Genpact Reports Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2023 Results

2023 Total Revenue of $4.48 billion, Up 2% (3% constant currency)^1,2
2023 Digital Operations Services Revenue of $2.48 billion, Up 3% (4% constant currency)¹
2023 Data-Tech-AI Services Revenue of $1.99 billion, Up 2%^1,2,3
2023 Diluted EPS of $3.41, Up 81%; Adjusted Diluted EPS^4,5 of $2.98, Up 9%
Increases Quarterly Dividend by 11%

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact Limited (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering outcomes that transform businesses, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.

"We delivered total annual revenue of $4.5 billion in 2023, up 2% year-over-year. While the macroeconomic environment remains challenging, we have identified and begun to implement several key initiatives to improve execution. Looking ahead, 2024 will be a year of strengthening our foundation for future growth," said BK Kalra, President and CEO, Genpact. "As Genpact's new CEO, my top priority is to sharpen our focus and drive increased speed and accountability throughout the organization to reach our full potential."

Key Financial Highlights ? Full Year 2023

• Total revenue was $4.48 billion, up 2% year-over-year (3% on a constant currency basis).^1,2   
• Revenue from Data-Tech-AI services was $1.99 billion, up 2% year-over-year, both on an as reported and constant currency basis,^1,2 representing 45% of total revenue.
• Revenue from Digital Operations services was $2.48 billion, up 3% year-over-year (4% on a constant currency basis),¹ representing 55% of total revenue.
• Net income was $631 million, up 79% year-over-year, including a non-recurring tax benefit of $170 million related to an intercompany transfer of intellectual property, with a corresponding margin of 14.1%.
• Income from operations was $631 million, up 26% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 14.1%.
• Adjusted income from operations was $763 million, up 6% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 17.0%.^5,6
• Diluted earnings per share was $3.41, up 81% year-over-year, including a non-recurring tax benefit of $170 million related to an intercompany transfer of intellectual property. Adjusted diluted earnings per share^4,5 was $2.98, up 9% year-over-year.
• New bookings were approximately $4.9 billion, up 26% year-over-year.⁷
• Cash generated from operations was $491 million, up 11% year-over-year.
• Genpact repurchased approximately 6 million of its common shares during the year for total consideration of approximately $225 million at an average price per share of $37.48.

Key Financial Highlights ? Fourth Quarter 2023

• Total revenue was $1.15 billion, up 4% year-over-year, both on an as reported and constant currency basis.^1,2   
• Revenue from Data-Tech-AI services was $507 million, up 3% year-over-year (2% on a constant currency basis),^1,2 representing 44% of total revenue.
• Revenue from Digital Operations services was $639 million, up 5% year-over-year (4% on a constant currency basis),¹ representing 56% of total revenue.
• Net income was $291 million, up 225% year-over-year, including a non-recurring tax benefit of $170 million related to an intercompany transfer of intellectual property, with a corresponding margin of 25.4%.
• Income from operations was $163 million, up 27% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 14.2%.
• Adjusted income from operations was $203 million, up 9% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 17.7%.^8,9
• Diluted earnings per share was $1.59, up 231% year-over-year, including a non-recurring tax benefit of $170 million related to an intercompany transfer of intellectual property. Adjusted diluted earnings per share⁴ was $0.82, up 17% year-over-year.
• Cash generated from operations was $192 million, compared to $230 million in the fourth quarter of 2022.
• Genpact repurchased approximately 2.2 million of its common shares during the quarter for total consideration of approximately $75 million at an average price per share of $34.27.

Capital Allocation

• Genpact's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend for the first quarter of 2024 of $0.1525 per common share, an 11% increase, payable on March 26, 2024 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 11, 2024. The newly approved quarterly dividend represents a planned annual dividend of $0.61 per common share, increased from $0.55 per common share in 2023. 

Outlook

Genpact's outlook for the full year 2024 is as follows:

• Total revenue in the range of $4.57 billion to $4.61 billion, representing year-over-year growth of approximately 2% to 3% as reported, or 2.1% to 3.1% on a constant currency basis.¹
  • Digital Operations services revenue growth of approximately 3% year-over-year and Data-Tech-AI services revenue growth of approximately 1.9% year-over-year at the midpoint of the range, as reported.
  • Digital Operations services revenue growth of approximately 3.1% year-over-year and Data-Tech-AI services revenue growth of approximately 2.1% year-over-year at the midpoint of the range, on a constant currency basis.¹
• Gross margin of approximately 35%.
• Adjusted income from operations margin¹⁰  of approximately 17%.
• Adjusted diluted EPS¹¹ in the range of $3.00 to $3.03.

