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Q1 2026 Amdocs Ltd Earnings Call
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Speaker #2: Yep. Thank you, Operator. Before we begin, I need to call your attention to our disclaimer statement on slide two of the presentation. It notes that some of our comments today may be forward-looking statements, and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including as described in Amdocs's SEC filings, and that we will discuss certain financial information that is not prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Matt Smith: Yep. Thank you, operator. Before we begin, I need to call your attention to our disclaimer statement on slide 2 of the presentation. It notes that some of our comments today may be forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including as described in Amdocs' SEC filings, and that we will discuss certain financial information that is not prepared in accordance with GAAP. For more information regarding our use of non-GAAP financial measures, including reconciliations of these measures, we refer you to today's earnings release, which will also be furnished with the SEC on Form 6-K. Participating on the call with me today are Shuky Sheffer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amdocs Management Limited, and Tamar Rapaport-Dagim, Chief Financial and Operating Officer. To support today's earnings call, we are providing a presentation which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website.
Matthew Smith: Yep. Thank you, operator. Before we begin, I need to call your attention to our disclaimer statement on slide 2 of the presentation. It notes that some of our comments today may be forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including as described in Amdocs' SEC filings, and that we will discuss certain financial information that is not prepared in accordance with GAAP. For more information regarding our use of non-GAAP financial measures, including reconciliations of these measures, we refer you to today's earnings release, which will also be furnished with the SEC on Form 6-K. Participating on the call with me today are Shuky Sheffer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amdocs Management Limited, and Tamar Rapaport-Dagim, Chief Financial and Operating Officer. To support today's earnings call, we are providing a presentation which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website.
Speaker #2: For more information regarding our use of non-GAAP financial measures, including records affiliations of these measures, we refer you to today's earnings release, which will also be 6K.
Speaker #2: Participating on the furnished with the SEC on form call with me today are Shuki Sheffer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amdocs Management Limited, and Tamara Rapaport-Duguin, Chief Financial and Operating Officer.
Speaker #2: To support today's earnings call, we are providing a presentation which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website, remarks will also be posted immediately following the conclusion of this call.
Matt Smith: As always, a copy of today's prepared remarks will also be posted immediately following the conclusion of this call. On today's agenda, Shuki will recap our business and financial achievements for the first fiscal quarter 2026, including our strategic progress in generative AI and data services. Shuki will finish by addressing our financial and business outlook, after which Tamar will provide additional details on our first quarter financial performance and guidance for the full fiscal year '26. With that, I'll turn it over to Shuki.
Matthew Smith: As always, a copy of today's prepared remarks will also be posted immediately following the conclusion of this call. On today's agenda, Shuki will recap our business and financial achievements for the first fiscal quarter 2026, including our strategic progress in generative AI and data services. Shuki will finish by addressing our financial and business outlook, after which Tamar will provide additional details on our first quarter financial performance and guidance for the full fiscal year '26. With that, I'll turn it over to Shuki.
Speaker #2: Today's agenda: Shuki will recap our business and quarter, Q1 2026, including financial achievements for the first fiscal. He will also discuss our strategic progress in generative AI and data services.
Speaker #2: Shuki will finish by addressing our financial and business outlook, after which Tamara will provide additional details on our first quarter financial performance and guidance for the full fiscal year '26.
Speaker #2: And with that, I'll turn it over to Shuki.
Speaker #2: And with that, I'll turn it over to Shuki.
Shuky Sheffer: Thank you, Matt, and everyone joining us on the call today. Beginning on slide 6, I am pleased to report a solid start to fiscal 2026 as we continue to focus on our primary goal of accelerating Amdocs' long-term growth and position ourselves as a market leader for the GenAI era. Q1 financial results were consistent with our expectation. Revenue of $1.16 billion was slightly above the midpoint of guidance, rising 4.1% from a year ago and 3.5% in constant currency. Profitability improved by 40 basis points from a year ago and was unchanged on a sequential basis, reflecting our commitment to balance internal efficiency gains with accelerated investments to support long-term growth. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $1.81 above the guidance range, primarily due to a lower-than-expected tax rate for the quarter.
Shuky Sheffer: Thank you, Matt, and everyone joining us on the call today. Beginning on slide 6, I am pleased to report a solid start to fiscal 2026 as we continue to focus on our primary goal of accelerating Amdocs' long-term growth and position ourselves as a market leader for the GenAI era. Q1 financial results were consistent with our expectation. Revenue of $1.16 billion was slightly above the midpoint of guidance, rising 4.1% from a year ago and 3.5% in constant currency. Profitability improved by 40 basis points from a year ago and was unchanged on a sequential basis, reflecting our commitment to balance internal efficiency gains with accelerated investments to support long-term growth. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $1.81 above the guidance range, primarily due to a lower-than-expected tax rate for the quarter.
Speaker #3: today. Beginning on slide six, I am pleased to report a solid start to fiscal 2026 as we continue to focus on our Thank you, Matt.
Speaker #3: The primary goal of accelerating Amdocs' long-term growth and position, over sales, as a market leader for the Gen AI era. First quarter financial results will be consistent with our expectation.
Speaker #3: Revenue of 1.16 billion was slightly above the midpoint of guidance, rising And 4.1% from a year ago, and 3.5% in constant currency. Profitability improved by 40 basis points from a year ago, and was unchanged on sequential basis.
Speaker #3: commitment to balance internal Reflecting our efficiency gains with accelerated investments to support long-term growth. Non-GAAP diluted earning per share was $1.81 above the a lower-than-expected tax rate for the quarter.
Speaker #3: Commitment to balance internal, reflecting our efficiency gains with accelerated investments to support long-term growth. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $1.81, above the guidance range, primarily due to a lower-than-expected tax rate. And we finished Q1 with 12 months backlog of $4.25 billion, up $160 million sequentially, and 2.7% from a year ago.
Shuky Sheffer: finished Q1 with software and services' backlog of $4.25 billion, up $60 million sequentially and 2.7% from a year ago. Turning to slide seven, I'd like to thank our people around the world for their part in delivering best-in-class mission-critical operations support over the holiday period and for achieving a high number of milestone deliveries under the many outcome-based projects and managed services engagements we are supporting for our customers. Q1 included several important developments that strengthen our underlying base business, accelerate our global growth potential, and advance our generative AI strategy. First, I am proud to announce that we signed a new multi-year agreement with T-Mobile that includes managed services, software development, and AI innovation. Under the new agreement, T-Mobile and Amdocs will collaborate to support T-Mobile's growth strategy and business objectives.
Shuky Sheffer: finished Q1 with software and services' backlog of $4.25 billion, up $60 million sequentially and 2.7% from a year ago. Turning to slide seven, I'd like to thank our people around the world for their part in delivering best-in-class mission-critical operations support over the holiday period and for achieving a high number of milestone deliveries under the many outcome-based projects and managed services engagements we are supporting for our customers. Q1 included several important developments that strengthen our underlying base business, accelerate our global growth potential, and advance our generative AI strategy. First, I am proud to announce that we signed a new multi-year agreement with T-Mobile that includes managed services, software development, and AI innovation. Under the new agreement, T-Mobile and Amdocs will collaborate to support T-Mobile's growth strategy and business objectives.
Speaker #3: Tuning to slide seven, I'd like to thank our people around the world for their part in delivering best-in-class, mission-critical operations support over the holiday period.
Speaker #3: And for achieving a high number of milestones deliveries under the many outcome-based projects and managed service engagements we are supporting for our customers. Q1 included several important developments with traction on underlying basis business, accelerate our global growth potential, and advance our generative AI strategy.
Speaker #3: First, I am proud to announce that we signed a new multi-year agreement with T-Mobile. That includes managed services, software development, and AI innovation. Under the new agreement, T-Mobile and Amdocs will collaborate to support T-Mobile growth strategy and business objectives.
Speaker #3: Amdocs will continue to support T-Mobile's implementation of Gen AI technology consumer and business domain, including where applicable. As part of this agreement, Amdocs will also support integration activities related to common systems.
Shuky Sheffer: Amdocs will continue to support T-Mobile's consumer and business domain, including implementation of GenAI technology where applicable. As part of this agreement, Amdocs will also support integration activities related to common systems. Additionally, we are supporting T-Mobile in the integration of US Cellular. As a reminder, integration activities by nature are non-recurring and are ramping down by design once the integration is completed. Overall, this important agreement extends our long-standing strategic collaboration with T-Mobile. Having said that, as mentioned last quarter, we expect a revenue decline with this customer in fiscal 2026 due to a lower level of spending. Second, we expanded Amdocs' global customer footprint and progressed our international diversification strategy this quarter through a combination of organic and inorganic moves. We signed an expanded multi-year engagement at Vodafone Germany, the largest of Vodafone operating companies, and won significant transformation awards with two new logos in Western Europe.
Shuky Sheffer: Amdocs will continue to support T-Mobile's consumer and business domain, including implementation of GenAI technology where applicable. As part of this agreement, Amdocs will also support integration activities related to common systems. Additionally, we are supporting T-Mobile in the integration of US Cellular. As a reminder, integration activities by nature are non-recurring and are ramping down by design once the integration is completed. Overall, this important agreement extends our long-standing strategic collaboration with T-Mobile. Having said that, as mentioned last quarter, we expect a revenue decline with this customer in fiscal 2026 due to a lower level of spending. Second, we expanded Amdocs' global customer footprint and progressed our international diversification strategy this quarter through a combination of organic and inorganic moves. We signed an expanded multi-year engagement at Vodafone Germany, the largest of Vodafone operating companies, and won significant transformation awards with two new logos in Western Europe.
Speaker #3: Additionally, we are supporting T-Mobile in the integration of your cellular. As a reminder, integration activities by nature are non-recurring, and are ramping down by design once the integration is completed.
Speaker #3: Overall, this important agreement extends our long-standing strategic collaboration with T-Mobile. Having said that, as mentioned last quarter, we expect a revenue decline with this customer in fiscal 2026 due to a lower level of spending.
Speaker #3: Second, we expanded progressed our international diversification strategy this quarter through combination of organic and inorganic Amdocs' global customer footprint and moves. We signed an expanded multi-year engagement at Vodafone Germany.
Speaker #3: The largest of Vodafone operating companies. And won significant transformation awards with two new logos in Western Europe. Additionally, I'm excited to report as we close the acquisition of Matrix Software for $197 million cash at the end of Q1.
Shuky Sheffer: Additionally, I'm excited to report that we closed the acquisition of MATRIXX Software for $197 million cash at the end of Q1. Based in California, MATRIXX is a strategic consolidation move which complements and extends our leading market position around the control and billing of monetization, and charging solutions. As such, we believe there is an amazing potential to bring our full suite of product and managed services in support of MATRIXX's impressive customer base. This customer includes major Tier 1 service providers such as Verizon, Telus, Telefónica, Swisscom, Three, Virgin Media O2, and Telstra, as well as a growing list of many smaller tiers of operators and MVNOs. Third, I'm encouraged by the highly positive recognition Amdocs is receiving as a market leader in data and generative AI from customer and industry analysts like Gartner.
