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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 10-Q/A-2
/x/ | QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2000
or
/ / | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period from to
Commission file number 0-26083
INSWEB CORPORATION
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | 94-3220749 (IRS Employer Identification Number) |
901 Marshall Street
Redwood City, California 94063
(Address of principal executive offices)
(650) 298-9100
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes /x/ No / /
The number of outstanding shares of the Registrant's Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, on April 30, 2000 was 35,145,710 shares.
Effective January 1, 2000, InsWeb has adopted guidance set forth in SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101:Revenue Recognition (SAB 101). As a result of this change in accounting principle, InsWeb has restated its unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2000. A description of the adjustments which comprise this change in accounting principle is disclosed in Note 2 of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements filed with this Form 10-Q/A-2.
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FORM 10-Q
INSWEB CORPORATION
INDEX
| | Page Number | ||
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PART I | FINANCIAL INFORMATION | |||
ITEM 1: | Financial Statements | |||
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2000 (unaudited and restated) and December 31, 1999 | 4 | |||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999 (unaudited and restated) | 5 | |||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999 (unaudited and restated) | 6 | |||
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements | 7 | |||
ITEM 2: | Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 12 | ||
ITEM 3: | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 30 | ||
PART II | OTHER INFORMATION | |||
ITEM 6: | Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K | 31 | ||
Signature | 32 | |||
Exhibits | 33 |
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INSWEB CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
| March 31, 2000 | December 31, 1999 | |||||||
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| (unaudited and restated) (See Note 2) | | |||||||
Assets | |||||||||
Current assets: | |||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 45,569,153 | $ | 25,688,760 | |||||
Short-term investments | 30,687,659 | 64,063,070 | |||||||
Total cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments | 76,256,812 | 89,751,830 | |||||||
Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $117,776 and $141,780 at March 31, 2000 and December 31, 1999, respectively | 4,696,877 | 4,267,691 | |||||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 6,708,975 | 2,974,024 | |||||||
Total current assets | 87,662,664 | 96,993,545 | |||||||
Property and equipment, net | 8,980,621 | 7,356,863 | |||||||
Investment in joint venture | 1,481,823 | 1,449,597 | |||||||
Intangible assets, net | 4,785,832 | 5,568,094 | |||||||
Long Term Investments | 4,981,799 | 4,978,761 | |||||||
Deposits and other assets | 1,959,180 | 1,934,045 | |||||||
Total assets | $ | 109,851,919 | $ | 118,280,905 | |||||
Liabilities and stockholders' equity | |||||||||
Current liabilities: | |||||||||
Accounts payable | $ | 1,544,955 | $ | 288,974 | |||||
Accrued expenses | 5,517,763 | 4,891,332 | |||||||
Deferred revenue | 1,841,145 | 182,618 | |||||||
Total current liabilities | 8,903,863 | 5,362,924 | |||||||
Note payable to strategic partner | 1,460,138 | 1,464,558 | |||||||
Deferred rent | 352,785 | 268,601 | |||||||
Total liabilities | 10,716,786 | 7,096,083 | |||||||
Stockholders' equity: | |||||||||
Convertible preferred stock, $0.001 par value. | |||||||||
Authorized: 5,000,000 shares, no shares issued or outstanding | — | — | |||||||
Common stock, $0.001 par value. Authorized: 150,000,000 | |||||||||
Issued and outstanding: 35,121,298 shares in 2000, and 34,742,760 shares in 1999 | 35,121 | 34,743 | |||||||
Paid-in capital | 189,977,584 | 188,222,780 | |||||||
Accumulated other comprehensive income | 143,271 | 112,843 | |||||||
Common stock warrants | 113,071 | 113,071 | |||||||
Deferred stock compensation | (2,113,696 | ) | (2,887,995 | ) | |||||
Accumulated deficit | (89,020,218 | ) | (74,410,620 | ) | |||||
Total stockholders' equity | 99,135,133 | 111,184,822 | |||||||
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ | 109,851,919 | $ | 118,280,905 | |||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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INSWEB CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
| For the Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited) | |||||||||
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| 2000 | 1999 | ||||||||
| (Restated) (See Note 2) | | ||||||||
Revenues: | ||||||||||
Transaction fees | $ | 7,089,509 | $ | 2,868,098 | ||||||
Development and maintenance fees | 1,620,846 | 443,373 | ||||||||
Other revenues | 9,329 | — | ||||||||
Total revenues | 8,719,684 | 3,311,471 | ||||||||
Operating expenses: | ||||||||||
Product development | 2,780,050 | 1,551,115 | ||||||||
Sales and marketing | 14,303,315 | 3,849,213 | ||||||||
General and administrative | 4,809,099 | 2,391,979 | ||||||||
Amortization of intangible assets | 782,262 | 782,262 | ||||||||
Amortization of stock-based compensation | 347,163 | 290,000 | ||||||||
Total operating expenses | 23,021,889 | 8,864,569 | ||||||||
Loss from operations | (14,302,205 | ) | (5,553,098 | ) | ||||||
Other income | 50,510 | — | ||||||||
Interest income (expense), net | 1,277,416 | (468,151 | ) | |||||||
Loss before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | (12,974,279 | ) | (6,021,249 | ) | ||||||
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | (1,635,319 | ) | — | |||||||
Net loss | $ | (14,609,598 | ) | $ | (6,021,249 | ) | ||||
Net loss per share—basic and diluted: | ||||||||||
Loss before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | $ | (0.37 | ) | $ | (0.38 | ) | ||||
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | (0.05 | ) | (0.00 | ) | ||||||
Net loss | $ | (0.42 | ) | $ | (0.38 | ) | ||||
Weighted average shares used in computing net loss per share—basic and diluted | 34,912,129 | 15,976,336 | ||||||||
Pro forma net loss per share—basic and diluted | $ | (0.24 | ) | |||||||
Weighted average shares used in computing pro forma net loss per share—basic and diluted | 25,456,204 | |||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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INSWEB CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
| For the Three Months Ended March 31, (unaudited) | |||||||||
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| 2000 | 1999 | ||||||||
| (restated) (See Note 2) | | ||||||||
Cash flows from operating activities: | ||||||||||
Net loss | $ | (14,609,598 | ) | $ | (6,021,249 | ) | ||||
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | ||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 691,031 | 323,455 | ||||||||
Amortization of stock-based compensation | 347,163 | 290,000 | ||||||||
Gain on sale of equipment | (10,151 | ) | — | |||||||
Foreign currency translation gain on note payable | (4,420 | ) | — | |||||||
Amortization of intangible assets | 782,262 | 782,262 | ||||||||
Equity loss (gain) from joint venture | (35,997 | ) | 4,280 | |||||||
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | 1,635,319 | — | ||||||||
Changes in assets and liabilities: | ||||||||||
Accounts receivable | (429,186 | ) | (1,375,529 | ) | ||||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | (3,734,951 | ) | 261,790 | |||||||
Deposits and other assets | (25,135 | ) | 2,875 | |||||||
Accounts payable | 1,255,981 | (347,443 | ) | |||||||
Accrued expenses | 626,431 | (34,747 | ) | |||||||
Deferred rent | 84,184 | — | ||||||||
Deferred revenue | 23,208 | 68,767 | ||||||||
Net cash used in operating activities | (13,403,859 | ) | (6,045,539 | ) | ||||||
Cash flows from investing activities: | ||||||||||
Sales of short term investments—net | 33,409,611 | — | ||||||||
Purchases of property and equipment | (2,315,789 | ) | (756,764 | ) | ||||||
Other, net | 8,112 | — | ||||||||
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | 31,101,934 | (756,764 | ) | |||||||
Cash flows from financing activities: | ||||||||||
Proceeds from issuance preferred stock—net | — | 28,195,089 | ||||||||
Proceeds from issuance of common stock | — | 296,930 | ||||||||
Proceeds from exercise of stock options | 1,280,771 | 70,572 | ||||||||
Proceeds from stock issued from Employee Stock Purchase Plan | 901,547 | — | ||||||||
Payment to Series B stockholder | — | (1,125,000 | ) | |||||||
Payment of note payable to officer | — | (25,000 | ) | |||||||
Payments on line of credit from affiliate | — | (19,290,000 | ) | |||||||
Net cash provided by financing activities | 2,182,318 | 8,122,591 | ||||||||
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | 19,880,393 | 1,320,288 | ||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period | 25,688,760 | 8,337,133 | ||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period | $ | 45,569,153 | $ | 9,657,421 | ||||||
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: | ||||||||||
Cash paid during the period for interest | $ | 15,738 | $ | 563,920 | ||||||
Supplemental schedule of noncash financing activities: | ||||||||||
Receivable for sale of Series E preferred stock | $ | — | $ | 28,097,222 | ||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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INSWEB CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of InsWeb Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries, InsWeb Insurance Services, Inc. (formerly Avatar Insurance Services, Inc.) and Benelytics, Inc. (the "Company"). Benelytics, Inc. was purchased on December 31, 1998, and the acquisition was accounted for as a purchase. As of March 31, 2000, InsWeb is in the process of liquidating Benelytics, Inc. into InsWeb Corporation and expects to have this liquidation completed by June 30, 2000. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in the consolidated financial statements. Investments in 20 to 50 percent owned affiliates are accounted for on the equity method. All common share and per share amounts reflect a 10-for-1 split approved by the Board of Directors in 1997 and a 3-for-2 split authorized in June 1999.
