Bangalore: Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) today announced financial results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the quarter  ended June 30, 2020.

Highlights of the Results

Results for the Quarter ended June 30, 2020:

• Gross Revenue was ₹1 billion ($2.0 billion¹), an increase of 1.3% YoY
• IT Services Segment Revenue was at $1,921.6 million¹, a decrease of 5.7% YoY
• Non-GAAP² constant currency IT Services Segment Revenue decreased by 4.4% YoY
• IT Services Operating Margin³ for the quarter was at 19.0%, an expansion of 0.6%YoY
• Net Income for the quarter was ₹9 billion ($316.5 million¹), an increase of 0.1% YoY
• Earnings Per Share for the quarter was at ₹20 ($0.06¹), an increase of 5.7% YoY
• Operating Cash Flows was at ₹8 billion ($553.6 million¹), which is 174.9% of Net Income

 Performance for the quarter ended June 30, 2020

Thierry Delaporte, CEO and Managing Director said, “I am deeply honored to lead Wipro, an extraordinary company and an exemplary corporate citizen with a deep technology heritage built on a strong foundation of values. I have great respect for the work done by the Azim Premji Foundation, its 67% economic ownership of Wipro adds greater meaning to what we do. Profitable growth will be the most important priority on my agenda. I am confident that we will be able to deliver long-term, sustainable growth in the interest of all our stakeholders.”

Jatin Dalal, Chief Financial Officer said, “We expanded the margins during the quarter, despite lower revenues, on the back of solid execution of several operational improvements and rupee depreciation. We also continued to sustain robust cash generation with Operating Cash Flows at 174.9% of Net income.”

IT Services

Wipro continued its momentum in winning large deals with our customers as described below:

• Wipro has been selected by John Lewis Partnership, one of the UK’s leading retail groups, as a strategic partner to help drive its retail transformation agenda. As part of this, Wipro will deliver state-of-the-art technology infrastructure services, leveraging its capabilities in Cloud, Digital, Cyber Security, Wipro HOLMES™ our Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation Platform
• Wipro has been awarded a strategic, multi-year infrastructure modernization and digital transformation services engagement by Germany-based energy company E.ON. Wipro will transform E.ON’s legacy data center operations to a hybrid cloud model by leveraging its strong energy value chain expertise in a prosumer driven world, Boundary Less Enterprise (BLE) framework and Wipro HOLMES™. Wipro’s consumption-based hybrid cloud hosting strategy will ensure a superior and secure customer environment spanning Perimeter & Endpoint security, threat detection & response, and Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Wipro has won a managed services contract from a multinational European automobile manufacturer to modernize and automate its engineering operations, leveraging Digital Rig, the client’s differentiated digital solution. With its strong domain expertise, globally-integrated delivery model and Wipro HOLMES™, Wipro will drive major transformations to enhance service quality and user experience
• Wipro has won a strategic multi-year engagement with a leading global investment management firm to transform and manage its entire technology development services and infrastructure. The scope includes applications development and maintenance, quality engineering services, and infrastructure services comprising datacenter operations, networks, and service desk support. This contract adds to the operations engagement that the customer awarded Wipro last year. Wipro will leverage its strong digital expertise and hyper automation capabilities powered by Wipro HOLMES™ to transform the client’s application and infrastructure estate, driving additional synergies via an integrated technology-infrastructure-operations construct

Digital & Cloud Application Services Highlights

We continue to see increasing traction in digital oriented deals as illustrated below:

