SiriusXM (NASDAQ:SIRI) an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, NYC reported Q1 financial results.
“During the first quarter, we built upon our successful advertising sales arrangement by investing $75 million in SoundCloud and joining its Board of Directors. The SiriusXM, Pandora and SoundCloud listening platforms together offer content owners and advertisers the opportunity to access an audience of 140 million North American audio listeners. SoundCloud has an outstanding team of people, and we are excited about what we can do together,” said David Frear, CFO SiriusXM.
SIRIUSXM
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| • | Self-Pay Subscribers Top 30.0 Million. SiriusXM added approximately 69,000 net new self-pay subscribers in the first quarter. Total net subscriber additions were (143,000), resulting in nearly 34.8 million total SiriusXM subscribers at the end of the period. Paid promotional subscribers decreased due to declines in shipments from automakers offering paid trial subscriptions with the purchase or lease of a vehicle. The total trial funnel stood at approximately 9.1 million at the end of the first quarter, down from approximately 9.3 million at the end of 2019. Self-pay monthly churn for the first quarter was 1.8%, approximately flat from 2019. |
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| • | SiriusXM Revenue of $1.6 Billion. First quarter revenue grew 6% to $1.6 billion. This growth was driven by a 2% increase in total SiriusXM subscribers and 3% growth in SiriusXM’s average revenue per user (ARPU) to $13.95. |
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| • | Gross Profit Grows 7%. Total cost of services at SiriusXM increased 4% to $593 million in the first quarter, driven primarily by higher revenue share and royalties and programming and content expenses. Gross profit at SiriusXM in the quarter totaled $992 million, increasing 7% over the first quarter of 2019, and produced a gross margin of 63%, flat compared to the prior year. |
PANDORA
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| • | Advertising Revenue Hits $241 million. First quarter ad revenue at Pandora reached a first-quarter high of $241 million, growing 4% over the first quarter of 2019. Ad revenue was driven by strong monetization of $68 per thousand hours, growing 8% over the prior year. Strength in traditional audio advertising, boosted by video programmatic and engagement-based video, as well as the expansion of off-platform efforts and fees generated on the AdsWizz platform drove revenue growth. A reduction in subscription revenue at Pandora following the roll-off of paid promotional subscribers in the third quarter of 2019 contributed to total revenue growth for Pandora of 1% to 369 million for the first quarter of 2020. |
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| • | Total Ad Supported Listener Hours of 3.1 Billion. Monthly Active Users (MAUs) at Pandora were 60.9 million in the first quarter, down from 66.0 million in the prior year period. Total ad supported listener hours were 3.13 billion in the period, down from 3.42 billion in the first quarter of 2019. |
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| • | Self-Pay Net Adds of 51,000. Pandora added 51,000 net new self-pay subscribers to its Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium service in the first quarter to end the period with over 6.2 million self-pay subscribers. Paid promotional subscribers remained near 51,000, flat quarter-on-quarter but down from 736,000 at the end of the first quarter of 2019, as a result of a reduction in paid promotional subscriptions due to the expiration of an agreement with T-Mobile in the third quarter of 2019. Total Pandora subscribers at the end of the period were 6.3 million. |
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| • | Gross Profit Declines 5%. Total cost of services at Pandora in the first quarter of 2020 of $264 million grew 4% compared with the first quarter of 2019. This resulted in gross profit at Pandora of $105 million, down 5% over the first quarter of 2019, and produced a gross margin for the quarter of 28%, down approximately 200 basis points from 30% in the first quarter of 2019. This contraction was driven primarily by slightly higher revenue share and royalties and customer service and billing expenses as a percentage of revenue. |
