Taboola Reports Strong Q3 2024, Beating Revenues, ex-TAC and Adj. EBITDA; Reiterating 2024 Revenues, ex-TAC, & Adj. EBITDA Guidance; Raising 2024 Free Cash Flow Target

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Taboola, Inc.
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Q3 2024 and FY 2024 Key Highlights

Q3 Financials - Beat on Revenues, ex-TAC, and Adj. EBITDA; $97M YTD FCF already approaching FY 2024 target of $100M+

  • Q3 2024 Results: Revenues $433M, Gross profit $133M, ex-TAC Gross Profit $166M, Net loss $6M, Non-GAAP Net Income $22M, Adj. EBITDA $48M, Free Cash Flow $43M

  • Strong YoY growth: Revenues +20%, ex-TAC +30%, Adj. EBITDA +110%, FCF +88%

  • Strong Free Cash Flow conversion: 89% conversion from Adj. EBITDA

Reiterating 2024 Revenues, ex-TAC, Adj. EBITDA guidance; Growth rates accelerate across all metrics; Raising 2024 FCF Target to $105M+

  • Q4 guidance: $475M in Revenues (+13% YoY), $188M Gross profit (+36% YoY), $213M ex-TAC Gross Profit (+26% YoY), $91M Adj. EBITDA (+82% YoY)*

  • Reiterating 2024 guidance: $1,750M Revenues (+22% YoY), $667M ex-TAC Gross Profit (+25% YoY), $200M+ Adj. EBITDA (2x+ YoY; ~30% margin)*

  • Raising 2024 FCF target from $100M+ FCF (2x+ YoY) to $105M+

Business highlights - Yield growth turns positive in Q3 driven by growth in ad spend; met our internal Q3 Yahoo advertiser spend targets

  • Released Abby, advanced GenAI ad assistant, allowing advertisers to “talk” to Taboola and successfully launch ads in minutes

  • Max Conversions adoption of ~70%; +1,500 advertisers QoQ; # of campaigns +36% QoQ

  • Tier 1 brand & agency spend very strong led by auto, e-commerce, and finance verticals

  • Another quarter when ad spend out of China is up 2x vs last year

  • Apple News/Stocks seeing significant commercial traction - Sept # advertisers 2x vs July

  • Taboola News - Xiaomi expands partnership to more global markets and across more touchpoints per device

* References midpoints of guidance ranges, where applicable.


NEW YORK, Nov. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Taboola (Nasdaq: TBLA), a global leader in powering recommendations for the open web, today announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.

“I’m happy with our Q3 performance, beating our Revenues, ex-TAC and Adjusted EBITDA guidance and raising our 2024 Free Cash Flow target,” said Adam Singolda, CEO of Taboola. “2024 is a big year for us, and I’m so proud of our execution, leading into a strong Q4. We are looking forward to delivering on our guidance, and having a very strong close to the year. We remain laser focused on driving demand and improving advertiser success. We are confident in our strategy of building the largest scale performance advertising company in the open web outside of the walled gardens, and look forward to sharing more about our long-term strategy at Taboola’s Investor Day early next year.”