NEW YORK & TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pagaya Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: PGY) (“Pagaya”, the “Company” or “we”), a global technology company delivering artificial intelligence infrastructure for the financial ecosystem, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2024.
For additional information, view Pagaya's fourth quarter 2024 letter to shareholders here.
“We delivered another quarter of strong operating and financial results, with all key metrics ahead of guidance and enter 2025 on the strongest footing in our history, while addressing legacy issues,” said Gal Krubiner, co-founder and CEO of Pagaya Technologies. "We have bolstered our balance sheet flexibility, cash flow generation and operating leverage and are positioned to demonstrate our earnings power and sustainable revenue growth in 2025 and onward. We have re-marked our investments in loans & securities including the 2021 - 2023 vintages, and no longer expect them to have a material impact on our performance going forward. Pagaya is fully self-funded, with inaugural GAAP profitability guidance, and we look forward to demonstrating long-term value for our shareholders, our lending and funding partners, and US consumers.”
Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Highlights
All comparisons are made versus the same period in 2023 and on a year-over-year basis unless otherwise stated.
- Record network volume of $2.6 billion in 4Q’24 (at the high-end of outlook of ~$2.4 billion to $2.6 billion), grew by 9% year-over-year, driven primarily by Personal Loans. Network volume increased by 17% in FY’24 to a record $9.7 billion.
- Continued partner growth and expanded enterprise relationships, including addition and expansion of the OneMain partnership and addition of Avvance, the POS lending solution offered by U.S. Bank and Elavon.
- The Company raised $6 billion across 17 asset-backed securitizations (“ABS”) in 2024 and was once again the number one personal loan ABS issuer in the US by issuance size, with a funding base of over 130 institutional investment firms.
- The Company executed its 3rd pass-through securitization of 2024 in December for $100 million, a total of $250 million during the year. The Company announced a forward flow agreement with Blue Owl in February totaling $2.4 billion over 24 months, its second large forward flow, together totaling ~$2 billion in annual funding capacity. Completed term loan upsizing with improved terms and additional corporate lending partners, part of previously-announced refinancing transactions to reduce interest expense and unlock additional balance sheet liquidity.
- Record total revenue and other income of $279 million in 4Q’24 (exceeding outlook of ~$257 to $272 million), increased 28% year-over-year, driven primarily by 31% growth in fee revenue. Total revenue and other income increased by 27% in FY’24 to $1.03 billion.
- GAAP operating income of $32 million grew by $21 million year-over-year in 4Q’24 and by $91 million for FY’24.
- Record revenue from fees less production costs (“FRLPC”) as a % of network volume improved 132 basis points year-over-year to 4.5% in the fourth quarter.
- Record operating leverage in 4Q’24, core operating expense represented 49% of FRLPC, from 52% last quarter and 67% in the year-ago quarter, the lowest level since going public.
- Net loss attributable to Pagaya shareholders of ($238) million in 4Q’24, and ($401) million for FY’24, was impacted by non-cash items such as fair value adjustments and share-based compensation expense.
- Record adjusted EBITDA of $64 million in 4Q’24 (exceeding outlook of ~$49 to $59 million), grew 88% year-over-year with adjusted EBITDA margin up 728 basis points to 23.0%. Adjusted EBITDA increased to a record $210 million in FY’24 from $82 million in FY’23.
- Adjusted net income of $13 million in 4Q’24 and $67 million for FY’24, excluding non-cash items such as share-based compensation and fair value adjustments.
First Quarter 2025 Outlook
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1Q’25 |
Network Volume |
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Expected to be between $2.5 billion and $2.7 billion |
Total Revenue and Other Income |
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Expected to be between $280 million and $295 million |
Adjusted EBITDA |
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Expected to be between $65 million and $75 million |
GAAP Net Income |
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Expected to be between ($20) million and breakeven |
Full Year 2025 Outlook
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FY’25 |
Network Volume |
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Expected to be between $10.25 billion and $11.75 billion |
Total Revenue and Other Income |
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Expected to be between $1.15 billion and $1.275 billion |
Adjusted EBITDA |
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Expected to be between $265 million and $315 million |
GAAP Net Income |
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Profitability expected in 2Q’25; between ($10) million and $40 million for FY’25 |
Webcast
The Company will hold a webcast and conference call today, February 13, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast of the call will be available via the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at investor.pagaya.com. To listen to the live webcast, please go to the site at least five minutes prior to the scheduled start time in order to register, download and install any necessary audio software. Shortly before the call, the accompanying materials will be made available on the Company’s website. Shortly after the call, a replay of the webcast will be available for 90 days on the Company’s website.
