Equinix, Inc. Q4 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Overview

  • Equinix delivered record results in both Q4 and full-year 2024, marking its 22nd consecutive year of quarterly revenue growth.
  • Management emphasized the company’s strong momentum in AI-related deployments, interconnection, and global data center expansion.
  • 2025 guidance shows continued growth in recurring revenues, AFFO, and margins, despite FX headwinds and the exit of Equinix Metal.

Key Financial Highlights

  • Full-year 2024 revenue: $8.7 billion, up 8% year-over-year (constant currency).
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $4.1 billion, margin improvement of 160 basis points versus 2023.
  • AFFO per share: up 10% year-over-year.
  • Q4 revenue: $2.261 billion, up 7% year-over-year (constant currency).
  • Q4 adjusted EBITDA: $1.021 billion, up 9% year-over-year.
  • Q4 AFFO: $770 million, up 10% year-over-year.
  • 2024 churn: averaged 2.2% (lower half of guidance range).
  • Balance sheet: $3.6 billion in cash/short-term investments; 3.4x net leverage.
  • Record 150 MW leased in xScale in 2024; cumulative xScale leasing now >400 MW.

Operational & Strategic Highlights

  • Record company-high 16,200 deals booked in 2024 across 6,000+ customers.
  • Channel accounted for 30% of bookings and over 50% of new logos.
  • Record year for megawatts sold, including best-ever non-Tier 1 metro volumes.

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Operator: Good afternoon and welcome to the Equinix Fourth 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. 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. 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.com. We've made available on

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