Q2 2021 Infosys Ltd Earnings Call
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Hi, Sandeep.
Good evening and good morning, everyone on the call.
I Trust each of you watch <unk> and had a cheap.
You've had an exceptional quarter in the second quarter across multiple dimensions line impact revenues did you do scaling.
Jeez wins continue to account expansion operating margin expansion strong cash flows and reduction in employee attrition.
I'm grateful to our clients for their continued trust in us and I'm proud of our team for their credit <unk> commitment to our clients that he shared with you some of the highlights for Q2.
Revenues in constant currency grew at 2.2% year on year and 4% sequentially on the back off a very strong Q1.
Good for each one each one was 1.9% in constant currency terms.
<unk> revenues grew at 25.4% year on year in constant currency and now accounts for 47.3% outside the U.S.
Did you did a good operating margin of 25.4%, which is an expansion of 70 basis points year on year and do 70 basis points sequentially. This was achieved after they've already got employees would that even be at 100% and avoiding a one time, especially borders.
Large deal wins, which I bins, Oh work about U.S. dollar 50 million in PCB.
On track what else.
<unk> $3.15 billion.
Large deal pipeline remains strong as clients look at accelerating digital transformation programs and continuing that focus on automation and cost efficiency.
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50, 352% increase year on year.
<unk> balance sheet remains strong with cash and investments position at $4.6 billion with no debt.
Our industry, leading performance for the first half of this year has been due to the mens commitment well over 240000 employees Jackie.
Recognizing the continuing stellar contribution from our employees during these times.
We're paying out of bed he built before the quarter at 100%.
They are one time special incentive and you would see for a junior level employees.
The salary increase trust is really to be stopped no.
The effective as of Jan January one 2000, thank you bye.
BZ started promotions in the last quarter I thought junior level. This will now be expanded across all lines.
I'm thankful to each one that's why the employees for staying deeply committed to serving our clients.
They themselves navigated their own personal challenges associated with the ongoing corporate situation and the remote operating margin.
We launched Infosys coupon.
Where we brought together on our cloud services platforms and solutions to support their clients in accelerating the cloud journey and reducing the risk to their cloud programs coupons has 200 industry templates and 14000 cloud components.
He did build to our clients for their cloud choice programs.
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As an enterprise or service companies across public private and hybrid cloud environments.
In Q2, we took another large step in our local hiring plans in the U.S. and the Pos.
Three years be blown six digital sensors in the U.S. and hired so deep.
13000 U.S. workers.
We now announced plans to hire an additional 12000 U.S. workers.
The next two years, bringing a hiring can be made in the U.S. and 25000 over five years.
We believe our localized they should approach is a significant market differentiator and will help us better navigate regulatory changes.
Assisting localization investments will ensure will ever be able to continue servicing our clients across markets.
The combination of local and global talent.
Good fast Siemens also saw US announced three acquisitions right right Guy vision focused on service now do eight gone focused on Adobe and Kaleidoscope focused on medical product design.
Oh service delivery continues to be exceptional the feedback from clients remains positive and the dedication of employees is tremendous the D. 99% of our workforce continues to work for both.
Oh, just Doug you drew on a combination of a continued focus on the needs of our clients steady execution and a clear strategy to build a digital and cloud aligned company.
Looking ahead, we continue to see strong traction in that business we.
We increased our revenue guidance for the full year.
Sometimes you 2% to 2%.
Moving into 2% to 3% growth in constant currency year over year.
The increased operating margin guidance for the full year.
Greg do you want to send to 22% moving it to 22% to 24%.
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Thank you and now let me request W update you on our operations over to you.
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Growth accelerated during the quarter as economies across the board started opening up gradually and.
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And then you think they might go up and peak when city on constant currency.
On top of the robust performance in four to one.
You are on the AD growth continued to remain bumpy and increased slightly to 2.2% in constant currency.
Quarter two revenue included when the marginal contribution from the Vanguard B.
It should start ramping up some quite a bit on what.
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Maybe they are not going to help implement the offshore utilization.
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Hi, Good morning, just a lot of puts up on employee it doesn't seem to get even thought about strong performance in last six months.
We have decided to FX actually increased across all levels.
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Expecting that trend to BBB FFELP program.
