Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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We believe we have the strategy, business momentum and customer relationships to deliver significant revenue growth in 2024
And when we see that it is, what we mean to use that as a proof point for it is that we’re making good, solid, future-proofed engineering decisions within our engineering department
So we think we’re managing the opportunity appropriately and we think there’s a lot of good things ahead for us
So, we’re very proud of the results that we’re showing
We exceeded our guidance of $24.5 million by 6.5% as a result of strong customer demand for generative AI services and our ability to ramp up quickly to meet customer demand
Data engineering has been our focus for the past two decades and we believe we are quite good at it
We saw a business pick up momentum through the year as we began to seize the generative AI opportunity and we met or exceeded expectations on all fronts
We are also very pleased to announce fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA of $4.3 million, exceeding our guidance of $3.7 million by 16%
This empowering culture has enabled us to compete with other businesses at a remarkably high success rate, driving our continued growth and our achievements
We’re very proud of this achievement
And the fact that as we do the work that we’re doing with the foundation model builders, we’re also continuing to plant seeds in enterprise and to work soup-to-nuts with enterprises to figure out how do they take advantage of these technologies and seize these opportunities is, I think, planting very strong seeds for the future
One of our competitive advantages lies in providing unparalleled data quality, which serves as the foundation for successful AI implementations
Similarly, in Q4, revenue grew sequentially by $3.9 million and adjusted EBITDA grew sequentially by $1.1 million
From a perspective of capabilities for what we need today, I think, we’re very, very well covered and we’ve got very strong talent in place
We are optimistic we will grow revenues with all three of these customers in 2024
What I see that we’re doing a great job at is creating very high quality datasets that our customers are able to use and incorporate into large language models to get the performance from the models that they’re seeking
We think that that’s a very strong statement for a company that has been able to keep pace with others of our competitors who are more significantly funded than we are and to compete aggressively with them and win deals against them
We’re very happy with the quarter
We beat both top and bottomline guidance and we entered three-year, $23 million per year deal with a key Big Tech customer for the program we kicked off mid last year, a testament clearly to how highly they valued our collaboration
We’re very proud of the quality of the partnerships that we’re achieving
So, to the extent that the data engineering that we provide to them is helping them achieve that, well, that obviously is a very, very good thing
We had a very good quarter with that customer in Q4
It’s a huge achievement and what that came with was a lot of wonderful things that the customer had to say about us, about the value of the data, exactly like you just said, and about the quality of the experience that they have with us
So we think we’re doing good, we’re very well poised for an exciting year next year and we’re very excited about that
Goldengate does very specific things that are good for us and good for our customers in our business
We also love what we’ve done with the product, we believe we’ve taken a leadership position as the first end-to-end public relations and media intelligence platform to integrate generative AI
We think we executed the Agility business very well in 2023, growing at 15% in a difficult macro environment
It had a strong adjusted gross margin of 69% over 2023 as a whole and 74% in Q4
My team and I are energized by what we’ve accomplished in 2023 and we’re excited about what we will accomplish in 2024
This is where our distinct advantage comes to play, as we’ve been consistently delivering high-quality data at scale for 30 years
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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And at IBM, the reason we had so much trouble on 80% of our deals was inaccuracy
The question I got recently is, how does revenue per employee compare in your different lines of business? The answer is that revenue per employee is lowest in our managed services business, while it is multiple times higher in our AI data engineering scaled services
The comparative period included $0.5 million in revenue from the large social media company that underwent a significant management change in the second half of last year, as a result of which it dramatically pulled back spending across the Board
Unidentified Analyst Because I’m seeing a net loss of $1.35, again, for the year
So I think as you go from enterprise-to-enterprise, firstly, I think, it’s almost inconceivable that there will be enterprises who won’t be affected and likely benefited from these technologies if they seize them correctly
I was pleasantly surprised to see that the company made a profit based on the recent performance
Jack Abuhoff … significantly and I think the business is not that difficult to model
Adjusted EBITDA was $9.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, compared to adjusted EBITDA loss of $3.3 million in 2022
It was a phenomenon
That said, and as a cautionary note, investors should understand that there are a number of ways under the SOW that the customer could terminate early or reduce spend if it chose to
Further, another question was about cost-plus transfer pricing agreement with our offshore subsidiaries
Beginning in Q1 2024, revenue from this customer will no longer provide a drag on year-over-year comparisons
So it was pretty abrupt
I’m looking at the numbers from the press release and it looks like Agility had a $1.3 million GAAP loss
Net income for the quarter ended December 31, 2023 was $1.7 million or $0.06 per basic share and $0.05 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $2 million or $0.07 per basic and diluted share, in the same period last year
The last question that I’ve gotten is whether is there any structural reason that Innodata would be expected to lose more money as it generates more revenue? The answer to this is absolutely not
Unidentified Analyst I’m looking through the announcement and it’s unclear
   

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