Ituran Location and Control Ltd. (NASDAQ:ITRN) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 15, 2023 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Kenny Green - Investor Relations

Eyal Sheratzky - Chief Executive Officer

Udi Mizrahi - Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Vice President, Finance

Eli Kamer - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Chris Reimer - Barclays

Abba Horwitz - Old School Partners

Fred Foulkes - Boston University

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Ituran’s Second Quarter 2023 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. You should have all received by now the company’s press release. If you have not received it, please contact Ituran’s Investor Relations team at EK Global Investor Relations at 1-212-378-8040 or view it in the news section of the company’s website at www.ituran.co.il.

I will now hand the call over to Mr. Kenny Green of EK Global Investor Relations. Mr. Green, would you like to begin?

Kenny Green

Thank you, operator. Good day to all of you and welcome to Ituran’s conference call to discuss the second quarter 2023 results. I would like to thank Ituran’s management for hosting this conference call. With me on the line today are Mr. Eyal Sheratzky, CEO; Mr. Udi Mizrahi, Deputy CEO and VP Finance; and Mr. Eli Kamer, CFO of Ituran.

Eyal will begin with a summary of the quarter’s results, followed by Eli with a summary of the financials. We will then open the call for the question-and-answer session. I would like to remind everyone that the safe harbor statement in today’s press release also covers the contents of this conference call.

And with that, Eyal, would you like to begin, please?

Eyal Sheratzky

Thank you, Kenny. I’d like to welcome all of you to our second quarter 2023 call. And I would like to thank you for joining us today. We are clearly very pleased with our achievements in the second quarter 2023 as so far been an excellent year for Ituran. Ituran’s business is in strong growth sales with the subscriber base growing twice as fast as we grow in the past years. This jump in growth rate is now clearly benefiting our financial results.

For the past few quarters, our subscription fees have been constantly at new record levels each quarter and our profits measured in added net income or EBITDA at 4-year highs. As you can imagine, we are very pleased with our results and the progress we’ve made. Given the way our business is structured with a core and stable subscriber base of well over 2 million paying a monthly retainer and the clear long-term visibility this provides, we are very reason to expect that the current positive trends will continue throughout 2023 and into 2024 and beyond.