forward. We expect the regular introduction of new features will be a key driver of user retention, engagement and monetization. We also made notable progress throughout the second quarter in continuing to improve user acquisition spend and are confident we are on track towards achieving our optimized goal of a six-month payback period.”
Jason Roswig, President and CFO, added, “Our prudent management of the business resulted in a quarterly cash burn rate in Q2 of approximately $14.6 million with our June 30 cash position (including marketable securities) of approximately $361.4 million. As a result, we have the flexibility to invest in new product features for our platform that will drive increased scale in our business and attractive top-line and cash flow growth. At the same time, our solid balance sheet and capital structure provides us with significant optionality to deploy resources to enhance shareholder value. In this regard, during the second quarter, we opportunistically re-purchased $159.8 million in outstanding debt at a discount resulting in total debt as of June 30, 2023 of $129.7 million.”
Investor Conference Call
Skillz will host a live conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET today. To access the call, please register using the following link: Skillz Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. After registering, an email will be sent, including dial-in details and a unique conference call access code and PIN required to join the live call. Access to the live audio-webcast of the discussion in listen-only mode is available at investors.skillz.com.
An audio replay of the conference call will be available through Wednesday, August 9, 2023, and can be accessed by dialing 1 (866) 813-9403 (US) or +44 204 525 0658 (international) and entering the passcode 307086. A replay of the webcast will be archived on the Company’s investor relations website.
About Skillz Inc.
Skillz is the leading mobile games platform dedicated to bringing out the best in everyone through competition. The Skillz platform helps developers create multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual eSports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, with the goal of building the home of competition for all. Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and the number-one fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000. www.skillz.com
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In this press release, the Company includes Adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP performance measure that the Company uses to supplement its results presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company’s management believes Adjusted EBITDA is useful in evaluating its operating performance and is a similar measure reported by publicly-listed U.S. competitors, and regularly used by security analysts, institutional investors, and other interested parties in analyzing operating performance and prospects. By providing this non-GAAP measure, the Company’s management intends to provide investors with a meaningful, consistent comparison of the Company’s profitability for the periods presented. Non-GAAP operating expense is also included in this press release, which is a non-GAAP financial measure. The Company’s management believes non-GAAP operating expense is useful to investors and analysts as a supplement to its financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP for analyzing operating performance and identifying operating trends in its business. The Company uses non-GAAP operating expense internally to facilitate period-to-period comparisons and analysis in order to make operating decisions. As required by the rules of the SEC, the Company has provided herein a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA and non-GAAP operating expense to the most directly comparable measures under GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA and non-GAAP operating expense are not intended to be substitutes for any U.S. GAAP financial measures and, as calculated, may not be comparable to other similarly titled financial measures of other companies in other industries or within the same industry.
The Company defines and calculates Adjusted EBITDA as net loss before interest expense, net; (benefit) or provision for income taxes; depreciation and amortization, and other income or expense, net; as further adjusted for stock-based compensation and other special items determined by management, including, but not limited to, change in fair value of common stock warrant liabilities, acquisition-related expenses, impairment charges, loss contingency accruals, restructuring charges and one-time nonrecurring expenses. The Company defines and calculates non-GAAP operating expense as GAAP operating expense adjusted for stock-based compensation, one-time transaction expenses and other special items determined by management, including, but not limited to acquisition-related expenses for transactions costs, certain loss contingency accruals and restructuring charges, as they are not indicative of business operations.
