Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Xperi First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in a listen only mode. Following the presentation, the call will be open for questions. I would like now to now turn the call over to Sam Levinson, from Arbor Advisory Group. Sam, please go ahead.

Thank you, Amy. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us as Xperi reports its first quarter twenty twenty five financial results. With me in today's call are John Kirschner, Chief Executive Officer and Robert Anderson, Chief Financial Officer. In addition to today's earnings release, there is an earnings presentation on our Investor Relations website at at investor.xperi.com. We encourage you to download the presentation follow along with today's commentary. Before we begin, would like to provide a few reminders. First, I would like to note that unless otherwise stated, all comparisons are to the same period in the prior year. Second, today's discussion contains forward looking statements about our anticipated business and financial performance that are predictions, projections or other statements about future events, are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and therefore subject to risks uncertainties and changes in circumstances. For more information on the risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from what we discuss today, please refer to the Risk Factors and MD and A sections in our SEC filings including our most recent Form 10 ks for the year ended 12/31/2024. Please note, the company does not intend to update or alter these forward looking statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after this call.

Third, we refer to certain non GAAP financial measures which are detailed in the earnings release and accompanied by reconciliation to their most directly comparable GAAP measures. We can be found in the Investor Relations section of our website. Last, a replay of this conference call will be available on our website shortly after the conclusion of this call. I will now turn the call over to Xperi's CEO, John Kirschner. Thank you, Sam, and thank you everyone for joining us on our first quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. Q1 execution was strong as we made measurable progress on our full year growth goals in TiVo OS and related TiVo One platform rollout, video over broadband IPTV household subscribers, and the proliferation of DTS auto stage footprint. These efforts put us in a good position to drive meaningful revenue growth through our media platform strategy over the next several years and realize significant increases in profitability and cash flow. Notably, this execution continues to despite broad macroeconomic uncertainties that our team continues to navigate navigate well. From a financial standpoint, our results were in line with our expectations for the quarter. And represent a good start to the year.

Robert will take you through the details in just a moment, but let me first touch on a few highlights. Revenue in the quarter was $114,000,000 a decrease from last year primarily due to business divestitures completed during 2024. We continued to reduce our operating expense due primarily to our focus on cost transformation. As a result, we achieved adjusted EBITDA of $16,000,000 for the quarter or 14% of revenue up over 200% when compared to $5,000,000 in the prior year quarter. Looking forward, we remain focused on our three growth solutions where we can see strong potential and differentiation. These are [indiscernible] where we offer our TiVo ONE platform that monetizes ad supported viewing, viewership data and homepage engagement across smart TVs powered by TiVo, and TiVo video over broadband devices. Second, in cabin entertainment. Where DTS AutoStage combines radio, Internet metadata and video to enhance the automotive experience, and is designed to enable long term monetization through licensing fees, upselling features, advertising and data. And third, TiVo video over broadband, where we offer an industry leading content first streaming platform platform for our customers IPTV linear video households, as well as broadband only households. Revenue is primarily generated by monthly subscriptions.

We continue to expect each of these markets along with our market penetration to grow meaningfully over the next several years. Before we proceed further, I want to give a quick refresher on our TiVo One ad platform, was discussed on our February call. TivoOne is our cross screen ad platform for maximizing engagement and monetization on streaming devices. We are deploying TiVo ONE on smart TVs powered by TiVo and on TiVo IPTV based video over broadband boxes which are connected to smart TVs and thus power the user interface. A primary focus of this platform is delivering unique reach through home screen based ads, which advertising clients recognize as a key common and frequent touch point in the consumer and entertainment journey as they seek to find watch and enjoy the content they love. Additionally, we generate advertising revenue from free ad supported television content where video ads are sold primarily programmatically. For our most important near term business metric, we finished the quarter with 2,500,000 monthly active on the TiVo One ad platform. This includes rollout into The U. S. Market through updates to our video over broadband device footprint, and the launch of Sharp TVs powered by TiVo.

We define TiVo One monthly active users as a unique device that is connected to the TiVo video service which includes the TiVo One advertising platform, at least once within the last thirty days. While our TiVo ONE monthly active user foot remains weighted in Europe where we ramped smart TVs last year, We've started to gain a user footprint in The U. S. Market through the deployment of TiVo One to certain video over broadband devices, including IPTV set top boxes, and smart TV shipments with Sharp. Let me now walk you through some of our recent achievements within each market beginning with Media Platform. During the quarter, we successfully began the rollout of a new TiVo ONE home page ad unit to certain TVs and video over broadband devices where this ad unit takes over the majority of the home screen. We've now executed our first media and entertainment pilot advertising campaigns using this ad unit. And we're pleased with the engagement click through rates and viewership we delivered for our advertisers. In The U. S, Sharp began selling Sharp TVs powered by TiVo through select regional retailers, including PC Richard and Son, and BrandSmart USA. In Europe, Skyworth under the Met brand started selling Mets TVs powered by TiVo in The UK.

