Annual Financial Results - ETION · 2019-06-28 · Annual Financial Results 1 For the year ended 31...

Annual Financial Results

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For the year ended

31 March 2019

TEDDY DAKA / CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

ELVIN DE KOCK / CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Agenda Group Overview and Key

Features

Operating Context

Financial Performance

Outlook and Strategy

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Questions05

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Proviso

• Please note that matters discussed in today’s presentation may contain forward looking statements, which are subject to various risks

and uncertainties and other factors including, but not limited to:

o changes in the political and/or economic environment that would materially affect the Etion group

o changes in legislation or regulation impacting on Etion Group’s operations or its accounting policies

o changes in business conditions that will have significant impact on Etion Group’s operations

o changes in exchange rates and/or tax rates from the prevailing rates outlined in this announcement

o changes in the structure of the markets, client demand or the competitive environment

• A number of these factors are beyond Etion Group’s control

• These factors may cause the Etion Group’s actual future results, performance or achievements in markets in which it operates to differ

from those expressed or implied

• Any forward looking statements made are based on the knowledge of the Group as at 25 June 2019

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2019/06/27

Etion Presentation

Group Overview & Key Features

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Revenue

4%R572.6 M R595.7 M

Gross Margin

28,3% 30,3%

2%

Headline Earnings

108%

7,26c (0,56) c

EBITDA

49%

R60.7 M R31.1 M

Profit After Tax

108%

R33.4 M (R2.9) M

Cash generated

0,69 M 33,7 M

33 M

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Key Features

1987 Ansys established as a

defence company -providing avionic

computers / crash recorders to South

African Airforce

1998Enters Rail

2007 Lists on the

JSE

2010Enters Industrial

and Mining

2012 Restructures, with a focus on creating a sustainable and

competitive business

Level 5 B-BBEE

2013Entered telecoms

through the acquisition of

Tedaka Network Solutions

Level 4 B-BBEE

2014 Acquires Parsec as

part of drive to become IP led

provider of technology solutions

Level 2 B-BBEE

2015-2016Consolidates all

defence and cyber security as well as

mining and industrial activities within

Parsec

2017Redefine operating

segments to become a digital solutions provider

Achieve level 1 B-BBEE

Rated as the “Most empowered” company

on the JSE

2018Acquires

LAWTrust to augment current cyber security

capability and to establish a distinct cyber

business. Repositions and

rebrands to Etion to unlock the integral value

of the Etion Group

We Have Come A Long Way6

Our value proposition and positioning is to offer

• Integrated and seamless solutions

That offer

• Productivity

• Safety

• Connectivity &

• Cyber security

To our clients

Our ability to present a unified value proposition across sectors

and ecosystems backed by cooperation and collaboration, is

core to our being as it will open endless opportunities for

growth.

Group Capabilities

Our Value Proposition7

Intelligence Control

CommunicationStatus

Machine ID Management

Reporting

Analytics &Machine Learning

Data LakeCyber Security

Fatality Prevention

Remote Access

Paperless

TrackingSensors

GPS Maps

Asset Tracking

Networks

Failure

Performance

Environment

ComponentHealth

Owner ControlledSecurity Posture

Agile Industry Requirements8

Frictionless Transacting Private Communication

Easy On-Boarding

Citizens

Officials

Devices

Suppliers Printing

Scanning

Couriers

Paper Storage

StoredInformation

Back Doors &Surveillance

SecretInformationPersonal

Information

Convenient Contracting

Anywhere

Any Device

Any Time

Any Browser

Privacy

Integrity

Accountability

Positive Identity

TRUST

Agile Government Requirements9

Original Design Manufacturing (ODM)

Etion Create (“Create”) designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of advanced electronic and digital technologies for internal and external customers. It develops customised and generic electronic subsystems as well as products for clients in the aerospace & defence and cyber security industries as well as in several other sectors including mining, industrial, and transportation.

Safety & Productivity Solutions

Etion Digitise (“Digitise”) specialises in digital systems that help improve the safety and productivity of client operations in sectors that include transport & logistics, mining and energy. It provides digital safety and environmental management systems that incorporate IoT devices and custom software to provide condition monitoring systems aimed at helping clients derive value from efficient asset management.

