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Liquidity Services, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Financial Results.


Fiscal Year: Revenue of $147.8 Million up 65% - Gross Merchandise Volume Gross Merchandise Volume or GMV is a term used in online retailing to indicate a total sales dollar amount for merchandise sold through a particular marketplace over a certain time frame. Popular auction sites like eBay and Overstock.  (GMV GMV Game Music Video
GMV Gross Merchandise Value
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GMV Gross Metal Value
GMV Got My Vote
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GMV Generalized Minimum Variance
) of $173.1 Million up 69% - Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is a non-GAAP metric that can be used to evaluate a company's profitability.
:EBITDA = Operating Revenue – Operating Expenses + Other Revenue
 (EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) A metric used to show a company's profitability, but not its cash flow. EBITDA became popular in the 1980s to show the potential profitability of leveraged buyouts, but has become ) of $15.0 Million up 125%

Fourth Quarter: Revenue of $39.8 Million up 64% - GMV of $45.9 Million up 65% - Adjusted EBITDA of $4.0 Million up 119%

WASHINGTON -- Liquidity Services, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
:LQDT; www.liquidityservicesinc.com) today reported its financial results for its fiscal year (FY-06) and fourth quarter (Q4-06) ended September 30, 2006. Liquidity Services, Inc. is a leading online auction marketplace for wholesale, surplus and salvage salvage, in maritime law, the compensation that the owner must pay for having his vessel or cargo saved from peril, such as shipwreck, fire, or capture by an enemy. Salvage is awarded only when the party making the rescue was under no legal obligation to do so.  assets.

Liquidity Services, Inc. (LSI LSI: see integrated circuit.


(Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI.
 or the Company) reported record consolidated FY-06 revenue of $147.8 million, representing a growth rate of approximately 65% when compared to the prior year; and adjusted EBITDA of $15.0 million, representing a growth rate of approximately 125% when compared to the prior year. LSI also reported record GMV of $173.1 million for FY-06, representing a growth rate of approximately 69% when compared to the prior year. GMV is the total sales volume of all merchandise sold through our marketplaces during a given period.

The Company reported record consolidated Q4-06 revenue of $39.8 million, representing a growth rate of approximately 64% when compared to the prior year's comparable period; and adjusted EBITDA of $4.0 million, representing a growth rate of approximately 119% when compared to the prior year's comparable period. LSI also reported GMV of $45.9 million for Q4-06, representing a growth rate of approximately 65% when compared to the prior year's comparable period.

Net income in FY-06 was $8.0 million or $0.31 diluted earnings per share diluted earnings per share

An earnings measure calculated by dividing net income less preferred stock dividends for a period by the average number of shares of common stock that would be outstanding if all convertible securities were converted into shares of
. Adjusted net income in FY-06 was $8.4 million or $0.32 adjusted diluted earnings per share.

Net income in Q4-06 was $2.2 million or $0.08 diluted earnings per share. Adjusted net income in Q4-06 was $2.4 million or $0.09 adjusted diluted earnings per share.

LSI enables buyers and sellers to transact An earlier e-commerce system for the Web from Open Market that included order capture and secure order fulfillment using credit cards, ecash and other payment systems. It included customer service and subscription administration capabilities as well as an integrated database for reporting  in an efficient, automated au·to·mate  
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates

v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.

2.
 online auction environment. The Company's marketplaces provide professional buyers access to a global, organized supply of wholesale, surplus and salvage assets presented with digital images and other relevant product information. Additionally, LSI enables its corporate and government sellers to enhance their financial return on excess assets by providing a liquid marketplace and value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions.  that are integrated into a single offering. The Company organizes its products into categories across major industry verticals such as consumer electronics, general merchandise, apparel, scientific equipment, aerospace parts and equipment, technology hardware, and scrap metals. The Company's online auction marketplaces are www.liquidation The collection of assets belonging to a debtor to be applied to the discharge of his or her outstanding debts.

A type of proceeding pursuant to federal Bankruptcy
.com, www.govliquidation.com and www.liquibiz.com. LSI also operates a wholesale industry portal, www.goWholesale.com, that connects advertisers with buyers seeking products for resale resale n. selling again, particularly at retail. In many states a "resale license" or "resale number" is required so that the state can monitor the collection of sales tax on retail sales.


