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Gentrack Group Limited Half-Year Results

Half Year Results21 May 2023GTKInformation Technology

Gentrack Group Ltd
17 Hargreaves Street, St Marys Bay Auckland

1011, PO Box 3288, Auckland 1140, New

Zealand

Ph: +64 9 966 6090

Email: info@gentrack.com

www.gentrack.com




Results for announcement to the market

Name of issuer Gentrack Group Limited

Reporting Period 6 months to 31 March 2023

Previous Reporting Period 6 months to 31 March 2022

Currency NZD

Amount (000s) Percentage change

Revenue from continuing

operations

$84,303 47.71%

Total Revenue $84,303 47.71%

Net profit/(loss) from

continuing operations

$7,880 235.14%

Total net profit/(loss) $7,880 235.14%

Interim/Final Dividend

Amount per Quoted

Equity Security

No dividend payable

Imputed amount per

Quoted Equity Security

Not applicable

Record Date Not applicable

Dividend Payment Date Not applicable


Current period Prior comparable

period

Net tangible assets per

Quoted Equity Security

$0.355 $0.175

A brief explanation of any

of the figures above

necessary to enable the

figures to be understood

For commentary on the results please refer to the market

announcement, financial statements including

chairperson commentary, and investor presentation

attached.

Authority for this announcement

Name of person

authorised to make this

announcement

Kerry Nickels

Contact person for this

announcement

Kerry Nickels

Contact phone number +64 9 966 6090

Contact email address kerry.nickels@gentrack.com

Date of release through

MAP

22/05/2023


Unaudited financial statements accompany this announcement.

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Gentrack Group

17 Hargreaves Street, St Marys Bay Auckland 1011,

PO Box 3288, Auckland 1140, New Zealand

Ph: +64 9 966 6090

Email: info@gentrack.com

www.gentrack.com




22 May 2023

Market Announcement

Gentrack Group Limited (NZX/ASX: GTK), a leading provider of software solutions

for utilities and airports, today released its results for the half-year to 31 March 2023.

Results Summary

• Revenue: $84.3m – up 47.7% on H1’22

• EBITDA $16.0m – up $14.8m over H1’22

• Statutory NPAT: $7.9m profit v $5.8m loss in H1’22

• Cash: $41.9m – up $14.5m over FY22

• No Dividend payable

• Results include substantial one-off revenues, but strong underlying growth

means that both FY23 and FY24 revenue guidance have been upgraded to

a range of $157m to $160m (from previous guidance of $147m to $150m for

FY23 and $150m for FY24)


Across the first half of the financial year, Gentrack has delivered impressive growth

in revenue, EBITDA and cash. We continue to win new customers as well as deliver

against recent wins and expand services with existing customers. We have strong

net people growth and employee engagement is high, with staff turnover at an all-

time low. Finally, we are proud to be working with the leaders in the sectors we

serve to help them innovate and move to sustainable solutions.

Financial performance

Strong revenue results were driven by a 51.2% increase in the Utilities business to

$73.9m for this half. This included $19.7m of revenue from Bulb and other insolvent

UK customers. In December 2022, the UK Government agreed the sale of Bulb’s

business to another retailer who is now in the process of migrating Bulb’s customers

from our platform to its own. Whilst we continue to support the administrators of

Bulb, the level of services we provide has now peaked and we do not expect

material revenues from this customer beyond this financial year.

Notwithstanding, our underlying growth in the Utilities business, excluding

insolvencies, was also impressive, up by 38.7% over H1’22. The Veovo airports

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business also grew strongly, up 26.7% on H1 ‘22 to $10.4m with growth in recurring

and non-recurring revenues, up 15% and 57% over H1’22 respectively.

EBITDA performance was $16m, $14.8m higher than H1’22. This growth in EBITDA

has been achieved whilst continuing to invest in strategic R&D and increasing our

sales & marketing spend to support international expansion.

With strong cash conversion from EBITDA, net cash as of 31 March 2023 was

$41.9m, which is an increase of $14.5m from the end of the last financial year.