Digital Network Solutions

Etion Connect (“Connect”) offers connectivity and communications products, solutions and services for fibre wireless deployments, data and digital radio communications networks, network monitoring, power-related infrastructure solutions, and services Data Centre environments.

Cyber Security Solutions

Etion Secure (“Secure”), incorporating the newly acquired LAWTrust (effective 1 June 2018), provides cyber security solutions that focus on establishing positive identity, ensuring authenticity and protecting privacy. Solutions include SSL certificates and certificate management systems, FIDO certified strong authentication, digital signature and approval solutions, managed public key infrastructure (PKI), biometric enrolment and matching systems and insider threat prevention with the eDNA platform.

Our Growth Engines10

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IOT SOLUTIONS

Technologies• Low Power Wide-Area Network• LoRa, SigFox, RPMA, NB-IoT• GSM• Proprietary

Product Ranges

• Sensor packs • Gateway Units• Collators• Complete Systems• Automotive Intelligent Driver

(Aidr)

EMBEDDED COTS

Rural wireless networks

We develop and manufacture a wide range of embedded boards and modules aimed at high performance rugged computing solutions

Product Ranges• PCI• MPC• VPX

SOLID GUARD

Encryption Products

• SOLIDWebkey• SOLIDCase• SOLIDId• SOLIDChat• SOLIDNet

Etion Create Original Design Manufacturer (ODM)

Performance - Year-on-Year Comparative Figures

Safety and Productivity Solutions

Etion Digitise Safety and Productivity Solutions

Weigh-In-Motion rail and road scales (WIMS)

• Mobile Weigher – spot-check vehicles anywhere; static or in motion

• Accurate, cost effective wheel/axle weigh stations for all types of locomotives and rolling stock

• Portable Bogie Weighing – Can be moved to any location, eliminates the need to have fixed systems at every workshop

Vehicle Identification Systems (VIS)

• Locomotives and wagons are fitted with passive RF tags.

• Unique identity of each specific vehicle

• Controllers can access the data real time

• Provides optimisation of vehicle assignments as well as real time tracking of rolling stock

TracksideSystems

• Vehicle identification• Hot bearing detection• Load profile

monitoring• Wheel profile

monitoring• Integrated train

condition• Monitoring system• Vandal proof solar

power solution

Integrated System Display (ISD)

• The ISD serves as a human machine interface for other system in the train as trains have limited space for display systems in the drivers console.

• The ISD makes use of the protocol over the LAN to interface with other devices. Any of these protocols can be used by potential sub-systems.

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Etion Connect Solutions Portfolio

Etion Connect Digital Network Solutions

Products• Outside plant fiber• Inside plant fiber• Hardened connectivity• Structured Cabling

Services• Network design• Bill of materials design• Kitting• Fiber splicing and testing• Deployment• Maintenance and

support• Training

PASSIVE CONNECTIVITY

WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY

Rural wireless networks• Microwave links• Wireless Mesh• Towers

o Designo Manufacturingo Deployment

IOT Networks• LORA• RPMA

Smart Antenna Solutions• DAS Solutions• 5G Solutions

SECURE CONNECTIVITY

Secure Communication• Secure satellite links• Secure WANs

Gateways• Rack mount• Mobile

CONNECTIVITY INFRASTRUCTURE

Power Solutions• DC Power• AC Power• UPS• Solar solutions

Data Centre• Thermal solutions• Smart racks

Infrastructure management• Monitoring• Maintenance• SLAs

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We create trust in business interactions by providing

• trusted identity,

• secure transaction and

• digital signature solutions;

• and we ensure that security and efficiency never compromises a

great user experience

Etion SecureWe touch lives daily

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• RSA shrinking market in the short to

medium term but has opportunities

• Sub Saharan Africa – growth potential

• Middle East – growing market

• Other markets – we will be opportunistic (Put dot on Australia)

Our Market ScopeOur Market Scope16

Improve profitability over the planning window resulting in improved NPAT and EBIDTA

How will we do this?

• Focus on improved efficiencies across the business.

• Convert some of the new and promising innovations that we have produced in the past 12 months into profitable revenues.

• Enhance our product marketing to unearth our hidden gems.

• Leverage our group capabilities to provide solutions to our clients.

• Ensure that our proposals cater for the expected margin and cashflows.

• Reduce our operational overheads to be in line with or better than peer companies.