The accompanying unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not contain all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the Company's financial position as of March 31, 2000 and results of operations and cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999, respectively. The financial data and other information disclosed in these notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements related to these periods are unaudited. The results for the three months ended March 31, 2000 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2000.
These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2000 and other information filed with the Commission.
Significant customers
For the three months ended March 31, 2000, three customers accounted for 29%, 11% and 10%, respectively, of total revenues. For the three months ended March 31, 1999, three customers accounted for 32%, 13% and 11%, respectively, of total revenues.
Net loss per share—basic and diluted
Basic earnings per share is computed using the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding. Diluted earnings per share reflects the potential dilution that would occur if preferred stock had been converted and stock options and warrants had been exercised. Common equivalent shares from preferred stock, stock options and warrants have been excluded from the computation of net loss per share—diluted as their effect is antidilutive.
Pro forma net loss per share—basic and diluted, as presented on the face of the condensed consolidated financial statements, represents what the net loss per share—basic and diluted would have been assuming the conversion of the outstanding preferred stock as of the beginning of such periods.
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Reclassifications
Certain amounts in the 1999 financial statements have been reclassified to conform with the 2000 classifications.
2. Change in accounting principle
Effective January 1, 2000, InsWeb changed its revenue recognition policy for set-up fees, which are included in development and maintenance fees, and for transaction fee revenues derived from certain online linking agreements to comply with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101:Revenue Recognition. Prior to this accounting change, InsWeb recognized revenue from set-up fees received from a participating insurance carrier when the development work was completed and the insurance company's integration with the Company's site became operational ("Live Date"). As a result of SAB 101, InsWeb continues to defer set-up revenue until the Live Date, but has changed its revenue recognition policy from full recognition at the Live Date to recognizing the revenue ratably over the estimated life of the carrier relationship. Additionally, InsWeb has changed its revenue recognition policy for transaction fees from linking agreements that are contingent on the delivery of certain minimum click-throughs. Prior to this change, InsWeb recognized revenue based on the number of click-throughs delivered. As a result of the adoption of SAB 101, InsWeb will defer revenue on contracts with certain minimum click-through requirements until all contingencies have been met. This accounting change results in a cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, for years prior to 2000, of $1,635,000 (or $0.05 per share), and an increase in revenues of $102,000 (or $0.00 per share), both reflected in the three months ended March 31, 2000.
A summary of the effect of this change in accounting principle is as follows:
| Three months ended March 31, 2000 | ||||||
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| As Originally Reported | As Restated | |||||
| (in thousands except for per share amounts) | ||||||
Total revenues | $ | 8,617 | $ | 8,719 | |||
Total operating expenses | $ | (23,022 | ) | $ | (23,022 | ) | |
Other income | $ | 1,328 | $ | 1,328 | |||
Loss before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | $ | (13,077 | ) | $ | (12,975 | ) | |
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | — | $ | (1,635 | ) | |||
Net loss | $ | (13,077 | ) | $ | (14,610 | ) | |
Net loss per share—basic and diluted | $ | (0.37 | ) | $ | (0.42 | ) |
| March 31, 2000 | |||||
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| As Originally Reported | As Restated | ||||
Balance Sheet Data: | ||||||
Deferred revenue | $ | 308 | $ | 1,841 | ||
Stockholders' equity | $ | 100,668 | $ | 99,135 |
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The pro forma 1999 amounts below are provided to show what InsWeb would have reported if the new accounting policy had been in effect in the fiscal 1999 period presented below.
| For the Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||
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| As Restated 2000 | Pro forma 1999 | |||||
| (in thousands except for per share amounts) | ||||||
Total revenues | $ | 8,719 | $ | 3,061 | |||
Loss before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | $ | (12,975 | ) | $ | (6,271 | ) | |
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle | $ | (1,635 | ) | — | |||
Net loss | $ | (14,610 | ) | $ | (6,271 | ) | |
Net loss per share—basic and diluted | $ | (0.42 | ) | $ | (0.39 | ) | |
Shares | 34,912 | 15,976 |
3. Comprehensive loss
Total comprehensive loss for the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999 was as follows:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||
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| As Restated 2000 | 1999 | |||||
| (unaudited) | ||||||
Net loss | $ | (14,609,598 | ) | $ | (6,021,249 | ) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss): | |||||||
Foreign currency translation adjustments | (3,772 | ) | — | ||||
Unrealized gain on investments | 34,200 | — | |||||
Total comprehensive loss | $ | (14,579,170 | ) | $ | (6,021,249 | ) | |
4. Cash and Investments
Cash and investments consist of the following:
| March 31, 2000 | December 31, 1999 | |||||
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| (unaudited) | | |||||
Cash and cash equivalents: | |||||||
Cash | $ | 2,205,582 | $ | 1,131,558 | |||
Money market funds | 12,217,634 | 13,655,335 | |||||
Taxable municipal securities | 7,000,000 | 5,000,000 | |||||
Commercial paper | 24,145,937 | 5,901,867 | |||||
45,569,153 | 25,688,760 | ||||||
Short-term investments: | |||||||
Certificates of deposit | 5,498,285 | 1,500,000 | |||||
Taxable municipal securities | 9,400,000 | — | |||||
Commercial paper | 15,789,374 | 62,563,070 | |||||
30,687,659 | 64,063,070 | ||||||
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments | $ | 76,256,812 | $ | 89,751,830 | |||
Long-term investments—U.S. agency securities | $ | 4,981,799 | $ | 4,978,761 | |||
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5. Related Party Transactions
Stockholder and customer
A stockholder, who is also a customer, accounted for $204,475 and $176,175 of the Company's revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999, respectively. This customer accounted for $202,150 and $0 of accounts receivable at March 31, 2000 and December 31, 1999, respectively.
Affiliate and Customer
An affiliate, who owns a majority interest in a stockholder, is also a customer and accounted for $76,340 and $50,002 of the company's revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999, respectively. This customer accounted for $2,085 and $15,495 of accounts receivable at March 31, 2000 and December 31, 1999, respectively.
Marketing Agreements
During the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999, the Company recognized $1,245,000 and $447,500, respectively, in marketing expense under a marketing agreement with an Internet company. A beneficial owner of a significant number of shares of the outstanding stock of the Internet company is a principal stockholder of the Company.
6. InsWeb Japan
In 1998, the Company entered into a Joint Venture Agreement with a strategic partner and significant stockholder to develop, implement and market an online insurance marketplace in Japan and the Republic of Korea. The joint venture is carried out exclusively through a newly formed Japanese corporation, InsWeb Japan K.K. in which the Company owns a 25% interest. In conjunction with this agreement, the Company also entered into an agreement to provide consulting and hosting services to assist InsWeb Japan K.K. in developing its Internet strategy. For the three months ended March 31, 2000, $1,202,696 was billed to InsWeb Japan K.K. under this contract and is included in development and maintenance fees. At March 31, 2000, $319,822 of accounts receivable was due from InsWeb Japan, K.K.
The Company's interest in InsWeb Japan K.K. was purchased in exchange for a promissory note due to the Company's strategic partner. The promissory note is payable in Yen and accrues interest at 5% per annum, which is payable quarterly on the last day of each calendar quarter. The promissory note, together with all accrued and unpaid interest, is due and payable on the earlier of the closing date of an initial public offering of the securities of InsWeb Japan K.K. or December 15, 2002. Interest expense related to this note for the three months ended March 31, 2000 was $17,464. As of March 31, 2000 and December 31, 1999, $1,460,138 and $1,464,558 was outstanding under the note, respectively.
7. Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In March 2000, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 44 (FIN No. 44), "Accounting for Certain Transactions Involving Stock Compensation, an interpretation of APB Opinion No. 25." FIN No. 44 will be effective July 1, 2000. This interpretation provides guidance for applying APB Opinion No. 25 "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees." Management has not determined the impact, if any, that adoption of FIN No. 44 will have on the Company's financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
In March 2000, the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) of the FASB reached a consensus on Issue No. 00-2, "Accounting for Web Site Development Costs" which provides guidance on when to capitalize versus expense costs incurred to develop a web site. The consensus is effective for web site
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development costs in quarters beginning after June 30, 2000. The Company has not yet determined the impact, if any, this Issue will have on the Company's financial statements.
