Equinix, Inc. Q3 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Equinix delivered a strong Q3 with accelerating top-line growth, improving profitability, and aggressive expansion activity.
  • Normalized and constant-currency revenue grew 5% year over year to $2.32 billion, supported by strong recurring revenue growth of 8%.
  • Record annualized gross bookings reached $394 million, up 25% year over year and 14% over Q2.
  • Presold annualized gross bookings increased to $185 million, with over 40% booked in Q3 alone.
  • Interconnection revenue grew 8% year over year to $422 million, supported by 7,100 net new physical and virtual interconnections.

Financial Performance

  • Adjusted EBITDA reached $1.15 billion (50% margin), up 8% year over year.
  • AFFO was $965 million, up 12% year over year and above expectations.
  • Global MRR churn was 2.3%, in line with expectations; Q4 expected between 2% and 2.5%.
  • Net leverage was 3.6x adjusted EBITDA, with $2.9 billion in cash and short-term investments.
  • CapEx was $1.14 billion in Q3, including $64 million in recurring CapEx.
  • 69% of recurring revenue now comes from owned assets.

Guidance Updates

  • Full-year revenue growth outlook maintained at 7% to 8% (normalized and constant currency).

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Operator: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Equinix Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Also, today's conference is being recorded. If anyone has any objections, please disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to Phillip Konieczny, Senior Vice President of Finance. You may begin. Phillip Konieczny: Good afternoon, and welcome to our third quarter 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 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 on February 12, 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 our policy not to comment on its financial guidance during the quarter unless it is done through 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 them in today's press release on the Equinix Investor Relations page at www.equinix.com. We have made availabl

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