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ECIT AS

Investor Presentation May 10, 2023

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ECIT & Key Financials Q1 2023

  • Division performance
  • Acquisitions
  • Financial review

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Peter Lauring CEO

Mads Skovgaard CFO

ECIT Drivers

  • Integrating IT, Accounting & Software
  • People business – managed by entrepreneurs
  • Buy & build
  • Tech driven Services provider

10 years performance

Financial targets

Highlights

  • Good organic growth – volume and price increase.
  • EBITDA, EBIT and EPS improved.
  • Overall coming from Improved earnings.
  • Consolidation => margin improvement.

Q1 2023

Revenue: 862m (25,9%)

Organic growth: 10.8%

EBITDA: 115m (13.4%)

EBIT: 64m (7.4%)

RR / Repeat : 77%

EPS: 0.07 NOK

10 companies represent: ~55% (revenue – earnings)

Mcap: 3.3bn

shares: 452m

Divisions

F&A division

Financial overview –
Q1 2023
(NOKm) Q1
2023
Q1
2022
Revenue 509 390
EBITDA 86 61
Total revenue growth 30.8% 30.0%
EBITDA-margin 16.9% 15.7%

EBITDA and margin development

• Δ Organic growth – volume & price.

• Margin improvement – underlying business and Norian.

• M&A growth.

IT division

Financial overview –
Q1 2023
(NOKm) Q1
2023
Q1
2022
Revenue 349 299
EBITDA 44 33
Total revenue growth 16.5% 17.6%
EBITDA-margin 12.5% 11.0%

EBITDA and margin development

• Organic growth – volume & price.

  • Margin improvement consolidation effects.
  • 5 companies ~ 75% of revenue

Tech division

Financial summery –
Q1 2023
(NOKm) Q1
2023
Q1
2022
Revenue 41 25
EBITDA -1 -2
Total revenue growth 57.0% 24.2%
EBITDA-margin -1.6% -7.9%

Revenue development

• Organic growth – consulting & ARR.

  • ARR improving as several systems are gaining customer traction.
  • Investment both software and sales.

Acquisitions in 2023

M&A – Acquisitions in 2023

Financial review

Financial review

Profit & loss summarized Comments

Q1 Q1
(NOKm) 2023 2022 Growth
Revenue 862 685 25.9%
EBITDA 115 87 31.9%
EBIT 64 38 65.6%
Profit for the year 49 32 53.8%
Adj. profit for the year 50 25 100.0%
P&L items:
Retructuring & transaction costs -1 -4 -77.2%
Financial income 10 13 -26.4%
Financial expenses -10 -10 -7.9%
KPIs
Total revenue growth 25.9% 26.6%
Organic revenue growth 10.8% 4.4%
M&A revenue growth 12.1% 23.6%
Currency impact 2.9% -1.5%
EBITDA-margin 13.4% 12.8%
EBIT-margin 7.4% 5.5%
Adj. diluted EPS 0.07 0.03 100.8%
  • The positive development in 2022 continued into the first quarter of 2023.
  • Total revenue growth exceeding the financial target.
  • Currency tailwind of ~3%.
  • Impact of inflation in 2023 increased cost base mitigated by price increase.
  • Effects from the consolidation in 2022 are gradually diminishing.

Cash Flow & financial position

(NOKm) Q1
2023
Q1
2022
EBITDA 115 87
Transaction and restructuring costs -1 -4
Corporation tax, paid -22 -31
Change in NWC 59 27
Cash flow from operations 151 80
Cash flow from investing -36 -105
Cash flow from financing -70 56
Cash flow for the period 45 31
Free cash flow 122 58

Cash Flow Statement Free cash flow (NOK million) Comments

Financial position (NOK million)

(NOKm) Q1
2023
Q1
2022
Net-interest-bearing-debt (NIBD) 247 184
Leverage ratio 0.5x 0.5x
NIBD ex. leasing debt 29 -33
Undrawn revolving facility 448 463
  • Strong cash flow from operations increase in EBITDA and positive change in net working capital.
  • Net working capital improvement explained by a normalisation from Q4 2022.
  • Cash flow from investing/financing activities – timing in acquisitions.
  • NIBD at NOK 247 million (184) incl. IFRS16.
  • Leverage ratio at the same level as last year hence improved EBITDA.
  • NOK ~450 million in financial headroom.

Share buyback & Dividend

Management comments

  • A new share buyback program has been announced starting 10 May 2023 amounting to NOK 12.5 million. The program is planned to end the 23 August 2023.
  • As of 31 March 2023, ECIT AS holds 2,772 thousand treasury shares.
  • Dividends to ECIT AS shareholders of NOK 18.1 million were paid out during April 2023.
Total 2022 Q1 Q2 Total 2023
Announced allocations to shareholders (NOKm) announced 2023 2023 announced
Dividend (NOK 0.04 per share) 17.9 0.0 18.1 18.1
Share buyback 1 - NOK 8 million 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Share buyback 2 - NOK 4 million 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Share buyback 3 - NOK 3 million 0.0 3.0 0.0 3.0
Share buyback 4 - NOK 12 million 0.0 0.0 12.5 12.5
Total announced allocations 29.9 3.0 30.6 33.6

Overall evaluation

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