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Financial performance

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Investment case

Building sustainable shareholder value

Our scale and experience form the foundations for our sustainable growth, and are core to Sage’s investment case.

Unique assets and capabilities

  • We serve a strong and loyal customer base through Sage Business Cloud, including fast-growing cloud native solutions and a resilient base of cloud connected and desktop products.
  • Our people differentiate Sage, through their dedicated and hands-on approach to solving customer problems, ensuring our technology and service retains a
    human touch.
  • Our well-established partner network of accountants and resellers, together with a growing ecosystem of ISVs, enhances our capabilities and reach.

Innovating and investing to drive growth

  • We have progressively increased investment in the business, driving innovation in Sage Business Cloud solutions and enhancing the customer experience.
  • Through our focus on innovation, we are enriching our cloud solutions with AI and Machine Learning capabilities, making them easier to use and more compelling for customers.
  • We are backing our core solutions with increased sales and marketing spend, which is leading to greater brand engagement and powering growth.

The trusted network for SMBs

  • Sage connects businesses with their customers, employees, suppliers and regulatory authorities. By leveraging this network, Sage has a significant opportunity to remove friction from and add value to these relationships.
  • By enabling network participation and enhancing the digital services available, we can attract and retain more customers to power the insights needed to develop more innovative experiences.
  • The development of the digital network builds on Sage’s well-recognised brand and reputation as a trusted advisor, renowned for keeping customers safe and compliant.

Financially robust position

  • We have a high-quality revenue base which is 95% recurring in nature, with 75% from software subscription contracts.
  • Sage is a highly cash-generative, low capital intensity business, and has achieved underlying cash conversion of over 100% for each of the last four years.
  • We balance the need for organic and inorganic investment with returns to shareholders through dividends, supplemented by share repurchases where appropriate.

A summary of our recent financial performance and strategic KPIs.


  FY22  FY21  FY20
Alternative performance measures
      
Organic total revenue £1,924m
 £1,809m  £1,725m
Organic total revenue growth
 6%
 3%
 4%
Organic recurring revenue
 £1,824m
 £1,667m
 £1,553m
Organic recurring revenue growth
 9%
 5% 8%
Recurring revenue penetration
 95%
 92% 90%
Organic operating margin
 19.9%
19.5% 22.0%
Underlying basic EPS 25.74p
 23.79p
 26.74p
Underlying cash conversion
 107%
 126% 123%
Statutory measures
      
Revenue £1,947m
 £1,846m
 £1,903m
Operating profit £367m
 £373m
 £404m
Operating profit margin
 18.9%
 20.2%
 21.3%
Basic EPS 25.47p
 26.33p
 28.38p
Dividend per share
 18.40p
 17.68p 17.25p



  FY22
  FY21  FY20
Annualised recurring revenue (ARR) growth 12%
 8% 5%
Renewal rate by value
 101%
 99%
 99%
Subscription penetration
 75%
 70% 65%
Sage Business Cloud penetration
 75%
 67% 60%


Definitions of Sage’s Alternative Performance Measures and KPIs can be found on pages 289-290 of Sage’s FY22 Annual Report and Accounts.

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