RESALE.
 and related business services.

The Company's ability to create liquid marketplaces for wholesale, surplus and salvage assets generates a continuous flow of goods from its corporate and government sellers. This flow of goods in turn attracts an increasing number of professional buyers to the marketplaces.

"FY-06 was another strong year for the Company as corporate and government sellers continued to leverage our online platform and integrated services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption.  to sell goods in the reverse supply chain," said Bill Angrick, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of LSI. "Our performance during the year reflected solid execution of our business strategy as our commercial business grew approximately 115% year over year. Our scrap and surplus business with the Department of Defense (DoD) also contributed to strong increases in GMV and Adjusted EBITDA during the quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2006. We believe FY-06 results demonstrate that LSI enables corporations and government agencies to achieve enhanced financial value and efficiencies in the tracking and sale of surplus and salvage assets."

Business Outlook

The following forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 reflect current business trends and our current operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. , including the reengineering of certain business and inventory processes in our Surplus business with the Department of Defense (DoD), and the acquisition of STR STR
abbr.
synchronous transmitter receiver
, Inc., which closed on October 16, 2006. Our results may also be materially affected by other factors, including the Company's expectation that it will continue to make significant investments in its infrastructure and value-added services to support new business in both commercial and public sector markets.

We continued to make investments in our U.S. distribution center operations. In July 2006, we signed a lease for a 94,000 square-foot distribution center in Plainfield, Indiana Plainfield is a town in Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. The population was 18,396 at the 2000 census. Its 2005 population, according to the Indiana demographic annual update, was 23,532. Plainfield is home to Metropolis, the largest mall on the west side of Indianapolis. , a suburb suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent.  of Indianapolis. We expect to incur To become subject to and liable for; to have liabilities imposed by act or operation of law.

Expenses are incurred, for example, when the legal obligation to pay them arises. An individual incurs a liability when a money judgment is rendered against him or her by a court.
 start-up Start-up

The earliest stage of a new business venture.
 costs associated with the Indiana Indiana, state, United States
Indiana, midwestern state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan (N), Ohio (E), Kentucky, across the Ohio R. (S), and Illinois (W).
 distribution center during the next quarter. In addition, we may open a new distribution center in the Southeast during Fiscal Year 2007. We expect to incur additional capital expenditures associated with our distribution center network, which may result in total capital expenditures for FY 2007 of $1.0 to $1.5 million.

Included in our Scrap contract with the DoD is an incentive, which can increase the amount of profit sharing profit sharing, arrangement by which employees receive, in addition to their wages, a share of the net profits of a business. The purpose is to give them an incentive to increase their output through enhanced morale, less wasteful use of materials, better care of  distribution we receive from 20% up to 22%. This incentive is based on the amount of scrap sold to small businesses during the preceding 12 months as of June 30th of each year. Therefore, this benefit, to the extent achieved for the 12 months ended June 30, 2007, will be recorded in the quarter ended June 30, 2007. We have an opportunity to receive this incentive annually throughout the Scrap contract and, for the purposes of guidance for FY-07, have assumed that we will receive this incentive. In addition, we have incentives in our Surplus contract associated with the new contract modification, which allows us to receive up to an additional 5.5% of the profit sharing distribution above our new base rate of 25%, beginning December 1, 2006. We have assumed that we will not receive any of the Surplus contract incentive payments in our guidance below, as the period we would be eligible to record such incentive may not occur until the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2007 or the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2008.

Our guidance adjusts EBITDA and Diluted di·lute  
tr.v. di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing, di·lutes
1. To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.

2. To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
 EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format.  for the effects of the adoption of FAS 123R, which we estimate to be approximately $325,000 to $350,000 per quarter for fiscal year 2007.

GMV - LSI expects GMV for FY2007 to range from $220 million to $225 million. In Q1-07, LSI expects GMV to range from $48 million to $50 million.

Adjusted EBITDA - LSI expects Adjusted EBITDA for FY2007 to range from $19 million to $20 million. In Q1-07, LSI expects Adjusted EBITDA to range from $3.6 million to $3.8 million.

Adjusted Diluted EPS - LSI estimates that Adjusted Earnings Per Diluted Share for FY2007 to range from $0.40 to $0.42. In Q1-07, LSI estimates Adjusted Earnings Per Diluted Share to be approximately $0.08.

