Yext Inc

1. Organization and Description of Business

Description of Business

Yext, Inc. ("Yext" or the "Company") empowers businesses to manage their knowledge so they can deliver relevant, actionable answers to consumer questions as well as consistent, accurate and engaging experiences to customers throughout the digital ecosystem. The Company's digital presence platform (also known as the Answers Platform) lets businesses structure and organize information about their brands in the Company's knowledge graph, Yext Content (also known as the Knowledge Graph), which is then delivered across first- and third-party websites and applications through its network of over 200 service and application providers, which the Company refers to as its Publisher Network. The Company's platform powers all of the Company's key products, including Listings, Reviews, Pages, and Search, each with robust analytics capabilities for businesses to easily track performance across customer experiences.

Fiscal Year

The Company's fiscal year ends on January 31 st. References to fiscal 2025, for example, are to the fiscal year ending January 31, 2025.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation and Consolidation

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") regarding interim financial reporting. Certain information and note disclosures normally included in the financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. Therefore, these condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on March 13, 2024 (the "Form 10-K"). The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of January 31, 2024, included herein, was derived from the audited financial statements as of that date, but does not include all disclosures including certain notes required by GAAP on an annual reporting basis.

In the opinion of management, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations, comprehensive loss and cash flows for the interim periods. The results for the six months ended July 31, 2024 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any subsequent quarter, the fiscal year ending January 31, 2025, or any other period.

There have been no material changes to the Company's significant accounting policies as described in the Form 10-K.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of those financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting period. These estimates include, but are not limited to, the standalone selling prices of performance obligations, the incremental borrowing rate associated with lease liabilities, the useful life of capitalized costs to obtain revenue contracts, income taxes, and the valuation and assumptions underlying stock-based compensation. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market-specific and relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ from those estimates and such differences could be material to the financial position and results of operations.

Segment Information

The Company is the provider of the platform and operates asone operating segment. An operating segment is defined as a component of an enterprise for which separate financial information is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision makers ("CODM"). The Company defines its CODM as its executive officers, and their role is to make decisions about allocating resources and assessing performance. The Company's business operates asone operating segment as all of the Company's offerings operate on the Company's platform and are deployed in an identical way, with its CODM evaluating the Company's financial information, resources and performance of these resources on a consolidated basis. Since the Company operates asone operating segment, all required financial segment information can be found in the condensed consolidated financial statements.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures, which expands annual and interim disclosure requirements for reportable segments, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. The updated standard is effective for the Company's annual periods beginning in fiscal 2025 and interim periods beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2026. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting ASU 2023-07.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which includes amendments that further enhance income tax disclosures, primarily through standardization and disaggregation of rate reconciliation categories and income taxes paid by jurisdiction. The amendments are effective for the Company’s annual periods beginning in fiscal 2026, with early adoption permitted, and should be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of ASU 2023-09.

3. Revenue

Performance Obligations

The Company has identified that it hastwo distinct performance obligations: subscription and associated support to the Company's platform and professional services. The Company's revenue is predominately related to its subscription and associated support to the Company's platform. Professional services revenue accounted for approximately 7% and 8% of the Company's total revenue for the six months ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

Geographic Region

The Company disaggregates its revenue from contracts with customers by geographic region, as it believes this best depicts how the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of its revenues and cash flows are affected by economic factors. Revenue by geographic region is determined based on the region of the Company's contracting entity, which may be different than the region of its customers. The following table presents the Company's revenue by geographic region:

North America revenue is attributable to the United States. International revenue is predominantly attributable to European countries, but also includes Japan.

The Company's revenue attributable to the United States represented 78% of total revenue, revenue attributable to the United Kingdom, which serves as the Company's main contracting entity for Europe, represented 20% of total revenue, and no other individual country represented more than 10% of total revenue for the six months ended July 31, 2024.

The Company's revenue attributable to the United States represented 79% of total revenue, revenue attributable to the United Kingdom, which serves as the Company's main contracting entity for Europe, represented 20% of total revenue, and no other individual country represented more than 10% of total revenue for the six months ended July 31, 2023.

