Digitally Signed by Aditya Goswami Date: 2024.11.11 07:57:44 +05'30'
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Digitally signed by
ADITYA ADITYA GOSWAMI
DIGITAL
INFRASTRUCTURE D ATA C E N T E R
November 2024
SAFE HARBOUR
This presentation and the accompanying slides (the “Presentation”), which have been prepared by Black Box Limited
have been prepared solely for information purposes and do not constitute any offer, recommendation or invitation to
purchase or subscribe for any securities, and shall not form the basis or be relied on in connection with any contract or
binding commitment whatsoever. No offering of securities of the Company will be made except by means of a statutory
offering document containing detailed information about the Company.
This Presentation has been prepared by the Company based on information and data which the Company considers
reliable, but the Company makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, whatsoever, and no reliance shall be
placed on, the truth, accuracy, completeness, fairness and reasonableness of the contents of this Presentation. This
Presentation may not be all inclusive and may not contain all of the information that you may consider material. Any
liability in respect of the contents of, or any omission from, this Presentation is expressly excluded.
This presentation contains certain forward-looking statements concerning the Company’s future business prospects and
business profitability, which are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and the actual results could materially
differ from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include,
but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth,
competition (both domestic and international), economic growth in India and abroad, ability to attract and retain highly
skilled professionals, time and cost over runs on contracts, our ability to manage our international operations,
government policies and actions regulations, interest and other fiscal costs generally prevailing in the economy. The
Company does not undertake to make any announcement in case any of these forward-looking statements become
materially incorrect in future or update any forward-looking statements made from time to time by or on behalf of the
Company.
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Q2 & H1 FY25
FINANCIAL
HIGHLIGHTS
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Financial Highlights – Q2 and H1 FY25
In INR Crore
Revenue:
▪ Strategic focus on high-value customers
1,574 1,423 1,497 3,146 2,921 ▪ Pipeline continues to remain strong; order book at
US$ 455 million
REVENUE ▪ Rearchitecting the Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy into
Industry Verticals and Horizontal Solutions to drive deeper
engagement with the customers
Q2 FY24 Q1 FY25 Q2 FY25 H1 FY24 H1 FY25
▪ Hold up in decision making, leading to delayed project
execution, thereby impacting revenue
Margin 6.4% 8.1% 9.0% 6.1% 8.6%
51 88
Profit After Tax (PAT) and PAT Margin:
PAT 37
32 56 ▪ Q2FY25 PAT at INR 51 crore; up 60% YoY and 38% QoQ
▪ H1FY25 PAT at INR 88 crore; up 58% YoY
▪ Company remains committed towards growing
H1 FY24 H1 FY25 profitability and margins through growth and sustained
Q2FY23 Q1FY24 Q2FY24 operational efficiency for generating higher shareholder
value
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Consistent Growth in EBITDA & PAT
Margins At Record High
140
8.2% 8.1% 9.0 %
7.0% 135
8.0 %
6.4%
120
4.3% 101
80
3.9% 95 5.0 %
3.2%
72
4.0 %
60
89
54 3.0 %
40
50 2.0 %
20
1.0 %
0 0.0 %
Q1 FY23 Q2 FY23 Q3 FY23 Q4 FY23 Q1 FY24 Q2 FY24 Q3 FY24 Q4 FY24 Q1 FY25 Q2 FY25
EBITDA EBITDA Margin(%)
60
2.8% 2.6%
50
2.5% 3.0 %
40
2.0% 51
1.4% 1.5% 41 41 2.0 %
30
1.1% 37
32
20
0.3% 1.0 %
23
10
15
8 24 0.0 %
-1.4% -1.0%
-10
-20
-23 -2.0%
-30
Q1 FY23 Q2 FY23 Q3 FY23 Q4 FY23 Q1 FY24 Q2 FY24 Q3 FY24 Q4 FY24 Q1 FY25 Q2 FY25 -3.0%
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Healthy Total Order Book
175
167
147 ▪ Large deal pipeline continues to grow
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Management Commentary
Commenting on the results and performance Mr. Sanjeev Verma, Whole-time Director, Black Box said,
“Our strategic focus on reorganising the business into industry verticals and a horizontal business layer will help
us to transition into the next phase of growth. A focused approach to targeting premium customers will lead to
deeper engagement with our clients making us among the preferred digital infrastructure solutions provider
globally. We expect economic growth to be fueled by a combination of high levels of capital expenditure (capex)
and a favorable interest rate environment in North America. These two factors will play a crucial role in shaping
the current and future trajectory of growth across sectors, particularly in technology, infrastructure, and
manufacturing.”
