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Itera — Interim / Quarterly Report 2021
Aug 19, 2021
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Interim / Quarterly Report
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- Highlights of the Quarter
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- Business Review
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- Financial Review
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- Outlook
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- Q & A
Arne Mjøs CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Bent Hammer CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Q2 in brief
Key figures core digital business
02 Business review
Crisis accelerates digitalisation and sustainability
Towards the fourth industrial revolution
Itera is setting the agenda for Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 report DN Studio Live May 4 and 5
Creating shared understanding for value creation
Delivery Factory at Scale for data-driven businesses
Faster business innovation through autonomous teams and adoption of cloud services
Speed/Agility
Business agility and reduced timeto-market through efficient DevSecOps teams
Efficient use of distributed delivery across borders and public cloud scale
Control
Secure, predictable and flexible service delivery and operations capability end to end
Custom teams to solve complex challenges
TOP 1 IN THE WORLD IN CROSS-BORDER DELIVERY
Awarded by the Global Sourcing Association 2018
MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS
FULL RANGE OF SERVICES AND CAPABILITIES SCALABILITY & COST-EFFICIENCY
Taking pole position: World Class Cloud Center of Excellence
LANDING ZONE FOR WORKLOADS
The 15 MNOK investment in creating a world class Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) was completed successfully in Q2.
- Managing everything as a code.
- Not only software and infrastructure provisioning but also Operation and Service delivery
- Customers in own data centre operation are migrated to the cloud by end of this year
- We are demonstrating our leadership in live production for both existing and new customers
- Strong pipeline of opportunities
Growing our strategic partnership with Aize
Combating financial crime with artificial intelligence
Itera and IBM are teaming up by combining local and global capabilities, industry experience, proven software, and a data driven approach with use of advanced cognitive solutions and artificial intelligence.
- Artificial intelligence is at the forefront of reducing money laundering and combating the financing of crime
- BM's is one of the global leaders in the market in this field according to Gartner and Forrester
- Our joint ambition is high and is to quickly become a preferred partner for the Nordic financial industry in the fight against financial crime
Major framework agreements in the public sector
Three large frame agreements in a strong vendor alliance for the next four years (2+1+1)
- Cover almost all Itera services, including system development, architecture, test management, total experience (design), agile coaching, analytics, and data science
- Expected to bring substantial value to our yearly revenue contributing to fulfil our growth ambitions
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Order intake
Order intake from selected new and existing customers
Book-to-bill ratio*) of 1.0 in Q2 for core digital business and 1.2 for the last 12 months
Customer development
▪ New business
- Existing customers accounted for 85.5% (89.0%) of revenues in Q3 2021
- New customers won over the past year generated revenues of NOK 23.4 (16.4) million in Q2 2021 (14.5%)
- Good visibility
- Share of revenue from top 30 customers 74% (76%)
- High customer concentration signifies
- Strategic relationships
- Full range of services
- Distributed delivery across borders
Revenue customers split (in MNOK)
Largest customers' share of revenue
Top 30 Top 10
* Existing customers defined as customers that were invoiced in the corresponding quarter last year
** New customers defined as customers won since end of corresponding quarter last year
Transformation of own data centre to the cloud
- Itera has invested MNOK 15 in a world-class Cloud Centre of Excellence that will provide a scaling engine for massive data
- Revenue from the data centre operations was down 64% to NOK 10 million in Q2 following the planned exit of on-premise customers
- Data centre revenue will continue to decrease, mitigated by an increase in cloud revenue towards the year end
Skilled and innovative employees in core digital business
- 539 employees at the end of the quarter
- Up by 15 in the quarter
- Up by 76 last twelve months
- Nearshore ratio of 52% (50%)
- Our distributed delivery model of onshore and nearshore consultants are increasing our price competitiveness as well as providing high scalability through access to a very large resource pool
Number of employees end of quarter by shore
Year-over-year growth in no. of employees
03 Financial review
Financial reporting 2021
▪ Given the sunsetting of the data centre operations, focus for financial reporting is on the core digital business, including the investment in the Cloud Centre of Excellence.