On both group and I think qualification and mandating significantly higher lead us.
How about what our dedicated focus over the past three yet on the local American workforce.
Technology and innovation outside the U.S., you've got the ability to navigate the club.
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Well, it's a bit technology adoption Len.
That makes everything to get it to various government could really go then I saw that pick up not because there's transformation programs.
Yeah, the thing fixed not do anything to segment in the last quarter, including the Vanguard B.
They should propel or the new growth for financial services in the coming quarters.
Because I wasn't anything banking platform has it might be but let's see the conditions during the quarter and they think Florida, but I cant that banks have coffee like embark on day to get those done amazing.
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Oh, my gosh, you're going to segment, given continuing demand issue and possibly if I look in the coming months.
Well fomented communication segment they might be.
Oh, gosh, I'm spending, especially in media and entertainment advertising and OEM segments.
We continued to have a strong pipeline of being in this segment and I've won two log beams can be lost what Richard has been stability.
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I live in hospitality and because the sector.
However, the kinda well, that's going to be anything significant but it'd be fun cost takeout and we continue to believe that don't pipeline.
Manufacturing state segment, but they've been good in the quarter, which is a massive improvement from the sequential decline in quarter one.
And data because it seems like it's not something that we are seeing opening up of working well.
Although they felt paducah, but maybe it makes sluggish.
Well, let's pick up if it made their focus quite a plan that could affect that.
We expect gradually bring went into segments that echo, what didnt volumes and robust new account openings.
He then remains at a healthy level and makes us hopeful up because we kept up.
I wasn't even portfolio is doing so I think if I put some year on year in constant currency and now constitutes 47.3% up or what all the other news.
And the last worked out to be I'd be data that they did not win so it's a deliberate capabilities across the digital pen pick up 80 as industry analysts.
Lastly, my heartfelt condolences to the families. The wellbore can do well.
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On the back office phone quarter, one quarter two continues to show improving performance with our unwavering focus on clients I live in operational excellence.
And liquidity management revenue.
Revenue for the quarter grew 4% sequentially in constant currency. This translates to a 2.2% growth year on year and 1.9% for H. One you already are in constant currency.
Operating margins expanded by 270 basis points sequentially to 25.4%.
Great and improvement in margin was led by <unk>.
<unk> basis point improvement due to increasing RPP 80, bips due to a 2.4% increase in utilization and if you do a 1.9% improvement in onsite offshore mix.
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Benefits from a reduction in <unk> <unk> and other expenses offset by increase in depreciation and amortization and cross currency had been.
Improved Q2 margin performance has consequently led to its one operating margin at 24.1% higher than that 21% to 22% band and 3% higher compared to 21.1% reported for the comparative period.
Some of the margin improvement, resulting from the.
Resulting from the cost differential that picks up we except expect some of these benefits to shrink in quarter two as you roll out the motions and salary hike for employees I meant hiring across the organization with higher traveling overhead costs.
All definitely consequently back to margin.
<unk> grew by 14.9% in dollar terms and by 20.8% at nine <unk> on a year on year basis.
<unk> grew by 9.5% and all that and 17.1% to nine are on a year on year basis collections remained robust would you have to reducing by two days to 69.
The increase in Capex spend during the quarter. It wasn't mainly to what technology can enable went up by employees.
Yeah for quarter, two was a heavy dollarssix hundred 74 million, which is a growth of 17% year on year and up 59% and that's one of the only up.
Free cash flow as a positive net profit was had an entry, but then for Q2 hundred 16% to one yeah.
Return on equity increased to 26.7% compared to 25.1% in the prior year.
We continue to maintain a very strong debt free and liquid balance sheet cash and investments at the end of quarter two was $4.55 billion yeah.
Even on cash balance improved to 6.3% in Q2 compared to 6.11% than the previous quarter.
Order to Mark the 20 fiveth consecutive quarter of positive foreign income despite significant currency volatility across the globe.
Consistent with the improved cash flow and our capital allocation policy. The board has declared an interim dividend of <unk>, well, which is a 50% growth or the interim dividend, but shed off like 20 years.
Based on the strong performance in each one we are increasing our guidance on revenue I fight for anyone to 2% to 3% in constant kind of picked up from the previous previously announced he was 2% yeah.
