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Opendoor’s First Quarter of 2022 Financial Results

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May 5, 2022

By Opendoor Team

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May 5, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, May 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Opendoor Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: OPEN), a leading digital platform for residential real estate transactions, today reported financial results for its quarter ended March 31, 2022. Opendoor’s first quarter of 2022 financial results and management commentary can be accessed through the Company’s shareholder letter on the quarterly results page of Opendoor’s investor relations website at https://investor.opendoor.com.

“We are proud to report our first quarter of positive net income as we exceeded our expectations across all of our key metrics,” said Eric Wu, Co-founder and CEO of Opendoor. “For the past eight years, we have been working on the rare opportunity to transform the $2.3 trillion housing industry. We have made significant progress toward reshaping a broken, offline process into a digital, seamless experience for our customers.”

Wu continued: “We have also focused on building a durable, generational company. This means we align our goals and teams against both growing customers and driving sustainable margin expansion, operating with a focus on building the lowest cost structure, and having a culture of discipline around pricing and risk management across periods of uncertainty. The result of this hard work is the capability to grow and protect margins across economic cycles.”

First Quarter 2022 Key Highlights

  • Highest quarterly revenue of $5.2 billion, up 590% versus 1Q21; with 12,669 total homes sold, up 415% versus 1Q21, demonstrating rapid consumer adoption of our product offerings

  • Record gross profit of $535 million, versus $97 million in 1Q21, up 452% versus prior year; gross margin of 10.4%, versus 13.0% in 1Q21

  • First quarter of positive net income of $28 million, versus $(270) million in 1Q21

  • Adjusted Net Income of $99 million, versus $(21) million in 1Q21

  • Record Contribution Profit of $332 million, versus $76 million in 1Q21, up 337% versus prior year; 21st consecutive quarter of positive Contribution Margin which was 6.4%, versus 10.2% in 1Q21

  • Adjusted EBITDA of $176 million versus $(2) million in 1Q21; fourth consecutive quarter of positive Adjusted EBITDA and three times higher than what was generated in all of 2021; Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 3.4% versus (0.3)% in 1Q21

  • Inventory balance of 13,360 homes, representing $4.7 billion in value, up 455% versus 1Q21

  • Purchased 9,020 homes, up 151% versus 1Q21

  • Launched San Francisco Bay Area, bringing us to 45 markets at the end of 1Q22

Outlook

  • 2Q22 revenue guidance of $4.1 billion – $4.3 billion, up 254% YoY at the midpoint of range

  • 2Q22 Adjusted EBITDA1 guidance of $170 million – $190 million, up 604% YoY at the midpoint of range

Conference Call and Webcast Details

Opendoor will host a conference call to discuss its financial results on May 5, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. A live webcast of the call can be accessed from Opendoor’s Investor Relations website at https://investor.opendoor.com. An archived version of the webcast will be available from the same website after the call.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking, including statements regarding our financial condition, anticipated financial performance, business strategy and plans, market opportunity and expansion and objectives of management for future operations. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “contemplate”, “continue”, “could”, “estimate”, “expect”, “forecast”, “future”, “intend”, “may”, “might”, “opportunity”, “plan”, “possible”, “potential”, “predict”, “project,” “should”, “strategy”, “strive”, “target”, “will”, or “would”, the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions. The absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many important factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading; our ability to raise financing in the future; our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors; the impact of the regulatory environment and complexities with compliance related to such environment; various factors relating to our business, operations and financial performance, including, but not limited to, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our ability to grow market share; our ability to respond to general economic conditions and the health of the U.S. residential real estate industry. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described under the caption “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 24, 2022, as updated by our other filings with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and we assume no obligation and do not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. We do not give any assurance that we will achieve our expectations.

About Opendoor

Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move. Since 2014, Opendoor has provided people across the U.S. with a radically simple way to buy, sell or trade-in a home online. Opendoor currently operates in a growing number of markets across the U.S.

Contact Information

Investors:

Elise Wang

Opendoor

investors@opendoor.com

Media:

Sheila Tran / Charles Stewart

Opendoor

press@opendoor.com

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