• Achieve consistently strong and reliable working capital practices group-wide.

Corporate Strategic Objectives17

Refining our Growth Engines – Customising solutions to challenges faced by each Business Unit


• We will intensify the pursuance of the game changing initiatives in Etion Create, through further investments into products and our

production facility to ensure that we remain globally competitive and aligned with global manufacturing trends.

• Grow our base of Golden clients, which effectively provide Create with a form of annuity revenue.

• We will grow our business development capacity and land at least two clients in the period.

• Remain focused on technological trends and shifts impacting our client base.

• Enhance our ODM capability through strengthening our production engineering and lean start-up capability.




• We will continue to invest in capacitating Etion Digitise in the skills required for digitalisation.

• Etion Digitise will develop high-level solutions architecture and source data analytics capability that will allow us to play down

stream in the value chain of digitalisation.

• Digitise must develop business development competences in specific domains given our aspiration to play in other market

domains beyond rail.




• Etion Secure will continue to develop a portfolio of export ready products and begin in earnest to earn significant international

sales.

• Key strategic competences that we will add include the diagnosis of each product, to identify its potential and bottlenecks/

challenges, as well as its innovative capability to solve client challenges.

Strategic Objectives20



• Etion Connect will continue to grow and defend the current VAR business as well as build a new DAS neutral host business that

will enhance the Group’s annuity earnings capacity.

• Key competences that need development in the VAR business that will have impact in 2020 are: Customer focus by customising

best solutions for our clients including low price options, and supply chain optimisation.

• Competence for building DAS Neutral Host business model that would most likely have a negative impact on 2020 goal of HEPS.

• Forging synergies across the Etion Group to launch disruptive solutions to the market.


Evolve the organisation structure to meet new demands


• We will identify areas of our business that need to be integrated

applying the principles of best fit for purposes and maximum extraction

of synergies.

• We will explore and implement a share services model for the support

functions.

• We will create an integrated financial group for the business.

• We will have an integrated human resources group for the business.

• We will make our Group Marketing and Communications function more

tailor made to support the business units.

• We will stream line the engagement between Group Digital, Marketing

and Sales to better support the business units.

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Operating Context and Financial Performance

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Contribution to Group revenue 34%

Contribution to Group profit 31%



• The decline in revenue was impacted by a depressed local

economy and delayed buying from the Middle East clients.

• While it did not run at full capacity due to reduced business

during the year under review, its operational teams introduced

new systems and continued to improve on efficiencies, quality

and delivery, to position Etion Create for the next upswing.

Etion Create


R235.8 Mto

R206.5 M

12%

Revenue

-

R38.4 Mto

R20.2 M

47%

Segment Profit

-

R103.4 Mto

R42.5 M

59%

Export Revenue

-

R2

35

,8

R3

8,4

R1

03

,4

R2

06

,5

R2

0,2

R4

2,5

R E V E N U E P R O F I T E X P O R T R E V E N U E

2018 2019

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Contribution to Group profit -1%



• Etion Digitise continued its drive to diversify from a single-client,

single-sector business.

• The business also focused on the development of new technologies

such as Autonomous Train Movement Monitoring System, Asset

Tracking, on-board and trackside energy harvesting, as well as the

digitalisation of mining systems.

• These enhancements did not yield financial results but will ensure

sustainability for the business in the short, medium and long term.

Etion Digitise


R77.0 Mto

R95.8 M

24%

Revenue

+

R8.3 Mto

R0.1 M

99%

Segment Loss

-

R7

7,0

-R8

,3

R9

5,8

-R0

,1

R E V E N U E P R O F I T

2018 2019

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• The decline in revenue is primarily due to a slow down in the fibre

network build.

• This is underpinned by the national economic downturn and

financial pressures on households and businesses, which reduced

the demand for Fibre-To-The-X (FTTX) services.

Etion Connect


R277.5 Mto

R246.7 M

11%

Revenue

-

R30.6 Mto

R13.3 M

55%

Segment Profit

-

R277,5

R30,6

R246,7

R13,3


2018 2019

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• LAWTrust’s revenue has only been reflected for ten months, which

excludes much of its annuity income which is received in the first

two months of the financial year.

• The focus of our strategy is on internationalisation of our customer

base, as well as on growing our capacity to deliver exportable

products, thereby increasing our ability to generate growth both in

South Africa and globally.