Key FY and Q4-06 Operating Metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM.

Registered Buyers -- At the end of FY-06, registered buyers totaled approximately 524,000, representing a 36% increase over the approximately 386,000 registered buyers at the end of FY-05.

Auction Participants -- Auction participants, defined as registered buyers who have bid in an auction during the period (a registered buyer who bids in more than one auction is counted as an auction participant in each auction in which he or she bids), increased to approximately 993,000 in FY-06, an approximately 17% increase over the approximately 848,000 auction participants in FY-05. Auction participants increased to approximately 246,000 in Q4-06, an approximately 7% increase over the approximately 230,000 auction participants in Q4-05.

Completed Transactions -- Completed transactions increased to approximately 194,000, an approximately 12% increase for FY-06 from the approximately 173,000 completed transactions in FY-05. In addition, we experienced a 51.4% increase in the average value of our transactions, during FY-06, resulting from product mix, lotting and merchandising merchandising

Element of marketing concerned especially with the sale of goods and services to customers. One aspect of merchandising is advertising, which aims to capture the interest of the segment of the population most likely to buy the product.
 strategies, and buyer demand. Completed transactions decreased to approximately 48,000 for Q4-06 from the approximately 49,000 completed transactions in Q4-05. However, we experienced a 67.2% increase in the average value of our transactions over the same time period.

GMV and Revenue Mix -- GMV and revenue continue to diversify diversify

To acquire a variety of assets that do not tend to change in value at the same time. To diversify a securities portfolio is to purchase different types of securities in different companies in unrelated industries.
 due to the continued rapid growth in our commercial business as well as the successful rollout of our DoD scrap business. As a result, the percentage of GMV and revenue derived from the DoD Surplus Contract has significantly decreased. Consequently, the use of the consignment The delivery of goods to a carrier to be shipped to a designated person for sale. A Bailment of goods for sale.

A consignment is an arrangement resulting from a contract in which one person, the consignor, either ships or entrusts goods to another, the
 pricing model increased as a percentage of GMV and revenue versus the use of the profit-sharing pricing model because commercial clients primarily use the consignment pricing model. The table below summarizes the GMV and revenue concentration from the Company's two significant contracts with the DoD (Surplus and Scrap).
                         GMV Mix              <          <          <



                                              <          <          <



                                      FY-06   <          <  FY-05   <
Q4-06

Q4-05
Profit Sharing Model:                         <          <          <



Surplus                               48.3%   <          <  76.5%   <
40.1%

72.4%
Scrap                                 22.6%   <          <  0.3%    <
30.1%

1.1%
                                              <          <          <



                                      70.9%   <          <  76.8%   <
70.2%

73.5%
Consignment Model                     22.4%   <          <  18.5%   <
21.3%

20.6%
International and Other               6.7%    <          <  4.7%    <
8.5%

5.9%
                                              <          <          <



Total                                 100.0%  <          <  100.0%  <
100.0%

100.0%
                                              <          <          <




                         Revenue Mix          <          <          <



                                              <          <          <



                                      FY-06   <          <  FY-05   <
Q4-06

Q4-05
Profit Sharing Model:                         <          <          <



Surplus                               56.6%   <          <  87.5%   <
46.3%

83.2%
Scrap                                 26.5%   <          <  0.4%    <
34.7%

1.3%
                                              <          <          <



                                      83.1%   <          <  87.9%   <
81.0%

84.5%
Consignment Model                     7.2%    <          <  5.2%    <
7.5%

5.6%
International and Other               9.7%    <          <  6.9%    <
11.5%

9.9%
                                              <          <          <



Total                                 100.0%  <          <  100.0%  <
100.0%

100.0%


Liquidity Services, Inc.

