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| We have a strong track record of success integrating prior combinations, which will make the combination and integration more seamless |
| Our AI-based workforce management solution optimizes concurrent scheduling and peak management for now over 115,000 of our staff where we see better utilization and user experience for the team |
| We're pleased that we executed to deliver revenue and profit growth with strong cash flow in the third quarter |
| We experienced continued stable demand for high-value and technology-infused services, achieved solid new business signings, and our continued focus on business mix drove margin expansion |
| We entered the fourth quarter with a strong pipeline of opportunities that we believe will continue to drive our growth into 2024 |
| Adding Webhelp's talented global staff strengthens our value proposition and solidifies our position as a leading global CX solutions company |
| Our third quarter non-GAAP operating income increased to $231 million and adjusted EBITDA increased to $269 million, both growing by over 4% compared with last year |
| Solid execution yielded 10 basis point improvements in both our non-GAAP OI and adjusted EBITDA margins over last year |
| Given our continued organic growth, strong free cash flow generation and the accretive Webhelp combination, we are pleased to raise the quarterly dividend by 10% |
| And even travel, we're doing quite well at |
| And so we're seeing the benefits in our operating cost structure and scalability that we called out a number that are starting to get to scale |
| From a Catalyst perspective, we gained experience -- we again experienced sequential quarterly revenue growth with our digital CX solutions |
| Feel very, very confident about the free cash flow guide for the fourth quarter and feel really good about hitting the guide that we set out at the very beginning of the year to generate without Webhelp $0.5 billion or more of free cash flow this year |
| During the quarter, we saw steady demand across multiple geographies and verticals as clients continue to look for differentiated ways to service their customers while managing their cost structure |
| While clients are still signing smaller deals that ramp more slowly, we are pleased with the higher complexity work that we will be performing with these new wins |
| We also see a strong pipeline of opportunities as a combined Concentrix Webhelp organization that we would not have been able to pursue prior to the combination |
| From an operating perspective, we are delivering exceptional service with record client attainment scores this quarter |
| Our focus remains on being the best partner for our clients' relationships and winning more opportunities within each account |
| And then I expect significant margin improvement as synergies start to roll in, in earnest as we move into 2024 |
| And we believe this highly complementary union creates a unique customer engagement offering that will keep our business resilient through business cycles |
| It has already allowed our team to scale more cost effectively and we see additional benefits as we continue the roll out across our enterprise |
| Our most widely used proprietary AI smart assist product improves productivity through automation for over 190 team members now to easily access the tools and provide visibility to the information required to the performs of their jobs every day easier |
| Additionally, our strong cash flow generation reinforces our confidence in achieving our full year expectation of generating over $500 million in free cash flow, not including contributions from Webhelp |
| In the third quarter, revenue increased and non-GAAP profit improved, reflecting continued strong execution |
| We are well on track to achieve enhanced revenue growth, profitability and non-GAAP EPS accretion within the first year |
| Our proprietary learning bot utilizes AI to simulate real-world customer scenarios for over 60,000 team members during training, establishing better speed to proficiency, reducing new higher average processing time and improving effectiveness by 5% to 10% in the ramp period |
| And our cognitive AI bots developed for client-specific implementation will handle over 900 million customer interactions by the end of this year, delivering significant value for our clients and a higher margin service for us |
| Now across tens of thousands of seats, the platform has reviewed 129 million interactions to date, delivering 20% to 30% improvements in audit efficiency and insights into customers, clients that see high value |
| Working with one of our large technology clients in the key project this quarter, we use generative AI to power 35% efficiency gains and deliver releases 30% faster than traditional methods in their software development life cycle |
| We continue to expect the business to generate robust cash flows with free cash flow for the combined organization to be in the range of $200 million to $225 million excluding any transaction and integration costs in the fourth quarter |
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| Revenue from clients in our other vertical decreased 9% as reported and about 8% on an organic constant currency basis in the third quarter |
| So we continue to see those volumes depressed across some of our larger clients |
| Revenue from communications clients decreased by 8% as reported and 9% on an organic constant currency basis |
| So we do see pricing pressure in the highly transactional business |
| So Chris addressed that there is some continued, how should I say, slowdown in the macro that's been noted across the business |
| As I also mentioned, what we're seeing is sort of a steady rate of business from the clients that have seen decreased volumes based on consumer demand |
| But the volume is now becoming more steadily depressed if that makes sense |
| And as we've talked about it, that's about 10% of our business, although it continues to decline |
| Now it's down to 10% |
| We muted ourselves for a second |
| Net debt was $1.86 billion at the end of the third quarter, a decrease of $117 million from the end of the second quarter and a decrease of $218 million since the beginning of the year |
| I think you're a little low at $500 million |
| Please refer to today's earnings release in our most recent filings with the SEC for additional information regarding uncertainties that could affect our future financial results |
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