Contract Assets

The Company records a contract asset when revenue is recognized prior to being billed. Contract assets were $1.0 million as of July 31, 2024 and were not significant as of January 31, 2024. Contract assets are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheet.

Contract Liabilities

A contract liability is an obligation to transfer goods or services for which consideration has been received or is due to a customer. The Company's contract liabilities consist primarily of unearned revenue and, to a lesser extent, customer deposits.

As of July 31, 2024, unearned revenue, current was $156.2 million, while unearned revenue, non-current, which is included within other long term liabilities on the Company's condensed consolidated balance sheet, was $0.8 million. Revenue recognized of $144.2 million during the six months ended July 31, 2024 was included in unearned revenue at the beginning of the period.

Customer deposits represent payments received in advance in instances where a revenue contract is cancelable in nature, and therefore the Company does not have an unconditional obligation to transfer control to a customer. As of July 31, 2024 and January 31, 2024, customer deposits of $1.0 million and $0.2 million are included in accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities on the Company's condensed consolidated balance sheet, respectively.

Remaining Performance Obligations

The transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations represents amounts under non-cancelable contracts expected to be recognized as revenue in future periods, and may be influenced by several factors, including seasonality, the timing of renewals, and contract terms. As of July 31, 2024, the Company had $396.5 million of remaining performance obligations, of which $349.4 million is expected to be recognized as revenue over the next twenty-four months, with the remaining balance expected to be recognized thereafter. As of January 31, 2024, the Company had $465.1 million of remaining performance obligations.

4. Investments in Marketable Securities

The following tables summarize the Company's investments in marketable securities:

As of July 31, 2024 and January 31, 2024, the Company's marketable securities have a maturity of 90 days or less and are classified as cash and cash equivalents. During the six months ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had no material reclassification adjustments from accumulated other comprehensive loss to net loss.

The Company classifies interest income on investments in marketable securities, amortization of premiums and discounts, and realized gains and losses on securities available for sale within interest income in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.

The Company regularly reviews its debt securities and monitors the surrounding economic conditions to assess the risk of expected credit losses. As of July 31, 2024 and January 31, 2024, the unrealized losses and the related risk of expected credit losses were not significant.

5. Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair value is the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. Subsequent changes in fair value of these financial assets and liabilities are recognized in earnings or other comprehensive (loss) income when they occur. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities which are required to be recorded at fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which the Company would transact and the market-based risk measurement or assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the assets or liabilities, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions, and credit risk.

The Company applies the following fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value into three levels and bases the categorization within the hierarchy upon the lowest level of input that is available and significant to the fair value measurement:

Level 1 inputs are based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2 inputs are based on observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets with insufficient volume or infrequent transactions (less active markets); or model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs are observable or can be derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

Level 3 inputs are based on unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of fair value of assets or liabilities, and typically reflect management's estimates of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.

The Company's assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis, by level, within the fair value hierarchy are as follows:

The Company’s cash equivalents and marketable securities for the periods presented were valued using quoted market prices or alternative pricing sources and models utilizing observable market inputs and were classified as Level 1 or Level 2, accordingly.

6. Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated or amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives. Property and equipment, net consisted of the following:

As of July 31, 2024 and January 31, 2024, the Company's property and equipment, net attributable to the United States was 91% and 90%, respectively. No other individual country represented more than 10% of the total property and equipment, net as of those periods. Depreciation expense was $2.9 million and $5.8 million for the three and six months ended July 31, 2024, respectively and $4.4 million and $9.1 million for the three and six months ended July 31, 2023, respectively.

7. Accounts Payable, Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities

Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following:

8. Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-Based Compensation Expense

Stock-based compensation represents the cost related to stock-based awards granted in lieu of monetary payment. The Company measures stock-based compensation associated with stock-based awards issued to employees at the grant date, based on the estimated fair value of the award, and recognizes expense, net of estimated forfeitures, over the requisite service period of the applicable award generally using the straight-line method or accelerated attribution method.

