TiVo reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2015. For Q4, service and technology revenues were $91.7 million.
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This compared to guidance of $87 million to $90 million and $84 million for the same quarter last year. TiVo reported Adjusted EBITDA of $24.2 million, compared to Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $21 million to $24 million, and compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $19.6 million in the same quarter last year.
Net income was $7.1 million, compared to guidance of $2 million to $5 million and a net income of $710,000 in the same quarter last year.
Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, said, "The fourth quarter completed what was a strong year of execution for TiVo. Service and Technology revenue increased 9% and Adjusted EBITDA increased to $24.2 million. In the fourth quarter, we posted MSO subscription net additions of 324,000 and positive TiVo-Owned net additions of 16,000, our strongest TiVo-Owned net additions seven years.
"Total TiVo subscriptions now stand at almost 5.5 million, nearly 1.3 million more than at this time last year. During the quarter we made significant strides building new distribution relationships and expanding existing ones, including announcements with Frontier and Vodafone/ONO."
For the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2016, TiVo anticipates service and technology revenues in the range of $90 million to $92 million. This guidance reflects a sequential increase in MSO and Digitalsmiths' service revenue offset by potential decreases in technology revenue and TiVo-Owned service revenue.
TiVo expects Adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $26 million to $29 million and net income to be in the range of $5 million to $8 million.
Relative to the prior quarter, first quarter Adjusted EBITDA and net income will benefit from lower marketing spend and further efficiencies in R&D, and net income will be impacted by higher GAAP taxes compared to the fourth quarter, primarily due to tax benefit for research and development credit in the fourth quarter. ■