Shuky Sheffer: Additionally, I'm excited to report that we closed the acquisition of MATRIXX Software for $197 million cash at the end of Q1. Based in California, MATRIXX is a strategic consolidation move which complements and extends our leading market position around the control and billing of monetization, and charging solutions. As such, we believe there is an amazing potential to bring our full suite of product and managed services in support of MATRIXX's impressive customer base. This customer includes major Tier 1 service providers such as Verizon, Telus, Telefónica, Swisscom, Three, Virgin Media O2, and Telstra, as well as a growing list of many smaller tiers of operators and MVNOs. Third, I'm encouraged by the highly positive recognition Amdocs is receiving as a market leader in data and generative AI from customer and industry analysts like Gartner.
Speaker #3: Based in California, Matrix is a strategic consolidation move which complements and extends our leading market position around the core of billing, monetization, and charging solutions.
Speaker #3: As such, we believe there is amazing potential to bring our full suite of products and managed services in support of Matrix's impressive customer base.
Speaker #3: This customer includes major Q1 service providers such as Verizon, Telus, Telefonica, Swisscom, Three, Virgin Media O2, and Telstra, as well as a growing list of many smaller tiers operators and MVNOs.
Speaker #3: Third, I encourage by the highly positive recognition Amdocs is receiving as a market leader in data and generative AI from customer and Gartner. In my opinion, such industry analysts like recognition directly reflects Amdocs' very deep domain expertise which is unmatched in the telco vertical.
Shuky Sheffer: In my opinion, such recognition directly reflects Amdocs' very deep domain expertise, which is unmatched in the telco vertical. During Q1, our commercial momentum continued with the digital GenAI-related wins at Telus and other customers. Our next generation AI platform development is also progressing to plan with today's announcement of aOS, an agentic operation system, purpose-built for telecommunications, which we plan to showcase at Mobile World Congress in early March. Now, turning to slide 8, I'd like to provide some additional color with respect to our growth strategy, which is designed to deliver the tech-led products and services our customer needs to maximize the value of generative AI data across our customer footprint, accelerate the journey to the cloud, digitalize customer experience, consumer, and B2B, monetize next-generation network investments, and streamline and automate complex network ecosystems.
Shuky Sheffer: In my opinion, such recognition directly reflects Amdocs' very deep domain expertise, which is unmatched in the telco vertical. During Q1, our commercial momentum continued with the digital GenAI-related wins at Telus and other customers. Our next generation AI platform development is also progressing to plan with today's announcement of aOS, an agentic operation system, purpose-built for telecommunications, which we plan to showcase at Mobile World Congress in early March. Now, turning to slide 8, I'd like to provide some additional color with respect to our growth strategy, which is designed to deliver the tech-led products and services our customer needs to maximize the value of generative AI data across our customer footprint, accelerate the journey to the cloud, digitalize customer experience, consumer, and B2B, monetize next-generation network investments, and streamline and automate complex network ecosystems.
Speaker #3: During Q1, our commercial momentum continued with a digital Gen AI-related win at Telus and other customers. Our next generation AI platform development is also progressing to plan.
Speaker #3: With today's announcement of AOS and our GenThink operating system, purpose-built for telecommunication, which we plan to showcase at Mobile World Congress in early March.
Speaker #3: Now, turning to slide eight. I'd like to provide some additional color with respect to our growth strategy which is designed to deliver the tech-led product and services our customer needs to, maximize the value of generative AI data across our customer footprint, accelerate the journey to the cloud, digitalize customer experience and consumer and B2B, monetize next generation network investments, and streamline and automate complex network ecosystems.
Speaker #3: Starting with data and generative AI on slide nine. We are busy executing the recent Gen AI-related commercial awards as we won with
Shuky Sheffer: Starting with data and generative AI on slide 9, we are busy executing the recent GenAI-related commercial awards as we won with Optimum, Consumer Cellular, EE, Telefónica Germany, and other first-mover adopters of Amdocs Amaze, our generative AI platform that leverages NVIDIA's AI capabilities. These early awards provide proof point as to the important role of generative AI in telecom industry and transformation, as witnessed by the consistent pipeline expansion and growing commercial progress we are seeing. As an example, Telus, Amdocs, and NVIDIA recently teamed up to deliver advanced AI-powered quality engineering solutions on the Telus Sovereign AI factory, specifically designed to meet Canadian data residency and compliance mandates. This strategic integration will enable secure autonomous testing, automation, and validation for Canadian enterprises and government agencies, helping them to adopt generative AI securely and to roll out digital services faster.
Shuky Sheffer: Starting with data and generative AI on slide 9, we are busy executing the recent GenAI-related commercial awards as we won with Optimum, Consumer Cellular, EE, Telefónica Germany, and other first-mover adopters of Amdocs Amaze, our generative AI platform that leverages NVIDIA's AI capabilities. These early awards provide proof point as to the important role of generative AI in telecom industry and transformation, as witnessed by the consistent pipeline expansion and growing commercial progress we are seeing. As an example, Telus, Amdocs, and NVIDIA recently teamed up to deliver advanced AI-powered quality engineering solutions on the Telus Sovereign AI factory, specifically designed to meet Canadian data residency and compliance mandates. This strategic integration will enable secure autonomous testing, automation, and validation for Canadian enterprises and government agencies, helping them to adopt generative AI securely and to roll out digital services faster.
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Speaker #1: These point as proof to the importance in industry and generative AI role of, as telecom by the transformation. Pipeline consistent commercial witnessed progress.
Speaker #1: expansion We are and growing seeing . As an example , Tellus , Amdocs and Nvidia recently teamed up to deliver advanced AI powered quality engineering on the solution Tellus Sovereign AI factory designed to meet , specifically Canadian data residency and compliance mandates .
Speaker #1: This integration will enable secure, autonomous testing, automation, and enterprises, as well as Canadian validation for government agencies, helping them to adopt generative AI securely and to roll out digital services faster.
Shuky Sheffer: As to our long-term generative AI strategy, last quarter, we shared that we are accelerating our investment to fast-track the development of Cognitive Core, a next-generation AI platform built on the foundation of Amdocs Amaze, which integrates pre-built telco-specific agent libraries and actionable insights. I am pleased to say that our development roadmap is progressing as planned with today's exciting announcement of aOS, the world's first agentic operating system purpose-built for telecommunication, which we plan to showcase at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a few weeks from now. Designed to help service providers accelerate the generative AI strategies and innovate at scale, aOS operates on top of any BSS or OSS stack, embedding Cognitive Core and Intelligence directly into telecom operations to elevate customer and employee experiences, unlock new growth opportunities, and drive measurable operational efficiency by executing complex end-to-end workflows across BSS or OSS environments.
Shuky Sheffer: As to our long-term generative AI strategy, last quarter, we shared that we are accelerating our investment to fast-track the development of Cognitive Core, a next-generation AI platform built on the foundation of Amdocs Amaze, which integrates pre-built telco-specific agent libraries and actionable insights. I am pleased to say that our development roadmap is progressing as planned with today's exciting announcement of aOS, the world's first agentic operating system purpose-built for telecommunication, which we plan to showcase at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a few weeks from now. Designed to help service providers accelerate the generative AI strategies and innovate at scale, aOS operates on top of any BSS or OSS stack, embedding Cognitive Core and Intelligence directly into telecom operations to elevate customer and employee experiences, unlock new growth opportunities, and drive measurable operational efficiency by executing complex end-to-end workflows across BSS or OSS environments.
Speaker #1: As to our long term strategy , last quarter , we shared that we are accelerating our investment to fast track development of core next , a generation AI platform cognitive built on the foundation of CMS , Amdocs which integrates pre-built telco specific agent libraries and actionable insights I am .
Speaker #1: pleased to our development say that roadmap is as progressing planned with today . Exciting announcement of AOS , the first Agentic operating system purpose built world's for communication , which plan to we showcase at World Congress in Barcelona .
Speaker #1: Mobile, few a weeks from now. Designed to help service accelerate the providers' generative AI strategic and innovate at scale, AOS operates on top of any BSS/OSS stack, embedded cognitive core, and into directly intelligence telecom elevate operations to customer and employee experiences.
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Shuky Sheffer: Overall, we are excited by the announcement of aOS, which we believe can emerge as a long-term growth engine for Amdocs as telco realizes the potential to simplify and accelerate their AI transformation journey. Switching to cloud on slide 11, Amdocs remains uniquely positioned as the preferred partner to lead the telco industry's journey to the cloud, reflecting our proven ability to accelerate public, private, and hybrid cloud migrations. We are continuing to grow our cloud migration collaboration with AT&T, supporting them as they move another key infrastructure stack to the cloud. This represents an important next phase in AT&T's cloud modernization journey. By applying Amdocs' AI-driven migration capabilities and deep telecom domain expertise, we are helping AT&T modernize core infrastructure faster, reduce transformation risk, and improve operational efficiency while creating the foundation for future innovation.
Shuky Sheffer: Overall, we are excited by the announcement of aOS, which we believe can emerge as a long-term growth engine for Amdocs as telco realizes the potential to simplify and accelerate their AI transformation journey. Switching to cloud on slide 11, Amdocs remains uniquely positioned as the preferred partner to lead the telco industry's journey to the cloud, reflecting our proven ability to accelerate public, private, and hybrid cloud migrations. We are continuing to grow our cloud migration collaboration with AT&T, supporting them as they move another key infrastructure stack to the cloud. This represents an important next phase in AT&T's cloud modernization journey. By applying Amdocs' AI-driven migration capabilities and deep telecom domain expertise, we are helping AT&T modernize core infrastructure faster, reduce transformation risk, and improve operational efficiency while creating the foundation for future innovation.
Speaker #1: cloud and slide 11 , Amdocs remains uniquely positioned as the preferred partner lead the to industry's telco journey cloud our proven , reflecting public , ability to private and cloud hybrid migrations .
Speaker #1: continuing to We are cloud grow our migration collaboration with AT&T , supporting them as they move . Another key infrastructure stack . cloud This to the represents an important next phase in AT&T cloud modernization journey .
Speaker #1: By Amdocs AI applying driven capabilities migration and deep telecom domain expertise . We are helping AT&T modernize core infrastructure faster , reduce transformation risk , and improve operational efficiency while creating the future foundation for innovation .
Shuky Sheffer: As discussed last quarter, our SaaS-based platform, including Amdocs Connect X, Amdocs MarketONE, and Amdocs eSIM, are also contributing to growth with rising customer adoption. This quarter, Amdocs MarketONE was selected by VIDAA, formerly Vida, a leading smart TV platform powering over 50 million connected TVs globally. MarketONE will drive VIDAA's global OTT subscription and streaming bundles on home OS-equipped smart TVs, streamlining OTT partner onboarding, enabling innovation subscription bundling, and digital services expansion across the international footprint. Looking forward, cloud will remain primarily focused for Amdocs as we continue to support our global telco customer base, many of which are just getting started on their multi-year cloud journeys. Turning to slide 12, I'd like to spotlight some additional deals we win across Amdocs' other strategic domain this quarter.