Etion Secure

Information Security Solutions

R106.9 M

Revenue

R5.4 M

Segment Profit

10 Months

R106,9

R5,4


2019

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FinancialPerformance

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Condensed consolidated statement of comprehensive incomeFor the year ended 31 March 2019

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0

119 110 10345

251

355

696

470550

25%

14%

(18%)4%

2 0 1 5 2 0 1 6 2 0 1 7 2 0 1 8 2 0 1 9

International Local

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Revenue Evolution

CAGR (FY2015-2017)+25%

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3131

Cost Management Remains a Focus

R 165,80

R-M

LAWTrust

Opex take-

on

FY2018 Once-off

Strategic

cost

LAWTrust

PPAV

Corporate

capacityMarketing

Cost

previously

in BU’s

ECL Savings in

BU’sFY2019

Condensed consolidated statement of financial position

For the year ended 31 March 2019

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33

Balance Sheet Ratio

100

90

80

70

60

50

2017 2018 2019

89,8

84,2

74,1

57,1

90

89

81,3

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Financial Performance Measurements

98,0

Debtor Days Creditor days Inventory

Working Capital Ratio

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Nedbank Facility - Key financial covenants

Financial Covenants FYE 2018 FYE 2019 TARGETFYE 2019

PRELIM ACTUAL

Interest-bearing debt to Tangible Net Worth

1,75 1,75 1,98

Annual cash-to-debt-service cover 1,30 1,30 1,18

Cumulative cash-to-debt-service cover 1,80 1,80 3,39

Management’s response to the potential breach:

• Reclassification of debt facility to current - Conservative approach

• Renegotiation of covenants once the audited FY2019 AFS are available

• Implement stringent working capital management

• Implemented cost optimisation

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Condensed consolidated statement of cash flowsFor the year ended 31 March 2019

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Capital Allocation FY 2020

Capital

Invest in the “Game Changers”

R13 M

Quality improvements in

manufacturing R4.3 M

Capitalisation of development

costs R10 M

Investment to diversify the

service offering R5 M

Products are exportable to

international markets R5 M

Capitalisation of development

costs R3 M

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Working capital discipline building on

foundation laid in FY2019

Cost management across the Group

Deliver a shared finance capability to

leverage skills across the Group

Continue improving the control environment

and finance discipline

Implement and integrate the disparate

finance systems across the group to improve

efficiencies and release synergies

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Our Finance Objectives

SIMPLIFY, FOCUS AND GROW WITH DISCIPLINE

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Outlook &Strategy

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Outlook

• Market in the short term will remain subdued.

• The digitalisation of economies continues to grow at a much faster pace, we are well

placed to take advantage of the opportunities both in South Africa and globally.

• The Middle East is our second largest market outside of South Africa, with potential for

further growth.

• We have earmarked Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a new growth market.

• The Group has made strategic investments to create capacity for the corporate office,

in Finance, Digital and Business Development, as well as Marketing as we position our

business for growth.

• This aligns to our value proposition and positioning to offer customised, integrated and

seamless solutions to our clients.

• We have commenced a strategic review across the business to identify optimisation

opportunities.

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Outlook

• We expect this to lead to an uptick in development work in new

manufacturing business.

• We are positioning ourselves to enter new IoT markets and are

exploring potential opportunities in international geographies such as

South America.

• There is still a level of uncertainty in the local mining industry, thus we

foresee slow growth in the short- to medium-term in this segment.

• Further growth is expected to be in the freight and logistics of goods,

as well as dry bulk commodities across SSA markets, driven by

cooperation among the Rail operators in the region.

• We are accessing new markets with our new technologies, as well as

the existing proven, products and solutions.

• We expect the mining sector to remain flat in the year ahead.

• We expect moderate growth in fibre network rollouts in the short-

term.

• Connecting homes historically excluded, presents opportunities for

growth in passive connectivity solutions.

• Fibre deployments are expected to increase both due to an expected

uptick in economic growth and the deployment of 5G networks that

demand higher passive connectivity.

• We envisage demand for protection against cybercrime and cyber

warfare to continue to increase across all industry sectors.

• Growth opportunity in crypto based security in all applications

including machine identity and authentication.

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Questions?

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Teddy Daka

[email protected]

Elvin de Kock

[email protected]

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