Roblox Results Presentation Deck
Forward-Looking Statements & Non-GAAP Financial
Measures
ROBLOX
Q1 2021
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This presentation contains the non-GAAP financial measures bookings and free cash flow. We use this non-GAAP financial information to evaluate our
ongoing operations and for internal planning and forecasting purposes. We believe that this non-GAAP financial information may be helpful to investors
because it provides consistency and comparability with past financial performance. Bookings is defined as revenue plus the change in deferred revenue
during the period and other non-cash adjustments. Bookings is equal to the amount of virtual currency purchased by users in a given period of time. We
believe bookings provide a timelier indication of trends in our operating results that are not necessarily reflected in our revenue as a result of the fact that we
recognize the majority of revenue over the estimated average lifetime of a paying user. The change in deferred revenue constitutes the vast majority of the
reconciling difference from revenue to bookings. By removing these non-cash adjustments, we are able to measure and monitor our business performance
based on the timing of actual transactions with our users and the cash that is generated from these transactions. Free cash flow represents the net cash
provided by operating activities less purchases of property, equipment, and intangible assets. We believe that free cash flow is a useful indicator of our unit
economics and liquidity that provides information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated from our core operations that, after the
purchases of property, equipment, and intangible assets, can be used for strategic initiatives, including investing in our business, making strategic
acquisitions, and strengthening our balance sheet.
Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations in their usefulness to investors because they have no standardized meaning prescribed by GAAP and are not
prepared under any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. In addition, other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate
similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of
our non-GAAP financial information as a tool for comparison. As a result, our non-GAAP financial information is presented for supplemental informational
purposes only and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP.
A reconciliation table of the most comparable GAAP financial measure to each non-GAAP financial measure used in this presentation is included at the end of
this presentation. We encourage investors and others to review our business, results of operations, and financial information in their entirety, not to rely on any
single financial measure, and to view these non-GAAP measures in conjunction with the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.
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