Good afternoon and good evening. My name is Aaron, and I will be your conference operator for today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the DXC Technology Q2 FY2025 Earnings Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. And after the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] And with that, I would like to begin our call and I would like to turn it over to Roger Sachs, VP of Investor Relations.

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to DXC Technology's second quarter earnings conference call. We hope you had a chance to review our earnings release posted to the IR section of DXC's website. Speakers on today's call are Raul Fernandez, our President and CEO, and Rob Del Bene, our Chief Financial Officer. Our agenda will be as follows. Raul will provide an overview of our results and an update on our strategic initiatives. Rob will then walk you through our financial performance for the quarter as well as update you on our full-year outlook and provide some thoughts on our fiscal third quarter. Raul and Rob will then take your questions. Certain comments we make on today's call will be forward-looking. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed on the call. You can find a discussion of these risks and uncertainties on our Annual Report on Form 10-K and other SEC filings. We do not commit to updating any forward-looking statements made during today's call. Additionally, during this call, we will be discussing non-GAAP financial measures, that we believe provide useful information to our investors. Reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures are included in the tables included in today's earnings release. With that, let me turn the call over to Raul.

Thank you, Roger. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for our second quarter fiscal 2025 earnings call. I'm pleased to report a solid quarter, with adjusted EBIT margin and non-GAAP EPS exceeding our guidance and revenue coming in towards the high end of our range. Given this performance, we are raising our full-year guidance for adjusted EBIT margin and non-GAAP EPS. I'm proud of how our new leadership team has come together and the early momentum we've seen from our initiatives this year. While there is more work ahead, particularly in our go-to-market initiatives, we are focused on execution and building a solid foundation to support even stronger performance going forward. Specifically, during the quarter, total revenue declined 5.6% year-over-year on an organic basis. Adjusted EBIT margin equaled 8.6%, expanding 130 basis points year-over-year. Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.93, up 33% year-over-year. And we generated free cash flow of $48 million for a year-to-date total of $93 million compared to $16 million during the same period last year. While corporate spending on discretionary projects remains under pressure, we continue to believe our biggest near-term opportunities lie in our self-help initiatives that will drive a more significant impact on results. Our bookings remain an area of intense focus, and I feel we will make the progress needed in the upcoming quarters. We expect our book-to-bill ratio to improve in the third quarter. Our global delivery and sales footprint, complemented by a deep local presence, is a competitive advantage to serving clients. Being global and local allows us to understand and respond to regional dynamics by delivering tailored solutions that meet specific market needs while leveraging global expertise and resources. To drive improved sales discipline and execution, we implemented several new initiatives during the second quarter to augment…

Thanks, Raul, and good afternoon, everyone. Today, I'll review our second quarter results and provide you with our latest updates to our full-year fiscal 2025 outlook, along with our view for the third quarter. Before discussing our performance, I want to point out a change in our reporting of adjusted EBIT. Starting in the second quarter, gains and losses on the sale of real estate and facilities will no longer be included in the calculation of adjusted EBIT as these transactions are considered to be non-operational. During the quarter, we executed sales of approximately $60 million with a loss of $27 million. To be clear, the cash proceeds from these transactions are not included in free cash flow and the losses, which were not included in any previous guidance for adjusted EBIT, are excluded from the reported second quarter adjusted EBIT results. We have provided a historical view of our results reflecting the reporting change in our Excel data sheet that you can download from the IR section of DXC's website. And now on to our results. Total revenue of $3.2 billion declined 5.6% year-to-year organically, which was towards the high end of our guidance range. Our book-to-bill ratio for the quarter was 0.81, a modest improvement from 0.77 in 1Q. The trailing 12-month book-to-bill ratio was 0.88, the same as last quarter. Adjusted EBIT margin expanded 130 basis points year-to-year to 8.6%, above our guidance for the quarter. This performance was primarily driven by a higher yield from cost management initiatives and a non-recurring benefit related to the settlement of a legal matter, which added 30 basis points to the margin. Non-GAAP gross margin for the second quarter was 25.1%, expanding 170 basis points year-to-year; one full point of impact was due to a reclassification of business development costs…

Thank you, Rob. We now like to open the call for your questions. Operator, can you please provide the instructions?

Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen, with that we'll go into our Q&A session. [Operator Instructions] Our first question from today comes from the line of Zack Ajzenman with Cowen. Your line is live.

