KPIT: a high-growth automotive pure-play

/ September 1, 2019

KPIT published its Q1 FY20, its second quarterly earnings since it became an automotive ER&D pure-play, since the sale of its IT service business to Birlasoft, last year.

Bertrandt issues a profit warning

/ August 25, 2019

After the profit warning of EDAG in July, Germany’s largest automotive ER&D pure-play, Bertrandt, also issued a profit warning. The company lowered its EBIT margin range guidance to 5%-7.5%, down from 7%-9% previously. Bertrandt is suffering from project delays and low utilization rates.

EDAG issues a profit warning

/ July 30, 2019

EDAG issued last night a profit warning for its full-year 2019 operations. The company is now expecting revenue growth by approximately 1% (previous guidance 5%), an adjusted EBIT margin of 4%-5% (previously 5%-7%), and a net profit of EUR 10m.

Cyient’s revenues decline in Q1 FY20

/ July 22, 2019

Cyient’s revenues in Q1 FY20 declined, slightly, by 2.6% yoy. The decline came as a surprise as the company had signaled it had bottomed out in Q4 FY19.

HCL ERS returns to Earth in Q4 FY19

/ May 19, 2019

HCL Tech’s ERS unit posted an excellent growth of +12.1% yoy at CC. The growth positioned ERS as the second fastest ER&D services vendor (among top ten vendors) behind Alten, ahead of Altran. ERS’s growth is, however, slowing from its peak of +47.7% at CC in Q3 FY18.

KPIT’s first results since its IPO

/ May 18, 2019

KPIT published its first results since its IPO, as India’s third-largest ER&D services pure-play. Growth slowed down significantly in Q4 FY19, revenues up 13.4% yoy to USD 71m. The company’s EBITDA margin was 12.8%.

LLTS: a splendid performance in FY19!

/ May 11, 2019

LTTS continued to be impressive in FY19: the company grew revenues completed by 26.5% at CC (almost purely organic) to USD 723m. LLTS has now taken over Cyient as India’s largest listed ER&D pure-play.

A few thoughts about Akka’s performance in Q1 2019

/ May 8, 2019

Akka has a somewhat soft financial performance in Q1 2019. The company’s organic (CC/CS) revenue growth reached 6.6%, impacted by a lesser number of working days yoy, a 0.5% sequential decrease in its headcount, and by high attrition (20.8%, up by 230 bps yoy).

Alten adds EUR 100m in revenues this quarter

/ April 28, 2019

Alten impressed, again, with its growth performance. In Q1 2019, revenue growth (at CC/CS yoy) reached +12.5%, to EUR 643m. This quarter, Alten added almost EUR 100m in revenues, two-thirds of it through organic growth and one third through acquisitions. The Forex impact was negligible.

Assystem guides for 10% revenue growth in 2019

/ March 22, 2019

Assystem’s 2018 earnings were in line with its guidance. The company already had communicated its revenue performance, with a disappointing H1 (+0.8% at CC/CS) and a very good H2 (+13.2%).