EX-99.1 2 v423757_ex99-1.htm EXHIBIT 99.1

 

Exhibit 99.1

 

November 5th, 2015

 

Globant Reports 2015 Third Quarter Results

Solid Revenue Growth, Robust EPS

 

San Francisco, CA / November 5th, 2015 - Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally-native technology services company focused on creating digital journeys , today announced results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015.

 

Third Quarter 2015 Highlights

 

Revenue for the third quarter amounted to $67.1 million, representing 29.2% year-over-year growth. Revenue for the first nine months of the year was $182.2 million, representing 26.1% year-over-year growth
Non-IFRS Adjusted Gross Profit for the third quarter was $26.2 million (39.0% Non-IFRS Adjusted Gross Profit Margin), an increase of 30bps compared to the second quarter of 2015 and a decrease of 200bps compared to the third quarter of 2014.
Non-IFRS Adjusted Net Income for the third quarter was $9.1 million (13.6% Non-IFRS Adjusted Net Income Margin), an increase of $0.8 million, or 9.4%, compared to a profit of $8.4 million for the third quarter of 2014.
Non-IFRS Adjusted Diluted EPS for the third quarter was $0.26 per share (based on 35.1 million average diluted shares for the quarter), an increase of $0.01 compared to Non-IFRS Adjusted Diluted Profit per Share of $0.25 for the third quarter of 2014.

 

Reconciliations between Non-IFRS / adjusted financial measures and IFRS operating results are included at the end of this press release.

 

“I am thrilled to announce another solid quarter in terms of business performance and financial results, with robust growth in both existing and new accounts. Nowadays, users are demanding businesses to offer personalized experiences that generate value for them. As a result, companies are compelled to create what we call Digital Journeys, a sequence of smart, relevant and context aware interactions, integrated with the core business to provide a seamless journey across the different touch points with users. Globant has mastered the ability of building these digital journeys through our Studios, our Agile Pods Methodology and the brand new Services over Platforms offering.” explained Martín Migoya, Globant’s CEO and co-founder. “Under our Services over Platforms umbrella, we offer a wide variety of products that can help build Digital Journeys in an agile and innovative way. As opposed to the traditional Software as a Service (“SaaS”) approach in which the products are static, we know that each company has specific characteristic, so on top of our products we offer services to adapt, expand and make them fit their particular goals. A clear example of a Services over Platforms product is our Digital Journey Mobile Platform, which combines social media, gaming strategies, mobile technologies and Big Data to augment the end users' experiences before, during & after a touch point with the consumer.”

 

 

 

  

Martín Migoya added: “Market demand remains solid. Our revenue increased 29.2% during this quarter compared to the third quarter of 2014, with revenues from our top customer almost doubling compared to a year ago. For the first time in Globant’s history, we have one customer accounting for more than $20 million in annual revenues, a good reflection of our ability to cultivate our key accounts”

 

“Q3 has been another strong quarter for us. Once more, we delivered robust top line growth and solid EPS, as we have done consistently since our IPO last year. Business momentum combined with a good level of net additions position us on the right path to achieve our full year targets.” explained Alejandro Scannapieco, Globant’s CFO.

 

Globant completed the quarter with 4,724 Globers, 4,327 of whom were IT professionals. The geographic revenue breakdown for the third quarter was as follows: 84.1% from North America (top country: U.S.), 11.5% from Latin America and others (top country: Chile) and 4.4% from Europe (top country: U.K.). 93.3% of Globant’s revenue for the third quarter was denominated in U.S. dollars and the remaining 6.7% was in other currencies.

 

During the 12 months preceding September 30, 2015, Globant served 343 customers; 47 of which accounted for more than $1 million of Globant’s revenues. Globant’s top customer, top 5 customers and top 10 customers represented 13.4%, 33.2% and 45.9% of the third quarter revenues, respectively.

 

Cash and investments as of September 30, 2015 amounted to $73.6 million from $62.2 million as of December 31, 2014 while borrowings decreased to $0.8 million compared to $1.3 million as of December 31, 2014. Current assets amounted to $139.0 million, accounting for 66.6% of total assets. As of September 30, 2015 there were $34.1 million common shares issued and outstanding.

  

Fourth Quarter and 2015 Full Year Outlook

 

Based on current market conditions, Globant is providing the following estimates for the fourth quarter and for the full year 2015:

 

Fourth quarter revenue is estimated to be between $68 - $70 million.
Fourth quarter Non-IFRS diluted EPS is estimated to be in the range of $0.21 - $0.25 (assuming 35.3 million average diluted shares outstanding for the quarter).
Fiscal year 2015 revenue is estimated to be between $250 - $252 million
Fiscal year 2015 Non-IFRS diluted EPS is estimated to be in the range of $0.93 - $0.97 (assuming 35.0 million average diluted shares outstanding for the full year).

 

Conference Call and Webcast

 

Martín Migoya and Alejandro Scannapieco will discuss the three-month results in a conference call today beginning at 4:30pm ET.

