Luxoft Holding, Inc Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2018
May 24, 2018
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May 24, 2018
LONDON, May 24, 2018 - Luxoft Holding Inc (NYSE:LXFT), a global IT service provider, today announced results for the three months and full fiscal year ended March 31, 2018
Fourth Quarter FY2018 Highlights
As of March 31, 2018, total number of employees was 12,898; Annual revenue per billable engineer was $84,923, up 10.5% from the prior year and down 0.5% sequentially
Full-Year 2018 Highlights
Note: Reconciliations of non-GAAP to GAAP measures are included at the end of the release.
Our fourth quarter results were largely in-line with our expectations and marked the end to a year of progress but also continued challenges," said Dmitry Loschinin, Luxoft’s CEO and President. “Despite the impact of certain troubled accounts, we continued to execute our strategic mandate of revenue diversification through increased penetration of attractive markets like Automotive and Digital Enterprise, while also identifying incremental value-driven opportunities. Excluding our Top-Two accounts, our consolidated revenue increased 20.3% and our Financial Services’ revenue increased 37.4%. This was our 13th consecutive quarter of over 20% annual growth in Financial Services, excluding Top-Two accounts, which speaks to the value our solutions and team bring to the broader market and the continued path for long-term growth. In addition, Automotive revenue increased 57.9% annually due to our successful execution and delivery of innovative technologies, solutions and experiences necessary to enable the mobility revolution.”
“Our full-year 2018 performance highlights our progress in transforming the business and revenue mix, strengthening our global delivery scale and executing initial steps to optimize our cost structure. We generated year-over-year revenue growth of 15.4%, or 33.1% ex-Top Two. We expanded our revenue contribution from High Potential Accounts (HPAs) by 49%, and delivered annual revenue growth of 42.9% from Automotive, 22.6% from Digital Enterprise and 6.3%, or 39.4% ex-Top Two, from Financial Services. This increasingly diversified top-line growth is supported by investments in our business, including delivery scale expansion, most notably in Asia Pacific (APAC) where we opened a Bangalore office, and in Europe where we are building a software house for a major German automotive manufacturer.”
“For the first quarter of fiscal 2019, we expect revenue and adjusted EBITDA margin to be in the range of $210 to $215 million and 8.5% to 9.5%, respectively. Based on project timing, seasonality, ramp down of the large Financial Services account and planned expenses related to SG&A optimization, we expect this to be our slowest quarter and for growth to accelerate as we move through fiscal 2019.”
Mr. Loschinin concluded, “Looking ahead, we will continue to execute our transformation strategy and align Luxoft with expanding growth opportunities and key emerging technology trends. We are focused on driving improved execution and strengthening our foundation for long-term sustainable growth. We believe we are taking the right steps and have the right strategy in place to deliver increasing value while also providing direct returns through our recently announced $60 Million share repurchase program.”
Fourth Quarter Key Operating Highlights
Full-Year Key Operating Highlights
Conference Call Information
The Company will host a conference call to review the results on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 8:00 a.m. ET. To participate, please dial 877-407-8293 or 201-689-8349 (outside the U.S.) or access the live webcast here
A replay will be available two hours after the call at http://investor.luxoft.com or by dialing 877-660-6853 or 201-612-7415 (outside the U.S.) and entering the conference ID 13675016. The replay will be available until June 7, 2018.
About Luxoft
Luxoft (NYSE:LXFT) is a global IT service provider of innovative technology solutions that delivers measurable business outcomes to multinational companies. Its offerings encompass strategic consulting, custom software development services, and digital solution engineering. Luxoft enables companies to compete by leveraging its multi-industry expertise in the financial services, automotive, communications, and healthcare & life sciences sectors. Its managed delivery model is underpinned by a highly-educated workforce, allowing the Company to continuously innovate upwards on the technology stack to meet evolving digital challenges.