8. Subsequent Events
State Farm Insurance
On April 14, 2000, State Farm Insurance, which accounted for approximately 29% of the Company's total revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2000, informed InsWeb that it would not renew its participation agreement with the Company. Effective May 1, 2000, State Farm is no longer a participant in InsWeb's marketplaces for auto, term life, homeowners, condominium and renters insurance. With State Farm's non-renewal, auto insurance coverage is no longer available to consumers in Vermont and certain Canadian provinces, and homeowners and renters insurance is available in significantly fewer states. Term life offerings were not significantly affected in any state.
eHealthInsurance
In April 2000, InsWeb and eHealthInsurance announced the formation of an online partnership designed to leverage the companies' respective strengths in marketing, product offerings and customer service. Through this effort, InsWeb customers shopping for health insurance will access eHealthInsurance's wide selection of leading insurers, products and comprehensive service offerings. The exclusive, two-year agreement includes the marketing of individual health, small-group health and Medicare supplement insurance offerings from among the insurers participating with eHealthInsurance. As a result of this new agreement, we are negotiating the termination of InsWeb's agreements with health insurance carriers.
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PART I: FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
InsWeb has included in this filing certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 concerning InsWeb's business, operations and financial condition. The words or phrases "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates" and similar expressions are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and InsWeb cautions you that any forward-looking information provided by or on behalf of InsWeb is not a guarantee of future performance. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, some of which are beyond InsWeb's control, including but not limited to InsWeb's limited operating history, anticipated losses, the unpredictability of its future revenues, reliance on key customers, competition, risks associated with system development and operation risks, management of potential growth and risks of new business areas, business combinations, and strategic alliances. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to InsWeb on the date hereof and InsWeb assumes no obligation to update such statements.
Recent Developments
On April 14, 2000, State Farm Insurance, which accounted for approximately 29% of all InsWeb revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2000 and was the Company's largest customer, informed InsWeb that it would not renew its participation agreement with the Company. Effective May 1, 2000, State Farm is no longer a participant in InsWeb's marketplaces for auto, term life, homeowners, condominium and renters insurance. As a result, InsWeb expects a material decline in revenues in the coming months. With State Farm's nonrenewal, auto insurance coverage is no longer available to consumers in Vermont and three Canadian provinces, and homeowners and renters insurance is available in significantly fewer states. Term life offerings were not significantly affected in any state.
As a result of State Farm's decision not to renew its participation, we have made a number of business decisions addressing our short-term business plans in order to manage our expenses and our portfolio of cash and short-term investments, including a reduction of our workforce in April 2000 by approximately 10% and a reduction in our consumer marketing expenses beginning in the second quarter of fiscal 2000.
Overview
InsWeb operates an online insurance marketplace that enables consumers to shop online for a variety of insurance products, including automobile, term life, homeowners, renters and individual health insurance, and obtain insurance company-sponsored quotes for actual coverage. In order to create this marketplace, InsWeb has established business relationships with more than 40 insurance companies throughout the United States as of May 1, 2000.
InsWeb's principal source of revenues is transaction fees. While quotes obtained through InsWeb's online insurance marketplace are provided to consumers free of charge, InsWeb's participating insurance companies pay transaction fees to InsWeb generally based on qualified leads delivered to them electronically. Qualified leads are produced in two ways: for insurance companies offering consumers instant online quotes, a qualified lead is produced when a consumer requests insurance coverage based on a specific quote; for insurance companies providing e-mail or other offline quotes, a qualified lead is produced when the consumer clicks to request the quote itself. In either case, transaction fees are payable whether or not the consumer actually purchases an insurance policy from
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the insurance company, and revenue from transaction fees is recognized at the time the qualified lead is delivered to the insurance company. Effective January 1, 2000, InsWeb changed its revenue recognition policy for transaction fees from linking agreements that are contingent on the delivery of certain minimum click-throughs. No linking agreements with such a contingency clause were entered into prior to fiscal 2000. Prior to this change, InsWeb recognized revenue based on the number of click-throughs delivered. As a result of the adoption of SAB 101, InsWeb will defer revenue on contracts with certain minimum click-through requirements until all contingencies have been met.
In October 1999, InsWeb began generating revenue as an insurance agent based on activities it performs related to the sale of certain automobile insurance policies in California. During the first quarter of fiscal 2000, InsWeb began expansion of its agency activities to include the sale of automobile insurance policies in Washington and Arizona. InsWeb's subsidiary, InsWeb Insurance Services, Inc. has been appointed as an authorized automobile insurance agent by eight participating insurance companies in California and by one carrier in both Arizona and Washington. InsWeb receives a commission based on a percentage of the insurance policy premium related to each insurance policy sale where InsWeb has acted as the insurance agent. InsWeb recognizes the revenue from these activities on the later of the billing date or effective date of the policy sold based on a percentage of the policy premium.
InsWeb also generates development and maintenance fees from its participating insurance companies. InsWeb charges a fee to design and develop customized interfaces between an insurance company's information system and the InsWeb site. Effective January 1, 2000, InsWeb changed its revenue recognition policy for set-up fees, which are included in development and maintenance fees, to comply with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101:Revenue Recognition. Prior to this accounting change, InsWeb recognized revenue from set-up fees received from a participating insurance carrier when the development work was completed and the insurance company's integration with the InsWeb site became operational ("Live Date"). As a result of SAB 101, InsWeb continues to defer set-up revenue until the Live Date, but has changed its revenue recognition policy from full recognition at the Live Date to recognizing the revenue ratably over the estimated life of the carrier relationship. Additional development fees are charged as insurance companies add new products, increase their geographic coverage and convert to instant quoting capability on InsWeb's online insurance marketplace, as well as for periodic upgrades and changes to insurance companies' information resident on the InsWeb site. InsWeb charges maintenance fees for maintaining and servicing the programs of the individual insurance companies and for maintaining any hardware at InsWeb's facility that is dedicated to specific insurance companies. These maintenance fees are typically payable monthly and are recognized as revenue ratably over the term of the maintenance agreement. Prepaid development and maintenance fees are recorded as deferred revenue until earned. Development and maintenance fees are expected to account for a declining percentage of total revenues as transaction fees and fees related to InsWeb's activities as an agent increase.
Product development expenses consist primarily of payroll and related expenses for development and technology personnel. To date, InsWeb has not capitalized any of its software development costs. Because the timing of the commercial release of its products has substantially coincided with their technological feasibility, all software development costs have been expensed as incurred. InsWeb expects that its product development expenses will continue to increase for the foreseeable future. As discussed in the notes to the financial statements, management has not yet determined the impact, if any, EITF Issue 00-2, "Accounting for Website Development Costs" will have on the financial statements.
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of payroll and related expenses for InsWeb's sales and marketing personnel as well as consumer marketing expenditures for advertising, public relations, promotions and fees paid to online companies with which InsWeb has contractual relationships. Through the first quarter of fiscal 2000, InsWeb increased its sales and marketing expenses in order to establish and maintain relationships with insurance companies, attract increased consumer traffic to the
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InsWeb site, and develop the InsWeb brand. As a result of State Farm's announcement not to renew its participation agreement with InsWeb and its anticipated effect on revenues, we intend to reduce our consumer marketing expenses beginning in the second quarter of fiscal 2000. Accordingly, InsWeb intends to concentrate its consumer marketing program on maintaining key online relationships and on selective advertising campaigns designed to maintain consumer awareness of InsWeb and its online insurance marketplace. InsWeb also intends to selectively market the InsWeb online marketplace in order to add new insurance companies and expand and maintain relationships with participating companies. Although InsWeb expects to reduce its sales and marketing expenses below amounts reported for the three months ended March 31, 2000, sales and marketing expenses may nevertheless increase compared to prior year periods.
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of payroll and related expenses for InsWeb's management, administrative and accounting personnel, expenses relating to site operations, professional fees and other general corporate expenses. InsWeb expects that, in support of its continued business and its operations as a public company, general and administrative expenses will continue to increase for the foreseeable future.
Revenues
Transaction Fees. Transaction fees accounted for $7.1 million, or 81.3% of total revenues, for the three months ended March 31, 2000 compared to $2.9 million, or 86.6% of total revenues, for the comparable period in 1999. This increase was primarily the result of the number of leads generated by the substantial increase in the number of completed shopping sessions, partially offset by a decline in revenue generated per shopping session. The increase in shopping sessions resulted from increased consumer traffic due to InsWeb's consumer marketing activities and the addition of a substantial number of online relationships.
