New business is being written on visibly better terms than the company's own recent norm, and the mix shift has just beg
The model's full reasoning — Q2 2022 call → NOWe need answer YES or NO. Need analyze transcript. Question asks: Does management indicate that economic terms of newest business (prices, rates, fees, contract sizes, durations, profitability) have stepped up meaningfully above company's own recent norm, and improvement only begun to flow into reported results because most business in reported numbers still written at older less favorable terms? Need use only transcript. Management discusses inflation and price increases. Yogesh: "inflation has created an opportunity to increase effective prices wherever possible. A significant portion of Progress’s revenue comes from over 1,700 ISVs, who embed our products in their offerings and have either revenue sharing or some form of royalty arrangements with us. As many of these companies raise the prices of their products, we indirectly benefit. We also have a variety of contract agreements with our large numbers of customers and partners, which results in a variety of methods by which we pursue price increases. For example, in some cases, we may increase price at the time of renewal. And in other cases, a price increase may take the form of reduced discounts. We've successfully begun to implement this way we can and we continue to look for more opportunities." Then Anthony: "First, it includes the negative impact of exchange rates... Next, it does not assume any increase to revenue associated with the price increases that Yogesh mentioned earlier." So they have begun to implement price increases, but guidance does not assume any increase to revenue associated with price increases. This suggests price increases are happening but not yet reflected in guidance/reported? Need determine if both halves: (1) terms of new business visibly improved vs own recent past. They say "inflation has created an opportunity to increase effective prices wherever possible." "We've successfully begun to implement this way we can" - so they have achieved some price increases. But is it "meaningfully above company's own recent norm"? They mention modest? Later in Q&A: "Usually, the price increases are rather modest. They might be 3% to 5% a year. But again, as I said, because a small percentage of them get touched every year, and it's a small percent of a 40% pool to begin with.
| Ticker | Company | Call | Date | Call grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTO | CTO Realty Growth, Inc. | Q2 2023 | 2023-07-28 | B |
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| BRKL | Brookline Bancorp, Inc. | Q2 2022 | 2022-07-30 | B+ |
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| ALLY | Ally Financial Inc. | Q1 2018 | 2018-04-26 | B+ |
CRL · Q2 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management's comments on Safety Assessment pricing and backlog directly address both required elements: they describe current bookings and backlog at "escalating prices" and "meaningful price increases" that are already achieved on real transactions (not targets or future expectations), while noting that the reported Q2 results are still dominated by older 2022 terms and that the stronger pricing is accelerating into H2 and 2023 bookings.
ESS · Q2 2018 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management describes the loss-to-lease metric rising to 3.
CTO · Q2 2023 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...