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| I’m proud of our ability to serve our customers across 18 countries spanning across North America, Europe, and India |
| This brings the number of new enterprise logos in 2023 to [indiscernible] This is a record number of new logos for us and is a testament to our reputation with large global enterprises |
| Existing customers appreciate our value, and in 2023 we established a record number of new customers |
| In 2023, we added 33 new logos, which is a strong testament to our differentiation in a year where customers were more selective toward business to digital providers |
| Our fourth quarter revenue of $78.1 million was slightly ahead of our guidance range of $76 million to $78 million and exceeded Wall Street expectations |
| In supply chain manufacturing, pharmaceutical and financial services, which is area of focus with our GigaCube initiatives, the ability to offer unique and differentiated offerings has resulted in accelerated acceptance across a wide range of customers |
| As a result, this client expects to improve customer conversion and user experiences, leading to increase in sales across both B2B and B2C channels |
| On the macro front, I’m happy to report that the demand environment is improving |
| Saying that again, that gives me the confidence for some of the upswing for the company, but also I see the return back to the positive momentum on our existing logos |
| We’re also seeing the positive trends with our four companies’ specific factors |
| GigaCube initiatives, with GigaCube we continue to make good progress |
| And echoing that was good to see the sales momentum continue in the quarter |
| This bodes well for the company’s growth in 2024 |
| It was another quarter of solid execution and continued focus on our stated goals |
| I’m bullish on expanding and monetizing more partnership opportunities in 2024 and beyond |
| Looking forward to 2024, we have strong momentum with hyperscalers and leading digital commerce SaaS companies, as well as other specialized software providers |
| Again, this is impressive given that we embarked on this strategy in 2021 and within a short period of two years we have achieved such impressive results |
| Our follow the sun strategy has been successful with our clients |
| As you have seen from our published results, Grid Dynamics’s fourth quarter revenues were above our guidance range and exceeded Wall Street expectations |
| During the fourth quarter, we made good progress with the proof of concepts and customer projects related to artificial intelligence |
| Nice to see the strong KPIs in the quarter and business stabilization throughout this more difficult macro period |
| Third, our partnership-driven revenues are growing steadily |
| For a leading global technology company, Grid Dynamics enhanced the recommendation engine, one of the largest online streaming services |
| This resulted in significant improvements in the relevancy recommendations and the system’s capability to self adjust in real-time |
| We successfully implemented cutting-edge machine learning, heuristic techniques to enhance the quality of the data used by recommendation engine |
| The vertical was up nicely |
| And finally, at the large clean energy company, we are enhancing their sustainable ESG initiative |
| During the quarter, we made good progress in expanding our footprint across industry verticals with our existing and new European clients |
| We entered 2024 with a marked improvement in sentiments from a year ago |
| Our billable headcount continues to grow, our AI activity is robust, and the headwinds from a handful of clients continue to diminish |
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| Second, drops in revenue across some of our large existing customers are moderating |
| During the fourth quarter, Retail, our largest vertical, representing 31.5% of our revenues, decreased by 7.4% on a sequential basis and by 4.2% on a year-over-year basis |
| Having just one account been so much bigger than everything else, that’s another bit of a challenge |
| The decrease in gross margin as a percentage on a year-over-year basis, both on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis was largely due to a combination of FX headwinds, costs associated with expansion into new geographies and other investments |
| The year-over-year decline in non-GAAP EBITDA as a percentage was largely due to a combination of decline in gross margins, increase in operating expenses related to acquisitions, and investments into our sales organization |
| On a sequential basis the decline was largely from specialty retail offset by strength in home improvement, TMT, our second largest vertical, represented 31% of our fourth quarter revenues, grew 1.9% on a sequential basis and decreased by 10.9% on a year-over-year basis |
| On a non-GAAP basis, our gross profit was $28.6 million, or 36.6% versus $28.7 million, or 37%, in the third quarter of 2023 and down from $32.7 million, or 40.6%, in the year ago quarter |
| So we’ve seen others struggling |
| The weakness in the retail like was that one big client or.. |
| To put it in perspective, in 2023, the considerable revenue headwinds we faced were limited to a handful of existing customers |
| Our CPG and Manufacturing represented 12.4% of our revenue in the fourth quarter, flat on a sequential basis and decrease of 31.3% on a year-over-year basis |
| So you’re getting me into trouble |
| On a sequential basis, our revenue grew 0.8% and was down 3.1% on a year-over-year basis |
| This remained on the same level compared to the third quarter of 2023 and slightly decreased from 8.9% in the year ago quarter |
| A lot of disruption happened with AI tools |
| It would have been not as exciting |
| Moving to the income statement, our GAAP gross profit during the quarter was $28.1 million, or 36% and remained flat compared to $28.2 million or 36.4% in the third quarter of 2023 and down from $32.3 million, or 40.1%, in the year ago quarter |
| During the fourth quarter we had a total of 218 customers, down from 224 in the third quarter of 2023 and flat in the year ago quarter |
| But our model of 2020, no matter how difficult it sounds today with where we are, it’s unrelenting pursuit |
| And as you know, traditionally, at least from Grid Dynamics perspective, from our client perspective, there is always what I call the bit of a turnover from the projects and business directions between the late Q4 and early Q1 |
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