Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLKB) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Kirk Materne: And sort of how does that factor into sort of the guide for this coming year? Obviously, you guys are going to get a nice lift from pricing. But with bookings doing better, one would think that you can – it seems that there’s room for upside potentially to that guide if bookings continues at that pace. Is that the right way of thinking about it? I’m just trying to sort of connect the dots between, obviously, the pricing lift, but also what you’re seeing from a bookings momentum perspective?

Tony Boor: Yeah, Kirk, this is Tony. EVERFI’s shortfall in bookings last year is going to have a drag on ’23 revenues, unfortunately. The positive is, as Mike spoke to, we saw the bookings improve significantly in the near – the end of the year, and we feel good going into ’23. But by the time that revenue recognition turns on, it’s going to be the latter part of the year. So as you saw in our prepared commentary, we’re expecting to see a ramp throughout the year starting in Q2. So some of the cost actions as well that we took late last year and just recently will have a much bigger impact as we get to the back half of the year. And then obviously, we head into ’24 at a much improved run rate. We still expect about a $5 million FX negative impact on revenue front half loaded.

So you keep that in mind when you look at those growth numbers. And then as we said in the prepared commentary, we also expect 100 to 200 basis points of drag in ’23 from the onetime services. Our Blackbaud core has largely transitioned. There’s a little bit there, but not much. The bigger impact is we are converting EVERFI what was onetime to recurring model in many cases and exiting in a few places. So we’re going to still see a continued fairly significant drag as well from the onetime overall. I think the positive with all these things as they line up, we should see nice improvement quarter-over-quarter-over-quarter starting in Q2 and exit the year at a really nice run rate going into ’24. And I would expect the compounding effect of pricing, the improvement of bookings run rates, all of those things, something like currency falls behind and then the drag of onetime services should diminish heading into ’24.

So hopefully, in ’24, we see both improvement in revenue growth rates and continued improvement in profitability as a result and continued improvement on Rule of 40 in ’24 and ’25.

Kirk Materne: That’s super. Thanks for the color, Tony. Mike, just one last quick one for you. You mentioned you’re trying to do more multiyear deals with your clients. Does that have any impact really on the pricing, meaning do they expect more discounts upfront? I mean how do you sort of balance that out? Or is it sort of – I assume the pricing assumptions you’re making take that into consideration, obviously, that you’re trying to go to more multiyear deals?

Mike Gianoni: Yeah, Kirk. The price initiatives are inclusive of the multiyear contracts and has built-in price increases on those multiyear contracts.

Kirk Materne: Okay, great. Thanks so much. Appreciate it…

Mike Gianoni: Sure.

Operator: Thank you. Next question is coming from Koji Ikeda from Bank of America. Your line is now live.