We are also increasing the margin guidance for this year up from 21% to 23% to 20 feet.
Feet to 24%.
That's you can open up the call for quick.
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The first question is from the line up Yogesh and myself.
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Yeah, Hi, Thanks for taking my question just two clarifications, if I may I see Ah why.
Why don't you have a big guidance does take in hockey night guidance doesn't do that.
Strong Ivy lane seasonality, despite such strong because they didnt, they didnt little bit Clark Peterson hopefully.
Acquisitions added.
Are you expecting some decline in silicon valley, because going forward.
And secondly on the cost front and you live in employee cost they don't actually what that unfortunate. This is despite the board. They think they should they do so is that largely oh sure makes.
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We see a fall.
Q3 and Q4.
Steady improving quarter on quarter activity in.
Different industries.
For example high Tech is looking as strong as W Convention lifestyle.
Life Sciences is good financial services stable or you did also now starting to see some progress.
However, there are seasonal impact in Q2 normally and.
And traditionally Q4 has always been Oh saltwater for Infosys. So we don't see anything negative in the outlook.
In fact, we've raised that guidance keeping a very much in mind is strong the demand that you see and the good a convergent Las Divas, a that we have in place for the second BOP during the London.
Yeah, Okay. So what you're seeing from a net headcount we only added about 2000 people for this was less than half a percent. So there was not much of a head cold chain, but didn't know absolute your I'd be onsite offshore mix has helped the overall employee cost.
To come down, but like I said this is a temporary due to the topic of fiction is important.
Got it got it many thanks.
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Yeah, Hi, Thanks for taking my question and congrats on a great quarter I had two questions actually one is on the deals that you have one so far obviously that doesn't lot that's already spoken about vanguard, but excluding that no more doesn't need sort of services that do have lots of usage.
I mean, we didn't do you are you seeing a lot more mark made these in a cloud migration and no abuse second is how what line funding. These spend you did mention that this time, we had a one time off for sure because the Fabrinets Dickson I do think line finding incremental spends through higher.
I'll close to going forward I think these are the two dark listen thank you.
Okay. So this is not the United stock.
First one.
The the types of things we have seen a you're not deep pipeline is walking in schools.
She key areas. One is an area, which is a everything related to digital transformation for which a large part of it is got old as we add on cloud migration, but also cloud deployment building called first applications.
I'll SAS smoking in public and hybrid cloud private cloud environments.
Second relates to efficiency, which is focus and automation of cost efficiency and how are the.
I can yes, Jason essentially be a modernized in that sense I need to be multi fishing pole oxides and the time, we have seen some in the pipeline, which is the consolidation of vendor consolidation back. It. So it is definitely a g. over the next few quarters in terms of conversions that we have there.
Sessions in those areas, where we see some traction.
In terms of how those times funding. It I think that means he sees as you did is really taking a cost I would offer existing a estate or how to automation all the means and.
ER funding it.
These programs, which gives you a good differentiation access and experience for our clients.
Okay. So dad works going forward.
Forward, possibly maybe the next it offshore because clearly this oh last few months has also demonstrated.
What could be done in an auction environment, but we still see a besides all of that stuff that they would be.
Well your goals and then you got a which is ER everything within up I.
Sure. So I I think up on the offer perspective.
If I got it right.
U.S. I, just think that the oh, so far the offload shift or is dropping to six in best buy or there could be future alternative if somebody didn't repeat itself up or is that that I think we.
The onsite all also makes studies show is basically.
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Are the possibilities that also so those are both countervailing so.
And this time he will also not be clear, which one will happen. So I said, what see but both of those are going live in claims.
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Sure. Thank you so much and all the best.
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That's kinda trying to line up once you guys congrats.
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Hey, Thank you very much and congratulations for the team good questions here, one given the fact that the M&A T cells.
Celebrating it.
Where the quantified the expected contribution from M&A to your guidance for fiscal year 21 in terms of gross and then just as a follow up.
You just say that.
Renewal rates for bookings was I think 14% for the quarter, which it which is actually very good in terms of incremental new business. Thank you.
Oh on the second one.
With these comments that are on the net new at the you look on the first.
Yes, she ER and then it sounds actions, we did not see volumes.
