PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk (OTCPK:GTOFF) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 29, 2024 8:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Reggy Susanto – Head of Investor Relations
Patrick Walujo – President, Director & Chief Executive Officer
Wei-Jye Jacky Lo – Chief Financial Officer
Melissa Siska Juminto – President of E-commerce
Thomas Husted – Chief Operating Officer
Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo – President of On-Demand Services
Conference Call Participants
Henry Wibowo – JPMorgan
Ferry Wong – Citi
Ryan Winipta – Indo Premier
Adrian Joezer – Mandiri Sekuritas
Ariyanto Jahja – Macquarie
Reggy Susanto
Hello, everyone. This is Reggy Susanto, Head of Investor Relations. Welcome to the PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded.
On today’s call, Patrick Walujo, President Director and Group CEO; and Jacky Lo, Group CFO, will deliver prepared remarks. Following their commentary, we will open up the call for questions and be joined by Thomas Husted, our Vice President, Director and President of Financial Technology; Hans Patuwo, our Chief Operating Officer; Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo, our President of On-Demand Services; and Melissa Siska Juminto, Director of the company.
We would like to highlight that the information presented today has been prepared solely based on the unaudited consolidated selected financial information for the 3 months ended March 31, 2024. As a reminder, today’s discussion may contain forward-looking statements about the company’s future business and financial performance as well as certain non-Indonesian financial company standard measures as complements to the Indonesian Financial Accounting Standards disclosures. Before using and/or relying on these measurements and forward-looking statements, please take note of our disclaimer and cautionary statements disclosed in our earnings presentation and press release. During the earnings call, we will review the results of our operations and earnings presentation which can be found on our website.
Our reporting currency is the Indonesian rupia and we will denote the U.S. dollar equivalent by applying an exchange rate of IDR15,863 to $1 based on the middle rates published by Bank Indonesia as of the end of March 2024. We will refer to pro forma figures to facilitate like-for-like sequential and year-on-year comparisons of our performance following the closing of our announced agreement with TikTok and the upcoming deconsolidation of GoTo Logistics. These 4 figures assume that Tokopedia and GoTo Logistics were deconsolidated on January 1, 2023.
Further, in the On-Demand segment, we have changed our business model for certain delivery businesses from an agency model to a principal model, while also including a number of additional items in our GTV figure to bring our reporting in line with that regional and international peers. We will discuss this further in the financial section. We will also refer to core GTV which excludes our merchant payment gateway. For more information and additional disclosures on our recent business and financial performance, please refer to our earnings press release and supplemental presentation which can be found on our IR website.
With that, I will turn the call over to Patrick.
Patrick Walujo
Thank you, Reggy. Hello, everyone and thank you for joining us today. During our last call, I set out for the foundational changes we made to our business in 2023 as we met our target to achieve positive adjusted EBITDA in the fourth quarter.
Now as we look ahead to 2024, we must build on the foundation by accelerating growth and investing for the future. We will do this by growing our user base, expanding our wallet share among existing users, reducing operating costs and strengthening our partnership with the TikTok. In Q1, top line growth was healthy with Performa core GTV and gross revenue up by 32% and 80% [ph] year-on-year, respectively.
Group pro forma adjusted EBITDA turned slightly negative to IDR102 billion of US$6.4 million. This is due to our ramping up of investments in FinTech as well as seasonal slowness on the On-Demand services in January and February. These factors were expected and we remain on track to hit adjusted EBITDA breakeven for the full year. On a year-on-year basis, pro forma adjusted EBITDA losses were reduced by 89%. While results in January and February are soft, primarily due to seasonality, we have been reinvesting into our business with a focus on product innovation rather than incentives. We are already seeing promising results, particularly in March and April, driven by user growth, BNPL in e-commerce and accelerated integration and payments adoption on TikTok. The improving performance in May and April is a strong indication that we will grow faster for the rest of the year as our investments take shape. I will now turn to each of our business segments.
On January 31, we closed our deal with TikTok immediately turning our e-commerce segment cash flow positive. Since then, our management has been working closely with TikTok across different areas. We are pleased that the partnership is off to a good start and are confident that it will strengthen over time. Tokopedia’s performance in the first quarter was better than expected. We booked approximately IDR110 billion or US$7 million in e-commerce service fee in February and March and we expect this to increase as our partnership deepens over future quarters.
I am also happy to share that the combined Tokopedia entity is now in full compliance with the relevant regulations, having fulfilled our provisions set by the Ministry of Trade during the transition period. All e-commerce activities on TikTok are now being carried out on Tokopedia Electronic Systems and this has been implemented in a way that ensures users can shop seamlessly on the TikTok app.
