Genpact Reports Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2020 Results

NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact Limited (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020.

"Our performance during 2020 reflects our agility and culture of embracing change that allowed us to rapidly meet client needs and successfully pivot to new ways of working," said "Tiger" Tyagarajan, Genpact's president and CEO. "Led by the dedication of our global workforce, our ability to grow our top and bottom line is a testament to the resiliency of our business. The acceleration of digital transformation into new buying centers across all industries is expanding our total addressable market and providing us with many more opportunities to drive sustainable and profitable long-term growth."

Key Financial Highlights ? Full Year 2020

• Total revenue was $3.7 billion, up 5% year-over-year (6% on a constant currency basis).¹
• Revenue from Global Clients was $3.3 billion, up 7% year-over-year, both on an as reported and constant currency basis¹, representing 88% of total revenue.
• Revenue from GE was $459 million, down 4% year-over-year, representing 12% of total revenue.
• Net income attributable to Genpact Limited shareholders was $308 million, up 1% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 8.3%.
• Income from operations was $439 million, up 2% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 11.8%. Adjusted income from operations was $589 million, up 5% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 15.9%.⁴
• Diluted earnings per share was $1.57, up 1% year-over-year, and adjusted diluted earnings per share³ was $2.12, up 3% year-over-year.
• Income from operations and diluted earnings per share include $26.5 million of restructuring charges related to employee severance costs and lease impairment charges recorded in the second and third quarters of 2020. These restructuring charges are excluded from adjusted income from operations⁴ and adjusted diluted earnings per share.³
• New bookings were approximately $3.1 billion, down 20% year-over-year. Global Client new bookings were down 8% year-over-year.⁵
• Cash generated from operations was $584 million, up 36% from $428 million in 2019.
• Genpact repurchased approximately 3.4 million of its common shares for total consideration of approximately $137 million at an average price per share of $40.16.

Key Financial Highlights ? Fourth Quarter 2020

• Total revenue was $951 million, up 1% year-over-year, both on an as reported and constant currency basis.¹
• Revenue from Global Clients was $841 million, up 4% year-over-year (3% on a constant currency basis)¹, representing 89% of total revenue.
• Revenue from GE was $109 million, down 16% year-over-year, representing 11% of total revenue.
• Net income was $75 million, down 9% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 7.9%.
• Income from operations was $113 million, down 5% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 11.9%. Adjusted income from operations was $148 million, down 7% year-over-year, with a corresponding margin of 15.5%.⁴
• Diluted earnings per share was $0.38, down 10% year-over-year, and adjusted diluted earnings per share³ was $0.51, down 11% year-over-year.
• Cash generated from operations was $159 million, up 83% from $87 million in the fourth quarter of 2019.
• Genpact repurchased approximately 1.6 million of its common shares during the quarter for total consideration of approximately $63 million at an average price per share of $38.94.

Capital Allocation

• Genpact's Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.1075, a 10% increase, payable on March 19, 2021 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 10, 2021, and an increase of $500 million to the Company's existing share repurchase authorization.

Full Year 2021 Outlook
Genpact expects:

• Total revenue of $3.93 to $3.99 billion, up 6% to 7.5%, or 5.0% to 6.5% on a constant currency basis.¹
• Global Client revenue growth in the range of 8.0% to 10%, or 7.0% to 9.0% on a constant currency basis.¹
• Adjusted income from operations margin⁶ of approximately 16.0%.
• Adjusted diluted EPS⁷ of $2.26 to $2.29.

Conference Call to Discuss Financial Results
Genpact's management will host an hour-long conference call beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET on February 9, 2021 to discuss the company's performance for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020. To participate, callers can dial +1 (877) 654-0173 from within the U.S. or +1 (281) 973-6289 from any other country. Callers will be prompted to enter the conference ID, 5589896.

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 that makes business transformation real. We drive digital-led innovation and digitally-enabled intelligent operations for our clients, guided by our experience running thousands of processes primarily for Global Fortune 500 companies. We think with design, dream in digital, and solve problems with data and analytics.  Combining our expertise in end-to-end operations and our AI-based platform, Genpact Cora, we focus on the details ? all 90,000+ of us. From New York to New Delhi and more than 30 countries in between, we connect every dot, reimagine every process, and reinvent companies' ways of working. We know that reimagining each step from start to finish creates better business outcomes. Whatever it is, we'll be there with you ? accelerating digital transformation to create bold, lasting results ? because transformation happens here.

Safe Harbor
This press release contains certain statements concerning our future growth prospects, including our outlook for 2021, financial results, intention to pay dividends or repurchase our common shares 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 the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, the health and safety of our employees, clients, partners and suppliers, as well as the physical and economic impacts of the various recommendations, orders and protocols issued by local and national governmental agencies in response to the pandemic, 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, wage increases, changes in tax rates and tax legislation and other laws and regulations, our ability to attract and retain skilled professionals, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, foreign currency fluctuations, general economic conditions affecting our industry, political, economic or business conditions in countries in which we operate, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, commonly known as Brexit, 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.

Prior to July 2012, Genpact's management used financial statements that excluded significant acquisition-related expenses, amortization of related acquired intangibles, and amortization of acquired intangibles recorded at the company's formation in 2004 for its internal management reporting, budgeting and decision-making purposes, including comparing Genpact's operating results to that of its competitors. However, considering Genpact's frequent 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 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company initiated restructuring measures. In connection with the restructuring, the Company has recorded a charge related to the following: i) right-of-use lease assets and other assets related to certain abandoned leased office properties in the second quarter of 2020, and ii) employee severance costs related to a focused reduction in Genpact's workforce in the second and third quarters of 2020. Genpact's management believes that excluding such charges 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, losses and impairment charges attributable to equity-method investments 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 has adjusted stock-based compensation expense, amortization and impairment of acquired intangible assets, acquisition-related expenses and restructuring expenses and the related tax impact of such adjustments 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 year and three months ended December 31, 2019 and 2020:

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, 2021:

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