I don't know if they need accident it shouldn't be I have a good pipeline of Ddas Oh, he's not quantified in our business model that percentage that we've got in that sense.
In that sense somebody minutes, we don't have a targeted percentage some M&A what do we do have is Ben yeah, well, which areas are you.
This is something that is.
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Those are specific areas.
And then there's a gross and a good.
Okay, I think that this would be within the company I wasn't that shouldn't be the v. deeply I don't know, it's just specifically Ah.
You don't have a docket.
I get that but how much will come from Emily.
I mean on the net new people.
Yeah, Hi, Moshe do that Barry has not yet absolutely right that that then that you know they don't do not big piece of it that maybe six that's fun and obviously, there's not much that do that each quarter on quarter, depending on when they set up the land and then I'm fine.
And then on <unk> and not in our opinion thought as I do for.
I'm doing that I think like what that might it's obviously, a very positive thing I got it and then they could be.
When you look at your bid and proposal pipeline for the next six to 12 months would you say that.
The mix is different in terms of renewals versus new.
New deals or is there anything different in terms of the historical mixes.
I would say, let me pick up on the news and they finally, maybe I want a healthy mix up but then you notice I love that make meals in the mix.
Exactly exactly.
I think that I like when do you get close to that so that will probably have a bedding and I'm talking about.
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Yeah, obviously that I, probably have any pick up have you started to think that maybe that's what's been deducted that feeling good that you know I blend probably on the higher <unk>.
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Yeah, and I'd, just say that I can't really quantify that how much higher they did but definitely on the high side.
Helpful. Thanks, and congrats.
Thank you.
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Frank one for you so.
Hi, Thank you very much I had a couple of questions as well first off could you just clarify when you talk about in the press release or the TCP or that was booked in the quarter 3.15 billion. What what was the growth rate of that year over year is my first question.
And the second question is.
[noise] related to is there a limit that you see for offshore work I know you said there was tension on some forces at work.
That would suggest more onshore work.
But the cost advantage of offshore work you in the quarter with 73.9 is there a limit on how high you think that percentage could go is any any natural barriers to that moving higher which is a significant.
Enhancement of margin and I'll just throw a third question out there is could you tell us how many.
Of your employees are currently using leases in the U.S. and I'll cede the floor. Thank you very much.
Okay. Thanks for that question. This is a study that go with the second one and then the other two are Toby can jump in but the answer is.
In terms of the offshore.
They didn't match in demand.
I think they certainly are.
Well most of the work to be done or offshore, but I guess it seems that have opened up or as we've always done it both the client and us to go across the last six months or so I don't see that there are some sort of a seeming that.
I think what is also critical news as we see bought in mall well that's weighing on that you do.
Studios.
Now design is working to sum up our digital studios you see some of that work are also expanding and that work has benefits from having some flexibility and it can also be done.
So from an offshore perspective, so specifically, we don't see in that sense. It seeming to be offshore work, but it's a function of how that's actually gets called Dallas. In addition, discussions and the guy.
Declines which is.
Oh, well the other thing that I didn't know if you want to go.
Afterwards.
So on the <unk> on the West Coast is not yet on the other income.
I would not be so I'm, just getting that number I could come back to you guys before the call ends of any one off I mean, I guess keeping quickly on that or what we did last year or 2.8 to 50.1, but the big difference is locked give you only did 11% of net new and the figure we got an 86% so the quality of the.
Order book is dramatically improved.
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And what was the third question.
A number of pieces that currently use of your employee base in the U.S.
You either net newer renewals that are you know, but just some current number of employees out of your employee base that are subject to leases U.S.
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Yeah go ahead.
Yes, I'd be mentioned or what we call or if he's not dependent a employees into U.S. currently got about 37%.
Okay, great. Thank you very much and congratulations.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Sandeep I could buy something like <unk> go ahead.
Hi, Thanks for the opportunity and first of all congrats on excellent execution and extend them, but I on somebody shot enforce young go to Hell bent on somebody who gets there by management nobody lighting and right in line with World Class technology companies like Amazon.
I have just two questions. One is oh, you know what the leakage.
The leakage Uncooled has it still been quite high in the current quarter on so in a lot of strong growth and well good luck on the utility the skilled at heidrick or something that's so when do you think this will probably stabilize or do you think it will continue.
