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Repay Holdings Corporation Class A Common Stock Canaccord Genuity's 46th Annual Growth Conference

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Joseph VafiEquity Research Analyst

All right. We are continuing here at the 46th Annual Canaccord Growth Conference. I'm Joe Vafi, equity research analyst here at Canaccord, focused on digital assets. Up next, we're pleased to have the team from Repay with us, and that's John Morris, CEO, and Rob Houser, CFO. Repay is a payment technology and software company providing electronic payment processing solutions for businesses, lenders, and financial institutions. The platform handles consumer payments, B2B vendor payments, and loan repayments across multiple payment channels. The company recently closed on an exciting acquisition called KUBRA, which materially increases the size of the company, and we will get into that a little bit more here. We like the Repay story relative valuation, margin profile, and free cash flow generation. So with that, thanks for being with us here today, John.

Joseph VafiEquity Research Analyst

Thank you. And Rob. Thank you.

Joseph VafiEquity Research Analyst

Great. So maybe we'll just start off, maybe John, you want to introduce Repay to us in your own words, and where you are right now in the evolution of the company, and then we'll get into more detailed questions from there.

John MorrisCEO

Sounds great. Yeah, so thank you for joining us today. From a Repay perspective, on a post-KUBRA basis, the new Repay is we think we're one of the leading providers of consumer bill payment, bill presentment across the U.S. and Canada. We offer the most modern consumer experience where the modern consumer is today, and that consumer is us, and how we're operating, how we interact with a large biller. We provide services to some of the largest billers in the U.S., whether it may be on the consumer finance side, and now on the utility municipality side, and the government side. And our ability to offer that end-to-end comprehensive solution, that we can provide all those communication services, those bill presentment services, and obviously the payment services of that.

John MorrisCEO

And we'll share a little bit more about that as we walk through today, but our ability to offer that end-to-end enhanced consumer experience on behalf of our clients, which will be many of the large billers that you interact with as consumers.

Joseph VafiEquity Research Analyst

That's great. Yeah, KUBRA is a very exciting add to the company. Materially expands the business, and with cross-sell opportunities, it's great. You also just reported your Q2 results.

Joseph VafiEquity Research Analyst

Yeah which showed some organic growth acceleration.

Joseph VafiEquity Research Analyst

You've had KUBRA now for a month, so maybe we just walk through the highlights from the quarter real fast.

Robert HouserCFO

Sure. We delivered on our expectations for the quarter for Q2. We had 6% organic growth. 2 points of that organic growth was our political media business, which we'll talk more about in a few minutes. With the primary season going right now, we had a nice uptick from that for the first half of the year. In Q2, our consumer business organic growth was around 4%, and we're starting to ramp that as we go into the year. We gave a guide this year that we'll exit the year on organic growth of 10%-12%. If you exclude that political media number that I talked about, it's more around 7%-9%. We do expect to ramp in the back half of the year. Things are going as planned with the KUBRA integration.

Robert HouserCFO

We had a strong free cash flow conversion at 75%, or $27.4 million of free cash flow in the second quarter. The story that I gave on the call, and the story I continue to give is this, it's a cash story. Both businesses generate a decent amount of cash, and we feel strong about our guide for the rest of the year. We expect a free cash flow conversion of around 30%. That will ramp down because of the term loan that we took to buy KUBRA. Some of the interest will start hitting on the back half of the year for that. But we're starting to expect a decent ramp for the back half of the year as we have new business coming online in our consumer space.

Robert HouserCFO

As I said on the call, we're seeing some of that ramp come through even in the month of July. It's starting to really materialize. We're really excited about that, and we're excited about returning to double-digit reported organic growth, and then we're excited obviously to talk about KUBRA. Only owned it one month for the quarter, but plans are executing quite well.

Joseph VafiEquity Research Analyst

That's great, Rob. There's some good news here. Across my coverage, this may be one of the more attractive risk/reward stories right now, I think, out there. Rob, I want to talk about the industry a little bit, but I also want to maybe double-click on your comments here about this kind of visibility you have to continued acceleration in the organic story.

Joseph VafiEquity Research Analyst

Yeah through the year, because I think that's where the rubber hits the road with your story, relative to potential multiple expansion from here.

Robert HouserCFO

Yeah. We've made a lot of investments we've talked about over the past few quarters, in people, process, and technology. We're launching some new technology in our consumer business. We've talked about some of the voice AI, John talked about on our call, and our Dynamic Wallet where we can put actual physical bills into your iOS or Google device. New technologies coming out, and our customers are excited about it, and we're ramping some new volume. For any of us who tracked us, we had some non-competitive losses that we had ramped or lapped from 2024, of a few clients that were part of an M&A and sold and went with the parent company. But we have since lapped that, and we continue to have pretty strong growth on the back half of the year.

Robert HouserCFO

Our B2B business, excluding the political media piece, still grew in the quarter at 19%, and we feel pretty strongly that we'll stay in the roughly mid-teens as part of our guide that we gave for the full year, for the back half of the year. That business is growing really nice. Anybody who's followed us, that's our payables business for business-to-business payments. We've brought on a lot of volume, and we've been monetizing that volume, from check volume to digitalized volume and monetizing that, and we have a large base of embedded partners that we've started to bring on volume there as well. That business continues to grow nicely. We're really excited. We're going to see that back half ramp, but all things out of the gate into Q3, we're seeing that, and we feel really confident about it.

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