Genpact Reports Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2016 Results

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact Limited (NYSE: G), a global leader in digitally-powered business process management and services, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016.

"We are pleased with our full year 2016 results, as we delivered strong Global Client BPO growth, expanded our adjusted operating margin and significantly grew our adjusted earnings per share," said N.V. "Tiger" Tyagarajan, Genpact's president and CEO.  "With that said, we are seeing heightened levels of volatility and uncertainty in the global environment. Now more than ever, enterprises need to be nimble and react quickly to compete in their respective markets.  We believe our digital transformational services uniquely position us to drive value for clients.  These consulting, digital and analytics services now account for approximately 20% of our Global Client revenues and collectively are growing significantly above our Global Client revenue growth rate." 

Key Financial Results – Full Year 2016

• Total revenue was $2.57 billion, up 4% year over year (up ~6% on a constant currency basis).
• Income from operations was $340.8 million, up 2% year over year, with a corresponding margin of 13.3%. Adjusted income from operations was $397.4 million, up 5% year over year, with a corresponding margin of 15.5%.[3]
• Diluted earnings per share were $1.28, up 17% year over year, and adjusted diluted earnings per share were $1.46, up 16% year over year.
• New bookings[4] were approximately $2.65 billion, up 3% from $2.59 billion in 2015.
• Genpact repurchased approximately 13.9 million of its common shares during 2016 for a total of $345 million at an average price per share of $24.76.

Key Financial Results – Fourth Quarter 2016

• Total revenue was $682 million, up 5% year over year (up ~7% on a constant currency basis).
• Income from operations was $98.1 million, up 17.6% year over year, with a corresponding margin of 14.4%. Adjusted income from operations was $113.6 million, up 19% year over year, with a corresponding margin of 16.7%.
• Diluted earnings per share were $0.38, up 27% year over year, and adjusted diluted earnings per share were $0.43, up 24% year over year.
• Genpact repurchased approximately 4.3 million of its common shares during the quarter for a total of $103 million at an average price per share of $23.73.

Revenue Details – Full Year 2016

• Revenue from Global Clients was $2.14 billion, up 7% year over year (up ~9% on a constant currency basis), representing approximately 83% of total revenues.[5]
• Revenue from GE was $428 million, down 7% year over year, representing approximately 17% of total revenues.[6]
• Total BPO revenue was $2.07 billion, up 7% year over year, representing approximately 81% of total revenues.
• Global Client BPO revenue was $1.75 billion, up 11% year over year (up ~13% on a constant currency basis).
• GE BPO revenue was $326 million, down 8% year-over-year.
• Total IT revenue was $500 million, down 5% year over year, representing approximately 19% of total revenues.
• Global Client IT revenue was $398 million, down 6% year over year.
• GE IT revenue was $102 million, down 3% year over year.

Revenue Details – Fourth Quarter 2016

• Revenue from Global Clients was $576 million, up 9% year over year (up ~11% on a constant currency basis), representing approximately 85% of total revenues.
• Revenue from GE was $106 million, down 10% year over year, representing approximately 15% of total revenues.
• Total BPO revenue was $548 million, up 8% year over year, representing approximately 80% of total revenues.
• Global Client BPO revenue was $469 million, up 12% year over year (up ~14% on a constant currency basis).
• GE BPO revenue was $79 million, down 10% year over year.
• Total IT revenue was $134 million, down 4% year over year, representing approximately 20% of total revenues.
• Global Client IT revenue was $107 million, down 3% year over year.
• GE IT revenue was $27 million, down 9% year over year.

Cash Flow from Operations

• Cash from operations was $346 million in the full year 2016, up 6% from the full year 2015, and was $123 million in the fourth quarter of 2016, up 66% from $74 million in the fourth quarter of 2015.

2017 Outlook[7]

Genpact expects:

• Total revenue for 2017 to be $2.61 to $2.68 billion (including an assumed adverse foreign exchange impact of approximately $33 million, almost all of which is reflected in Global Client revenue), which represents a growth range of 2% to 4%, or 3% to 6% on a constant currency basis;
• Global Client revenue growth to be in the range of 4% to 7%, or 5% to 8% on a constant currency basis;
• Adjusted income from operations margin[8] of approximately 15.7%; and
• Adjusted diluted EPS[9] of $1.53 to $1.57.

Conference Call to Discuss Financial Results

Genpact's management will host an hour-long conference call beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET on February 10, 2017 to discuss the company's performance for the fourth quarter and full year 2016. To participate, callers can dial +1 (877) 654-0173 from within the U.S. or +1 (281) 973-6289 from any other country. Thereafter, callers will be prompted to enter the participant code, 49151521.

A live webcast of the call including slides with our comments will also be made available on the Genpact Investor Relations website at http://investors.genpact.com. For those who cannot participate in the call, a replay and podcast will be available on the Genpact website after the end of the call. A transcript of the call as well as the presentation slides will also be made available on the website.

About Genpact

Genpact (NYSE: G) stands for "generating business impact."  We are a global leader in digitally-powered business process management and services. We architect the Lean Digital^SM enterprise through our patented Smart Enterprise Processes (SEP^SM) framework that reimagines our clients' operating models end-to-end, including the middle and back offices.  This creates Intelligent Operations^SM that we help design, transform, and run. The impact on our clients is a high return on transformation investments through growth, efficiency, and business agility.  For two decades, first as a General Electric division and later as an independent company, we have been passionately serving our clients. Today, we generate impact for a few hundred strategic clients, including approximately one-fifth of the Fortune Global 500, and have grown to over 75,000 people in 25 countries, with key offices in New York City. The resulting business process and industry domain expertise and experience running complex operations are a unique heritage and focus that help us drive the best choices across technology, analytics, and organizational design. For additional information, visit www.genpact.com.

Safe Harbor

This press release contains certain statements concerning our future growth prospects and 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 a slowdown in the economies and sectors in which our clients operate, a slowdown in the business process outsourcing and information technology services sectors, 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, 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 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. 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.

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures to GAAP Measures

To supplement the consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, this press release includes the following measures defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission as non-GAAP financial measures:

• Adjusted income from operations attributable to shareholders of Genpact Limited, or adjusted income from operations;
• Adjusted income from operations margin;
• Adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to shareholders of Genpact Limited, or adjusted diluted earnings per share; and
• Net revenues 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 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, beginning in April 2016, Genpact's management also excludes 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. Additionally, in its calculations of such non-GAAP financial measures, Genpact's management has adjusted certain gains or losses attributable to equity-method investments because management views these interests as part of its ongoing operations and has excluded certain gains or losses attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest because management does not view these interests as part of its operations. 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 revenues may be viewed without the impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, thereby providing additional period-to-period comparisons of our true business performance. Revenues on a constant currency basis are 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 revenues 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 and adjusted income from operations margin calculated in accordance with GAAP is that this non-GAAP financial measure excludes certain recurring costs, namely stock-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangibles. 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 adjusted financial measures from GAAP for the year and three months ended December 31, 2015 and 2016:

The following tables show the reconciliation of forward-looking adjusted financial measures from GAAP for the year ending December 31, 2017:

Set forth below is a supplemental schedule depicting the reclassification of our 2016 revenue: