v3.20.1
Segment and Geographic Information
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment and Geographic Information Segment and Geographic Information
The Company has two reportable segments: the Graduate Program Segment and the Alternative Credential Segment (formerly known as the Short Course Segment). The Company’s reportable segments are determined based on (i) financial information reviewed by the chief operating decision maker, the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), (ii) internal management and related reporting structure, and (iii) the basis upon which the CEO makes resource allocation decisions. The Company’s Graduate Program Segment includes the technology and services provided to nonprofit colleges and universities to enable the online delivery of degree programs. The Company’s Alternative Credential Segment includes the premium online short courses and technical skills-based boot camps provided through relationships with nonprofit colleges and universities.
Graduate Program Segment
For the three months ended March 31, 2020, one university client accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue, with $17.5 million, or approximately 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenue. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, three university clients each accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue, as follows: $22.6 million, $12.9 million and $12.7 million, or approximately 18%, 11% and 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenue, respectively.
As of March 31, 2020, one university client accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance, with $8.7 million, or approximately 11% of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance. As of December 31, 2019, two university clients each accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance, as follows: $6.1 million and $4.9 million, or approximately 18% and 15% of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance, respectively.
Alternative Credential Segment
For the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, there were no customers or individual university clients that had associated offerings that accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated revenue. In addition, as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, no customers had accounts receivable, net balances that accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, net balance, as customers are individual students or third parties paying on their behalf, rather than university clients.
For the three months ended March 31, 2020, offerings associated with one university client accounted for 10% or more of the segment’s revenue, with $7.9 million, or approximately 14% of the segment’s revenue. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, offerings associated with four university clients each accounted for 10% or more of the segment’s revenue, and when combined, accounted for approximately 88% of the segment’s revenue.
Segment Performance
The following table presents financial information regarding each of the Company’s reportable segment’s results of operations for each of the periods indicated.
 
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
2020
 
2019
 
(dollars in thousands)
Revenue by segment*
 

 
 

Graduate Program Segment
$
118,457

 
$
104,174

Alternative Credential Segment
57,022

 
18,060

Total revenue
$
175,479


$
122,234

 
 
 
 
Segment profitability**
 

 
 

Graduate Program Segment
$
6,460

 
$
710

Alternative Credential Segment
(10,764
)
 
(3,916
)
Total segment profitability
$
(4,304
)

$
(3,206
)
 
 
 
 
Segment profitability margin***
 

 
 

Graduate Program Segment
5.5
 %
 
0.7
 %
Alternative Credential Segment
(18.9
)
 
(21.7
)
Total segment profitability margin
(2.5
)%

(2.6
)%
 
*
The Company has excluded immaterial amounts of intersegment revenues from the three-month periods ended March 31, 2020 and 2019.
**
The Company defines segment profitability as net income or net loss, as applicable, before net interest income (expense), taxes, depreciation and amortization expense, foreign currency gains or losses, deferred revenue fair value adjustments, transaction costs, integration costs, restructuring-related costs, stockholder activism costs, impairment charges, 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 the respective segment’s revenue.

The following table presents a reconciliation of the Company’s net loss to total segment profitability for each of the periods indicated.
 
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
2020
 
2019
 
(in thousands)
Net loss
$
(60,106
)
 
$
(21,554
)
Adjustments:
 
 
 
Interest expense (income), net
4,980

 
(2,294
)
Foreign currency loss
2,271

 
370

Income tax benefit
(1,055
)
 
(941
)
Depreciation and amortization expense
23,485

 
9,698

Transaction and integration costs
724

 
1,931

Restructuring-related costs
288

 

Stockholder activism costs
4,239

 

Stock-based compensation expense
20,870

 
9,584

Total adjustments
55,802

 
18,348

Total segment profitability
$
(4,304
)
 
$
(3,206
)


The following table presents the Company’s total assets by segment for each of the periods indicated.
 
March 31,
2020
 
December 31,
2019
 
(in thousands)
Total assets
 

 
 

Graduate Program Segment
$
516,021

 
$
507,187

Alternative Credential Segment
665,940

 
679,643

Total assets
$
1,181,961


$
1,186,830



Trade Accounts Receivable and Contract Liabilities

The following table presents the Company’s trade accounts receivable and contract liabilities in each segment for each of the periods indicated.
 
March 31,
2020
 
December 31,
2019
 
(in thousands)
Trade accounts receivable
 

 
 

Graduate Program Segment accounts receivable
$
28,161

 
$
3,454

Graduate Program Segment unbilled revenue*
25,035

 
12,123

Alternative Credential Segment accounts receivable
24,146

 
19,408

Provision for credit losses
(1,931
)
 
(1,330
)
Total trade accounts receivable
$
75,411

 
$
33,655

 
 
 
 
Contract liabilities
 

 
 

Graduate Program Segment deferred revenue
$
16,839

 
$
2,210

Alternative Credential Segment deferred revenue
52,983

 
46,623

Total contract liabilities
$
69,822


$
48,833


 
*
Unbilled revenue represents contract assets.

For the Graduate Program Segment, revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 that was included in the deferred revenue balance at the beginning of each year was $2.2 million and $2.4 million, respectively.

For the Alternative Credential Segment, revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 that was included in the deferred revenue balance at the beginning of each year was $34.4 million and $5.4 million, respectively.

Contract Acquisition Costs

The Graduate Program Segment had $0.5 million and $0.5 million of net capitalized contract acquisition costs recorded primarily within university payments and other assets, non-current on the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.

Geographical Information

The Company’s non-U.S. revenue is based on the currency of the country in which the university client primarily operates. The Company’s non-U.S. revenue was $11.3 million and $7.7 million, for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, substantially all of which was sourced from the Alternative Credential Segment’s operations outside of the U.S. The Company’s long-lived tangible assets in non-U.S. countries as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 totaled $2.0 million and $2.7 million, respectively.