This half year marks a return to an NPAT profit of $7.9m against an NPAT loss made

last year. Gentrack’s Utilities and Veovo businesses both operate in markets with

strong growth potential. The Board continues to believe that the best use of the

company’s capital is to continue to invest in growth. We have therefore decided not

to pay an interim dividend.

Growing our energy customers

Our underlying growth in Utilities demonstrates we are doing more with both new

and existing energy customers in the markets we serve.

EnergyAustralia, a new customer for Gentrack this half year, went live in March with

its innovative, ground-breaking product ‘Solar Home Bundle’ on our cloud billing

solution. They have migrated their existing Solar Home Bundle customers to the

new platform, an integrated solution including digital consumer engagement, field

services management and automation, and a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) solution.

In New Zealand, we are working with Mercury, a customer win for Gentrack last

September, to migrate their customers from SAP across to our multi play platform

that will support Mercury to deliver premium offers, multi play bundles across B2C

and B2B energy and communications services and a high level of digital

engagement with its customers.

Growing our water customers

We are doing more with our water customers across the globe. We support,

through leading water retailers, more than 50% of the UK’s businesses with water

solutions. We recently completed the migration of Scottish Water Business Stream’s

200k+ business customers from three legacy systems to our cloud-based solution.

In Australia, we have won another water customer during this half year, and we are

working to migrate a new customer we secured last year across to our platform. In

Fiji, we have agreed with one of our existing customers, the Water Authority of Fiji,

to modernise their platform and transform their business.

Targeting international expansion for Utilities

In November, we announced our plan to expand our international footprint, beyond

our core markets in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. This year, we have opened

an office in Singapore, and are growing the local team to both support the

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migration to our platform at one of Singapore’s large energy retailers (customer win

in 2022) and to target new business in the wider Asian region.

During the period, we built our EMEA business development team, based from our

London office, and are actively pursuing opportunities across Europe and the

Middle East.

We are pleased with our progress in building our capability and growing our

pipeline in these new regions. The Salesforce relationship, an essential part of g2.0,

our next generation platform, has greatly benefited our pipeline development.

Growing our airport customers

We are seeing a strong recovery across the aviation and airports industry.

Passenger numbers are trending close to pre-pandemic levels, driving airports to

look to technology to help them handle more passengers with fewer resources than

before. For Veovo, this has meant strong demand for upgrades to our latest “R8

Platform” for Aero-Billing and Airport Operations. This, together with some

significant expansions in deployments of our passenger flow solutions, is driving

growth within our current customer base. We have also gone live at our first Tier 1

airport for our managed service offering.

Veovo’s pipeline of new customer opportunities has also significantly strengthened

across the last year as airports globally look to undertake digital transformations.

Looking Forward

We are pleased with the progress made this half year on sales and building our

pipeline, delivering against recent customer wins, on-boarding new people into our

team, building our overall people capability, and continuing to innovate with great

technology.

We are excited about the transformation capabilities required by the industries that

we serve. For airports, we are seeing pent-up demand being unleashed in

modernisation programs. For utilities, no other market requires the level of

modernisation that the IT systems in both the energy and water markets require. It

is an exciting time to be in these dynamic markets.

In the second half of the financial year, we continue to expect growth across all our

customer base excluding revenues from insolvent UK customers. For insolvent UK

customers we expect lower revenues in H2 ‘23 than H1 ’23 and generally a wind

down of revenues from these insolvent customers by the end of the financial

year. As a result, our full year revenue for FY23 is expected to be in the range of

$157m to $160m with EBITDA for the year of approximately $22m.

The strong underlying growth in both Utilities and Veovo means we are able to

upgrade our revenue guidance for FY24 to be in line with the revenue expected in

FY23 despite the loss of ‘one off’ revenues of c.$25m from insolvent UK customers.

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Guidance

For FY23, the Group expects revenue to be between $157m and $160m. This is an

increase over our previous guidance of $147m to $150m. We still expect FY23

revenue will include c.$25m from insolvent UK customers, with the higher revenue

guidance a result of faster growth across the rest of our business. We expect EBITDA

for FY23 to be c.$22m.