Shuky Sheffer: As discussed last quarter, our SaaS-based platform, including Amdocs Connect X, Amdocs MarketONE, and Amdocs eSIM, are also contributing to growth with rising customer adoption. This quarter, Amdocs MarketONE was selected by VIDAA, formerly Vida, a leading smart TV platform powering over 50 million connected TVs globally. MarketONE will drive VIDAA's global OTT subscription and streaming bundles on home OS-equipped smart TVs, streamlining OTT partner onboarding, enabling innovation subscription bundling, and digital services expansion across the international footprint. Looking forward, cloud will remain primarily focused for Amdocs as we continue to support our global telco customer base, many of which are just getting started on their multi-year cloud journeys. Turning to slide 12, I'd like to spotlight some additional deals we win across Amdocs' other strategic domain this quarter.
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Speaker #1: Forward, cloud will remain focused primarily for Amdocs as we continue to support our global telco customer base. Many of which are just getting started on their multi-year cloud journeys.
Speaker #1: Turning to slide 12 , to I'd like spotlight additional some deals . across Wins Amdocs other strategic domain this quarter First , . I'm delighted to announce that Vodafone Germany has extended its multi-year digital transformation engagement with Amdocs , as part of which it will decommission multiple legacy technology stacks its IT simplify to infrastructure across its fragmented cable portfolio .
Shuky Sheffer: First, I'm delighted to announce that Vodafone Germany has extended its multi-year digital transformation engagement with Amdocs, as part of which it will decommission multiple legacy technology stacks to simplify its IT infrastructure across its fragmented cable portfolio. The program will complete with a gradual migration following proven agile delivery, running fully in public cloud, and utilizing GenAI tools to increase delivery efficiency. In Western Europe, we won significant digital transformation awards with two new logos that further expand our strategic relationship with the large global telco service providers. In Italy, Swisscom's subsidiary Fastweb will broaden its use of the Amdocs OMS platform as the unified orchestration layer to manage end-to-end order management across both wireline and wireless consumer domain in the new core, resulting from the post-merger integration with Vodafone Italy.
Shuky Sheffer: First, I'm delighted to announce that Vodafone Germany has extended its multi-year digital transformation engagement with Amdocs, as part of which it will decommission multiple legacy technology stacks to simplify its IT infrastructure across its fragmented cable portfolio. The program will complete with a gradual migration following proven agile delivery, running fully in public cloud, and utilizing GenAI tools to increase delivery efficiency. In Western Europe, we won significant digital transformation awards with two new logos that further expand our strategic relationship with the large global telco service providers. In Italy, Swisscom's subsidiary Fastweb will broaden its use of the Amdocs OMS platform as the unified orchestration layer to manage end-to-end order management across both wireline and wireless consumer domain in the new core, resulting from the post-merger integration with Vodafone Italy.
Speaker #1: The complete program will complete with a gradual migration, following proven agile, fully in running delivery public cloud and utilizing AI tools to increase delivery efficiency in Western Europe.
Speaker #1: We want significant digital transformation in the world, with two new logos that further expand our strategic relationship with global telco service providers in Italy, Swisscom, and Fastweb.
Speaker #1: will During broaden of the of the its use Amdocs platform OMS as the unified orchestration layer to manage end to end order management across both wireline and wireless consumer domain .
Speaker #1: new In core , the the resulting from post-merger with integration Vodafone Italy within the . BSS and OSS sphere , Swiss service provider sunrise has extended the collaboration with Amdocs to AI evolution support in CRM .
Shuky Sheffer: Within the BSS and OSS sphere, Swiss service provider Sunrise has extended their collaboration with Amdocs to support AI evolution in CRM, setting the foundation for further increasing its net promoter score and to offer customers the best service at any time. We also signed a new four-year agreement with Telefónica Germany to renew our ACTIX mobile network platform. ACTIX plays an important role in optimizing radio network performance, helping Telefónica Germany enhance coverage and network quality at scale. This renewal reflects the ongoing value we deliver in mission-critical network operation and further strengthens our long-term standing collaboration with the customer. Finally, we recently signed a proof of concept with leading operator in Japan, deploying Amdocs RevenueONE with billing capabilities to run real operation scenarios. This engagement reinforced the strengths of our revenue management portfolio in supporting complex, strategic customer environments and creates a path for potential expansion.
Shuky Sheffer: Within the BSS and OSS sphere, Swiss service provider Sunrise has extended their collaboration with Amdocs to support AI evolution in CRM, setting the foundation for further increasing its net promoter score and to offer customers the best service at any time. We also signed a new four-year agreement with Telefónica Germany to renew our ACTIX mobile network platform. ACTIX plays an important role in optimizing radio network performance, helping Telefónica Germany enhance coverage and network quality at scale. This renewal reflects the ongoing value we deliver in mission-critical network operation and further strengthens our long-term standing collaboration with the customer. Finally, we recently signed a proof of concept with leading operator in Japan, deploying Amdocs RevenueONE with billing capabilities to run real operation scenarios. This engagement reinforced the strengths of our revenue management portfolio in supporting complex, strategic customer environments and creates a path for potential expansion.
Speaker #1: foundation for Second , the further increase its Net Promoter Score and offer to service best customers the at any . We also signed a time new four year agreement Telefonica Germany renew our active to mobile network platform .
Speaker #1: Ethics plays an important with role in renewal optimizing , network performance , helping Telefonica Germany coverage and enhance quality at network This . scale reflects the ongoing value deliver in critical mission network we operation and further strengthens our long term collaboration with the standing .
Speaker #1: Recently signed a, finally, we proof of customer concept with operator in Japan leading revenue, one with billing Amdocs capabilities, deploying to run real operations.
Speaker #1: This engagement reinforces the strength of our revenue, the management portfolio supporting complex strategic environments. Customer creates a path for potential expansion. Now, to the current operating environment, believe.
Shuky Sheffer: Now, to the current operating environment. We believe many growth opportunities exist across our server-addressable market of roughly $60 billion by tapping new domains at our largest long-standing customers, capturing additional wallet share at existing customer and new logos, diversifying in new geographies such as Japan, Africa, and Middle East, and bringing innovation in emerging strategic domains such as generative AI, fiber rollout, cloud migration, and the rapidly evolving MVNO segment. With our deep telco domain expertise and unique tech-led customer-based business model, we are well positioned in the market and laser-focused to monetize the rich deal pipeline we see in front of us. That said, we are, of course, closely monitoring our customer demand and spending behavior within the prevailing global macroeconomic environment.
Shuky Sheffer: Now, to the current operating environment. We believe many growth opportunities exist across our server-addressable market of roughly $60 billion by tapping new domains at our largest long-standing customers, capturing additional wallet share at existing customer and new logos, diversifying in new geographies such as Japan, Africa, and Middle East, and bringing innovation in emerging strategic domains such as generative AI, fiber rollout, cloud migration, and the rapidly evolving MVNO segment. With our deep telco domain expertise and unique tech-led customer-based business model, we are well positioned in the market and laser-focused to monetize the rich deal pipeline we see in front of us. That said, we are, of course, closely monitoring our customer demand and spending behavior within the prevailing global macroeconomic environment.
Speaker #1: We see many growth opportunities exist across our several addressable markets of $60 billion. By new tapping domains at our largest standing customers, capturing long wallet additional.
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Speaker #1: said , we are of That course closely monitoring our customer demand and spending behavior within the prevailing global macroeconomic environment together on , bringing slide 14 with solid first quarter and our visibility for everything the remainder of the performance year , we are our guidance for reiterating our growth of between 1% and 5% in constant currency for fiscal 2026 .
Shuky Sheffer: Bringing everything together on slide 14, with our solid first-quarter performance and our visibility for the remainder of the year, we are reiterating our guidance for revenue growth of between 1% and 5% in constant currency for fiscal 2026. Similarly, we are on track for a non-GAAP diluted earnings per share growth of between 4% to 8% in fiscal 2026, the midpoint of which equates to an expected total shareholder return in the high single digits, including our dividend yield. On a personal note, after many years serving Amdocs in a range of leadership roles, including more than seven years as president and chief executive officer, I've decided to retire from my role as president and chief executive officer. It has been the greatest privilege of my professional life to lead this incredible organization and its elder people for the past seven years.
Shuky Sheffer: Bringing everything together on slide 14, with our solid first-quarter performance and our visibility for the remainder of the year, we are reiterating our guidance for revenue growth of between 1% and 5% in constant currency for fiscal 2026. Similarly, we are on track for a non-GAAP diluted earnings per share growth of between 4% to 8% in fiscal 2026, the midpoint of which equates to an expected total shareholder return in the high single digits, including our dividend yield. On a personal note, after many years serving Amdocs in a range of leadership roles, including more than seven years as president and chief executive officer, I've decided to retire from my role as president and chief executive officer. It has been the greatest privilege of my professional life to lead this incredible organization and its elder people for the past seven years.
Speaker #1: Similarly , we are on track for diluted earnings per growth of non-GAAP between 4% to 8% in fiscal 2026 . midpoint of The which an expected shareholder total return in the single high digits , equates to our dividend yield .
Speaker #1: personal On a note , after many years Amdocs in a range of serving leadership roles , including more than seven years as president and chief executive officer , I decided to have retire from my role as president and chief executive officer .
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Shuky Sheffer: I'm immensely proud of what we've accomplished together. We didn't just navigate and shift the cloud and the rise to GenAI. We transformed Amdocs into a truly catalyst for the digital age. I am pleased to announce that Shimi Hortick, a longtime colleague and trusted partner who is here with me today, will succeed me as the president and chief executive officer effective 31 March 2026, following a planned transition period. I take this step with a deep confidence in Amdocs' position, long-term strategy, and leadership team. Having worked closely with Shimi over many years, I have seen his ability to lead the company through periods of significant industry and technological change while maintaining a strong focus on customer and execution. This planned succession reflects the depths of strengths of Amdocs' management team and ensures continuity in our strategic direction.
Shuky Sheffer: I'm immensely proud of what we've accomplished together. We didn't just navigate and shift the cloud and the rise to GenAI. We transformed Amdocs into a truly catalyst for the digital age. I am pleased to announce that Shimi Hortick, a longtime colleague and trusted partner who is here with me today, will succeed me as the president and chief executive officer effective 31 March 2026, following a planned transition period. I take this step with a deep confidence in Amdocs' position, long-term strategy, and leadership team. Having worked closely with Shimi over many years, I have seen his ability to lead the company through periods of significant industry and technological change while maintaining a strong focus on customer and execution. This planned succession reflects the depths of strengths of Amdocs' management team and ensures continuity in our strategic direction.
Speaker #1: proud of what we've accomplished together . We just didn't navigate the cloud and the rise to GI . We transformed Amdocs into a truly and shift for the age .