Moving on to our FinTech business. The GoPay app continues to gain traction among users, having been downloaded more than 20 million times by the end of March, according to Google Play and iOS control [ph], driving the growth of our user base. We continue to grow our user consumer lending business prudently which has led to strong growth in our FinTech core GTV [ph] and gross revenue of 40% and 57% year-on-year, respectively. Our loan book increased 43% quarter-on-quarter and more than tripled year-on-year to IDR2.7 trillion or USD 170 million with similar NPL to last quarter. Around 75% of the loan book is channeled to Bank Jago. Integration with TikTok is progressing well and there are 3 main updates I’d like to highlight.
First, improvements made in January to our NPL product led to increased penetration on the Tokopedia platform. We saw strong performance in March where loans disbursed grew by close to 60% month-on-month. Second, we have worked with the TikTok team to make it easier for users to link their GoPay account with a TikTok apps embedded e-commerce platform which is now called Shop Tokopedia. This was completed in mid-March increasing GoPay’s penetration. Third, as we mentioned last quarter, we are jointly developing the NPL product with TikTok which we will aim to launch on Shop Tokopedia in a few months. This will allow us to penetrate into new user segments and provide users with more flexible payment options as we strive to earn our status as TikTok’s primary partner in Indonesia.
The strong growth we are seeing in payments and lending mean that our FinTech segment is on track to become adjusted EBITDA positive by the end of 2025, subject to stable macroeconomic conditions. Turning to on-demand services. Investment into product innovation and user growth initiatives has started showing results. In March, we saw significant month-on-month and year-on-year user growth which has continued into April. In Q1, GTV was stable year-on-year and down quarter-on-quarter due to seasonal slowness in January and February. GTV in Indonesia was positive year-on-year. While in Singapore, we recently launched a partnership with the local taxi firm Comfort Delcro [ph] which will mutually strengthen our driver supply, a critical tool for driving growth.
Gross revenues saw positive year-on-year growth driven by value-added services. While ODS is a key profit contributor to the group, we will defend its position as the market leader in Indonesia by making appropriate investments in product, innovation and marketing for long-term gains. We aim to grow faster from Q2 onwards and by continuing to invest according to our strategy. This includes; first, expanding our user base by attracting new customers through affordable offerings and continuous product improvements. Second, deepening wallet share by continuing to increase use frequency and retention. Our push-in [ph] subscriptions will form part of this along with our product mix, offering premium, regular affordable services. And third, improving our value-added services. This includes our advertising business which grew 15% quarter-on-quarter with penetration as a percentage of GTV [ph] also increasing.
For GoTo Logistics, as Jacky will discuss in more detail, we stopped reporting GoTo Logistics as a segment this quarter due to the upcoming divestment of a number of its businesses associated with Tokopedia in second quarter.
I will now turn the call over to Jacky to review our business performance with the period. Jacky, please go ahead.
Wei-Jye Jacky Lo
Thank you, Patrick. Good day, everyone. Let me start by addressing a few matters regarding our operating and financial presentation in this quarter.
First, following the closing of the TikTok transaction and the upcoming deconsolidation of GoTo Logistics, we have prepared pro forma operating and financial figures at the group level to facilitate like-for-like sequential and year-on-year comparisons of our performance. The pro forma analysis assumes that for Tokopedia and GoTo Logistics having deconsolidated since January 1, 2023. Additionally, we have included as reported operating and financial results in the appendix of our presentation for reference.
Second, to bring our reporting in line with that of regional and international peers, we made 2 changes within on demand services in this quarter. One, we changed our business model for delivery services from an agency model to a principal model in January 2024. Under the principal model, we record the delivery fee paid by our users as gross revenue and the cost of delivery paid to the driver partners as cost of revenue. This model allows us to offer more competitive delivery fees while being more targeted in providing incentives. Two, we revised the GTV definition for On-DEMAND services to also include any additional fees such as tolls and tips [ph]. We have provided restated 2023 GTV figures in our presentation.
As discussed in the first quarter, both pro forma group core GTV and gross revenue saw significant double-digit uplift year-on-year. At the same time, adjusted EBITDA remained in line with our plan, putting us on track to meet our target to maintain adjusted EBITDA breakeven for 2024. At the group level, pro forma GTV was up 20% year-on-year, while core GTV increased 32% year-on-year and gross revenues grew 18% year-on-year, while our take rate remained stable.
In terms of costs, pro forma incentives and product marketing spend decreased by 31% year-on-year, while recurring cash fixed cost declined by 25% year-on-year. Also reported recurring cash corporate costs were IDR218 billion or US$13.8 million in this quarter, a decrease of 30% year-on-year and 8% quarter-on-quarter. Pro forma group adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter stood at negative IDR102 billion, or US$6.4 million, with losses reduced by 89% year-on-year.
