Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) today announced the company’s audited financial results for the quarter and year ended March 31, 2023, as approved by the Board of Directors.
Consolidated Financial Highlights for the Financial Year 2022-2023:
FY22 FY23 Y-o-Y Growth
Revenue (USD Million) 765.59 1,035.98 35.3%
Revenue (INR Million) 57,107.46 83,505.92 46.2%
EBITDA (INR Million) 9,581.71 15,191.25 58.5%
PBT (INR Million) 9,242.79 12,408.52 34.3%
PAT (INR Million) 6,903.86 9,210.93 33.4%
Consolidated Financial Highlights for the Quarter ended March 31, 2023:
Q4FY22 Q-o-Q Growth Y-o-Y Growth
Revenue (USD Million) 274.55 3.9% 26.3%
Revenue (INR Million) 22,544.72 3.9% 37.6%
EBITDA (INR Million) 4,163.14 3.7%. 48.1%
PBT (INR Million) 3,405.85 5.5% 27.5%
PAT (INR Million) 2,515.13 5.7% 25.1%
The Board of Directors recommended final dividend of ₹12 per share and special dividend of ₹10 per share on achieving $1 billion in annual revenue, on the face value of ₹10 each. In January 2023, the Board declared an interim dividend of ₹28 per share making the total dividend ₹50 per share. The final dividend recommended by the Board is subject to the approval of the members during the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Persistent:
“Our team’s passion for innovation, relentless dedication to client success, and agility in changing economic environments has enabled us to achieve this significant moment in Persistent’s history. I’m incredibly thankful to our committed team, diverse client base, and the entire ecosystem that built Persistent from a small, Pune-based product engineering services provider to a multinational Enterprise Modernization and Digital Engineering powerhouse.”
Sandeep Kalra, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Persistent:
“Fiscal year 2023 was momentous for Persistent as we achieved several key milestones including attaining $1 billion in annual revenue and inclusion in three key indices of the National Stock Exchange of India including the Nifty IT index, among others.
We have been nimble, proactive, and disciplined, allowing us to build a healthy booking pipeline and maintain competitive advantage. We’re truly grateful to our clients, partners, investors, and team members for their unwavering trust. As we move to the next phase of growth, we will continue to strengthen our partner ecosystem, maintain operational rigour, and deepen our capabilities to scale our Digital Engineering expertise and drive business value for our clients.”
Fourth Quarter FY23 Client Wins and Outcomes
The order booking for the quarter ended on March 31, 2023, was at $421.6 million in Total Contract Value (TCV) and at $310.4 million in Annual Contract Value (ACV) terms. Some of the key wins for the quarter include:
Software, Hi-Tech & Emerging Industries
- Engineering owner for data warehouse product suite and mobile application development platform for a Fortune 50 software, consulting, and infrastructure partner.
- Providing product engineering services and migrating workloads to AWS for a digital martech solutions company.
- Modernising the core product and providing engineering support in a managed services model for a leader in supply chain analytics.
Banking, Financial Services & Insurance
- Developing a procurement and contract solution as well as modernising the legacy enterprise data warehouse for one of the world’s largest global private equity firms.
- Providing managed services for an integration platform for seamless client onboarding and frictionless experience for a pioneer in fractional trading and embedded finance.
- Creating a cloud data lake to support policy administration, claims analysis, and predict risk levels at scale for a market-leading property and casualty insurer.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Building and integrating a genomic workflow management solution to increase the experiment throughput for a multinational healthcare company.
- Developing an enterprise data platform to streamline governance and operations across multiple business units for a leading supplier of scientific instrumentation and services.
- Designing a patient experience management application to educate patients and improve patient satisfaction scores for one of the largest global healthcare providers.