Key financials core digital business
| 2021 | 2020 | change | change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| in million Amounts NOK |
4-6 | 4-6 | % | |
| Sales revenue |
150 8 |
121 6 |
29 2 |
24 1 % |
| of sales Cost |
12 3 |
8 4 |
3 9 |
46 8 % |
| profit Gross |
138 5 |
113 2 |
25 3 |
22 4 % |
| margin Gross |
91 9 % |
93 1 % |
-1 3 pts |
-1 3 pts |
| Personnel expenses |
100 7 |
81 5 |
19 2 |
23 6 % |
| Other operating expenses |
9 1 |
8 3 |
0 9 |
10 7 % |
| Depreciation and amortisation |
6 4 |
7 9 |
-1 5 |
-19 5 % |
| Total operating expenses |
128 5 |
106 0 |
22 5 |
21 2 % |
| EBITDA | 28 7 |
23 5 |
5 2 |
22 1 % |
| margin EBITDA |
19 0 % |
19 3 % |
-0 3 pts |
-0 3 pts |
| EBIT | 22 3 |
15 6 |
6 7 |
43 4 % |
| EBIT margin |
14 8 % |
12 8 % |
2 pts |
2 pts |
| . of employees the end of the period No at |
539 | 463 | 7 6 |
3 % 16 |
- Strong growth of 24% fuelled by some major new accounts and more subcontractors
- Personnel expense increase from FTE growth, salary increases, bonus accruals and last year's Covid reliefs
- Some opex savings from Covid (travel and sub-rental of Kyiv office)
- EBIT up 43% to MNOK 22.3
- EBIT margin of 14.8% (12.8%)
- No. of FTEs up 76 to 539
Revenue and earnings development
Quarterly Revenue and EBIT margin*
- Momentum picking up after front loading of resources through Covid in anticipation of growth
- Margin improvements also aided by Covid-related cost avoidance, e.g. travel costs.
- Quarterly figures are impacted by number of working days net of vacations
Subscription revenue from data centre operations
▪ Subscription revenue from data centre operations will continue to drop as customers are migrated to cloud or exited
Segment reporting
| Amounts in NOK million | Core digital business (94%) |
Data centre operations (6%) |
Total | Core digital business (81%) |
Data centre operations (19%) |
Total | Core digital business |
Data centre operations |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales revenue | 150.8 | 10.3 | 161.1 | 121.6 | 28.3 | 149.9 | 24.1 % | -63.7 % | 7.5 % |
| Cost of sales | 12.3 | 4.6 | 16.9 | 8.4 | 9.9 | 18.2 | 46.8 % | -53.3 % | -7.4 % |
| Gross profit | 138.5 | 5.7 | 144.2 | 113.2 | 18.4 | 131.6 | 22.4 % | -69.2 % | 9.6 % |
| Gross margin | 91.9 % | 55.1 % | 89.5 % | 93.1 % | 65.1 % | 87.8 % | -1.3 pts | -10 pts | 1.7 pts |
| Personnel expenses | 100.7 | 8.8 | 109.5 | 81.5 | 14.8 | 96.2 | 23.6 % | -40.4 % | 13.8 % |
| Other operating expenses | 9.1 | 1.5 | 10.7 | 8.3 | 1.3 | 9.6 | 10.7 % | 13.8 % | 11.1 % |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 6.4 | 1.0 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 2.0 | 10.0 | -19.5 % | -48.6 % | -25.4 % |
| Total operating expenses | 128.5 | 16.0 | 144.5 | 106.0 | 28.0 | 134.0 | 21.2 % | -43.0 % | 7.8 % |
| EBITDA | 28.7 | -4.6 | 24.0 | 23.5 | 2.3 | 25.8 | 22.1 % | -300.4 % | -6.8 % |
| EBITDA margin | 19.0 % | -45.3 % | 14.9 % | 19.3 % | 8.2 % | 17.2 % | -0.3 pts | -53.5 pts | -2.3 pts |
| EBIT | 22.3 | -5.7 | 16.6 | 15.6 | 0.3 | 15.8 | 43.4 % | -2020.1 % | 4.8 % |
| EBIT margin | 14.8 % | -55.4 % | 10.3 % | 12.8 % | 1.0 % | 10.6 % | 2 pts | -56.4 pts | -0.3 pts |
- Data centre operations revenue MNOK 10.3 (-64%)
- Decline in data centre operations revenue and profits more than mitigated by growth in core digital business
Statement of cash flow
| Million NOK |
2021 4-6 |
2020 4-6 |
2021 1-6 |
2020 1-6 |
2020 F Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash flow from operations (EBITDA) |
24 0 |
25 8 |
49 8 |
55 1 |
108 9 |
| Change in balance sheet items |
0 1 |
13 8 |
(24 5) |
(7 9) |
(9 7) |
