Xometry, Inc. (NASDAQ:XMTR) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Randy Altschuler: Well, look, I think there is clearly and there’s an unusual macroenvironment. And so if buyers, if our suppliers are willing to take prices at lower prices then that means a couple of things. One is that they probably have less work themselves. They have more open capacity. But also second, that we are we talked about this last quarter we are working hard to make it easier and easier for them to work with us. So, I think it’s sort of a combination of those.

Matthew Hedberg: Got it. And then maybe just to double click on Thomasnet. What are the specific things that you’re focused on in 2023 to drive faster conversion of buyers and sellers?

Jim Rallo: Yes. So a couple of different things. I think he is operational and we’re working very hard. We’ve been growing very nicely to the top of funnel there. We’re trying to make it easier and easier for buyers to find what they’re looking for optimize their searching and then making it easier for them to transact. On the flip side, we’re also just trying to streamline the communication that the supplier has with that buyer. So take a step back, before we bought Thomas, all this is happening off platform. We’re moving on platform both to the buyer side and the supplier side. So as we get more top of funnel, more activity there as we make it easier for buyers to find what they’re looking for, that will improve our ability to transact. And likewise, as we get the suppliers more engaged, that will also improve. So we’re working with both sides of the equation.

Matthew Hedberg: Got it. Thanks a lot guys.

Randy Altschuler: And Matt I would just say and we talked to Shawn, we talked a little bit about this on the call, but you should expect to see from us this year more advertising solutions, new self-serve advertising solutions on Thomas for suppliers. As you know that historically that’s all I had to go through salespeople. So the more we can offer self-serve, that’s going to be helpful to the business and as Randy called out we’re going to lay the ground work for pay for performance search, which will be really a step function change for Thomas as well, long term.

Operator: Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes line of Eric Sheridan from Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

Eric Sheridan: Thanks so much. Maybe just one quick follow up to what we’ve been talking about so far. And then I’ll get into a deeper question. But in terms of where we are in the macro cycle what sort of visibility do you think you have in terms of whether you’ve absorbed the most, the biggest wave of what would be excess capacity on the partner side of the equation where they’ve been willing to accept jobs at lower prices and therefore, more of that, behind you that ahead of you, as opposed to the sense you have a visibility of whether the macro environment could get worse over the next three to six months? That would be number one, and maybe they’ll come back with a second one after that?

Randy Altschuler: Yes, I mean, Eric, I think we’ve seen the, we’ve seen the prices the costs bottomed out. So I think we’ve indicated, as you move from January to February. We are seeing, we’re increasing prices, partly because we’re really seeing that floor from the suppliers. We’ve sort of reached that floor from the suppliers. Likewise we made an investment in Q4 to really test the price elasticity of our customer base. And we’re also taking some learnings and we’ve been raising prices collectively. So I think between the combination of the prices of the cost bottoming out from the suppliers, plus the learnings that we’ve gotten from our elasticity tests were AOVs are improving. I think that’s kind for the year, we know, when you look at our guidance for the year, we’ve tried to be conservative when we look at the AOVs just not to get ahead of ourselves.