Restated historical segment reporting
Roshan Saldanha, CFO
Thomas Heath, Chief Strategy Officer
Ola Elmeland, Investor Relations Director
APRIL 16, 2024
150,000+
business customers
800bn+
interactions per year
60+ | Scalable cloud communications |
countries with | |
platform for messaging, voice and email | |
local presence |
Pioneering the way
the world communicates
SEK 28.7bn
net sales in the past 12 months
SEK 9.5bn
gross profit in the past 12 months
SEK 3.6bn
Adj. EBITDA in the past 12 months
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Changes to our reporting
01
Reporting changes from Q1
- Sinch announced changes to its operating model on 26 October 2023.
- New organization implemented from 1 January 2024.
- Updated external reporting matches changed internal governance and accelerated product integration.
- Proforma figures for 2023 are available atinvestors.sinch.com.
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Three operating segments
- Integrated sales force now tasked to sell the full Sinch portfolio.
- Regional structure with three operating segments:
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Americas
EMEA APAC
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Americas
- Replaces earlier segments Messaging, Voice, Email, SMB.
- Will disclose Net sales and Gross profit by segment.
03
New product categories
- Financial performance by product supplements regional segment reporting.
- Updated product categories reflect accelerated product integration and focus on cross- and upselling:
- Applications API Platform Network Connectivity
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New reporting vs earlier disclosure
Previous operating segments | New operating segments | Complementary | ||||||||||||||
product view | ||||||||||||||||
SMB | APAC | Applications | ||||||||||||||
EMEA | ||||||||||||||||
Voice | API Platform | |||||||||||||||
Americas | ||||||||||||||||
Messaging | ||||||||||||||||
Network | ||||||||||||||||
Connectivity | ||||||||||||||||
Relative size reflects share of gross profit in 2023. | 4 |
Three operating segments
Americas | EMEA | APAC | ||
- Includes both North and Latin America.
- United States is the largest revenue contributor.
- Led by Julia Fraser, EVP Americas.
- 45% of all Sinch employees work in the region (across all functions).
- United Kingdom and France are the largest contributing countries by revenue.
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Led by Nicklas Molin,
EVP EMEA. - 30% of all Sinch employees work in the region (across all functions).
- India and Australia are the largest contributing countries by revenue.
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Led by Wendy Johnstone,
EVP APAC. - 25% of all Sinch employees work in the region (across all functions).
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Key financials by segment
SEKm | Americas | EMEA | APAC | Total |
Headline financials | ||||
Net sales | 17,900 | 6,953 | 3,892 | 28,745 |
Gross profit | 6,008 | 2,116 | 1,418 | 9,542 |
Gross margin (%) | 33.6% | 30.4% | 36.4% | 33.2% |
Share of group total | ||||
Net sales | 62% | 24% | 14% | 100% |
Gross profit | 63% | 22% | 15% | 100% |
Figures refer to the full year 2023. | 6 |
New product categories
Customer
Communications
Cloud
Applications
API Platform
Network Connectivity
- Software applications for customer engagement supporting use cases across marketing, operations and customer care.
- Targets business users.
- APIs allow businesses to trigger mobile messaging, voice calling, and emails from their own internal or third-party IT systems.
- Targets developers and product managers.
- Primarily voice and messaging interconnect services, operator software and services.
- Target telecom operators and wholesale voice buyers.
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Product categories by segment
Americas | EMEA | APAC | Total | |
Net sales | ||||
Applications | 6% | 13% | 31% | 11% |
API Platform | 67% | 78% | 67% | 70% |
Network Connectivity | 27% | 9% | 3% | 19% |
100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
Gross profit | ||||
Applications | 13% | 29% | 51% | 22% |
API Platform | 56% | 69% | 46% | 55% |
Network Connectivity | 31% | 12% | 3% | 23% |
100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Percentages refer to share of Net sales and Gross profit, within each Operating segment, in 2023. | 8 |
Previous segments vs new products
Share of total | Messaging | Voice | SMB | |
Net sales | ||||
Applications | 3% | 1% | 24% | 100% |
API Platform | 92% | 26% | 76% | - |
Network Connectivity | 5% | 73% | - | - |
100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
Gross profit | ||||
Applications | 11% | 2% | 23% | 100% |
API Platform | 81% | 36% | 77% | - |
Network Connectivity | 8% | 62% | - | - |
100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Percentages refer to share of Net sales and Gross profit, within each previous operating segment, in 2023. | 9 |
Updated Opex disclosure
Previously reported Adjusted Opex by segment
Other
SMB
Voice
Messaging
Will now report group Adjusted Opex by function
Sales &
marketing
Research &
development
General &
administrative
- Sinch reports group costs by nature, this remains unchanged.
- Opex, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA will be reported for the group, but not by operating segment.
- For increased visibility, Sinch will add complementary disclosure of group Adjusted OPEX by function.
Adjusted Opex = Gross profit - Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted Opex hence excludes depreciation, amortization and impairments. | 10 |
R&D expenses exclude capitalized R&D. | |
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