Adjusted EBITDA turned negative in the quarter from positive in the previous quarter due to the ramp-up of investments in FinTech as well as seasonality in our demand services in January and February. I will now take you through our financial performance by segment. In On-Demand services, GTV was flat despite 38% year-on-year reduction in incentives and product marketing. Specifically, Indonesia GTV grew 3% year-on-year in first quarter. As mentioned, we reinvested into product innovation and user growth initiatives which have started showing results in March and April.
Gross revenues grew 12% year-on-year in the quarter and we assume aforementioned change in business model started on January 1, 2023, gross revenue grew 4% year-on-year on a like-for-like basis. Recurring cash fixed costs declined 17% year-on-year, mostly from cost optimization efforts throughout last year. On-Demand services was adjusted EBITDA positive at IDR166 billion or US$10.5 million, an uplift of IDR412 billion or US$26 million year-on-year.
Turning to FinTech. GTV Increased 21% year-on-year, while core GTV showed stronger growth at 40% year-on-year, driven by improvements in lending and consumer payments. Our consumer lending loan book grew 43% quarter-on-quarter and threefold year-on-year to IDR2.7 trillion or US$170 million. Gross revenue grew 57% year-on-year in the first quarter, with tick rates increasing by 14 basis points. In terms of costs, incentives and product marketing increased by 21% year-on-year as we make investment into FinTech business to drive customer acquisitions in the GoPay app and lending.
Adjusted EBITDA loss was IDR248 billion or US$15.6 million, reduced by 52% year-on-year, mainly driven by significant improvement in contribution margin and an 18% year-on-year decline in recurring cash fixed costs. In the e-commerce segment, as a result of the closing of the TikTok transaction at the end of January, we began recording PT Tokopedia as an associate company from February 1. As Patrick mentioned, we recorded approximately IDR110 billion or US$7 million of e-commerce service fee, net of value-added tax in February and March, driving positive segment adjusted EBITDA of IDR127 billion or US$8 million in Q1.
GoTo Logistics consists of a number of delivery and fulfillment businesses. We have entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement to divest ownership of the delivery and fulfillment businesses and the GoTo Logistics that support Tokopedia. Upon closing of these transactions, GoTo Logistics will be deconsolidated from the group.
To summarize, our financial profile is in excellent condition and continues to improve. As of March 31, we have IDR23 trillion or US$1.5 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term time deposits. This balance is unchanged from the position following the deconsolidation of Tokopedia on February 1, as we mentioned on our last quarter’s earnings call. Looking ahead to Q2, we are aiming to accelerate our growth by reinvesting profit upside back into the business while ensuring we are still in line to achieve adjusted EBITDA breakeven for the full year.
With that, we would now like to open the call to your questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
A – Reggy Susanto
Thank you, Jacky. [Operator Instructions] First question comes from Henry Wibowo of JPMorgan.
Henry Wibowo
Can you hear me?
Reggy Susanto
Yes, Henry, we can hear you.
Henry Wibowo
Sorry. Thanks, Patrick, Jacky and Reggy for the presentation and congrats on the strong results, especially back in growth mode. I have 3 questions, if you don’t mind. Number one, I think, generally, how would you see the purchasing power in first quarter between, say, the mass market and the mid-upper segment? And how is this impacting your business? Secondly, on e-commerce business, will Shop Tokopedia prioritize growth or profitability in the next 12 months. I think this is a topic of discussion within an investors community given that company just raised merchant fees. But at the same time, I think there’s a goal to achieve market leadership in the medium term.
And lastly, when do you expect the completion of the GoPay later within Shop Tokopedia [ph] app? And just a bit on commerce edition, is there a different experience between shopping in Tokopedia.com versus Shop Tokopedia right now?
Wei-Jye Jacky Lo
Thank you, Henry. If I hear you correctly, there are 3 parts of your question. The first part is about purchasing power which I will address and then there’s a question about e-commerce that I will ask my colleague, Melissa to answer. And then there is a question about the integration of GTF, GoToFinancials and TikTok Shop [ph] which I will ask Tom to address. Now on your first question about purchasing power, we see the consumer behavior on our platforms to continue to be robust. As we shared with you earlier, e-commerce grows quite fast. We definitely do not see any impact on purchasing power of any indication of purchasing power declines in that segment. In ODS, we monitor the affluent mass affordable markets very closely. And we see that spending on both segments actually increase. And in GTF, as you — we have all seen growth also continues to be strong. So we don’t see any sign of weakening purchasing power in any of the consumer segment on our platforms.
