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Sasken Full Year FY07 Revenues at Rs 477 crore – up 55%
PAT increases by 93% YoY; Services Business crosses $100M in annual revenues

Bangalore, April 20, 2007- Sasken Communication Technologies Limited (BSE:532663, NSE:SASKEN), a pioneer in telecom R&D and support outsourcing, today announced its consolidated results according to Indian GAAP for the fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2007.

Full Year ended March 31, 2007
Consolidated Revenues: Rs 477 crore – increases 55% vs FY06
Consolidated PAT: Rs 44.3 crore – increases 93% vs FY06
Consolidated EPS: Rs 15.75/- vs Rs. 9.08/- in FY06
Dividend Declared: 40%

Quarter ended March 31, 2007
Consolidated revenues: Rs 135 crore - increases 73% vs Q4 FY06
Consolidated Profit After Tax (PAT): Rs. 11.7 crore - increases 86% vs Q4 FY06
Consolidated EPS: Rs. 4.14/- vs Rs. 2.52/- in Q4 FY06

Key Financial Highlights for Q4 FY07
  • Average collection period stands at 74 days
  • Revenue contribution from the Top five customers stood at 73.6% and from Top 10 customers at 86.3%
  • Cash and cash equivalents stand at Rs. 34.9 crore as on March 31, 2007, compared to Rs. 42.5 crore as on December 31, 2006
  • The consolidated Forex-hedged position on March 31, 2007 was
    US$ 53.9 Million
  • Average realized rate for the quarter Rs 44/- per US$
  • Dividend declared - 40%

Key Business Highlights for Q4 and Full Year FY07

  • A net total of 107 people were added this quarter (Gross Adds of 290), taking the total employee strength to 3,611 as on March 31, 2007
  • Utilization on the services side stands at 71.5%, for Q4; for the Full Year, the utilization was 75%
  • The services business delivered an EPS of Rs 7.29/- for Q4 and Rs 26.84/- for the Full Year
  • EBITDA Margins on the services side were at 20.7% for Q4 and 22.5% for the Full Year
  • Two new Design-Ins (One for the Application Framework with Lenovo Mobile, and one for Multimedia Subsystem) on the products side – both in April 2007
  • NTT DoCoMo, Japan has announced a new FOMA P903iX mobile handset developed by Panasonic Mobile Corporation (PMC) in Japan with Sasken’s Multimedia Solution – royalty bearing engagement – launched on April 19, 2007
  • 6 new customers added during the quarter; a total of 84 active customers during the year

Commenting on the performance, Rajiv Mody, Chairman & CEO, Sasken said, “The Sasken Group has delivered revenue growth of 55% and net profits have grown 93% for FY07 over FY06. The full year’s EPS stands at Rs 15.75/-, a growth of 73%. Our services business has delivered 62% growth rate in revenues and crossed a significant milestone of $100M in revenues for the full year. Our services EBITDA margins were at 22.5% for the Full Year. This is in line with the goals we had set for ourselves at the beginning of the year. One more of our key accounts has crossed $20M in annual revenues, with a third account very close achieving that milestone. This further vindicates our Tier 1 strategy,”

“Our focus this year has been to set the platform for profitable growth going forward. To this effect, we have significantly strengthened our leadership team. We are also firming up plans for entry into some new customer segments, and looking at expanding our offering portfolio. The Sasken Group’s focus continues to be the communications industry and we believe that we have the scale and the compelling value propositions to scale our business significantly,” he added.

“We continue to track our products business on the basis of set milestones. The Design-In on the Application Framework Product with Lenovo Mobile is an important step forward for us. The NTT DoCoMo P903iX by PMC phone launch in April 2007 is another royalty-bearing engagement for us in the Japanese market. Going forward, we should see Design-Wins (phone launches) happen on the Multimedia Subsystem product with various customers, including a global Tier 1 customer, in the first quarter,” Rajiv added.

The key senior management appointments made by the company in January 2007 were:

  • Poonacha Machaiah – Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
  • Rajesh Tyagi – Chief Technology Officer (Products and Services)
  • Ranganath Puranik - Senior Vice President (Global Strategy & Business Development) & Chief Strategy Officer (Products & Services)
  • Srinivasan Ramaraj - Senior Vice President, Services

The detailed financial results are given in an Annexure to this Media Release. A fact sheet providing the operating metrics for the company and a presentation for analysts can be downloaded from the investor section of www.sasken.com.

About Sasken

Sasken is an embedded telecom solutions company that helps businesses across the telecom value chain accelerate product development life cycles. Sasken offers a hybrid model of services and products, and works with Network OEMs, semiconductor vendors, Terminal Devices OEMs and operators across the world. Global Fortune 500, Tier 1 companies in each of these segments are part of Sasken's customer profile. Established in 1989, Sasken employs over 3,500 people at its offices in India, China, Finland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, UK and the U.S.

For further information, please contact:

Investor Relations

Venkatesh S
Sasken (+91 80 6694 4817)

E-Mail: svenkat@sasken.com

Media

CSV Ratna
Sasken (+91-80-6694 4996)

Manish T, Adfactors PR (+91 99455 13552)

Email: pr@sasken.com

Disclaimer
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements due to risks or uncertainties associated with our expectations with respect to, but not limited to, our ability to successfully implement our strategy and our growth and expansion plans, technological changes, our exposure to market risks, general economic and political conditions in India which have an impact on our business activities or investments, changes in the laws and regulations that apply to the Indian IT services industry, including with respect to tax incentives and export benefits, adverse changes in foreign laws, including those relating to outsourcing and immigration, increasing competition in and the conditions of the Indian and global IT services industry, the prices we are able to obtain for our services, wage levels in India for IT professionals, the loss of significant customers the monetary and interest policies of India, inflation, deflation, unanticipated turbulence in interest rates, foreign exchange rates, equity prices or other rates or prices, the performance of the financial markets in India and globally, changes in domestic and foreign laws, regulations and taxes and changes in competition in the information technology/telecommunication industries. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our Red herring filing. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.

 
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