i3 Verticals Completes Net Data Acquisition

NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- i3 Verticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IIIV) (“i3 Verticals” or the “Company”) today announced the completion of the acquisitions of Northeast Texas Data, LLC and Graves Humphries Stahl, LLC (collectively, “Net Data”) for a combined purchase price of approximately $24 million.

Greg Daily, CEO of i3 Verticals, commented, “We are excited to announce the completion of the Net Data acquisition, as we continue to expand our Public Sector vertical. We look forward to working with the talented and dedicated Net Data team of 70 employees built over 35 years. With the completion of this transaction, we have acquired new software to offer to our local government customers and we have expanded into an attractive Texas market.” 

Net Data provides software and services for municipalities and local governments, primarily within Texas. The software platform provides solutions for judicial management, property tax collection, court records, law enforcement and traffic violations, financial systems, document imaging and other programs critical to the day-to-day business of local governments.

“In our February 13, 2019, earnings release, we indicated that we had entered into three signed term sheets for potential acquisitions. On March 4, 2019, we announced the completion of two of those acquisitions. This acquisition is the third and final acquisition of those three deals. Including Net Data, our pro forma leverage ratio is currently approximately 2.5x, and we have approximately $40 million in borrowing capacity under our current Credit Agreement. We are excited about our acquisition pipeline and our ability to expand i3 Verticals’ reach within attractive vertical markets,” concluded Daily.

Revised 2019 Outlook

Net Data is expected to produce its strongest financial results during the Company's first and second fiscal quarters ended December 31 and March 31, respectively. Net Data will begin to be consolidated into the Company’s financial results at the beginning of the third fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2019. The Company is providing the following revised outlook for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, incorporating the projected financial impact of the Net Data acquisition announced today:

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1. Under GAAP, companies must adjust, as necessary, beginning balances of acquired deferred revenue to fair value as part of acquisition accounting as defined by GAAP. For the 2019 outlook, the Company has removed the effect of these adjustments to acquisition date fair value from acquisitions that have closed as of the earnings release date.
2. Assumes an effective pro forma tax rate of 25.0% (non-GAAP).

With respect to the “2019 Outlook” above, adjusted net revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted diluted earnings per share are non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliation of adjusted net revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance to the closest corresponding GAAP measure on a forward-looking basis is not available without unreasonable efforts. This inability results from the inherent difficulty in forecasting generally and quantifying certain projected amounts that are necessary for such reconciliations. In particular, sufficient information is not available to calculate certain adjustments required for such reconciliations, including changes in the fair value of contingent consideration, income tax expense of i3 Verticals, Inc. and equity-based compensation expense. The Company expects these adjustments may have a potentially significant impact on future GAAP financial results.

About i3 Verticals

Helping drive the convergence of software and payments, i3 Verticals delivers seamlessly integrated payment and software solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses and other organizations in strategic vertical markets, such as education, non-profit, the public sector, property management, and healthcare and to the business-to-business payments market. With a broad suite of payment and software solutions that address the specific needs of its clients in each strategic vertical market, i3 Verticals processed approximately $11.7 billion in total payment volume for the 12 months ended December 31, 2018.

Forward-Looking Statements

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