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PSI Software SE

Interim / Quarterly Report Aug 30, 2019

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PLATFORM FOR INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

01/01-30/06/19
in KEUR
01/01-30/06/18
in KEUR
Change
in KEUR
Change
in %
Revenues 106,632 94,571 +12,061 +12.8
Operating Result 6,478 6,153 +325 +5.3
Result before income taxes 6,044 5,992 +52 +0.9
Net result 4,384 4,277 +107 +2.5
Cash and cash equivalents 31,399 35,790 –4,391 –12.3
Employees on 30 June 1,947 1,722 +225 +13.1
Revenue/Employee 54.8 54.9 –0.1 –0.2

PSI Group Data as per 30 June 2019 at a Glance (IFRS)

Interim Management Report

Business Development

Earnings

PSI Group increased new orders by 5 % to the new record value of 142 million euros in the first six months of 2019 (30 June 2018: 135 million euros). The order book volume on 30 June 2019 was, at 171 million euros, 4 % above the figure for the previous year (30 June 2018: 165 million euros). Group sales improved by just about 13 % to EUR 106.6 million thanks primarily to organic growth in the Production segment and the takeover in the Energy segment (30 June 2018: 94.6 million euros). The EBIT increased by 5 % to 6.5 million euros (30 June 2018: 6.2 million euros), the group net result improved only slightly to 4.4 million euros due to a lower financial result as a result of the application of IFRS 16 (30 June 2018: 4.3 million euros).

Energy management (energy grids, energy trading, public transportation) attained 13 % higher sales of 53.2 million euros (30 June 2018: 46.9 million euros) and a constant EBIT of 2.5 million euros in the first six months. The BTC Smart Grid division in Germany, which was taken over on 1 January 2019, contributed incoming orders of 5.9 million euros in the first six months, including 3.2 million euros in annual maintenance extensions, external sales of 3.3 million euros and a burden of -1.8 million euros (-1.1 million euros in the first quarter, -0.7 million euros in the second quarter) due to underutilization and integration costs. In view of the somewhat higher integration burden than planned, the Executive Board brought forward the second stage of integration in the second quarter, in which the previously unutilized employees were not only assigned to project work, but were now also disciplinarily assigned to the responsible profit centers. While the first quarter was still characterized by extensions of maintenance orders, customer confidence stabilized and led to important new and follow-up orders, which mainly will be booked in the third quarter. For the third quarter, the Management Board expects integration costs of a few hundred thousand euros. This special charge was offset by better results with PSI control systems for gas and electricity networks in the first six months. In the gas network business PSI increased incoming orders, sales and earnings due to the further rollout of the upgrade subscription business and the further recovery of the Russian business. The public transport business continues to benefit from emission-related investments in electric buses. On the other hand, energy trading and the Asian business burdened the result.

At 53.4 million euros, sales in production management (raw materials, metals, industry, logistics) in the first six months were 12 % over the figure for the previous year (30 June 2018: 47.6 million euros). The business' EBIT of 4.5 million euros was 6 % above the figure for the previous year (30 June 2018: 4.2 million euros). The metals business continues to feel uncertainty among European customers about US customs duties, imports, energy costs and the CO2 discussion. By contrast, demand is rising in North America, China and Russia. The Automotive, Industry and Logistics businesses continued the strong development in incoming orders, sales and earnings based on the products for Industry 4.0, electric vehicle production and Internet logistics migrated to the Group platform. Brexit is also driving industry and trade to make additional investments in logistics. As announced, PSI Poland took over the Polish Smart Grid division of BTC AG with 29 employees on 1 May 2019.

Financial Position

Cash flow from operating activities decreased to -1.4 million euros (30 June 2018: 5.0 million euros) due to an increase of working capital. Cash and cash equivalents decreased to 31.4 million euros (30. June 2018: 35.8 million euros), also due to increased investments in the acquired business, and will be used for sales financing in the seasonal course.

Assets

The development of assets in the first six months of 2019 was influenced by the introduction of IFRS 16, which increased property, plant and equipment by 21.4 million euros.

Personnel Development

The number of employees in the group increased to 1,947 (30 June 2018: 1,722), due to new hires and the acquisition of the BTC smart grid business.

PSI-Shares

The PSI stock ended the 1st six months of 2019 with a final price of 17.85 euros 14 % above the final 2018 price of 15.65 euros. In the same period, the technology index TecDAX rose by 17 %.

Risk Report

The estimate of the corporate risk has not changed since the Annual Report for 31 December 2018.