Speaker #1: digital pleased to announce that Jimmy Hartig longtime and colleague trusted and partner today . was here President and Chief Executive effective Officer , with me 2026 .
Speaker #1: March 31st , a planned period transition . I take this step with a deep confidence in Amdocs position long strategy and leadership having worked term many Jimmy over with years , I have his ability to lead the through seen company significant industry and technological maintaining a strong focus change while customer and execution .
Speaker #1: This plan reflects the succession of signs of management team and ensure depth continuity in our strategic direction . I am confident that Jimmy Amdocs an experienced , , supported by capable executive team , will build on Amdocs long foundation and lead the company to new heights .
Shuky Sheffer: I'm confident that Shimi, supported by an experienced and highly capable executive team, will build on Amdocs' strong foundation and lead the company to new highs. I'm delighted to say that Shimi is here with me in the room today. So let me hand things over to him to say a few words before moving to Tamar. Thank you, Shuky, for the kind words and for our partnership over the years. I'm excited to lead Amdocs to the next chapter. During my career at Amdocs across different leadership roles, I have come to appreciate what makes Amdocs a leader: our people and culture, our customer trust, and our technology and innovation. As we look ahead, Amdocs is well positioned to combine emerging technologies with deep domain expertise to drive value to customers and shareholders.
Shuky Sheffer: I'm confident that Shimi, supported by an experienced and highly capable executive team, will build on Amdocs' strong foundation and lead the company to new highs. I'm delighted to say that Shimi is here with me in the room today. So let me hand things over to him to say a few words before moving to Tamar. Thank you, Shuky, for the kind words and for our partnership over the years. I'm excited to lead Amdocs to the next chapter. During my career at Amdocs across different leadership roles, I have come to appreciate what makes Amdocs a leader: our people and culture, our customer trust, and our technology and innovation. As we look ahead, Amdocs is well positioned to combine emerging technologies with deep domain expertise to drive value to customers and shareholders.
Speaker #1: delighted to say I'm that Jimmy is here with me in the room today . So let me things over to him to say a few words hand moving to Tamar .
Speaker #2: Thank you for the kind words and partnership over the years . I'm excited to for our lead Amdocs to the next . During my chapter at across different , I roles leadership to appreciate what makes Amdocs a leader Amdocs , .
Speaker #2: And our people culture, our customer trust, and our technology and innovation. As we look ahead, Amdocs is well positioned to combine emerging technologies with deep domain expertise to drive value to customers and shareholders.
Shuky Sheffer: I'm looking forward to building on everything we have accomplished and taking Amdocs to the next level. Thank you, Shimi. And with that, let me turn the call over to Tamar for her remarks. Thank you, Shuki. And hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. And Shimi, best of success. Thank you. To begin, I'm pleased with our solid financial performance for the first fiscal quarter as summarized on slide 17. Q1 revenue of approximately $1.156 billion was up 3.5% year-over-year in constant currency. Revenue was slightly above the midpoint of our guidance, even after unfavorable foreign currency movements of roughly $3 million compared to our guidance assumptions. On a reported basis, revenue was up 4.1% from a year ago. Revenue from acquisition of MATRIXX Software was immaterial in Q1 since the deal closed in the last week of the quarter.
Shuky Sheffer: I'm looking forward to building on everything we have accomplished and taking Amdocs to the next level. Thank you, Shimi. And with that, let me turn the call over to Tamar for her remarks.
Speaker #2: I'm looking forward to building on everything we have accomplished and taking to the next level .
Speaker #1: Thank you for that. Let me turn the call over to Tamar for her remarks.
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Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Thank you, Shuki. And hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. And Shimi, best of success.
Speaker #3: Thank you . Hello everyone . Thank you for joining us and success .
Speaker #3: Thank you. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and success. Amdocs, thank you, best of.
Shuky Sheffer: Thank you.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: To begin, I'm pleased with our solid financial performance for the first fiscal quarter as summarized on slide 17. Q1 revenue of approximately $1.156 billion was up 3.5% year-over-year in constant currency. Revenue was slightly above the midpoint of our guidance, even after unfavorable foreign currency movements of roughly $3 million compared to our guidance assumptions. On a reported basis, revenue was up 4.1% from a year ago. Revenue from acquisition of MATRIXX Software was immaterial in Q1 since the deal closed in the last week of the quarter.
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Speaker #3: To begin , I'm pleased with solid our performance for the first fiscal quarter . A summarized on slide 17 . Q1 revenue of approximately $1.156 billion was up 3.5% year over year in constant currency , revenue was slightly midpoint of our above the even after guidance , unfavorable foreign currency movements of roughly $3 million compared to our guidance , assumptions on a reported basis , revenue was up 4.1% from a year ago , revenue from acquisition of Matrix Software was Q1 , since the deal closed in the last week of the quarter on a regional basis , North America was up nearly 4% from a year ago and was higher on a sequential , sequential basis for the fourth consecutive quarter .
Shuky Sheffer: On a regional basis, North America was up nearly 4% from a year ago and was higher on a sequential basis for the fourth consecutive quarter. Europe was up by 17% year-over-year and increased by 1% sequentially, driven by organic growth initiatives and the December 2024 acquisition of Profinit, which made little contribution to the year-ago quarter. The rest of the world was down from a year ago but improved slightly as compared to the prior quarter. Consistent with our prior guidance, our strong sales momentum provides clear visibility to continued growth in the rest of the world this year. But we remind you that quarterly trends may fluctuate given the project orientation of our customer activities in this region.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: On a regional basis, North America was up nearly 4% from a year ago and was higher on a sequential basis for the fourth consecutive quarter. Europe was up by 17% year-over-year and increased by 1% sequentially, driven by organic growth initiatives and the December 2024 acquisition of Profinit, which made little contribution to the year-ago quarter. The rest of the world was down from a year ago but improved slightly as compared to the prior quarter. Consistent with our prior guidance, our strong sales momentum provides clear visibility to continued growth in the rest of the world this year. But we remind you that quarterly trends may fluctuate given the project orientation of our customer activities in this region.
Speaker #3: Europe was up by 17% year over year , and increased by 1% sequentially , driven by organic growth initiatives and the December 2020 acquisition of Profinet , which made little contribution to the year ago quarter .
Speaker #3: Rest of was down from a year ago , but the world improved slightly as compared the to choir . The prior quarter , consistent with our prior guidance , our strong sales momentum clear provides visibility to growth in the rest of the world .
Speaker #3: This year, let me remind you that quarterly trends may fluctuate, given the project orientation of our activities in this customer’s income.
Shuky Sheffer: Shifting down the income statement, non-GAAP operating margin of 21.6% improved by 40 basis points from a year ago and was stable on a sequential basis as we continue to balance the benefits of internal cost and efficiency initiatives with investments designed to accelerate our long-term growth, including the development of our next-generation AI platform. Interest and other expenses amounted to roughly $10 million in Q1. On the bottom line, non-GAAP diluted EPS of 1.81 was above the guidance range, primarily due to a lower than expected non-GAAP effective tax rate in the quarter. Similarly, diluted GAAP EPS of $1.45 exceeded the guidance range, which was also primarily due to a lower than expected GAAP effective tax rate in the quarter. Additionally, diluted GAAP EPS included a restructuring charge of roughly $0.09 per share, which was not included in our guidance for the quarter.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Shifting down the income statement, non-GAAP operating margin of 21.6% improved by 40 basis points from a year ago and was stable on a sequential basis as we continue to balance the benefits of internal cost and efficiency initiatives with investments designed to accelerate our long-term growth, including the development of our next-generation AI platform. Interest and other expenses amounted to roughly $10 million in Q1. On the bottom line, non-GAAP diluted EPS of 1.81 was above the guidance range, primarily due to a lower than expected non-GAAP effective tax rate in the quarter. Similarly, diluted GAAP EPS of $1.45 exceeded the guidance range, which was also primarily due to a lower than expected GAAP effective tax rate in the quarter. Additionally, diluted GAAP EPS included a restructuring charge of roughly $0.09 per share, which was not included in our guidance for the quarter.
Speaker #3: Region shifting down. Operating margin of 21.6% non-GAAP improved by 40 basis points from a year ago and was stable on a sequential basis.
Speaker #3: As we continue to balance the benefits of cost and internal efficiency initiatives with investments designed to accelerate our long-term growth, including the development of our next generation AI platform, interest and other expenses amounted to $10 million in Q1.
Speaker #3: On the bottom Q1 line , non-GAAP diluted EPs of 1.81 was above the guidance range , primarily due to a lower than expected non-GAAP effective tax rate in the quarter .
Speaker #3: diluted GAAP Similarly , EPs of $1.45 exceeded the guidance range , which was also primarily due to lower expected GAAP than effective rate in the quarter .
Speaker #3: Additionally , diluted GAAP EPs charge of restructuring $0.09 per roughly share , not guidance included in our for the which was . Turning to slide 18 , services media of $746 million was 2.3% from the prior year in the first fiscal quarter , as a up revenue , managed accounted for roughly 65% , consistent with the last several quarters .
Speaker #3: Additionally , diluted GAAP EPs charge of restructuring $0.09 per roughly share , not guidance included in our for the which was . Turning to slide 18 , services media of $746 million was 2.3% from the prior year in the first fiscal quarter , as a up revenue , managed accounted for roughly 65% , consistent with the last several quarters services During Q1 , we maintained a very high managed services renewal rates , signing expanded multi-year engagements , which together strengthen our business resiliency .
Shuky Sheffer: Turning to slide 18, managed services revenue of $746 million was up 2.3% from a prior year in the first fiscal quarter. As a share of total revenue, managed services accounted for roughly 65%, consistent with the last several quarters. During Q1, we maintained the very high managed services renewal rates, signing expanded multi-year engagements, which together strengthened our business resiliency. In addition to the new agreement with T-Mobile and the new agreement with Vodafone Germany, we signed an agreement with Telefónica Mobile Argentina covering product maintenance services, application managed services, and our software factory. Moving to the balance sheet and cash flow highlights on slide 19, DSO of 76 days decreased by five days from a year ago and was up by two days sequentially.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Turning to slide 18, managed services revenue of $746 million was up 2.3% from a prior year in the first fiscal quarter. As a share of total revenue, managed services accounted for roughly 65%, consistent with the last several quarters. During Q1, we maintained the very high managed services renewal rates, signing expanded multi-year engagements, which together strengthened our business resiliency. In addition to the new agreement with T-Mobile and the new agreement with Vodafone Germany, we signed an agreement with Telefónica Mobile Argentina covering product maintenance services, application managed services, and our software factory. Moving to the balance sheet and cash flow highlights on slide 19, DSO of 76 days decreased by five days from a year ago and was up by two days sequentially.
Speaker #3: addition In to the new agreement with T-Mobile and the new agreement with Vodafone Germany , we signed an with agreement Argentina mobile Argentina covering maintenance services application managed services and our software factory .
