Interim Report January – June 2020 Storytel AB (publ)
- Streaming sales up 43% from Q2 2019 to 459 (320) MSEK
- Subscriber base up 42% from Q2 2019 to 1,257,000 (897,500) on average
- Net turnover increased to 554 MSEK from 402 MSEK in Q2 2019
- Earnings per share, after taxes amounted to -0.91 SEK, before and after dilution, compared to -1.20 SEK in Q2 2019
- Renegotiated Term Loan from Swedbank, expanding the Revolving Credit Facility to 500 MSEK
- Issued a stock option programme for all employees together with a warrant programme for select Key Employees and Directors
Table 1: Key performance indicators for Streaming and Print Publishing
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Currency: SEK 000’s |
Q2 2019 | Q3 2019 | Q4 2019 | Q1 2020 | Q2 2020 | Q3 2020 |
| Streaming Total | Actual8 | Forecast1 | ||||
| Revenue | 320,034 | 399,178 | 421,454 | 429,251 | 459,115 | 483,500 |
| Contribution Profit2,8 | 29,407 | 53,043 | 58,977 | 92,611 | 100,493 | |
| Contribution Margin | 9.2% | 13.3% | 14.0% | 21.6% | 21.9% | |
| Avg. Paying Subscribers3 | 887,500 | 1,014,400 | 1,083,400 | 1,154,800 | 1,257,000 | 1,345,000 |
| ARPU4 (SEK/Month) | 120 | 131 | 130 | 124 | 122 | 120 |
| Streaming Nordics5 | ||||||
| Revenue | 276,347 | 340,315 | 352,222 | 349,768 | 366,322 | 389,000 |
| Contribution Profit2,8 | 70,443 | 109,563 | 115,689 | 113,476 | 107,176 | |
| Contribution Margin | 25.5% | 32.2% | 32.8% | 32.4% | 29.3% | |
| Avg. Paying Subscribers3 | 669,200 | 736,000 | 757,600 | 785,800 | 833,300 | 890,000 |
| ARPU4 (SEK/Month) | 138 | 154 | 155 | 148 | 147 | 146 |
| Streaming Non-Nordics | ||||||
| Revenue | 43,687 | 58,863 | 69,233 | 79,484 | 92,793 | 94,500 |
| Contribution Profit2,8 | -41,036 | -56,521 | -56,713 | -20,866 | -6,684 | |
| Contribution Margin | -93.9% | -96.0% | -81.9% | -26.3% | -7.2% | |
| Avg. Paying Subscribers3 | 218,300 | 278,400 | 325,800 | 369,000 | 423,700 | 455,000 |
| ARPU4 (SEK/Month) | 67 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 69 |
| Print Publishing6 | ||||||
| Revenue | 109,053 | 116,371 | 179,562 | 114,737 | 126,743 | |
| Contribution Profit7 | 28,830 | 33,327 | 65,592 | 41,678 | 44,147 | |
| Contribution Margin | 26.4% | 28.6% | 36.5% | 36.3% | 34.8% |
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1 Forecast means an approximation based on information available at the time the report was prepared.
2 Contribution Profit is defined as streaming revenue minus royalties to third-party publishers and rights holders, external production costs, transaction/payment costs and marketing costs. Storytel Reader and Ztory are not included in Streaming.
3 Avg. Paying Subscribers means the average number of paying Storytel subscribers during the quarter. Stand-alone customers from Ztory are not included. For Family subscriptions, each standard stream (not so-called Kids Mode) is considered one paying customer.
4 ARPU = Average Revenue Per User (Subscriber) per month.
5 Storytel Norway is included in the figures @ 100%. In the consolidated accounts, Norway is reported in accordance with the principle of proportional consolidation.
6 Print Publishing refers to physical books and digital sales through channels other than Storytel. Internal revenue from Storytel has been eliminated. All publishing houses both inside and outside of Sweden are included.
7 Contribution Profit is defined as revenue minus cost of goods sold, royalties to rights holders, distribution, sales and marketing costs.
8 Storytel has chosen to voluntarily apply the capitalisation model instead of the expensing model regarding internally developed intangible assets. In this table, the development of our digital catalogue will be capitalised and no longer treated as an expense as of Q1 2020.
Forthcoming reports
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Interim Report Jan – Sept 2020 10 Nov 2020
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Stockholm, 11 Aug 2020
Board of Directors, Storytel AB (publ)
For more information, please contact:
Jörgen Gullbrandson, Interim CFO: +46 73 378 01 75
Dan Panas, Head of Communications: +46 70 186 52 90
Storytel is Northern Europe’s leading audiobook and e-book streaming service and offers unlimited listening and reading of more than 500 000 titles on a global scale. Our vision is to make the world a more empathetic place with great stories to be shared and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere and anytime. Storytel is a digital platform provider as well as a comprehensive publishing group. The streaming business area offers subscriptions for audiobooks and e-books under the Storytel and Mofibo brands. Storytel’s publishing business area is carried out through the publishing houses Norstedts, Massolit, StorySide, Printz Publishing, People’s Press, Rabén & Sjögren, B.Wahlströms, Gummerus Kustannus and Norstedts Kartor. Ztory – a subscribed digital read-all-you-can streaming service for newspapers and magazines, is part of Storytel since January 2019. Storytel operates in 20 markets around the globe and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.