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increasing efficiency of our direct response advertising, increased brand
awareness and the continued improvement in our product.
Non-GAAP S&M expense was $151.8 million in 2016, or 44% of collections,
compared to $116.7 million in 2015, or 48% of collections. S&M expense grew
30% year over year, but our efficiency improved as we generated positive
incremental margin on the additional investment and ended within our
previously provided guidance range. We continue to effectively leverage
technology to execute our marketing strategy and are progressing very well
towards our long-term target of S&M at 30% of collections.
Non-GAAP G&A expense was $5.3 million in Q4 compared to $3.7 million last
year. For 2016, non-GAAP G&A increased to $19.8 million from $14.5 million
in 2015 due to increased headcount and other costs related to the growth of
the company.
Q4 was a milestone for the company as we generated our first profit with non-
GAAP operating income of $3.6 million compared to a loss of $4.4 million last
year. The stronger than expected inflection to non-GAAP operating profitability
versus our prior outlook to be approximately breakeven during the quarter
highlights the incredible flexibility and scalability of our low, fixed-cost model.
Adjusted EBITDA was $17.9 million, up from $7.0 million in the same quarter
a year ago and well above our prior record of $11.4 million set in Q3 2016. Q4
was our highest ever sequential increase in Adjusted EBITDA.
As a percent of collections, our Adjusted EBITDA margin was 18% in Q4
compared to 13% last quarter. Our performance this quarter once again
exceeded the high end of our guidance range as it has in each quarter since
we became a public company. For the full year 2016, Adjusted EBITDA was
up 189% year over year to $42.6 million compared to $14.7 million in the year
ago quarter. As a reminder, this is the last time we will refer to Adjusted
EBITDA as a non-GAAP metric.
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($4.9)
Q3'15
$4.7
$5.4
Non-GAAP Operting Loss (in $ Mn)
Q3'15
($4.4)
Q3'15 Q4'15
$7.0
Q4'15 Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16
($12.3)
Adjusted EBITDA (in $ Mn)
$8.4
($3.0)
Q4'15
($1.2)
$10.7
($2.1)
Free Cash Flow (in $ Mn)
$11.4
$10.2
$2.7
Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16
$3.6
$9.4
Q4'16
$17.9
$18.7
Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16
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