Maybe, I’ll ask Melissa answer the questions about e-commerce.
Melissa Siska Juminto
Yes. Thank you, Patrick. Thank you, Henry for the question. So today, I think as also earlier mentioned within the earlier segment Tokopedia’s combined entities performance in Q1, it’s actually way better than expected. And as we also have reported, GoTo had recorded approximately IDR110 billion which is roughly US$7 million in e-commerce service fee for February and for March. And this should increase as the partnership deepens over future quarters and it’s really only the beginning. As you also may be well aware, Indonesia’s e-commerce landscape has always been very competitive. However, our commitment remains the same which is to provide the best experience for our users and also to continue to grow together with our merchants to become number one leading e-commerce platform in Indonesia combined together.
So, we’ll continue to grow and focus towards growth and of course, committed towards innovating as well as improving experience for both users and our merchants.
Thomas Husted
Great. Henry, this is Tom. I run the fintech business. So let me handle your third question which is in regards to the integration process which I think this is a good news. We closed the transaction with Tokopedia and TikTok on the 31st of January. And since that time, the team has been laser focused on completing the tech integration such that we are in 100% compliance with all of the government regulations and we’re thrilled that is now done. So on the FinTech side, we’re now starting to focus on the integration of NPL into Shop Tokopedia and I’m sure this will come up again later in questions. and we are now on track for achieving this, I’d say, over the next few months. And I think once that’s in place, that will give us the next leg up on the lending growth. And obviously, as covered in the previous remarks, we’ve got strong lending growth and we expect that to accelerate over the rest of the year.
And in general, I would say if we step back, we’ve seen, despite having only been closed the deal for, I guess, a little bit over 3 months we have seen very strong integration, right? So the GoPay now is readily available and Shop Tokopedia and we completed that process mid-March. So that was, call it, 2 months after closing. So it feels look in general, everything is moving in the right direction, specifically in regards to the integration between GoTo Financial and Shop Tokopedia.
Reggy Susanto
I think you have one question, right? That was the difference between the shopping experience in Tokopedia versus Shop Tokopedia. Melissa, maybe if you can help answer that one.
Melissa Siska Juminto
Yes. Thank you also for the question. So Henry, in regards to the differences, I think the focus of our teams so far has been completing tech integration related towards compliance and which we have now finished and we will have also received affirmation [ph] from the government through the Ministry of Trade that we are already fully compliant. And our next focus, it’s actually towards what Tom mentioned which is to integrate deeper Tokopedia [ph], as well as GoPay and some of the other products. And as we also look into how we will differentiate that forward, we actually do have a separate — quite different user profile amongst the 2 platforms, Tokopedia, as well as TikTok. So our focus is definitely to maintain the respective strengths and characteristics of the 2 largely distinct platforms. So Tokopedia will definitely deepen and focus a lot more towards being more urban as well as shelf-based type of behavior and experience.
While Shop Tokopedia, will be much more country spread content-driven as TikTok’s embedded e-commerce platform. So we’ll remain different and, again, be relevant towards separate segments.
Reggy Susanto
Our next question comes from the line of Ferry Wong of Citi.
Ferry Wong
Yes. Thanks, Reggy. Okay, congratulations management for the back to the growth model for GoTo. Yes, I have 3 questions. Number 1 is basically, yes, we have seen that there is a significant take rate increase being done at the Tokopedia platform. Can you share a background on that? And what do you expect basically going into the 2024 and onwards. Second, on the ODS GTV [ph], this is basically flat on a year-on-year basis in the first quarter. And we think that you need to grow ODS GTV roughly around the 20% over the next 3 quarters to achieve your target of mid-teen growth.
How confident are you to achieve this? And what will be your strategy? Are you going to invest a lot more in terms of plan up your investment and spending, those kind of things? Yes. And then the third question is still on the ODS. How is the competitive landscape on the ODS because while we’ve seen that Grab has increased their promotional efforts and the basically give a bit more promotion. And also, they are concerned that you are losing market shares as the ODS GTV is flat and your competitors is indicating higher growth than yours. Are you expecting further intensifying condition landscape and widening losses in the upcoming quarter? But basically with higher top line growth.
Patrick Walujo
Maybe Mel, can you take the first question? And this is about the tick rate increase on our e-commerce platform.
Melissa Siska Juminto
Yes. Sure, Pat. Thank you again, Ferry, for the question. So we get to your question on take rate, actually, along with the take rate increase, we have also made adjustments towards our features. So the first objective of these changes is to democratize and make our first much more accessible to all of our merchants, our features and benefits as well as our marketing tools, our app tools for our sellers to be more widely available and all sellers can actually then experience these tools to have them grow their sales.
