Equinix, Inc. Q1 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Equinix Q1 2025 Earnings Summary

Quarter Overview

  • Strong start to 2025 with revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and AFFO all exceeding expectations.
  • Company raised full-year guidance across all major financial metrics.
  • Sales execution improved significantly: higher deal conversions, shorter sales cycles, and solid pricing hold.
  • AI-related demand continues to strengthen; 50% of top 25 deals in Q1 were AI-driven.

Key Financials (Normalized & Constant Currency)

  • Revenue: $2.2B, up 8% year-over-year (vs. Q1 2024). Growth driven by recurring revenue; offset by lower xScale non-recurring fees.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $1.1B (48% margin), above guidance and up from prior year Q1 margin of ~47%.
  • AFFO: $947M, up 13% year-over-year; AFFO/share up 9%.
  • MRR churn: 2.4%, in line with expectations; two notable churn events in Europe and APAC.
  • Interconnection revenue: up 9% year-over-year; 3,900 net interconnections added.

Regional Performance (YoY Recurring Revenue Growth)

  • APAC: +8% (strongest region).
  • Americas: +7% (best net bookings growth on record).
  • EMEA: +7% (impacted by expected churn but strong retail demand).

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Operator: Good afternoon and welcome to the Equinix First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. All lines will be able to listen-only until we open for questions. Today's conference is being recorded. If anyone has objections, please disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to Chip Newcom, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Sir, you may begin. Chip Newcom: Good afternoon and welcome to today's conference call. Before we get started, I would like to remind everyone that some of the statements that we will be making today are forward-looking in nature and involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly from those statements and may be affected by the risks we've identified in today's press release, as well as those identified in our filings with the SEC, including our most recent Form 10-K filed February 12th, 2025 and our most recent Form 10-Q Equinix assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or comment on forward-looking statements made on this call. In addition, in light of regulation fair disclosure, it is Equinix's policy not to comment on its financial guidance during the quarter unless it's done to an explicit public disclosure. On today's conference call, we will provide non-GAAP measures. We provide a reconciliation of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures and a list of the reasons why the company uses these measures in today's press release on the Equinix Investor relations page at www.equi

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