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Webstep

Investor Presentation Aug 24, 2021

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Q2 2021

Webstep ASA Oslo | 24 August 2021

Save Asmervik, CEO

Agenda

  • 1. Q2 highlights
  • 2. Business review
  • 3. Financial review
  • 4. Outlook

Highlights from the quarter

Q2 highlights

  • Revenues increased by 13.4 percent to NOK 195.5 million
  • EBIT increased by 19.1 percent to NOK 19.9 million
  • 439 employees at the end of the quarter, up by 4 from the previous quarter and up 25 last twelve months
  • Continued strong growth in Oslo

* Change in provision method for fixed salary holiday pay: Consolidated figures as if Q2 2020 include ordinary salary costs for employees with a base salary. Please see the report - Note 7. **Q2 2020 EBIT LTM: Adjusted up MNOK 6 to account for fixed salary Q3 2019.

Business review

Go-to-market model

WEBSTEP DELIVERY MODEL CUSTOMER

A diversified customer base

Top 10 customers represent 37.0% of total revenues – up from 32.1% in Q1 2020

Helping Laerdal Medical save lives

  • Long term partnership in technology and digital services
  • Supporting Laerdal in developing even more user friendly products
  • Project management and agile coaching in a number of projects

Laerdal Medical is dedicated to their mission of helping save lives through the advancement of resuscitation, patient care, and global health initiatives.

Ensuring high speed connectivity and excellent customer service

  • Webstep contributes to secure connectivity for 1.2 million Norwegians
  • Developing new solutions to further improve customer service
  • Making sure that large amounts of data flow seamlessly between systems and end users

Altibox is delivering broadband services in Norway. Through the use of fiber Altibox is developing the communications highway of tomorrow.

Supporting development of efficient public services

  • KS coordinate development of digital solutions supporting citizen services and public welfare
  • Webstep has for years been a preferred partner, and has recently renewed the agreement with KS
  • The agreement allows Webstep to actively participate in developing solutions and services needed to manage and govern Local and Regional Authorities

KS is the organisation for all local governments in Norway. KS is Norway's largest public employer organisation.

Organization and employees

  • Strong local presence
  • ○ Close to the Customer
  • ○ Strategic Partner
  • Building Competence
  • ○ High quality competence events
  • ○ Investing in the experts
  • 439 employees at the end of quarter
  • ○ Up 4 last quarter
  • ○ Up 25 from same quarter last year
  • ○ Strong recruitment quarter in Q2

Note: Numbers in parentheses refer to year-over-year growth in number of employees.

Community involvement

  • Webstep recognized as thought leader in the industry
  • TENK Tech Camp + Jenter og teknologi

● Invited to Arendalsuka by Abelia debating how data can create jobs

Financial review

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Key figures - Group

NOK million Q2
2021
Q2
2020*
Y/Y
change
YTD
2021
YTD
2020*
Y/Y
change
FY
2020
Q2 highlights
Revenues
EBITDA
EBITDA margin
EBIT
EBIT margin
Net profit
Net free cash flow
Earnings per share (NOK)
Earnings per share. fully diluted (NOK)
195.5
23.4
12.0%
19.9
10.2%
14.9
(5.6)
0.55
0.55
172.4
20.1
11.7%
16.7
9.7%
12.5
13.5
0.47
0.47
13.4%
16.2%
0.3 pts
19.1%
0.5 pts
18.6%
(141.8%)
17.4%
15.9%
389.8
45.1
11.6%
38.0
9.7%
28.5
1.8
1.06
1.05
355.4
36.7
10.3%
29.7
8.4%
22.1
29.1
0.83
0.83
9.7%
23.0%
1.3 pts
27.7%
1.3 pts
28.8%
(93.9%)
27.6%
26.4%
690.0
63.9
9.3%
50.0
7.2%
36.7
59.4
1.38
1.38
hourly rates

Q2 NOK 175.7m (+16.4%)

Less use of subcontractors

Q2 NOK 19.8m (-6.8%)

EBIT impacted by

Less use of subcontractors

Increased sales activities
Equity ratio 61.0% 67.8% (6.8 pts) 61.0% 67.8% (6.8 pts) 64.3%
Cash and cash equivalents 20.5 50.8 (59.6%) 20.5 50.8 (59.6%) 39.7
Number of employees, average (FTE) 435 414 5.2% 430 412 4.5% 410
Number of employees, end of period 439 414 6.0% 439 414 6.0% 415 * Change in provision method for fixed salary holiday pay:
Revenues per FTE (NOKt) 449 417 7.8% 906 863 5.0% 1,683
EBIT per FTE (NOKt) 46 40 13.3% 88 72 22.2% 122

Q2 highlights

  • Revenue growth from own consultants driven by headcount, utilization and hourly rates
  • ○ Q2 NOK 175.7m (+16.4%)
  • Less use of subcontractors
  • ○ Q2 NOK 19.8m (-6.8%)
  • EBIT impacted by
  • ○ Higher revenues from consultants
  • ○ Less use of subcontractors
  • ○ Increased sales activities

14 Consolidated figures as if Q2 2020 include ordinary salary costs for employees with a base salary. Please see the report - Note 7.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Key figures - Norway