During the first quarter of 2000, more than 772,000 shopping sessions were completed at InsWeb, a 170% increase over the 286,000 shopping sessions completed in the first quarter of 1999, and a sequential increase of 27% over the more than 610,000 shopping sessions completed in the fourth quarter of 1999. InsWeb recorded more than 3.9 million unique user sessions during the first quarter of 2000, an increase of 225% over the approximately 1.2 million unique user sessions recorded in the prior year quarter, and a sequential increase of 44% over the 2.7 million unique user sessions in the fourth quarter of 1999.
Development and Maintenance Fees. Development and maintenance fees accounted for $1.6 million, or 18.6% of total revenues, for the three months ended March 31, 2000, compared to $443,000, or 13.4% of total revenues, for the comparable period in 1999. The increase in development and maintenance fees primarily resulted from revenue associated with a development agreement with InsWeb Japan K.K. To a lesser degree, the increase was attributable to an overall increase in the number of InsWeb's participating insurance companies.
Operating Expenses
Product Development. Product development expenses increased to $2.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2000, from $1.5 million for the comparable period in 1999. This increase was primarily attributable to the hiring of additional personnel to support the requirements of InsWeb's growing network of participating insurance companies and online relationships and to design, test and deploy InsWeb's product offerings.
Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expenses increased to $14.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2000, from $3.8 million for the comparable period in 1999. This increase was due to substantial increases in consumer marketing expenses, including increased costs and fees associated with new and existing online relationships, costs related to national radio and television
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campaigns, an increase in sales and marketing personnel, and operating costs associated with InsWeb's customer care center and associated insurance agency activities.
General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses increased to $4.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2000, from $2.4 million for the comparable period in 1999. This increase was primarily due to increased personnel and related costs, increased office and occupancy costs associated with additional leased office facilities, and increased depreciation related to capital expenditures.
Amortization of Stock-based Compensation. Amortization of stock-based compensation for the three months ended March 31, 2000 was $0.3 million compared to $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 1998. This increase was attributable to the amortization of additional deferred compensation charges related to certain stock option grants where the Company has determined that the deemed fair market value on the date of grant was in excess of the exercise price of the options.
Amortization of Intangible Assets. Amortization of intangible assets during the three ended March 31, 2000 and 1999 was $782,000. This amount was attributable to the acquisition of Benelytics in December 1998.
Interest Income (Expense), Net
Interest income (expense), net includes income earned on InsWeb's invested cash and expense related to its outstanding debt obligations. Net interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2000 was $1.3 million compared to net interest expense of $468,000 for the comparable period in 1999. The increase in net interest income was primarily a result of the repayment of the line of credit in fiscal 1999 with the proceeds of its initial public offering of common stock in July 1999 and increased interest income on cash and short-term investments in fiscal 2000.
Liquidity And Capital Resources
InsWeb has financed its operations primarily through private placements of equity securities, borrowings from an affiliate of one of its investors and its initial public offering of its common stock. At March 31, 2000, InsWeb's principal source of liquidity was $76.3 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments.
In each period, the use of cash primarily consisted of InsWeb's operating loss before noncash items. For the three months ended March 31, 2000, net cash used in operating activities was $13.4 million compared to $6.0 million in the comparable period in 1999. For the three months ended March 31, 2000, noncash items included amortization of intangibles of $0.8 million, depreciation of fixed assets of $0.7 million and amortization of deferred stock compensation of $0.3 million. Increases in prepaid assets associated with the prepayment of online partnership agreements, partially offset by increases in accounts payable and accrued expenses, also contributed to the cash used in operations for the three months ended March 31, 2000.
For the three months ended March 31, 2000, net cash provided from investing activities was $31.1 million, which primarily consisted of the purchase of short-term investments offset by purchases of equipment and furniture. At March 31, 2000, InsWeb had no material commitments for capital expenditures but expects such expenditures to total approximately $6.3 million in 2000, primarily consisting of equipment, software, furniture and leasehold improvements.
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In October 1999, InsWeb signed a 12-year lease agreement through 2011 for additional office space. To secure this lease InsWeb provided a $5.0 million letter of credit, which increases to $9.5 million in May 2000. This letter of credit is collateralized by a pledge of its investment portfolio, which is to be not less than 110% of the letter of credit's face value. In April, 2000, InsWeb decided to postpone its move to this new facility based on its foreseeable occupancy needs and is attempting to sublease the facility for the next 36 to 42 months. Regardless of whether InsWeb is able to sublease some or all of this facility, InsWeb expects to spend approximately $6.6 million in leasehold improvements, fixtures and equipment in fiscal year 2000 related to this new facility. In conjunction with all other lease agreements, InsWeb has total minimum lease obligations of $112.0 million over the terms of the leases.
In addition, under various marketing agreements with its online partners, InsWeb is obligated to make minimum payments totaling $16.9 million through April 2001.
Factors That May Affect Our Future Performance
Our future business, operating results and financial condition are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described below.
Our business is difficult to evaluate because we did not begin to generate significant revenues from our core business until 1998
We were incorporated in February 1995, but we did not begin to generate significant transaction fees from our online marketplace until 1998. Our limited operating history makes an evaluation of our future prospects very difficult. An investor in our common stock must consider the uncertainties frequently encountered by early stage companies in new and rapidly evolving markets. These uncertainties include:
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- an evolving and unpredictable business model, which makes prediction of future results uncertain and an investment in our common stock highly speculative;
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- the lack of a well-developed brand identity, which may limit our ability to draw consumers to our website;
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- the potential development of comparable services by competitors, which may reduce our market share;
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- the uncertainty of the extent to which the consumer market will adopt the Internet as a medium for comparison shopping for and purchase of insurance products, which may limit our ability to generate revenue from consumers that visit our online marketplace;
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- our potential inability to successfully manage our anticipated growth, which could lead to management distractions and increased operating expenses;
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- our ability to retain key employees; and
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- our reliance on key customers and ability to retain customers.
To address these uncertainties, we must, among other things:
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- refine our business model;
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- work to expand the efficiencies and geographic coverage of our agency activities;
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- enhance the brand identity of our online insurance marketplace;
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- maintain and increase our strategic alliances with other online businesses to increase traffic to our website;
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- maintain, increase and geographically diversify our base of participating insurance companies;
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- continue to ensure that our participating insurance companies offer competitive insurance products;
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- satisfy legal and regulatory requirements applicable to the insurance industry; and
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- continue to address consumer privacy concerns.
Our business strategy may not be successful and we may not be able to successfully address these uncertainties. Moreover, our ability to take the foregoing steps may be hampered by our limited financial resources should we fail to rapidly increase revenues or should increased revenues be more than offset by increased operating expenses.
We have a history of losses, we expect future losses, and we may not achieve or maintain profitability
Given planned investment levels, our ability to achieve profitability will depend upon our ability to generate and sustain substantially increased revenues. As a result, we believe that we will incur substantial operating losses for the foreseeable future. We incurred operating losses of $21.9 million for the year ended December 31, 1998, $38.4 million for the year ended December 31, 1999, and $14.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2000. Additionally, as of March 31, 2000, our accumulated deficit was $89.0 million. Although we have experienced significant revenue growth in recent periods, this growth rate is not sustainable and will decrease in the future. Our operating results for future periods are subject to numerous uncertainties, and we may not achieve sufficient revenues to become profitable. Even if we achieve profitability, we may not sustain or increase profitability on a quarterly or annual basis in the future. If we are unable to achieve profitability, we will need to seek additional financing to continue our business operations. Such financing could be on terms that are dilutive to our existing stockholders or could involve the issuance of securities that have rights and preferences that are senior to those associated with our common stock. Moreover, if such financing were not available or were available only upon terms that were unacceptable to us, we could be required to significantly curtail our operations.
Our future revenues are unpredictable, our operating results are likely to fluctuate from quarter to quarter, and if we fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors, our stock price could decline significantly
Due to our limited operating history, the emerging nature of the market in which we compete and the high proportion of our revenues that are derived from consumer traffic on our website, our future revenues are inherently difficult to forecast. We believe that period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful, and you should not rely upon them as an indication of our future performance. Moreover, our expense levels are based largely on our investment plans and estimates of future revenues. We may be unable to adjust our spending to compensate for an unexpected shortfall in revenues. Accordingly, any significant shortfall in revenues relative to our planned expenditures would harm our results of operations and could cause our stock price to fall sharply, particularly following quarters in which our operating results fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors.
