Equinix, Inc. Q3 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Company Overview

  • Equinix delivered another strong quarter, marking its 87th consecutive quarter of revenue growth.
  • Record gross bookings were achieved, with strong performance across all three regions (Americas, EMEA, APAC).
  • Robust demand for digital infrastructure including AI workloads continues to support growth.

Key Financial Highlights (Compared to Q3 Prior Year)

  • Revenue: $2.201 billion, up 7%. Growth driven by recurring revenue and xScale fees.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $1.048 billion, up 12%, reaching ~48% margin.
  • AFFO: $866 million, up 12% due to strong operations and lower interest expense.
  • Interconnection revenue: up 10%; Equinix now supports 478,000 total interconnections.
  • MRR per cabinet: up 6% year-over-year, surpassing $2,300 per cabinet.
  • Net billable cabinets added: 3,100 (a strong rebound driven by bookings and new capacity openings).
  • Churn: lower than planned due to deferral of expected churn from late September into early October.

Regional Highlights

  • APAC: fastest growing region at 15% year-over-year; reached $500 million in quarterly revenue for the first time.
  • Americas: 6% growth; demand exceeding supply in top metros such as Dallas, New York, Silicon Valley, and Washington DC.
  • EMEA: 3% growth; excluding pricing actions, grew 5%.

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Operator: Good afternoon and welcome to the Equinix Third Quarter Earnings conference call. All lines will be able to listen only until we open for questions. Also, today's conference is being recorded. If anyone has objections, please disconnect at this time. I'd now like to turn the call over to Chip Newcom, Senior Director of Investor Relations. 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 16, 2024 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.equinix.

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