
And with that, I’ll hand the call over to Mark.
Mark J. Barrenechea-Open Text Corporation - Vice Chairman, CEO & CTO
Thank you, Harry, and good morning. And we have exciting news to share with you on our announcement today to acquire Carbonite. We’re also providing, as Harry mentioned, an investor deck that can be found on investors.opentext.com and believe you’ll find it informative. So let me get right into it.
Today, we announced a definitive agreement to acquire Carbonite. Founded in 2005, Carbonite is a market leader in cloud-based data protection and endpoint security to small andmedium-sized companies, or SMB, including prosumers, that is, professional users. They have created an amazing business, scaled cloud service operations and a superior channel distribution organization.
Data protection and endpoint security are strategic industrial markets that are relevant to all size customers, enterprise, SMB and prosumers. The total addressable market, or TAM, for these end markets is over $15 billion and growing mid- to high single digit. Cloud, security, information protection and endpoints are all strategic EIM considerations. We’ve included these areas in our strategic TAM and market analysis since our acquisition of Guidance Software and including our most recent Investor Day materials.
OpenText is already providing technologies directly in or adjacent to these areas, Guidance Software, for example, for endpoint detection and response in digital forensics; Core for collaboration, share and data retention and protection; and InfoArchive for data backup management and governance in the enterprise. Carbonite is the first vendor to combine data protection and endpoint security, and together with OpenText, will be in a market-leading position for total endpoint protection that also includes digital forensics and endpoint response.
Let me speak a little to OpenText as a consolidator and our commitment deploy capital. The acquisition represents our ninth cloud acquisition, including EasyLink, GXS, Recommind, ANX, Covisint, Hightail, Catalyst, Liaison and as announced today, Carbonite. This places OpenText as a leading cloud consolidator. All assets combined will be approaching 2 exabytes under management, 100 million endpoints, millions of subscribers and cloud operations at hyper scale. Scale matters in the cloud.
Let me speak about the transaction and the terms of the agreement, which are a continuation of our total growth strategy. Total purchase price of approximately $1.42 billion, inclusive of Carbonite cash and debt or $23 per share via a tender offer. Carbonite published their Q3 September results this morning with Q3 revenue of $126 million and adjusted EBITDA of 30%, trailing12-month revenue of $405 million and trailing12-month adjusted EBITDA of 29%.
On the revenue side, their trailing12-month TTM does not include the full effect of Webroot revenue as Carbonite has only been including Webroot financials for 2 full quarters. On adjusted EBITDA, we are onboarding a business that is operating well above where ECD or GXS was at the time of acquisitions. This is approximately 2.8x trailing12-month revenues when you annualize for Webroot. On a reported TTM basis, excluding the full annual revenue contribution of Webroot, the ratio would be 3.5x, but we don’t think that’s the right way to look at it.
Carbonite has strong recurring annual revenues, or ARR. Approximately 90% of the business is recurring. We are modeling low single-digit organic growth once the business is integrated. There is no equity consideration, no dilution, no transition services agreement in this transaction. We’ll be using our existing balance sheet cash and existing revolver.
You can expect significant expansion of cloud revenues, cloud margins, adjusted EBITDA dollars and cash flows in fiscal 2021, our first full year of operations. We expect these strong cash flows to continue to grow our dividend. Our net leverage ratio is currently 2 -- under 2x. Carbonite will bring the ratio to a modest 2.5x. And within 4 to 6 quarters, we expect our ratio to be back below 2x.
We can also expect the transaction to be accretive in fiscal 2021, and we expect the combination of growth, cash flows and invested capital to deliver high-teens ROIC on a stand-alone basis. The transaction is expected to close within 90 days from today.
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