The strong underlying growth in both Utilities and Veovo means we are also able to

upgrade our revenue guidance for FY24, from the prior guidance of $150m, to be

in line with FY23 revenue despite the loss of ‘one off’ revenues of c.$25m from

insolvent UK customers. Our targeted EBITDA margin for FY24 remains at 12% to

17%.

Presentation Results

Investors are invited to join the presentation of the Half Year Results on Monday

22nd May at 10.30am NZT/ 8.30am AEST via webcast:

https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1611330&tp_key=018edc76f5

It is advised that attendees allow ten minutes prior to the start time to register and

download any necessary webcast software.

To join via audio only, please see details here: https://gentrack.com/half-year-

results-2023-briefing-details/

ENDS

Contact details regarding this announcement:

Kerry Nickels – Company Secretary

+64 9 966 6090


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About Gentrack

For over 30 years Gentrack has been partnering with the world’s leading utilities.

More than 50 energy and water companies rely on Gentrack. Our g2.0 solution

combines this wealth of experience with Salesforce’s unbeatable CRM, Gentrack’s

leading meter-to-cash platform, and a composable architecture on AWS. g2.0

ensures high performance, security, scalability, and rapid prototyping for

innovation at pace. When it comes to transformations, you can count on us.

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Gentrack Group

FY23

Half Year Update

22 May 2023

[NZX/ASX: GTK]

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This presentation may contain forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements often include words such as

‘anticipate’, ‘expect’, ‘plan’ or similar words in connection with

discussions of future operating or financial performance.

The forward-looking statements are based on management’s

and directors’ current expectations and assumptions regarding

Gentrack’s business and performance, the economy and other

future conditions, circumstances and results. As with any

projection or forecast, forward-looking statements are inherently

susceptible to uncertainty and changes in circumstances.

Gentrack’s actual results may vary materially from those

expressed or implied in its forward-looking statements.

All figures are shown in NZ$M.

Disclaimer

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Gentrack

HY23 Business Review

Gary Miles

Chief Executive Officer

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Financial Headlines

Revenue growth driven by 51.2%

increase at Utilities:

•Customer wins & upsells to existing customers

driving underlying growth. Excluding

customers in insolvencies, revenue up 39%

•Revenue from customers in insolvencies has

now peaked at $19.7m for HY23 v $9.8m in

HY22 as we manage exit of Bulb.

Veovo revenue up 26.7% at $10.4m

•Continued strong growth in ARR (up 15%)

EBITDA at $16m ($14.8m higher)

•Revenue growth delivering EBITDA growth.

All R&D investment expensed in the period.

Cash $25.4m higher v H1 FY22 & $14.5m

higher than last year end

•High level of EBITDA to cash conversion

•No debt

REVENUE

UTILITIES

REVENUE

$48.9M

$73.9M

VEOVO

REVENUE

1268%

EBITDA

47.7%

$16.5M

$41.9M

NET CASH

$32.9M

$45.4M

ARR excl. insolvent

customers

51.2%

26.7%

37.7%

154%

$8.2M

$10.4M

$57.1M

$84.3M

HY22HY23

$1.2M

$16.0M

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Outlook Update

For FY23, the Group expects revenue to be between $157m and $160m. This is an

increase over our previous guidance of $147m to $150m. We still expect FY23 revenue will

include c.$25m from insolvent UK customers, with the higher revenue guidance a result of

faster growth across the rest of our business. We expect EBITDA for FY23 to be c.$22m.

The strong underlying growth in both Utilities and Veovo means we are also able to

upgrade our revenue guidance for FY24, from the prior guidance of $150m, to be in line

with FY23 revenuedespite the loss of ‘one off’ revenues of c.$25m from insolvent UK

customers. Our targeted EBITDA margin for FY24 remains at 12% to 17%.