 

 

 

  

Conference call access information is:

 

US +1 (888) 346-2877

International +1 (412) 902-4257

Webcast http://investors.globant.com/

 

Additionally, a replay will be available via the same dial-in information and in our investor relations website after the call.

 

About Globant

 

Globant (NYSE: GLOB) is a digitally native technology services company. We dream and build digital journeys that matter to millions of users. We are the place where engineering, design, and innovation meet scale. Today, Globant has more than 4,500 professionals in 9 countries working for companies like Google, eBay Classifieds Group, JWT, EA and Coca-Cola, among others, has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in South America by FastCompany, was included in the 2010 Cool Vendor in Business Process Services Report by Gartner, and has been featured in case studies at Harvard, MIT and Stanford. For more information visit www.globant.com.

 

Non-IFRS Financial Information

 

Globant provides non-IFRS financial measures to complement reported IFRS results. Management believes these measures help illustrate underlying trends in the company's business and uses the measures to establish budgets and operational goals, communicated internally and externally, for managing the company's business and evaluating its performance. The company anticipates that it will continue to report both IFRS and certain non-IFRS financial measures in its financial results, including non-IFRS results that exclude share-based compensation expense, amortization of purchased intangible assets, and provisions resulting from changes in valuation allowances. Because the company's reported non-IFRS financial measures are not calculated according to IFRS, these measures are not comparable to IFRS and may not necessarily be comparable to similarly described non-IFRS measures reported by other companies within the company's industry. Consequently, Globant’s non-IFRS financial measures should not be evaluated in isolation or supplant comparable IFRS measures, but, rather, should be considered together with its consolidated financial statements, which are prepared according to IFRS.

 

 

 

  

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, application outsourcing and custom application development and offshore development services; the level of growth of demand for our services from our clients; the level of increase in revenues from our new clients; the resource utilization rates and productivity levels, the level of attrition of our IT professionals; the pricing structures we use for our client contracts; general economic and business conditions in 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 continuity of the tax incentives available for software companies with operations in Argentina; Argentina’s regulations on proceeds from the export of services; 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; and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the final prospectus for our initial public offering and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

These forward-looking statements involve various risks and uncertainties. Although the registrant believes that its expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, its expectations may turn out to be incorrect. The registrant’s actual results could be materially different from its expectations. In light of the risks and uncertainties described above, the estimates and forward-looking statements discussed might not occur, and the registrant’s future results and its performance may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements due to, inclusive, but not limited to, the factors mentioned above. Because of these uncertainties, you should not make any investment decision based on these estimates and forward-looking statements. 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.

 

 

 

  

Globant S.A.

Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income

(In thousands of U.S. dollars, except per share amounts, unaudited)

 

   Nine months ended   Three months ended 
   September
30, 2015
   September
30, 2014
   September
30, 2015
   September
30, 2014
 
                 
Revenues   182,233    144,488    67,117    51,959 
Cost of revenues   (115,481)   (87,333)   (42,474)   (31,596)
Gross profit   66,752    57,155    24,643    20,363 
                     
Selling, general and administrative expenses   (52,123)   (41,436)   (18,705)   (15,103)
Impairment of tax credits, net   1,820    (821)   -    (40)
Profit from operations   16,449    14,898    5,938    5,220 
                     
Gain on transactions with bonds   13,331    10,023    4,980    5,244 
Finance income   10,308    8,077    3,808    2,992 
Finance expense   (8,518)   (9,725)   (3,415)   (3,263)
Finance expense, net   1,790    (1,648)   393    (271)
                     
Other income and expenses, net   (11)   (50)   (8)   (23)
Profit before income tax   31,559    23,223    11,303    10,170 
                     
Income tax   (8,251)   (6,108)   (3,073)   (2,380)
Net income for the period   23,308    17,115    8,230    7,790 
                     
Other comprehensive loss net of income tax                    
Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit and loss:                    
- Exchange differences on translating foreign operations   (1,296)   (172)   (867)   (376)
Total comprehensive income for the period   22,012    16,943    7,363    7,414 
                     
Net income attributable to:                    
Owners of the Company   23,308    17,058    8,230    7,785 
Non-controlling interest   -    57    -    5 
Net income for the period   23,308    17,115    8,230    7,790 
                     
Total comprehensive income for the period attributable to:                    
Owners of the Company   22,012    16,886    7,363    7,409 
Non-controlling interest   -    57    -    5 
Total comprehensive income for the period   22,012    16,943    7,363    7,414 
                     
Earnings per share                    
Basic   0.69    0.57    0.24    0.24 
Diluted   0.67    0.55    0.23    0.23 
Weighted average of outstanding shares (in thousands)                    
Basic   33,887    30,099    34,080    32,294 
Diluted   34,950    31,177    35,143    33,372 

 

 

 

  

Globant S.A.