Speaker #3: Moving to the balance sheet and cash flow highlights on slide 19 . DSO of 76 days decreased by a year five days from ago and was two days up by sequentially and deferred of receivables , net revenue , was down by 32 million sequentially and by year ago in 66 million versus a Q1 .
Shuky Sheffer: Unbilled receivables net of deferred revenue was down by $32 million sequentially and by $66 million versus a year ago in Q1, aggregating the short-term and long-term balances. As a reminder, the net difference between unbilled receivables and deferred revenue fluctuates from quarter to quarter in line with normal business activities as well as our progress on multi-year engagements. Free cash flow before restructuring payments was $237 million in Q1, driven by a stronger earnings-to-cash conversion to begin the year. In fact, Q1 free cash flow already equates to roughly 33% of our full-year target, which is higher than usual after just one quarter. Including restructuring payments of $49 million, reported free cash flow was $188 million in the quarter.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Unbilled receivables net of deferred revenue was down by $32 million sequentially and by $66 million versus a year ago in Q1, aggregating the short-term and long-term balances. As a reminder, the net difference between unbilled receivables and deferred revenue fluctuates from quarter to quarter in line with normal business activities as well as our progress on multi-year engagements. Free cash flow before restructuring payments was $237 million in Q1, driven by a stronger earnings-to-cash conversion to begin the year. In fact, Q1 free cash flow already equates to roughly 33% of our full-year target, which is higher than usual after just one quarter. Including restructuring payments of $49 million, reported free cash flow was $188 million in the quarter.
Speaker #3: term and long term balances . As a net reminder , the difference Aggregating the between unbilled receivables and deferred revenue fluctuates from quarter line with quarter , in business to normal activities , as well as our progress on multi-year engagements .
Speaker #3: Flow before restructuring free cash payments was $237 million in Q1, driven by a strong earnings-to-cash conversion to year begin the.
Speaker #3: In Q1, free cash flow already equates to roughly 333% of our full-year target, which is higher than usual after just one quarter, including restructuring payments of $49 million.
Speaker #3: cash Reported free flow was $188 million in the quarter . We Q1 with a healthy ended balance of approximately aggregate $248 million . An borrowings of including 780 million , roughly a drawdown of on our 130 million 500 million revolving credit facility to fund the acquisition of Matrix Software and our 650 million senior notes , which mature in June 2030 .
Shuky Sheffer: We ended Q1 with a healthy cash balance of approximately $248 million and aggregate borrowings of roughly $780 million, including a drawdown of $130 million on our $500 million revolving credit facility to fund the acquisition of MATRIXX Software and our $650 million senior note, which matured in June 2030. Overall, we have ample liquidity to support our ongoing business needs while returning the capacity to fund our future strategic growth. Switching to capital allocation on slide 20, this quarter, we repurchased $146 million of our shares. We had up to $840 million of remaining repurchase authority as of December 31, 2025. We paid cash dividends of $57 million in the first fiscal quarter. Looking to fiscal 2026, we are on track to generate free cash flow of between $710 to $730 million, not including payments we expect to make under our current restructuring program.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: We ended Q1 with a healthy cash balance of approximately $248 million and aggregate borrowings of roughly $780 million, including a drawdown of $130 million on our $500 million revolving credit facility to fund the acquisition of MATRIXX Software and our $650 million senior note, which matured in June 2030. Overall, we have ample liquidity to support our ongoing business needs while returning the capacity to fund our future strategic growth. Switching to capital allocation on slide 20, this quarter, we repurchased $146 million of our shares. We had up to $840 million of remaining repurchase authority as of December 31, 2025. We paid cash dividends of $57 million in the first fiscal quarter. Looking to fiscal 2026, we are on track to generate free cash flow of between $710 to $730 million, not including payments we expect to make under our current restructuring program.
Speaker #3: Overall , we have ample liquidity to support our business needs while retaining the ongoing capacity to our fund future strategic growth . Switching to capital on slide allocation 20 .
Speaker #3: This quarter, we repurchased $146 million of our shares. We had up to $840 million of remaining repurchase authority as of December 31, 2025.
Speaker #3: We paid dividends of cash the first fiscal $57 million in quarter . Looking to fiscal are on track to 2026 , we generate free cash flow of between 710 to $730 million , not including payments .
Speaker #3: We expect to make progress under our restructuring program. Our free cash flow equates to a conversion rate of roughly 90% relative to expected non-GAAP net income, and translates to a healthy free cash flow yield of roughly 8%.
Shuky Sheffer: Our free cash flow outlook equates to a conversion rate of roughly 90% relative to expected non-GAAP net income and translates to a healthy free cash flow yield of roughly 8% relative to Amdocs' current market capitalization. Regarding our capital allocations for the coming year, we expect to return the majority of our free cash flow to shareholders. Moving to slide 21, 12-month backlog was $4.25 billion at the end of Q1, up $60 million sequentially, and 2.7% from a year ago. Now, turning to our revenue outlook on slide 22, we are continuing to closely monitor the prevailing level of macroeconomic, geopolitical, business, and operational uncertainty in the current business environment. The second quarter and full fiscal year 2026 financial guidance reflects what we consider to be the most likely outcome based on the information we have today, but we cannot predict all possible scenarios.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Our free cash flow outlook equates to a conversion rate of roughly 90% relative to expected non-GAAP net income and translates to a healthy free cash flow yield of roughly 8% relative to Amdocs' current market capitalization. Regarding our capital allocations for the coming year, we expect to return the majority of our free cash flow to shareholders. Moving to slide 21, 12-month backlog was $4.25 billion at the end of Q1, up $60 million sequentially, and 2.7% from a year ago. Now, turning to our revenue outlook on slide 22, we are continuing to closely monitor the prevailing level of macroeconomic, geopolitical, business, and operational uncertainty in the current business environment. The second quarter and full fiscal year 2026 financial guidance reflects what we consider to be the most likely outcome based on the information we have today, but we cannot predict all possible scenarios.
Speaker #3: Relative to Amdocs current market capitalization . Regarding our capital locations for the coming year , we expect the return the majority of our free cash flow to shareholders .
Speaker #3: Moving to slide 21 , backlog 12 month $4.25 billion at the end of was Q1 , up 60 million sequentially and 2.7% from a year ago .
Speaker #3: Now, turning to revenue and our outlook on slide 22. We are continuing to closely monitor the prevailing level of macroeconomic, geopolitical, business, and operational uncertainty in the current business environment.
Speaker #3: The full second quarter and fiscal year 2020 financial guidance reflects what we consider to be the most likely outcome based on the information we have today , cannot predict all possible scenarios for the fiscal year full 2026 , we expect revenue growth of between 1.5% and 5.5% .
Shuky Sheffer: For the full fiscal year 2026, we expect revenue growth of between 1.5% and 5.5% as reported, roughly half of which will be inorganic in nature. This includes the acquisition of MATRIXX Software, which was already incorporated in our assumptions when we provided our fiscal 2026 guidance last quarter. This expected range compares with 1.7% to 5.7% previously, with the change reflecting foreign currency movements, which are now assumed to provide a benefit of 0.5% for the full year as compared to 0.7% previously. For the full fiscal year 2026, we are reiterating our outlook for revenue growth of between 1% and 5% in constant currency. As for the second fiscal quarter, we expect revenue of between $1.15 billion to $1.19 billion.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: For the full fiscal year 2026, we expect revenue growth of between 1.5% and 5.5% as reported, roughly half of which will be inorganic in nature. This includes the acquisition of MATRIXX Software, which was already incorporated in our assumptions when we provided our fiscal 2026 guidance last quarter. This expected range compares with 1.7% to 5.7% previously, with the change reflecting foreign currency movements, which are now assumed to provide a benefit of 0.5% for the full year as compared to 0.7% previously. For the full fiscal year 2026, we are reiterating our outlook for revenue growth of between 1% and 5% in constant currency. As for the second fiscal quarter, we expect revenue of between $1.15 billion to $1.19 billion.
Speaker #3: Reported, roughly half as of now will be inorganic in nature. This includes the acquisition of Matrix Software, which was already incorporated in our assumptions when we provided our fiscal 2026 guidance last quarter.
Speaker #3: This range expected compares with 1.7 to 5.7% previously , change with the reflecting foreign currency which movements , are now to assumed provide a benefit of 0.5 percent for the full year as compared to 0.7% previously .
Speaker #3: For the full fiscal year 2026 , we are reiterating our outlook for revenue growth of between 1% and 5% in constant currency as to the second fiscal quarter , we expect revenue of between 1.15 billion to 1.19 billion , income moving down the we are on track to deliver operating non-GAAP margins within our target range of to 21.3% in 21.9% fiscal 2026 , the midpoint of which is roughly 20 basis points higher than the prior year of 21.4% .
Shuky Sheffer: Moving down the income statement, we are on track to deliver non-GAAP operating margins within our target range of 21.3% to 21.9% in fiscal 2026, the midpoint of which is roughly 20 basis points higher than the prior year of 21.4%. Our profitability outlook reflects an intentional decision to accelerate our R&D, sales, and marketing investments with respect to generative AI and our next-gen agentic operating system, while balancing this with ongoing cost and efficiency gains resulting from our continued focus on operational excellence, automation, and the internal deployment of generative AI-based tools across our business. As a reminder, our non-GAAP operating margin may fluctuate slightly on a quarter-to-quarter basis. Additionally, our margin outlook excludes additional restructuring charges we may take.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Moving down the income statement, we are on track to deliver non-GAAP operating margins within our target range of 21.3% to 21.9% in fiscal 2026, the midpoint of which is roughly 20 basis points higher than the prior year of 21.4%. Our profitability outlook reflects an intentional decision to accelerate our R&D, sales, and marketing investments with respect to generative AI and our next-gen agentic operating system, while balancing this with ongoing cost and efficiency gains resulting from our continued focus on operational excellence, automation, and the internal deployment of generative AI-based tools across our business. As a reminder, our non-GAAP operating margin may fluctuate slightly on a quarter-to-quarter basis. Additionally, our margin outlook excludes additional restructuring charges we may take.
Speaker #3: Outlook reflects our an intentional decision to accelerate sales, marketing, R&D investments with respect to generative and AI, and our gen operating next system.
Speaker #3: while balancing this with ongoing cost and efficiency gains resulting from our continued focus on operational excellence, automation, and the internal deployment of generative AI-based tools across our business.
Speaker #3: As a reminder , our non-GAAP margin operating may fluctuate slightly on a quarter to basis quarter our . Additionally , margin outlook additional restructuring charges .
