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Q4 2024 Tempus AI Inc Earnings Call

In This Article:

Participants

Elizabeth Krutoholow; Vice President - Investor Relations; Tempus AI Inc

Eric Lefkofsky; Chief Executive Officer, Founder; Tempus AI Inc

Jim Rogers; Chief Financial Officer; Tempus AI Inc

Tejas Savant; Analyst; Morgan Stanley

Mike Ryskin; Analyst; Bank of America

Ryan MacDonald; Analyst; Needham & Company

Dan Brennan; Analyst; TD Cowen

Sub Mandi; Analyst; Guggenheim

Doug Schenkel; Analyst; Wolfe Research

Andrew Brackmann; Analyst; William Blair & Company

Mark Schappel; Analyst; Loop Capital Markets

Dan Arias; Analyst; Stifel

David Westenberg; Analyst; Piper Sandler

Presentation

Operator

Thank you for standing by. My name is Jason and I will be a conference operator for today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Tempus fourth-quarter 2024 financial results conference call.
(Operator Instructions)
I would now turn the call over to Lizzy Krutoholow. Please go ahead.

Elizabeth Krutoholow

Thank you, Jason. Good afternoon and welcome to Tempus fourth-quarter 2024 conference call. This afternoon, Tempus released results for the quarter and the year ended December 31, 2024. Joining me today from Tempus are Eric Lefkofsky, Founder and CEO of Tempus; and Jim Rogers, CFO.
Before we begin, I would like to remind you that during this call, management may make forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For a discussion of these risks, please visit our Form 10-K filed today, February 24, 2025, as well as any future reports that we file with the SEC.
During the call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures which are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Definitions of these non-GAAP financial measures, along with reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, are included in our fourth-quarter earnings release, which has been furnished to the SEC and is available on our website at investors.tempus.com.
I would now like to turn the call over to Eric.

Eric Lefkofsky

Thank you and thanks, everyone, for joining the call. I'm just going to highlight a few quick bullets and then we'll be happy to take questions.
Q4 was a fantastic quarter for Tempus across the board. Our revenue growth accelerated to 35.8% year over year in the fourth quarter. Gross profit growth accelerated to 49.7%. So even though our revenues were growing rapidly, our gross profit was actually growing even more rapidly.
We ended the year with $940 million in total remaining contract value and 140% net revenue retention. These were both up pretty materially and one of the reasons that our gross profit growth was growing so quickly is our data and services business just had a really strong Q4, finishing a really strong year and so that propelled some of that growth and also for the reason we ended the year with an uptake in total remaining contract value and a really record net revenue retention.
We also closed the acquisition of Ambry Genetics on February 3, which is exciting as we've talked about that historically, but that's now behind us. So we'll have 22 months this quarter of Ambry's results in our numbers. And we also increased our revenue guidance. We had historically given a $1.23 billion but we've upped that to $1.24 billion for 2025 and expect to be adjusted positive and generate about $5 million of adjusted EBITDA. Obviously, we're not providing a range, we give fairly specific numbers, but there's always an implied range, but we feel confident enough that we're increasing our guidance for 2025.
Finally, I want to just note you'll -- if you read the letter Jim and I put out, you'll catch this in this section, but we did extend our Google agreement for another five years. It's kind of an awesome win for us in that it allows us to avail ourselves of really best-in-class rates. And it pushes out the note we have with Google another five years, and that note, as you'll recall, comes down as we spend on their platforms, so it gives us more chance to work that down.
So all in great quarter, it's where we want to be. You want revenues accelerating in terms of growth. Our gross profits growing quicker, our costs are in line, so we're generating. And the kind of leverage we want to see and it's really just nice to be in a position where certainly our two main businesses, and genomics and data are really firing on all cylinders and in a period of strength.
On that note, I'm happy to take questions.