Hi, thanks. This is Zack Ajzenman on for Bryan. Just first question on the free cash flow, wanted to dig in a little bit further. Nice to see the uptick for fiscal 2025. It sounds like this is driven by both profitability and the extension of restructuring. Just wanted to get a better sense on the sustainability and growth in the coming quarters and years. I know fiscal 2026, the goal was to get back to levels seen in 2024. As you extend the restructuring program, does that weigh on those goals? Or are there still margin upside and other levers to help you kind of get back from that free cash flow and continue to build beyond fiscal 2025?

Yes. Thanks for the question, Zack. This is Rob. So let me just – as a reminder, at the beginning of the year, when we set our free cash flow guidance. We said, without the restructuring and the change in lease originations. The approach of lease originations, our free cash flow for fiscal 2025 would be very consistent with the prior two years. So we have that strong fundamental base of free cash flow generation. And when you now look at the forecast or assessment here for the full-year that is maintained. If you back out the restructuring and account for lease origination changes, we are also at a very similar level from the last two years. So that foundation in the 700s of free cash flow is maintained this year. And that foundation will be maintained into fiscal 2026. As we get closer to the end of this year, we'll give more precise guidance obviously. And we'll figure out whether how much of the restructuring will carry over or not. But you should think of the fundamental cash generation as being consistent with what I said at the beginning of the year and consistent with previous years.

That's helpful. And nice to see the revenue stabilization. Just wanted to dig in to bookings specifically. It sounds like an expected improvement in the coming quarters. Can you just kind of dig into the moving pieces by segment? GIS, any way to parse the company-specific factors, like the stricter go-to-market versus broader structural market dynamics? And anything you can say on GBS, the potential to return to 1.0 on the book-to-bill? Thanks.

Yes. So we have confidence going forward that the bookings will improve from first half into second half. And we have that confidence in both CES on the project-based work and in our GIS segment as well. Insurance is a little lumpier so it's not as meaningful from a book-to-bill perspective. Now from a CES perspective, we have – pipeline has been growing. So our go-to-market new organization, new management system, new leaders, is starting to take hold. And the first evidence of that is in our pipeline. And our closure rates have been consistent, ticking up slightly. So with better closure rates and better pipelines, it gives us confidence that the book-to-bill will improve going into the second half of the year. And as a reminder, it was 0.93 in the second quarter, so we expect improvements from there. In our CES business, that was both Modern Workplace and ITO, those are lumpy as well, dependent on large renewals. Again, based on the opportunities in front of us which, by the way, we're off to a good start in October, based on that, we're confident, in our third quarter, bookings will be in the 1-plus range, 1.0-plus range. And based on our pipe, we also expect to have better performance in the fourth quarter than we had in the first half of the year. So all of our internal indicators here are pointing to improved performance in both GIS and CES.

Zack, let me just amplify on one other point. For both GIS and GBS, we've been recruiting, and I've helped recruit or assist in bringing in 13 new senior leaders into the team. They have an average experience of 29 years, and many of them I've worked with in other companies, so I know they can deliver. They've only been here, on average, for about 4.5 months. So while we worked on the mechanics very early on, while we worked on making sure that how we tracked, what we tracked was more accurate, we've also been adding new talent that is going to have an impact because, as you can see from the data I just gave you, they've just arrived. So I feel very confident, as I said in my prepared remarks, that those are areas where we'll see just better results.

Thanks for the color.

Thank you for your question. Our next question is from the line of Jason Kupferberg with BofA. Your line is live.

Hi. Good afternoon, Raul and Rob. This is Tyler DuPont on for Jason. Thanks for taking the question. I wanted to start by asking about growth expectations, particularly within GBS. It was encouraging to see positive sequential growth in the quarter. But it looks like it decelerated around 200 bps on a year-on-year basis, mostly due to CES. And based on the prepared remarks, it sounded like – correct me if I'm wrong, it sounded like growth is expected to be negative for the full-year. What have you seen over the past couple of months that made you change this outlook? And is it more macro specific? Or are there certain individual clients that are potentially delaying implementation? Or just sort of it would be great to get a lay of the land of what you're seeing in GBS? Thank you.