Shuky Sheffer: Below the operating line, we expect non-GAAP net interest and other expenses to be impacted by higher finance costs this year, resulting from a reduced cash balance and funding of our strategic long-term growth plans. As anticipated in the beginning of the year, we expect our non-GAAP effective tax rate to be within an annual target range of 16% to 19% for the full fiscal year 2026. For your modeling purposes, in Q2 specifically, we expect our non-GAAP effective tax rate to be above the high end of this annual range. Bringing everything together on slide 24, we are reiterating our outlook for non-GAAP diluted earnings-per-share growth of 4% to 8% in fiscal 2026, the midpoint of which positions us to deliver a high single-digit expected total shareholders return when including our dividend yield of around 2.7%. With that, back to you, Shuky. Thank you, Tamar.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Below the operating line, we expect non-GAAP net interest and other expenses to be impacted by higher finance costs this year, resulting from a reduced cash balance and funding of our strategic long-term growth plans. As anticipated in the beginning of the year, we expect our non-GAAP effective tax rate to be within an annual target range of 16% to 19% for the full fiscal year 2026. For your modeling purposes, in Q2 specifically, we expect our non-GAAP effective tax rate to be above the high end of this annual range. Bringing everything together on slide 24, we are reiterating our outlook for non-GAAP diluted earnings-per-share growth of 4% to 8% in fiscal 2026, the midpoint of which positions us to deliver a high single-digit expected total shareholders return when including our dividend yield of around 2.7%. With that, back to you, Shuky.
Speaker #3: may take We excludes below the operating line . We expect interest and other expenses to be non-GAAP net impacted higher by finance costs this year from a , resulting reduced cash balance and strategic long term growth plans .
Speaker #3: As funding of our in the beginning of year , expect we our non-GAAP effective tax the be within an annual target range of 16% to 19% for the full fiscal year 2026 .
Speaker #3: For modeling your purposes in Q2 , expect our specifically , we effective tax rate to be high end above the of this annual range , bringing everything together on slide 24 , we are reiterating our outlook for non-GAAP diluted earnings per share growth of 4% to 8% in fiscal 2026 .
Speaker #3: The midpoint of which positions us to deliver high single digit expected total shareholder return when including our dividend yield of around 2.7% . With that back to you , Chuck .
Shuky Sheffer: Thank you, Tamar.
Shuky Sheffer: I am pleased with our solid start for the fiscal year and the important progress we've made in respect to our long-term strategic partnerships, the expansion of our customer base globally, and today's announcement for our new agentic operation system, aOS, which we believe can provide an additional engine of the long-term growth. With that, we are happy to take your question. Certainly. And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, if you do have a question at this time, please press star 11 on your telephone. We ask that you please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Our first question for today comes from the line of Shlomo Rosenbaum from Stifel. Your question, please. Hi. Thank you very much for taking my questions. Shuky, Tamar, just the T-Mobile announcement, obviously, a significant positive. Everyone's kind of waiting for this renewal.
Shuky Sheffer: I am pleased with our solid start for the fiscal year and the important progress we've made in respect to our long-term strategic partnerships, the expansion of our customer base globally, and today's announcement for our new agentic operation system, aOS, which we believe can provide an additional engine of the long-term growth. With that, we are happy to take your question.
Speaker #1: Thank you . Tamara , I am pleased with our solid start for the fiscal year and the important we've made progress long in respect to our strategic partnerships .
Speaker #1: The expansion of our customer base globally and today's announcement for the new Agentic Operation System, AOS, which we believe can provide an additional engine of long-term growth.
Operator: Certainly. And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, if you do have a question at this time, please press star 11 on your telephone. We ask that you please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Our first question for today comes from the line of Shlomo Rosenbaum from Stifel. Your question, please.
Speaker #1: With that , we are happy to take your questions .
Speaker #4: Certainly . And reminder , ladies as a and have a question at gentlemen , if you do this time , please press star one one on your telephone .
Speaker #4: We ask that you please limit yourself to one question and one follow up . Our first question for today the line of comes from Shlomo Rosenbaum from Stifel .
Shlomo Rosenbaum: Hi. Thank you very much for taking my questions. Shuky, Tamar, just the T-Mobile announcement, obviously, a significant positive. Everyone's kind of waiting for this renewal.
Speaker #4: Your question please .
Speaker #5: Hi . Thank you very much my for taking questions . Shuki . Tamar , just the T-Mobile announcement , obviously , a significant positive .
Speaker #5: Everyone's kind of waiting for this renewal . I was wondering if you could give us just a little bit more color on that , because it's just discussed as a multi-year Doesn't agreement .
Shuky Sheffer: I was wondering if you could give us just a little bit more color on that because it's just discussed as a multi-year agreement. It doesn't say how long it is. How could we compare this to the prior agreement? I know you talked about revenue being down in 2026. Is there a continued trajectory that way, or should we assume there's a new baseline? And just is the scope the same of what you were doing? I know T-Mobile in Q3 announced a very sizable charge against its billing system, including what it seemed like stuff that was still in development. And maybe you could just kind of put just a finer point on what's going on over there since it is a very significant client. And then I have one follow-up. Thank you. Sure. Hi, Shlomo. So let me try and give some more color.
Shlomo Rosenbaum: I was wondering if you could give us just a little bit more color on that because it's just discussed as a multi-year agreement. It doesn't say how long it is. How could we compare this to the prior agreement? I know you talked about revenue being down in 2026. Is there a continued trajectory that way, or should we assume there's a new baseline? And just is the scope the same of what you were doing? I know T-Mobile in Q3 announced a very sizable charge against its billing system, including what it seemed like stuff that was still in development. And maybe you could just kind of put just a finer point on what's going on over there since it is a very significant client. And then I have one follow-up. Thank you.
Speaker #5: say , you how long it is . how could You know , we compare this to the prior agreement ? I know you talked about revenue being down Is there in 26 .
Speaker #5: Continued trajectory that way, or I assume there's a—should we set a new baseline and just, you know, is the scope the same as what you were doing?
Speaker #5: You know , there's T-Mobile in the third quarter , announced a very sizable charge against it . You know , its billing system , including what it seemed like , you know , stuff that was still in development .
Speaker #5: And maybe you could just kind of put a, you know, just a finer point on what's going on over there, since it's a significant client.
Speaker #5: That is very helpful. And then I have one follow-up. Thank you.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Sure. Hi, Shlomo. So let me try and give some more color.
Speaker #3: Sure . Hi , Shlomo . So let me try and give some more color . We're talking about a five year agreement . This is quite typical for a long term managed services engagement and additional long term with the top customers engagement .
Shuky Sheffer: We're talking about the five-year agreement. This is quite typical for long-term managed services engagements and additional long-term engagement with the top customers. We are covering in this agreement, as we indicated, managed services. We are covering development services, some AI-related activities, integration of common systems. So there's plenty of, I would say, breadth to the engagement that is covered there. We are also, as indicated beyond this agreement, that we are going to support in the integration of US Cellular, which is, of course, a strategic move that T-Mobile announced already in the past. We feel that the relationship, of course, needs to take us to continue to support T-Mobile both. I would say feel is not the right word. We know it's going to support T-Mobile both on the consumer side of the business as well as the support of the business segment of T-Mobile.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: We're talking about the five-year agreement. This is quite typical for long-term managed services engagements and additional long-term engagement with the top customers. We are covering in this agreement, as we indicated, managed services. We are covering development services, some AI-related activities, integration of common systems. So there's plenty of, I would say, breadth to the engagement that is covered there. We are also, as indicated beyond this agreement, that we are going to support in the integration of US Cellular, which is, of course, a strategic move that T-Mobile announced already in the past. We feel that the relationship, of course, needs to take us to continue to support T-Mobile both. I would say feel is not the right word. We know it's going to support T-Mobile both on the consumer side of the business as well as the support of the business segment of T-Mobile.
Speaker #3: covering We are in this agreement as we , managed services . We are covering development services . Some AI related activities , integration of So systems .
Speaker #3: plenty of I would say breadth the to That is covered . There engagement . . We are also indicated beyond this agreement that we are going to support in the integration of US cellular , which is of course , a strategic move that T-Mobile announced already in the past .
Speaker #3: We feel that the relationship , of course , needs to take us to continue to support T-Mobile . Both , they feel , is not the right it's word .
Speaker #3: going to We know support T-Mobile both on the consumer side of the business as well as the support of the business segment of T-Mobile .
Shuky Sheffer: We continue to see specifically, we're guiding now for 2026. So we're talking about the fact we want to be very transparent about the fact we still expect revenue to decline in 2026 as their spending appetite is lower. Not just with us. I think if you look into the commentary of T-Mobile, they are much more cost-cautious. And the other point I will say is that specifically, again, it's not specific to the contracts. It's just to remind you that the kind of work we do for integration of systems like the one we are doing with US Cellular is one that is typically not; it's not recurring by nature. Integration has a beginning and an end. And hopefully, of course, it will be successful.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: We continue to see specifically, we're guiding now for 2026. So we're talking about the fact we want to be very transparent about the fact we still expect revenue to decline in 2026 as their spending appetite is lower. Not just with us. I think if you look into the commentary of T-Mobile, they are much more cost-cautious. And the other point I will say is that specifically, again, it's not specific to the contracts. It's just to remind you that the kind of work we do for integration of systems like the one we are doing with US Cellular is one that is typically not; it's not recurring by nature. Integration has a beginning and an end. And hopefully, of course, it will be successful.
Speaker #3: We continue to see, specifically—we are guiding now for, we're, 2026. So talking about the fact that we want to be very transparent about the fact we still expect revenue to decline in 2026 as well.
Speaker #3: Spending appetite is low and not just with us . I think if you look under the commentary of T-Mobile , they are more much cost cautious and I would the other say is that specifically , again , it's not specific to the contract .
Speaker #3: It's just to remind you that the kind of work we do for integration of systems , one we are doing with U.S. cellular is one that is typically not , you know , it's not recurring by nature .
Speaker #3: Integration has a beginning and an end , and hopefully , of course , it will be successful . And therefore we wanted to make it clear this is not what we're talking about .
Shuky Sheffer: And therefore, we wanted to make it clear this is not, while we're talking about multi-year agreement, in other activities with T-Mobile, integration of US Cellular is not a 5-year thing, right? Usually, integration is measured by quarters rather than years. I think overall, I agree with what Tamar said. I think we have a relationship with T-Mobile at the previous version since 1999. So I think this is to extend our partnership with T-Mobile for the years to come. Okay. Thank you. And then just I want to dig in a little bit more on the MATRIXX acquisition. You already bought a charging platform with Openet like 5 years ago. And I want to ask just what strategically is this adding to what you had?
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: And therefore, we wanted to make it clear this is not, while we're talking about multi-year agreement, in other activities with T-Mobile, integration of US Cellular is not a 5-year thing, right? Usually, integration is measured by quarters rather than years. I think overall, I agree with what Tamar said. I think we have a relationship with T-Mobile at the previous version since 1999. So I think this is to extend our partnership with T-Mobile for the years to come.
Speaker #3: Multi-year agreement in other activities with T-Mobile , integration of Cellular Youth is not five year thing , Usually a measured by integration is quarters rather right ?
Speaker #3: years than
Speaker #1: Okay .
Speaker #1: Thank you . I agree . what I said . with it's it's I think a a we have T-Mobile and the previous version since 1999 .
