Trading update, notice of results and bond listing

RNS Number : 9757B

CentralNic Group PLC

05 February 2020

 

5 February 2020

CentralNic Group plc

("CentralNic" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Pre-close trading update for Q4 and FY2019, notice of results and bond listing

CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC), the company that supplies domain name and web services subscriptions over its proprietary platforms to millions of businesses globally, announces an update on its trading for both Q4 and FY 2019.

Trading update highlights

·    CentralNic's unaudited revenue for the financial year 2019 was US$109 million, up 95% from US$56 million in financial year 2018 (converted from GBP 42.7 million); Q4 revenue was USD 32 million

·    Unaudited Adjusted EBITDA* increased by 95% to US$18 million in financial year 2019 as compared with US$9.1 million in financial year 2018 (converted from GBP 7.0 million); Q4 Adjusted EBITDA was US$5 million

·    Team Internet contributed US$1.9m in revenue and US$0.4m of EBITDA to Q4 and FY2019

·    The unaudited net debt position as of 31 December 2019 was US$76 million, reflecting the issuance of an additional tranche of a €40 million bond on 23 December 2019 to finance the acquisition of Team Internet AG on 24 December 2019, being in line with the Company's guidance on leverage given on 15 November 2019

·    Unaudited financial revenue for financial year 2019 was in line with consensus** and the Company finished the year ahead of market consensus in Adjusted EBITDA***.

* Excludes share based payments expense, acquisition costs, FX effects and exceptional items

** Market consensus for financial revenues is US$107 million

*** Market consensus for EBITDA is US$17 million

Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic, said: "I am delighted that CentralNic has again nearly doubled its revenue in 2019, repeating this achievement in five out of the past six years. This has been achieved through a combination of earnings accretive acquisitions and steady underlying growth across our businesses. This result is particularly pleasing as the four acquisitions we completed in the course of 2019 will only now unfold their full year impact."

Notice of results

CentralNic expects to release its final results for the year ended 31 December 2019 in the week commencing 27 April 2020.

Bond Listing

Further to our announcement on 24 December 2019, as of today the additional €40 million bond issue will be trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the same ISIN NO 0010856750 as the bond issue dating 3 July 2019.

For further information:  

CentralNic Group Plc Ben Crawford, Chief Executive Officer Don Baladasan, Group Managing Director Michael Riedl, Chief Financial Officer Alex Siffrin, Chief Operating Officer	[phone]
Zeus Capital Limited (Nomad and Joint Broker) Nick Cowles / Jamie Peel (Corporate Finance) John Goold / Rupert Woolfenden  (Institutional Sales)	[phone] [phone]
Stifel (Joint Broker) Fred Walsh / Neil Shah / Alex Price	[phone]
Newgate Communications (for Media) Bob Huxford / Tom Carnegie / Robin Tozer	[phone] [e-mail]

About CentralNic Group plc 

CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) is a London-based AIM-listed company which drives the growth of the global digital economy by developing and managing software platforms allowing businesses globally to buy subscriptions to domain names and related internet services.  Its core growth strategy is identifying and acquiring cash-generative businesses in its industry with annuity revenue streams and exposure to growth markets and migrating them onto the CentralNic software and operating platforms. 

CentralNic operates globally with customers in almost every country in the world.  It earns recurring revenues from the worldwide sales of internet domain names and other services on an annual subscription basis. 

For more information please visit: www.centralnicgroup.com 

 

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