News Release

• Announces large scale prepaid distribution expansion into 20,000 additional retail locations
• Announces entry into the check cashing distribution channel
• Announces expanded GoBank marketing through college campuses, mobile carriers and retailers
• Raises outlook for 2013

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 30, 2013-- Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.

For the second quarter of 2013, Green Dot reported a 4% year-over-year increase in non-GAAP total operating revenues¹ to $142.6 million and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share¹ of $0.33. GAAP results for the second quarter were $140.6 million in total operating revenues and $0.25 in diluted earnings per share.

Net cash provided by operating activities in the quarter more than doubled year-over-year to $62.6 million.

“We are pleased to deliver growth in revenues, adjusted EBITDA, and non-GAAP EPS in Q2. Additionally, we generated more than $60 million in operating cash flows. These solid financial results for this quarter combined with substantial distribution wins, the successful launch of our GoBank Mobile Bank Account product and our entry into new greenfield customer channels, like college campuses and check cashing stores, provides evidence that Green Dot Corporation has successfully navigated through the past year of uncertainty. Despite aggressive competition from large financial services companies and rigid self-imposed risk controls that materially reduced new customer enrollment, we believe Green Dot remains the clear leader in the prepaid space and is well positioned for the future," said Steve Streit, Green Dot's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

GAAP financial results for the second quarter of 2013 compared to the second quarter of 2012:

• Total operating revenues on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis increased 4% to $140.6 million for the second quarter of 2013 from $135.0 million for the second quarter of 2012
• GAAP net income increased 4% to $11.3 million for the second quarter of 2013 from $10.9 million for the second quarter of 2012
• GAAP basic and diluted earnings per common share were $0.26 and $0.25, respectively, for the second quarter of 2013 versus $0.26 and $0.25, respectively, for the second quarter of 2012

Non-GAAP financial results for the second quarter of 2013 compared to the second quarter of 2012:¹

• Non-GAAP total operating revenues¹ increased 4% to $142.6 million for the second quarter of 2013 from $137.6 million for the second quarter of 2012
• Non-GAAP net income¹ increased 4% to $14.8 million for the second quarter of 2013 from $14.3 million for the second quarter of 2012
• Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share¹ was $0.33 for the second quarter of 2013 versus $0.32 for the second quarter of 2012
• EBITDA plus employee stock-based compensation expense and stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense (adjusted EBITDA¹) increased 10% to $29.6 million for the second quarter of 2013 from $27.0 million for the second quarter of 2012

Key business metrics for the quarter ended June 30, 2013:

• Number of cash transfers was 11.32 million for the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 1.18 million, or 12%, versus the second quarter of 2012
• Number of active cards at quarter end was 4.39 million, a decrease of 0.05 million, or 1%, versus the second quarter of 2012
• Gross dollar volume (GDV) was $4.4 billion for the second quarter of 2013, an increase of $445 million, or 11%, versus the second quarter of 2012
• Purchase volume was $3.2 billion for the second quarter of 2013, an increase of $305 million, or 10%, versus the second quarter of 2012

Please refer to the Company's latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for a description of the key business metrics described above. The following table shows the Company's quarterly key business metrics for each of the last six calendar quarters:

Select Business Updates

• Green Dot products are currently being rolled out to approximately 20,000 new retail locations. These new distribution outlets include The Home Depot, Kroger Convenience Stores, Save-a-Lot retail stores, Dollar General and the previously announced Dollar Tree.
• Green Dot and Green Dot Bank have launched a new initiative called Project Outreach whereby the company has made it a strategic priority to become a leading provider of prepaid cards and other types of bank accounts through the nation's best and largest Community Based Financial Service Centers (also known as check cashers). Green Dot has already signed distribution agreements with three of the largest and best known check cashing operations throughout the five boroughs of the greater New York City metro area, which ranks as the #1 check cashing market in the U.S.
• In June 2013, Green Dot announced the proposed transfer of the Walmart MoneyCard portfolio from GE Consumer Retail Bank to Green Dot Bank, which is subject to regulatory approval. Green Dot believes having Green Dot Bank become the bank issuer and insured depository for the MoneyCard program will mitigate a key business and regulatory risk of relying on a third party non-affiliated bank to provide these foundational services for the program while also creating certain financial efficiencies post transfer, if approved.
• GoBank was released to the general public over the July 4th holiday to strong reviews from various media outlets. The distribution/promotional pipeline for GoBank has expanded to now include 7-Eleven, Barnes and Noble college book stores, the UCLA main campus hub bookstore, and US Cellular, a large regional mobile carrier.

