Investor Presentaiton
nuuday
In brief
Business and strategy
Performance
Corporate governance
Financial statements
Operating expenses
Nuuday's underlying operating expenses (excluding
transformation costs) declined by 2.8%, or DKK 89m, to
DKK 3,081m. This decrease reflected the early benefits
of our transformation, notably the impact of improved
customer experiences on reducing our call ratio.
EBITDA
Underlying EBITDA (excluding transformation costs)
declined by 3.1%, or DKK 57m, to DKK 1,766m. Including
transformation costs, EBITDA declined by 6.3%, or
DKK 114m, to DKK 1,709m. Despite positive developments
in service revenue, and falling operating expenses,
EBITDA was negatively influenced by the decline in
gross profit margins, primarily from third-party costs.
Capital expenditure
Capital expenditure excluding transformation costs
decreased by 1.1%, or DKK 13m, to DKK 1,136m. This decline
was driven mainly by lower capitalised wages as we re-
duced investment in our legacy IT systems prior to the
Netcracker launch. This was partly offset by an increase
in volume-driven capex related to customer installations.
Capital expenditure including transformation costs
increased by 14.4%, or 165m, to DKK 1,314m. The increase
was driven primarily by higher IT investments related
to the transformation programme.
Loss for the period
After amortisation, interest expenses, etc., the loss (ex-
cluding special items) amounted to DKK 138m. Despite
transformation costs of DKK 57m in 2022, this was an im-
provement of DKK 204m YoY. Including special items, the
loss improved by DKK 200m to DKK 190m. The improved
results were driven largely by reduced amortisation.
Cash flow
Total cash flow increased by DKK 396m from DKK 2m in
2021 to DKK 398m in 2022. The positive development
was caused primarily by the transfer of Nuuday's share
of TDC Holding's cash pool (DKK 865m) to its own bank
accounts with effect from 1 January 2022. This was
partly offset by the negative development in cash flow
from investing activities (DKK 346m).
Cash flow from operating activities declined by
DKK 1,187m to DKK 959m, driven primarily by net working
capital (DKK 1,225m) that related mainly to the imple-
mentation of adjusted intra-group payment terms in
2021 in connection with the refinancing of Group debt.
EBITDA also contributed negatively to the development
(DKK 114m), which was partly offset by lower net inter-
est paid (DKK 136m) related to refinancing.
The DKK 346m increase in cash outflow from investing
activities to DKK 1,316m, was due primarily to higher in-
vestments (DKK 194m), divestment of Cloudeon in 2021
(DKK 97m) as well as acquisition of activities from
TDC Holding (DKK 51m).
Cash flow from financing activities increased by
DKK 1,929m to DKK 755m. The above-mentioned change
in net working capital was used to reduce amounts
owed to Group companies (DKK 1,095m), while Nuuday's
share of TDC Holding's cash pool was transferred to
Nuuday (DKK 865m).
2022 guidance follow-up
EBITDA performance in 2022 was in line with our guid-
ance; namely that EBITDA would be somewhat lower in
2022 compared with 2021, driven by significant invest-
ments in customer experiences as well as the continued
migration of customers to fibre infrastructure. Cash
generation was, as guided, materially lower in 2022 than
in 2021 driven by the development in net working capital
combined with the IT transformation.
2023 guidance
We expect a flat development in service revenue in
2023, which will be a year with significantly higher
investments in our business transformation, as well as
continued migration of customers to fibre infrastruc-
tures. Consequently, we expect that both EBITDA
including and excluding transformation costs will be
somewhat below the level in 2022.
Underlying Capex
(DKKm)
1,136
Loss excluding special
items
(DKKm)
Cash flow from
operating activities
(DKKM)
Employees excluding
transformation FTEs
(EOY)
138
959
3,515
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