The following table summarizes the Company's stock-based compensation expense for the periods presented:

Stock Options

The following table summarizes the activity related to the Company's stock options:

Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units

The following table summarizes the activity related to the Company's restricted stock and restricted stock units:

Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units

The following table summarizes the activity related to the Company’s performance-based restricted stock units ("PSUs"):

As of July 31, 2024, the market conditions accompanying the PSUs were not satisfied and therefore, no shares vested.

9. Debt

On March 11, 2020, the Company entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). In January 2021, the Company amended the Credit Agreement which modified the conditions pursuant to which subsidiaries are required to become guarantors. On December 22, 2022, the Company entered into a second amendment (“Amendment No. 2”) to the Credit Agreement, dated March 11, 2020, and on July 26, 2024, the Company entered into a third amendment ("Amendment No. 3") to the Credit Agreement, collectively referred to as the Credit Facility. No significant debt issuance costs were incurred in association with Amendment No.2 and Amendment No.3.

Amendment No. 2 amended the Credit Facility to, among other things (i) extend the maturity date of the Credit Facility to December 22, 2025, (ii) amend the interest rate provisions to replace LIBOR with SOFR as the interest rate benchmark, and (iii) amend the recurring revenue growth rate financial covenant.

Amendment No. 3 amended the Credit Facility to, among other things (i) amend the interest rate applicable to loans under the Credit Facility, and (ii) replace the consolidated quick ratio and recurring revenue growth rate financial covenants with consolidated total leverage ratio and minimum liquidity financial covenants.

The Credit Facility provides for a senior secured revolving loan facility of up to $50.0 million that matures on December 22, 2025, with the right subject to certain conditions to add an incremental revolving loan facility of up to $50.0 million in the aggregate. The revolving loan facility provides for borrowings up to the amount of the facility with sub-limits of up to (i) $30.0 million to be available for the issuance of letters of credit and (ii) $10.0 million to be available for swingline loans.

As amended, the revolving loans bear interest, at the Company’s election, at an annual rate based on SOFR or a base rate. Loans based on SOFR shall bear interest at a rate between SOFR plus 1.75% and SOFR plus 2.25%, depending on the Company’s consolidated total leverage ratio and subject to a SOFR floor of 1.00%. Loans based on the base rate shall bear interest at a rate between the base rate minus 1.25% and the base rate minus 0.75%, depending on the Company’s consolidated total leverage ratio. The Company is also obligated to pay a commitment fee on the unused portion of the facility at a rate of 0.25% per annum.

The obligations under the Credit Facility are secured by a lien on substantially all of the Company's tangible and intangible property and by a pledge of all of the Company's equity interests of material direct and indirect domestic subsidiaries and 66% of each class of capital stock of any material first-tier foreign subsidiaries, subject to limited exceptions.

The Credit Facility contains customary affirmative and negative covenants and restrictions, as well as financial covenants that require us to maintain minimum liquidity of $35.0 million at all times and a consolidated total leverage ratio of no greater than 3.00 to 1.00, tested on a quarterly basis.

As of July 31, 2024, the Company was in compliance with all debt covenants. As of such date, the $50.0 million revolving loan facility had $36.6 million available and $13.4 million in letters of credit allocated as security in connection with office space.

10. Income Taxes

The Company calculates its year-to-date benefit from (provision for) income taxes by applying the estimated annual effective tax rate ("AETR") to year-to-date income or loss from operations before income taxes and adjusts for discrete tax items recorded in the period. During the three and six months ended July 31, 2024, the Company recorded a benefit from income taxes of $1.4 million and $1.2 million, respectively. During the three and six months ended July 31, 2023, the Company recorded a (provision for) income taxes of $(0.7) million and $(1.0) million, respectively.

The Company's effective tax rate generally differs from the U.S. federal statutory tax rate primarily due to full valuation allowances related to the Company's net deferred tax assets in the U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions, U.S. state income taxes, and foreign rate differential on profitable jurisdictions. The Company regularly evaluates the realizability of its deferred tax assets and establishes a valuation allowance on a jurisdictional basis if it is more likely than not that some or all the deferred tax assets will not be realized. In making such a determination, the Company considers all available positive and negative evidence, including future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, projected future taxable income, loss carryback, and tax-planning strategies. Generally, more weight is given to objectively verifiable evidence, such as the cumulative loss in recent years, as a significant piece of negative evidence to overcome. To the extent sufficient positive evidence becomes available, a portion of the valuation allowance against certain net deferred tax assets could be released in the future and would result in a non-cash income tax benefit in the period of release.

