Sets a goal of achieving US$ 1 Billion revenue by 2031
Happiest Minds Technologies Q1′,2023 total Income stood at ₹ 40,453 lakhs
Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds Technologies, said,“We have consistently and yet again delivered industry-leading performance both on revenue growth and profitability. The highly successful run is a result of the continued acceleration of our customer’s digital journey and our ability to stay relevant to their needs. The performance wouldn’t have been possible without the commitment and dedication of our Happiest Minds team which has crossed 5,000 during the quarter.”
“We have set a goal of achieving US$ 1 Billion by 2031 and our guidance of 25% is based on the same. We remain on target for achieving the goal. In our guidance of 25%, we have not been making a distinction between organic and inorganic growth. In the current year, we have been expecting to do significant acquisitions which we have not been able to close so far. We will update our guidance target in October based on the M&A progress,” he added
Financial highlights
Quarter ended June 30, 2023
- Revenue in constant currency grew by 3.5% q-o-q and 13.8% y-o-y
- Operating Revenues in US$ stood at $47.6 million (growth of 3.6% q-o-q: 12.7% y-o-y)
- Total Income of ₹ 40,453 lakhs (growth of 4.7% q-o-q; 22.6% y-o-y)
- EBITDA of ₹ 10,299 lakhs, 25.5% of Total Income (growth of 2.4% q-o-q; 17.4% y-o-y)
- PAT of ₹ 5,833 lakhs (growth of 1.2% q-o-q; growth of 3.5% y-o-y)
- Free cash flows of ₹ 10,133 lakhs
- EPS (diluted) for the quarter of ₹ 4.02
Venkatraman N, MD & CFO, said“I am extremely happy to report on our thirteenth quarter of 25% plus EBITDA and ahead of our guidance which is a validation of our value proposition and disciplined execution. The successful closure of our Qualified Institutions Placement(QIP) of ₹ 500 crores confirms the strong investor commitment to us and our growth aspirations.”
Joseph Anantharaju, Executive Vice Chairman, said “Our clients remain focused on executing compressed transformations to drive efficiency, stronger growth, more agility, and to achieve greater resilience faster. Our ability to advise, shape and deliver value-led digital transformation, leveraging the breadth of technical capabilities in digital technologies and deep domain expertise is the key differentiator for Happiest Minds.”
Clients:
- 243 as of June 30, 2023
- 18 additions in the quarter
Our People – Happiest Minds:
- 5,048 Happiest Minds as of June 30, 2023 (net addition for the quarter 131)
- Trailing 12 months attrition of 16.6% (19.8% in the previous quarter)
- Utilization of 74.6%
Q1 FY24 Key Project Wins:
- For a next-generation learning platform and an existing customer, Happiest Minds is their strategic partner to provide product engineering services, quality engineering and automation services across their teacher and student engagement platform. This is a consolidation deal based on the excellent service provided over an eight-year relationship and Happiest Minds is the single vendor.
- For a billion-dollar global, specialty chemicals company, Happiest Minds was appointed to draft their digital roadmap covering commercial, operations, and IT functional areas.
- For a global leader and innovator in the bioscience industry, Happiest Minds was chosen to implement cloud-based product life cycle management (PLM) solutions.
- For one of the world’s largest pharmaceuticals company, this consulting-led engagement entails Happiest Minds to provide strategic quality assurance and automation services for their Digital Surgery Enablement Platform
- For a large digital transformation specialist, this multi-year multi-million-dollar deal entails Happiest Minds to deliver infrastructure and security services
- For a large enterprise software support company, Happiest Minds has signed a multi-million-dollar deal to provide managed database services and ITSM services
- For a global, high-tech engineering group based in Europe, Happiest Minds was chosen to design and implement the Modern Data Platform on Microsoft Azure
- For a global talent fulfilment enterprise in Europe, Happiest Minds was chosen to streamline multiple workflows leveraging Microsoft’s Power Platform for improved employee experience and actionable intelligence for decision-makers
- For a large Middle east based petrochemical company, Happiest Minds is chosen to provide consulting-led Operational Technology (OT) Solutions
- For an Australia-based health insurance and services provider, Happiest Minds was chosen as a strategic partner to enhance their security posture by leveraging Microsoft Sentinel and CloudSecOps
