TRIP - Earnings call transcript Q3 2018

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Operator

Good morning, and welcome to TripAdvisor's Second Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call.

As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference call over to TripAdvisor's Vice President of Investor Relations, Mr. Will Lyons. Please go ahead.

Will Lyons

Heather. Thanks, and call. everyone, to welcome morning, our Good

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Stephen Kaufer

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a We a great on and We've path expect about number we're ahead. year the healthy in put and EBITDA we're of business investing growth next opportunities. attractive growth what's excited

questions. up for the open call Let's now

Operator

you. Thank

first Your Deepak from with question comes Mathivanan Barclays.

Your open. line is

Deepak Mathivanan

the Hey, guys. Thanks for questions. taking

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Ernst J. Teunissen

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Stephen Kaufer

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Deepak Mathivanan

Thanks, Steve. Thanks, Great. Ernst.

Ernst J. Teunissen

Thank you.

Operator

you. Thank

Bank. Walmsley comes from Lloyd with question Your Deutsche next

open. is line Your

Lloyd Walmsley

Thanks. Two if I can.

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Stephen Kaufer

here. Hi, Lloyd. Steve

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Ernst J. Teunissen

Lloyd, marketing efficiency, very our Hotel your of in And, was driver marketing EBITDA our year-over-year efficiency on question segment improvement important a obviously.

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see So you until about from also on continued year-over-year mid-next but EBITDA, will shoppers on year, that. continued a impact continued impact year-over-year a –

instance see but shoppers abating by mid-next to we year, QX, don't that So grow. expect for for

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Lloyd Walmsley

can't for new out. the try All right. wait Well, thank you, to it and experience

So, good luck with that.

Stephen Kaufer

Look forward Thanks. to feedback. your

Operator

you. Thank

with question next comes Mike Piper Your from Olson Jaffray.

open. is line Your

Michael Olson

morning. good Hey,

words, make you EBITDA to on other as of basis? there trajectory right you margins Non-Hotel a is that I any for going there be see guess, a in kind is be or that are steady to for Do investment a Like, consistent Thanks. Or, segment? in up was investments this this there margins there. potential Non-Hotel, the in for upward and so annual strong to need For move an EBITDA an fairly margins could to potentially this significant might year transition Non-Hotel? Or cause lumpier? fairly

Ernst J. Teunissen

Yes.

while XX%. X% year-over-year So in by by Non-Hotel increased revenue increased quarter, this EBITDA

our So small significant particularly business. quarter. compression investments, in We're making it's this margin a Experiences

is very in Our an for Experiences made and a a going We market growth That accelerated we're and expanding software that where forward. is we're Bokun, and relatively significantly QX driving that. business for and behind share company an accelerate acquisition, called investment investing nascent. for will market area

that marketing. in product we And investing both is are our and on area portfolio, that – so, the where really Non-Hotel supply

Michael Olson

Thank Okay. you.

Operator

Thank you.

comes with Oppenheimer. question Your next Kelly from Jed

open. is line Your

Jed Kelly

for Thanks taking question. Great. my

earlier single digits. a Just rentals was a that Or on number? Was quarterly full-year declining that the comment, number?

Ernst J. Teunissen

was That this quarter.

Jed Kelly

expense – on you rate sense it direct overall if related Okay. XX% a expenditures if grew growth grew similar a or give marketing at to grew Can And then, year-over-year. faster? think, us Non-Hotel to just the expenses, I they grew Non-Hotel

Ernst J. Teunissen

Yeah. but on on dev, direct side, We've both people spend. growth, the tech marketing in and seen Non-Hotel expense also particular,

and important the both so it's contributors when you marketing as our look And growth, company. direct take spend that total were cost should you what of mind at in a

this Non-Hotel, in decrease so it up $XX direct it is the in the marketing being the Non-Hotel side. quarter in decreased and of of we've That selling year-over-year underlines costs the million. by total So magnitude context

Jed Kelly

quarter. nice Thank and you,

Stephen Kaufer

Thanks.