Factors that may cause fluctuations in our operating results include the following, many of which are outside our control:
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- We may experience consumer dissatisfaction with our online marketplace as we add or change features, or as the insurance coverage offered by participating insurance companies varies;
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- Consumer traffic on our online marketplace may decline as a result of the announcement or introduction of a competing online insurance marketplace or other new websites, products or services offered by our competitors;
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- Such consumer traffic may also fluctuate as a result of changes in consumer acceptance of Internet commerce, particularly in connection with shopping for insurance;
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- Our revenues may be harmed if we lose one or more significant insurance company relationships or if any of our participating insurance companies merge with one another;
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- Use of the Internet by consumers may fluctuate due to seasonal factors or other uncontrollable factors affecting consumer behavior and may be affected by slow Internet performance due to technical problems or traffic bottlenecks on the network;
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- Our ability to convert site visits into transaction fees and/or revenue from insurance agency activities may fluctuate due to changes in our user interface or other features on our site or changes in the filtering criteria used by our participating insurance companies to determine which consumers will be offered quotes; and
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- Our ability to generate transaction fees and/or revenue from insurance agency activities may also be harmed due to technical difficulties on our website that hamper a consumer's ability to start or complete a shopping session.
Seasonality affecting insurance shopping and Internet usage may cause fluctuations in our operating results
We have experienced seasonality in our business associated with general slowness in the insurance industry during the year-end holiday period. We expect to continue to experience seasonality as our business matures. Because of this seasonality, investors may not be able to predict our annual operating results based on a quarter-to-quarter comparison of our operating results. We believe seasonality will have an ongoing impact on our business.
Because substantially all of our revenue is attributable to automobile insurance shopping on our online marketplace, we are especially vulnerable to risks related to the online market for automobile insurance or the automobile insurance industry generally
Automobile insurance accounted for approximately 78% of our total revenues in the year ended December 31, 1999 and approximately 70% in the three months ended March 31, 2000. We anticipate that automobile insurance will continue to account for a substantial portion of our revenues for the foreseeable future. As a result, if we fail to attract a broad base of consumers to shop for automobile insurance on our site, or if changes in the automobile insurance industry make electronic commerce a less attractive means to shop for this type of insurance, our ability to generate revenue will be reduced and our business will be harmed. In addition, our business is likely to be affected by any events or changes that affect the automobile insurance industry as a whole.
If we are unable to promote our brand and expand our brand recognition, our ability to draw consumers to our website will be limited
A growing number of websites offer services that are similar to and competitive with the services offered on our online insurance marketplace. Therefore, establishing and maintaining our brand is critical to attracting additional consumers to our website, strengthening our relationships with participating insurance companies and attracting new insurance companies. If our brand does not achieve positive recognition in the market, our ability to draw consumers to our website will be limited. In order to attract and retain consumers and insurance companies and to promote and maintain our brand, through the first quarter of fiscal 2000, we increased our financial commitment to creating and
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maintaining prominent brand awareness. As a result of State Farm's announcement not to renew its participation agreement with InsWeb, we intend to reduce our consumer marketing expenses beginning in the second quarter of fiscal 2000. Our continued consumer marketing program will include the maintenance of certain of our network of online relationships, and selective online and print, radio and television advertising campaigns designed to maintain consumer awareness of InsWeb and our online insurance marketplace. If our marketing efforts do not generate a corresponding increase in revenues or we otherwise fail to successfully promote our brand, or if these efforts require excessive expenditures, our business will be harmed. Moreover, if visitors to our website do not perceive our existing services or the products and services of our participating insurance companies to be of high quality, or if we alter or modify our brand image, introduce new services or enter into new business ventures that are not favorably received, the value of our brand could be harmed.
Our plans to offer additional services could result in significant expenditures, and we may not generate sufficient revenue to offset these expenditures
We intend to offer additional services including, among other things:
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- performing selected activities on behalf of insurance companies as an authorized agent;
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- adding new insurance companies and helping our existing insurance companies to expand the number of states in which they are offering coverage in our online marketplace;
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- increasing the level of technology integration between our platform and the systems of our participating insurance companies;
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- attempting to leverage our technology; and
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- continuing our market presence through relationships with Internet portals, financial institutions, websites oriented to activities that involve the purchase of insurance, such as automobile shopping sites, and other online companies.
We may not be able to offer these additional services in a cost-effective or timely manner, or these efforts may not increase the overall market acceptance of our products and services. Expansion of our operations in this manner could also require significant additional expenditures and strain our management, financial and operational resources. The lack of market acceptance of these efforts, regulatory issues, or our inability to generate enough revenue from these expanded services or products to offset their cost could harm our business.
Competition in the market for online distribution of insurance is intense, and if we are unable to compete effectively with current competitors or new competitors that enter the market, the fees paid to us by participating insurance companies may fall, the fees charged by online companies with which we have strategic relationships may rise, and our market share may suffer
The online insurance distribution market is a new industry and, like the broader electronic commerce market, is both rapidly evolving and highly competitive. Increased competition, particularly by companies offering online insurance distribution, could reduce the fees we are able to charge our participating insurance companies or increase the fees we are required to pay to online companies with which we have strategic relationships, resulting in reduced margins or loss of market share, any of which could harm our business.
Some of our current competitors have longer operating histories, larger customer bases, greater brand recognition and significantly greater financial, marketing and other resources than we do. In addition, we believe we will face increasing competition as the online financial services industry develops and evolves. Our current and future competitors may be able to:
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- undertake more extensive marketing campaigns for their brands and services;
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- devote more resources to website and systems development;
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- adopt more aggressive pricing policies; and
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- make more attractive offers to potential employees, online companies and third-party service providers.
Accordingly, we may not be able to maintain or grow consumer traffic to our website and our base of participating insurance companies, our competitors may grow faster than we do, or companies with whom we have strategic relationships may discontinue their relationships with us, any of which would harm our business.
If our participating insurance companies do not continue to provide high quality products and service to consumers, our brand will be harmed and our ability to attract consumers to our website will be limited
Our ability to provide a high quality shopping experience to consumers depends in part on the quality of the products and services consumers receive from our participating insurance companies, including timely response to requests for quotes or coverage. If our participating insurance companies do not provide consumers with high-quality products and services, the value of our brand may be harmed and the number of consumers using our services may decline. We have from time to time received complaints from consumers who have not received a timely response to a request for an insurance quote. Although we have taken steps and proposed methods to encourage our participating insurance companies to be responsive to consumer requests, these steps and/or proposed methods may not be successful. In addition, if any of our major participating insurance companies were to discontinue their business, be downgraded by insurance company rating services or be financially harmed by trends in the insurance industry, our brand may be harmed.
Because several of the insurance companies with which we have relationships are major stockholders or are associated with members of our board of directors, we may find it difficult to terminate or suspend the participation of one of these insurance companies based upon the quality of its service. This could, in turn, cause the quality of our services to decrease and harm our brand image with consumers
Several insurance companies participating in our online marketplace own significant portions of our outstanding stock, are affiliated with members of our board of directors or have close business relationships with members of our board. One insurance company, Nationwide, holds approximately 9% of our outstanding common stock, and Richard D. Headley, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Nationwide Insurance Enterprise, an affiliate of Nationwide, is a member of our board. Another insurance company, CNA, holds approximately 6% of our outstanding common stock. Most of our other outside directors are affiliated with companies, such as insurance brokerage firms, that may have substantial business dealings with many of the insurance companies with which we have relationships. As a result of such affiliations or relationships, we may find it difficult to terminate or suspend the participation of one of these insurance companies based upon the quality of its service. This could, in turn, cause the quality of our services to decrease and harm our brand image with consumers.
Because a limited number of insurance companies account for a majority of our revenues, the loss of a single insurance company relationship could result in a substantial drop in our revenues
Revenues from State Farm, AIG and American Family accounted for approximately 31%, 11% and 11%, respectively, of our revenues for the year ended December 31, 1999, and revenues from State Farm, GE Financial Assurance and AIG accounted for approximately 29%, 11% and 10%, respectively, of our revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2000. In April 2000, State Farm Insurance,
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which accounted for approximately 29% of all InsWeb revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2000, informed InsWeb that it would not renew its participation agreement with InsWeb. Effective May 1, State Farm is no longer participating in InsWeb's marketplaces for auto, term life, homeowners, condominium and renters insurance. With State Farm's nonrenewal, auto insurance coverage is no longer available to consumers in Vermont and three provinces in Canada, and homeowners and renters insurance is available in significantly fewer states. Term life offerings were not significantly affected in any state. As a result of State Farm's withdrawal, we expect a material decline in revenues in the near term until additional agreements with new carriers can be negotiated and these carriers are integrated into InsWeb's marketplaces. Should one or more of our key insurance company partners cease to participate in our online marketplace, or should it change its underwriting criteria or geographic coverage in a way that reduces the proportion of consumers that are offered quotes from that insurance company, our operating results could be materially harmed. Because of the broad market presence of some of our participating insurance companies, we expect to continue to generate a substantial portion of our revenues from a limited number of insurance companies for the foreseeable future. In addition, although new carriers may be signed up to participate in our online marketplace, these new carriers may not replace revenues lost as a result of State Farm's nonrenewal. Moreover, there can be no assurance we will be able to add any new carriers.