Luxoft has more than 12,900 employees across 42 cities in 21 countries within five continents, with its operating headquarters office in Zug, Switzerland. For more information, please visit the website
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our financial results presented in accordance with US GAAP, this press release includes the following measures defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission as non-GAAP financial measures: earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA); adjusted EBITDA; non-GAAP net income; non-GAAP diluted Earnings per share (EPS) and Free Cash Flow (FCF). EBITDA is calculated as earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, where interest includes unwinding of the discount rate for contingent liabilities. Prior year amounts were amended accordingly. Non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS exclude stock-based compensation expense, amortization of fair value adjustments to intangible assets and impairment thereof and other acquisitions related costs that may include changes in the fair value of contingent consideration liabilities. Non-GAAP diluted EPS are calculated as non-GAAP net income divided by weighted average number of diluted shares. Free Cash Flow is calculated as operating cash flow less capital expenditure which consists of purchases of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets as defined in the cash flow statement.
We adjust our non-GAAP financial measures to exclude stock based compensation, because it is a non-cash expense. We also adjust our non-GAAP financial measures to exclude the change in fair value of contingent consideration, because we believe these expenses are not indicative of what we consider to be normal course of operations. Our non-GAAP financial measures are adjusted to exclude amortization of purchased intangible assets in order to allow management and investors to evaluate our results from operating activities as if these assets have been developed internally rather than acquired in a business combination. Finally, we adjust our non-GAAP financial measures to exclude acquisition-related costs, which comprise payments to consulting firms as well as fees paid upon successful completion of acquisition; as well as certain incentive payments for members of management of the acquired companies as provided for in the acquisition agreements. These payments are based on performance of the acquired businesses and are classified as part of management compensation rather than part of purchase consideration. These costs vary with the size and complexity of each acquisition and are generally inconsistent in amount and frequency, and therefore, we believe that they may not be indicative of the size and volume of future acquisition-related costs.
We provide these non-GAAP financial measures because we believe that they present a better measure of our core business and management uses them internally to evaluate our ongoing performance. Accordingly, we believe that these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors in enhancing and understanding of our operating performance. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, comparable US GAAP measures. The non-GAAP results and a full reconciliation between US GAAP and non-GAAP results are provided in the accompanying tables at the end of this press release.
Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements include information about possible or assumed future results of our business and financial condition, as well as the results of operations, liquidity, plans and objectives. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "believe," "may," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "plan," "expect," "predict", potential," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: the persistence and intensification of competition in the IT industry; the future growth of spending in IT services outsourcing generally and in each of our industry verticals, application outsourcing and custom application development and offshore research and development services; the level of growth of demand for our services from our clients; the level of increase in revenue from our new clients; seasonal trends and the budget and work cycles of our clients; general economic and business conditions in our locations, including geopolitical instability and social, economic or political uncertainties, particularly in Russia and Ukraine, and any potential sanctions, restrictions or responses to such conditions imposed by some of the locations in which we operate; the levels of our concentration of revenues by vertical, geography, by client and by type of contract in the future; the expected timing of the increase in our corporate tax rate, or actual
increases to our effective tax rate which we may experience from time to time; our expectations with respect to the proportion of our fixed price contracts; our expectation that we will be able to integrate and manage the companies we acquire and that our acquisitions will yield the benefits we envision; the demands we expect our rapid growth to place on our management and infrastructure; the sufficiency of our current cash, cash flow from operations, and lines of credit to meet our anticipated cash needs; the high proportion of our cost of services comprised of personnel salaries; our plans to introduce new products for commercial resale and licensing in addition to providing services; our anticipated joint venture with one of our clients; and our continued financial relationship with IBS Group Holding limited and its subsidiaries including expectations for the provision and purchase of services and purchase and lease of equipment; and other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2018 and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this press release whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise
Investor Inquiries
Tracy Krumme, Vice President, Investor Relations
212-964-9900 ext. 2460
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