Market guidance achieved and trading update
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ASX:ST1
10 August 2023
Trading Update: New market offers to drive earnings growth
Reported unaudited FY23 Revenue of $127M and Underlying EBITDA of $5.2M
achieved
Highlights:
Reported unaudited FY2312 Revenue of $127M and underlying EBITDA3 of $5.2 million in line
with updated guidance
Launch of several new high-growth market offers:
o Managed Services cyber security defence and workplace productivity offer for SME
customers, to be sold into the existing SME customer base of 7,000+ customers
o Cyber managed security solution delivered from new Security Operating Centre
enables Spirit’s expansion into the growing higher value defence industry supply chain
o Additional new cyber contracts signed from a number of new and renewing ASX 100
customers in the last 3 months
o Development of Spirit’s Sustainable business enhanced with new high-growth AI
offers targeting a number of the Group’s customers
Spirit Technology Solutions (“Spirit” ASX:ST1), a leading provider of secure digital transformation and
modern work environments provides the following trading update.
The Group is pleased to report that preliminary unaudited FY2312 Revenue of $127 million (FY22 $135
million) and Underlying EBITDA3 is $5.2 million (FY22 $7.2 million), in line with the updated guidance
provided in May 2023.
Managed Services
Spirit has launched a new Managed Services offer for its SME customer base of 7,000 active customers.
The unique offer improves cyber security defences and workplace productivity for Small to Medium
Enterprise (SME) businesses and is a key competitive advantage for Spirit as this sector has been largely
untapped by traditional managed services providers. The Group expects a solid take up of this offer over
the next 12 months given the growing market need for cyber security and workplace solutions as SMEs
navigate the changing economic environment and optimise their goals around staff and customer
experience.
Cyber security
As part of the successful completion of the new Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Brisbane in June, the
Cyber security team has launched a 24*7 managed security offer for Spirit’s Managed Services customer
base (1,000+ customers). The new offer brings enterprise-grade cyber security capabilities to mid-market
firms. The new SOC in Brisbane, constructed to ASIO “Secret” standards, will support the roll out of this
new service and enables expansion into the defence industry supply chain which is experiencing
significant growth in Queensland, where the Cyber team is headquartered.
Sustainable
As part of developing its Sustainable business, Spirit has invested in its AI capabilities. Working with
leading global tech firms CISCO and MeldCX, the Group has launched a number of new market offers that
build on existing solutions.. These new offers will enable Spirit’s customers to use AI and Machine Vision
to improve operations and reduce costs in their businesses. Spirit sees this as a high-growth market as
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organisations harness the power of AI to improve the way they operate. This offer is especially relevant in
the health, aged care, and education space where Spirit has a significant number of customers.
Spirit considers these new initiatives as a significant opportunity after a busy year in FY23 stabilising
the Managed Services business to return it to profitability in FY24.
Spirit Managing Director and CEO Julian Challingsworth said: “These new market offers not only deliver
on our organic growth strategy of upselling our offerings to existing customers but give Spirit significant
earnings growth potential in FY24 and beyond. Spirit continues to work towards our aim of becoming
one of Australia’s leading providers of modern and secure digital workplaces, with appropriate earnings
return.”
1 Financial numbers presented for FY23 are unaudited.
2 FY23 refers to the 12 month period 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.
3 EBITDA is a financial measure which is not prescribed by Australian Accounting Standards (‘AAS’) and represents the profit/(loss)
under AAS adjusted for depreciation, amortisation, interest and tax. Underlying EBITDA is EBITDA adjusted to exclude share-based
payments, gain/(loss) on divestment of non-core assets, acquisition & divestment costs, restructuring costs, other restructuring
items, net fair value loss on remeasurement of contingent consideration on business combinations and impairment of non-current
assets.
This announcement was authorised on behalf of the Spirit Technology Solutions Ltd Board by:
Julian Challingsworth, Managing Director
For further information, please contact:
Corporate:
Julian Challingsworth
Managing Director
03 8554 1300 or
julian.challingsworth@spirit.com.au
Investors:
Gabriella Hold
Automic Markets
+61 (0) 411 364 382
gabriella.hold@automicgroup.com.au
For more information, please visit
www.spirit.com.au
Business Address: Level 2, 19-25 Raglan Street,
South Melbourne VIC 3205
About Spirit Technology Solutions:
Spirit Technology Solutions is an ASX listed provider to Australian businesses of innovative IT&T managed
services, cyber security and collaboration and communications platforms.
We are building the modern secure digital workplace for Australian businesses. Our mission is to “Make
our customers secure, sustainable and scalable, while living our team values”
‘Secure by design’ is in our mantra and our world class cyber security solutions help Australian businesses
take a different, data-centric and strategic approach to effective security.
Our collaboration and communications business was awarded by Cisco as Webex partner of the year for
2022 in the Asia-Pacific region, recognizing our world class team and focus on delivering amazing
experiences to SMB customers.
Spirit Technology Solutions
ABN 73 089 224 402
spirit.com.au
Secure. Sustainable. Scalable.
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