2016 revenues increased 13% over 2015
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - April 20, 2017) - Quorum Information Technologies Inc., (TSX VENTURE:QIS) a leading provider of dealership and customer management software and value-added services to the automotive industry, today released its 2016 fourth quarter and year end results.
Maury Marks, Quorum's President and CEO provided the following comments on the Company's 2016 year end operational and financial results:
Revenue Type | 2016 | 2015 | Growth |
Support revenue | $8,808,171 | $7,881,742 | 12% |
Add-on revenue | 1,574,880 | 1,114,527 | 41% |
New installations revenue | 1,544,205 | 854,435 | 81% |
Core revenue subtotal | 11,927,256 | 9,850,704 | 21% |
Transitions revenue | 251,194 | 893,774 | -72% |
Integration revenue | 0 | 0 | 0% |
Gross revenue | $12,178,450 | $10,744,478 | 13% |
Dealership Success Scorecard1
- Communicator - Dealerships utilizing Communicator: 221 |
- Messages in FY2016: 4,132,671 |
- Year over year message growth: 27% |
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- M3 (VIP only) - Dealerships utilizing VIP: 124 |
- Total FY2016 incremental Customer Pay revenue: $68,398,154 |
- Year over year revenue growth: 34% |
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- Sales CRM - Dealerships trained: 63 |
- Average Q4 FY2016 utilization of Sales CRM 64% |
- Total # of dealerships that have moved away from 3rd party CRM systems: 18 |
1The numbers and dollar figures included in the Dealership Success Scorecard are based on dealership results.
Other key financial results highlights for FY2016 are as follows:
Quorum has seen thirteen consecutive quarters of significant revenue growth (over the prior year quarters) and we continue to increase our staffing levels in anticipation of future growth. Our strategy to focus on product innovations, improving product utilization and superior levels of customer service has increased the market demand for our product and services.
Quorum has filed its 2016 consolidated financial statements and notes thereto as at and for the period ended December 31, 2016 and accompanying management's discussion and analysis in accordance with National Instrument 51-102 - Continuous Disclosure Obligations adopted by the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Additional information about Quorum will be available on Quorum's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com and Quorum's website at www.QuorumDMS.com.
Financial Highlights | ||||||||
Year ended | Year ended | Year ended | ||||||
December 31, 2016 | December 31, 2015 | December 31, 2014 | ||||||
Gross revenue | $ | 12,178,450 | $ | 10,744,478 | $ | 9,215,768 | ||
Direct costs | 5,810,362 | 5,173,396 | 4,197,747 | |||||
Gross margin | 6,368,088 | 5,571,082 | 5,018,021 | |||||
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and | ||||||||
amortization (EBITDA) | 1,916,765 | 1,716,184 | 1,476,110 | |||||
Income before deferred income tax | 663,709 | 593,586 | 502,087 | |||||
Net income | 493,059 | 451,714 | 192,516 | |||||
Comprehensive income | 448,886 | 709,727 | 308,761 | |||||
Basic net income per share | $ | 0.0096 | $ | 0.0107 | $ | 0.0046 | ||
Fully diluted net income per share | $ | 0.0096 | $ | 0.0107 | $ | 0.0046 | ||
Weighted average number of common shares | ||||||||
Basic | 51,485,200 | 42,318,803 | 41,529,838 | |||||
Diluted | 51,485,200 | 42,318,803 | 41,818,297 |
About Quorum
Quorum is a North American company focused on developing, marketing, implementing and supporting its automotive dealership and customer management system, XSELLERATOR. Quorum offers the system to franchised, independent and some non-automotive dealerships in Canada and the United States. XSELLERATOR automates, integrates and streamlines every process across departments in a dealership. The system includes tools designed to maximize revenue opportunities for dealerships such as Customer Relationship Management and service inspection and quoting processes. Quorum is a Microsoft partner and XSELLERATOR is developed with modern mobile-enabled technology. Quorum Information Technologies Inc. is traded on the Toronto Venture Exchange (TSX VENTURE) under the symbol QIS and in 2016 was selected to the TSX Venture 50®, an annual ranking of the strongest performing companies on the TSX Venture Exchange. For additional information please go to www.QuorumDMS.com.
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