REG - Skillcast Group PLC - Full Year Trading Update

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31/01/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 4329B  Skillcast Group PLC  31 January 2024

 

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31 January 2024

 

Skillcast Group plc

("Skillcast", the "Group", or the "Company")

 

Full Year Trading Update

 

Strong growth in ARR - increasing by 37%

 

Skillcast Group plc, the provider of SaaS compliance platforms and
off-the-shelf e-learning, is pleased to announce a trading update for the year
ended 31 December 2023, a further year of strong growth in annualised
recurring revenue ("ARR")*.

 

The Group's revenue for 2023 is expected to be c. £11.3 million, 15% higher
than the previous year (2022: £9.8 million). The revenue growth is entirely
organic and driven by strong growth in recurring subscription revenues, which
increased by 28% to £8.5 million (2022: £6.7 million). Recurring
subscription revenues represented 76% of total Group revenues in 2023 (2022:
68%). Professional services revenues were 12% below the previous year at £2.8
million (2022: £3.1 million).

 

The ARR* grew by 37% from £6.8 million in December 2022 to £9.3 million in
December 2023, driven by new customer acquisition and sales of new products.
This, combined with a strong pipeline of new business, means that the Group is
well positioned to continue to achieve its revenue objectives over the next
year.

 

LBITDA is expected to be no higher than £0.8 million (2022 LBITDA: £0.3
million).

 

The Group's net cash position at 31 December 2023 was £7.2 million (31
December 2022 net cash: £7.7 million). This represents c. 8p per ordinary
share in the Company.

 

The Company expects to announce its full year results and recommend a final
dividend for the year ended 31 December 2023 in April 2024.

 

 

Vivek Dodd, CEO of Skillcast, said:

 

"We are delighted with our performance in 2023. Our SaaS subscriptions ARR
growth rate accelerated from 16% in 2022 to 37% in 2023. This validates our
two-year plan to accelerate our technology and sales investment since our IPO
in December 2021.  We now have the products and key personnel to sustain
growth and return to profitability in the second half of 2024. We look forward
to sharing more when we announce our full-year results in April."

 

 

 

* ARR is calculated by annualising revenue recognised in a given month from
all client subscriptions on annual contracts

 

For further information, please contact:

 Skillcast Group plc                                          +44 (0) 207 929 5000

 Richard Amos, Chairman

 Vivek Dodd, CEO

 Richard Steele, CFO

 Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)       +44 (0) 203 328 5656

 James Reeve / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance)

 Jos Pinnington / Tony Quirke (Corporate Broking and Sales)

 

About Skillcast Group plc

Skillcast helps companies build ethical, inclusive, and resilient workplaces.
It provides content and technology to digitise and streamline compliance
processes and manage them from a single compliance portal. Its product range
includes a Learning management system with comprehensive off-the-shelf
compliance course libraries, a Policy hub, Staff declarations, Anonymous
surveys, CPD tracking, and compliance registers for gifts, expenses, PA
dealing, whistleblowing.

 

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