SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-008135 to Genius Sports Ltd (GENI)
Genius Sports Ltd
Date: July 17, 2024 · CIK: 0001834489 · Accession: 0000000000-24-008135
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July 17, 2024
Nick Taylor
Chief Financial Officer
Genius Sports Limited
1st Floor, 27 Soho Square
London, W1D 3QR
Re:Genius Sports Limited
Form 20-F for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023
File No. 001-40352
Dear Nick Taylor:
We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comment(s).
Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form 20-F for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023
Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects
Key Components of Revenue and Expenses
Revenue
Betting Technology, Content and Service, page 58
1.Please explain to us how your customers' "gross gaming revenue" ("GGR") measure is
determined and how it establishes the associated profit-sharing percentage and/or amount
of contractual minimum revenue guarantees. Also, it appears GGR is a metric that you
use. Accordingly, disclose how this metric is used by you with respect to your business
and why it provides useful information to investors regarding your business. Refer to
Release No. 33-10751.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Adjusted EBITDA, page 60
2.You state the adjustment for "Litigation and related costs" includes mainly legal and
related costs in connection with non-routine litigation, yet the adjustment appears for each
year presented. Please explain to us and disclose to the extent meaningful your rationale
for this adjustment. Refer to Question 100.01 of the Compliance and Disclosure
Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
B. Liquidity and Capital Resources
Operating Cash Flows, page 65
3.Please provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis that explains the increase in the
reported amount of operating cash flows between fiscal 2023 and 2022, including material
changes in underlying individual items contributing to the change, like, for example,
working capital. Note merely citing changes in results, working capital items, and
noncash items reported in the statement of cash flows may not provide a sufficient basis
to understand changes in operating cash between periods. Refer to Item 5 of Form 20-F,
in particular the introductory paragraph thereof and instructions 1 and 9 of Instructions to
Item 5, section III.D of Release No. 33-6835, section IV.B and B.1 of Release No. 33-
8350 and Release No. 33-10890 for guidance.
E. Critical Accounting Estimates
Revenue Recognition, page 66
4.You disclose for Sports Technology and Services you primarily receive noncash
consideration for which there is not a readily determinable fair value and for Betting
Technology, Content and Services in regard to contracts with variable consideration
associated with overages you record cumulative effect adjustments when there are
constraint changes that impact your estimate of the transaction price. Please provide
qualitative and quantitative information necessary to understand the estimation
uncertainty associated with each revenue stream and the impact these estimates have had
or are reasonably likely to have on your financial condition or results of operations to the
extent the information is material and reasonably available. This information should
include why these estimates are subject to uncertainty and, to the extent the information is
material and reasonably available, how much these estimates and/or associated
assumptions have changed over a relevant period, and the sensitivity of the reported
amounts to the material methods, assumptions and estimates underlying their calculation.
Refer to Item 5.E of Form 20-F and in particular Section V of Release No. 33-8350
referred to in instruction 1 to Instructions to Item 5 for guidance.
Item 15. Controls and Procedures, page 98
You disclose in each Form 20-F for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 that you concluded your
disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting
(ICFR) were effective for each respective year. However, we did not note disclosure
pursuant to Item 15.d of Form 20-F in either fiscal 2022 or 2023 Form 20-F's as to
whether and how the material weakness described in amendment No. 1 to Form 20-F
fiscal 2021 was remediated. From the risk factor on page 29 of the fiscal 2023 Form 20-F
it appears the prior material weakness has not been remediated. In view of this, please 5.
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explain to us your basis for concluding that both DC&P and ICFR were effective for each
of fiscal 2022 and 2023.
6.You disclose on page F-7 revisions to fiscal years 2022 and 2021 within the fiscal 2023
Form 20-F that affected the previously reported adjusted loss per share amount for each of
these years. The revision appears to be of the same nature as the material weakness for
fiscal 2021 mentioned above. Accordingly, please explain to us how this revision was not
considered to be a material weakness and your basis for concluding that each of DC&P
and ICFR were effective for fiscal 2023.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, page F-6
7.Under sports technology revenue on page F-15 you disclose you receive noncash
consideration. It does not appear this noncash consideration is an adjustment to reconcile
net loss to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities. Please advise.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Segment Information, page F-9
8.We note you have three product lines. It appears the economic characteristics of each
product line, the nature of the products within each line and perhaps the method used to
distribute the products in each line vary between lines. You disclose you operate in only
one operating segment. Please tell us, and revise to disclose as appropriate, the factors you
used to determine you operate in only one operating segment, including the basis of
organization, and whether operating segments have been aggregated pursuant to ASC
280-10-50-21. As part of your response, if applicable, tell us how you identified your
operating segments based on the criteria provided in ASC 280-10-50-1 through 50-9 and
provide us with a description of each of these operating segments. To the extent you have
more than one operating segment, tell us how you considered the aggregation criteria in
ASC 280-10-50-11 and the quantitative thresholds in ASC 280-10-50-12 in determining
your reportable segment. Please be detailed in your response.
Note 4. Revenue
Revenue by Major Product Line, page F-22
9.In the sentence above the table on page F-22 you state your product offerings primarily
deliver a service satisfied over time and not a point in time. On page F-14 under creative
video marketing you state you recognize revenue for campaigns at the point in time upon
delivery and acceptance. Please reconcile these statements.
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In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
Please contact Robert Shapiro at 202-551-3273 or Doug Jones at 202-551-3309 with any
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services