Genpact's outlook for the first quarter of 2024 is as follows:

• Total revenue in the range of $1.108 billion to $1.114 billion, representing year-over-year growth of approximately 1.75% to 2.25% as reported, or 1.95% to 2.45% on a constant currency basis.¹
  • Digital Operations services revenue growth of approximately 2.8% year-over-year and Data-Tech-AI services revenue growth of approximately 1.0% year-over-year at the midpoint of the range, as reported.
  • Digital Operations services revenue growth of approximately 3.0% year-over-year and Data-Tech-AI services revenue growth of approximately 1.3% year-over-year at the midpoint of the range, on a constant currency basis.¹
• Gross margin of approximately 34.5%.
• Adjusted income from operations margin¹⁰ of approximately 16%.

Our outlook for the first quarter and full year 2024 reflects foreign currency exchange rates as of February 7, 2024.

Conference Call to Discuss Financial Results

Genpact's management will host an hour-long conference call beginning at 5:00 p.m. ET on February 8, 2024 to discuss the company's performance for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023. Those who wish to participate can register here to receive a dial-in number and unique PIN to access the call seamlessly. It is recommended callers join 10 minutes prior to the start of the event (although you may register and dial in at any time during the call).  A live webcast of the call will also be made available on the Genpact Investor Relations website at https://www.genpact.com/investors. For those who cannot join the call live, a replay will be archived on the Genpact website after the end of the call. A transcript of the call will also be made available on the website.

About Genpact

Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services firm delivering the outcomes that transform our clients' businesses and shape their future. We're guided by our real-world experience redesigning and running thousands of processes for hundreds of global companies. Our clients ? including many in the Global Fortune 500 ? partner with us for our unique ability to combine deep industry and functional expertise, leading talent, and proven methodologies to drive collaborative innovation that turns insights into action and delivers outcomes at scale. We create lasting competitive advantages for our clients and their customers, running digitally enabled operations and applying our Data-Tech-AI services to design, build, and transform their businesses. And we do it all with purpose. From New York to New Delhi and more than 30 countries in between, our 125,000+ team is passionate in its relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people.

Safe Harbor

This press release contains certain statements concerning our future growth prospects, including our outlook for 2024, financial results and other forward-looking statements, as defined in the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include but are not limited to general economic conditions, any deterioration in the global economic environment and its impact on our clients, technological innovation, including AI technology and future uses of generative AI and large language models, and our ability to invest in new technologies and adapt to industry developments at sufficient speed and scale, our ability to effectively price our services and maintain pricing and employee utilization rates, general inflationary pressures and our ability to share increased costs with our clients, wage increases in locations in which we have operations, our ability to attract and retain skilled professionals, our ability to protect our and our clients' data from security incidents or cyberattacks, the economic and other impacts of geopolitical conflicts and any related sanctions and other measures that have been or may be implemented or imposed in response thereto, as well as any potential expansion or escalation of existing conflicts or economic disruption beyond their current scope, a slowdown in the economies and sectors in which our clients operate, a slowdown in the business process outsourcing or information technology services sectors, our ability to develop and successfully execute our business strategies, the risks and uncertainties arising from our past and future acquisitions, our ability to convert bookings to revenues, our ability to manage growth, factors which may impact our cost advantage, changes in tax rates and tax legislation and other laws and regulations, our ability to effectively execute our tax planning strategies, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, foreign currency fluctuations, political, economic or business conditions in countries in which we operate, as well as other risks detailed in our reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Genpact's Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Genpact may from time to time make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. Although Genpact believes that these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, you are cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's current analysis of future events and should not be relied upon as representing management's expectations or beliefs as of any date subsequent to the time they are made. Genpact undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of Genpact.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement the consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, this press release includes the following non-GAAP financial measures: 

• Adjusted income from operations;
• Adjusted income from operations margin;
• Adjusted diluted earnings per share; and
• Revenue growth on a constant currency basis.

These non-GAAP financial measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles and should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. Accordingly, these non-GAAP financial measures, the financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP and the reconciliations of Genpact's GAAP financial statements to such non-GAAP financial measures should be carefully evaluated.