Speaker #1: So I think this is our partnership extend T-Mobile for years to come .
Shlomo Rosenbaum: Okay. Thank you. And then just I want to dig in a little bit more on the MATRIXX acquisition. You already bought a charging platform with Openet like 5 years ago. And I want to ask just what strategically is this adding to what you had?
Speaker #5: Okay . you . just And then I in a little on the bit more matrix guys , acquisition . you already bought Just a charging platform with open net like ago .
Speaker #5: five years And want I ask to just what strategically , you know , is adding this to what you had , you know , if you could put a finer point and onto the revenue expecting that you're it this from year , or is it take kind of if I the midpoint of your revenue guidance , assume half of it is , you know , coming from from from acquisitions and , you know kind of , in over three quarters , it split that sounds around 90 million run rate business .
Shuky Sheffer: If you could put a finer point onto the revenue that you're expecting from it this year, is it if I take kind of the midpoint of your revenue guidance, assume half of it is coming from acquisitions, and kind of split that over three quarters, it sounds like it's around a $90 million run-rate business. Is that the way to think about it? I was struck with the value of the products, and Tamar, we will answer more of the financial question. Look, we are dealing across the world with different sizes and different complications of customers. Some of the tier-one customers need different types of charging and capabilities comparing to what we call low tiers or mid tiers. So I think the rationale of this acquisition was also it was consolidation of a competitor with very strong product.
Shlomo Rosenbaum: If you could put a finer point onto the revenue that you're expecting from it this year, is it if I take kind of the midpoint of your revenue guidance, assume half of it is coming from acquisitions, and kind of split that over three quarters, it sounds like it's around a $90 million run-rate business. Is that the way to think about it?
Shuky Sheffer: I was struck with the value of the products, and Tamar, we will answer more of the financial question. Look, we are dealing across the world with different sizes and different complications of customers. Some of the tier-one customers need different types of charging and capabilities comparing to what we call low tiers or mid tiers. So I think the rationale of this acquisition was also it was consolidation of a competitor with very strong product.
Speaker #5: Is that the way about to think it like it's like ?
Speaker #1: will I start with the the value of the products . And tomorrow we will answer more question financial the . And we are look , dealing across the world with and different different complication of of customers sizes and some of the need tier different one customers of type capabilities .
Speaker #1: Charging and comparing meteors. What to—so we call royalties, or I think this was the rationale of also consolidation of a competitor acquisition, was with very strong product.
Shuky Sheffer: So I think the rationale. A, it gives us an additional charging engine that we can. It's more like what we call tier-two level rather than tier-one. This is one. It gives us a very nice set of customers, as we mentioned. And I think that between all our capabilities, I think it strengthens our position by far as the market leader in this critical domain of charging and monetization. Yeah. Maybe just to add, you mentioned the acquisition five years ago of Openet. Openet is an amazing solution that we see deployed in many leading customers. And of course, we continue to Openet is a significant tier-one engine. And we continue to be our solution for the high scale. Back to your point about the revenue contribution coming from M&A. We did incorporate in the original guidance of the year about half of our growth coming from M&A.
Shuky Sheffer: So I think the rationale. A, it gives us an additional charging engine that we can. It's more like what we call tier-two level rather than tier-one. This is one. It gives us a very nice set of customers, as we mentioned. And I think that between all our capabilities, I think it strengthens our position by far as the market leader in this critical domain of charging and monetization.
Speaker #1: So I think there are a gives us a it charging engine that we can more like it's a what we call tier two level rather tier one .
Speaker #1: And this is one gives us a very nice set of customers . As we mentioned . And I think between all our capabilities , think it's I strengths are positioning by far the market leader in critical domain this charging and monetization .
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Yeah. Maybe just to add, you mentioned the acquisition five years ago of Openet. Openet is an amazing solution that we see deployed in many leading customers. And of course,
Speaker #3: Yeah , maybe just add , to you mentioned the acquisition five years ago . Open it , open it is an amazing solution deployed many that we in leading customers .
Shuky Sheffer: we continue to Openet is a significant tier-one engine.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: And we continue to be our solution for the high scale. Back to your point about the revenue contribution coming from M&A. We did incorporate in the original guidance of the year about half of our growth coming from M&A.
Speaker #3: course . And of
Speaker #1: There is a significant continue.
Speaker #3: And .
Speaker #3: To your point about the revenue from M&A, we did incorporate mature metrics in the pipeline of M&A. So, for the year, about half of our growth is coming from M&A, and the contribution was definitely high. Back to your guidance, this will be our solution for the high skill.
Shuky Sheffer: MATRIXX was definitely mature in the pipeline of M&A when we gave that guidance. So that's why I wanted to emphasize that it was planned, and now it's materializing. Now, relative to the model of Amdocs, MATRIXX is a software product company. So less visibility into the model than our own regular model. We have taken that into consideration, of course, being the first year of integrating MATRIXX. We want to be more cautious on the revenue view. So I think we are appropriately conservative there. So yes, it's in the numbers. It's not necessarily the end of the M&A plans that we have for the year. We don't have any major buildup of expectations in terms of number. I'm not talking about revenue. I'm just talking about the fact we do see also additional pipeline of good ideas on the M&A side that we may execute upon.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: MATRIXX was definitely mature in the pipeline of M&A when we gave that guidance. So that's why I wanted to emphasize that it was planned, and now it's materializing. Now, relative to the model of Amdocs, MATRIXX is a software product company. So less visibility into the model than our own regular model. We have taken that into consideration, of course, being the first year of integrating MATRIXX. We want to be more cautious on the revenue view. So I think we are appropriately conservative there. So yes, it's in the numbers. It's not necessarily the end of the M&A plans that we have for the year. We don't have any major buildup of expectations in terms of number. I'm not talking about revenue. I'm just talking about the fact we do see also additional pipeline of good ideas on the M&A side that we may execute upon.
Speaker #3: gave that When we that's why I wanted to that So emphasize it was planned and now it's materializing Now . relative to the model of Amdocs metrics is a software product product So less visibility company .
Speaker #3: our model , own regular model . We have taken that into . Of consideration being the first year of integrating metrics , we want to be cautious on the on more the revenue view .
Speaker #3: So I are think we conservative . appropriately There . So yes , it's in the numbers . It's not the end of the necessarily M&A plans that we have for the year .
Speaker #3: We don't have any build-up of major expectations in terms of numbers. I'm not talking about revenue. I'm just talking about the fact that we do.
Speaker #3: See also additional pipeline of good ideas on them and decide may execute upon . that we But as say , I always M&A is not something you can plan for in a linear way .
Shuky Sheffer: But as I always say, M&A is not something you can plan for in a linear way. We want to do the right deals for the right reasons with the right prices. So I think we are building it in a very prudent way into our guidance. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Dan McDermott from Oppenheimer. Your question, please. Hi, guys. Dan on for Tim Horan. Thanks for taking our questions. Just two quick ones. Can you give us some more color on your new Agentic Operation System you announced today? Why it's unique and how it can serve as a new growth engine? And then, second, Verizon has been very vocal about aggressively cutting expenses. We were wondering if you're doing anything there to help them with their restructuring and their AI initiatives. Thanks again.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: But as I always say, M&A is not something you can plan for in a linear way. We want to do the right deals for the right reasons with the right prices. So I think we are building it in a very prudent way into our guidance.
Speaker #3: to do the right We want right deals for the right reasons , with the prices . So think we are building it in a very prudent way into our guidance .
Shlomo Rosenbaum: Thank you.
Shuky Sheffer: Thank you.
Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Dan McDermott from Oppenheimer. Your question, please.
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Speaker #4: Thank you . And our next comes from the question line of Dan McDermott Oppenheimer . from question , please .
Daniel McDermott: Hi, guys. Dan on for Tim Horan. Thanks for taking our questions. Just two quick ones. Can you give us some more color on your new Agentic Operation System you announced today? Why it's unique and how it can serve as a new growth engine? And then, second, Verizon has been very vocal about aggressively cutting expenses. We were wondering if you're doing anything there to help them with their restructuring and their AI initiatives. Thanks again.
Speaker #6: guys . Dan Hi , on for Tim Horan . Thanks for taking our questions . Just two quick ones . Can you give us some more color on your new authentic operating system ?
Speaker #6: You nounced today ? You know why it's and how can serve as a new unique growth engine . And then second , Verizon has been very vocal about aggressively cutting expenses .
Speaker #6: We were wondering if you're doing anything there to help them with their restructuring and their AI initiatives . Thanks again .
Shuky Sheffer: So what we call aOS, the agentic operating system. And if you remember last quarter, we started to talk about this, that we are developing a next-generation platform for GenAI. At the time, we talked about calling it the core, which is part of the overall aOS. And in a simple way - and I don't want to become an architecture discussion - it's a layer that can sit on top of any BSS/OSS infrastructure, and actually can provide, with obviously giving our knowledge of this very deep intimate knowledge of this industry, we are building an agentic platform that actually eventually you can operate all the activities through agents. And we are going to showcase this in Barcelona, meet with many customers. And so today, we are announcing it, and the full showcase will be roughly a month from now.
Shuky Sheffer: So what we call aOS, the agentic operating system. And if you remember last quarter, we started to talk about this, that we are developing a next-generation platform for GenAI. At the time, we talked about calling it the core, which is part of the overall aOS. And in a simple way - and I don't want to become an architecture discussion - it's a layer that can sit on top of any BSS/OSS infrastructure, and actually can provide, with obviously giving our knowledge of this very deep intimate knowledge of this industry, we are building an agentic platform that actually eventually you can operate all the activities through agents. And we are going to showcase this in Barcelona, meet with many customers. And so today, we are announcing it, and the full showcase will be roughly a month from now.
Speaker #1: So the what we call high AOS , that genetic system . And operating if you remember quarter , we started to talk that we are last about this , developing .
Speaker #1: Net generation platform a for JNI at the time . We talk about calling the core , which is part of the overall AOS .
Speaker #1: And in a to I want to become an simple way . And discussion . It's a layer that can sit on top of business OS infrastructure and actually can provide obviously with knowledge giving our of this a very deep , intimate knowledge of this industry .
Speaker #1: We are building an agentic platform that any can operate all the activities through agents , and we are going to showcase this in Barcelona , with many customers , and we are so today announcing it and the full showcase will be around three months from now .
Shuky Sheffer: And we believe this will in the future serve us as a new growth engine for Amdocs. We did not include any significant revenue for this in this current fiscal year, but we believe that from everything that we hear in the industry, this is going to be probably the most, I would say, prominent and strong foundation to leverage GenAI. And we are very proud of what we are in the process of building. And regarding Verizon, I cannot comment more that you need to assume that we are engaging with Verizon to see how we can help them in the future. Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of George Notter from Wolfe Research. Your question, please. Hi, guys. This is Taryn on for George.