Q2 Q2 Y/Y YTD YTD Y/Y FY
NOK million 2021 2020* change 2021 2020* change 2020
Revenues 168.6 145.7 15.7% 334.2 301.1 11.0% 583.9
EBIT 18.5 13.9 33.4% 34.3 24.5 40.3% 41.6
EBIT margin 11.0% 9.5% 1.5 pts 10.3% 8.1% 2.2 pts 7.1%
Number of employees, average (FTE) 369 351 5.2% 365 349 4.8% 348
Number of employees, end of period 372 351 5.8% 372 351 5.8% 352
Number of workdays 59 59 122 123 252
Revenue breakdown
Q2 Q2 Y/Y YTD YTD Y/Y FY
NOK million 2021 2020 change 2021 2020 change 2020
Oslo 70.4 53.0 32.8% 138.2 110.1 25.5% 219.8
Regional offices 85.5 77.8 10.0% 171.1 162.6 5.2% 312.5
Subcontractors 13.3 15.6 (15.0%) 26.4 29.8 (11.5%) 54.0
Other / eliminations (0.6) (0.7) (6.8%) (1.4) (1.4) (0.6%) (2.4)

Total 168.6 145.7 15.7% 334.2 301.1 11.0% 583.9

Q2 highlights

  • Revenue growth driven by headcount, utilization and hourly rates
  • ○ Strong growth in Oslo
  • ○ Less use of subcontractors
  • EBIT impacted by
  • ○ Higher revenues from consultants
  • ○ Less use of subcontractors
  • ○ Increased sales activities

15 * Change in provision method for fixed salary holiday pay: Consolidated figures as if Q2 2020 include ordinary salary costs for employees with a base salary. Please see the report - Note 7.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Key figures - Sweden

Q2 Q2 Y/Y YTD YTD Y/Y FY
NOK million 2021 2020 change 2021 2020 change 2020
Revenues 27.0 26.7 1.0% 55.5 54.3 2.2% 106.1
EBIT 1.3 2.8 (52.0%) 3.6 5.3 (31.4%) 8.4
EBIT margin 5.0% 10.4% (5.4pts) 6.5% 9.7% (3.2pts) 7.9%
Number of employees, average (FTE) 66 63 4.8% 65 64 2.6% 63
Number of employees, end of period 67 63 6.3% 67 63 6.3% 63
Number of workdays 61 60 123 123 252

Q2 highlights

  • Revenue growth of 5.4% (constant currency)
  • ○ Growth from own consultants (+2.1%)
  • ○ Increased use of subcontractors (17.4%)
  • EBIT impacted by
  • ○ Lower margin from subcontractors
  • ○ Increased lease costs
  • ○ Temporary reduction of social security contributions last year
  • ○ Increased number of sales personnel

Cash flow and net debt

Q2 highlights

  • Q2 free cash flow of NOK -5.6
  • Operating cash flow mainly impacted by temporarily increased trade receivables in Q2
  • Capex relates to office equipment
  • Credit facility of NOK 110m in Norway and SEK 5m in Sweden per end of quarter
30 June
NOK million 2021
Cash and cash equivalents* (20.5)
Restricted cash 2.6
Debt to credit institutions 22.6
Leasing liabilities 35.8
Net interest bearing debt (NIBD) 40.5
NIBD/EBITDA (rolling 12 months) 0.56

Outlook

Outlook

  • Positive market outlook
  • ○ High demand for Webstep services and consultants
  • Strong recruiting drive across the organization
  • ○ Q2 was a strong recruiting quarter
  • ○ Reduced employee turnover
  • ○ Number of employees is expected to increase to around 465 by the end of Q3
  • Organic growth in existing locations is the main focus in the coming quarters
  • ○ Strong momentum and promising opportunities within Teams and Project deliveries
  • ○ M&A may be utilized as a strategic tool to access new customer relations or new expertise

Questions?

Please contact us at [email protected]

Appendix

APPENDIX

Top 20 shareholders at 17 August 2021

Shareholder name Shares %
EMBRO EIENDOM AS 7,759,382 28.6%
The Bank of New York Mellon 3,119,279 11.5% Nominee
VERDIPAPIRFONDET ALFRED BERG GAMBA 1,556,645 5.7%
J.P. Morgan Bank Luxembourg S.A. 1,041,345 3.8% Nominee
JAKOB HATTELAND HOLDING AS 1,000,000 3.7%
SALT VALUE AS 976,247 3.6%
HOLMEN SPESIALFOND 699,576 2.6%
VERDIPAPIRFONDET NORDEA NORGE VERD 664,317 2.5%
Danske Invest Norge Vekst 542,000 2.0%
Goldman Sachs International 416,571 1.5% Nominee
INTERTRADE SHIPPING AS 400,000 1.5%
PARK LANE FAMILY OFFICE AS 343,758 1.3%
KRB CAPITAL AS 336,964 1.2%
Citibank, N.A. 320,000 1.2% Nominee
ESPEDAL & CO AS 255,560 0.9%
The Bank of New York Mellon 246,371 0.9% Nominee
VERDIPAPIRFONDET NORDEA AVKASTNING 225,383 0.8%
MP PENSJON PK 224,000 0.8%
Pictet & Cie (Europe) S.A. 222,603 0.8% Nominee
VERDIPAPIRFONDET NORDEA KAPITAL 210,401 0.8%
Top 20 shareholders 20,560,402 75.9%
Other 6,529,703 24.1%
Total share outstanding 27,090,105 100.0%

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