October 19, 2014

Annual Report Highlights FY 13-14 - Zensar Technologies

On a consolidated basis, your Company has maintained steady growth with Total income of ` 2361.10 Crore.  The Consolidated Profit after Taxation was ` 237.53 Crore reflecting an increase of 36%. Global outsourcing market grew by 8.5% and the company grew by 9.5%.  Profitability was more due to increased profit margins 
Companies  vertical focus is in  Manufacturing, Retail, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance. Company has restructured verticals very recently to provide end to end solutions of the vertical and also to gain domain knowledge.
The company has built strong capabilities in core areas of Application Development, Support, Maintenance, Testing and Modernisation; Business Process Management; Infrastructure Management; Enterprise Solutions in Oracle and SAP; Business Intelligence; CRM; and the new age technologies that make up the Digital Enterprise. Zensar’s infrastructure management business is now integrated with main business with infrastructure management driving significant larger deals for the company. Zensar is one of the top MVS providers worldwide and only one of three headquartered in India who renders this service, making it a one stop shop for all infrastructure management needs  (What is the margins in this business??). Application development, mgmt and testing business is larger in the revenue pie and trend is moving away from traditional pricing to managed business where the pricing is outcome based.  Company is Oracle Platinum Partner and SAP gold partner.    Company has presence in 22 countries globally.  It has around 400+ customers. Delivery centres are in India, China, US,UK, Africa and Amsterdam.  Company has expanded into SMAC area which it expects to deliver results. It is in the top 3 IT players in South Africa.  US continues to be major growth area (75%) followed by UK (9%).
Manufacturing and Retail form 60% of Zensars business with insurance showing some good signs of growth. Onsite contribution is 68% and offshore is 32%.
Company is focusing on diversification into platforms and domain solutions in addition to application services. Attrition is around 14%.  Critical talent base forms 10% of zensar total employees. Application management services forms 66% of the revenue and the rest shared between IMS and licences.
Around 50% of the assets are tied in working capital (Receivables and other current assets), 11% in fixed assets.  Around 27% is in cash and short term investments with the rest being in other assets. So, around 70% of the capital is used in direct business.
Operating cash flow situation improved this year which was at 158.75 cr. Margin improvement is primarily due to lower employee benefit expense growth and negative growth in other expenses.  Not sure if it is sustainable or there is some non-linearity effect due to outcome based model. There is no comment on the same. So, going forward the profit growth is likely to be in line with the revenue growth unless the nonlinear growth model is sustainable.  Employee cost has increased by just 2% which also looks unsustainable. Either this cost is likely to increase which will decrease margin or attrition would get higher. 


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