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Celebrus Technologies PLC
27 November 2023
27 November 2023
Celebrus Technologies plc
Half-year results for the six months to 30 September 2023
Celebrus Technologies plc (AIM: CLBS, "the Group", "Celebrus"),
the AIM-listed data solutions provider, announces its half year
results for the six months to 30 September 2023 ("H1 FY24").
Financial highlights
-- Annual recurring revenue ("ARR") increased to GBP17.4m (H1 FY23: GBP15.8m, FY23: GBP16.7m)*
-- Total Revenue of GBP13.0m (H1 FY23: GBP8.1m, FY23:
GBP21.4m)
-- Software Revenue (excluding third-party hardware) up 18 % to
GBP7.3m (H1 FY23: GBP6.2m, FY23: GBP19.1m)
-- Gross profit margin of 37.4% (H1 FY23: 38.3%, FY23: 60.2%)
due to a high proportion of low margin third party hardware.
-- Adjusted profit before tax** of GBP0.2m (H1 FY23: loss of
GBP1.3m, FY23: profit of GBP3.8 million), and statutory profit
before tax of GBP0.3m (H1 FY23: loss of GBP1.1m, FY23: profit of
GBP2.4m)
-- Diluted adjusted EPS of 0.56p (H1 FY23: loss of 4.49p, FY23:
earnings of 7.74p) and diluted basic EPS of 0.65p (H1 FY23: loss of
3.35p, FY23: earnings of 5.18p
-- Cash position of GBP14.7m (H1 FY23: GBP26.2m: FY23: GBP17.1m)
with no debt
-- Interim dividend of 0.92p per share, up 4.5% (H1 FY23:
0.88p)
Operational highlights
-- Changed the company name to Celebrus Technologies plc after
the period end as part of the simplification of the business and to
build more focus around our mission to improve the relationships
between brands and consumers via better data.
-- Release of version 9.8 of the Celebrus Platform which
included Celebrus Digital Analytics (CDA) and a variety of AI/ML
capabilities such as Bot Detection and the ability to bring a
customer's data models into Celebrus. Other product developments
include the launch of revamped workbooks for Tableau and PowerBI
for our customers.
-- Establishment of a Customer Success team in Europe and the US
to bolster our ability to expand relationships with customers as we
focus on direct sales in a "land and expand" model.
-- Key wins during and after the period end include a new
banking customer in the US that has signed up for both marketing
and fraud use cases, an upsell and expansion of a Top 10 global
bank for a further three years.
Outlook
-- Solid progress in the first half and the high visibility of
opportunities expected to close in the second half underpin the
Board's confidence in both achieving full year market
expectations*** and continuing to drive growth in ARR.
Bill Bruno, CEO of Celebrus, commented:
"Several key steps have been taken to further our strategy in
the first half of the financial year. Not only have we delivered
the expected results and continue to remain confident in our
ability to meet market expectations for the full year, but we have
continued to invest in Sales and Marketing and are seeing the
positive effects in the form of building pipeline momentum. A key
investment at the beginning of the year was in Customer Success,
and we have now built a Sales and Marketing machine that can focus
on winning and expanding those wins as we land them . We continue
to focus on driving ARR and our ability to build scalable,
single-tenant, cloud-based environments for our Celebrus
customers."
* ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is the amount of revenue at a
point in time that is expected to recur within the next twelve
months.
** Adjusted profit before tax and EPS are calculated before
amortisation of intangibles, one-off reorganisation costs, foreign
exchange gains/(losses) and share based payment charges.
(***) For the purpose of this announcement, the Group believes
market consensus for FY24 to be revenue of GBP32.1m, and adjusted
profit before tax of GBP5.4m.
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Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue
of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon the publication
of this announcement via Regulatory Information Service, this
inside information is now considered to be in the public
domain.
Enquiries
Celebrus Technologies plc +44 (0) 1932 893333
Bill Bruno, Chief Executive Officer investors@celebrus.com
Ash Mehta, Chief Financial Officer
Cavendish (Nominated Adviser
& Joint Broker)
Julian Blunt / Edward Whiley,
Corporate Finance
Tim Redfern, Corporate Broking +44 (0) 20 7220 0500
Canaccord Genuity (Joint Broker)
Simon Bridges / Andrew Potts +44 (0) 20 7523 8000
About Celebrus Technologies plc
As a disruptive data technology platform, Celebrus is focused on
improving the relationships between brands and consumers via better
data. Celebrus redefines what digital identity verification means
to power both next-level marketing and fraud prevention use cases.