In most jurisdictions, we rely on the participation of a limited number of insurance companies on our online marketplace, and the loss of any of these insurance companies could make our online marketplace less attractive to consumers
Consumer demand for the services offered on our website in any jurisdiction is substantially dependent upon the participation of competing brand-name insurance companies offering competitive quotes for a given insurance product in that jurisdiction. Accordingly, the success of our business depends on our ability to attract and retain well-known insurance companies to participate in our marketplace. Although we currently have relationships with more than 40 insurance companies overall, in individual jurisdictions where competing quotes for comparable products are available on our online marketplace, the number of companies offering quotes ranges from two to 15. If we are unable to increase the number of insurance companies that participate in our online marketplace, particularly in the jurisdictions where we currently offer comparable insurance products from only two or three insurance companies, we may not be able to attract additional consumers or may lose our existing consumers to other online competitors offering a wider variety of insurance companies. As of March 31, 2000, there were 26 jurisdictions in which three or fewer insurance companies were offering automobile insurance quotes on our online marketplace. Of those, State Farm was a participant in 25 jurisdictions and AIG is a participant in 15 jurisdictions. As a result of State Farm's nonrenewal of their contract effective on May 1, 2000, there were 10 jurisdictions in which we have only one insurance company offering automobile quotes on our online marketplace and two states in which there is no participating carrier. If any other insurance company participating in a number of jurisdictions discontinued or significantly reduced its participation in our online marketplace, the attractiveness of the marketplace to consumers in these jurisdictions would be greatly diminished.
In addition, we believe that there is a general trend toward consolidation in the insurance industry. For example, in October 1999 Allstate Corp. announced an agreement to acquire the personal lines business of CNA Financial Corp., one of our participating insurance companies. Also, in March 2000, CNA announced its intention to sell its life insurance and reinsurance units. In the jurisdictions where we currently offer comparable insurance products from three or fewer insurance companies, the loss of one or more of these companies, whether due to industry consolidation or otherwise, could materially reduce the selection of insurance companies available to consumers on our website, thereby substantially reducing the attraction of our online marketplace to consumers.
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We may have difficulty integrating new insurance companies into our online marketplace or agency operations, which could harm our ability to offer improved comparison shopping opportunities and thus limit the attractiveness of our service to consumers
Integration of an insurance company into our online marketplace requires a significant commitment of time and resources on our part and on the part of the insurance company, and is a technologically difficult process. This integration process typically takes from three to six months to complete and typically requires us to expend between 160 and 2,000 man-hours. Though integration into our agency operations may require fewer resources to implement than integration of an insurance company into our online marketplace, potential participating insurance companies may not be willing to invest the time and resources necessary to achieve this integration, or we may not be able to overcome the technological difficulties associated with, or devote the time and resources necessary to, successfully integrate the insurance company into our online marketplace or our agency operations.
We do not have exclusive relationships or long-term contracts with insurance companies, which may limit our ability to retain these insurance companies as participants in our marketplace and maintain the attractiveness of our services to consumers
We do not have an exclusive relationship with any of the insurance companies whose insurance products are offered on our online marketplace, and thus, consumers may obtain quotes and coverage from these insurance companies without using our website. Our participating insurance companies offer their products directly to consumers through insurance agents, mass marketing campaigns or through other traditional methods of insurance distribution. These insurance companies can also offer their products and services over the Internet, either directly to consumers or through one or more of our online competitors, or both. In addition, most of our agreements with our participating insurance companies are cancelable at the option of either party upon 90 days' notice or less. As discussed above, in April 2000, State Farm Insurance, which accounted for approximately 29% of InsWeb's total revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2000, informed InsWeb that it would not renew its participation agreement with the Company.
Traffic on our website is heavily dependent on our online relationships. These relationships may not generate sufficient revenues to justify the fees we pay to online companies. Further, our consumer traffic may decline in the event an online relationship is unsuccessful
We rely on relationships with a variety of Internet portals, financial institutions, and other online companies to attract consumers to our website. In a typical arrangement, the online company includes a "link" on its website on which a user can click to jump to our website or to a site that we operate under the online company's name; as part of the arrangement, we typically pay the online company a portion of the resulting transaction fees and in some cases a fixed fee. These relationships may not continue to generate a substantial amount of new traffic on our website, or the revenues generated by these relationships may be insufficient to justify our payment obligations. Furthermore, the value of these relationships is based on the continued positive market presence, reputation and growth of these online companies' websites and services. Any decline in the market presence, business or reputation of these online companies' websites and services will reduce the value of these relationships to us and could harm our business.
We have entered into an arrangement with Yahoo! Inc. under which our site is the exclusive insurance site included in the Yahoo! Insurance Information Center. For the year ended December 31, 1999 and three months ended March 31, 2000, we received approximately 10.1% and 8.2% of our website traffic from our online relationship with Yahoo!, respectively, and approximately 33.7% and 33.1% of our traffic from all of our online relationships combined, respectively. In addition, in December 1999, we entered into a marketing agreement with Microsoft and in February 2000, we entered into a marketing agreement with certain properties owned by America Online. Our ability to
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increase our revenues will depend, in part, on increased traffic to our website that we expect to generate through these online relationships.
Our relationships with online companies typically have a 12-month term and do not provide us with automatic renewal rights upon termination. For example, our agreement with Yahoo! expires in the third quarter of fiscal 2000. In addition, these agreements are typically terminable by either party on 30 to 90 days' notice. There can be no assurance we will be able to negotiate or renew marketing agreements with online companies on terms that are acceptable to us. The termination, nonrenewal or renewal on unfavorable terms of a relationship from which we generate significant traffic to our website, such as our relationship with Yahoo!, would harm our business. Additionally, an online company's failure to maintain efficient and uninterrupted operation of its computer and communications hardware systems would likely reduce the amount of traffic we receive at our site, harming our business.
Laws and regulations that govern the insurance industry could expose us, or our participating insurance companies, our officers, or agents with whom we contract, to legal penalties if we fail to comply, and could require changes to our business
We perform functions for licensed insurance companies and are, therefore, required to comply with a complex set of rules and regulations that often vary from state to state. If we fail to comply with these rules and regulations, we, an insurance company doing business with us, our officers, or agents with whom we contract, could be subject to various sanctions, including censure, fines, a cease-and-desist order or other penalties. This risk, as well as changes in the regulatory climate or the enforcement or interpretation of existing law, could expose us to additional costs, including indemnification of participating insurance companies for their costs, and could require changes to our business or otherwise harm our business. Furthermore, because the application of online commerce to the consumer insurance market is relatively new, the impact of current or future regulations on InsWeb's business is difficult to anticipate.
The recently enacted Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act may alter the traditional structure of insurance regulation and impose new or additional legal requirements on our business
The November 1999 passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (S.900) increased the potential for significant changes in the structure and regulation of the insurance industry. Traditionally, regulation of insurance has been almost exclusively the province of the states, including regulation of sales practices, underwriting requirements and claims payments. Moreover, with limited exceptions, securities firms and banking institutions historically were prohibited from engaging in the business of insurance, and were regulated by federal agencies. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act eliminated these legislative barriers between segments of the financial services industry. Although insurance will still be regulated primarily by the states, insurance entities that become part of a financial services institution may be indirectly affected by the federal regulatory requirements pertaining to banks or securities firms.
Our intended expansion of our business, including, in particular, our agency activities, will subject us to additional regulations which may delay or prevent our expansion and harm our business
Over time, we intend to expand our operations to include new products and services and to offer existing and new products in new jurisdictions, which may require us to comply with additional laws and regulations. If we fail to adequately comply with these laws and regulations, our ability to offer some of our products or services in a particular jurisdiction could be delayed or prevented and our business could be harmed. Compliance with these laws and regulations and those of other jurisdictions into which we expand may require us to obtain appropriate business licenses, make necessary filings and obtain necessary bonds, appoint foreign agents and make periodic business reports.