Operator

you. Thank

with Anmuth Douglas from comes JPMorgan. question next Your

Your is open. line

Dae K. Lee

for question Good morning. adjusted on is my the on taking Could where you TV on your thoughts are of is your spend. what This is that question. Dae into year-over-year. My Thanks Doug. with you spend? level XXXX latest And share outlook? decreased for EBITDA spend built It

Ernst J. Teunissen

year-over-year (sic) decline Yes, quarter. this was a [Dae] thanks, of it (XX:XX). million TV modest spend Doug $X Yeah, particular

As in year full and you year may last a our spend. launched year of TV had June, campaign we we TV recall, this

out higher, reason year-over-year. for $XXX So this The We're track us up nicely this throughout spend increasing a has – end that performing that range it it see we that probably and going million of spend and we've spread why $XXX million for lower indicated. being resulted is we We're spread as middle little somewhere planned. we return improving. the in from that been year. been year. quarter, the has to out very the in the that's TV particular And the to budget, QX, although on to more

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give of EBITDA growth of yet you our rails take the the statement finalized year about budget. will spend least to expecting magnitude what fully increase guard TV some at if next haven't healthy our but be, TV TV we We increase should

Dae K. Lee

Got Thanks for it. the color.

Operator

you. Thank

Markets. Your next Capital question comes RBC from Mark Mahaney with

open. is line Your

Shweta Khajuria

This few the stabilized QX In you Hi. seeing Shweta past has the for volatility bidding that XXXX, started is and quarters. over Mark. auction

you it's what think or like I control, and now? back you Thanks. is much where are So normal? know have what you to it don't do right today but seeing

Ernst J. Teunissen

in Yes. was XXXX you versus Thank QX. lap you, so if comparison, and XXXX, this the those we Shweta. impacts QX do Yeah, indeed. all past year-over-year started It to QX QX

impact much negative average. year-over-year still QX the So, us, it a in for and pretty QX, QX, but quarter, will end in have lapped it was the the we to of with modest towards narrowing

quarter – QX lapped. We've it and that So, be no where in in auction completely believe near our been really since to should future. seen a impact QX medium-term you has reason the will year change stability have last or

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Shweta Khajuria

Thank you.

Operator

you. Thank

Naved question SunTrust. Your comes Khan next with from

Your line is open.

Naved Khan

Thanks Hi. Yeah. lot. a

Just a couple.

it? then – digit in by be the should high the sort growth for And follow-up. still double healthy, mean we in way – a next EBITDA had right or but single So guidance I a to you mean guess of do to about in take the I what year, should for healthy digit it preliminary it's or think outlook,

Ernst J. Teunissen

we're saying Yeah, not about now. saying more what that right than we're Naved. Hi,

point and in our growth expectation – for been early. and we but This finer our did the that just next you transition clarity have out now been to XXXX. events it provide which year. saw to EBITDA it we taking out, on – we year the lapping wanted statement in call we're and of some a for is in as It's have we healthy put different moving there direction lots has planning, not right early made. want As been to But is our EBITDA a time right point on parts

Naved Khan

us like maybe a How shopper mobile percentage on desktop you And as hotel monetization. of look Understood. then, it shopper? update does hotel Steve, can the

Stephen Kaufer

of crossed we the quarter hotel number shoppers mobile versus XX% this terms So in desktop. past

the And booking continues so our continuing grow more phone, grow. along This send we well hotel now. that downstream or to continue for partners on the are the shoppers The our phone. mobile obviously are as click trend shoppers comfortable is our both revenue We better, better. shopper – getting per as us is to product on revenue referrals shopper booking to

result to while, see shift the to compared still phone. shopper you with quarter the be to and headwind having overall even clear, grown of So the it's in a it's lessening per desktop, revenue this that

well. I'm it and both the app web. mobile about So, happy on going

Naved Khan

Great.

mobile has kind Any a or around since is mobile think quarters XX% I So couple gone revenue of desktop it up XX% still to that said per level? ago, Is up is shoppers roughly or clarity? Or it over color you then? shoppers. of

Ernst J. Teunissen

But up still Yeah. shopper up a our around same. that than is growing a roughly It's the level. obviously time little bit. little going gone It's It's still because desktop. every per mobile it's revenue faster

if XX% very course, take we particular not otherwise. had per fast up still quarter performance improving Of sort of as on any shopper number we here. make improvement that feature which Like as it's go desktop, revenue it, may but very a nice desktop ballpark. in was But good steadily, that in it's XX%

Naved Khan

Thanks a lot, guys.

