Sapiens Reports Solid Improvement in Third Quarter 2017 Financial Results

HOLON, Israel, Nov. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Sapiens International Corporation, (NASDAQ: SPNS; TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, with a growing presence in the financial services sector, and a member of the Formula Group (NASDAQ: FORTY; TASE: FORTY), today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017.

Third Quarter 2017 Highlights:

"Sapiens' third-quarter results show solid improvement, as evidenced by strong revenue growth, a higher non-GAAP operating profit and increased non-GAAP net income," said Roni Al-Dor, president and CEO, Sapiens. "Our quarterly results demonstrate incremental progress. Our non-GAAP operating margin improved from 4.7% in the previous quarter to 12.4%, primarily due to the successful integration of StoneRiver following our acquisition and the implementation of restructuring and cost-saving initiatives. These initiatives were enacted following the halt of the development project that we reported in the first quarter."

"All of StoneRiver's corporate functions and back-office operations have been fully integrated with Sapiens," said Al-Dor. "We are now operating as one cohesive company focused on expanding business with existing customers and growing our global customer base."

"To facilitate our customers' transformations and digital journeys, we have realigned our global operations. Sapiens launched a digital division in the third quarter focused on providing digital products and services across all company divisions," continued Al-Dor. "We also created a product strategy function that is responsible for go-to-market strategy and product innovation across our global insurance product portfolio. This group will work closely with the product, sales, marketing and client relations teams to build and communicate our unique value proposition, while maximizing synergies across products. These changes will enable Sapiens to deliver timely, targeted solutions to satisfy insurance carriers' mission-critical needs."

Al-Dor concluded: "Sapiens is maintaining our guidance for 2017 full-year revenues of $265 to $275 million (on a non-GAAP basis), which we now expect to be on the higher end. We are also maintaining expectations for a full-year operating profit margin between 9-10% (on a non-GAAP basis), which we now expect to be on the lower end of our guidance, but would continue our trend of improving profitability."

Quarterly Results Conference Call

Management will host a conference call and webcast on November 9 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time (4:30 p.m. in Israel) to review and discuss Sapiens' results.

Please call the following numbers (at least 10 minutes before the scheduled time) to participate:

North America (toll-free): +1-888-668-9141; International: +972-3-918-0609; UK: 0-800-917-5108

The live webcast of the call can be viewed on Sapiens' website at: http://www.sapiens.com/investors/presentations-and-webcast/

If you are unable to join live, a replay of the call will be accessible until November 19, 2017:

North America: +1-888-295-2634; International: +972-3-925-5927

A recorded version of the webcast will also be available via the Sapiens website, for three months at the same location.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release contains the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP revenue, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP net income attributed to Sapiens shareholders, and non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings per share.

Sapiens believes that these non-GAAP measures of financial results provide useful information to management and investors regarding certain financial and business trends relating to Sapiens' financial condition and results of operations. The Company's management uses these non-GAAP measures to compare the Company's performance to that of prior periods for trend analyses, for purposes of determining executive and senior management incentive compensation and for budgeting and planning purposes. These measures are used in financial reports prepared for management and in quarterly financial reports presented to the Company's board of directors. The Company believes that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends, and in comparing the Company's financial measures with other software companies, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors.

Non-GAAP financial measures consist of GAAP financial measures adjusted to exclude: Valuation adjustment on acquired deferred revenue, amortization of intangible assets, capitalization of software development, stock-based compensation, compensation related to acquisition, acquisition-related costs, restructuring and cost reduction costs, loss on sales of Marketable Securities and tax adjustment regarding non-GAAP adjustments.

Management of the Company does not consider these non-GAAP measures in isolation, or as an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP. The principal limitation of these non-GAAP financial measures is that they exclude significant expenses and income that are required by GAAP to be recorded in the Company's financial statements. In addition, they are subject to inherent limitations, as they reflect the exercise of judgment by management about which expenses and income are excluded or included in determining these non-GAAP financial measures.

To compensate for these limitations, management presents non-GAAP financial measures in connection with GAAP results. Sapiens urges investors to review the reconciliation of its non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures, which it includes in press releases announcing quarterly financial results, including this press release, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate the Company's business.

Reconciliation tables of the most comparable GAAP financial measures to the non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release are included with the financial tables of this release.

The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net profit, adjusted for valuation adjustment on acquired deferred revenue, stock-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization, capitalized of software development costs, compensation expenses related to acquisition, acquisition-related costs, restructuring and cost reduction costs, financial expense (income), provision for income taxes and other income (expenses). These amounts are often excluded by other companies to help investors understand the operational performance of their business.

The Company uses Adjusted EBITDA as a measurement of its operating performance, because it assists in comparing the operating performance on a consistent basis by removing the impact of certain non-cash and non-operating items. Adjusted EBITDA reflects an additional way of viewing aspects of the operations that the Company believes, when viewed with the GAAP results and the accompanying reconciliations to corresponding GAAP financial measures, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting its business.

About Sapiens

Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) is a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, with a growing presence in the financial services sector. We offer integrated core software solutions and business services, and a full digital suite for the property and casualty/general insurance; life, pension and annuities; and reinsurance markets. Sapiens also services the workers' compensation and financial and compliance markets.

Our portfolio includes policy administration, billing and claims; underwriting, illustration and electronic application; reinsurance and decision management software. Sapiens' digital platform features customer and agent portals, and a business intelligence platform. With a 30-year track record of delivering to more than 400 organizations, Sapiens' team of over 2,500 operates through our fully-owned subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information: www.sapiens.com.

Forward Looking Statement

Some of the statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "will," "expects," "believes" and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements (although not all forward-looking statements include such words). These forward-looking statements, which may include, without limitation, projections regarding our future performance and financial condition, are made on the basis of management's current views and assumptions with respect to future events. Any forward-looking statement is not a guarantee of future performance and actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statement.

These statements speak only as of the date they were made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. We operate in a changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time and it is not possible for us to predict all risks that may affect us. For more information regarding these risks and uncertainties, as well as certain additional risks that we face, please refer to the Risk Factors detailed in Item 3 of Part III of our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2016, and subsequent reports and registration statements filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Investors and Media Contact
Yaffa Cohen-Ifrah
Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Corporate Communications
Sapiens International
U.S. Mobile: +1 201-250-9414
Mobile: +972 54-9099039
Email: [email protected]

 

 

 

Debenture Covenants

As of September 30, 2017, Sapiens was in compliance with all of its financial covenants under the indenture for the Series B debentures that it issued in September 2017, based on having achieved the following in its consolidated financial results:

Covenant 1

• Target shareholders' equity (excluding minority interest): above $120 million 
• Actual shareholders' equity equal to $202 million

Covenant 2

• Target ratio of net financial indebtedness to net capitalization (in each case, as defined under the indenture for the Company's Series B debentures) bellow 65%
• Actual ratio of net financial indebtedness to net capitalization equal to (1.12)%.

On October 2017 Sapiens announces cash Dividend of $0.20 per share and $9.8 million in total. The dividend will be paid on Thursday, December 14, 2017 subject to shareholders approval.
The company will be in compliance with the covenants mentioned above, following the reflection of the announced dividend. 

SOURCE Sapiens International Corporation