Deployed across 30+ countries throughout the financial services,
healthcare, retail, travel, and telecommunications sectors,
Celebrus automatically captures, contextualises, and activates
consumer behavioral data in live-time across all digital channels.
Through the addition of behavioral biometrics and AI, Celebrus
empowers brands to detect and prevent fraud before it occurs. To
ensure that brands can begin to improve those relationships
quickly, Celebrus Cloud activates the Celebrus platform efficiently
for brands in a single-tenant, private cloud capacity.
The Group has offices in the UK, USA, and India with key talent
in all markets to drive the growth of the business. Celebrus is
fully compliant with all major data privacy regulations and the
Group is accredited to ISO27001: Information Security
Management.
For more information, please see www.celebrus.com .
Operational review
Strategy
The mission for our business is to improve the relationships
between brands and consumers via better data. Better data, from our
perspective, is compliant, complete, accurate, timely, and usable
in real-time. To support that mission, we continue to structure the
business around our ability to automate and build efficiencies to
make room for investment in higher-value activities.
Our product focus, further emphasised by the change in name of
the Company, is to make Celebrus a platform that can deliver upon
our mission in both the Marketing/Advertising and Fraud worlds.
Regardless of the use case, the software we deliver and the
environments we build are focused on getting the right data to the
right place at the right time so something of value can be actioned
from that data. Relationships between brands and consumers on the
marketing side will improve because the Celebrus data will allow
for a better customer experience. On the Fraud side, the Celebrus
data will be used to protect people's hard-earned money and
investments.
Our strategy as a business continues to build on the simple
concept of selling more software. We aim to do so in a manner that
allows us to get customers up and running quickly with a high level
of automated support for the deployment. As such, we continue to
invest in Celebrus Cloud as our primary option for deployment for
new customers. Our "land and expand" approach to selling has
allowed us to simplify how we position the platform and paved the
way for our investment in this prior period into launching a
Customer Success division. By combining our direct sales team,
partner sales team, and customer success team, we feel we have
built the appropriate sales infrastructure to take this business to
the next level.
Contract wins
ARR increased to GBP17.4m (H1 FY23: GBP15.8m, FY23: GBP16.7m).
During the period, we had some key wins such as a new Banking
customer that is utilising a Celebrus Cloud deployment for both the
Marketing and Fraud use cases. This is our ideal setup for
customers and aligns with our go-forward strategy. We also secured
one of the deals that was previously due to close in the last
financial year, which included a significant amount of hardware for
an on-premise environment.
Since the period-end we have seen a contract renewal and upsell
with a Top 10 global bank for an additional three years which also
includes new features such as our CX Vault capabilities, digital
identity enhancements, and workbooks for Tableau.
Pipeline visibility, measurement and management continues to
improve as well as the automation of some of the actions of our
sales and customer success teams. This level of visibility and
analysis has enhanced our ability to manage the business
effectively and make quick decisions.
Celebrus
We continue to innovate the Celebrus platform. In the period we
launched version 9.8 of the platform, and 9.9 is on the horizon. As
always, features included in the release will come from our team's
ideas, customer asks, partner feedback, and general industry
trends.
In this most recent release, we brought several new capabilities
to the market that have been met with significant excitement in the
field. Namely, Celebrus Digital Analytics (CDA) and Bot
Detection.
CDA provides organisations with access to a single source of
truth for digital data without data connectivity or activation
gaps. It removes the need to rely on third-party platforms that use
a shared environment and funnel data through outside environments,
thereby posing regulatory risks.
Celebrus advanced Bot Detection combines signals, biometrics,
adaptive machine learning, and comprehensive data models to
recognise genuine human behaviour in real time. Capturing all user
interactions across devices and channels creates a complete
customer profile to distinguish between real user behaviour versus
bot activity.
We will continue to innovate in the data activation side of the
platform, while ensuring that our differentiators on the data
capture and contextualisation side remain prominent in the
market.
Partnerships
We have continued to go to market with technology partners such
as Teradata, Pegasystems, Salesforce, Snowflake, Adobe, and others.
However, the focus for the prior period and through this current
financial year has been in building out our Solution Integrator
(SI) partner network with new additions such as Merkle and CX
Forward. SI partners provide us with scalability for our own
services teams, but they also are trusted advisors for many of the
customers they work with and can help provide the value-based
business cases for onboarding Celebrus.