Okay, and then the CMV I am asking this question is you're not a small company didn't like E band and I'm guessing.
And then geographies they gleaned from many of the same person they got that much lower base, but they haven't got one well being helping them. That's question number one and question number two do you think that make that public cloud <unk> Foster an explanation then you're going to get done now and we've been feed always been it's been quite a bit.
I don't think you can find any answer on that question. What is your understanding on medically important way that you are okay with everything happening kind of any color you can get one shot up to <unk>.
Okay. Thanks, a lot.
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The way, we have seen first or whatever they just didn't cool ER continues to be robust at 75% I think you're right HM.
Hi, adopting cloud.
There are five so these are in keeping with the some of that and Autohome capability, we launched our own cloud.
A set of assets under the name of course is football.
We see a tremendous attraction on the cloud side and we've seen in quite good shape in many cases and some of the acquisitions badly Oh, just further strengthening or did he then he of course and then he can expand faster. So cloud is definitely something that's working well.
See I really look at the next day or so yes.
So let me go over to you.
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Let me get my next and they could do that.
Yeah, but it can't be looking at how to become the feeling the need for school, but obviously that.
That I do not think that easy so that really finding the digital transformation you can't use by taking cost out from the quote to automation and then Adam.
So that's one aspect of fish that and secondly, independent like diabetes.
I'd be spending on the same page <unk> Wow, what all dominion's and <unk>.
More often than not it remains the same that sandeep on Sundays and people not able to fund some of the discretionary spend on digital pens by you, but but didnt, but I'm thinking I think its important. So you will always see I see what did you mention anything that you would not see that boards thinking because he had really talking about the same fight.
As long as you are well, let's say your empathy going on then if Paul could be part of an event in fact that it wouldn't be a thing come up on forward thinking you. All the time its now become part of the call shrinking it sounds like because you have to actually taking I guess the customer taking cost out then that the thing and bad and many of the large deal almost every large deal.
Well, that's an element of Martin they fishing up legacy so that means that part of the call to get smarter nice to know that it gets content in the digital only basis.
Well they they do look at it is that you have I mean, you have if I I do spend and it did I did spend plan actually mix between gold and I mean, that's something for it. But then also looked at adult it might cost so that they can fund some of the newer technologies and some of the discussion it's been that they need to stay calm thinking so but as long as we continue to grow and because.
I've had wanted to play both in South, Florida, but that's it.
If you didn't spend and I think that's everybody.
That's a very positive thing.
Now on the accretion obviously, yeah, not pretend that we have today one of the lowest we have seen do you still feel it's a good.
It's a combination of two things one obviously is the combination of the market, but it's also Oh, we have reacted to the baton to make Uh huh.
The focus that we have put in Tampa Fla imply your buddies fan and often get men that didn't blocks and get what your body.
I'm still focus there not be I'm, sorry, I couldn't make that employees have been under stress. So that it's not a focus on men on both physical and mental Netspend thought you have no more than 200 intervention.
A combination of vitamin E. blending families and the onset supported him a lot doing I'm, not making particularly in Kansas that employees have as positive and so on its a combination in place I'd love to hear too well how would the company has gone beyond depending desktop enabling them to a about some of them had found that dealing with the <unk> and in fact this.
But the reality is once the market opens up or they didnt do some amount of attrition going up by because they do they have bought smart Alan.
So I wasn't seems to want to put enough time I could probably go back to maybe I mean, mostly negative type you're talking about but the other thing about comfort zone or D. S.
Thanks, a lot Pat again and best of luck.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's from the line of Brian Butler from Cowen <unk> Company. Please go ahead.
Hi, Thank you I wanted to ask first on margin sustainability. So I understand you have some benefits that dissipate in the second half, but really based on how you're delivering projects today and how clients have become more accepting of virtual delivery. How should we think about the sustainability of some of the cost factors here.
We're as operations normalize there any any ability to give us a sense on how much of the mix of the margin expansion you've shown is lasting versus short term.
Yeah.
Jim you would of course, yeah I'll go with that yes, so like I mentioned in my Uh Huh.
Speech that you know we have seem to benefit both hot tea leaves, which we kick started at the beginning of the Oh first was we got that forever, which we've talked about in terms of the motion the wage hikes or the recruitment fees, which we had implemented at the beginning of the quarter or fourth quarter.