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The growth opportunity for Gentrack is significant

new-age players will take

market share from legacy

players who are slow to

adapt & new regional

players outpaced

No industry has seen so little IT change in the past 25 years and now needs to change

so much to modernize and deliver a sustainable future. To enable this is our purpose.

of utilities will transform

in the next decade

The first wave (20%)

is predicted to

transform by 2026

~100%

2-3

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Gentrack is well positioned to service all of our

stakeholders

We have a strong leadership team, employees

have great career opportunities, attrition is

significantly lower than tech benchmark and net

people growth of 23% from HY22 to HY23.

Our customers are strong leaders

who drive the market direction. Our

tech roadmap is resonating well.

Gentrack is now outperforming the market,

delivering a sustainable agenda and is

committed to transparency & growth.

People

InvestorsCustomers

GTK stock performance in NZX, compared to ‘NZX 50 index’, Last 12 months

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Use Singapore as a base to expand into

Asia and the UK into EMEA

Reassign experienced leaders from core

markets to new markets

Use our partnership strategy to replace SAP,

Oracle and other legacy tech providers

Amplify marketing to build global

brand awareness

Utilities Objectives for 2023 –Recap

Grow in our core markets

‘23 and beyond

Expand globally

‘23 and beyond

Double digit growth in underlying revenue

Target c.$3m p.a. investment for global expansion focused on sales & marketing

Implement booked wins in Australia,

New Zealand and UK

Upsell G2, cloud services and innovation

highway to all existing customers

Reach new Tier1/Tier2 B2C and B2B

energy customers

Expand Australian water footprint and

enter regulated water in the UK

As presented in FY22 earnings

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Scorecard for ‘Grow in our core markets’

•Solar home bundle in EnergyAustralia

•New water customer in Australia

•New water project in Fiji

•Go live in water B2B companies UK and

water pipeline is growing

upgrade

Reach new Tier1/Tier2 B2C and B2B

energy customers

time

# of customers

Innovative

add-ons

Expand Australian water footprint and

enter regulated water in the UK

UKNZAUS

Regional growth revenue compared to HY22:

Upsell G2, cloud services and innovation

highway to all existing customers

Implement booked wins in Australia,

New Zealand and UK

Good resultsEarly/On Plan

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Scorecard for ‘Expand in EMEA and Asia'

Opened Singapore office

Experienced Gentrack

execs now leading Asia

and EMEA with scaled up

sales teams

Our salesforce strategy is

working and pipeline is

building

Keynote at European & Asian events

Joined forces with trade delegation in

energy agenda overseas

Grow social awareness and influence

Good resultsEarly/On Plan

Use Singapore as a base to expand into

Asia and the UK into EMEA

Reassign experienced leaders from core

markets to new markets

Amplify marketing to build global

brand awareness

Use our partnerships to replace SAP,

Oracle and other legacy tech providers

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Airport Division Returns to Growth

Strong demand for digital transformation across the Airport sector

Expand the base

Win new airports

Innovate

the sales pipeline

Migrated to new

cloud tech stack to

reduce cloud cost

Machine learning

pilot for future EU

regulation

Forecasting pilot

in tier-1 US airport

transformations projects goes live,

including first managed services

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Numerous upsells,

including in

2tier-1 airports

upgrades

signed

4

More than 2x

Good resultsEarly/On Plan

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John Priggen

Chief Financial Officer

Gentrack

HY23 Results

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Group Profit and Loss

•Revenue up 47.7% vs HY22:

oStrong growth at both the Utilities

and Veovo businesses.

oIncludes $19.7m from Bulb & other

UK insolvencies. Expect c.$5m from

these customers in H2.

oUnderlying Utilities growth also

impressive at 39%.

•Costs up 22% vs HY22 to support

revenue growth and continue

investment in R&D and Sales.

•EBITDA up $14.8m at $16m- includes

benefit of high Bulb revenue. H2 EBITDA

expected to be $6m+.

1 Underlying EBITDA being earnings before depreciation, amortisation, impairments and non-operating expenses related to acquisitions. EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure

Utilities

Veovo

Group

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Utilities Revenue Analysis

Total revenue up 51% v HY22

Strong underlying growth (excludingBulb & other UK

insolvencies):

•39% growth in total underlying revenues.

