Nebius Group N.V. Q3 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Overall Company Performance

  • Q3 was stronger than expected, with recovery across major business lines and significant profitability improvements compared to Q2 2020.
  • Management highlighted stronger operational efficiency, disciplined cost control and ongoing integration across the ecosystem following the full consolidation of Yandex.Market.
  • Second COVID-19 wave introduced uncertainty, but management believes the company is better prepared than during the spring lockdown.

Key Business Segment Highlights

Search & Portal

  • Android Search share reached 58.7%, up 120 bps versus Q2 2020.
  • Portal share rose to 59.3%, +270 bps year-over-year.
  • Ex‑TAC revenue increased +8% YoY (versus -9% YoY in Q2 2020).
  • Total ad revenue (like-for-like) up 2% YoY; +4% YoY excluding terminated Mail.ru search contract impact.
  • Record segment margin: 52.6%, driven by TAC optimization and cost controls.
  • Zen strong performance: 18.2 million daily users (+45% YoY); video time sharply increased from 2% to 20% of time spent on Zen YoY.

Media Services (Yandex.Plus, KinoPoisk, Music)

  • Revenue grew 92% YoY, driven by +131% growth in subscriptions.
  • Subscribers exceeded 5 million in Q3 and surpassed 6 million by late October (up from ~3 million in Q3 2019).

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Yulia Gerasimova: Hello everyone and welcome to Yandex Third Quarter 2020 Earnings Call. You can find our earnings release and supplementary slides on our IR website. The key speakers on our call today are Tigran Khudaverdyan, our Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Daniil Shuleyko, our Chief Executive Officer of Yandex.Taxi; and Greg Abovsky, our Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer. Evgeny Senderov, Chief Financial Officer of Yandex.Taxi will be available on the Q&A session. Now, I will quickly walk you through the Safe Harbor statement. The various remarks that we make during the call regarding our financial performance and operations may be considered forward-looking. And such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For more information, please refer to the Risk Factors section of our most recent annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. During the call, we'll be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP measures in the earnings release we published today. And now, I'm turning the call over to Tigran. Tigran Khudaverdyan: Thank you, Yulia, and thanks to everyone for joining our call today. Q3 turned out to be a better quarter for us than initially expected. We have seen a recovery across our key businesses, which coupled with our prudent approach to cost and resources planning led to strong profitability improvements. Greg will talk about

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