• Wipro has secured a contract from a US-based food distribution company to deploy its CoTrack solution to meet the demands of the changing workplace due to the current pandemic. This wearable solution will enable the customer to maintain social distancing within the distribution center by sending real-time alerts in case of any violation. The solution will also enable contact tracing
• Wipro has secured a strategic cloud contract from a food and beverage conglomerate to transform their operations and accelerate their digital journey, by improving agility, scalability and cost efficiencies. Wipro will strengthen advanced analytics capabilities to drive business value and offer analytical services to all entities within the organization
• Wipro has won a digital engagement with a European health system to build and accelerate AI-powered applications and services, helping improve healthcare access and treatment for its patients
• A US-based multinational conglomerate has selected Wipro to transform their Identity & Access Management services to meet the demands of the new normal. As part of the engagement, Wipro will enhance the customer’s current security environment and enable them to transition to the new solution
• Wipro’s crowdsourcing platform Topcoder has won a data science challenge from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation working with the NASA Tournament Lab. This challenge seeks to improve short-term streamflow forecasts via a year-long competition. Accurate stream flow forecasts enable efficient operation of water resource systems and may also be used as warning for floods. Participants will develop and implement their methods for locations across the western United States and attempt to outperform the current streamflow forecasts

Partner and Analyst Recognition

• Wipro Limited has been recognized as the Application Innovation and Data Estate Modernization 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year for our achievements in the Azure category
• Wipro has been awarded the Storage Ecosystem Partner of the Year 2020 by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for storage solutions
• Wipro was positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape EMEA Digital Transformation Service Providers for Oil and Gas Industry (Doc #EUR146159020, Apr 2020)

 

• Wipro was positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2020 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US45439120, Apr 2020)
• Wipro was recognized as a Leader in Everest Group’s Internet of Things (IoT) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020
• Wipro was recognized as a Leader in Everest Group’s Open Banking IT Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020
• Wipro was positioned as a Leader in Everest Group’s IT Security Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020
• Wipro was recognized as a Leader in Everest Group’s Healthcare Payer Operations – Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020
• Wipro was featured in HFS TOP 10 Salesforce services 2020
• Wipro was positioned as a Leader in multiple quadrants in 2020 ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft Ecosystem Report

for USA and Germany

• Wipro was positioned as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, Worldwide, Craig Lowery et al., 4 May 2020

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State of IT Infrastructure 2020 Report

Wipro released its ‘State of IT Infrastructure 2020’ report which provides a multi-dimensional view of how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact IT infrastructure trends in the immediate future

 

IT Products

• IT Products Segment Revenue for the quarter was ₹3 billion ($29.9 million¹)
• IT Products Segment Results for the quarter was a profit of ₹12 billion ($1.6 million¹)

India business from State Run Enterprises (SRE)

• India SRE Segment Revenue for the quarter was ₹1 billion ($28.0 million¹)
• India SRE Segment Results for the quarter was a loss of ₹10 billion ($1.3 million¹)

Please refer to the table on page 9 for reconciliation between IFRS IT Services Revenue and IT Services Revenue on a non-GAAP constant currency basis.

About Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release contains non-GAAP financial measures within the meaning of Regulation G and Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K. Such non-GAAP financial measures are measures of our historical or future performance, financial position or cash flows that are adjusted to exclude or include amounts that are excluded or included, as the case may be, from the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with IFRS.

 

The table on page 9 provides IT Services Revenue on a constant currency basis, which is a non-GAAP financial measure that is calculated by translating IT Services Revenue from the current reporting period into U.S. dollars based on the currency conversion rate in effect for the prior reporting period. We refer to growth rates in constant currency so that

business results may be viewed without the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, thereby facilitating period-to-period comparisons of our business performance. Further, in the normal course of business, we may divest a

portion of our business which may not be strategic. We refer to the growth rates in both reported and constant currency Adjusting for such divestments in order to represent the comparable growth rates.

This non-GAAP financial measure is not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles and should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with IFRS and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. In addition to this non-GAAP measure, the financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS and the reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures with the most directly comparable IFRS financial measure should be carefully evaluated.

Results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, prepared under IFRS, along with individual business segment reports, are available in the Investors section of our website www.wipro.com

Quarterly Conference Call

We will hold an earnings conference call today at 06:45 p.m. Indian Standard Time (09:15 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time) to discuss our performance for the quarter. The audio from the conference call will be available online through a web-cast and can be accessed at the following link- https://links.ccwebcast.com/?EventId=WIP200714

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An audio recording of the management discussions and the question and answer session will be available online and will be accessible in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.wipro.com