M&A
As a Board we have aligned on profiles for potential acquisition
targets that could provide good bolt-on technology to the Celebrus
platform. While there is nothing imminent, we are making this more
of a focus. As we began to sell more directly to customers, we soon
realised that there would be more we would want to deliver for
customers in the world of data activation. We will continue to
explore this prudently.
People
A company is only as good as its people, and we are very lucky
to have the global team we have in place. We have invested a lot of
time and effort in the past year and a half in getting the
structure correct in the business, getting people into the right
roles, and identifying the areas in which we need to make further
investment.
We have enhanced our training and development to ensure we are
supporting our people and leadership around the globe, and making
the business truly scalable, while also still supporting a hybrid
way of working in all our key markets.
We also continue to work on improving our communication and
connectivity globally as we grow to ensure that the stories, the
wins, and the learnings are being broadly shared to everyone in the
company as needed.
As mentioned in our Final Results announcement, during the
period we commenced a search for a new Chair of the board to
succeed Peter Simmonds when, in line with good corporate
governance, he steps down towards the end of this calendar year,
having served as Chair for almost nine years. We will provide a
further update on thisin due course.
Current Trading & Outlook
Year-to-date progress and the high visibility of opportunities
expected to close in the second half underpin the Board's
confidence in achieving full year market expectations and the
continued growth in ARR.
Financial review
Revenue and Gross Margin
Total revenue for the period was GBP13.0 million (H1 FY23:
GBP8.1 million) with a gross profit of GBP4.9 million (H1 FY23:
GBP3.1 million).
License revenue increased to GBP2.5 million (H1 FY23: GBP1.0
million), but with the revenue mix having a high proportion of low
margin third-party product revenues the gross margin was 37.4%,
similar to the 38.3% in the first half of last year which also had
a high proportion of such revenues.
Software revenue (Revenue excluding third party hardware) was up
17.7% to GBP7.3 million (H1 FY23: GBP6.2 million) reflecting the
impact of customer upsell in the period. The gross margin on
Software revenue was 56.4% (H1 FY23: 53.1%).
Annual Recurring Revenue
Annual recurring revenue increased during the period to GBP17.4
million (30 September 2022: GBP15.8 million, 31 March 2023: GBP16.7
million). The Board is confident of further growth in ARR in the
second half as a result of the signing of new contracts currently
under negotiation.
Administration expenses and Profit before Tax
Administration expenses increased to GBP4.9 million (H1 FY23:
GBP4.3 million). Excluding items such as net foreign exchange
differences and share-based payments, Operating expenses were
GBP4.9 million (H1 FY23: GBP4.5 million). After holding Operating
expenses flat in the prior full year as a result of investment into
new systems and efficiencies from team restructurings, the
increased expense reflects further ongoing investment into customer
facing roles in the first half of FY24.
The Profit before tax was GBP0.2 million (H1 FY23: loss of
GBP1.1 million), and the Adjusted Profit before tax was also GBP0.2
million (H1 FY23: loss of GBP1.3 million). The adjustments include
a share-based payment charge of GBP0.3 million (H1 FY23: GBP0.5
million), and a foreign exchange gain of GBP0.5 million (H1 FY23:
GBP0.8 million).
Balance Sheet, Cash and Interest income
Trade receivables at the period end were GBP13.9 million (H1
FY23: GBP1.8 million); the majority of these result from contract
wins and invoicing towards the end of the period. In relation to
certain of these contracts, especially those with a third-party
hardware component, trade creditors were GBP5.3 million (H1 FY23:
GBP0.2 million).
The Group has no overdue receivables of any significant size,
and no bad debt losses have been recorded in the period.
The cash balance at the half year end was robust at GBP14.7
million, and the Group remains debt-free.
The group has a strong focus on maximising interest income from
cash holdings and in the period earned interest income of GBP0.3
million (H1 FY23: GBP0.1 million).
Dividend
As a Group, Celebrus continually monitors the balance between
delivering on a progressive dividend policy whilst at the same time
balancing investment in the business for future growth.
During the period, the Group paid a final dividend of 2.15p per
share.
For this current half year, the Board is pleased to declare an
interim dividend of 0.92p per share, a 4.5% increase over the
comparative period last year. This will be paid on 12 January 2024
to members on the register as at 8 December 2023. The shares will
become ex-dividend on 7 December 2023.
