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| We continue to see exciting opportunities and growth potential in the dynamic realm of cloud technology and managed services |
| It may even get -- we may even get better margins because of this -- of the rebate policies of most of them, so we can improve the margins on the percentage side |
| As we look at our business, we see that we continue to leverage our digital technologies and cloud-based platforms to create strong demand for our innovative software solution and services |
| We similarly continued to see excellent execution by our teams |
| We believe that our ability to maintain the profitability of our operations will keep our balance sheet strong and will enable us to invest to drive revenue growth as soon as the opportunity presents itself |
| What sets Magic apart is its deep domain expertise, a customer-centric approach and a proven track record of delivering successful cloud transformation |
| In the third quarter of 2023, our non-GAAP operating margin held strong at approximately 13.3% of our revenue, 10 basis points higher compared to the margin during the first half of 2023 and 20 basis points higher compared to the corresponding period last year |
| This demonstrates our strong performance in the region and reconfirms our long-term strategic decision to focus on mature, stable and technology-driven factors; such as healthcare, which account to 25% of our revenue; defense, which accounts for 10%; finance 20% and the public sector, which accounts for 5%, which allowed us to partially compensate for the current slowdown we experienced in North America |
| We hope everyone is safe in Israel, but could you remind us of the makeup of your delivery in other countries and your ability to transfer work to other locations? If you have my short brief, as I said, currently, except for the 200 people that are currently being drafted -- actively drafted, basically, we have good work and good business relationships still going on with our clients |
| We -- we have a well-established track record of growth, profitability and a high cash generation and the Magic team worldwide is committed to executing our strategy to deliver growth and continue improving our shareholders' value |
| Our team of seasoned professional leverage their expertise across the three major cloud platforms, AWS, GCP and Azure, and we are well-positioned to provide our customers with the optimal solutions tailored to their unique needs |
| Setting aside the factor that slow us down -- the slowdown of revenues in North America, which were beyond our control, we experienced another quarter of solid performance recorded across all other parts of our business |
| As such, we will be able to continue to fortify our position as the leading software solutions and IT service global vendor |
| We recognize that the cloud is not just a technology shift, it's a transformative journey that demands expertise, dedication and innovation to which we bring industry-leading best practices, ensuring that our clients' cloud deployment meet the highest standards of performance, scalability, security and reliability |
| Despite a significant currency headwind and the problems with our US-based revenue in Q3 we were nevertheless able to increase our gross margin for the third quarter of 2023 by 130 basis points to 29.4% of revenue mix or $38.1 million compared to $28.1 in the same corresponding quarter of 2022, in which it was $40.5 million |
| Despite all of those difficulties working against us, we continue to plow forward with our worldwide dedication and confidence that we can continue to execute on sales of our world-class suite of products and in providing related services |
| The global cloud services market continues to experience rapid growth with businesses of all sizes recognizing the benefit of migrating to the cloud |
| We have seen even in this challenging environment that outstanding execution by our team and our adherence to our cost structure enable to maintain our profitability, despite the lower revenue |
| This slowdown the inherent scalability -- this shows the enhanced scalability and defensibility of our business model and our ability to maintain our operating margin, whether our revenues rise or fall |
| We have made it our mission to assist businesses in overcoming the challenges associated with migrating to the cloud and achieving through SaaS excellence |
| Our suite of managed cloud services, which includes services such as NOC-as-a-Service, SOC-as-a-Service, DevOps-as-a-Service, TeamOPs-as-a-Service [ph] and much more tailored to address critical aspects of cloud operation, empowering our clients to focus on their core competencies, while leading the management and optimization of the cloud environment to us |
| On a constant currency basis, revenues for the third quarter of 2023 of our Israeli operation would have increased by $7.2 million year-over-year to $60.3 million, reflecting a year-over-year growth of 13.6% in real terms |
| In summary, we acknowledge that while short-term conditions are not ideal, we are nevertheless optimistic that in 2024, once the major part of the work is behind us and arise, customers return to full operation, they will resume to, engage us to an increasing degree, as a preferred partner for innovative digital transformation initiatives |
| But that said, we have taken a very conservative approach and feel very comfortable with this guidance range |