The Company does not provide a reconciliation for non-GAAP estimates on a forward-looking basis as it is unable to provide a meaningful calculation or estimation of reconciling items and the information is not available without unreasonable effort. This is due to the inherent difficulty of forecasting the timing or amount of various items that would impact the most directly comparable forward-looking U.S. GAAP financial measures that have not yet occurred, are out of the Company’s control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted. Forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures provided without the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures may vary materially from the corresponding U.S. GAAP financial measures.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company’s actual results may differ from its expectations, estimates, and projections and, consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “believes,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” and similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify such forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company’s actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Most of these factors are outside of the Company’s control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: our ability to attract and retain end-users, and do so in a cost-effective manner; a failure to manage our growth effectively; our inability to achieve profitability; our reliance on our third-party developer partners to continue to offer a competitive experience in existing and new games on our platform; our reliance on a limited number of games for a substantial portion of our revenue; our reliance on third-party service providers including cloud computing services, payment processors, and infrastructure service providers, and our ability to manage our relationships with such providers; our ability to maintain our brand and reputation; competition in the broader entertainment industry; our ability obtain, maintain, protect or enforce our intellectual property rights; economic downturns and political and market conditions beyond our control; the occurrence of a data breach or other failure of our cybersecurity; our failure to timely and effectively remediate the material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting or additional material weaknesses or other deficiencies in the future; our failure to mitigate the commercial, reputational and regulatory risks to our business that may arise as a consequence of our need to restate our financial statements1; as well as other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in the Company’s SEC filings, including those under “Risk Factors” therein, which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Additional information will be made available in other filings that the Company makes from time to time with the SEC. In addition, any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on assumptions that the Company believes to be reasonable as of this date. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
Skillz Inc. Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss (in thousands, except for number of shares and per share amounts) | |||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended June 30, | Six Months Ended June 30, | |||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||
Revenue | $ | 40,166 | $ | 71,757 | $ | 84,549 | $ | 163,621 | |||||||
Costs and expenses: | |||||||||||||||
Cost of revenue | 3,650 | 9,003 | 8,232 | 18,203 | |||||||||||
Research and development | 8,966 | 18,253 | 17,847 | 36,903 | |||||||||||
Sales and marketing | 33,085 | 73,731 | 68,003 | 191,076 | |||||||||||
General and administrative | 30,098 | 26,881 | 58,168 | 119,604 | |||||||||||
Total costs and expenses | 75,799 | 127,868 | 152,250 | 365,786 | |||||||||||
Loss from operations | (35,633 | ) | (56,111 | ) | (67,701 | ) | (202,165 | ) | |||||||
Gain on extinguishment of debt | 15,205 | — | 15,205 | — | |||||||||||
Interest expense, net | (1,712 | ) | (7,596 | ) | (5,207 | ) | (15,753 | ) | |||||||
Change in fair value of common stock warrant liabilities | 152 | 1,023 | 151 | 5,485 | |||||||||||
Other income (expense), net | 11 | (82 | ) | 50 | (109 | ) | |||||||||
Loss before income taxes | (21,977 | ) | (62,766 | ) | (57,502 | ) | (212,542 | ) | |||||||
Provision (benefit) from income taxes | 10 | (155 | ) | 79 | (367 | ) | |||||||||
Net loss | $ | (21,987 | ) | $ | (62,611 | ) | $ | (57,581 | ) | $ | (212,175 | ) | |||
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders: | |||||||||||||||
Basic and diluted | $ | (1.05 | ) | $ | (3.07 | ) | $ | (2.75 | ) | $ | (10.48 | ) | |||
Weighted average shares outstanding: | |||||||||||||||
Basic and diluted | 20,990,780 | 20,407,887 | 20,939,723 | 20,246,176 | |||||||||||
Other comprehensive income (loss): | |||||||||||||||
Change in unrealized loss on available-for-sale investments, net of tax | 394 | (577 | ) | 1,391 | (2,623 | ) | |||||||||
Total other comprehensive income (loss): | 394 | (577 | ) | 1,391 | (2,623 | ) | |||||||||
Total comprehensive loss | $ | (21,593 | ) | $ | (63,188 | ) | $ | (56,190 | ) | $ | (214,798 | ) | |||
Skillz Inc. Consolidated Balance Sheets (in thousands, except for number of shares and par value per share amounts) | |||||||
| June 30, | December 31, | |||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||
Assets | |||||||
Current assets: | |||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 324,779 | $ | 362,516 | |||
Marketable securities, current | 27,319 | 127,268 | |||||
Accounts receivable, net | 9,658 | 7,177 | |||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 6,038 | 4,722 | |||||
Total current assets | 367,794 | 501,683 | |||||
Non-current assets: | |||||||
Property, plant and equipment, net | 13,437 | 2,991 | |||||
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net | 164 | 472 | |||||
Marketable securities, non-current | 6,097 | 56,728 | |||||
Non-marketable equity securities | 55,649 | 55,649 | |||||
Restricted cash as other long-term assets | 3,176 | 2,920 | |||||
Other long-term assets | 1,072 | 852 | |||||
Total non-current assets | $ | 79,595 | $ | 119,612 | |||
Total assets | $ | 447,389 | $ | 621,295 | |||
Liabilities and stockholders' equity | | | |||||
Current liabilities: | | | |||||
Accounts payable | $ | 4,195 | $ | 1,696 | |||
Operating lease liabilities, current | 1,786 | 2,133 | |||||
Other current liabilities | 58,339 | 45,666 | |||||
Total current liabilities | |||||||