Mr. Deepak Kumar Bansal, Executive Director and Global Chief Financial Officer of Black Box, said,
“Our commitment towards better performance achieved through operating leveraging is starting to yield results
as our operating and profitability margins continue to rise quarter on quarter. As we re-architecture our GTM, we
will see further improvement in our operating performance, higher profitability and improved cash flows. We have
secured funding of INR 386 crore, which will strengthen our balance sheet and help us make accelerated
investments to propel growth across key focus areas.”
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Secured INR 386 Crore In Funding To Drive Growth
And Expansion In Digital Infrastructure Sector (in INR crore)
Promoters 200
The company had offered 92,65,215 fully convertible warrants each convertible into
1 Equity Share of face value of INR 2/- (Rupees two only) each to the ‘Promoter FII & HNI 176
The fund raise is a growth capital and will be invested across several key areas:
Expansion of Data Center Build Capabilities Advancement in Network Infrastructure
• Data center capacity is expected to grow exponentially over the next 3-5 • Black Box will deploy capital to expand its Solutions portfolio for its
years fuelled by adoption of Cloud and AI enterprise customers and Data center operators including
• Black Box is well-established in this segment and plans to invest further Hyperscalers in the areas of Connectivity Infrastructure and
to become a leading provider of services to Hyperscalers, Multi-Tenant Networking that will be critical to support increasing data traffic and
Data center operators, and Large Enterprise Data Centers demands of better user experience at the edge
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Renewed Go-To-Market Operating Model
Consumer & Commercial &
Vertical Financial Services Technology Healthcare
Public Services Industrial
Horizontal Existing Accounts New Accounts Existing Accounts New Accounts Existing Accounts New Accounts Existing Accounts New Accounts Existing Accounts New Accounts
Connectivity
Infrastructure
Revenue Streams Business Enablers Service Delivery
Data Center
Projects Marketing Project Management
India Center of
Modern Workplace Managed Services Sales Operations
Excellence
Regional / Horizontal
Maintenance Contracts Procurement
Enterprise Delivery
Networking
Remote Services
Products Order Management
Delivery
Cybersecurity
India, 6%
Europe, 8%
12%
MEA, 2% Technology
INR 50 14 Clients
Crore+
18 Clients
INR 25 – 50 Crores
83%
75% 114 Clients
67% INR 5 – 25 Crores
58% 62%
51%
1,500+ Clients
Up to INR 5 Crores
Particulars (in INR Crore) Sep-24 Mar-24 Particulars (in INR Crore) Sep-24 Mar-24
ASSETS EQUITY AND LIABILITIES
Non-Current Assets Equity
Equity Share Capital 34 34
Property, Plant And Equipment 119 120
Other Equity 603 447
Right Of Use Asset 275 291
Total Equity 636 481
Goodwill 340 334
Non-Current Liabilities
Other Intangible Assets 76 63 Borrowing 386 362
Investment accounted for using the equity method 32 32 Lease Liabilities 252 267
Financial Assets 17 35 Other Financial Liabilities 0 7
Tax Assets (net) 41 40 Contract liabilities 45 54
Other Non-Current Liabilities 14 0
Other Non-Current Assets 87 48
Provisions 36 54
Total Non-Current Assets 988 964
Sub-Total - Non-Current Liabilities 734 743
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
Inventories 221 246 Borrowing 29 35
Trade Receivables 451 386 Trade Payables 746 699
Cash And Cash Equivalents 291 223 Lease Liabilities 54 48
Financial Assets 517 508 Other Financial Liabilities 215 162
Contract liabilities 451 501
Contract assets 215 246
Other Current Liabilities 43 32
Other Current Assets 298 204
Provisions 73 75
Sub-Total - Current Assets 1,993 1,813
Sub-Total - Current Liabilities 1,610 1,553
Total - Assets 2,981 2,777 Total - Equity And Liabilities 2,981 2,777
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Summary Of Consolidated Cash Flows
Particulars (in INR Crore) H1 FY25 H1 FY24
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year* 214 200
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year* 282 191
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Medium-Term Targets
Normalised
Focus areas
