FRAMINGHAM, Mass., May 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Definitive Healthcare Corp. ("Definitive Healthcare" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:DH), an industry leader in healthcare commercial intelligence, today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.  First Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights: Revenue was $63.5 million, an increase of 7% from $59.2 million in Q1 2023.  Net Loss was $(12.7) million, or (20%) of revenue, compared to $(16.0) million, or (27%) of revenue in Q1 2023.   Adjusted Net Income was $13.0 million, compared to $9.1 million in Q1 2023.    Adjusted EBITDA was $20.0 million, or 32% of revenue, compared to $15.7 million, or 26% of revenue in Q1 2023.   Cash Flow from Operations was $16.6 million in the quarter. Unlevered Free Cash Flow was $28.3 million in the quarter. "While our first quarter performance was mixed, our adjusted EBITDA margin was strong as we continued to focus on the operational efficiencies," said Jason Krantz, Founder, Executive Chairman, and Interim CEO of Definitive Healthcare. "At the same time, we continued to make investments in innovative products that will help us drive long term growth and profitability for our shareholders." Recent Business and Operating Highlights:  Customer Wins In the first quarter, Definitive Healthcare grew its enterprise customer base by 30, or 6% year-over-year, ending the quarter with 559 enterprise customers, defined as those customers with more than $100,000 in annual recurring revenue. Customer wins included: A provider of chronic care management products and services selected Definitive Healthcare as the central source of truth for all healthcare provider data for their marketing and sales teams. They're integrating our affiliation hierarchies into their CRM system to gain a clearer understanding of their total addressable market, and plan to leverage our custom reports to create prospect target "heat maps" for their sales teams. A leading manufacturer of advanced heart pump technology—a client of both our View and Carevoyance platforms—recently expanded its use of Carevoyance. They use Carevoyance for their therapeutic awareness and physician programs. One of the largest health systems in the Southeast US recently expanded its relationship with us to include our Populi Network and Market Intelligence solutions to analyze patient outmigration within their existing practices, evaluate potential practice acquisitions, and understand the competitive landscape in new markets. Stock Repurchase Program  The Company's Board of Directors approved the repurchase of up to an aggregate of $20.0 million of its Class A Common Stock. The repurchases will be made from time to time on the open market at prevailing market prices or in negotiated transactions off the market. The repurchase program is expected to continue through the end of 2024 unless extended or shortened by the Board of Directors. Business Outlook  Based on information as of May 7, 2024, the Company is issuing the following financial guidance.   Second Quarter 2024:   Revenue is expected to be in the range of $62.0 – $63.5 million, a 2-4% increase year over year.  Adjusted Operating Income is expected to be in the range of $17.0 – $18.5 million.  Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be in the range of $18.5 – $20.0 million, and 30-32% adjusted EBITDA margin.  Adjusted Net Income is expected to be $13.5 – $14.5 million.  Adjusted Net Income Per Diluted Share is expected to be $0.08 – $0.09 per share on approximately 157.2 million weighted-average shares outstanding.  Full Year 2024:   Revenue is expected to be in the range of $255 – $261 million, a 1-4% increase from the prior year.  Adjusted Operating Income is expected to be in the range of $75.0 – $78.0 million.  Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be in the range of $81.5 – $84.5 million, for a full-year adjusted EBITDA margin of 32-33%.  Adjusted Net Income is expected to be $56.5 – $59.5 million.  Adjusted Net Income Per Diluted Share is expected to be $0.36 – $0.38 per share on approximately 157.5 million weighted-average shares outstanding.  We do not provide a quantitative reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures included in this press release to the most directly comparable GAAP measures due to the high variability and difficulty to predict certain items excluded from these non-GAAP financial measures; in particular, the effects of equity-based compensation expense, taxes and amounts under the tax receivable agreement, deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities, and transaction, integration, and restructuring expenses. We expect the variability of these excluded items may have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future GAAP financial results.  Conference Call Information  Definitive Healthcare will host a conference call today May 7, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) to discuss the Company's full financial results and current business outlook. Participants may access the call at 1-877-358-7298 or 1-848-488-9244. Shortly after the conclusion of the call, a replay of this conference call will be available through June 6, 2024 at 1-800-645-7964 or 1-757-849-6722. The replay passcode is 1765#. A live audio webcast of the event will be available on Definitive Healthcare's Investor Relations website at https://ir.definitivehc.com/. About Definitive Healthcare  At Definitive Healthcare, our passion is to transform data, analytics and expertise into healthcare commercial intelligence. We help clients uncover the right markets, opportunities and people, so they can shape tomorrow's healthcare industry. Learn more at definitivehc.com. Forward-Looking Statements  This press release includes forward-looking statements that reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Such statements are provided under the "safe harbor" protection of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include all statements that do not relate solely to historical or current facts, and can generally be identified by words or phrases written in the future tense and/or preceded by words such as "likely," "will," "should," "may," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "seeks," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "continues," "assumes," "would," "potentially" or similar words or variations thereof, or the negative thereof, references to future periods, or by the inclusion of forecasts or projections, but these terms are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements we make regarding our outlook, financial guidance, the benefits of our healthcare commercial intelligence solutions, our competitive position, customer behaviors and use of our solutions, the market, industry and macroeconomic environment, our business, growth strategies, product development efforts and future expenses, customer growth and statements reflecting our expectations about our ability to execute on our strategic plans, achieve future growth and profitability and achieve our financial goals.     