And clearly we see that coming back and we couldn't start impacting the margins that has helped us in the first half, but without impacting the margins are we've talked about that from first off a January vigilant rollout wage hike across all levels. Weve also mentioned that the promotions, which had been limited loudly to the junior level employees and I'll be across so we will see a headwind from that.
And there's also we had got discretionary spend to go like travel and you can see that did not a result of cost travel that's come down dramatically some of the more discretionary expenditure expenditure like brand building exits also work cut back.
We will see some of that going up as well so that does the strategic cost me a little bit for US is the most important and this is the ongoing program, which we have around.
Around the offshore on site or mix or you have seen some benefits of that temporarily I know someone had mentioned in your question. We even see some timing issues that does travelers are done, but strategically we have seen that coming down over a period of time and I intend to means to continue to see that onsite offshore mix changing sticking to the pyramid I think.
We've done a lot of work around the broad basing the pyramid offshore or I know looking at back towards the on site as well as the hub strategy really helps us and Im collocating affect show some community colleges X. I try and be on site up and I might as well automation that means that the hot we continue to get more and more productive in the fishing for applying some of that is popped back.
I like to look line to discounts and improved productivity and part of that is a margin improvement a you know strategically.
So the other different strategically, but the we exercise we've talked about that see you know pronged approach.
You will see some will just come back to us, but it's premature to say that you know how much of this is sustainable work from home is very very premature wise up now in terms of what does it do for facilities or travel, but we think that some of this when you come back and you know if you move to I did want to meet the needs to be seen how much of that benefits. We can keep and you know we will have to invest more in technology.
In communication and security. So they may have been up there may be some balancing there, though so it's premature to talk about that.
Just to clarify for that last bucket or that last prong around strategic levers how much was the benefit year over year in margin from some of those actions and the operational actions.
Oh I don't think we've given this number out before but I can tell you the year before that in the fiscal or Brent Ti. We gave you had kind of a target of $150 million savings and Viet overachieved against that number.
Okay, and then two quick housekeeping on housekeeping ones I may have missed here did you say how much the vanguard deal was within the 3.15 billion of signings.
And how much is the inorganic included in your updated 21 revenue growth outlook.
We haven't I'd be doing mention though the deal sizes Ah that's number one number two isn't doesn't go up our inorganic it's a very very small portion many of them have just kicked off in terms of the signing implementation so that impacted.
So that in fact is going to be very much going for the rest of the year.
Okay understood. Thanks.
Thank you.
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Go ahead.
Hi, Thanks for the opportunity and congratulations to the management team on a fantastic quarter. My question is also on the profitability Oh now I understand that so you know certain cost us what does have led to an increase in them I didn't find it this year, but then that they play and puts it at the margin.
Fine.
On nine a bouncing around quite a bit in the last three to four years.
No.
You know with all companies work because certain as to the if somebody didn't bank.
So I wondered whether you won or anything about Oh, you know the cut in the margin banding creep and initial back.
They want to do as a more question it was bank going forward.
So any thoughts on that.
Yeah, So I think.
So I think you know we've been very focused over the last two years in the margin guidance band on 21 to 23, because the Europe ride with that wouldn't be rolled out a new strategy before the board, making the investments in the hub in the field force are tight and clearly that had an impact on margin. So we've been very very conscious.
That we need to get the stability in margins and just why the 21% to 23% of margin guidance was given in the past two years and for US that is the most critical part is to continue to show stability rather than what exactly what you mentioned was a much more wallet I. Clearly this is an exceptional year in movies and one but so many moving parts in variable element.
Many of these like I said, we'll not be sustainable. They are one time as though in terms of deferrals. So things will come back to normal but for US you know we are confident that our strategically both will continue to help us making sure that we continue to stay in a steady and it's stabilized margin environment.
As would have called aspiration doors with improved margins.
But it until we can be take between three to 24 as you know something that you're getting wasn't didn't go ahead from.
Oh, you did you say that things are pretty cool, but saying that system. It is a modern bank Martin no no no I said.
No no I said there is no way that you can take that 20 to 24 as a sustainable number going forward.
I got that.