Yes. No, great question. So what we're seeing is it is tied to the economy. So it's macro, it's not company-specific or customer-specific. A little bit of color that I can give you is that in the CES business, it's hit us harder in custom application development as opposed to enterprise applications. And as I mentioned earlier, our pipelines have improved so we're encouraged by that. Our closing of deals, our close rates are good and healthy and improving. It's really just a slowdown in the rollout of projects in custom apps. And that's why we took the outlook down a little bit in the second half of the year. We were originally anticipating a little bit of an uptick in the second half, and we just don't see it yet and we took it down a bit.

Yes, let me just amplify on that as well. I believe that the self-help initiatives, as I've mentioned in the call, will have a far greater impact in the near term than the macro functions. We have plenty of opportunities. We can get more opportunities, especially with the new teammates that we have onboard, and we just have to convert them at a higher level. So I'm confident that, again, the fundamental changes that we've made, plus the new teammates that have come onboard, will give us the boost that we need in that area.

Okay. That's very helpful. I appreciate the color there. And then second, I wanted to ask about the go-to-market. It seems like it's been evolving over the past couple of quarters. And I was wondering if you could maybe just take a minute and discuss how this has changed since putting more of an emphasis on sales execution and focusing on geography. Sort of what are the stakes in the ground, for lack of a better phrase, that we need to see to make sure that we're moving sort of in the right direction that we're hoping for?

Yes. I think in the beginning, and again, Rob and I have been together here for 11 months, it was a focus on fundamentals and mechanics that clearly weren't at average, below average. So working on getting those to average, working on making sure that we've got a reward system in place for all of our sales executives across the world, that is both fair and positive but is also backed up by real success, measured success in terms of revenue and profitability. And that we have the right balance. I think one of the things that I've gotten a much better appreciation is our global footprint is terrific. Our global customer base is terrific. I've engaged with a lot of customers, many of which never had seen the CEO from DXC before. And I really get a much better sense, a deeper sense of the value that we provide. And that's a combination of the global offering, the skill sets and the local delivery, the ability to know the market, know the individuals, know the leaders, know the buyers, know the talent that we have on the ground to make it happen. So as we execute on those mechanics and get those mechanics at a higher level of throughput, I feel confident that we've laid the foundation for additional growth there.

Great. Well thanks, Raul. Appreciate all the color there.

Thank you for your question. Our next question comes from the line of Jamie Friedman with Susquehanna. Your line is live.

Hi. Thank you for taking my question. So Raul, I wanted to ask about some of the comments you made in your prepared remarks with regard to the insurance business. You say you're growing the software and especially the recurring services mix. And the numbers look good in insurance. Congratulations on that. So what are some maybe the tactics related to those inputs like specifically related to the software and the recurring components of insurance?

Yes, great question. It's better execution. If you think about all the fundamentals we put in place, they affect the entire company. And while that segment or that business unit was, on a relative basis, doing a bit better, it still benefits from a smarter, more efficient go-to-market and all of the positive attributes that we're putting in place in terms of systems, rewards, et cetera. We've also spent quite a bit of time in looking at the portfolio, looking at our SKUs in terms of our offerings, looking at our pricing, looking at past price increases, looking at where price increases are necessary now and in the future. And so I have confidence that not just the IP and the services that we deliver through that segment but also the innovation behind that. We've been able to recruit some great talent to really boost the product portfolio and to really think about how we can take that to another level and shift more into higher-margin recurring revenue. So I think it's a good business that can be better and we're working on all the elements to make it better.

Okay. And then if I could just follow-up on the GIS margin, good progress there as well. So Rob, you did call out that a component of that is the lower reseller. I wasn't sure in the sequence of the inputs to the margin increase if those were in the order that impacted or otherwise. But anyway, if you could unpack like how it is that you're doing better on the margin there? Thank you.

Yes. The resale element is a relatively small component of the improvement. The vast majority is because of the disciplined resource management and non-people related cost management by the team. They've done an outstanding job of lowering costs with the revenue declines. So Jamie, I'd attribute it to just very, very disciplined cost management.

Got it. Thank you. Thank you both.

Thank you.

[Operator Instructions] We have our next question from the line of Rod Bourgeois with DeepDive Equity Research. Your line is live.

Hey, thank you guys. Hey, I have a couple of questions that are structural related to the ITO business. The first one relates to the resale mix. Clearly, resale mix is dropping, which is great for margins but a bit of a headwind on the revenue side. My question is, how much that had started, I guess, over the last couple of years. So that's not a new trend. It's a trend that had already been underway before the new management team came into place. So my question there is, how much room is there to go on reducing the resale mix and having a business that's more based on services and less based on the product pass-through stuff? Thanks.