Forward-looking statements in this press release are based on our current expectations and assumptions regarding our business, the economy and other future conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, by their nature, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. As a result, our actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include the following: our inability to realize expected business or financial benefits from acquisitions and the risk that our acquisitions or investments could prove difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations; our inability to achieve the anticipated cost savings, operating efficiencies or other benefits of our internal restructuring activities; global geopolitical tension and difficult macroeconomic conditions; actual or potential changes in international, national, regional and local economic, business and financial conditions, including recessions, inflation, high interest rates, volatility in the capital markets and related market uncertainty; the impact of challenging macroeconomic conditions on our new and existing customers; our inability to acquire new customers and generate additional revenue from existing customers; our inability to generate sales of subscriptions to our platform or any decline in demand for our platform and the data we offer; the competitiveness of the market in which we operate and our ability to compete effectively; the failure to maintain and improve our platform, or develop new modules or insights for healthcare commercial intelligence; the inability to obtain and maintain accurate, comprehensive or reliable data, which could result in reduced demand for our platform; the risk that our recent growth rates may not be indicative of our future growth; the inability to achieve or sustain GAAP or non-GAAP profitability in the future as we increase investments in our business; the loss of our access to our data providers; the failure to respond to advances in healthcare commercial intelligence; an inability to attract new customers and expand subscriptions of current customers; our ability to successfully transition executive leadership; the risk of cyber-attacks and security vulnerabilities; litigation, investigations or other legal, governmental or regulatory actions; the possibility that our security measures are breached or unauthorized access to data is otherwise obtained; the risk that additional material weaknesses or significant deficiencies that will occur in the future; and the risks of being required to collect sales or other related taxes for subscriptions to our platform in jurisdictions where we have not historically done so.   Additional factors or events that could cause our actual performance to differ from these forward-looking statements may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect, our actual financial condition, results of operations, future performance and business may vary in material respects from the performance projected in these forward-looking statements.  For additional discussion of factors that could impact our operational and financial results, refer to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended ended March 31, 2024 that will be filed following this earnings release, as well as our Current Reports on Form 8-K and other subsequent SEC filings, which are or will be available on the Investor Relations page of our website at ir.definitivehc.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.  All information in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update this information, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.  Website  Definitive Healthcare intends to use its website as a distribution channel of material company information. Financial and other important information regarding the Company is routinely posted on and accessible through the Company's website at https://www.definitivehc.com/. Accordingly, you should monitor the investor relations portion of our website at https://ir.definitivehc.com/ in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings, and public conference calls and webcasts. In addition, you may automatically receive email alerts and other information about the Company when you enroll your email address by visiting the "Email Alerts" section of our investor relations page at https://ir.definitivehc.com/.  Non-GAAP Financial Measures    We have presented supplemental non-GAAP financial measures as part of this earnings release. We believe that these supplemental non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors because they allow for an evaluation of the Company with a focus on the performance of its core operations, including providing meaningful comparisons of financial results to historical periods and to the financial results of peer and competitor companies. Our use of these non-GAAP terms may vary from the use of similar terms by other companies in our industry and accordingly may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies and are not measures of performance calculated in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results has been provided in the financial statement tables included at the end of this press release. We refer to Unlevered Free Cash Flow, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Adjusted Operating Income, Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Net Income Per Diluted Share as non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures are not required by or prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. ("GAAP"). These are supplemental financial measures of our performance and should not be considered substitutes for cash provided by (used in) operating activities, loss from operations, net (loss) income, net (loss) income margin, gross profit, gross margin, or any other measure derived in accordance with GAAP.  