ADVFN Logo

We could not find any results for:
Make sure your spelling is correct or try broadening your search.

Trending Now

Toplists

It looks like you aren't logged in.
Click the button below to log in and view your recent history.

Hot Features

Registration Strip Icon for charts Register for streaming realtime charts, analysis tools, and prices.

AVST Avast Plc

716.60
0.00 (0.00%)
28 Mar 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Avast Plc LSE:AVST London Ordinary Share GB00BDD85M81 ORD 10P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 716.60 716.20 716.80 0.00 00:00:00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
0 0 N/A 0

Avast PLC THIRD QUARTER TRADING UPDATE (3085Q)

18/10/2019 7:00am

UK Regulatory


Avast (LSE:AVST)
Historical Stock Chart


From Mar 2019 to Mar 2024

Click Here for more Avast Charts.

TIDMAVST

RNS Number : 3085Q

Avast PLC

18 October 2019

AVAST PLC

THIRD QUARTER TRADING UPDATE

18 October 2019

Avast plc, together with its subsidiaries ('Avast' or 'the Group'), a leading global cybersecurity provider, issues the following scheduled trading update for the third quarter of its current financial year, comprising the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 September 2019.

Financial Summary

 
 ($'m)                                                      Q3 2019   Q3 2018   Change %   Change % (excluding FX) (1) 
---------------------------------------------------------  --------  --------  ---------  ---------------------------- 
 Adjusted Revenue                                             220.3     209.8        5.0                           6.6 
 Adjusted Revenue excl. Discontinued Business and sale of 
  Managed Workplace (2,3)                                     218.3     203.4        7.3                           9.0 
---------------------------------------------------------  --------  --------  ---------  ---------------------------- 
 
 
 ($'m)                                                          9M 2019   9M 2018   Change %   Change % (excluding FX) 
-------------------------------------------------------------  --------  --------  ---------  ------------------------ 
 Adjusted Revenue                                                 647.1     613.1        5.5                       6.7 
 Adjusted Revenue excl. Discontinued Business and sale of 
  Managed Workplace                                               640.1     593.0        7.9                       9.1 
-------------------------------------------------------------  --------  --------  ---------  ------------------------ 
 

For the third quarter, Adjusted Revenue rose by 9.0% excluding FX, Discontinued Business and the sale of Managed Workplace, and 7.3% in actual rates, to $218.3m. For the year to date, Adjusted Revenue rose by 9.1% excluding FX, Discontinued Business and the sale of Managed Workplace, and 7.9% in actual rates, to $640.1m.

As expected, Adjusted Billings growth in the third quarter was similar to the 9.0% Adjusted Revenue growth, and consequently was above Adjusted Revenue growth for the year to date.

For the third quarter, Adjusted EBITDA increased 8.7% to $121.9m, For the year to date, Adjusted EBITDA increased 6.6% to $358.5m, resulting in an Adjusted EBITDA margin year to date of 55.4%(4) .

At 30 September 2019, net debt / LTM ("last twelve months") Adjusted EBITDA per the banking covenant was 1.9x and net debt / Adjusted Cash EBITDA was 1.8x(5) . Alongside continued strong organic cash flow, proceeds from the strategic partnership transaction with Ascential helped accelerate the programme of deleveraging.

Ondrej Vlcek, Chief Executive of Avast, said:

"I'm pleased to report that Avast has delivered good growth in the third quarter, consistent with our expectations at the time of the Half Year Results in August. We continue to successfully execute our growth strategy, underpinned by our platform distribution model and our global installed base of more than 435m users."

Outlook

The Group reaffirms its FY 2019 outlook for Adjusted Revenue to be at the upper end of high single digit growth, excluding FX, Discontinued Business and the sale of Managed Workplace, and broadly flat Adjusted EBITDA margin% (pre-IFRS 16 adoption).

Avast intends to report Full Year results to 31 December 2019 on Wednesday 26 February 2020.

ENQUIRIES

Investors and analysts:

Peter Russell, Director of IR

IR@avast.com

Media:

Stephanie Kane, VP PR and Corporate Communications

mediarelations@avast.com

Lulu Bridges / Jenny Boyd

Tavistock

Tel: 020 7920 3150

Notes

(1) Growth rate excluding currency impact calculated by restating Q3 2019 actual to Q3 2018 FX rates. Deferred revenue is translated to USD at date of invoice and is therefore excluded when calculating the impact of FX on revenue

(2) As the company is exiting its toolbar-related search distribution business, which had previously been an important contributor to AVG's revenues (referred to above, with the Group's browser clean-up business, as "Discontinued Business"), the growth figures exclude Discontinued Business, which the Group expects to be negligible by the end of 2019

(3) To reflect the underlying organic growth performance, growth figures exclude the impact of the Managed Workplace disposal made at the end of January 2019, through the exclusion of Managed Workplace results in February to September 2018

(4) The impact on Adjusted EBITDA and Cash EBITDA following the adoption of IFRS 16 on 1 January 2019 is $6.5m (favorable impact on EBITDA margin% by 1% point for 9M 2019).

(5) The impact of IFRS 16 on Net debt (lease liabilities) is a $69.6m increase. Leverage ratios excluding the impact of IFRS 16 would be 1.8x on Adjusted EBITDA and 1.7x on Adjusted Cash EBITDA.

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.

END

TSTGGGRCUUPBGRM

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

October 18, 2019 02:00 ET (06:00 GMT)

1 Year Avast Chart

1 Year Avast Chart

1 Month Avast Chart

1 Month Avast Chart

Your Recent History

Delayed Upgrade Clock