Outlook

PSI continues to record strong demand, particularly for control technology for electricity and gas grids as well as in the logistics and automotive sectors, and therefore expects further increases in the high-margin license, maintenance, upgrade and cloud business in the coming quarters. Despite the deteriorating economic forecasts in Germany and the integration burden, the PSI Executive Board continues to expect sales growth of 10 % to 220 million euros and an increase in the operating result to around 17 million euros for 2019.

Group Balance Sheet

from 1 January 2019 until 30 June 2019 according to IFRS

6 Month Report Annual Report
01/01-30/06/19 01/01-31/12/18
Assets KEUR KEUR
Non current assets
Property, plant and equipment 35,898 13,592
Intangible assets 63,594 58,885
Investments in associates 440 440
Deferred tax assets 8,142 7,967
108,074 80,884
Current assets
Inventories 9,642 8,712
Trade accounts receivable, net 35,158 34,407
Receivables from long-term development contracts 45,085 34,367
Other current assets 9,009 5,722
Cash and cash equivalents 31,399 44,579
130,293 127,787
Total assets 238,367 208,671

Total Equity and Liabilities

Equity
Subscribed capital 40,185 40,185
Capital reserves 35,137 35,137
Reserve for own stock –128 –88
Other reserves –19,613 –19,719
Net retained profits 31,580 31,115
87,161 86,630
Non-current liabilities
Pension provisions and similar obligations 50,638 51,284
Deferred tax liabilities 5,934 4,797
Liabilities from leases 21,698 0
78,270 56,081
Current liabilities
Trade payables 13,492 16,440
Other current liabilities 40,619 31,194
Liabilities from long-tem development contracts 17,036 16,531
Short-term financial liabilities 1,789 1,795
72,936 65,960
Total equity and liabilities 238,367 208,671

Group Income Statement

from 1 January 2019 until 30 June 2019 according to IFRS

Quarterly Report II 6 Month Report
01/04/19-
30/06/19
KEUR
01/04/18-
30/06/18
KEUR
01/01/19-
30/06/19
KEUR
01/01/18-
30/06/18
KEUR
Sales Revenues 54,639 48,826 106,632 94,571
Other operating income 1,598 1,926 4,664 3,548
Cost of materials –8,356 –8,116 –14,515 –13,785
Personnel expenses –34,622 –30,288 –69,059 –60,232
Depreciation and amortisation –2,571 –1,074 –4,931 –2,140
Other operating expenses –7,162 –7,907 –16,313 –15,809
Operating result 3,526 3,367 6,478 6,153
Net finance result –225 –15 –434 –161
Result before income taxes 3,301 3,352 6,044 5,992
Income tax –916 –996 –1,660 –1,715
Net result 2,385 2,356 4,384 4,277
Earnings per share (in Euro per share, basic) 0.15 0.15 0.28 0.27
Earnings per share (in Euro per share, diluted) 0.15 0.15 0.28 0.27
Weighted average shares outstanding (basic) 15,675,806 15,646,653 15,675,806 15,646,653
Weighted average shares outstanding (diluted) 15,675,806 15,646,653 15,675,806 15,646,653

Group comprehensive Income Statement

from 1 January 2019 until 30 June 2019 according to IFRS

01/04/19-
30/06/19
KEUR
01/04/18-
30/06/18
KEUR
01/01/19-
30/06/19
KEUR
01/01/18-
30/06/18
KEUR
Net result 2,385 2,356 4,384 4,277
Currency translation foreign operations –850 300 106 481
Net losses from cash flows hedges 0 0 0 0
Income tax effects 0 0 0 0
Group comprehensive result 1,535 2,656 4,490 4,758

Group Cash Flow Statement

from 1 January 2019 until 30 June 2019 according to IFRS

6 Month Report
01/01-30/06/19
6 Month Report
01/01-30/06/18
KEUR KEUR
CASHFLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Result before income taxes 6,044 5,992
Adjustments for non-cash expenses
Amortisation on intangible assets 1,164 866
Depreciation of property, plant and equipment 1,501 1,274
Depreciation of right-of-use assets under leases (IFRS 16) 2,266 -
Earnings from Investments in associated companies 0 –134
Interest income –44 –84
Interest expenses 770 481
11,701 8,395
Changes of working capital
Inventories –928 –762
Trade receivables and receivables from
long-term development contracts –9,671 –1,445
Other current assets –3,425 –4,698
Provisions –1,015 –875
Trade payables –3,077 –1,490
Other current liabilities 5,858 6,256
–557 5,381
Interest paid –94 –60
Income taxes paid –703 –355
Cash flow from operating activities –1,354 4,966
CASHFLOW FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Additions to intangible assets –507 –547
Additions to property, plant and equipment –2,085 –1,657
Additions to investments in subsidiaries –3,152 0
Interest received 44 84
Cash flow from investing activities –5,700 –2,120
CASHFLOW FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Dividends paid –3,919 –3,596
Proceeds/repayments from/of borrowings –6 –1,248
Payments for the principal portion of lease liabilities (IFRS 16) –1,910 -
Interest paid in connection with leases (IFRS 16) –253 -
Outflows for share buybacks –40 –422
Cash flow from financing activities –6,128 –5,266
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
AT THE END OF THE PERIOD
Changes in cash and cash equivalents –13,182 –2,420
Valuation-related changes in cash and cash equivalents 2 78
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the period 44,579 38,132
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period 31,399 35,790