John Keatley, Green Dot's Chief Financial Officer, added, "Green Dot once again saw solid gains in the average quality of our portfolio with increases in revenue per customer and cardholder retention. We continued to see solid gains in direct deposit enrollment, which increased 11% year-over-year, and non-GAAP revenue per active card, which increased 5%. The resilience of our core business gives us sufficient clarity to raise our full year non-GAAP revenue guidance to $565-575 million and increase our outlook for adjusted EBITDA to $95-105 million for the full year. This guidance reflects significant investments in the second half of the year required to roll out our new retail locations and check cashing partners, and to support our new GoBank partnerships. It also reflects the technology and compliance expenses associated with the proposed migration of accounts from GE Consumer Retail Bank to Green Dot Bank. We believe that these investments will provide a solid foundation for growth as we look to 2014 and beyond."

Updated Outlook for 2013

Green Dot's updated outlook is based on a number of assumptions that Green Dot believes are reasonable at the time of this earnings release. Information regarding potential risks that could cause the actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements is set forth below and in Green Dot's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

For 2013, Green Dot now expects full year non-GAAP total operating revenues² to be in the range of $565 million to $575 million. Green Dot now expects adjusted EBITDA² to be between $95 million and $105 million for the full year, and full-year non-GAAP diluted EPS² to be between $1.05 and $1.20.

Conference Call

The Company will host a conference call to discuss second quarter 2013 financial results today at 5:00 p.m. ET. In addition to the conference call, there will be a webcast presentation of accompanying slides accessible on the Company's investor relations website. Hosting the call will be Steve Streit, Chief Executive Officer, and John Keatley, Chief Financial Officer. The conference call can be accessed live over the phone by dialing (877) 300-8521, or (412) 317-6026 for international callers. A replay will be available approximately two hours after the call concludes and can be accessed by dialing (877) 870-5176 or (858) 384-5517 for international callers; the conference ID is 10031326. The replay of the webcast will be available until Tuesday, August 6, 2013. The live call and the replay, along with supporting materials, can also be accessed through the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.greendot.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

This earnings release contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, among other things, statements regarding the Company's full-year 2013 guidance, including all the statements under "Updated Outlook for 2013," and other future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements contained in this earnings release, and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those projected include, among other things, the Company's dependence on revenues derived from Walmart and three other retail distributors, impact of competition, the Company's reliance on retail distributors for the promotion of its products and services, demand for the Company's new and existing products and services, continued and improving returns from the Company's investments in new growth initiatives, the possibility that the migration of accounts from GE Consumer Retail Bank to Green Dot Bank does not achieve regulatory approval, potential difficulties in integrating operations of acquired entities and acquired technologies, the Company's ability to operate in a highly regulated environment, changes to existing laws or regulations affecting the Company's operating methods or economics, the Company's reliance on third-party vendors and card issuing banks, changes in credit card association or other network rules or standards, changes in card association and debit network fees or products or interchange rates, instances of fraud developments in the prepaid financial services industry that impact prepaid debit card usage generally, business interruption or systems failure, and the Company's involvement litigation or investigations. These and other risks are discussed in greater detail in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q, which are available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.greendot.com/ and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. All information provided in this release and in the attachments is as of July 30, 2013, and the Company assumes no obligation to update this information as a result of future events or developments.

About Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement the Company's consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), the Company uses measures of operating results that are adjusted to exclude net interest income; income tax expense; depreciation and amortization; employee stock-based compensation expense; and stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense. This earnings release includes non-GAAP total operating revenues, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP earnings per share, non-GAAP weighted-average shares issued and outstanding and adjusted EBITDA. It also includes full-year 2013 guidance for non-GAAP total operating revenues, adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share. These non-GAAP financial measures are not calculated or presented in accordance with, and are not alternatives or substitutes for, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, and should be read only in conjunction with the Company's financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. The Company's non-GAAP financial measures may be different from similarly-titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The Company believes that the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to management and investors regarding underlying trends in its consolidated financial condition and results of operations. The Company's management regularly uses these supplemental non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage and evaluate the Company's business and make operating decisions. For additional information regarding the Company's use of non-GAAP financial measures and the items excluded by the Company from one or more of its historic and projected non-GAAP financial measures, investors are encouraged to review the reconciliations of the Company's historic and projected non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures, which are attached to this earnings release, and which can be found by clicking on “Financial Information” in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://ir.greendot.com/.

About Green Dot

Green Dot Corporation is a publicly traded bank holding company with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. Its products and brands include Green Dot brand reloadable prepaid debit cards, the Green Dot Reload Network, the Green Dot MoneyPak and GoBank. The Company's prepaid products and services are available in more than 60,000 retail stores nationwide and online at Greendot.com. GoBank is available online at GoBank.com and via the Apple App Store and Google Play, and additional distribution locations. The company is headquartered in Pasadena, Calif. with technology offices in Mountain View, Calif. and Westlake Village, Calif. and its bank subsidiary, Green Dot Bank, located in Provo, Utah.

• stock-based retailer incentive compensation is a non-cash GAAP accounting charge that is an offset to the Company’s actual revenues from operations as the Company has historically calculated them. This charge results from the monthly lapsing of the Company’s right to repurchase a portion of the 2,208,552 shares it issued to its largest distributor, Walmart, in May 2010. By adding back this charge to the Company’s GAAP 2010 and future total operating revenues, investors can make direct comparisons of the Company’s revenues from operations prior to and after May 2010 and thus more easily perceive trends in the Company’s core operations. Further, because the monthly charge is based on the then-current fair market value of the shares as to which the Company’s repurchase right lapses, adding back this charge eliminates fluctuations in the Company’s operating revenues caused by variations in its stock price and thus provides insight on the operating revenues directly associated with those core operations;
• the Company records employee stock-based compensation from period to period, and recorded employee stock-based compensation expenses of approximately $3.62 million and $3.13 million for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. By comparing the Company’s adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share in different historical periods, investors can evaluate the Company’s operating results without the additional variations caused by employee stock-based compensation expense, which may not be comparable from period to period due to changes in the fair market value of the Company’s Class A common stock (which is influenced by external factors like the volatility of public markets and the financial performance of the Company’s peers) and is not a key measure of the Company’s operations;
• adjusted EBITDA is widely used by investors to measure a company’s operating performance without regard to items, such as interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, employee stock-based compensation expense, and stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense, that can vary substantially from company to company depending upon their respective financing structures and accounting policies, the book values of their assets, their capital structures and the methods by which their assets were acquired; and
• securities analysts use adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure to evaluate the overall operating performance of companies.

• as measures of operating performance, because they exclude the impact of items not directly resulting from the Company’s core operations;
• for planning purposes, including the preparation of the Company’s annual operating budget;
• to allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of the Company’s business;
• to evaluate the effectiveness of the Company’s business strategies; and
• in communications with the Company’s board of directors concerning the Company’s financial performance.

• that these measures do not reflect the Company’s capital expenditures or future requirements for capital expenditures or other contractual commitments;
• that these measures do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, the Company’s working capital needs;
• that these measures do not reflect interest expense or interest income;
• that these measures do not reflect cash requirements for income taxes;
• that, although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated or amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and these measures do not reflect any cash requirements for these replacements; and
• that other companies in the Company’s industry may calculate these measures differently than the Company does, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.

Source: Green Dot Corporation

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