Shuky Sheffer: And we believe this will in the future serve us as a new growth engine for Amdocs. We did not include any significant revenue for this in this current fiscal year, but we believe that from everything that we hear in the industry, this is going to be probably the most, I would say, prominent and strong foundation to leverage GenAI. And we are very proud of what we are in the process of building. And regarding Verizon, I cannot comment more that you need to assume that we are engaging with Verizon to see how we can help them in the future.
Speaker #1: And we believe this will in the future , will serve us as new growth a engine for Amdocs . We did not include any revenue for this significant in this and fiscal year but current but we believe that from everything that we hear in the industry , this is going to be the probably the most I would say permanent .
Speaker #1: And foundation to leverage AI, and very strong—very proud of—are what we are in the process of building. And regarding Verizon, I cannot comment more than that you need to assume that we are engaging with Verizon to see how we can help them in the future.
Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of George Notter from Wolfe Research. Your question, please.
Speaker #4: Thank you . And our next question comes from the line of George from Wolfe McNutt Research . please question , Your .
Taran Katta: Hi, guys. This is Taryn on for George.
Speaker #7: Hi , guys . This is turned George . Could you talk a little bit more about how on for telcos are progressing in terms of looking to accelerate and simplify their AI journey ?
Shuky Sheffer: Could you talk a little bit more about how the telcos are progressing in terms of looking to accelerate and simplify their AI journey? Specifically, can you talk about how the pipeline is progressing and any new opportunities that have popped up for you? Thanks. I think overall, and definitely, we talked about this before. We were very active in working with our customer, developing different use cases in the call center, in the retail store, or any upsell or care type of scenarios. But this was more, I would say, a different solution to different needs, different use cases. The difference with the aOS, it is a complete, holistic value proposition to address all what we believe the future telco needs to leverage this technology. And all our customers obviously are trying successfully, in many cases, to leverage this.
Taran Katta: Could you talk a little bit more about how the telcos are progressing in terms of looking to accelerate and simplify their AI journey? Specifically, can you talk about how the pipeline is progressing and any new opportunities that have popped up for you? Thanks.
Speaker #7: Specifically, can you talk about how the pipeline is progressing and any new opportunities that have popped up for you? Thanks.
Shuky Sheffer: I think overall, and definitely, we talked about this before. We were very active in working with our customer, developing different use cases in the call center, in the retail store, or any upsell or care type of scenarios. But this was more, I would say, a different solution to different needs, different use cases. The difference with the aOS, it is a complete, holistic value proposition to address all what we believe the future telco needs to leverage this technology. And all our customers obviously are trying successfully, in many cases, to leverage this.
Speaker #8: . I
Speaker #1: I think definitely we talk overall, and this before, about how we were very active in working with our customers. You know, the developing different use cases in the center, in the call, the retail store, or any upsell or care type of scenarios.
Speaker #1: And but this was more , I would say , a different solution to different needs , different use cases . The difference with it is a complete holistic value proposition to address all what we believe the future telco needs to to leverage this technology and all our customers are obviously are trying successfully in many cases to to leverage this .
Shuky Sheffer: But it's more, I would say. It's like moving from opportunistic to strategic, from different use cases and different capabilities that all our customers are already experiencing both in the IT and the network domain, to a much more holistic value proposition that actually will translate or converge in the future the way our customers are working to a full agentic way. So this is the difference from what we've done so far to this daily solution. But obviously, in early days, I mean, most of our customers, as I said, are trying POC. We do a lot of POC. In many cases, also, they are getting some value. But I think this is very, very, very early days in this domain. Great. Thanks. Thank you. And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, if you have a question at this time, please press star 11 on your telephone.
Shuky Sheffer: But it's more, I would say. It's like moving from opportunistic to strategic, from different use cases and different capabilities that all our customers are already experiencing both in the IT and the network domain, to a much more holistic value proposition that actually will translate or converge in the future the way our customers are working to a full agentic way. So this is the difference from what we've done so far to this daily solution. But obviously, in early days, I mean, most of our customers, as I said, are trying POC. We do a lot of POC. In many cases, also, they are getting some value. But I think this is very, very, very early days in this domain.
Speaker #1: But it's more , I would say , it's like moving from a opportunistic to strategic from a different use cases and different capabilities that all our customers already experiencing , both in the IT and the network to a domain much more holistic value proposition that actually will translate or converge in the future .
Speaker #1: The way our customers working to a full genetic way . So this is the difference . What what we've done from so far to this day , solution .
Speaker #1: But but days , I mean , most early of our obviously customers , as I said , are are trying because we do a lot of POC in many cases .
Speaker #1: Also , they are getting some value , but I think this is very , very , very days in early this domain .
Taran Katta: Great. Thanks.
Operator: Thank you. And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, if you have a question at this time, please press star 11 on your telephone. Our next question comes from the line of Tal Liani from Bank of America. Your question, please.
Speaker #7: Great . Thanks .
Speaker #4: Thank you . And as a reminder , ladies and gentlemen , if you have a question time , please press at this star one one on your telephone .
Shuky Sheffer: Our next question comes from the line of Tal Liani from Bank of America. Your question, please. Hey, guys. This is actually Tomer Zilberman on for Tal. Maybe two for me. You mentioned in the prepared remarks, but you had a slight beat to your expectations this quarter on revenue, and your Q2 guidance was also slightly above the street. But you were consistent in maintaining the fiscal year. I just wanted to ask if this is more about right-sizing when you expect the rampdown of T-Mobile revenues this year, if there's anything else to look there. And my follow-up is, as we think about this new multi-year agreement with T-Mobile, can you give us a sense of the progression and the trajectory of the milestones you need to hit to really ramp the revenues there? Thank you. So on the first question, it's not anything specific in particular.
Speaker #4: Our next question comes from the line of Tagliani from Bank of America. Your question, please.
Tomer Zilberman: Hey, guys. This is actually Tomer Zilberman on for Tal. Maybe two for me. You mentioned in the prepared remarks, but you had a slight beat to your expectations this quarter on revenue, and your Q2 guidance was also slightly above the street. But you were consistent in maintaining the fiscal year. I just wanted to ask if this is more about right-sizing when you expect the rampdown of T-Mobile revenues this year, if there's anything else to look there. And my follow-up is, as we think about this new multi-year agreement with T-Mobile, can you give us a sense of the progression and the trajectory of the milestones you need to hit to really ramp the revenues there? Thank you.
Speaker #9: Hey is guys , this actually Tomer on for Tal Zilberman . Maybe two for me . You mentioned in the prepared remarks , but you had a slight beat to your expectations this quarter on revenues .
Speaker #9: And you and your two Q guidance was also slightly above the , but you were consistent in maintaining the fiscal year . Just wanted to if this ask is more about right sizing .
Speaker #9: When you expect the ramp down of of T-Mobile revenues this year , if there's anything else to look there and my follow is up , as we think about this new multi-year agreement with give us T-Mobile , can you a sense of , the you know , progression and the trajectory of the milestones you need to hit to really ramp the revenues ?
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: So on the first question, it's not anything specific in particular.
Speaker #9: There ? Thank you .
Speaker #3: So some of the first question , it's not it's not anything specific in particular . It's not a , you know , a customer that caused that .
Shuky Sheffer: It's not a customer that caused that. Actually, I'm happy about the fact that we were able to show now faster performance on the revenue to meet the numbers. We talked in the beginning of the year of a stronger half 2 than half 1. But even then, it wasn't a big difference. So I would say it's a slight change, and nothing in particular that I can point out that caused that. On your second question, it's not a matter of meeting a specific deliverable that is singular in nature. What we do for T-Mobile is including many activities. So we are doing the managed services that covers the ongoing IT operations. We are doing development work. Some of it is new project-oriented. Some of it is helping them to enhance existing systems. We are going to embed new AI activities. We are doing the US Cellular integration.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: It's not a customer that caused that. Actually, I'm happy about the fact that we were able to show now faster performance on the revenue to meet the numbers. We talked in the beginning of the year of a stronger half 2 than half 1. But even then, it wasn't a big difference. So I would say it's a slight change, and nothing in particular that I can point out that caused that. On your second question, it's not a matter of meeting a specific deliverable that is singular in nature. What we do for T-Mobile is including many activities. So we are doing the managed services that covers the ongoing IT operations. We are doing development work. Some of it is new project-oriented. Some of it is helping them to enhance existing systems. We are going to embed new AI activities. We are doing the US Cellular integration.
Speaker #3: happy about the fact Actually I'm that we were able to show now faster performance on the revenue to meet the numbers . talked in the You know , we beginning of the year of stronger have But to than half one .
Speaker #3: even then wasn't like a it a big big difference . So I would say it's a slight change . nothing in particular And can point out that caused that .
Speaker #3: On your second question , it's not a matter of meeting a specific deliverable . That is singular in nature . What we do for T-Mobile is including many activities , so we are doing the managed services that covers the ongoing IT operations .
Speaker #3: We are doing web development work. Some of it is new project-oriented, and some of it is helping them to enhance the existing systems.
Speaker #3: We are going to embed new activities . We are doing the We are going to integration . help with other of common rationalization So systems .
Shuky Sheffer: We are going to help with other rationalization of common systems. So it's many, many things. It's not a single project that I can point to a specific milestone. So it's mainly a matter of continuing to execute, bring value, and push forward to the demands and the desires of T-Mobile. Understood. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This does conclude the question-and-answer session of today's program. I'd like to hand the program back to Matt Smith for any further remarks. Okay. Thanks, Ocareta, and thanks, everyone, for joining the call tonight. If you do have any additional questions, please give us a call in the IR group here. And with that, have a great evening. Thanks. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect. Good day.
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: We are going to help with other rationalization of common systems. So it's many, many things. It's not a single project that I can point to a specific milestone. So it's mainly a matter of continuing to execute, bring value, and push forward to the demands and the desires of T-Mobile.
Speaker #3: it's many , many things . It's not like a single can project that I point to a specific milestone . So it's mainly a matter of continuing to execute , bring and push forward to to value the demands and the desires of T-Mobile .
Tomer Zilberman: Understood. Thank you.
Shuky Sheffer: Thank you.
Speaker #9: Understood . Thank you .
Tamar Rapaport-Dagim: Thank you.
Operator: This does conclude the question-and-answer session of today's program. I'd like to hand the program back to Matt Smith for any further remarks.
Speaker #4: Thank you . does This conclude the question and answer session of today's program . I'd like to hand the program back to Matt Smith for any further remarks .
Shuky Sheffer: Okay. Thanks, Ocareta, and thanks, everyone, for joining the call tonight. If you do have any additional questions, please give us a call in the IR group here. And with that, have a great evening. Thanks.
Speaker #10: Thanks . Okay . And thanks , Operator . everyone for joining the call tonight . If you do have any additional questions , please give us a IR call in the group here .
Operator: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect. Good day.
Speaker #10: And with that, have a great evening. Thanks.
Speaker #4: Thank you , ladies and gentlemen , for your participation in today's conference . This does conclude the program . You may now disconnect .