11. Commitments and Contingencies

Contractual Obligations

The Company is obligated to make payments under certain non-cancelable contractual obligations in the normal course of business. The Company's contractual obligations primarily relate to its operating and short-term lease arrangements for office space. Its other contractual obligations include contracts with its Publisher Network application providers, which generally have a term of one year, although some have a term of several years, and its software vendors, among others. These obligations represent minimum contractual payments, or the Company's best estimate for variable elements based on historical payments. The Company's contractual obligations have various expiry dates between fiscal years 2025 and 2035.

As of July 31, 2024, the Company's contractual obligations are as follows (in thousands):

Legal Proceedings

The Company is and may be involved in various legal proceedings arising in the normal course of business. Although the results of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, currently, in the opinion of the Company, the likelihood of any material adverse impact on the Company's results of operations, cash flows or the Company's financial position for any such litigation or claims is deemed to be remote. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on the Company because of defense costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.

Warranties and Indemnifications

The Company's platform is in some cases warranted to perform in a manner consistent with general industry standards that are reasonably applicable and materially in accordance with the Company's product specifications.

The Company's arrangements generally include certain provisions for indemnifying customers against liabilities if its products or services infringe a third-party's intellectual property rights and/or if the Company breaches its contractual agreements with a customer or in instances of negligence, fraud or willful misconduct by the Company. To date, the Company has not incurred any material costs as a result of such obligations and has not accrued any significant liabilities related to such obligations in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.

The Company has also agreed to indemnify certain of its directors and executive officers for costs associated with any fees, expenses, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any of these persons in any action or proceeding to which any of those persons is, or is threatened to be, made a party by reason of the person's service as a director or officer, including any action by the Company, arising out of that person's services as the Company's director or officer or that person's services provided to any other company or enterprise at the Company's request. The Company maintains director and officer insurance coverage that would generally enable the Company to recover a portion of future amounts paid. The Company may also be subject to indemnification obligations by law with respect to the actions of its employees under certain circumstances and in certain jurisdictions.

12. Net Loss Per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders

The following table sets forth the computation of the basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders:

Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing the net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Unvested restricted stock, restricted stock units, and performance-based restricted stock units where the market conditions have not been met are excluded from the denominator of basic net loss per share. Diluted net loss per share is computed by dividing the net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares plus common equivalent shares for the period, including any dilutive effect from such shares.

Since the Company was in a net loss position for all periods presented, net loss per share attributable to common stockholders was the same on a basic and diluted basis, as the inclusion of all potential common equivalent shares outstanding would have been anti-dilutive. Anti-dilutive common equivalent shares were as follows:

(1) An additional 1.3 million shares of common stock may be awarded for certain PSUs based on the Company's total shareholder return ("TSR") relative to the TSR of companies in the S&P Software and Services Select Index over specified performance periods.

13. Subsequent Events

Following approval by the Company's Board of Directors, on June 10, 2024, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) for the acquisition of Hearsay Social, Inc. (“Hearsay”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Hearsay became a wholly owned subsidiary of Yext upon closing of the transaction on August 1, 2024. The Company acquired Hearsay for approximately $125 million in cash, as adjusted for customary adjustments set forth in the Merger Agreement, and the assumption of Hearsay employee equity awards. The Company also offered participation rights to key employees and former founders of Hearsay in a bonus pool of $20 million that can be settled in cash or the Company’s common stock and shall be subject to 100% vesting on the first anniversary of closing, generally subject to continued employment. In addition, subject to the terms of the Merger Agreement, the Company may also be required to pay additional contingent consideration of up to $75 million to Hearsay based on the achievement of certain milestones (the “Earnout Consideration”). The Earnout Consideration shall be payable based on achievement of certain annual recurring revenue targets. The targets shall be measured at the end of the first and second anniversaries of closing. The Earnout Consideration may be settled in cash or the Company’s common stock at the Company’s election. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this acquisition on its consolidated financial statements.