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Grubhub Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results

Chicago, IL - GrubHub Inc. (NYSE: GRUB), the leading takeout marketplace, today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015.

"We delivered significant year-over-year growth in the seasonally slower second quarter, driven by strong performance in all of our markets across the country," said Matt Maloney, CEO. "GrubHub's almost 6 million diners ordered more than 20 million times during the quarter, driving revenue growth of 47 percent year-over-year."

Second Quarter 2015 Highlights

The following results reflect the financial performance and key operating metrics of our business for the three months ended June 30, 2015 as compared to the same period in 2014.

Second Quarter Financial Highlights

  • Revenues: $88.0 million, a 47% year-over-year increase from $60.0 million in the second quarter of 2014.
  • Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA: $28.4 million, a 68% year-over-year increase from $16.9 million in the second quarter of 2014.
  • Net Income: $9.4 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, a 247% year-over-year increase from $2.7 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2014.
  • Non-GAAP Net Income: $15.0 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, a 146% year-over-year increase from $6.1 million, or $0.07 per diluted share.

Second Quarter Key Business Metrics Highlights

  • Active Diners were 5.93 million, a 42% year-over-year increase from 4.19 million Active Diners in the second quarter of 2014.
  • Daily Average Grubs were 220,100, a 26% year-over-year increase from 174,500 Daily Average Grubs in the second quarter of 2014.
  • Gross Food Sales were $568 million, a 34% year-over-year increase from $423 million in the second quarter of 2014.

Seamless Upgrade

"In addition to strong financial performance, we released a significant upgrade to the Seamless consumer interface, which brings the best performing elements of all of our platforms into one consolidated experience," continued Maloney. "The new interface has an updated design and is cleaner, more intuitive and importantly, mobile-centric. We are also now on a single technology stack, which will allow us to scale more easily and will dramatically improve our time to market for new features and functionality."

Delivery Expansion

"We are making great strides expanding our delivery capabilities. By next week, we will have doubled the number of markets where we offer delivery in the months following our February acquisitions of two of the nation's leading restaurant delivery companies," noted Maloney. "We are proud that more than half of our 6 million diners live in markets that have GrubHub delivery right now."

Second Quarter and Full Year 2015 Guidance

Based on information available as of July 28, 2015, the company is providing the following financial guidance for the second quarter and full year of 2015:

Third Quarter 2015
(in millions)
Expected revenue range: $85 - $87
Expected Adjusted EBITDA range: $23 - $25

Full Year 2015
(in millions)
Expected revenue range: $358 - $364
Expected Adjusted EBITDA range: $104 - $112

About GrubHub

GrubHub (NYSE: GRUB) is one of the nation's largest portfolios of online and mobile takeout food ordering and delivery services. Connecting diners to more than 35,000 restaurants in more than 900 U.S. cities and London, the company's platforms and services strive to make takeout better through innovative restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms and an improved delivery experience. The GrubHub Inc. portfolio of brands includes GrubHub, Seamless, AllMenus, MenuPages, Restaurants on the Run and DiningIn.

Use of Forward Looking Statements:

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding our management's future expectations, beliefs, intentions, goals, strategies, plans and prospects, including the expected financial performance of GrubHub following its recent acquisitions and investment in delivery. Such statements constitute "forward-looking" statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the matters set forth in the filings that we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including those set forth in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 5, 2015, which are on file with the SEC and are available on the Investor Relations section of our website at http://investors.grubhub.com/. Additional information will be set forth in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that will be filed for the quarter ended June 30, 2015, which should be read in conjunction with these financial results. Please also note that forward-looking statements represent our management's beliefs and assumptions only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to publicly update these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, even if new information, becomes available in the future.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per diluted share attributable to common stockholders are financial measures that are not calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP.

We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income adjusted to exclude acquisition and restructuring costs, income taxes, depreciation and amortization and stock-based compensation expense. Non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per diluted share attributable to common stockholders exclude acquisition and restructuring costs, amortization of acquired intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense and other nonrecurring items as well as the income tax effects of these non-GAAP adjustments. We use these non-GAAP financial measures as key performance measures because we believe they facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period by excluding potential differences primarily caused by variations in capital structures, tax positions, the impact of acquisitions and restructuring, the impact of depreciation and amortization expense on our fixed assets and the impact of stock-based compensation expense. Adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per diluted share attributable to common stockholders are not measurements of our financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP.

See "Schedule of Non-GAAP Financial Measures Reconciliation" below for a reconciliation of net income to Adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per diluted share attributable to common stockholders.

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