NRG Energy, Inc. Q4 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Key Financial Highlights
  • Q4 2020 revenue grew over 8% year-over-year to approximately $333M. Q4 adjusted EBITDA was about $147M, up 17% year-over-year, with a 44% margin.
  • Full-year 2020 revenue increased 9% to $1.26B. Full-year adjusted EBITDA grew 40% to $589M, representing a substantial margin expansion (up 1,000 bps to 46.7% vs. 36.5% in 2019).
  • Vivint added 343,000+ new subscribers in 2020, the highest annual total in company history and an 8.5% year-over-year increase.
  • Year-end total subscribers reached ~1.7M, up 9.2% from 1.55M in 2019.
  • Cash flow from operations improved dramatically: a swing from –$221.6M in 2019 to +$226.7M in 2020 (a $448M improvement). Ending liquidity was ~$648M.
Operational and Strategic Highlights
  • Strong performance achieved despite major COVID-19 impacts, including sales disruptions, customer service challenges, and a temporary shutdown of direct‑to‑home operations.
  • Net service cost per subscriber improved from $13.73 (2019) to $10.50 (2020). Service margins rose from 73.8% to 78.9%.
  • Subscriber attrition improved to 12.4%, down 150 bps year-over-year and at an eight-quarter low.

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Vivint Smart Home, Inc., Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mr. Nate Stubbs, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Nate Stubbs: Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us this afternoon to discuss the results of Vivint Smart Home for the three months and fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. Joining me on the conference call this afternoon are Todd Pedersen, Vivint's CEO; and Dale Gerard, Vivint's CFO. I would like to begin by reminding everyone that the discussion today may contain forward-looking statements, including with regards to the company's future performance and prospects. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, and are not guarantees of performance. And you should not put undue reliance on these statements. I would direct your attention to the risk factors detailed in our annual report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2020, which we expect to file within a few days of this earnings call. Please be aware that these risk factors may be updated from time to time in the company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and that the realization of any such risk factors could affect our future results and could cause those results or other outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or imp

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