Yes. Thanks for the question, Rod. We're going to continue to see a year-to-year decline into the second half of this year. And then I expect that decline to narrow through the first half of next year and then be more stable in the second half of next year. So we're through most of it. Last 1.5 years, we've gone through most of it. I think there's another six to nine months and then it's going to start to level off.

Okay. And by the way, is a good portion of that tapering intentional where you're actively moving away from that business? Or is it sort of just...

Yes.

Yes. Okay.

Yes, Rod, it's definitely intentional. And the way I describe it is we're still bidding on work but holding to our margins, very disciplined on the margin thresholds we're willing to accept. So we're losing a lot of those deals because we're sticking to our margin thresholds. And that's driving the reduction in revenue. As I said, I could see kind of the end of the tunnel on those declines coming.

Understood. And then the other structural question is, as you move further into the AI era, is that prompting additional migration of legacy data centers to cloud? And it just would be helpful to get an update on what's happening on that front? Thanks.

Yes, that's a great question. Look, the compute backdrop that you need for any GenAI activity today is very different than our legacy business and in even our business at GIS. And it's evolving. It's new, it's evolving. But one of the things that excites me in the projects that I've had a chance to look at, participate in, talk to our experts as well as the customers. Is the fact that kind of it gives us an opportunity to bring together our holistic set of services. That includes cleansing data, making sure that proprietary data is the correct data that we should be using, picking, obviously, the right language models to approach it. And then building fast prototypes, deploying them, learning from that deployment and then helping scale. And the first example that I gave, it was a terrific initial SaaS deployment that had bottom line ROI markers that then led to the incremental deployments. And, as I mentioned in my prepared remarks, a 10x increase in fees from the first pilot through where we're at today. So that's definitely an area where demand will continue. And I think we're very well positioned. Again, a theme for all of us here is consistency and scale. We just have to have a consistent approach and we need to scale it more effectively.

Great. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Tien-Tsin Huang with JPMorgan. Your line is live.

Great. Thanks. Just want to draw on your experience here, Raul, just thinking about visibility. And I know we have election certainty now in place, rates presumably falling further. Should we expect some improvement in visibility, generally speaking, relative to the secular question that Rod just asked? I guess I'm probably more focused on GBS here and that being more sensitive to demand changes. Any bigger picture comments there? Thanks.

Yes. Look, I think the commentary that I've heard from other CEOs in the space and the commentary that I hear from our end customers is consistent. So I have no outlier information there. The thing that Rob and I see, the whole team sees, is just an opportunity to execute on the fundamentals better. As I mentioned before, the self-help initiatives, some of which I listed in my prepared remarks, and many more that are ongoing globally, are going to have a bigger impact in the next 12 and 24 months than the macro environment. The macro environment is good. It can get a little better, it can get a little worse. But the biggest key to success in the near term for us is executing on every single opportunity that we get a chance with. I know that we've got the right talent, and I know that we've got the right references and I know that we have the right opportunities. And it's about putting all those together consistently and scaling it.

Very clear. Thank you.

Thank you for your question. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Jonathan Lee with Guggenheim. Your line is live.

Great. Thanks for taking our questions. Can you dig into some of the dynamics you're seeing around the softness in GBS versus the improvement in GIS? And how we should be tying that to, call it, the low end versus the high end of your outlook here? Trying to better understand what's needed to hit the higher end of your outlook?

Yes. Thanks for the question, Jonathan. To get to the higher end, we would need a little better performance just from the economics on the CES business, having the customers on the custom apps just loosen up and accelerate some of the projects. So that would be the primary path for us to get to the higher end. So instead of low single-digit negatives, that it draws closer to flat in GBS, that would be the path.

Understood. And just as a follow-up, can you talk through what you're seeing around some of the pricing dynamics, specifically in CES?

From a price perspective, I see stability in our deals, so I'm encouraged by that. As we migrate our offerings over to enterprise solutions, the price stability is encouraging. And those deals for us in the longer term will be higher margin than custom. So from my perspective, in the short-term, prices are stable. And over the long-term, the move to enterprise from customs will be beneficial to us.

Appreciate the color there.

Thank you.

Thank you for your question. And ladies and gentlemen, that will conclude our Q&A session for today's call. And to close this out, I'd like to hand the call back over to Roger.

Thank you, everybody, for joining us on our call today, and we look forward to speaking with you again next quarter.