We define Unlevered Free Cash Flow as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less purchases of property, equipment and other assets, plus cash interest expense, and cash payments related to transaction, integration, and restructuring related expenses, earnouts, and other non-core items. Unlevered Free Cash Flow does not represent residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures since, among other things, we have mandatory debt service requirements.  We define EBITDA as earnings before debt-related costs, including interest expense, income taxes and depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA adjusted to exclude certain items of a significant or unusual nature, including other income and expense, equity-based compensation, goodwill impairments, transaction, integration, and restructuring expenses and other non-core expenses. Adjusted EBITDA Margin is defined as Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin are key metrics used by management and our board of directors to assess the profitability of our operations. We believe that Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin provide useful measures to investors to assess our operating performance because these metrics eliminate non-core and unusual items and non-cash expenses, which we do not consider indicative of ongoing operational performance. We believe that these metrics are helpful to investors in measuring the profitability of our operations on a consolidated level.   We define Adjusted Gross Profit as gross profit excluding acquisition-related depreciation and amortization and equity-based compensation costs and Adjusted Gross Margin is defined as Adjusted Gross Profit as a percentage of revenue. Adjusted Gross Profit and Adjusted Gross Margin are key metrics used by management and our board of directors to assess our operations. We exclude acquisition-related depreciation and amortization expenses as they have no direct correlation to the cost of operating our business on an ongoing basis. A small portion of equity-based compensation is included in cost of revenue in accordance with GAAP but is excluded from our Adjusted Gross Profit calculations due to its non-cash nature.   We define Adjusted Operating Income as loss from operations plus acquisition related amortization, equity-based compensation, goodwill impairments, transaction, integration, and restructuring expenses and other non-core expenses.   We define Adjusted Net Income as Adjusted Operating Income less interest expense, net, recurring income tax benefit, foreign currency (loss) gain, and tax effects of adjustments. We define Adjusted Net Income Per Diluted Share as Adjusted Net Income divided by diluted outstanding shares.  In evaluating our non-GAAP financial measures, you should be aware that in the future we may incur expenses similar to those eliminated in these presentations.  Investor Contact: Brian Denyeau ICR for Definitive Media Contact: Bethany Definitive Healthcare Corp. Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (in thousands, except number of shares and par value; unaudited)               March 31, 2024   December 31, 2023 Assets         Current assets:         Cash and cash equivalents   $ 105,994     $ 130,976   Short-term investments     189,174       177,092   Accounts receivable, net     56,655       59,249   Prepaid expenses and other assets     13,296       13,120   Deferred contract costs     13,598       13,490   Total current assets     378,717       393,927   Property and equipment, net     4,100       4,471   Operating lease right-of-use assets, net     9,022       9,594   Other assets     1,978       2,388   Deferred contract costs     16,219       17,320   Intangible assets, net     317,972       323,121   Goodwill     1,082,137       1,075,080   Total assets   $ 1,810,145     $ 1,825,901   Liabilities and Equity         Current liabilities:         Accounts payable     4,895       5,787   Accrued expenses and other liabilities     35,950       51,529   Deferred revenue     108,078       97,377   Term loan     13,750       13,750   Operating lease liabilities     2,307       2,239   Total current liabilities     164,980       170,682   Long term liabilities:         Deferred revenue     9       9   Term loan     239,267       242,567   Operating lease liabilities     8,690       9,372   Tax receivable agreements liability     125,150       127,000   Deferred tax liabilities     66,615       67,163   Other liabilities     10,403       9,934   Total liabilities     615,114       626,727             Equity:         Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001, 600,000,000 shares authorized, 117,790,025 and 116,562,252 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively     118       117   Class B Common Stock, par value $0.00001, 65,000,000 shares authorized, 39,664,004 and 39,238,832 shares issued and outstanding, respectively, at March 31, 2024, and 39,762,700 and 39,168,047 shares issued and outstanding, respectively, at December 31, 2023     —       —   Additional paid-in capital     1,095,482       1,086,581   Accumulated other comprehensive income     1,658       2,109   Accumulated deficit     (236,968 )     (227,450 ) Noncontrolling interests     334,741       337,817   Total equity     1,195,031       1,199,174   Total liabilities and equity   $ 1,810,145     $ 1,825,901                             -       -   Definitive Healthcare Corp. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (in thousands, except share amounts and per share data; unaudited)               Three Months Ended March 31,       2024       2023   Revenue   $ 63,480     $ 59,201   Cost of revenue:         Cost of revenue exclusive of amortization(1)     9,736       8,552   Amortization     3,362       3,354   Gross profit     50,382       47,295   Operating expenses:         Sales and marketing(1)     21,760       23,423   Product development(1)     10,132