Okay. So the second is a surprise when they leave they RPP all that stuff, we had living in a the Sicily, I mean actually ends with fishing I'm not against that backdrop. The increase in our city is a remarkable achievement Oh, you know exactly like the operations there.
But do cost take out a cigarette and discussions are quite a lot on it yet.
I mean should back rent doesn't type of batteries come in into our BP.
Forward.
Yeah. So in the Oh go ahead.
Good good I guess the first one the second they've been thinking about this the first one quickie on RPP 200, Bips as a combination of multiple factors I think one is of course the days impact during the quarter, we have seen some improvement in productivity as well to our automation and so I think the other two large ones just slightly more.
Moderated a discount environment, but like I said, it's going to always are not tick. It up. So you can already see these ups and downs as well. So you got to see you know large you know Carlos within that 100 basis points.
So then you can take the other one.
Thanks, Yeah, Hi, Carolyn.
Well I'm talking the cost or discounts versus IBP. The client discussions I think I've been I've been watching the environment in Q2, especially has been quite stable disease of the discount is what I mean, there's not anything unusual or is being a small.
Number I like that too and so we seem quite comfortable at this stage and there's no doubt.
So those things coming in into the IP, but I mean I didnt.
And that just makes me and there were some specific reasons. We also are quite focused on that but we want to make sure overtime you find this it seems that they are doing it so we'll be watching to see how that goes over the next few quarters.
And plastic Oh I'm good thanks.
I'm good thank studies and all the best for the future.
Thanks.
Thank you.
It's from the line of what happened actually sounds like yeah.
Go ahead.
Thanks for taking my question then comes that partner.
Of course every quarter and I think most of my questions have been difficult. So let me focus on a about the topic here.
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I think they did not have pointed out that this quarter, we have seen Sandinista headcount addition.
How do you see this in the next interestingly I started my question and secondly, I I. Appreciate that you said that you know that our sensor to kick off playing voice and data. Some that you cannot predict given before anything actually saying Ah.
I hardly called the $15 million divestiture was looking at play a strategic cost initiatives, how is that trended so far or what is that topic could you quantify that.
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And about 2010 deadline and Oh, what do you think they should be pretty called <unk> that much lower in quarter, one and now it has improved significantly, but they and number of hiding lost somebody looks like this quarter.
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And next year and are planning to add.
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Sorry, I got cut me off if the cost optimization, but Ah. So are we behind them 50 million because he did that I think we are well on the way of you know doing similar numbers this year well above a 150, but like I said a lot of this then gets compensated by price and a in a week I think that's right. So it's not that all this money flows into.
The bank.
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I don't know and setting up back to the digital growth numbers I can't seem to have seen a fairly steady a 25% kind of number but that's just side given that [laughter]. He said that he will be there looking at possible acceleration in digital spend overall, how would you see the school.
For this number accelerate anything in the next you know try to 24 months.
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Circuits change, especially in services type of competitors.
Sounds good news and secondly, the underlying that.
Underlying secular trends.
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On data on experience, which I in good traction. So he can open the longest you're trying to drive that are faster than.
But there will be the old travel locks I. So you have to find a way to keep it to keep it as its gotten list.
25 nights a week in my last question you did talk about how legacy it's likely to kind of be taking out the Cohen <unk> mother knife, and therefore about trend up like it is long enough that it seems to have come to know, but yeah. We have seen in the last two quarters tapes of core decline accelerate it.
Josh do you expect that to kind of stabilize and go back to where it was critical that Ah aspects and let's start to stabilize.
Oh, okay.
Go ahead sorry.
Okay, I guess it gets harder just to let you cannot Oh my one.
I wasn't there that I think god, given the nature of the pandemic and hope plants are reacting to it.
We see lots more on Spa I am done technology, and Matt can talk pretty Elyse not fundamentally supplement then pick I don't pay the technology, there that and I guess he has to be more then there has to be a day I've been I think very tough to get the benefit and even today of any new agents in their own organization. So at least I do expect to be at peace.
So based off by Martin is picking up nicely to continue or do much more aggressively than lucky I've seen in the past.
Okay.
Thanks, that's very helpful and wish him all the best for the rest of the <unk>.
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Thank you and congratulations indeed, an exceptional comments on it I'll do the first question.