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

(In thousands of U.S. dollars, unaudited)

 

   Sept 30, 2015   Dec 31, 2014 
ASSETS          
Current assets          
Cash and cash equivalents   29,715    34,195 
Restricted cash   107      
Investments   43,761    27,984 
Trade receivables   44,418    40,056 
Other receivables   21,009    14,253 
Total current assets   139,010    116,488 
           
Non-current assets          
Other receivables   2,375    916 
Deferred tax assets   5,902    4,881 
Other financial assets   1,800    - 
Investment in associates   750    750 
Property and equipment   22,503    19,213 
Intangible assets   6,518    6,105 
Goodwill   29,796    12,772 
Total non-current assets   69,644    44,637 
TOTAL ASSETS   208,654    161,125 
           
LIABILITIES          
Current liabilities          
Trade payables   5,080    5,673 
Payroll and social security taxes payable   26,157    20,967 
Borrowings   368    513 
Other financial liabilities   4,885    1,045 
Tax liabilities   5,930    3,446 
Other liabilities   96    173 
Total current liabilities   42,516    31,817 
           
Non-current liabilities          
Borrowings   409    772 
Other financial liabilities   8,516    263 
Provisions for contingencies   979    794 
Total non-current liabilities   9,904    1,829 
TOTAL LIABILITIES   52,420    33,646 
           
Capital and reserves          
Issued and paid-in capital   40,967    40,324 
Additional paid-in capital   56,376    50,276 
Foreign currency translation reserve   (2,007)   (711)
Retained earnings   60,898    37,590 
Total equity   156,234    127,479 
TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES   208,654    161,125 

 

 

 

  

Supplemental Non-IFRS Financial Information

(In thousands of U.S. dollars, unaudited)

 

   Nine months ended   Three months ended 
   September
30, 2015
   September
30, 2014
   September
30, 2015
   September
30, 2014
 
                 
Reconciliation of adjusted gross profit                    
Gross Profit   66,752    57,155    24,643    20,363 
Adjustments                    
D&A   3,347    2,651    1,073    949 
Share Based Compensation   517    35    445    1 
Adjusted gross profit   70,616    59,841    26,161    21,313 
Adjusted gross profit margin   38.8%   41.4%   39.0%   41.0%
                     
Reconciliation of selling, general and administrative expenses                    
Selling, general and administrative expenses   -52,123    -41,436    -18,705    -15,103 
Adjustments                    
M&A Expenses   337                
D&A   3,769    3,048    1,297    1,114 
Share Based Compensation   1,146    582    471    569 
Adjusted selling, general and administrative expenses   -46,871    -37,806    -16,937    -13,420 
Adjusted selling, general and administrative expenses as % of revenues   -25.7%   -26.2%   -25.2%   -25.8%
                     
Reconciliation of Adjusted Profit from Operations                    
Operating Profit    16,449    14,898    5,938    5,220 
Adjustments                     
M&A Expenses    337                
Impairment of tax credits    -1,820    821    -    40 
Share Based Compensation    1,663    617    916    570 
Adjusted Profit from Operations    16,629    16,336    6,854    5,830 
Adjusted Operating Profit margin    9.1%   11.3%   10.2%   11.2%
                     
Reconciliation of Net income (loss) for the period                    
Net income for the period    23,308    17,115    8,230    7,790 
Adjustments                     
M&A Expenses    337                
Share Based Compensation    1,663    617    916    570 
Adjusted Net income    25,308    17,732    9,146    8,360 
Adjusted Net income margin   13.9%   12.3%   13.6%   16.1%
                     
Calculation of Adjusted Diluted EPS                    
Adjusted Net income   25,308    17,732    9,146    8,360 
Diluted shares   34,950    31,177    35,143    33,372 
Adjusted Diluted EPS   0.72    0.57    0.26    0.25 

 

 

 

  

Globant S.A.

Schedule of Supplemental Information

 

Metric  Q1 2014   Q2 2014   Q3 2014   Q4 2014   Q1 2015   Q2 2015   Q3 2015  
                              
Total Employees   3,332    3,371    3,567    3,775    4,040    4,512    4,724  
IT Professionals   3,000    3,050    3,217    3,424    3,694    4,121    4,327  
                                     
North America Revenue %   79.9    81.1    82.3    83.1    84.1    85.2    84.1  
Latin America and Others Revenue %   13.0    13.0    11.9    12.0    10.1    9.7    11.5  
Europe Revenue %   7.1    6.0    5.8    4.9    5.8    5.1    4.4  
                                     
USD Revenue %   88.9    91.8    93.5    94.6    95.0    94.6    93.3  
GBP Revenue %   1.3    0.8    0.6    0.7    1.0    0.8    1.4  
Other Currencies Revenue %   9.8    7.4    5.9    4.8    4.0    4.6    5.3  
                                     
Top Customer %   7.1    10.1    8.8    8.8    10.2    12.3    13.4  
Top 5 Customers %   25.4    29.0    29.2    28.9    30.8    32.8    33.2  
Top 10 Customers %   39.8    44.8    46.2    44.8    47.8    47.7    45.9  
                                     
LTM Customers Served   266    278    299    296    292    344    343  
LTM Customers with >$1M in Revenue   42    42    45    46    43    43    47  

 

Investor Relations Contact:

Juan Urthiague, Globant

investors@globant.com

(877) 215-5230

 

Media Contact:

Wanda Weigert, Globant

pr@globant.com

(877) 215-5230

 

Source: Globant