And the second objective is definitely to make adjustment to improve the performance of our sellers as well. as our profitability as well in the long run. So with this peak rate increase, our goal is to also reinvest back and grow our merchants together and the sales of our merchants together, again, alongside together with all of the different features that we will make it available and open for them to grow their business. And our new commission structure will actually start this coming May 1, 2024. Through the new structure, sellers will be able to leverage all the various features and the goal is to focus to develop their business to the next level and go-to service fee should be impacted much more positively as we commit to still being the most leading e-commerce player in Indonesia.
I hope that answers your question, Faryon.
Reggy Susanto
And Kat, why don’t you take the 2 other questions about ODS.
Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo
Thank you for the question. So let me start with this, yes, as you mentioned, right, it’s flat year-on-year but some growth here, Indonesia specifically has been growing on a year-on-year basis. But one thing I would like to highlight here the year-on-year was flattish because if you remember, in the first quarter of 2023, especially in January and February last year, we haven’t started our incentive rationalization efforts yet. So to share a little bit of number. So if you compare this profitability number, on quarter — first quarter last year versus first quarter this quarter, the pace as significant. The same quarter last year, we are negative IDR246 billion [ph] and this quarter, we are recording positive IDR166 billion.
This is more than IDR400 billion [ph] swing on a year-on-year basis. Having said that, as mentioned, we have seen a strong growth of investment on our user growth initiatives have started showing a very good result in March and continued in April as well especially in terms of our user base. This is a very strong and positive note, we see it because, as we all know, user growth — user base is always the leading indicator of what is coming forward. So we actually are very well positioned for the Q2 word fast. One more thing I would like to highlight here is like we will continue to stick as since we started sharing last quarter and this quarter again, there are two-pronged approach on our strategy, as we outlined. The first 1 is deepening the wallet share of our user base. This as Pat mentioned during the earnings earlier, right, talking about the subscription as well as the product mix of the premium, regular and affordable product mix to deepen the user frequency and retention.
Secondly, definitely, we will continue to focus on our user growth, you’re seeing mostly our affordable offering. This is to enable us to open the next segment of users. On your question on the ramping up in investment, we will defend our position as the market leader in Indonesia by making appropriate investment both in our product innovation as well as long-term gains which linked to your second question here. You noticed that our neighbor, as I call it, they continue to push the aggressiveness. Yes. On this one, as we all know, of course, the market is competitive. But based on our data in Indonesia, we still maintain our market leadership. This is the important one, right? We are comparing this tire to make sure that it’s really a like-for-like Indonesia versus Indonesia kind of data. So our — we maintain our market leadership, as I mentioned, on GTV. And then I’ve been looking at it by increasing year-on-year basis on this one. And would like to reiterate 1 more time, right? We will continue and we will focus to defend this market leadership by making the appropriate investment on our side. I hope to answer the question.
Reggy Susanto
Our next question comes from the line of Ryan Winipta of IndoPremier.
Ryan Winipta
Yes. Thank you, Reggy and congratulations to management for getting back to the growth mode. I have 4 questions from my side. The first one, I think just trying to circle back to between like flat profitability and growth for Q2. How should we expect the balance between the 2 going into second quarter 2024 and onwards. Can you also give us some color on what kind of factors that could go back to strategic decision making, both external and also into factors. And the second question that I have is just trying to understand in terms of the time line for the share buyback round of around — and obviously, there are the areas that you are seeing for to trigger the buyback?
And the third question that I have is regarding the deconsolidation of the GoTo Logistics. Just wanted to clarify, does that mean there’s no logistic rated business at all that sits under the go-to as of now? And my fourth and last question, I think it’s related to the partnership with Comfort Delgro in Singapore. How will this partnership will impact the numbers also in terms of like the GDP growth and so forth? And whether this partnership with Comfort Delgro will mean that you’re going to pursue more growth aggressively in Singapore? That’s all for me.
Patrick Walujo
Thank you, Ryan. I’ll take the first question. I think it’s about the balancing act between profitability and growth and how we should be looking at second quarter and onwards. Look, what we are seeing is that the market still has a lot of potential. This is market where penetration of our services is still relatively low compared to our neighboring countries to our peers, right? So we still see a lot of growth upside. And what we want to do is that we want to take leadership and it’s of the segment that we are operating and we are making long-term investments. But in doing so, we believe that there are 2 things that we need to focus on. Number 1 is our cost, our unit cost. We continue to make sure that our continued — our unit cost is the lowest in the market. This is not relating to the marketing or incentive cost that we may choose to accelerate or decelerate from time to time but this core operating cost relating to technology or relating to our core operations. And we believe that this has a room to further reduce this cost basis. And our aim is to be the lowest cost player in the market.