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If we are unable to safeguard the security and privacy of consumers' and participating insurance companies' confidential data, consumers and insurance companies may not use our services and our business may be harmed
A significant barrier to electronic commerce and communications is the secure transmission of personally identifiable information of Internet users as well as other confidential information over public networks. If any compromise or breach of security were to occur, it could harm our reputation and expose us to possible liability. A party who is able to circumvent our security measures could misappropriate proprietary information or cause interruptions in our operations. We may be required to make significant expenditures to protect against security breaches or to alleviate problems caused by any breaches. To date, we have experienced no breaches in our network security. We rely on encryption and authentication technology licensed from third parties to provide the security and authentication necessary to effect secure transmission of confidential information, such as names, addresses, Social Security and credit card numbers, user names and passwords and insurance company rate information. Advances in computer capabilities, new discoveries in the field of cryptography, or other events or developments could result in a compromise or breach of the algorithms we use to protect consumers' and insurance companies' confidential information.
Uncertainty in the marketplace regarding the use of Internet users' personal information, or proposed legislation limiting such use, could reduce demand for our services and result in increased expenses
Concern among consumers and legislators regarding the use of personal information gathered from Internet users could create uncertainty in the marketplace. This could reduce demand for our services, increase the cost of doing business as a result of litigation costs or increased service delivery costs, or otherwise harm our business. Legislation has been proposed that would limit the uses of personally identifiable information of Internet users gathered online or require online services to establish privacy policies. Many state insurance codes limit the collection and use of personal information by insurance companies, agents, or insurance service organizations.
System failures could reduce or limit traffic on our website and harm our ability to generate revenue
Since launching our online marketplace, we have experienced occasional minor system failures or outages which have resulted in the online marketplace being out of service for a period ranging from several minutes to three hours while our technicians brought backup systems online. We may experience further system failures or outages in the future that could disrupt the operation of our website and could harm our business. Our revenues depend in large part on the volume of traffic on our website and, more particularly, on the number of insurance quotes generated by our website in response to consumer inquiries. Accordingly, the performance, reliability and availability of our website, quote-generating systems and network infrastructure are critical to our reputation and our ability to attract a high volume of traffic to our website and to attract and retain participating insurance companies. Moreover, we believe that consumers who have a negative experience with an electronic commerce website may be reluctant to return to that site. Thus, a significant failure or outage affecting our systems could result in severe long-term damage to our business.
If we do not successfully enhance or expand our technology infrastructure to accommodate increases in the volume of traffic on our website, our website may not perform at levels that are satisfactory to consumers
We are continually enhancing and expanding our technology, quote generating systems, network infrastructure and other technologies to accommodate the volume of traffic on our website. We may be unsuccessful in these efforts or we may be unable to accurately project the rate or timing of increases in the volume of traffic on our website. In addition, we cannot predict whether additional network capacity will be available from third party suppliers as we need it. Also, our network or our suppliers'
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networks might be unable to timely achieve or maintain a sufficiently high capacity of data transmission to timely process orders or effectively download data, especially if our website traffic increases. Our failure to achieve or maintain high capacity data transmission could significantly reduce consumer demand for our services.
Our facilities and systems are vulnerable to natural disasters and other unexpected losses, and we may not have adequate insurance to cover such losses
Our computer hardware operations are located in leased facilities in Redwood City. A full backup system is located in Irvine, California. Each of these areas is susceptible to earthquakes. If both of these locations experienced a system failure, the performance of our website would be harmed. These systems are also vulnerable to damage from fire, floods, power loss, telecommunications failures, break-ins and similar events. If we seek to replicate our systems at other locations, we will face a number of technical challenges, particularly with respect to database replications, which we may not be able to address successfully. Although we carry property and business interruption insurance, our coverage may not be adequate to compensate us for all losses that may occur. Our servers may also be vulnerable to computer viruses, physical or electronic break-ins and similar disruptions.
We may experience technological problems or service interruptions with individual insurance companies, which could harm the quality of service on our website
Several of our participating insurance companies have chosen a technical solution that requires that our Web servers communicate with these insurance companies' computer systems in order to perform the filtering and risk analysis and rating functions required to generate quotes. Thus, the availability of quotes from a given insurance company may depend in large part upon the reliability of that insurance company's own computer systems, over which we have no control. A malfunction in an insurance company's computer system or in the Internet connection between our Web servers and the insurance company's system, or an excess of data traffic on that system, could result in a delay in the delivery of e-mail quotes or could cause an insurance company that provides instant quotes to go offline until the problem can be remedied. Further, a computer malfunction could cause an insurance company to quote erroneous rates, in which case the insurance company would be required to take itself offline until the malfunction can be corrected. Any technological problems with or interruption of communications with an insurance company's computer systems could materially reduce the number of competing insurance companies available to provide quotes, and therefore the level of service perceived by consumers, on our online marketplace.
Our recent growth and subsequent reduction in force has placed a significant strain on our management, systems and resources, and we may experience difficulties in managing our operations in the future
Through the quarter ended March 31, 2000, we experienced growth and expansion which placed a strain on our administrative, operational and financial resources and increased demands on our systems and controls. In April, 2000, as a result of State Farm's decision not to renew its participation on InsWeb's marketplace, we reduced our workforce by approximately 10%. If our management is unable to manage our resources effectively, our business will be harmed. This prior growth and subsequent reduction in force has resulted in a continuing increase in the level of responsibility for our management personnel. We anticipate that our continued operations will require us to retain our current personnel and to recruit, hire, train and retain new managerial, technical, sales and marketing personnel based on the attrition of our current employee base. Our ability to manage our operations successfully will also require us to improve our operational, management and financial systems and controls on a timely basis.
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We rely on the services of our executive officers and other key personnel, whose knowledge of our business and the insurance industry and technical expertise would be extremely difficult to replace
Our future success is substantially dependent on the continued services and continuing contributions of our senior management and other key personnel, particularly Hussein A. Enan, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer; James Corroon, Vice Chairman of the Board; and Mark P. Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer (acting). The loss of the services of any of our executive officers or other key employees could harm our business. For example, in March 2000, Stephen Robertson, our Chief Financial Officer, resigned to pursue other professional interests. This resignation has put additional pressure on our executive management team to fulfill his functional responsibilities. As of the date of this report, we have not recruited a new Chief Financial Officer.
We have no long-term employment agreements with any of our key personnel other than Mr. Enan, whose employment agreement expires in July 2002. We maintain a $2 million life insurance policy on Mr. Enan that names us as the beneficiary, but maintain no similar insurance on any of our other key employees. Additionally, we have granted additional cash and stock option incentives in order to retain certain of our executive officers and certain other key personnel. Payment of these incentives is subject to these individuals completing service terms from six months to one year from April 2000. Mr. Enan and Mr. Corroon opted not to participate in this program. As the value of these incentives are highly dependent on an increase in the market price of our common stock, there can be no assurance we will be able to retain such key employees through or after their retention period nor retain or recruit other officers and key employees in the future.
Because of intense competition for technical personnel, we may not be able to recruit or retain necessary personnel, which could slow the process of adding new insurance companies to our website or otherwise harm our business
Our future success depends on our continuing ability to attract, retain and motivate highly skilled employees, particularly with respect to technology development and implementation, including integration of insurance companies into our online marketplace. If we are not able to attract and retain new personnel, particularly to expand our technology development and implementation team, our business will be harmed. The implementation of new insurance companies on our site is a technologically complex and labor-intensive process. Accordingly, any difficulty we face in attracting and retaining talented development and implementation personnel could slow the process of adding new insurance companies to our online marketplace and therefore limit our ability to increase the attractiveness of our services to consumers. Competition for personnel in our industry is intense and we have had a high turnover rate of employees over the last two quarters. We may be unable to retain our key employees or attract, assimilate or retain other highly qualified employees in the future. We have from time to time experienced, and we expect to continue to experience in the future, difficulty in hiring and retaining employees with appropriate qualifications.
Our success depends on continued growth of electronic commerce, which may not achieve broad acceptance by consumers
Our future revenues and profits are substantially dependent upon the widespread acceptance and use of the Internet by consumers as an effective medium for commerce. Rapid growth in the use of the Internet is a recent phenomenon, and it may not continue, or the Internet may not be adopted as a medium of commerce by a broad base of consumers. If a broad base of consumers do not adopt the Internet as a medium of commerce, our business may be materially adversely affected.
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Our success depends on the willingness of consumers to shop for and purchase insurance on the Internet instead of by more traditional means; consumers may not be willing to do this
Shopping for and purchasing insurance on the Internet is a relatively untested concept, and if it does not gain widespread acceptance, our business may fail. Demand and market acceptance for recently introduced services and products on the Internet are subject to a high level of uncertainty, and there are few proven services and products. Our success will depend on our ability to engage consumers who have historically shopped for and purchased insurance through traditional distribution channels. In order for us to be successful, many of these consumers must be willing to utilize new ways of conducting business and exchanging information. In addition, a substantial proportion of the consumers who use our website may be using our service because it is new and different rather than because they believe that it offers a better way to shop for insurance. Such consumers may use our service only once or twice and then return to more familiar means of shopping for and purchasing insurance.