We now have dozens of brands selling across Europe. From a content perspective, we launched more than 80 additional entertainment content partner applications onto the TiVo OS platform. Broadly speaking, streaming services have continued to adopt TiVo OS as an emerging independent media platform. And appreciate the value of its agnostic content first discovery features and easy to use technical platform. Notable partners launched in the quarter include global brands such as Tubi, sports network DAZN and Red Bull TV as well as multiple leading local streaming partners including Mediaset, Infinity, and Movistar. We also published Sony Channels, which are curated genre specific ad supported streaming or fast channels comprised of premium content from Sony's robust catalog of movies and TV programming. To help our partners bring TVs powered by TiVo to market faster, we completed important engineering initiatives designed to expand the diversity of the global supply chain options they have. This will allow for broader and more flexible sourcing in multiple production regions. Moving to Connected Car, we had a very productive and successful quarter. Including the signing of two multiyear HD radio agreements with Tier one manufacturers. Given the general uncertainty in the macro market related to tariffs and consumer confidence, we believe these agreements are valuable to ensure longer term customer commitment to our technologies, and to grow penetration of HD Radio over time.

There were 15 models that launched with HD Radio in the quarter, including Lincoln Navigator, Onto Passport, Lucid Motors Gravity Nissan Armada, Toyota 4Runner and Audi Q5. Several new vehicles also launched with DTS Auto Stage during the quarter, including BMW iX1 and two Series Gran Coupes, Ford Expedition Max, Hyundai Palisade, and the Tesla Model y. DTS Auto Stage finished the quarter with a footprint of 11,000,000 vehicles in over 130 countries. And lastly, previously announced design win Audi has now launched DTS auto stage video service powered by TiVo and Audi vehicles in Japan. Within the pay TV market, we continued to see strong growth for our IPTV business as we finished the quarter with over 2,750,000 video over broadband subscriber households. A 36% year over year increase. Notably, we signed several new operators in the quarter bringing the cumulative total of TiVo broadband wins to over 30. During the quarter, we began updating our video over broadband in The U. S. To enable enhanced sports features. Including personalized league and sports carousels. This code update also includes the TiVo One homepage advertising unit. Importantly, the TiVo video over broadband platform controls the user interface of the consumer's smart TV where engagement is over four hours of overall content viewership.

Per day. Turning to consumer electronics. We successfully signed several long term DTS audio renewal agreements. Including with customers that include Skyworth, TCL, Hisense, TPV and Best Buy. We also signed important IMAX Enhanced renewals with Honor and Philips TPV expanded content commitments with Sony Pictures, and continued to add new hit titles to the Disney plus lineup to support broader product licensing. In summary, during the quarter, we made progress great progress in our strategic initiatives. And remain on track to achieve the 2025 goals outlined in our last investor call. As we work to deliver on these goals, we expect to position ourselves for overall revenue growth in 2026 along with related gains and profitability and cash flow. With that, I'll turn the call over to Robert to discuss our financials. Robert? Thanks, John. As usual, I'll be covering two main areas during this call. I'll first go through the financial results and provide commentary for the quarter. And second, I'll discuss our financial outlook. Let me begin with the quarter's results. Total revenue for the first quarter was $114,000,000 a decrease of 4% from last year's 119,000,000 and lower by 2% when adjusting for the perceived divestiture.

Pay TV, our largest revenue category, posted $50,000,000 in the quarter a decrease of 12% as strong growth in IPTV which was up 25% was more than offset by a decrease in our core pay TV business partly due to certain minimum guarantee revenue that occurred last year. Consumer electronics was $23,000,000 a decrease of 5% when excluding the divestiture of Perceive. The reduction was primarily due to lower revenue on softer production volume of certain consumer electronics products. Connected car rose 37% to finish at $33,000,000 This significant growth was primarily due to minimum licensing arrangements for HD Radio that occurred during the quarter partially offset by lower automotive volumes utilizing HD Radio and audio based solutions. Media platform at $8,000,000 was lower than last year by 30% due primarily to lower middleware revenue associated with a license agreement and audit settlement that occurred last year along with the time shift of certain advertising commitments year over year. We expect these commitments to be fulfilled later this year. Moving to the income statement. Our non GAAP adjusted operating expense for the quarter was $76,000,000 an improvement of $15,000,000 or 17% from the prior year. Approximately 80% of this expense improvement is savings from business optimization efforts and the remaining 20% is from business divestitures.