Consolidated income statement
for the period ended 30 September 2023 (unaudited)
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
Note GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
------------------- ------------------------- ------ --------- -------- -----------
Continuing operations
Revenue 3 13,006 8,133 21,369
Cost of sales (8,145) (5,016) (8,497)
========================== ====== ========= ======== ===========
Gross
Profit 4,861 3,117 12,872
Administration expenses 4 (4,909) (4,312) (10,833)
Other operating income - 15 15
========================== ====== ========= ======== ===========
(Loss) / profit from operations (48) (1,180) 2,054
Finance income 314 134 373
Finance costs (14) (10) (36)
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Profit/ (loss) before tax 5 252 (1,056) 2,391
Tax 15 (290) (274)
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Attributable to equity holders of the
parent 267 (1,346) 2,117
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Earnings / (loss) per share from continuing operations attributable
to the equity holders of the parent
Basic 6 0.67p (3.35)p 5.29p
Diluted 6 0.65p (3.35)p 5.18p
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Consolidated statement of comprehensive income
for the period ended 30 September 2023 (unaudited)
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
------------------------------------- --------- -------- -------------
Attributable to equity holders
of the parent 267 (1,346) 2,117
Other comprehensive income:
Items that will not be reclassified
to profit or loss
Loss on property revaluation - - (300)
Exchange differences on translation
of foreign operations (74) 11 204
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Total comprehensive income /
(loss) for the period attributable
to equity holders of the parent 193 (1,335) 2,021
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Consolidated statement of changes in equity attributable to
Equity Holders of the Parent
for the period ended 30 September 2023 (unaudited)
Share Share Merger Revaluation Own Retained Total
capital premium reserve reserve shares earnings GBP'000
---------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- ------- ----------- ------- ---------- --------
Balance at 1
April 2022 8 09 3,365 6,031 1,310 (670) 21,040 31,885
Dividends paid - - - - - (831) (831)
Purchase of
own shares - - - - (436) - (436)
Settlement of
share-based
payments - - - - 220 (218) 2
Share-based
payment
charge - - - - - 462 462
Transactions
with equity
holders - - - - (216) (587) (803)
Loss for the
period - - - - - (1,346) (1,346)
Other
comprehensive
income - - - - - 11 11
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Total
comprehensive
income - - - - - (1,335) (1,335)
Balance at 30
Sept 2022 809 3,365 6,031 1,310 (886) 19,118 29,747
================ =========================================================================== ======= ======= =========== ======= ========== ========
Dividends paid - - - - - (5,363) (5,363)
Purchase of
own shares - - - - (1,052) - (1,052)
Settlement of
share
based
payments - - 250 - 474 (461) 263
Share-based
payment
charge - - - - - 394 394
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Transactions
with equity
holders - - 250 - (578) (5,430) (5,758)
================ =========================================================================== ======= ======= =========== ======= ========== ========
Profit for the
period - - - - - 3,463 3,463
Other
comprehensive
income - - - (300) - 193 (107)
================ =========================================================================== ======= ======= =========== ======= ========== ========
Total
comprehensive
income - - - (300) - 3,656 3,356
================ =========================================================================== ======= ======= =========== ======= ========== ========
Balance at 1
April 2023 809 3,365 6,281 1,010 (1,464) 17,344 27,345
Dividends paid - - - - - (856) (856)
Purchase of
own shares - - - - (148) - (148)
Settlement of
share-based
payments - - - - 314 (293) 21
Share-based
payment
charge - - - - - 333 333
================ =========================================================================== ======= ======= =========== ======= ========== ========
Transactions
with equity
holders - - - - 166 (816) (650)
================ =========================================================================== ======= ======= =========== ======= ========== ========
Profit for the
period - - - - - 267 267
Other
comprehensive
income - - - - - (74) (74)
================ =========================================================================== ======= ======= =========== ======= ========== ========
Total
comprehensive
income - - - - - 193 193
================ =========================================================================== ======= ======= =========== ======= ========== ========
Balance at 30
Sept 2023 809 3,365 6,281 1,010 (1,298) 16,721 26,888
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Consolidated statement of financial position
as at 30 September 2023 (unaudited)
30 September 30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
------------------------------------------ --- ---------- ------------- ---------
Non-current assets
Goodwill 9,446 9,446 9,446
Other intangible assets 910 811 806
Property, plant and equipment 524 3,950 607
Trade and other receivables 852 - 942
Deferred tax assets 228 195 212
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11,960 14,402 12,013
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Current assets