Given Genpact's acquisitions of varying scale and size, and the difficulty in predicting expenses relating to acquisitions and the amortization of acquired intangibles thereof, since July 2012 Genpact's management has used financial statements that exclude all acquisition-related expenses and amortization of acquired intangibles for its internal management reporting, budgeting and decision-making purposes, including comparing Genpact's operating results to those of its competitors. For the same reasons, since April 2016, Genpact's management has excluded the impairment of acquired intangible assets from the financial statements it uses for internal management purposes. Acquisition-related expenses are excluded in the period in which an acquisition is consummated. Genpact's management also uses financial statements that exclude stock-based compensation expense. Because of varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of award types that companies can use when adopting ASC 718 "Compensation-Stock Compensation," Genpact's management believes that providing non-GAAP financial measures that exclude such expenses allows investors to make additional comparisons between Genpact's operating results and those of other companies.

During the second quarter of 2022, Genpact (a) initiated restructuring measures and, as a result, recorded a charge related to i) right-of-use lease assets and other assets related to certain abandoned leased office properties and ii) employee severance costs resulting from a focused reduction in Genpact's workforce and (b) approved a plan to divest a business that was no longer deemed strategic. Given the specialized nature of this business, we anticipated completing a transaction within twelve months after the end of the second quarter of 2022, and therefore, we classified the revenues and expenses related to this business as held for sale with effect from April 1, 2022. During the first quarter of 2023, the Company consummated this transaction and recorded a loss on the sale of the business. During the second quarter of 2023, the Company terminated a lease for office property which was fully impaired as part of a restructuring in the second quarter of 2022, as discussed above, and recorded a gain on such lease termination as restructuring income in the second quarter of 2023. During the fourth quarter of 2023, Genpact completed an intercompany transfer of certain intellectual property rights from non-US to US wholly-owned subsidiaries, which resulted in a non-recurring tax benefit of $170 million. Genpact's management believes that excluding these restructuring charges, the loss on the sale of the business previously classified as held for sale, the revenues and expenses associated with such business, the gain on the lease termination and the non-recurring tax benefit on the transfer of intellectual property rights in calculating its non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to both management and investors regarding the Company's financial performance and underlying business trends. Additionally, in its calculations of non-GAAP financial measures, Genpact's management has adjusted foreign exchange gains and losses, interest income and expense and income tax expenses from GAAP net income, and other income and expenses, and certain gains from GAAP income from operations, because management believes that the Company's results after taking into account these adjustments more accurately reflect the Company's ongoing operations. In its calculations of adjusted diluted earnings per share, Genpact's management adds back stock-based compensation expense, amortization and impairment of acquired intangible assets, and acquisition-related expenses along with the related tax impact of other adjustments and excludes the non-recurring tax benefit on the transfer of intellectual property rights from GAAP diluted earnings per share. For the purpose of calculating adjusted diluted earnings per share, the combined current and deferred tax effect is determined by multiplying each pre-tax adjustment by the applicable statutory income tax rate. 

Genpact's management provides information about revenues on a constant currency basis so that the revenues may be viewed without the impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations compared to prior fiscal periods, thereby facilitating period-to-period comparisons of the Company's true business performance. Revenue growth on a constant currency basis is calculated by restating current-period activity using the prior fiscal period's foreign currency exchange rates adjusted for hedging gains/losses in such period.

Accordingly, Genpact believes that the presentation of adjusted income from operations, adjusted income from operations margin, adjusted diluted earnings per share and revenue growth on a constant currency basis, when read in conjunction with the Company's reported results, can provide useful supplemental information to investors and management regarding financial and business trends relating to its financial condition and results of operations.

A limitation of using adjusted income from operations and adjusted income from operations margin versus income from operations, income from operations margin, net income and net income margin calculated in accordance with GAAP is that these non-GAAP financial measures exclude certain recurring costs and certain other charges, namely stock-based compensation expense and amortization and impairment of acquired intangible assets. Management compensates for this limitation by providing specific information on the GAAP amounts excluded from adjusted income from operations and adjusted income from operations margin.

The following tables show the reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures for the three months and years ended December 31, 2022 and 2023:

The following tables show the reconciliation of forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures for the year ending December 31, 2024:

The following tables show the reconciliation of forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures for the quarter ending March 31, 2024:

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