Alejandro Scannapieco
Analyst · Citi. Please go ahead
Thanks Martin. Good afternoon everyone. I'm going to spend a few minutes taking you through the second quarter results and summarizing the six months year-to-date as well then I will discuss our Q3 and full-year outlook. As detailed in the press release, we posted a strong second in terms of financial results with revenues at the record level of $60.6 million, [implying at] 22.7% year-over-year growth and $0.25 adjusted diluted EPS compared to $0.20 for the second quarter of 2014. Adjusted cash in the case in recent periods there is a strong revenue growth was primarily driven by deeper penetration in our top accounts. Our largest customer on our top 10 accounts grew is planning 49.4% and 30.8% year-on-year respectively. This clear indicator our ability to grow our largest customers is a natural consequence of becoming the preferred partner when they embark on digital transformation prospects. As you know Globant is one of the few pure plays on the merchant technology a space and this is key to validate the grow rates we have been achieving.. Additionally doing Q2 we added a number of strategic accounts to the portfolio including among others one of the largest flight manufacturers in the world and the largest European food producer. Finally, the vast majority of our second quarter revenue was generated from customers that were already working with us in the prior year. For the second quarter of 2015, our top one customer represented 12.3% of total revenue; top 5 customers represented 2.8%; and top 10 customers represented 47.7% of revenues compared to 10.1%, 29% and 44.8% of revenues respectively for the second quarter of 2014. The slight increase in concentration is due to the remarkable growth in our top one account, Disney which is hiring so additional process in new divisions. We believe that our portfolio is well diversified for a company of our size with marquee customers that could drive sustainable growth over the next five years. Compared to the second quarter of 2014, average quarterly revenue per top five customers increased 39% to $4 million an average revenue per top 10 customer increased 30.8% to $2.6 million. We are very pleased with the strong grow we are achieving in our top on a strategic customers. This reinforces our value proposition and gives us a robust base to grow in 2015 and onwards. During the second quarter of 2015, 85.2% of our customers were in North America, the U.S., as our top country, 9.7% in Latin America, others Chile our top country and 5.8% were in Europe, U.K top country. Our top three industry verticals for this quarter were media and entertainment with 22% of revenues, technology and telecommunications with 20.2% of revenues and professional services with 15.4% of revenues. We continue to be pretty much balanced across different verticals. During the second quarter of 2015, 94.6% of our revenues were denominated in U.S. dollars, there has been very limited exposure to FX the situation in our top line. As mentioned before, our second quarter revenue amounted to $60.6 million which imply a 22.7% growth year-over-year. Following with the rest of the P&L line items, our adjusted gross profit for the period increased to $23.4 million, 38.7% adjusted gross margin compared to $20.6 million, 42.3% adjusted gross margin in the second quarter of 2014 and $21 million, 38.5% adjusted gross margin in the first quarter of 2015. Adjusted gross margin increased 20 basis points sequentially. The margin decrease versus the second quarter of 2014 is explained mainly by three factors. Number one Q2 2014, still enjoy the benefit 23% evaluation that happened in January 2014 in Argentina, our main development center. Number two a slightly lower utilization, given that were training a large number of people in some of the emerging technologies like mobile, Internet of Things and cloud computing in order to cope with the strong demand of such practices. Number three a strong headcount growth which will contribute to achieving this year's revenue target. Adjusted net income for the second quarter of the year totaled $8.6 million, 14.3% adjusted net income margin an increase of $2.7 million or 45.5% versus the second quarter of 2014. Adjusted net profit for the period was also boosted by stronger gains on transaction with bonds. During this quarter, we continue investing heavily in sales and marketing and we had extraordinary expenses related to the acquisition of Clarice Technologies and the follow-on offering mentioned by Martin before. Adjusted diluted EPS for the quarter was $0.25 based on 34.9 million average diluted shares for the quarter increasing from $0.20 a year ago. Now let's move on to balance sheet. Cash on investments as of June 30, 2015 increased to $63.7 million compared to $62.2 million as of December 31, 2014, and borrowings decreased to $0.9 million from $1.3 million at the end of last year. Our balance sheet remains strong with current asset of $128.1 million accounting for 65.2% of the company's equity. Total shares outstanding as of June 30, 2015 were 34 million common shares. Moving on to the six months ending June 30, 2015 revenue for six months ended June 30, 2015 was $115 million implying a 24.4% year-over-year growth. Growth is boosted by top 10 customers our new wins as our portfolio of customers continues growing at the healthy pace. For the six months ending in June our top one customer represented 11.3% of total revenue. Top five customers represented 31.9% and top 10 customers represented 47.8% of revenues compared to 8.7%, 27.2% and 42.2% of revenues respectively for the six-months period ending June 30, 2014. Revenue for the top one customer increased 61.7% from the same period last year. Average revenue per top five customer increased 46% and average revenue per top 10 customer increased 41.2% compared to the same period from last year. We’re very excited that our top customers can see the value we provide and decide to amend our mutual relationship. Adjusted gross profit for the six month period was $44.4 million, 38.6% adjusted gross margin an increase of 15.4% year-over-year. Gross profit is growing at a lower phase on revenues given the positive tailwind of that evaluation that impacted H1 2014 and the strong investments in training we’re doing this year, which has slightly decreased our utilization during this period. Adjusted net income for the six month period ended June 30, 2015 were $16.2 million, 14% adjusted profit margin. Adjusted diluted EPS for the same period was $0.47 based on 34.7 million average diluted shares for that period. We finished the quarter with 4,512 Globers, 4,121 of which were IT professionals, attrition in the last 12 months ending June 30, decreased to 18.2% compared to 19.9% for the 12 months ending March 31, 2015 as a result of a number of initiatives including geographic decentralization, project rotations on selected compensation changes. To wrap up I would like to share with you our outlook for Q3 2015 and for the full year ending December 31, 2015. We expect to continue delivering strong revenue growth and profitability as it has been the case in prior years and our commitment when we made the IPO and the recent follow-on's. We also expect to continue making strategic investments into the business including, but not limited to training, studios capacity and delivery centers. Based on current visibility we’re increasing our expected revenue for 2015 to be between $247 million and $251 million implying at 24.7% year-over-year increase at the midpoint of the range. In terms of margins, our 2014 gross margin was among our highest at 41% and 170 basis points above 2013. I discussed in prior calls for 2015, we expect gross margin to be below 2014 levels due to additional investments in our operations and in studios and some FX headwinds in Argentina, which we seek to offset that the net income/EPS level by some SG&A dilution and the continuity of our current FX hedge strategy through gains from one operation. Adjusted diluted EPS for the year is now expected to be in the range of $0.90 to $0.96 assuming $34.9 million average diluted shares outstanding for the full-year. Turning to our guidance for the third quarter, we expect revenue to be between $63.5 million and $65.5 million. Adjusted diluted EPS is expected to be in the range of $0.20 to $0.24 assuming $35.2 million average diluted shares outstanding for the quarter. Thanks everyone for participating on the call and for your courage and support. Let’s please now move to the Q&A section of the call. Operator, can you please queue questions. Thank you.