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| The company continues to expect double-digit revenue growth and industry leading stable margins |
| So quite bullish about the long-term future based on how we're seeing our business momentum |
| And overall the large deal progress, the pipeline, the interaction with customers, the travel between customers and our people up and down across sites continuously there very strong |
| This results oriented approach ensures that we're rewarded for performance and that both WNS and the client share in the value delivered |
| But it also gives us a lot of opportunity from a growth perspective because the client is intact, the relationship is there as well as we have renewed signed this contract for a much longer term, as well as it has to drive our margins |
| So we feel pretty good about the opportunity as we head into next year, both in terms the abatement of the headwinds, as well as the acceleration in some of the things that are creating challenges right now |
| In fact Vuram and the other acquisitions have been growing north of 20% much better than the company level growth |
| Despite these short-term macro challenges, demand for our services remain strong and the demand to long-term outlook is excellent |
| Our new business pipeline continues to be extremely healthy, driven by clients' need to digitize and automate their processes, as well as reduced cost |
| We also continue to see solid deal flow and client decision making with both new client additions and existing client expansions remaining robust |
| But in fact, the growth is much healthier, much better discussion what we're having, including the top line as well as driving the productivity internally as well for the client |
| What you'll see is that our business was steadily accelerating |
| So I think that's a very, very good sign |
| Other than that as Sanjay and Dave mentioned, we've also taken approvals for our buyback programs, right? So we continue to be very, very positive about the overall health of the business, the momentum that we can create for the long term |
| The latest version is powered by Gen AI and a custom natural language Query Framework to provide enhanced search capabilities, expanded category coverage and improved user experience |
| But overall, we continue to be very confident about how our business is trending, the kind of conversations we're making and the pivot the company is making around some of the new technology changes that are exciting clients |
| And clearly feedback in the early days has been extremely positive |
| Sequentially, margins increase as a result of higher volumes, improved productivity and lower SG&A costs |
| Year-over-year adjusted operating margin improvement was a result of operating leverage on higher volumes, improved productivity, lower SG&A expenses, driven by provision reversals for performance incentives and bad debt and favorable currency movements |
| So in this environment I think clients are thinking about what they want to do first, how they want to prioritize, right? And we believe that these projects will all get done, right? Clients need to do this, right? The question is, in this environment, is it now, is it next quarter, Is it in 2025, but to Sanjay's point Vuram's business remains extremely healthy, it's growing at a very nice clip |
| Extremely healthy right now in this environment |
| In the second quarter, WNS delivered healthy financial results in the face of a challenging macro environment and continues to make progress on our AI and generative AI initiatives |
| And that gives us a lot of confidence about the business momentum for WNS, as well as I would say for the sector for the long-term |
| We also remain optimistic that the company's healthy pipeline strong underlying business momentum and reducing headwinds sets the company up for accelerated growth in fiscal 2025 |
| But having said that it's much relevant, it's providing a much healthier growth as we discussed with our clients as well as the pipeline is very, very healthy across all the verticals wherever we are discussing with our existing clients, all the new logos |
| By actively embracing this technology shift, WNS remains well positioned to deliver meaningful business outcomes and help our clients create value |
| Obviously, we had a really good quarter here in terms of margin in Q2 |
| We do expect revenue per employee to increase in that 3% to 4% range, which, again, I think, gives us that long-term margin leverage and really demonstrates the shift towards the nonlinear models |
| Our sequential revenue growth was driven by broad-based momentum with both new and existing client and favorable currency movement |
| We expect these new enhancements along with future upgrades to the platform will now help drive increases in paid subscription revenue |
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| As Keshav mentioned, our revised revenue guidance includes additional headwinds from reduced volume projection from certain client, lower project revenue expectations, and delays in the ramp of our non-insurance captive |
| We've also seen a modest deterioration in demand for certain types of projects |
| Additionally, second-half visibility has also been reduced, to reflect client delays in the ramp of our large insurance carve out |
| In summary, while the macroeconomic environment is creating some challenges for WNS in the back half of this year |
| It's the healthcare clients that's creating a challenge for us this year |
| This is impacting our Analytics and Procurement businesses, including a deceleration in growth for our newly acquired entities |
| The only issue is that they're growing below what we had hoped or anticipated and below what they've grown historically |
| The reason you're seeing the US is being soft is because of the HealthCare clients, the large Internet based client and the softness in traffic |
| We have other clients, where the volumes are lower, right? So some of this is at a macro level, I think there's pressure, right? Some of this also to Sanjay's comment earlier is about client-specific issues, whether it's about changes in the business models, whether it's about market share gains and losses, right? So there are volume issues within the travel industry that go beyond just kind of macro |
| While those assets continue to grow at a healthy clip, they're growing below our expectation |
| You know, to Sanjay's point when you look at a reduction in Q3 on the topline in the 3.5% to 4% range sequentially, I think the margin profile is also going to be down |
| While second quarter results were solid, we do expect increasing revenue pressure in the second-half of fiscal 2024 driven by further reductions in volume commitments from certain clients, slowing demand for project-based work and delays in the ramp of our large insurance captive |
| In addition to seeing the volume erosion show up in September |
| And specifically in the year two, because of the infrastructure, right? Whether it's because in Tier 2 cities you have power outages you have bandwidth challenges |
| I think if you look at, again, it's hard to tell, sometimes it's very difficult and working with the client to decipher if the volume is down, is that because the macro has dropped for their services and their geography or for the type of services that they are providing versus they're losing market share to another player or they've got internal challenges that they're dealing with or they've got other structural issues |
| Our demand is really healthy, right? Where you see gaps, whether they're in a vertical, or in a geography, or in service offering, they're more about the client-specific issues that we've been talking to you about, right? So obviously, we're going to see HealthCare is weak because of the HealthCare process that we lost, right? That's also going to show up as a headwind to the US revenues |
| However, we did see some erosion in September, and have received additional reductions in volume commitments for Q3 and Q4 from certain clients |
| Just some clarification, you spoke about the travel vertical where you're seeing some weak volumes |
| And as a result, our ability to bridge that gap has dropped |
| This is the result of a wide range of issues and risks, including build and run cost, data privacy concerns, legal and regulatory issues and the inherent potential for poor data quality and false results |
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