Just the first question are selling very strong performance both on the abusing deal wins, if you could use it back just a bit more how much of this is a reflection of the overall demand environment. What is your ability to gain share in the newspaper and what's helping us do that.
Okay sounds good ER.
The the V.C. it is.
We've had year on year.
Skews it had year over year declines you definitely see market share gains.
Exactly.
Boston, which I think is some of the strategic choices, we made and investments you've made over the past several years for example, scaling out did you do the team. They so Chris we all look.
Looking at large deals.
Looking at what they're doing better I mean, it was describing earlier on localization.
An extreme focus on re skinning that we've put into place and our own internal digital infrastructure, which has helped US via completion does it differ from the inside and also my best to scale.
Oh the works it was very rapidly induce a cool landscape, which is giving piece trusted with headlines a part of it is that bothers me a I think it's been a bit the demand environment et cetera.
In a good shape, specifically solve these sorts of activities Oh, there where the that's it's just oh.
Of course, there's a lot lot of it is I cannot because as you know when is the steady execution continues sort of attraction to that so I think those are the combination of things, which are assist any extra time, hopefully we keep that the actual execution and it just seems like.
Just as a follow up to that you know I think just loved before but maybe you can impact us a bit more your implied guidance for the second half is a guesstimate psyche has altered the strength you've seen so far in the first topic on momentum the beans bond is this do do some flying all show shift or conservatism on the outfield based on something it seems that in building.
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Muted because we don't see any.
There are no specific constraints from Richard Baldry generally modeling.
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Boston or a view of the business plus the cotton or.
Deems that lives and the pipeline that you're seeing and Weve seen good traction there.
All of them and as we described a and it's a big James Zootopia boot to booty, we moved the Baltic by two points. So it's quite quite a big change in terms of revenue growth guidance.
And then just lastly, you don't buy and then it gets skewed to give you a significant margin tailwind is it a sign to think about this strategically when you think about this too and Denmark spacing situations that you otherwise wouldn't participate lutonix find that are definitely market gets the seems interesting.
Oh no.
You know sort of doing specifically, which I guess is the mockingjay figure I think that just generally I would say would be yes.
There are markets, which we would love to be in.
However, what we see today is b.
The ones, we have defined haven't got a nice traction in that I mean, you can be certain aspects incident. It was light rail and given our thinking.
Ill fitting all do we can do good business in them at a margin structure for the future, but yes, I think just genetic if you wouldn't look at are the long distance.
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Question on the line as well.
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Hi, Thanks for the opportunity.
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The vendor consolidation, so it's something that.
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Well the the on vendor consolidation there is discussion it's enough pipeline, we've seen a few small things moving.
My sense is that those things will play out over multiple quarters. Because this is a business, which hasn't had instead of stickiness, but but there is a big change in perception is this a quicktime.
Folks a wall delivery quality and with that.
Stability as company at all.
So my sense is that Neil goes did it play out overtime, but we have seen some oh he benefit.
But do you do that.
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Ah So have you factored in any potential second for me all right.
Let me coming into the market.
Okay on your thinking there.
Which would be one of the local walking the streets.
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Considering the scenario niches they somehow we've seen that trajectory move.
In the global economy, Q1 and Q2.
If we see something dramatic in terms of second degree in terms of.
In terms of coal based that is not something that we have.
So do you can draw Magee.
No one anticipated of course, it's a possibility.
The ones like was what scenarios could be but we generally modeled into how we have seen a this Q1 and Q2 or is all of that.
That's that's how we look for the next couple of quarters. So this financially.
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I was wondering why they shouldn't be exposed vanguard.
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That's because 70 is the data they decide that it's supposed to be.
You do not know that wouldn't be the way to look at it as we look ahead.
Understood.
And with your business.
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On them.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you everyone for.
Joining this discussion is really exciting to me this quarter is played out or I.
Our commitment of our employees as needed and tried to do and that's been the most critical element in serving our clients and you can see from what actually is really make sure. We are against that absolutely fully I really like is that the growth we've seen over the whole.
I mean did you did address the margin to the side of our business and that's really given us the confidence increase both the revenue and the margin guidance I. Thank you all for joining in the call.
Okay Stacy.
Thank you very much members of the management.
Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of things like that that concludes this conference call and thank you for joining US you may now disconnect flown.