If the Internet does not continue to develop and reliably support the demands placed on it by electronic commerce and other high volume applications, our business will suffer
The Internet may not become a viable medium for commerce or comparison insurance shopping for a number of reasons, including potentially inadequate development of the necessary network infrastructure or delayed development of enabling technologies and performance improvements. If the Internet continues to experience significant growth in the number of users, levels of traffic or networks' capacities for transmitting large amounts of data, the Internet's infrastructure may not be able to support the demands placed upon it. The Internet has experienced a variety of outages and other delays as a result of damage to portions of its infrastructure, and it could face additional outages and delays in the future. These outages and delays could reduce the level of traffic and therefore the number of consumer insurance inquiries on our website. In addition, the Internet could lose its viability due to delays in the development or adoption of new standards and protocols required to handle increased levels of Internet activity, or due to increased governmental regulation. Changes in or insufficient availability of telecommunications services to support the Internet could also result in slower response times and reduced use of the Internet.
Regulation of the Internet is unsettled, and future regulations could inhibit the growth of the Internet and otherwise harm our business
The laws governing the Internet remain largely unsettled, even in areas where there has been some legislative action. Furthermore, the growth and development of the market for electronic commerce may prompt the enactment of more stringent consumer protection laws that may impose additional burdens on companies conducting business online. The adoption of additional laws or regulations may inhibit the growth of the Internet as a medium for commerce and comparison insurance shopping, which could, in turn, decrease demand for our services, increase our cost of doing business, or otherwise harm our business. In addition, applicability to the Internet of existing laws governing issues including property ownership, copyrights and other intellectual property issues, taxation, libel and personal privacy is uncertain. The vast majority of these laws were adopted prior to the advent of the Internet and related technologies and, as a result, do not contemplate or address the unique issues of the Internet and related technologies.
Our international operations are subject to various risks
As of May 1, 2000, our international operations consist of activities with and through our joint venture partner, InsWeb Japan K.K. (of which we currently own a 25% equity interest) to develop and
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maintain an online insurance marketplace in Japan. Though our foreign operations are limited they are subject to other inherent risks, including:
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- the impact of recessions in foreign economies on the level of consumers' insurance shopping and purchasing behavior;
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- greater difficulty in accounts receivable collection and longer collection periods;
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- unexpected changes in regulatory requirements, particularly with respect to the insurance industry;
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- difficulties and costs of staffing and managing foreign operations;
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- reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries;
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- potentially adverse tax consequences; and
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- political and economic instability.
Any acquisitions that we undertake could be difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and harm our operating results
We may acquire or make investments in complementary businesses, technologies, services or products if appropriate opportunities arise. For example, in December 1998, we acquired Benelytics, Inc., a developer of employee health benefits selection and management software and reference data products. The process of integrating any acquired business, technology, service or product into our business and operations may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. Integration of an acquired company also may consume much of our management's time and attention that would otherwise be available for ongoing development of our business. Moreover, the anticipated benefits of any acquisition may not be realized. We may be unable to identify, negotiate or finance future acquisitions successfully, or to integrate successfully any acquisitions with our current business. Future acquisitions could result in potentially dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities or amortization expenses related to goodwill and other intangible assets, any of which could harm our business. For example, in connection with the Benelytics acquisition, we recorded $7.3 million in goodwill, which will be amortized over a period of three years, and $1.4 million to software and other intangible assets, which will be amortized over two years.
We may be unable to protect our intellectual property rights
We regard our intellectual property as critical to our success. We rely on trademark, copyright and trade secret laws to protect our proprietary rights. We have registered the INSWEB mark in the United States, France, Germany, South Korea and the United Kingdom and applications are pending in several other countries. Other United States and worldwide trademark applications include, but are not limited to, eAgent, InsWeb.com, Powered by InsWeb, and Where You and Your Insurance Really Click. We have patent applications on file in the United States. Our trademark registration and patent applications may not be approved or granted, or, if granted, may be successfully challenged by others or invalidated through administrative process or litigation. Notwithstanding these laws, we may be unsuccessful in protecting our intellectual property rights or in obtaining patents or registered trademarks for which we apply.
We may be subject to claims for infringement of intellectual property, with or without merit, which could be costly to defend or settle
We may from time to time be subject to claims of infringement of other parties' proprietary rights or claims that our own trademarks, patents or other intellectual property rights are invalid. We have been and are currently subject to infringement claims in the ordinary course of business, including
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claims of alleged infringement of the patent and trademark rights of third parties by us and companies with which we have business relationships. Any claims of this type, with or without merit, could be time-consuming to defend, result in costly litigation, divert management attention and resources or require us to enter into royalty or license agreements. License agreements may not be available on reasonable terms, if at all, and the assertion or prosecution of any infringement claims could significantly harm our business.
We incorporate third-party technologies and services into our online marketplace, and if the providers of these technologies and services fail in a timely manner to develop, license or support technology necessary to our services, market acceptance of our online marketplace could be harmed
We have incorporated technology developed by third parties into our online marketplace, and we will continue to incorporate third-party technology in our future products and services. We have limited control over whether or when these third-party technologies will be developed or enhanced. If a third-party fails to timely develop, license or support technology necessary to our services, market acceptance of our online marketplace could be harmed.
Our stock price may fluctuate widely, and Internet stocks in general have been extremely volatile
The trading price of our common stock has been highly volatile and may be significantly affected by factors including actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results, new products or new contracts by us or our competitors, loss of key customers, conditions and trends in the electronic commerce and insurance industries, changes in financial estimates by securities analysts, general market conditions and other factors. The trading prices of many Internet stocks have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations. These fluctuations often have been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of these companies. These fluctuations may continue and could harm our stock price. Any negative change in the public's perception of the prospects of Internet or electronic commerce companies could also depress our stock price regardless of our results.
Delaware law and our charter documents contain provisions that could discourage or prevent a potential takeover, even if such a transaction would be beneficial to our stockholders
Provisions of Delaware law and our certificate of incorporation and bylaws could make more difficult the acquisition of us by means of a tender offer, a proxy contest, or otherwise, and the removal of incumbent officers and directors.
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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.
InsWeb is exposed to financial market risks including changes in interest rates and, to a lesser degree, foreign currency exchange rates. The fair value of InsWeb's investment portfolio or related income would not be significantly affected by either a 10% increase or decrease in interest rates due mainly to the short term nature of the major portion of InsWeb's investment portfolio. InsWeb's interest income is sensitive to changes in the general level of U.S. interest rates, particularly since the majority of our funds are invested in instruments with maturities less than one year, except for certain U.S. agency securities which are designated to support our letter of credit whose maturity is two years. InsWeb's policy is to limit the risk of principal loss and ensure the safety of invested funds by limiting market and credit risk. Funds in excess of current operating requirements are invested in obligations of the U.S. government and its agencies and investment grade obligations of state and local governments and large corporations.
The table below represents carrying amounts and related weighted-average interest rates by year of maturity of InsWeb's investment portfolio at March 31, 2000:
| 2000 | 2001 | Total | ||||||||
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Cash and money market funds | $ | 14,423 | — | $ | 14,423 | ||||||
Average interest rate | 4.7 | % | — | 4.7 | % | ||||||
Investments | $ | 57,836 | $ | 8,980 | $ | 66,816 | |||||
Average interest rate | 6.0 | % | 7.0 | % | 6.1 | % | |||||
Total investment securities | $ | 72,259 | $ | 8,980 | $ | 81,239 | |||||
Average interest rate | 5.0 | % | 7.0 | % | 5.9 | % |
InsWeb's revenue and capital spending is transacted in U.S. dollars. As discussed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements, InsWeb investment in InsWeb Japan K.K. and the note payable to strategic partner and shareholder is denominated in Japanese Yen. InsWeb has not engaged in hedging transactions to reduce its exposure to fluctuations that may arise from changes in foreign exchange rates. Based on InsWeb's overall currency rate exposure at March 31, 2000 a near-term 10% appreciation or depreciation would have an immaterial affect on InsWeb's operating results or financial condition.
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ITEM 6. EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K.
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- Exhibits
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- Reports on Form 8-K
Current Report dated May 3, 2000 regarding the announcement of first quarter results and loss of State Farm as a customer.
Current Report dated March 1, 2000 regarding the resignation of Stephen Robertson, Chief Financial Officer.
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INSWEB CORPORATION
(Registrant)
Dated: March 29, 2001 | By: | /s/ MARK P. GUTHRIE Mark P. Guthrie Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer (acting) |
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PART I: FINANCIAL INFORMATION
PART II: OTHER INFORMATION