And the second thing is a foundation. We want to make sure that we deliver the best product that our consumers enjoy in every segment that we are operating, right? At the same time, we will be cost discipline. So as we mentioned in the last quarter, we aim to achieve adjusted EBITDA profit breakeven for the full year and we will make investments as appropriate in its of our business segment. And therefore, we feel that it’s that we don’t provide quarter-by-quarter guidance. I think you should be looking more into our growth level, our product innovation unit cost because those are the things that matter for long-term gains of the company. So I think they also had a nice factors like seasonality and whatnot that you consider. But I cannot stress strong enough that we are aiming for long-term gains, while maintaining financial discipline across the board.
Moving on to your question about share buyback, I will let Jacky to take that question.
Wei-Jye Jacky Lo
Yeah, Ryan. So as you know, both of our board of directors and our board of commissioners, they actually have approved the US$200 million share repurchase program. And we plan to seek regulatory and shareholders’ approval at the upcoming annual general meeting of shareholders. And we’ll follow all the procedures required by applicable regulations. And our board of directors and our board of commissioners will review the buyback program periodically. And we will make amendments on an ongoing basis.
Reggy Susanto
Thank you, Jackie. I think the next question is about the consolidation of GoTo Logistics. Maybe I can first explain what is in GoTo Logistics today. So it has businesses that relate to servicing Tokopedia. The delivery and the fulfillment part of that operations relating to Tokopedia will go back to Tokopedia. The second part of the business are those that are not related to servicing Tokopedia. And this is the B2B part of the business, meaning the delivery business that services B2B customers. This will stay with GOTO. If you are familiar with the GoSend product, if you are sending packets as a consumer to another consumer, that has never been part of GOTO Logistics.
That is always part of our ODS business and it will stay with us. I think I would just like to again explain that the part that is staying with us is the B2B part of the delivery business. And then I think your last question is about our partnership with CDG.
So maybe Kat, you can answer that.
Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo
Thanks, Pat. Thanks, Ryan, for the question. Indeed, it’s perfect for the question of CDG. Actually, we just went live our integration with CDG today itself. This is — we are so excited about this one. As you all know, a simpler market, it’s very much supply the success of it is very much rely on the supply side of the business. And this partnership with CDG mutually strengthened both us and CDG as well by combining the supply — support of that. So this capability is definitely a key to Singapore, especially transports business. We believe this will be a very, very critical component for us to, as mentioned, growth going forward to this. Yes. Thank you so much.
Reggy Susanto
Our next question comes from the line of Adrian Joezer of Mandiri Sekuritas.
Adrian Joezer
Thank you, Reggy and thank you, Greg and the rest of the management team for the opportunity to ask questions. I have 3 questions from my side. So the first 1 is actually just to follow up a bit on the e-commerce side. Just wondering how do you actually ensure the minimalization impact to — between the 2 platforms when you actually increase the investment going forward. And also, at the same time, can you comment a bit as regards to when will we see the user integration process actually being completed between the Tokopedia also the pickup platform.
And the second question is as regards to the on-demand services. I would like to get some color as regards to what was the growth — kind of growth of GP being achieved in March and April? And the segments that drive growth incrementally. And at the same time, I think will follow on to this question is, actually, I would want to look into what is your current view as regards to sustainable level of GDP growth, net revenue take rate and also the adjusted EBITDA take rate for the next 2 to 3 years, assuming that the same level of market share split with your competitor reminds the same at current level?
And the last question is regards to the FinTech side. Just wondering as regards to — I mean, you mentioned that the NPL stays the same in the first quarter but we have started asset quality risk arising in some other banks and also non-bank financial companies by the increasing the cost of credit guidance for 2024. So had actually started seeing this risk materializing on your end? And if this becomes the same trend, I mean you lead to some sort of like a risk in your ambition to achieve a stronger loan growth but you have to dial back that to the rest of the year?
Patrick Walujo
Thank you, Adrian [ph]. I hope I can remember to answer your questions. But luckily, I have a colleague next to me. I think I can jot them all down. Catherine, you can take the ODS questions. And then I think there’s a question about e-commerce that Melissa can take. And then the rest is about FinTech that Tom will answer. But maybe there’s also a question about GTV growth. Is GTV growth, right? Sustainable GTV growth in the next two to three years.