Statement of Changes in Equity

from 1 January 2019 until 30 June 2019 according to IFRS

Number of
shares issued
Share capital Additional
paid-in
capital
Reserve for
treasury
stock
Other
reserves
Accumulated
results
Total
Number KEUR KEUR KEUR KEUR KEUR KEUR
As of 1 January 2018 15,660,020 40,185 35,137 –328 –18,823 24,126 80,297
Group comprehensive result
after tax
–896 10,585 9,689
Share buybacks –25,000 –422 –422
Issue of own shares 42,276 662 662
Dividends paid –3,596 –3,596
As of 1 January 2019 15,677,296 40,185 35,137 –88 –19,719 31,115 86,630
Group comprehensive result
after tax
106 4,384 4,490
Share buybacks –2,507 –40 –40
Dividends paid –3,919 –3,919
As of 30 June 2019 15,674,789 40,185 35,137 –128 –19,613 31,580 87,161

Shares held by Management Board and Supervisory Board as of 30 June 2019

Shares on 30/06/19 Shares on 30/06/18
Management Board
Harald Fuchs 7,023 7,023
Dr, Harald Schrimpf 67,000 67,000
Supervisory Board
Andreas Böwing 0 0
Elena Günzler 1,905 1,739
Prof, Dr, Uwe Hack 600 600
Prof, Dr, Wilhelm Jaroni 0 0
Uwe Seidel 415 300
Karsten Trippel 111,322 111,322

Remuneration for the Management Board and Supervisory Board

The remuneration system for the Management Board is described in detail in the Remuneration Report as of 31 December 2018.

Fixed remuneration
KEUR
Variable remuneration
KEUR
Long-term remuneration
KEUR
Total remuneration
KEUR
Harald Fuchs 158 50 63 271
Dr. Harald Schrimpf 231 162 83 476
Total 389 212 146 747

As the Supervisory Board payments for the current year are made in the 4th quarter, the Supervisory Board did not obtain any remuneration in the first six months of 2019.

Notes on the consolidated financial statements as of 30 June 2019

The Company

1. Business Activities and Legal Background

The business activities of PSI Software AG and its subsidiaries relate to the development and sale of software systems and products fulfilling the specific needs and requirements of its customers, particularly in the following industries and service lines: utilities, manufacturing, logistics and transportation. In addition, the Group provides services of all kinds in the field of data processing, sells electronic devices and operates data processing systems.

The PSI Group is divided into the core business segments energy management and production management. The company is listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange.

The company is exposed to a wide range of risks that are similar to other companies active in the dynamic technology sector. Major risks for the development of the PSI Group lie in the success with which it markets its software systems and products, competition from larger companies, the ability to generate sufficient cash flows for future business development as well as in individual risks regarding the integration of subsidiaries, organisational changes and the cooperation with strategic partners.

The condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the period from 1 January 2019 to 30 June 2019 were released for publication by a decision of the management on 24 July 2019. The condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the period from 1 January 2019 to 30 June 2019 were produced in compliance with IAS 34 "Interim Financial Reporting". The condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not contain all the data and notes prescribed for the annual financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements for 31 December 2018.

2. Accounting and Valuation Principles

Since 1 January 2019, the PSI Group has applied the new standard IFRS 16 "Leases". The first-time application of the new standard is based on the modified retrospective approach; the comparative period was not adjusted with regard to IFRS 16.

As a result of the first-time application, the real estate leased by the PSI Group in particular qualified as a leasing contract in the sense of IFRS 16. Most of the leased movables relate to motor vehicles. Due to this classification, the respective minimum lease payments are already reported today as discounted financial liabilities in the balance sheet. On the assets side of the balance sheet, the corresponding rights of use in the same amount were capitalized as property, plant and equipment as of 1 January 2019. As a result of this effect, total assets increased by 23 million euros as of 1 January 2019.