Our adjusted EBITDA was $16,000,000 resulting in an adjusted EBITDA margin of 14%. Notably, we more than tripled adjusted EBITDA year over year and expanded the adjusted EBITDA margin rate by over 900 basis points. Achieving a 14% margin in a seasonally weaker quarter significant progress toward our full year goal of 16% to 18% adjusted EBITDA margin. Our non GAAP earnings per share was $0.16 a $0.21 increase from last year's $05 loss per share. Moving to the balance sheet, the company ended the quarter with $88,000,000 of cash and cash equivalents. A decrease from the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four due to $22,000,000 of operating cash usage dollars 4,000,000 of investing activities, and 16,000,000 of financing activities. In late February, we completed the financing arrangement with PNC Bank for a $55,000,000 line of credit. This line is backed by our accounts receivable assets, for which we retired $10,000,000 of our prior debt and refinanced the remaining 40,000,000 under the new line of credit. This line has a three year term and our current borrowing rate is one month SOFR plus 190 basis points. Operating cash in the quarter was a usage of $22,000,000 due primarily to the pay down of accrued liabilities of 15,000,000 principally for bonus amounts for fiscal year twenty twenty four and from an increase in unbilled contract receivables related minimum guarantee contract arrangements, within the connected car category.

Notably, operating cash improved by $28,000,000 compared to Q1 of last year, With regard to our financial outlook, despite various macroeconomic uncertainties, we are maintaining our outlook for the year. Thus far, the impact of tariffs on our business appears to be modest and within the range of planning outcomes set for the year. We will continue to monitor if any changes in outlook are warranted as new information becomes available. That concludes our prepared remarks. Let's now open the call for questions. Operator?

Thank you.

The floor is now open for questions. We'll pause to Our first question comes from the line of Hamed Khorsand with BWS. Your line is now open.

Hi. So starting off with the IP TV and the user base is now at 2.75, but you sounds like you also added a lot more service providers. So assuming that you get the 3,000,000 soon, what's the time frame as far as monetizing that? And getting to a higher baseline revenue. What what will it take? Well, I think there's I I think there's, you know, kind of a continued quarter over quarter effort to assist with deployments and more wins that ultimately will drive subscripership revenue. So I'm not sure what specifically [indiscernible] you're seeking to answer other than, you know, I think you'll see those improvements play out through the year and And obviously consequent revenue increases. Think simultaneously some of the video over broadband wins you know, at the end of the day are are less, you know, about subscription revenue as they are about the, the longer tail of of monetization that can happen on the platform. And as we talked about this is an area where we're starting and have begun to roll out various code updates that will enable us to bring, you know, a more robust kind of ad platform you know, onto those set top boxes and that will in turn begin to yield monetization revenue that that you know, that comes in parallel with what we're doing on on smart TVs.

I guess what I'm trying to get to is do you have, you know, the manpower and capacity to handle that 50% increase in the number of IPTV customers quarter on quarter?

Well, it's it's it's not necessarily up 50%. I'm I'm not sure where you got that number.

Last last quarter, you guys said it was 20 customers. Now you're saying it's 30 customers. Oh, it's in the sheer number. It's in the sheer numbers. Oh, sorry. You're you're in in Not all those deployments will happen immediately and and simultaneously. They all have separate schedules under which they'll roll out. But in short, you know, yes, we're staging and working with those customers to to make sure not only we can handle it, but ultimately, they come online over time.

Okay. And then my final question was gonna be about cash flow. Is there a specific quarter we would see you know, the with the company have you know, positive cash flow that you're guiding to? Is it all happening in q four? No. It doesn't it's not all completely back end weighted. Q one is seasonally our weakest quarter because we paid deferred liabilities related to last year. You'll see that pretty much any year for us. Given that we've guided to be positive for the year, think you're going to expect the balance of the year to be in the positive category, certainly in the second half. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Hamed.

Thank you. The next question comes from Matt Galinko with Maxim Group. Your line is now open.

Can you just I'm not sure if I missed it in the prepared remarks, but did you or can you speak to any additional OEMs in the pipeline for you know, for TV companies.

We didn't necessarily call it out specifically in the script, but but broadly speaking, we we expect to add at least one you know, to two TV partners in the course of this year. Beyond the eight we already have.

