Definitions:
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, this presentation and the accompanying tables include Adjusted Diluted EPS, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Free Cash Flow, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Adjusted Net Income and FCF Conversion, which are non-GAAP financial measures. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
Adjusted Diluted EPS, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Free Cash Flow, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Adjusted Net Income and FCF Conversion are supplemental measures of our operating performance and liquidity that are neither required by, nor presented in accordance with, U.S. GAAP, and our calculations thereof may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
These measures are presented because they are the primary measures used by management to evaluate our financial performance and liquidity, and for forecasting purposes. This non-GAAP financial information is useful to investors because it eliminates certain items that affect period-over-period comparability and provides consistency with past financial performance or liquidity and additional information about underlying results and trends by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of our business, results of operations or outlook. Additionally, we believe that these and similar measures are often used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties as a means of evaluating a company’s operating performance.
Adjusted Diluted EPS, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Free Cash Flow, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Adjusted Net Income and FCF Conversion are non-GAAP financial measures, are not measurements of our financial performance or liquidity under U.S. GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net income, earnings per share, income from operations, gross profit, gross margin, or any other performance measures determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and you should not consider them in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP, but rather as supplemental information to our business results. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies due to potential differences in methods of calculation and items or events being adjusted. Furthermore, other companies may use different measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of these non-GAAP financial measures as tools for comparison.
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin
Adjusted EBITDA represents earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, adjusted to exclude stock-based compensation expense, the effect of foreign currency fluctuations, and certain non-recurring items. Adjusted EBITDA Margin represents Adjusted EBITDA divided by total net revenues.
Adjusted Free Cash Flow and FCF Conversion
Adjusted Free Cash Flow represents net cash provided from operating activities, less purchases of property and equipment, capitalized software development costs, and other nonrecurring items. However, given our non-discretionary expenditures, Adjusted Free Cash Flow does not represent residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures. FCF Conversion represents Adjusted Free Cash Flow divided by Adjusted EBITDA.
Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Diluted EPS
Adjusted Net Income represents net income adjusted to exclude stock-based compensation expense, the effect of foreign currency fluctuations, certain non-recurring items, and the tax effect of such adjustments. Adjusted Diluted EPS represents Adjusted Net Income divided by fully diluted weighted average shares outstanding.