06.03.2017
QSC AG DE0005137004
DGAP-News: QSC maintains strong Cloud growth in 2016 and 2017
DGAP-News: QSC AG / Key word(s): Preliminary Results/Forecast
QSC maintains strong Cloud growth in 2016 and 2017
06.03.2017 / 07:30
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
QSC maintains strong Cloud growth in 2016 and 2017
- Preliminary figures for 2016: Revenues on target at EUR 386.0 million
- Cloud revenues surge 148 % to EUR 18.1 million
- Free cash flow improves to EUR 8.4 million; EBITDA comes to EUR 37.1
million
- Outlook for 2017: higher free cash flow and stable EBITDA despite lower
revenues
- High growth momentum with Pure Enterprise Cloud and IoT projects
Cologne, 6 March 2017. The cloud and ICT service provider QSC can report an
operating business performance in line with expectations for 2016. Revenues
rose in those business fields in which this digitiser to the German SME
segment expected to generate growth - and especially in its forward-looking
Cloud segment. At the same time, the Company made significant progress with
its organisational restructuring and in this context achieved a further
substantial reduction in its workforce. Despite the ongoing restructuring
programme and the associated one-off expenses, QSC increased its free cash
flow for 2016 by 18 % to EUR 8.4 million. As in the previous year, the
Management Board will therefore propose the distribution of a dividend of 3
cents per share.
Revenue growth in all strategic business fields
Based on preliminary calculations, QSC generated revenues of EUR 386.0
million in 2016, as against EUR 402.4 million in 2015. The highest growth
was achieved in Cloud, the newest segment, where revenues surged year-on-
year by 148 % to EUR 18.1 million. This high growth was driven by QSC's
success in marketing its Pure Enterprise Cloud and IoT portfolio.
Consulting revenues grew by 6 % to EUR 40.3 million, while TC revenues with
corporate customers rose by 4 % to EUR 91.8 million. Consistent with
expectations, QSC posted lower revenues in its TC business with resellers
(down 9 % to EUR 118.4 million) and its traditional Outsourcing business
(down 15 % to EUR 117.4 million). Among other factors, 2016 witnessed the
migration of the first traditional Outsourcing customers to the Pure
Enterprise Cloud.
Comments QSC's CEO Jürgen Hermann: "I am satisfied with our business
performance in 2016. We have for the first time demonstrated the momentum
harboured by the Cloud business. We will be building on this in 2017 and
beyond."
Successful completion of cost-cutting programme
QSC laid a foundation for focusing more closely on its Cloud business in
the past two years by implementing a far-reaching organisational
restructuring process. The Company completed the associated cost-cutting
programme at the end of 2016. Among other measures, in 2015 and 2016 QSC
succeeded in downsizing its workforce by almost 350 employees. The Company
still had 1,360 employees at the end of 2016. These staff cuts and
organisational restructuring measures led to further one-off expenses in
the second half of the year in particular. Accordingly, and consistent with
expectations, EBITDA for 2016 came to EUR 37.1 million, as against EUR 42.2
million one year earlier. Due to the one-off write-downs of EUR 15.2
million already announced on 20 December 2016, based on preliminary
calculations QSC generated consolidated net income of EUR -25.1 million in
2016 compared with EUR -13.2 million in 2015.
2017: QSC plans revenues of EUR 355-365 million and EBITDA of EUR 36-40
million
In the current financial year, QSC is continuing to focus on those business
fields in which it expects to generate future growth - and above all on its
Cloud and Consulting businesses and its TC business with corporate
customers. The Company expects to see the highest growth rates once again
in its Cloud segment with its two key focuses of Pure Enterprise Cloud and
IoT. Overall, for the current financial year QSC has budgeted revenues of
between EUR 355 million and EUR 365 million, and EBITDA of between EUR 36
million and EUR 40 million. The main factor preventing a better revenue
performance is the TC business with resellers. Due to market and regulatory
conditions, QSC expects revenues here to decline by around EUR 25 million.
This will be accompanied by a budgeted reduction in revenues in the
traditional Outsourcing business. Irrespective of these developments, the
Company expects to generate a free cash flow ahead of the previous year's
figure of EUR 8.4 million.
EUR million 2016 2015 Change Revenues 386.0 402.4 -4 % Cloud revenues 18.1 7.3 +148 % Consulting revenues 40.3 38.0 +6 % Outsourcing revenues 117.4 138.5 -15 % Telecommunications revenues 210.2 218.7 -4 % - of which with resellers 118.4 130.7 -9% - of which with corporate customers 91.8 88.0 +4 % EBITDA 37.1 42.2 -12 % EBIT -13.1 -11.1 -18 % Consolidated net income -25.1 -13.2 -90 % Free cash flow 8.4 7.1 +18 % Capital expenditure 28.4 26.7 +6 % Number of employees 1,360 1,454 -6 % at 31 DecemberNotes: QSC will publish its 2016 Annual Report on 30 March 2017. This Corporate News includes forward-looking statements. These are based on current expectations and forecasts as to future events made by the management of QSC AG. Due to risks or erroneous assumptions, actual results may deviate substantially from these forward-looking statements. Contact for enquiries: QSC AG Arne Thull Head of Investor Relations T +49 221 669-8724 F +49 221 669-8009 [email protected] www.qsc.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06.03.2017 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: QSC AG Mathias-Brüggen-Straße 55 50829 Cologne Germany Phone: +49-221-669-8724 Fax: +49-221-669-8009 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.qsc.de ISIN: DE0005137004 WKN: 513700 Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange End of News DGAP News Service --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 550417 06.03.2017
|
Weitere Ad-hoc und Unternehmensrelevante Mitteilungen zu
QSC AG ISIN: DE0005137004 können Sie bei EQS abrufen
IT-Services , 513700 , QBY , XETR:QBY