Got it. And any changes to kind of the number of active users that you're targeting by you know, end of year or, you know, any just changes to that schedule? And maybe can you maybe share a little bit more color around you know, whether tariffs have any influence or potential to influence the you know, targets you set for, you know, number of active users. Sure. So we had talked about looking to exit the year with 5,000,000 monthly active users. I think we are very much on track. And I think, you know, stepping back as we talked about by the time we exit next year, we expect to be at at that 7,000,000 number. You know, or better. I I think that very much, is on track based on all the the planning and production activity and the partners that that we have. To what extent tariffs will ultimately impact things Obviously, they create a pretty fluid environment you know, where there's a bit lower visibility and how that ultimately flows through. You know, there's obviously some portion of the TV volume manufactured in Asia, might be subject to [indiscernible] But depending on how the tariffs come down and where final assembly and other things happen in in various markets, we may or may not be meaningfully impacted by that.

So at this point, I think we're not hearing anything that would indicate that there's anything about that plan that is that that is diverted meaningfully from what we've expected, and we'll continue to stay close to it. Obviously, should should anything change. Great. Thank you.

Thanks, Matt.

It looks like our next question comes from Jason Kreyer with Craig Hallum. Your line is now open.

Great. Thank you. This is Cal on for Jason. Apologies if any of this has been, addressed, but, you know, I caught the last end there. Talking about the tariffs. But can you just kinda talk about what kind of macro factors you're contemplating in the guide? Well, I I think we're we're at this point, we're maintaining the guide that that we previously provided in part because you know, while there are you know, various uncertainties we see out there, it's not yet clear that that is going to impact how we think about the range we provided for this year. And so I think as always as we set plans and our guidance ranges, we we often and and very intentionally you know, ensure there's there's a lot of different ways to get within the range. So as we sit here at this point, I think we are comfortable where we are. We'll obviously watch it very closely as we go ahead. But, you know, we're we're busy executing even in a world that know, has a certain amount of fluidity. And as I said, I think we've had some very, very strong execution. As it relates to Q1.

Great. And then maybe just kind of pivoting over to the TiVo OS. You know, you talked a little bit about, you know, the new TiVo one, the the homepage unit that you're rolling out here. So just curious the opportunity that you see there to potentially accelerate your ARPU growth with these more flagship units.

I think there's a couple of things going on. First of all, that that homepage ad unit is a very, very valuable piece of real estate. Know, set simply. And it's one that that obviously advertisers have a strong interest in. So our ability to roll out that ad unit across our platform of not only smart TVs, but but ultimately as we begin to roll it out across our our broader IPTV video over broadband footprint, where we know there is a lot of very active viewership. Obviously, puts us in a position you know, to begin to to turn that monetization wheel. Better. And and I think know, we've done a lot of work to you know, to make sure these updates can successfully roll out and land, you know, on devices. You know, and then as we said, we're doing we're doing various various, you know, pilots to ensure that that you know, all is going well. So I think it will have a positive impact on what we're doing. I think we've long planned for this to be part of the mix. So it's not something that came out of the blue that we're just adding.

But this is part of our strategy of ultimately you know, trying to you know, over over that longer arc, accelerate more and better monetization and offer more compelling ad products to our advertiser partners.

Great. And then if I could just you know, follow-up with one more. Curious if you have, you know, any sort of incremental updates on The US TiVo OS devices as these rollouts continue to progress. Obviously, still early days as as, you know, the sharp sharp volumes are naturally small. We expect more TVs with an additional partner to you know, to hit hit the market as we go through the balance of this year. And then coupled with that, we have active you know, update programs going on with respect to these set top box video or broadband devices. And so, you know, as we think about US footprint, it really is gonna the combination of these two things. As we move into the back half and begin to see that scale reach the point where it's, you know, of more interest to advertisers. We can begin to you know, drive monetization in an ever kind of increasing fashion.

Great. Thank you.

Thank you so much. There are no further questions at this time. So I'd like to turn the call back over to CEO, John Kirchner. For closing remarks.

Thank you, Amy, and thanks, everyone, for joining today's call. We're pleased with the milestones we continue to achieve to support the long term revenue growth we expect to generate through media platform, video over broadband and connectivity car. I'd like to thank our customers and broad ecosystem of partners for their continued support. I'd also like to thank our employees for their hard work toward realizing our strategic and financial goals.

Look forward to reviewing our Q2 results with you in August. And operator, this concludes today's call.

Thank you so much. This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.