Trade and other receivables 7 17,346 4,157 7,561
Tax receivables 87 53 15
Cash and cash equivalents 14,654 26,180 17,155
32,087 30,390 24,731
Assets in disposal groups classified
as held for sale 3,000 - 3,000
Total assets 47,047 44,792 39,744
=============================================== === ========== ============= =========
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables 8 (6,557) (3,910) (2,219)
Tax liabilities - - (8)
Deferred income (9,317) (10,388) (9,383)
Lease obligations (102) (96) (73)
=============================================== === ========== ============= =========
(15,976) (14,394) (11,683)
Non-current liabilities
Lease obligations (80) (194) (148)
Deferred income (3,692) - (173)
Deferred tax liabilities (411) (457) (395)
=============================================== === ========== ============= =========
(4,183) (651) (716)
Total liabilities (20,159) (15,045) (12,399)
=============================================== === ========== ============= =========
Net assets 26,888 29,747 27,345
Equity
Share capital 809 809 809
Share premium account 3,365 3,365 3,365
Merger reserve 6,281 6,031 6,281
Revaluation reserve 1,010 1,310 1,010
Own shares (1,298) (886) (1,464)
Retained earnings 16,721 19,118 17,344
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Attributable to equity holders
of the parent 26,888 29,747 27,345
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Consolidated cash flow statement
for the period ended 30 September 2023 (unaudited)
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
------------------------------------------------- ---------------- --------------- -----------
Operating activity
Profit / (loss) before tax 252 (1,056) 2,391
Adjustments for:
Depreciation of property, plant
and equipment 124 214 265
Amortisation of intangible assets 77 165 346
Finance income (314) (134) (373)
Finance expense 14 10 36
Share-based payments 333 462 856
Loss on sale of property, plant
and equipment - 13 13
Operating cash flows before movements
in working capital 486 (326) 3,534
==================================================== ================ =============== ===========
(Increase) / decrease in receivables (9,785) 23,228 18,882
Increase / (decrease) in payables 7,742 (7,002) (9,184)
=================================================== ================ =============== ===========
Cash generated from / (used in)
operations (1,557) 15,900 13,232
Income tax receipts (net) 15 339 472
Net cash generated from / (used in)
operating activities (1,542) 16,239 13,704
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Investing activities
Interest received 314 134 373
Purchase of property, plant and
equipment (37) (180) (173)
Purchase of intangible fixed assets (21) - (97)
Capitalisation of development costs (160) (118) (247)
Net cash generated from / (used
in) investing activities 96 (164) (144)
Financing activities
Dividends paid (856) (831) (6,194)
Lease repayments (39) (50) (102)
Interest paid (14) (10) (36)
Purchase of own shares (148) (436) (1,488)
Exercise of share options 2 2 (15)
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Net cash used in financing activities (1,055) (1,325) (7,835)
Net increase/(decrease) in cash
and cash equivalents (2,501) 14,750 5,725
Cash and cash equivalents at start
of period 17,155 11,430 11,430
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Cash and cash equivalents at end
of period 14,654 26,180 17,155
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Notes to the financial statements
1. Change of name of Company
On 17 November 2023, the Company changed its name from D4t4
Solutions plc to Celebrus Technologies plc. With the repositioning
of the Company over the last two years to being predominantly a
software business and recognising that the Celebrus platform will
be the principal driver of future growth and shareholder value
creation, the new name better reflects the substance of the Group's
activities.
2. Basis of preparation
These consolidated interim financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting
Standards ("IFRS") as adopted by the UK and on a historical basis,
using the accounting policies which are consistent with those set
out in the Group's annual report and accounts for the year ended 31
March 2023. The interim financial information for the six months to
30 September 2023, which complies with IAS 34 'Interim Financial
Reporting', has been approved by the Board of Directors on 27
November 2023.
The unaudited interim financial information for the period ended
30 September 2023 does not constitute statutory accounts within the
meaning of Section 435 of the Companies Act 2006. The comparative
figures for the year ended 31 March 2023 are extracted from the
statutory financial statements which have been filed with the
Registrar of Companies and contain an unqualified audit report and
did not contain statements under Section 498 to 502 of the
Companies Act 2006.
3. Business and geographical segments
The Group operates as a single business with no separation into
divisions or allocation or people or assets to a particular
division or product group. The management team is responsible for
all products with no individual having responsibility for a
particular product or product group. This is consistent with the
internal reporting for management purposes. Management does however
monitor revenues by revenue type due to the differing margins of
each revenue type.
The revenue analysis set out below is consistent with that
provided to the Board of Directors.
