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| The momentum is evident in the numbers, and in the fact that we're raising guidance while accounting for the potential for a government shutdown |
| And that's why we're growing as well as we're growing now, and then we've had the success that we've had |
| I hope, Matt and I successfully conveyed how excited we are about both the momentum and the resilience we see in our business |
| But pulling up, we said we wanted to grow headcount 3% to 5% this year, we're at 4%, and I'm really encouraged by the numbers I'm seeing even for this quarter |
| I am so proud and so grateful to each one of my colleagues for showing the best of Booz Allen at a time of crisis and loss |
| So again, put that in the context of our overall guidance, we raised top-line 4%, adjusted EBITDA 4% and EPS 3%, plus the government shutdown assumption, we're just in a great spot |
| They are the unshakable foundation for our exceptional performance, decade after decade |
| Our Booz Allen team once again delivered industry-leading organic revenue growth, a strong bottom-line and record backlog |
| Says we're really in good shape from a demand perspective |
| We're going to remain patient, disciplined as always in our approach, but that we can meet the adjusted EBITDA target in the investment thesis for deploying less capital than anticipated, really is a testament to our organic performance |
| At that point, we saw an extraordinary opportunity |
| On the positive side, we're certainly generating more profit, our CapEx has declined, and we've improved collections |
| And we said our first-mover advantage positioned us to maximize this opportunity to accelerate our growth, to take our industry leadership to the next level and to drive outstanding shareholder value |
| But as Horacio said, it's the quality of the underlying growth and the depths of that, that really has us excited, because it gives us not just momentum but the resiliency to write out potential dislocation from a budgetary environment |
| Through this work, we combined our historical strengths in cyber tradecraft and mission understanding, with our ability to leverage key commercial technologies into scalable solutions |
| The award environment remains robust |
| We had a number of significant new wins in the first half of the year and are very encouraged by the progress our leaders have made and hiring clear talent and evolving this portfolio |
| Collections were solid for the quarter, but cash outflows remained high due to our rapid growth and continued investments in the business |
| Our Civil business revenue was up roughly 17% year-over-year, with strong performance across the board |
| Our business continues to exhibit strength across the portfolio |
| Our organic revenue growth of 9% in fiscal year 2023, and 15.7% in the first half of fiscal year '24 is well above the target range |
| Like I said, I mean, every part of our Defense business is growing nicely |
| Our exceptional top-line performance continues to be driven by strong demand for our services and solutions and steady headcount growth |
| In sum, our business is strong and our VoLT strategy is working |
| Our team continues to build both momentum and resiliency for the long-term |
| This provides us with the additional balance sheet capacity to create shareholder value over the next 18 months and beyond |
| VoLT is giving us both momentum and resiliency |
| Our management team is excited about the momentum we feel, the great work we're doing, and the value we're creating for our people, our clients, and our investors |
| Moreover, these outstanding results demonstrate our VoLT growth strategy is working |
| It was really impressive to see all the applications that you have on AI at the edge |
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| Finally, our Global Commercial business, which accounted for 1% of revenue in the quarter, declined approximately 45% year-over-year, reflecting the divestiture disclosed last fiscal year |
| Our adjusted EBITDA margin of 10.9% was approximately 150 basis points lower than the same period a year ago |
| Free cash flow for the quarter was negative $64.3 million |
| Our leadership team could not be prouder of our performance to-date |
| Adjusted net income declined 4.9% year-over-year to $169 million |
| Adjusted diluted earnings per share declined 3.7% year-over-year to $1.29 |
| Cai von Rumohr Well, last year you had a 0.1 book-to-bill, so it was particularly weak |
| It's always hard to predict quarter-by-quarter, because as you know, these things can slip in terms of awards and then the protest environment creates some uncertainty |
| But there are headwinds |
| On October 7, the world was shocked by a murderous terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas on the people of Israel |
| And the resiliency is equally important, because to your point, I mean, we do see increased uncertainty in the funding picture |
| As of now, we are decreasing our baseline capital deployment expectations to $2 billion to $3.5 billion, which is approximately $1 billion less than we had initially anticipated |
| Maybe not directly related to AI, but partially your G&A expense at least as a percentage of your sales continues to fall, and is growing certainly much slower than your sales growth |
| Those expectations indicated lower utilization of your AI workforce, just relative to your broader client-facing staff |
| We have seen clients maybe pull back in anticipation |
| Looking ahead, I don't think we're going to have a historically stellar quarter next quarter |
| As Matt pointed out, we are, at this point, making into our guidance the potential for a government shutdown |
| And we do expect billable expenses will decline in the second half |
| Is that going to be the norm that we get this very strong second quarter which we got this year? And then we should look for a very, very weak, near zero Q3, or is there any opportunity that Q3 could be a little bit better, clearly below 1, but better? Horacio Rozanski I think that -- I'll start |
| Unfunded backlog dipped 2.4% to $10.1 billion, and priced options grew 16.6% to $18.6 billion |
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