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Segment and Geographic Information
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
Segment and Geographic Information  
Segment and Geographic Information

 

11.           Segment and Geographic Information

 

The Company’s operations consist of two operating segments and two reportable segments: the Graduate Program Segment and the Short Course Segment. The Company’s Graduate Program Segment provides services to well-recognized nonprofit colleges and universities, primarily in the United States, to enable the online delivery of graduate programs. The Company’s Short Course Segment provides premium online short courses to working professionals around the world through relationships with leading universities in the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

 

During the three months ended June 30, 2018, three university clients in the Graduate Program Segment each accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue, as follows: $20.4 million, $13.1 million and $10.2 million, which equals 21%, 13% and 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenue, respectively. During the three months ended June 30, 2017, four university clients in the Graduate Program Segment each accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue, as follows: $19.1 million, $12.1 million, $6.9 million and $6.8 million, which equals 29%, 19%, 11% and 10%  of the Company’s consolidated revenue, respectively.

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2018, three university clients in the Graduate Program Segment each accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue, as follows: $41.1 million, $26.5 million and $19.8 million, which equals 22%, 14% and 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenue, respectively. During the six months ended June 30, 2017, four university clients in the Graduate Program Segment each accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue, as follows: $38.8 million, $23.8 million, $13.8 million and $13.2 million, which equals 30%, 18%, 11% and 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenue, respectively.

 

As of June 30, 2018, two university clients in the Graduate Program Segment accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance, as follows: $26.5 million and $7.5 million, which equals 53%  and 15% of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance, respectively. As of December 31, 2017, two university clients in the Graduate Program Segment each accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance, as follows: $9.4 million and $2.0 million, which equals 67% and 14% of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance, respectively.

 

For the Company’s Short Course Segment, there were no customers that accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue for the three and six month periods ending June 30, 2018 and 2017, or accounts receivable, net balance, as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, as such amounts are derived from individual students or third parties paying on their behalf, rather than directly from university clients. For the three months ended June 30, 2018, revenue associated with the short courses offered with the Company’s three largest university clients in this segment accounted for approximately 83% of the segment’s revenue and approximately 14% of the Company’s consolidated revenue. For the six months ended June 30, 2018, revenue associated with the short courses offered with the Company’s three largest university clients in this segment accounted for approximately 83% of the segment’s revenue and approximately 12% of the Company’s consolidated revenue. In this segment, no individual university client had revenue associated with it that accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018.

 

Segment Performance

 

The following table summarizes financial information regarding each reportable segment’s results of operations for the periods presented:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended
June 30,

 

Six Months Ended
June 30,

 

 

 

2018

 

2017

 

2018

 

2017

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Revenue by segment*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Program Segment

 

$

81,209

 

$

64,995

 

$

161,768

 

$

129,824

 

Short Course Segment

 

16,214

 

 

27,943

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total revenue

 

$

97,423

 

$

64,995

 

$

189,711

 

$

129,824

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment profitability**

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Program Segment

 

$

(5,905

)

$

(1,497

)

$

(6,179

)

$

2,411

 

Short Course Segment

 

350

 

 

(898

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total segment profitability

 

$

(5,555

)

$

(1,497

)

$

(7,077

)

$

2,411

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment profitability margin***

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Program Segment

 

(6.1

)%

(2.3

)%

(3.2

)%

1.9

%

Short Course Segment

 

0.4

 

 

(0.5

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total segment profitability margin

 

(5.7

)%

(2.3

)%

(3.7

)%

1.9

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*            The Company did not have any material intersegment revenues for any periods presented.

**          The Company evaluates segment profitability as net income or net loss, as applicable, before net interest income (expense), taxes, depreciation and amortization, foreign currency gains or losses, acquisition-related gains or losses and stock-based compensation expense. Some or all of these items may not be applicable in any given reporting period.

***        The Company defines segment profitability margin as segment profitability as a percentage of consolidated revenue.

 

The following table reconciles net loss to total segment profitability:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended
June 30,

 

Six Months Ended
June 30,

 

 

 

2018

 

2017

 

2018

 

2017

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Net loss

 

$

(18,347

)

$

(11,754

)

$

(33,218

)

$

(15,193

)

Adjustments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

(912

)

(53

)

(1,254

)

(249

)

Interest expense

 

27

 

1

 

54

 

1

 

Foreign currency loss

 

825

 

1,031

 

1,220

 

1,031

 

Depreciation and amortization expense

 

7,408

 

3,783

 

14,783

 

7,431

 

Income tax benefit

 

(3,565

)

 

(4,793

)

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

9,009

 

5,495

 

16,131

 

9,390

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total adjustments

 

12,792

 

10,257

 

26,141

 

17,604

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total segment profitability

 

$

(5,555

)

$

(1,497

)

$

(7,077

)

$

2,411

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Company’s total assets by segment are as follows:

 

 

 

June 30,
2018

 

December 31,
2017

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Total assets

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Program Segment

 

$

711,291

 

$

359,597

 

Short Course Segment

 

114,173

 

122,465

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total assets

 

$

825,464

 

$

482,062

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contract Assets and Liabilities

 

The Company’s contract assets and liabilities in each segment are as follows:

 

 

 

June 30,
2018

 

December 31,
2017

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Contract assets

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Program Segment accounts receivable, net

 

$

34,758

 

$

12,520

 

Graduate Program Segment unbilled revenue

 

13,776

 

666

 

Short Course Segment accounts receivable, net

 

1,277

 

988

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total contract assets

 

$

49,811

 

$

14,174

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contract liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Program Segment deferred revenue

 

$

22,829

 

$

2,523

 

Short Course Segment deferred revenue

 

8,033

 

4,501

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total contract liabilities

 

$

30,862

 

$

7,024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Graduate Program Segment, revenue recognized during the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 that was included in the deferred revenue balance at the beginning of the year was $0.0 million and $2.5 million, respectively. For the Short Course Segment, revenue recognized during the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 that was included in the deferred revenue balance at the beginning of the year was $0.0 million and $4.5 million, respectively.

 

Contract Acquisition Costs

 

The Graduate Program Segment had $0.3 million of net capitalized contract acquisition costs as of June 30, 2018. For the three months ended June 30, 2018, the Company capitalized $0.2 million and recorded no amortization expense in the Graduate Program Segment. For the six months ended June 30, 2018, the Company capitalized $0.3 million and recorded no amortization expense in the Graduate Program Segment.

 

Geographical Information

 

The Company’s non-U.S. revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018, determined based upon the university client’s functional currency, was $9.8 million and $17.2 million, respectively, entirely from the Short Course Segment’s operations outside of the U.S. The Company did not have non-U.S. revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017. The Company’s long-lived assets in non-U.S. countries as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 totaled approximately $1.1 million and $0.7 million, respectively.