428 525 to 560 for growth
EBITDA
23% to 31%
&
6.8% 8.0% - 8.1%
Margins
03 Inorganic growth opportunities
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Strategic Initiatives & Focus Towards Revenue Growth
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Roadway To Margin Expansion
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ESG Roadmap: 2024 To 2029 And Beyond
• Data Review and Stake • ESG Awareness Policy • Execute ESG Roadmap • BRSR Reporting
Holders Consultations • Materiality Assessment • GHG Inventory • GRI Targets
• Assess current • Team Formation & KPIs (Scope 1, 2 & 3) • SBTi Targets
initiatives • Data & Internal • Set Decarbonisation target • CDP Ratings
• Expand ESG Committee & processes • Prepare BRSR Reporting • EcoVadis Ratings
Scope
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HISTORICAL
FINANCIAL
HIGHLIGHTS
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Consolidated P&L Statement
Particulars (in INR Crore) FY19 FY20* FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24
Revenue from Operations 1,853 4,994 4,674 5,370 6,288 6,282
Gross Profit 496 1,521 1,497 1,549 1,640 1,714
Gross Profit Margin 26.8% 30.4% 32.0% 28.9% 26.1% 27.3%
Gain on foreign currency transaction (net) 0 0 0 3 -4 2
Total Other Expenses 450 1,192 1,145 1,292 1,367 1,288
EBITDA 47 328 352 260 269 428
EBITDA Margin 2.5% 6.6% 7.5% 4.8% 4.3% 6.8%
Other Income 6 7 11 6 22 19
Gain/(Loss) on cashflow hedges 0 0 0 0 20 3
Depreciation (as per IND AS 116) 15 92 96 99 107 114
Depreciation (as per business)^ 15 41 33 49 44 56
EBIT 38 244 267 168 204 336
EBIT Margin 2.1% 4.9% 5.7% 3.1% 3.2% 5.3%
Finance Cost (as per IND AS 116) 45 132 98 74 111 141
Finance Cost (as per business)^ 45 123 86 56 90 119
Loss / (gain) on fair value of financial liability 0 -37 -42 0 0 0
Gain on settlement of financial liability 0 -23 0 14 0 0
Loss on fair valuation of deferred purchase consideration 0 0 0 0 -11 0
Share of net profit / (loss) of associate accounted for using the equity method 0 0 0 0 0 2
Exceptional Item Gain/(Loss) -73 -125 -32 -22 -52 -40
Profit before Tax -79 -73 96 86 29 156
PBT Margin -4.3% -1.5% 2.1% 1.6% 0.5% 2.5%
Tax -1 7 18 13 6 19
PAT -79 -80 78 73 24 138
PAT Margin -4.3% -1.6% 1.7% 1.4% 0.4% 2.2%
Basic EPS -5.39 -5.38 5.21 4.45 1.42 8.20
*Restated ^Not part of the calculation as it already forms part of the Depreciation and Finance Cost (as per IND AS 116) line 20
Consolidated Balance Sheet
Particulars (in INR Crore) Mar-19 Mar-20* Mar-21 Mar-22 Mar-23 Mar-24 Particulars (in INR Crore) Mar-19 Mar-20* Mar-21 Mar-22 Mar-23 Mar-24
EQUITY AND LIABILITIES
Non-Current Assets
Equity
Property, Plant And Equipment 156 164 164 190 161 120 Equity Share Capital 30 30 33 33 34 34
Right Of Use Asset 0 116 146 194 259 291 Other Equity -11 -206 174 228 262 447
Goodwill 205 234 269 300 316 334 Total Equity 19 -176 207 260 296 481
Financial Assets 99 405 533 560 678 508 Other Financial Liabilities 275 569 373 176 90 162
Contract liabilities 0 0 0 472 505 501
Contract assets 0 0 0 44 114 246
Other Current Liabilities 490 472 564 50 121 32
Other Current Assets 522 275 223 291 242 204
Provisions 133 85 127 72 69 75
Sub-Total - Current Assets 1,897 1,547 1,554 1,807 2,026 1,813 Sub-Total - Current Liabilities 1,658 1,983 1,694 1,915 2,044 1,553
Total - Assets 2,432 2,306 2,303 2,652 3,002 2,777 Total - Equity And Liabilities 2,432 2,306 2,303 2,652 3,002 2,777
*Restated 21
Summary Of Consolidated Cash Flows
Particulars (in INR Crore) FY19 FY20* FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24
Operating profit before working capital changes -33 346 407 224 296 424
Net Cash from Operating Activities (A) -72 1,137 303 95 13 134
Net Cash from Investing Activities (B) -357 -328 -32 -71 19 -1
Net Cash from Financing Activities (C) 629 -645 -277 -43 -58 -155
Net Change in cash and cash equivalents 201 164 -6 -18 -26 -21
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year** 9 206 316 357 302 200
Unrealised loss on foreign currency cash and cash equivalents -4 -54 48 -37 -76 30
Cash and cash equivalents transferred pursuant to acquisition of
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subsidiary
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year** 206 316 357 302 200 214