Stephen Kaufer

you. Thank

Operator

you. Thank

Your line next with open your Sheridan question comes Eric UBS. is from

Eric J. Sheridan

guys. much so Thanks

think you next to Thanks. made you on get of how to levels shopper you've now to of look growth where get online there back and low-double well EV, or and made period growth the an gone or one of as looking can the hotel to growing have be the more to line platform trending back and years, some out industry sort When with as investments area like efficiencies And travel feel to per on now the about digits? of that two-part out? side, question. of marketing is the maybe over about hotel either then, of you've revenue digits overall industry growing thinking made improvements topline you shopper we whether performance two it So should be the a in that low you testing needed travel mid-single sort on and of be through learning level the those

Stephen Kaufer

Sure. that. I'll Eric. take a stab Thanks, at this

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Eric J. Sheridan

Great. you. Thank

Stephen Kaufer

you. Thank

Operator

Thank you.

from Your Kevin & comes Kopelman Cowen next question Co. with

Your line is open.

Kevin Kopelman

search to give extent Non-Hotel? both the how us update Hotel side, from Great. side In Thanks. on you're the ads the price Hotel just and the in your business also trends Thanks been able in and side paid a what Google on you have you doing use lot. SEO Hotel Can an on Google, the to mix?

Stephen Kaufer

Sure.

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Ernst J. Teunissen

– in - of terms in And volume terms

Kevin Kopelman

guys. Thanks,

Ernst J. Teunissen

If I in just terms quarter. in add, could this volume

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Kevin Kopelman

incremental changes to Thanks, brand to Ernst can Great. and you looking biggest versus at any the was more much on related ask was in of us helpful. just specifically could ROI one the ROI other Steve. ad improvement much QX, brands? that quarter That's you Thanks. I color and how the how made question, drive really flagship – If hotel give other

Ernst J. Teunissen

relationship that where other hotel brand. but the TripAdvisor make flagship our was made where adjustments, revenue our we and our non-TripAdvisor improvements have optimizing bookings in out the we of most look some that at the area of we and increase marketing downstream line brands call also have we've again was We big And at for from of sophistication, to channel. the impact get did spend hotel partners efficiency changes. between there. That's we've Most ways which our We've better our found creation TripAdvisor. continued

year. that to – to see year benefit we in somewhere the to an going earlier of lap question, that we're of next said QX. going see We're until out middle the in As the I out of to in that benefit point next

Kevin Kopelman

Ernst. Thanks,

Ernst J. Teunissen

– or I to course, normalized and the where that and we year-over-year were like QX, call we more just of spending we XXXX call difference additionally out QX was QX TV, out, in only want this and QX and hadn't had like, was, and of QX QX, quarter. June in QX between so in QX that

in see a see you QX, TV more – So, you normalized year-over-year. now

you a pullback previous impact saw see you more marketing from on the line So coming significant the that the in through in marketing quarters.

Kevin Kopelman

Ernst. Thanks, Great.

Operator

you. Thank

comes Your Davidson. with from White next question Tom D.A.

open. line Your is

Thomas White

Great. for Hello. questions. Thanks my taking

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Stephen Kaufer

I'll take stab. a Sure.

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Thomas White

Thank you.

Operator

you. Thank

comes Your from Raymond Justin with Patterson next question James.

is line open. Your

Justin T. Patterson

much, Great. outperforming targets. margin and Thank your on Hotel congratulations you very

On the year you you about do back on revenue OpEx Hotel the how this performance, did drivers. have that hand, XX% to deliver some XXXX? margin think XX% given to efficiencies high one some potential to So and had prior to ability get you

SEO also On the hand, era of exist and piece where mix. a was the viable mobile margins those in an smaller other was

So, just takes puts curious on and the there.

Ernst J. Teunissen

thank Yes, Justin, you. and

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Justin T. Patterson

you. Thank Great.

Operator

you. Thank

Your next from Securities. Lee Mizuho with question comes James

Your open. line is

James Lee

my Thanks questions. taking for

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Stephen Kaufer

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Ernst J. Teunissen

Yeah.

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much achieve on the on before to the ramp first seek In margin structure. we our is reaching making is So so not focus potential very revenue that. near we sure our focus term,

James Lee

or maybe maybe, the Okay. understand and accounts the create leverage social ones need help need the or and new user's news to A the feed we regarding to And Do put their connections in perspective? about the you question like quick platform? there process the do for from a maybe bring Steve, up, information as user product. create platform new follow-up we And in maybe to go us into users social sign your question can media own sign account Can same in? they on of Google or Thanks. connections play into well. can the the some Facebook on-boarding

Stephen Kaufer

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Great. Thanks.

Operator

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Stephen Kaufer

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Operator

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Tripadvisor (TRIP) 8 Nov 182018 Q3 Earnings call transcript