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Exhibit 99.1
For Immediate Release
Local.com Raises Third Quarter 2011 Guidance
Company Guides to Record Fourth Quarter Revenue
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 6, 2011 Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading online local
media company, today announced that financial results for the third quarter 2011 are expected to
exceed the companys previously reported guidance. The company also provided preliminary and
updated guidance for the fourth quarter and full year 2011, respectively.
Updated financial guidance for the third quarter of 2011:
- | Revenue: Approximately $21.5 million or 38% higher than the second quarter 2011. | ||
- | Adjusted Net Loss: Approximately $1.5 million as compared to $1.9 million for the second quarter 2011. In addition, the company expects to generate positive cash flow from operations during the third quarter. | ||
Adjusted Net Income/Loss is defined as net income (loss) excluding: provision for income taxes; interest and other income (expense), net; depreciation; amortization; stock-based compensation charges; and non-recurring items. | |||
An explanation of the companys use of non-GAAP financial measures, including the limitations of such measures relative to GAAP measures, is included below. Due to the valuation of warrant liability, we are unable to issue GAAP net income (loss) guidance, as discussed further below. |
- | Projected third quarter 2011 Adjusted Net Income (Loss) factors: |
| Interest Expense of approximately $230,000 | ||
| State Tax Provision Expense of approximately $50,000 | ||
| Depreciation Expense of approximately $900,000 | ||
| Amortization Expense of approximately $1.7 million | ||
| Stock Compensation Expense of approximately $970,000 | ||
| Warrant Revaluation Expense and Other Non-Recurring items are undeterminable* |
Preliminary financial guidance for the fourth quarter of 2011:
- | Revenue: Greater than $24 million. |
- | Adjusted Net Loss: Below $1.5 million. The company expects to generate positive cash flow from operations during the fourth quarter. | ||
- | Projected fourth quarter 2011 Adjusted Net Income (Loss) factors: |
| Interest Expense of approximately $90,000 | ||
| State Tax Provision Expense of approximately $50,000 | ||
| Depreciation Expense of approximately $950,000 | ||
| Amortization Expense of approximately $1.5 million | ||
| Stock Compensation Expense of approximately $820,000 | ||
| Warrant Revaluation Expense and Other Non-Recurring items are undeterminable* |
Updated financial guidance for fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2011:
- | Revenue: Greater than $78 million. |
The companys third and fourth quarter revenue guidance includes a net financial benefit of
approximately $500,000 and $500,000 respectively, resulting from the modification of contracts.
Our updated guidance reflects the positive impact of the many changes we made in the first half of
the year. We predicted strong revenue growth in the second half of 2011, and were pleased that
this is now coming in ahead of our expectations, said Local.com chairman and chief executive
officer, Heath Clarke. We continue to remain laser-focused on integrating our recent acquisitions,
and are pleased to report Spreebirds first million-dollar month in August. Our team is making
great progress in developing innovative new local online advertising products, and we look forward
to announcing those in the coming months.
*
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 cannot project
the non-cash gain or loss in connection with these warrants, and therefore, cannot reasonably
project our GAAP net income (loss). We therefore cannot provide GAAP net income (loss) guidance,
but do report GAAP net income (loss) results.
About Local.com®
Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM), a leading online local media company, enables brick-and-mortar
businesses to connect with online customers using a variety of digital marketing products. The
company reaches more than 20 million consumers each month on the flagship Local.com website,
approximately 1,500 regional media sites and more than 100,000 geo-category websites. The company
distributes daily deals to hundreds of thousands of email subscribers in 14 markets via Spreebird,
rich media ads via Rovion.com, and real-time product inventory information from more than 60,000
retailers nationwide via Krillion.com. To advertise, or for more information, visit:
http://www.local.com/.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties
concerning Local.com Corporations expected financial performance, as well as Local.coms strategic
and operational plans. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted, and
reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential
risks and uncertainties include, among others, our advertising partners paying less RPC and
revenues to us for our search results, our ability to adapt our business following shifts in our
monetization partners, our ability to monetize the Local.com domain, including at a profit, our
ability to retain a monetization partner for the Local.com domain and other web properties under
our management that allows us to operate profitably, our ability to develop, market and operate our
local-search technologies, our ability to market the Local.com domain as a
destination for consumers seeking local-search results, our ability to grow our business by
enhancing our local-search services, including through businesses we acquire, the future
performance of our OCTANE360 business, the integration and future performance of our social buying
business, our Krillion business and our Rovion business, as well as any other businesses we may
acquire, including our newly acquired Screamin Daily Deals business, our ability to successfully
expand our Spreebird business into new markets, including through acquisitions, such as the
Screamin Daily Deals acquisition, the possibility that the information and estimates used to
predict anticipated revenues and expenses associated with the businesses we acquire are not
accurate, difficulties executing integration strategies or achieving planned synergies, the
possibility that integration costs and go-forward costs associated with the businesses we acquire
will be higher than anticipated, our ability to successfully expand our sales channels for new and
existing products and services, our ability to increase the number of businesses that purchase our
advertising products, our ability to expand our advertiser and distribution networks, our ability
to integrate and effectively utilize our acquisitions technologies, our ability to 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 most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K/A, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Form
10-Q/A, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K and Form 8-K/A, 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 which we define
as net income (loss) excluding: provision for income taxes; interest and other income (expense),
net; depreciation; amortization; stock based compensation charges and non-recurring items. Adjusted
Net Income, as defined above, is not a measurement under GAAP.
Management believes that Adjusted Net Income 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 and non-recurring items which are not directly attributable to the underlying
performance of the companys business operations. Management uses Adjusted Net Income in evaluating
the overall performance of the companys business operations.
A limitation of non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income 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 in
conjunction with GAAP net income (loss) and net income (loss) per share measures. The company
believes that Adjusted Net Income 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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Investor Relations Contact:
Brinlea C. Johnson
The Blueshirt Group
212-331-8424
brinlea@blueshirtgroup.com
Brinlea C. Johnson
The Blueshirt Group
212-331-8424
brinlea@blueshirtgroup.com
Media Relations Contact:
Cameron Triebwasser
Local.com
949-789-5223
ctriebwasser@local.com
Cameron Triebwasser
Local.com
949-789-5223
ctriebwasser@local.com