Persistent Sustains Growth Momentum, Revenue Up by 17.1% Y-o-Y, 3.0% Q-o-Q

Persistent Systems announced the Company’s audited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023, as approved by the Board of Directors.

Consolidated Financial Highlights for the Quarter ended June 30, 2023:

	Q1FY24	Margin%	Q-o-Q Growth	Y-o-Y Growth
Revenue (USD Million)	282.90		3.0%	17.1%
Revenue (INR Million)	23,211.75		3.0%	23.6%
EBITDA (INR Million)	4,229.44	18.2%	1.6%	26.9%
EBIT (INR Million)	3,466.16	14.9%	0.0%	29.0%
PAT (INR Million)	2,287.68	9.9%*	-9.0%*	8.1%*

* In Q1FY24, there was a one-time expense towards client events and employee gifts on account of achieving the $1B revenue milestone. Adjusted for this, PAT margin was 11.4% for Q1FY24, with Q-o-Q growth of 5.4% and Y-o-Y growth of 25.2%.

The 33rd Annual General Meeting of the Company was held on July 18, 2023. All the resolutions, including a final dividend payment of INR 12 per share and a special dividend of INR 10 per share on achieving $1 Billion in annual revenue, were passed with the requisite majority. This makes the total dividend for FY23 to be INR 50 per share as compared to INR 31 per share for FY22.

Sandeep Kalra, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Persistent: “We commenced the year by celebrating a significant milestone of surpassing $1 billion in annual revenue with our clients, partners, and team members. As we enter our new fiscal year, I’m pleased to share that we have sustained our growth momentum despite the challenging macroeconomic conditions. Our Digital Engineering leadership, extensive experience across key industries, curated partner ecosystem, and the ability to stay ahead of disruptive technology trends has led to our ongoing success. We also want to extend our warm welcome to Dr. Ajit Ranade, a renowned academician, corporate executive, economist, and thought leader, as an Independent Director to our Board. He will bring his impressive experience of 32+ years to help guide our strategy and accelerate our growth journey.”

First Quarter FY24 Client Wins and Outcomes

The order booking for the quarter ended on June 30, 2023, was at $380.3 million in Total Contract Value (TCV) and at $271.9 million in Annual Contract Value (ACV) terms.

Some of the key wins for the quarter include:

Software, Hi-Tech & Emerging Industries

• Establishing a software lab to engineer new products and enhance existing products for a leading SaaS provider related to customer support, sales, and other customer communications.
• Providing engineering services and support of Network Services Orchestration (NSO) platform for a multinational digital communications conglomerate.
• Developing Generative AI proofs of concept and building database connectors for serverless data integration for a multinational technology company.

Banking, Financial Services & Insurance

• Driving digital transformation for customer acquisition and service, along with sales and marketing automation platforms for the financial services arm of a Fortune 500 automobile company. 
• Supporting application migration and providing managed services to ensure seamless integration of an acquired automation platform for a leading US-based financial software company. 
• Developing a Data Science platform for Risk Management, Identity Access Management and Regulatory/compliance applications for a leading corporate investment banking services provider.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

• Engineering Data and Machine Learning platforms and accelerating product capabilities to drive an innovation roadmap for a multinational managed healthcare and insurance company.
• Building and managing a Unified Data Platform encompassing analytics for sales inventory, sales order pipeline etc. for a European multinational medical equipment manufacturing firm.
• Engineering platforms for data curation, analytics, and laboratory management and migrating data lake to the cloud for a leading molecular diagnostics company in the space of early-stage cancer detection.