The conference call can also be accessed by dialing 1-877-407-9208 or 1-201-493-6784. The telephone replay can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2921 or 1-412-317-6671 and providing the conference ID# 13751027. The telephone replay will be available starting shortly after the call until Thursday, February 27, 2025. A replay will also be available on the Investor Relations website following the call.
About Pagaya Technologies
Pagaya (NASDAQ: PGY) is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide. By using machine learning, a vast data network and an AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners, their customers, and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit pagaya.com.
Cautionary Note About Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “can,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “opportunity,” “future,” “strategy,” “might,” “outlook,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “strive,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely result,” and similar expressions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding: The Company’s strategy and future operations, including the Company’s expectations regarding sustainable revenue growth and the Company’s ability to deliver consistent results for its lending partners and investors; the Company’s ability to continue to drive sustainable gains in profitability; the Company’s ability to achieve continued momentum in its business; the Company’s ability to achieve positive net cash flow in 2025; the Company’s ability to achieve GAAP net income profitability in the second quarter of 2025; the Company’s financial outlook for Network Volume, Total Revenue and Other Income, Adjusted EBITDA and GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2025 and the Company’s financial outlook for Network Volume, Total Revenue and Other Income, Adjusted EBITDA and GAAP net income for the full year 2025. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include factors relating to: the Company's ability to attract new partners and to retain and grow its relationships with existing partners to support the underlying investment needs for its securitizations and funds products; the need to maintain a consistently high level of trust in its brand; the concentration of a large percentage of its investment revenue with a small number of partners and platforms; its ability to sustain its revenue growth rate or the growth rate of its related key operating metrics; its ability to improve, operate and implement its technology, its existing funding arrangements for the Company and its affiliates that may not be renewed or replaced or its existing funding sources that may be unwilling or unable to provide funding to it on terms acceptable to it, or at all; the performance of loans facilitated through its model; changes in market interest rates; its securitizations, warehouse credit facility agreements; the impact on its business of general economic conditions, including, but not limited to rising interest rates, inflation, supply chain disruptions, exchange rate fluctuations and labor shortages; its ability to realize the potential benefits of past or future acquisitions; anticipated benefits and savings from our announced reduction in workforce; changes in the political, legal and regulatory framework for AI technology, machine learning, financial institutions and consumer protection; the ability to maintain the listing of our securities on Nasdaq; the financial performance of its partners, and fluctuations in the U.S. consumer credit and housing market; its ability to grow effectively through strategic alliances; seasonal fluctuations in our revenue as a result of consumer spending and saving patterns; pending and future litigation, regulatory actions and/or compliance issues and other risks that are described in and the Company’s Form 10-K filed on April 25, 2024 and subsequent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements reflect the Company's views with respect to future events as of the date hereof and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, reflect the Company’s current beliefs and are based on information currently available as of the date they are made, and the Company assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
Financial Information; Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Some of the unaudited financial information and data contained in this press release and Form 8-K, such as Fee Revenue Less Production Costs (“FRLPC”), FRLPC as a % of volume, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Net Income, have not been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”). To supplement the unaudited consolidated financial statements prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, management uses the non-GAAP financial measures FRLPC, FRLPC as a % of volume, Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA to provide investors with additional information about our financial performance and to enhance the overall understanding of the results of operations by highlighting the results from ongoing operations and the underlying profitability of our business. Management believes these non-GAAP measures provide an additional tool for investors to use in comparing our core financial performance over multiple periods. However, non-GAAP financial measures have limitations in their usefulness to investors because they have no standardized meaning prescribed by U.S. GAAP and are not prepared under any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. In addition, non-GAAP financial measures may be calculated differently from, and therefore may not be directly comparable to, similarly titled measures used by other companies. As a result, non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed as supplementing, and not as an alternative or substitute for, our unaudited consolidated financial statements prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. To address these limitations, management provides a reconciliation of Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA to net income (loss) attributable to Pagaya’s shareholders and a calculation of FRLPC and FRLPC as a % of volume. Management encourages investors and others to review our financial information in its entirety, not to rely on any single financial measure and to view Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA in conjunction with its respective related GAAP financial measures.