Reconciliation of GAAP GAAP

See: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles


GAAP

See generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
 to Non-GAAP Measures

EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. EBITDA is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure and is equal to net income plus (a) interest income and expense and other income, net; (b) provision for income taxes; (c) amortization of contract intangibles; and (d) depreciation and amortization. Our definition of Adjusted EBITDA differs from EBITDA because we further adjust EBITDA for stock compensation expense.
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Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Basic and Diluted Earnings Per Share. Adjusted net income is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure and is equal to net income plus tax effected stock compensation expense. Adjusted basic and diluted earnings per share are determined using Adjusted Net Income.
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Conference Call

The Company will host a conference call to discuss the fiscal 2006 and fourth quarter 2006 results at 5 p.m. Eastern Time today. Investors and other interested parties may access the teleconference by dialing (800) 599-9795 or (617) 786-2905 and providing the participant pass code 64238388. A live web cast of the conference call will also be provided on the Company's investor relations Investor relations

The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors.
 website at http://www.liquidityservicesinc.com. A replay of the web cast will be available on the Company's website for 32 calendar days ending January 9, 2007 at 11:59 p.m. ET. An audio replay of the teleconference will also be available until January 9, 2007 at 11:59 p.m. ET. To listen to the replay, dial (888) 286-8010 or (617) 801-6888 and provide pass code 10778498. Both replays will be available starting at 7:00 p.m.

Non-GAAP Measures

To supplement the Company's consolidated financial statements Consolidated Financial Statements

The combined financial statements of a parent company and its subsidiaries.

Notes:
Because consolidated financial statements present an aggregated look at the financial position of a parent and its subsidiaries, they enable you to gauge
 presented in accordance Accordance is Bible Study Software for Macintosh developed by OakTree Software, Inc.[]

As well as a standalone program, it is the base software packaged by Zondervan in their Bible Study suites for Macintosh.
 with GAAP, LSI uses certain non-GAAP measures of certain components of financial performance. These non-GAAP measures include earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings Per Share. These non-GAAP measures are provided to enhance investors' overall understanding of the Company's current financial performance and the Company's prospects for the future. The Company uses EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA (a) as measurements of operating performance because they assist the Company in comparing its operating performance on a consistent basis since the measures remove the impact of items not directly resulting from the Company's core operations; (b) for planning purposes, including the preparation of the Company's internal annual operating budget Noun 1. operating budget - a budget for current expenses as distinct from financial transactions or permanent improvements
budget items, operating cost, operating expense, overhead - the expense of maintaining property (e.g.
; (c) to allocate To reserve a resource such as memory or disk. See memory allocation.  resources to enhance the financial performance of the Company's business; (d) to evaluate the effectiveness of the Company's operational strategies; and (e) to evaluate the Company's capacity to fund capital expenditures and expand its business.

The Company believes these non-GAAP measures provide useful information to both management and investors by excluding certain expenses that may not be indicative of the Company's core operating measures. In addition, because LSI has historically reported certain non-GAAP measures to investors, the Company believes the inclusion of non-GAAP measures provides consistency in the Company's financial reporting. These measures should be considered in addition to financial information prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles The standard accounting rules, regulations, and procedures used by companies in maintaining their financial records.

Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) provide companies and accountants with a consistent set of guidelines that cover both broad accounting
, but should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP results. A reconciliation of all non-GAAP measures included in this press release, to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, can be found in the financial tables included in this press release.

Supplemental Operating Data

To supplement the Company's consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, LSI uses certain supplemental operating data as a measure of certain components of operating performance. LSI reviews GMV because it provides a measure of the volume of goods being sold in its marketplaces and thus the activity of those marketplaces. GMV and the Company's other supplemental operating data, registered buyers, auction participants and completed transactions also provide a means to evaluate the effectiveness of investments that the Company has made and continues to make in the areas of customer support, value-added services, product development, sales and marketing and operations. Therefore, the Company believes this supplemental operating data provide useful information to both management and investors. In addition, because LSI has historically reported certain supplemental operating data to investors, the Company believes the inclusion of this supplemental operating data provides consistency in the Company's financial reporting. This data should be considered in addition to financial information prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, but should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP results.

Forward-Looking Statements

This document contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. These statements are only predictions. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company's business outlook. You can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "expects," "intends," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continues" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.

There are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this document. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed as forward-looking statements are set forth in the Company's filings with the SEC from time to time. There may be other factors of which we are currently unaware or deem immaterial Not essential or necessary; not important or pertinent; not decisive; of no substantial consequence; without weight; of no material significance.


immaterial adj.
 that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.

All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf apply only as of the date of this document and are expressly qualified in their entirety The whole, in contradistinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conveyed to Husband and Wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of the entirety.  by the cautionary statements included in this document. Except as may be required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact.
     2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or
 occurring after the date of this document or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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