In the income statement, the minimum lease expenses are no longer recognised directly in full as expenses, but the individual lease instalments are divided into interest expenses and a principal portion. While the interest expenses, which decrease over the term of the respective lease agreement, burdens the financial result, the principal portion, which increases continually over the term, is no longer reflected in the income statement. The consolidated result is therefore no longer impacted directly by the amount of the principal portion of the lease payment. Instead, the consolidated result is reduced by a constant (straight-line) depreciation of the capitalized right of use over the term of the respective lease agreement. Although the total of the continuously rising principal portions is identical to the total of the straight-line depreciation amounts over the entire term of the individual lease agreement, the surplus of the straight-line depreciation over the initially lower repayment portions has a negative impact on the consolidated result in the first periods of the lease term. For this reason, the consolidated result will be reduced accordingly with the introduction of IFRS 16 in 2019.

The following are selected details from the application of IFRS 16:

30 June 2019
Balance Sheet KEUR
Right-of-use assets under leases 21,431
Lease liabilities 21,698
1 January 2019 until 30 June 2019
Impact on the Group Income Statement KEUR
No longer included in other operating expenses 2.258
Depreciation of rights of use IFRS 16 –2.266
Interest portion from leases –253

The lease payments are also no longer directly included in full in the cash flow from operating activities in the cash flow statement. Instead, the interest and principal portions are reported in cash flow from financing activities. This change in the allocation of the lease payments thus leads to a corresponding improvement in cash flow from operating activities and to significantly higher cash outflows from financing activities. By contrast, cash flow from investing activities remains unaffected by IFRS 16.

For further details, please refer to our comments in the section "Effects of new accounting standards that were not yet required to be applied in the financial year" in the notes to the 2018 consolidated financial statements.

With regard to the other principles of accounting and valuation and especially the application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) see the group consolidated financial statements for the financial year 2016.

3. Seasonal Influences on the Business Activities

Seasonal effects resulted in the PSI Group operations with regards to the receipt of maintenance revenues in the first quarter of the financial year (deferment of the influences on the result of corresponding incoming payments throughout the year) and significantly greater demand and project accounting in the fourth quarter of the financial year.

4. Significant Events

By agreement dated 10 December 2018, PSI Software AG acquired the assets and liabilities of the "PRINS and GridAgent network control software" division of BTC Business Technology Consulting AG, Oldenburg, with effect from 1 January 2019. The acquisition represents an acquisition in accordance with IFRS 3. At the time of the acquisition, the company reported assets of 1,911 KEUR and liabilities of 2,894 KEUR. The net liabilities (at book values) amounted to 983 KEUR. The cash purchase price part 1 amounts to 3,900 KEUR, the purchase price part 2 is determined on the basis of the spin-off balance sheet. The value of purchase price part 2 reduces purchase price part 1. Net liabilities were compared with acquisition costs as part of the purchase price allocation. The resulting difference is attributable to intangible assets with a finite useful life and goodwill. The intangible assets result from the valuation of the "PRINS" software product developed by BTC itself and a customer base. The goodwill reflects the position of the "PRINS and GridAgent network control software" in the market.

By agreement dated 6 May 2019 and effective 1 May 2019, 100 % of the shares in BTC Business Technology Consulting Sp. Z o.o., based in Poznan, Poland, were acquired. The acquisition represents an acquisition in accordance with IFRS 3. At the time of the acquisition, the company reported assets of 698 KEUR and liabilities of 484 KEUR. The cash purchase price part 1 amounts to 730 KEUR, the purchase price part 2 is still determined on the basis of the effective date balance sheet. The preliminary net assets (at book values) amounted to 214 KEUR. As part of the purchase price allocation, these net assets were compared with the acquisition costs (cash purchase price 1: 730 KEUR).

The resulting difference is attributable to intangible assets with a finite useful life and goodwill. This purchase agreement was part of the agreement dated 10 December 2018 with BTC Business Technology Consulting AG, Oldenburg. If the newly acquired subsidiary had already been included in the consolidated financial statements of PSI AG as of 1 January 2019, consolidated sales would have been 107,520 KEUR and consolidated net income 4,423 KEUR.

The following table provides the preliminary fair values of the acquired assets and liabilities at the acquisition date:

Agreement dated Agreement dated
10 December 2018: 6 May 2019:
fair values after the fair values after the
acquisition in acquisition in
KEUR KEUR
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment 280 11
Other intangible assets 672 18
Current assets
Inventories 0 13
Trade accounts receivable 0 313
Receivables from long-term development contracts 1.624 0
Liabilities
Provisions 0 116
Trade payables 0 93
Other liabilities 3.154 260
Liabilities from long-term development contracts 764 0
Deferred income 0 15
Total identifiable net assets at fair value –1.342 214
Goodwill resulting from the acquisition
of the company 4.032 516
Compensation 2.690 730

5. Selected Individual Items

Cash and cash equivalents

30 June 2019 31 December 2018
KEUR KEUR
Bank balances 30,354 42,517
Fixed term deposits 1,022 2,039
Cash 23 23
31,399 44,579

Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts

Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts arise when revenues have been recorded but the amounts cannot be billed under the terms of the contracts.

