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Exhibit 99.1
For Immediate Release
Local.com® Raises Second Quarter
and Full Year 2010 Guidance
and Full Year 2010 Guidance
IRVINE, CA, June 2, 2010 Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search
site and network, today announced that financial results for the second quarter and full year
2010 are expected to exceed the companys previously reported guidance.
The company expects total revenue for the second quarter to be between $22.3 million and $22.8
million, which at the midpoint represents a 21% sequential increase over the first quarter of
2010. The company expects Adjusted Net Income for the second quarter 2010 to be between $3.3
million and $3.5 million or between $0.19 and $0.20 per diluted share, which assumes 17.5
million diluted shares outstanding. The increase in the number of diluted shares outstanding
from the previously projected 16.7 million shares is due primarily to the positive performance
in the companys stock price. For the full year 2010 the company now expects revenue to be
between $87 million and $90 million, which at the midpoint represents a 57% increase over 2009.
We continue to perform well across our business and remain disciplined in our strategy of
focusing on high-growth, high-margin revenue streams within our three business units, said
Heath Clarke, Local.com chairman and CEO. During the second quarter we expanded our product
development initiatives to the largest level since 2005, and we expect this to continue into the
third quarter. Despite this investment, we are projecting an increase in our adjusted net income
margin from nearly 14% in the first quarter 2010 to over 15% in the second quarter. Once
deployed, we expect these new products to provide further margin expansion opportunities for our
business via increased organic traffic to our site and network.
Adjusted Net Income is defined as net income (loss) excluding: provision for income taxes;
interest and other income (expense), net; depreciation; amortization; stock based compensation
charges, gain or loss on warrant revaluation; and non-recurring items.
Projected Q2 2010 Adjusted Net Income Factors include:
| Interest expense of $50,000 |
| State Tax Provision Expense $75,000 and $100,000 |
| Depreciation Expense of $375,000 |
| Amortization Expense of $1,500,000 |
| Stock Compensation Expense of $600,000 |
| Warrant Revaluation Expense and Other Non-Recurring items are undeterminable* |
* The valuation of the warrant liability is based in large part on the underlying price and
volatility of our common stock during the quarter. Since we cannot predict this, we, in turn,
cannot project the non-cash gain or loss in connection with these warrants, and therefore cannot
reasonably project our GAAP net income. We therefore cannot provide GAAP guidance, but do report
GAAP results.
An explanation of the companys use of non-GAAP financial measures, including the limitations of
such measures relative to GAAP measures, is included below.
About Local.com®
Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM) owns and operates a leading local search site and network
in the United States. The company uses patented and proprietary technologies to provide over 20
million consumers each month with relevant search results for local businesses, products and
services on Local.com and over 800 partner sites. Over 70,000 small business customers use
Local.com products and services to reach consumers using a variety of subscription, performance
and display advertising and website products. To advertise, or for more information visit:
www.local.com.
Forward Looking Statements
All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this document regarding our
anticipated financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of our management for
future operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this report, words such as
anticipate, believe, estimate, plan, expect, intend, project, feel and similar
expressions and phrases, as they relate to Local.com or our management, identify forward-looking
statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as well as
assumptions made by and information currently available to our management. Actual results could
differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of
certain factors, including, but not limited to, our ability to monetize the Local.com domain,
incorporate our local-search technologies, market the Local.com domain as a destination for
consumers seeking local-search results, grow our business by enhancing our local-search
services, increase the number of businesses that purchase our subscription advertising and
web-hosting products, expand our advertiser and distribution networks, operate as multiple
business units, integrate and effectively utilize our acquisitions technologies, develop our
products and sales, marketing, finance and administrative functions and successfully integrate
our expanded infrastructure, as well as our dependence on major advertisers, competitive factors
and pricing pressures, changes in legal and regulatory requirements, and general economic
conditions. Any forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future
events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our
operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written and
oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly
qualified in their entirety by this paragraph. Unless otherwise stated, all site traffic and
usage statistics are from third-party service providers engaged by the company.
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current
Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing
risks as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or
otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The
forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of the date they are made. We undertake
no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release includes the non-GAAP financial measure of Adjusted Net Income (Loss) which
we define as net income (loss) excluding: provision for income taxes; interest and other income
(expense), net; depreciation; amortization; stock based compensation charges; gain or loss on
warrant revaluation; and non-recurring items. Adjusted Net Income (Loss), as defined above, is
not a
measurement under GAAP. Adjusted Net Income (Loss) is reconciled to net income (loss) which we
believe is the most comparable GAAP measure.
Management believes that Adjusted Net Income (Loss) provides useful information to investors
about the companys performance because it eliminates the effects of period-to-period changes in
income from interest on the companys cash and marketable securities, expense from the companys
financing transactions and the costs associated with income tax expense, capital investments,
stock-based compensation expense, warrant revaluation charges and non-recurring items which are
not directly attributable to the underlying performance of the companys business operations.
Management uses Adjusted Net Income (Loss) in evaluating the overall performance of the
companys business operations.
A limitation of non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income (Loss) is that it excludes items that often have a
material effect on the companys net income and earnings per common share calculated in
accordance with GAAP. Therefore, management compensates for this limitation by using Adjusted
Net Income (Loss) in conjunction with net income (loss) and net income (loss) per share
measures. The company believes that Adjusted Net Income (Loss) provides investors with an
additional tool for evaluating the companys core performance, which management uses in its own
evaluation of overall performance, and as a base-line for assessing the future earnings
potential of the company. While the GAAP results are more complete, the company prefers to allow
investors to have this supplemental metric since, with reconciliation to GAAP; it may provide
greater insight into the companys financial results. The non-GAAP measures should be viewed as
a supplement to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP net income or earnings per
share.
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Local.com Investor Relations Contact:
Brinlea C. Johnson
The Blueshirt Group
212-551-1453
brinlea@blueshirtgroup.com
Brinlea C. Johnson
The Blueshirt Group
212-551-1453
brinlea@blueshirtgroup.com
Local.com Media Relations Contact:
Cameron Triebwasser
Local.com
949-789-5223
ctriebwasser@local.com
Cameron Triebwasser
Local.com
949-789-5223
ctriebwasser@local.com