Six months ended Year ended
Business Segments 30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------- -------- -------------
Licenses 2,517 970 8,198
Celebrus Cloud Hosting, support
and maintenance 3,843 3,785 7,771
Services 928 1,439 3,173
--------- -------- -------------
Software revenues 7,288 6,194 19,142
Third party products 5,718 1,939 2,227
========= ======== =============
Revenue 13,066 8,133 21,369
--------- -------- -------------
Six months ended Year ended
Geographical information 30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------- -------- -------------
United States of America 9,221 4,973 11,055
United Kingdom 1,644 1,533 3,800
Rest of Europe 1,936 794 3,745
Others 205 833 2,769
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13,006 8,133 21,369
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The geographical revenue segment is determined by the domicile
of the customer.
4. Administration expenses
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------- -------- -----------
Operating expenses 4,946 4,519 9,448
Amortisation of intangible assets 77 165 346
Share-based payments 344 462 856
Net foreign exchange differences (482) (849) (330)
Restructuring costs 24 15 513
Administration expenses 4,909 4,312 10,833
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5. Adjusted profit before tax
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------- -------- -------------
Profit / (loss) before tax 252 (1,056) 2,391
Amortisation of intangible assets 77 165 346
Share-based payments 344 462 856
Net foreign exchange differences (482) (849) (330)
Restructuring costs 24 15 513
========= ======== =============
Adjusted profit / (loss) before tax 215 (1,263) 3,776
--------- -------- -------------
6. Earnings per share
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------- -------- -------------
Profit / (loss) attributable to owners
of the parent 267 (1,346) 2,117
Amortisation of intangible assets 77 165 346
Share-based payments 344 462 856
Net foreign exchange differences (482) (849) (330)
Restructuring costs 24 15 513
Tax on adjustments - (251) (340)
========= ======== =============
Adjusted profit / (loss) attributable
to owners of the parent 230 (1,804) 3,162
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6. Earnings per share (continued)
31
30 September March
30 September2023 2022 2023
Number Number Number
----------------- ------------- -----------
Basic weighted average number of shares,
excluding own shares, in issue 39,822,702 40,162,413 40,004,526
Dilutive effect of share options 1,145,987 943,292 825,517
Diluted weighted average number of
shares, excluding own shares, in issue 40,968,689 41,105,705 40,830,043
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Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
Pence Pence Pence per
per share per share share
----------- ----------- -------------
Basic earnings / (loss) per share 0.67 (3.35) 5.29
Diluted earnings / (loss) per
share 0.65 (3.35) 5.18
Adjusted Basic earnings / (loss)
per share 0.58 (4.49) 7.90
Adjusted Diluted earnings / (loss)
per share 0.56 (4.49) 7.74
7. Trade and other receivables
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------- -------- -------------
Trade receivables 13,888 1,827 4,967
Other debtors - 128 45
Prepayments 1,117 620 1,295
Accrued income 2,341 1,582 1,254
========= ======== =============
17,346 4,157 7,561
--------- -------- -------------
8. Trade and other payables
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------- -------- -------------
Trade payables 5,326 163 585
Other taxes and social security 204 227 382
Other creditors 213 466 76
Contingent consideration - 500 -
Accruals 814 2,554 1,176
6,557 3,910 2,219
--------- -------- -------------
9. Dividends
Six months ended Year ended
30 September 31 March
2023 2022 2023
GBP'000 GBP'000 GBP'000
--------- -------- -------------
Amounts recognised as distributions
to equity holders
Final dividend for the year ended
31 March 2023 of 2.15p (FY23:
2.07p) 856 - -
Final dividend for the year ended
31 March 2022 of 2.07p (FY21:
2.0p) - 831 831
Special dividend for the year
ended 31 March 2023 of nil p
(31 March 2022: 12.5p) per share - - 5,012
Interim dividend for the year
ended 31 March 2023 of 0.88p
(FY22: 0.85p) - - 351
856 831 6,194
--------- -------- -------------
An interim dividend of 0.92p per share will be paid on 12
January 2024 to Members on the Register as at 8 December 2023. The
shares will become ex-dividend on 7 December 2023.
10. Investor presentation and Capital Markets Day
The investor presentation will be available on the company's
investor website https://investors.celebrus.com/ later today.
Bill Bruno (CEO) will host a live presentation for the Group's
Capital Markets Day via the Investor Meet Company platform on
Thursday 30 November at 10.00am GMT.
Investors can sign up to Investor Meet Company for free and add
to meet Celebrus via:
https://www.investormeetcompany.com/celebrus-technologies-plc/register-investor
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