NaviSite Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Results

11-03-2008

Fourth Quarter EBITDA increases 54% with a 16% increase in Revenue
Fiscal year EBITDA increases 48% with a 22% increase in Revenue

Andover, MA. November 3, 2008-NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of enterprise hosting solutions and application services, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2008 that ended on July 31, 2008.

• Total revenue for the quarter ended in July 31, 2008 was $40.2 million representing a year-over-year increase of 16% and sequential increase of 2%. Total revenue for the full fiscal year 2008 was $154.6 million representing a 22% increase over revenue of $126.2 million in fiscal year 2007.
• Recurring hosting revenue was $34.4 million for the fourth quarter representing a year-over-year increase of 22% and a sequential increase of 4%.  Recurring hosting revenue for the full fiscal year was $131.3 million representing an increase of 24% over the revenue of $105.8 million in fiscal year 2007.
• EBITDA, excluding impairment costs, stock-based compensation, severance, costs related to discontinued operations, and other non-operational charges (“EBITDA”), for the fourth quarter was $10.1 million representing a year-over-year increase of 54% and a 17% sequential increase. EBITDA for the full fiscal year 2008 was $34.2 million representing an increase of 48% over EBITDA of $23.1 million in fiscal year 2007. EBITDA for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008 includes a $1.6m settlement gain.
• Income from operations for the fourth quarter was $1.4 million representing a 45% year-over- year increase.  Income from operations for the full fiscal year 2008 was $5.0 million representing an increase of 122% over income from operations of $2.3 million in fiscal year 2007.
• Net loss attributable to common shareholders for the fourth quarter was $1.2 million, or $(0.04) per share, representing a reduction of 93% from the loss of $17.1 million reported in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2007.  Net loss attributable to common shareholders for the full fiscal year 2008 was $11.3 million or $(0.33) per share compared to a loss of $25.9 million or ($0.85) per share for the fiscal year 2007.  Net loss for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008 includes a $1.6m settlement gain.

“We are pleased with the results in the fourth quarter where significant progress was made driving organic hosting revenue growth and in the achievement of a record quarter of EBITDA .” said Arthur Becker, Chief Executive Officer of NaviSite. “Despite a slowing economic climate and a challenging environment for professional services, demand for our Enterprise Hosting services was robust as shown by our $1.0m of new hosting recurring bookings and the 4% sequential growth in our hosting revenue”.

• Booked approximately $1.0 million of new monthly recurring hosting revenue (MRR) in the fourth quarter bringing the full fiscal year 2008 new MRR bookings total to $3.8 million which represents a 19% increase over $3.2 million recorded in fiscal year 2007
• Signed $34.3 million of total hosting contract value with an average contract term of 35 months during the fourth quarter for recurring applications services and enterprise hosting business
•  Signed professional services contracts with a total value of $4.2 million during the fourth quarter compared to $3.7million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 and $6.5 million in the same period of FY07.
• Customer churn, defined as the loss of a customer or a reduction in a customer’s monthly revenue run rate from our overall active customer pool, was 1.2% per month during the quarter compared to 1.3% in the prior quarter and 2.5% a year ago.

Guidance:
NaviSite will provide guidance for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 on its earnings call.

 Conference Call Scheduled for November 3, 2008
NaviSite, Inc. Chief Executive Officer, Arthur Becker, and Chief Financial Officer, Jim Pluntze will host a conference call on Monday November 3, 2008 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company’s results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008.

NaviSite’s conference call can be accessed by dialing 866-356-4279 (International: 617-597-5394) and entering passcode 82219560. Alternatively, participants can listen to a live webcast of the call available through NaviSite’s website at http://navisite.com/investors/events. A replay of the call will be accessible following the conference call by dialing 888-286-8010 (International: 617-801-6888) and using passcode 49796842.

EBITDA:
EBITDA is not a recognized measure for financial statement presentation under United States generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP). The Company believes that the non-GAAP measure of EBITDA provides investors with a useful supplemental measure of the Company’s actual and expected operating and financial performance by excluding the impact of interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. The Company also excludes impairment costs, stock-based compensation, severance, discontinued operations, and other non-operational charges from its non-GAAP measure, as such items may be considered to be of a non-operational nature. EBITDA does not have any standardized definition and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other reporting companies. Management uses EBITDA to assist in evaluating the Company’s actual and expected operating and financial performance. These non-GAAP results should not be evaluated in isolation of, or as a substitute for, the Company’s financial results prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. A table reconciling the Company’s net loss, as reported, to EBITDA is included in the condensed consolidated financial statements in this release. The Company believes that using EBITDA as a performance measure, together with net loss, will help investors better understand the Company’s underlying financial performance.

 About NaviSite
NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. Customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in 17 state-of-the-art data centers supported by more than 700 professionals. NaviSite provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities, packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in class technologies and a full suite of web-hosting and internet infrastructure options. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com.

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