| We are working mainly with Azure and with AWS, and we are now establishing a much deeper relationship also with GCP, so we expect these revenues to continue to rise |
| And every time we succeeded in bringing good news to our investors, and we hope that we'll bring that sooner rather than later to you guys |
| I would like to thank our clients and shareholders for their continued support and trust, and we look forward to continue to deliver results on your behalf |
| Today, we put our focus on helping our clients to transition seamlessly to the cloud, enhance their Software-as-a-Service capabilities and deliver acceptation value to our comprehensive suite of managed cloud services |
| The revenue from our Israeli operation amounted to $54 million, up by 2% compared to $53.1 million reported on Q3 of 2022 |
| On a constant currency basis, calculated based on average currency exchange rates for the three months ended September 30, 2022, revenues for the third quarter of 2023 would have decreased by approximately 6% compared to the third quarter of 2022 to $135.3 million, $5.5 million higher than our reported revenue figure for the quarter |
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| And two, a substantial and unexpected decline in demand for our software services from several of our important US-based customers carrying low gross margins which without any advanced notification and due to internal reasons unrelated to our software services decided to immediately suspend significant parts of their active time and material-based projects |
| The absence of Israeli employees who were drafted for active military service since the beginning of the war in October 7, together with a decline in demand for our software services from several of our for important U.S.-based customers and the continued challenging macroeconomic environment of high interest rates, persistent inflation and reduced capital spending have caused us to anticipate significantly lower revenues for the fourth quarter in the range of $115 million to $125 million |
| One, currency headwinds caused by significant deterioration of the new Israeli shekel relative to the US dollar in 2023 which has hurt our Israeli shekel denominated operation by $6.3 million for the third quarter compared to the same period last year |
| In the third quarter of 2023, our revenue in North America amounted to $58.5 million, approximately $19.2 million or 25% lower than the Q3 of 2022 and $11 million or 15% lower compared to the second quarter of 2023, mainly due to additional CapEx made by several clients in the US, among with some of our largest customers |
| As we described in the preannouncement of our third quarter results on November 8, the reduction in our third quarter revenues was caused primarily by two factors |
| The deterioration of the new Israeli shekel against the US dollar, which we estimate will have an adverse impact on revenues also in the fourth quarter |
| Behind the results also lies the ongoing challenging macroeconomic climate, which did not help our ability to overcome the primary adverse factors that weigh against us |
| Revenue in the third quarter of 2023 decreased to $129.5 million, down approximately 10% from the third quarter of 2022 |
| Our non-GAAP net income for the third quarter decreased by 24% or $10.4 million or $0.21 per fully diluted share compared to $13.7 million or $0.28 per fully diluted share in the same period last year, which was a product of the reduction in the operating income and increase in financial expenses resulting from the increased level of debt and the increase in banking interest rate |
| The difficulties experienced by some of our largest North American customers, which carry relatively low margins, the absence of a significant portion of our Israeli workforce, which has been called to duty in the Israeli war against from us and as the general challenging macroeconomic conditions, which weigh against capital spending by our clients |
| The impact of continued devaluation of the new Israeli shekel versus the US dollar was a material factor in reducing our dollar reported Israeli market revenue |
| The fact that we are losing 200 people doing time and material work; of course, this is something that we can't compensate |
| I think that what we've seen in North America, we updated at the end of last quarter that we saw some slowdown, and we spoke to some of the big customers that were cutting some employees |
| That reflects the confluence of adverse factors that I identified towards the start of this quarter |
| All-in-all, was really unexpected, then on top of the call that we had with them before that |
| So I know that this quarter was not the best quarter for us |
| On a constant currency basis calculated based on an average currency exchange rate for the three month period ended September 30, 2022, non-GAAP operating income for the third quarter of 2023 would have would have decreased by 5% to $17.9 million |
| Towards, let's say, end of this quarter, we saw a significant reduction in force by some of the customers |
| So, as for the specific customer, I think the main hit -- or let's say, the significant hit came from this customer, while we talked to this customer last time, we understood that they are going for some kind of cutoff |
| Of course, there are some unknowns with the war that is going on now in Israel |
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