| cash flow from operating activities Net |
24 1 |
39 6 |
25 3 |
47 1 |
99 2 |
| cash flow from investment activities Net |
(11 7) |
(8 0) |
(19 6) |
(7 7) |
(17 0) |
| Purchase of shares own |
(23 5) |
(22 6) |
(23 5) |
(18 2) |
(18 2) |
| Sale of shares |
8 4 |
2 9 |
8 4 |
2 3 |
8 0 |
| Principal elements of lease payments |
(4 3) |
(11 6) |
(12 4) |
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| Instalment of sublease receivable |
0 9 |
(2 1) |
1 8 |
- | - |
| External dividend paid |
(19 8) |
(20 5) |
(19 8) |
(16 3) |
(48 0) |
| cash flow from financing activities Net |
(38 3) |
(42 3) |
(44 7) |
(44 7) |
(58 3) |
| change in bank deposits and cash Net |
(25 8) |
(28 7) |
(39 0) |
(5 2) |
3 1 |
| Bank deposits the end of the period at |
15 4 |
47 9 |
15 4 |
47 9 |
54 4 |
| borrowing related leasing New to |
- | 1 3 |
- | 1 9 |
2 4 |
- Cash flow from operations NOK 24.1 (39.6) million in Q2
- 12 month rolling cash flow from operations was NOK 77 million
- Q2 of 2020 had significant public duty payments deferred to Q3 as a Corona relief measure
Dividend and own shares
- An ordinary dividend of NOK 0.25 per share based on 2020 results was paid and board received authorisation to decide on a supplemental dividend later in the year
- Share price was NOK 14.0 at the end of Q2 2021, an increase of 21% (27% incl. dividends) from NOK 11.55 at the end of Q2 2020.
- Current holding of own shares is 1,637,006 shares. Value at 30 June 2021 was MNOK 22.9
- Consistent high distribution of earnings
Statement of financial position
- Equity ratio of 12% (19%) per 30 June 2021
- 14% excl. IFRS 16 Leasing
- Cash balance of MNOK 15 (MNOK 48)
- Total balance reduced by MNOK 15 to MNOK 220
Outlook
Outlook
Attractive market driven by sustainability and digitalisation after Covid-19.
Strong position through its end-toend services, worldclass distributed delivery and industrial partnerships.
Core digital business will continue to grow at full speed. Profitable growth and cash flow are key focus areas.
Transforming own data centres to the cloud with short-term revenue drop.
Larger projects and customers expected to continue to increase revenue visibility, efficiency and scalability.
Itera does not provide guidance to the market on future prospects.
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Top 20 shareholders
| No | Name | % | Nat | Shareholding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MJØS AS* ARNE INVEST |
30 01 |
NOR | 24 663 031 |
| 2 | OP CAPITAL AS |
5 54 |
NOR | 083 4 551 |
| 3 | GIP AS |
03 5 |
NOR | 137 375 4 |
| 4 | EIKESTAD AS |
37 4 |
NOR | 3 590 000 |
| 5 | SEPTIM CONSULTING AS |
3 57 |
NOR | 2 930 000 |
| 6 | BOINVESTERING AS |
3 26 |
NOR | 2 676 968 |
| 7 | NOR Bank ASA DnB |
3 16 |
NOR | 2 600 000 |
| 8 | GAMST INVEST AS |
2 98 |
NOR | 2 448 134 |
| 9 | JØSYRA INVEST AS |
2 68 |
NOR | 2 200 000 |
| 1 0 |
ITERA ASA |
1 99 |
NOR | 1 637 006 |
| 1 1 |
VERDIPAPIRFONDET STOREBRAND VEKST |
1 39 |
NOR | 1 139 659 |
| 1 2 |
HØGBERG | 1 18 |
NOR | 967 959 |
| 1 3 |
FRAMAR INVEST AS |
1 13 |
NOR | 925 000 |
| 1 4 |
AANESTAD PANAGRI AS |
1 10 |
NOR | 900 000 |
| 1 5 |
DZ PRIVATBANK S A |
1 02 |
LUX | 839 355 |
| 1 6 |
ALTEA PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AS |
0 85 |
NOR | 700 000 |
| 1 7 |
GRØSLAND | 0 77 |
NOR | 630 000 |
| 8 1 |
NYVANG | 0 75 |
NOR | 000 615 |
| 1 9 |
JENSEN | 0 75 |
DEN | 614 450 |
| 2 0 |
MORTEN JOHNSEN HOLDING AS |
0 73 |
NOR | 600 000 |
| TOP 20 |
72 23 |
59 365 020 |
*Arne Mjøs Invest AS holds a future contract on 2,600,000 shares. The total controlling interest of Arne Mjøs is thus 27,263,031 shares (33.2%).