And will market share remain the same? Maybe I’ll answer that very quickly and I’ll pass it on to my colleagues. I think GTV growth, we always look at it from segment by segment. So ODS, e-commerce and FinTech. I think e-commerce, as we all know, is still a very large industry. It’s still growing very fast. I think all of our crisis indicates that it’s going to continue to grow. And it’s a matter of how much market share that Shop Tokopedia will command in two to three years. And we think that it is well positioned to be a market leader in that segment.
And then in ODS, we also see the market potential still a lot bigger. I will let Catherine to address that. And in FinTech as well. I will have Tom address that. So it’s really on a segment by segment basis. But, you know, Cat, why don’t you take all the questions about ODS first?
Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo
Sure. Thanks, Pat. Thanks, Adrian. Yeah. Thank you for the question. I’ll address the ODS first before passing it to Mel and Tom.
So on the GDP growth first, right? One part of your question, as Pat mentioned, we do believe that the headroom of growth is still significant, right? If I may double click a little bit on that, it’s if you’re comparing with the other market, more developed one for the on-demand services, we are not only seeing a potential significant growth on the user penetration but it’s also there are still also some room for us to even deepening on the user level as well. This is specifically talking about the frequency of that, right? So these two combined together, especially on the user penetration, we believe this will still give us a multi years kind of like a significant headroom for growth. That is the first one.
I know you’re asking a little bit about the March and April. Let me address that a little bit. Yeah, so as mentioned in March and then followed in April as well, actually all of our products being the two wheel transport, four wheel transport and food have shown growth. This is not just month on month but also year on year. And please note, especially for March and April, we also have the fasting month and the Hari Raya which is of course will impact the number but we still show growth regardless of that seasonality in March and April. Last but not least, your question in terms of like, how do we see the sustainable kind of like level of the economics and stuff, right?
Just to highlight here, our economics, especially in the tech rate is similar to our peers. While we keep on driving our cost on transaction, a unit cost basis, right? As Pat mentioned, we are looking at our cost in a very fundamental way. And we believe we are the lowest cost player. This is one of our key advantages as well. And we’ll continue to press on this one. So our cost structure will allow us as we are expanding our user base, especially on the more affordable segment will become one of our key strategic differentiator on this one. One last thing I would like to highlight here as a note, all of our ODS costs are fully loaded, including corporate costs that is directly attributed to ODS segment. Yeah, that’s on the ODS.
I’ll pass it to Mel first before Tom, maybe.
Melissa Siska Juminto
Yeah, thank you, Adrian [ph], for the question. So I think as earlier, I also mentioned in regards to cannibalization that it is actually very minimal because on the Tokopedia site as well as Shop Tokopedia site, so we do have very different user segments. Tokopedia, it’s more so shelf-based type of experience which hence attracts a lot more convenience-seeking users.
And on the Shop Tokopedia site, it’s a lot more content-driven which attracts a different segment of category as well. So we do see this two joint collaboration becoming a lot more value-adding in regards to building a more holistic experience for our users on both sites. And in regards to your question on integration, our focus is to definitely help our merchants to operate their shop on both sides of the platform much more easier and much more conveniently.
And hence the focus is to unify our supply side first because this would definitely help our merchant to operate their shops more easily and as well as enjoy the different features across the both platforms and be able to grow their businesses. And things on the user side will gradually be much more, well, the integration, the user side will be much more seen in the later quarters. But as earlier mentioned as well, our goal is not to make both user side experience similar but to actually continue to differentiate and continue to cater to different segments that would actually be much more relevant towards the market and the needs of all the different users within Indonesia itself.
So we’ll focus a lot more into supply side and again, continue to deepen each of our strength in regards to user side going forward. Thank you.
Unidentified Company Representative
Great, I think that leads to the FinTech questions. So Adrian [ph], thanks for the questions and let me just recap. I think you had two questions. Okay, the first was on loan quality and the second was on loan growth. So both good subjects. Let me take the loan quality question first.
Just stepping back, I think as part of our overall process and go to financial, we are closely monitoring the other consumer lending businesses in Indonesia. And at this point, we are aware that some of these businesses are seeing an increase in both rejection rates and credit losses. Now, I think we’re in a bit of a different situation and I’m happy to report that at this point in time, we have not seen any deterioration in credit or approval process in GTF. And I’d say that’s probably due to two key factors. I think first, I’d say overall, we have a good internal process, right? So this includes designing a detailed credit scoring model and also adhering to a strict underwriting criteria process.