Such amounts are recoverable from customers upon various measures of performance, including achievement of certain milestones, completion of specified units or completion of the contract. Costs and estimated earnings contain directly allocable costs (labour cost and cost of services provided by third parties) as well as the appropriate portion of overheads including pro rata administrative expenses.

Costs and estimated earnings on uncompleted contracts and related amounts are billed as follows:

30 June 2019
KEUR
31 December 2018
KEUR
Receivables from long-term
development contracts (gross) 126,960 103,048
Payments on account –81,875 –68,681
Receivables from long-term
development contracts 45,085 34,367
Payments on account (gross) 98,911 –85,212
Set off against contract revenue –81,875 –68,681
Liabilities from long-term development contracts 17,036 16,531

Sales revenues

The sales revenues reported in the group income statement break down as follows:

30 June 2019 30 June 2018
KEUR KEUR
Software development 52,006 50,671
Maintenance 36,500 30,130
License fees 8,565 6,826
Merchandise 9,561 6,944
106,632 94,571

Taxes on income

The main components of the income tax expenditure shown in the group income statement are added as follows:

30 June 2019
KEUR
30 June 2018
KEUR
Effective taxes expenses
Effective tax expenses –698 –397
Deferred taxes
Emergence and reversal of
temporary differences –962 –1,318
Tax expenses –1,660 –1,715

Segment Reporting

The development of the segment results can be found in the Group segment reporting.

Segments of the PSI Group:

  • Energy Management: Intelligent solutions for energy suppliers from the electricity, gas, oil and district heating markets and for public transportation. Focal points are reliable and economically sound control system solutions for intelligent energy grid management and the safe operation of traffic infrastructures as well as trade and sales management in the liberalised energy market.
  • Production Management: Software products and solutions for production planning, special tasks in production control and efficient logistics. Focuses are the optimisation of the use of resources and the increase of efficiency, quality and profitability.

Group Segment Reporting

from 1 January 2019 until 30 June 2019 according to IFRS

Energy
Management
Production
Management
Reconciliation PSI Group
30/06/
2019
TEUR
30/06/
2018
TEUR
30/06/
2019
TEUR
30/06/
2018
TEUR
30/06/
2019
TEUR
30/06/
2018
TEUR
30/06/
2019
TEUR
30/06/
2018
TEUR
Sales revenues
Sales to external
customers
53,212 46,922 53,420 47,649 0 0 106,632 94,571
Inter-segment sales 1,443 1,301 4,810 4,209 –6,253 –5,510 0 0
Segment revenues 54,655 48,223 58,230 51,858 –6,253 –5,510 106,632 94,571
Operating result
before interest, tax,
depreciation and
amortisation
4,910 3,553 6,874 5,261 –375 –521 11,409 8,293
Operating result before
depreciation and
amortisation resulting
from purchase price
allocation
2,647 2,481 4,716 4,506 –507 –559 6,856 6,428
Depreciation and
amortisation resulting
from purchase price
allocation
–147 –15 –231 –260 0 0 –378 –275
Operating result 2,500 2,466 4,485 4,246 –507 –559 6,478 6,153
Net finance result –144 –90 –290 –71 0 0 –434 –161
Result before
income taxes
2,356 2,376 4,195 4,175 –507 –559 6,044 5,992

Responsibility Statement

To the best of our knowledge, the interim consolidated financial statements give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the group, and the interim management report of the group includes a fair review of the group's development and performance of its position, together with a description of the principal opportunities and risks associated with the expected development of the group in the remaining months of the financial year, in accordance with proper accounting principles of interim consolidated reporting.

Financial Calendar

26 March 2019 Publication of Annual Result 2018
26 March 2019 Analyst Conference
29 April 2019 Report on the 1st Quarter of 2019
16 May 2019 Annual General Meeting
26 July 2019 Report on the 1st Six Months of 2019
30 October 2019 Report on the 3rd Quarter of 2019
25 to 27 November 2019 German Equity Forum, Analyst Presentation

Your Investor Relations contact:

Karsten Pierschke

Phone: +49 30 2801-2727
Fax: +49 30 2801-1000
E-Mail: kpierschke@psi,de

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