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Consensus Cloud Solutions helps customers securely send and receive documents through cloud fax products such as eFax Corporate. Businesses and government agencies supply most of its revenue; individuals and small businesses also buy online fax subscriptions. Customers pay monthly subscription fees, usage-based charges, or both.
Healthcare is its largest customer industry. Healthcare providers often use incompatible information systems, which helps explain their continued reliance on fax to exchange confidential documents. Consensus also offers eFax Unite for healthcare information exchange and tools that connect systems and extract structured data from documents, but its newer healthcare products beyond fax contribute little revenue.
Cloud fax still supplies nearly all revenue and operating income, so the business depends on customers continuing to use it. Delivering the service also depends on a small number of telecommunications carriers in each region and access to local phone numbers. When handling protected patient information for hospitals, its subsidiaries must meet HIPAA and related privacy and security requirements.
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Spok Holdings competes for healthcare organizations’ communication-software spending, serving Consensus Cloud Solutions’ largest industry market; Spok explicitly names Consensus as a competitor for parts of its software portfolio. Its software licenses and support revenue are more relevant to that rivalry than its wireless messaging business.
Weave Communications competes with Consensus Cloud Solutions for healthcare practices’ digital fax business: Weave includes fax in its practice communications platform, while Consensus sells cloud fax services to those practices.
Dropbox competes for the individuals and businesses paying Consensus Cloud Solutions for online fax and jSign subscriptions, offering its own Fax and Sign products for those tasks.
8x8 competes with Consensus Cloud Solutions for business customers’ fax spending: its business communications offering includes Internet fax, an alternative to Consensus’s cloud fax subscriptions.
DocuSign competes with Consensus Cloud Solutions’ jSign for businesses and individuals paying to send and sign agreements electronically instead of on paper. Its eSignature product, rather than its broader contract-management tools, is the direct overlap to watch.
Health Catalyst and Consensus Cloud Solutions both depend on healthcare organizations investing in connecting disparate data: Health Catalyst sells providers Ignite to integrate and analyze data, while Consensus sells tools to exchange and transform information between organizations. Adoption of Ignite is worth watching for signs of spending on connected healthcare data.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
Fed rate decisions affect what Consensus pays on floating-rate credit-facility loans, which can change the cash left for its cloud fax and information-delivery operations and investment.
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If it comes in above expectations
If the policy rate is higher than expected, interest costs on Consensus’s floating-rate loans may rise, leaving less operating cash for its cloud services and investment.
If it comes in below expectations
If the policy rate is lower than expected, interest costs on Consensus’s floating-rate loans may ease, leaving more operating cash for its cloud services and investment.
8x8, Inc. earningsEGHT
8x8’s report offers a read on business customers’ demand for communications services, a market that also buys Consensus Cloud Solutions’ corporate fax subscriptions.
Look at 8x8’s business-customer and communications business trends. They are a proxy for business communications spending, not proof that 8x8 has disclosed Internet fax demand. Stronger demand would suggest a more supportive market for Consensus’s corporate sales; weaker demand would mean business customers may be more cautious about buying services such as fax.
Weave Communications, Inc. earningsWEAV
Weave Communications’ report shows demand for communications platforms among healthcare practices, which also buy cloud fax from Consensus Cloud Solutions.
Use Weave’s revenue and customer trends to gauge whether practices are still buying communications software; its report may not break out fax. Stronger demand would suggest practices still have budget for these tools, supporting Consensus’s healthcare business. Weaker demand would point to tighter software spending and a harder sales environment for cloud fax.
Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. earningsThis company
Consensus Cloud Solutions’ report will show whether growth from corporate customers can keep offsetting declines in online fax subscriptions from individuals and small businesses.
Compare Corporate and SoHo revenue with monthly revenue per account in each group. Rising Corporate revenue and account revenue alongside stabilizing SoHo revenue would show the corporate business is making up for losses among smaller customers. If SoHo revenue keeps falling faster, Corporate growth is not enough to steady total revenue.
Dropbox, Inc. earningsDBX
Dropbox’s report offers a read on demand for online fax and signature tools that overlap with Consensus Cloud Solutions’ subscriptions for individuals and small businesses.
Look at Dropbox’s customer and subscription trends; its report may not break out Fax or Sign. Stronger demand would show that customers still pay for online tools, but not that they chose Consensus. Weaker demand would suggest a tougher market for Consensus’s subscriptions to individuals and small businesses.
DocuSign, Inc. earningsDOCU
DocuSign’s report shows demand for paid electronic signing, where its eSignature product competes directly with Consensus Cloud Solutions’ jSign.
Look at DocuSign’s eSignature revenue and customer trends. They reflect the electronic-signature market, not jSign’s own results. Stronger demand would show customers still pay for electronic signing, though Consensus would still need to win them; weaker demand would suggest less market growth for jSign to pursue.