•43% growth in underlying recurring revenues (CMRR

& TRR).

Growth from delivering on recent customer wins and

upsells to existing customers.

Expect $5m+ of revenue from Bulb in H2 (c.$25m in total

for FY23). We assume no Bulb revenue in FY24.

Utilities Revenue HY23 v HY22

Total:$48.9m

Total:$73.9m

Committed Monthly

Recurring Revenues

(CMRR)

Non-contracted

Recurring Revenues

(TRR)

Non-recurring

Revenues (NRR)

Revenue from Bulb

& other UK insolvencies

HY22

HY23

Underlying:$39.0m

Underlying:$54.2m

39%

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Utilities – Analysis of Underlying Revenue

HY23 v HY22 Revenue by region excl. insolvencies

Revenue by market segment

H1 23

excl. insolvencies

•Strong underlying growth across all

regions.

•ROW - growing international footprint

with $2m revenue from customers in

Singapore, Fiji & Papua New Guinea.

•Strong growth in both energy and water.

Top 10 customers by revenue

H1 23

excl. insolvencies

All other

customers

39%

26%

58%

ROW

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Utilities Expenditure Analysis

•$6.3m increase in direct costs, in people &

hosting, to support higher revenues.

•Higher investment in strategic R&D (up

$1.4m) as our underlying revenue grows.

•$1.4m investment in international

expansion (Asia & EMEA) in line with the

$3m p.a. target set out last November.

•Continued strong investment in Sales &

Marketing within our core market (up $2m).

Utilities Costs HY23 v HY22 (NZ$m)

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Revenue Analysis

•Recurring revenue continues to grow up 15.1%over HY22 at $6.8m

•Strong demand for upgrades & transformations driving higher NRR up $1.3m at $3.6m this half year.

VeovoRevenue HY22 v HY23

VeovoRevenue by Geography HY23 v HY22

Committed Monthly

Recurring Revenues

(CMRR)

Non-contracted

Recurring Revenues

(TRR)

Non-recurring

Revenues (NRR)

Total Revenue

Up 26.7% on H1 22

Annual

Recurring

Revenue

$6.8m

Up 15.1% on H1 22

$8.2m

$10.4m

Europe

Americas

APAC

H1 22

H1 23

27%

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Cashflow

•Cash up $14.5m from September 2022 (+53%).

•High cash conversion from EBITDA, with no R&D capitalised in half year.

•Strong cash collections reflects good project execution.

•Recovery of tax overpaid from prior years reducing HY23 tax payments.

EBITDA to Net Cashflow HY23 (NZ$m)

30

September

2022

31

March

2023

Cash$27.4m$41.9m

Debt*NilNil

Net Cash$27.4m$41.9m

* Group retains a $25m credit facility currently undrawn

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In Summary

We are pleased with our progress in all of Gentrack’s core markets.

For the new markets we are entering, for both utilities and airports, our pipeline is

growing.

Our technologies are resonating well and our key partnering strategy around g2.0

with SalesForce and AWS is working.

Gentrack’s people are highly engaged and our employee attrition is well below the

tech global benchmark.

I want to welcome the new investors who have joined our register and thank our

long standing and supportive investors. We look forward to a long and fruitful

journey together

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GAAP to Non-GAAP Profit Reconciliation

NZ$m

Half Year

31 Mar 22

Half Year

31 Mar 23

Reported net profit/(loss) for the period (GAAP)

(5.8)7.9

Add:Net finance Expense

1.50.5

Add/(deduct):Income Tax expense/(credit)

0.23.5

Add: Depreciation and amortisation

5.44.1

EBITDA

1.216.0

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HY23 on a Constant Currency Basis

NZ$mHY23

HY23

Constant

Currency

Difference

(vs HY23)

Revenue

84.384.0(0.3)(0.3%)

Operating Costs

68.367.8(0.5)(0.7%)

EBITDA

16.016.20.21.2%

Statutory NPAT

7.98.00.22.0%

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