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EOG recently celebrated our 25th anniversary as an independently traded publiccompany. Operator And our next question today will come from Kalei Akamine with Bank of America. Kalei Akamine -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Hey, good morning, guys. Now, here's Ezra to wrap up. Please go ahead. because of Verde.
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While the 2025 convertible notes have been trading well in the market, as we have said previously, we continue to monitor the markets and evaluate liability management opportunities in order to manage our debt, as well as opportunities to raise additional financing in the future. So, we are a publiccompany and an operating company.
Good morning, and thank you for joining our second-quarter earnings call and our very first as a publiccompany. Over the last 135 years, we have established ourselves as the world's largest pure-play consumer health company. Our first questions come from the line of Anna Lizzul with Bank of America. organic growth.
Normalized software and services revenue grew 5% as we continue to onboard new and existing customers to our commerce and digital banking platforms. Our digital banking segment demonstrated strong financial and operational performance this quarter. Today, 13 of the 15 largest retail banks in the U.S. Let's move on to Slide 8.
The second quarter of 2023 marked our two-year anniversary as a publiccompany, and I'm extremely proud to announce we have exceeded consensus estimates and raised our outlook every quarter since we've gone public with Q2 continuing this pattern. The next question comes from Koji Ikeda of Bank of America. Thanks, guys.
3 on Forbes' America's Best Companies list which came out this month. Forbes evaluated the nation's largest publiccompanies and considered factors such as financial performance, trust, and customer and employee satisfaction. So, that's not something that we're banking on for the confidence I shared in the 20%.
Second, we are on track to separate NCR into two publiccompanies in the fourth quarter of 2023. In Digital Banking, we continue to have positive momentum. In the second quarter, Digital Banking sales activity was strong with nine new customer deals and 18 digital banking renewals. The strong U.S.
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And for our first fiscal year as a publiccompany being completed, also record revenue, exceeding the high end of the guidance range. First question will come from Ross Seymore of Deutsche Bank. Ross Seymore -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Hi, guys, thanks for asking question, and congrats on the strong results and guide.
Now, let's shift to Slide 4 and talk about a very important theme in the mortgage industry, namely the ongoing retreat of banks from the sector, which is creating a major growth opportunity for us. As most of you are aware, banks used to dominate the mortgage industry with close to 100% market share in both originations and servicing.
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We have made significant progress in our first quarter as a publiccompany and are on track with plans to separate fully from Cummins. Next, we'll go to Andrew Obin with Bank of America. Andrew Obin -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Hi, yes. Andrew Obin -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Yeah.
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We drove strong financial performance in the fourth quarter, delivering an impressive finish to our first year as a publiccompany. In closing, I want to thank our global team for their commitment, which allowed us to deliver exceptional results during our first calendar year as a publiccompany. Please go ahead.
Our next question will come from the line of Andrew Obin with Bank of America. Andrew Obin -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Yes. Andrew Obin -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Yeah. billion of stand-alone publiccompany expenses, EH&S costs, all the other things, we are thinking $7.1
This is the 13th consecutive quarter as a publiccompany in which we have met or exceeded our revenue guidance range. Another reason why these LLMs are not being installed has to do with IP liability. The IP liability is associated with these large language models that are trained on the public internet are unbounded OK.
Earlier in the year we focused on first lien LBO opportunities for large companies taken private at attractive valuations. Over the last decade, regulation limiting bank balance sheet risk led to a shift to non-bank lending for smaller and middle market issuers. Now you are seeing this impact for larger companies.
The bank decided to realign their business processes by splitting applications testing from development and maintenance in order to improve quality, time to market, and cost efficiency. As a result of this initial success, the bank is expanding our engagement into other critical business operations. We're a publiccompany.
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When you look at the sum of the parts there are -- you can compare us to anybody else in, I think, in the business when you look at some of this but like Newrez, the mortgage company, there were public peers out there. I would encourage you to look at some of the publiccompanies that trade out there.
Questions & Answers: Operator [Operator instructions] Our first question will come from the line of Vivek Arya with Bank of America. Vivek Arya -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thanks for taking my question. Vivek Arya -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thank you, Hock. Your line is open.
And our next question comes from the line of Andrew Obin with Bank of America. David Ridley-Lane -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thank you. David Ridley-Lane -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thank you. David Ridley-Lane -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thank you very much. Thanks, Steph.
year over year, while our three largest publiccompany competitors by agent count reported decreases of 2%, decreases of 5%, and decrease of 6% in the same period. When I was investment banking, we had the Gantt chart, the entire process, and they would coordinate the lawyers and the accountants. Please go ahead. Really helpful.
And as a reminder, while the royalties are considered a debt instrument for GAAP purposes, they cannot be called and ultimately should be considered more as a long-term liability than true debt. Operator The next question comes from Tazeen Ahmad with Bank of America. Tazeen Ahmad -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Hi, guys.
In financial services, we provide core banking solutions to numerous banks globally. Operator instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Bryan Keane with Deutsche Bank. Bryan Keane -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Hi, guys. Bryan Keane -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Got it. Your line is open. Great question.
And third, it has enabled the consistent and predictable takedown of just-in-time delivered, fully developed home site that has attracted capital to the structured land banking partnerships that have driven the nearly $20 billion of transactions that have enabled our land life transformation to date. Is it going to be materially different?
If you go back to the WMIH merger in 2018, which is when we became a fully independent publiccompany, our first priority was deleveraging, which we accomplished by refinancing our senior notes and extending our liquidity runway. Now, that's the lowest level of Mr. Cooper's history as a publiccompany. Thank you.
You know, you folks are coming up on a year as a publiccompany, and, you know, I'm wondering what's the range of M&A opportunities for you folks over the next, call it, 12 to 18 months in terms of how much capital you expect to put to work and what that might look like based on your pipeline as you sit here today? Please go ahead.
Before turning to the results, I would like to provide some perspective on our company as we celebrated our 30th anniversary as a publiccompany mid-December of last year. I want to thank the entire Simon team who have contributed to 30 years of success as a publiccompany. Thanks, Tom. per share, and returned $2.9
publiccompany customers comply with the SEC's recently announced rules on cybersecurity incident disclosure that will be effective later this year. We secured a seven-figure security and observability deal in Q2 with a multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in the Asia-Pacific region.
This was also our first quarter of GAAP profitability as a publiccompany. And as part of a seven-figure fourth quarter deal, they plan to deploy Communications Mining in their corporate investment banking, commercial banking, and HR departments. We ended the year with 4,035 total employees.
This will also help public and corporate leaders to better assess cyber risks and liabilities, so they can develop effective strategies and mitigate potential impacts. Alex Henderson -- Needham and Company -- Analyst Great. Our next question comes from the line of Tal Liani with Bank of America. Operator Thank you.
Operator Your next question comes from the line of Andrew Obin from Bank of America. Andrew Obin -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Hi, guys. So -- Andrew Obin -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Gotcha. Andrew Obin -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thanks so much. Please go ahead. Good morning.
We actively monitor the capital markets and will continuously evaluate liability management opportunities to manage our debt and interest expense, as well as opportunities to raise additional financings in the future. The movements toward banks beginning to custody Bitcoin is very exciting. That's another exciting milestone.
We delivered 57% growth and 21% EBITDA margin, top percentile of publiccompanies out there. Our first question comes from the line of Lorraine Hutchinson with Bank of America. Lorraine Hutchinson -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thank you. So, to recap, 2023 was a very strong year for ODDITY.
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