And then, we typically use these tools and monitor all the market factors and look at the historical portfolio and the performance of that portfolio. And then we make adjustments on how we run the business. So that feels like it’s working at this point. Secondly and I think this is probably a big differentiator between us and maybe some of the other folks in the market right now, is that if you look at our lending book, it’s still very small relative to the opportunity that we see in front of us. And this was a tactical decision that we made in 2023. We decided to keep our lending growth relatively slow over that time period. So we’re coming off of a very small base. So our growth numbers are looking good but the aggregate exposure is still quite manageable. And part of the reason that we did that is we really wanted to build confidence in both our systems and our internal process.
We’re feeling fairly confident, of course, where this is a business where we have to be very cognizant about what’s going on in the market and we will continue to monitor. So that was the first part of your question on the quality.
Now, let me just turn to the second part which was the loan growth. When we look at the numbers, I’d say overall we’re pleased. As I said, we’ve started to ramp up the business now. We grew the loan book by 43% in the first quarter and that was while maintaining good credit quality. We haven’t seen any abnormalities at this point on the credit quality. And then we’re fortunate to end the quarter with a loan balance of IDR2.7 trillion which is about three X on a year over year basis. That being said, I do want to highlight, there’s a little bit of seasonality in the first quarter.
Typically what we see is in the lead up to Lebaden, we typically see an increase in lending balances. So when we look forward on the second quarter, certainly expect growth still but it will probably come at a so much slower pace. So I’m encouraged on this.
And I think if we step back and we look at the go-to ecosystem, I’d say we’re fortunate that we have a bunch of embedded markets for this business. Just kind of going through, we have a captive Gojek consumer segment. We’re now developing as I think others have reported that we’re developing a vehicle financing program for our drivers that at some point will move out to consumers as well. We’re offering cash loans on an open loop basis through the GoPay app. We also have our legacy BNPL business on the Toko platform. And then finally, as mentioned many times, we are in joint development with Shop Tokopedia to offer the BNPL product on their platform in the near future. And I feel like with all of these options, we’re going to be able to safely grow this lending business for many more, many quarters to come. And on the BNPL with Shop Tokopedia specifically, I think this is something we’re all really excited about. And because this is a new product, it should add incremental acceleration to the lending growth.
And then finally, we did have a segment and discussion earlier about FinTech and where we’re going to land from an adjusted EBITDA positive number. And I’m pretty sure and confident that we’ll have that done by the end of next year. So kind of end of 2025. And of course, the lending strategy is core to that projection. So it’s subject to market conditions and making sure that things kind of stay a status quo. Hope that helps.
Reggy, back to you.
Reggy Susanto
Maybe our last question comes from the line of Ari Jahja of Macquarie.
Ariyanto Jahja
Hi, Reggy. Hi, Patrick and GoTo team. Thanks for taking my questions and good to see the growth acceleration. I have three today. First on the Enlarge Tokopedia, considering the better than expected service fee, do you mind sharing insights on core GTP growth trajectory and product mix there so far? And secondly, on the ODS business model change from agency to principal, besides alignment with peers, any other factors that drove this decision? And then lastly on cost, can you please elaborate on further cost cuts opportunity on your today basis, on your basis in light of the EBITDA breakeven guidance? I’ll stop here. Thank you.
Patrick Walujo
Speaking, we are not in a position to give detailed operational updates of e-commerce because it is operated by our partner but maybe I can hand it over to Melissa to answer some of this aspect [ph].
Melissa Siska Juminto
Yeah. Thank you, Pat. And thank you, Ari, for the question. So I think as to what Pat mentioned, we are not able to disclose the GMP of the combined entity. But that being said, our performance has been very strong in the first quarter and actually a lot better than expected. In regards to how Ramadhan have performed on both sides, top Tokopedia as well as Tokopedia. This is also only the beginning of a much deeper integration going forward. So please do expect that we will still definitely remain committed into innovation as well as future integrations to deepen and again, enrich experiences for our users and merchants. Thank you, Ari.
Patrick Walujo
And about the changes in the business model. I will let Jacky answer that question.
Wei-Jye Jacky Lo
Thank you for the question. So the primary reason on demand service to change the operational model, especially for the delivery business, as we mentioned, is more to be in line with the regional and also international peers. So as you point out, this is more like a change in the composition of the financial statements. So we mentioned the fee we receive from customers that will be recognized as revenue and the amount we pay to the driver partners that’s as cost of revenue. But overall, there’s no impact on profitability.
Patrick Walujo
Okay, there’s a question about cost. I think I will answer that question. I think, you know, cost cutting has become a business as usual for us. We continue to look at our cost basis on a continuous basis. We have also identified significant potential cost cut. We are planning the execution of it but unfortunately, we are not in a position to disclose more at this moment.
Reggy Susanto
Thank you, Ari. With that, we have reached the end of the question-and-answer session. And we conclude our conference call today. Thank you everyone for participating.
