Published on: October 8, 2018

Revenue visibility improves further

The strong momentum seen in Sopheon’s first half has continued through Q3, with the Group announcing that revenue visibility now exceeds $30 million for 2018 – up from U$27.2 million at the time of the interim results. This reflects a record Q3 performance with a number of transactions, including the addition of two new contracts of material size – one with a new customer and one an extension with an existing customer – which were booked towards the end of the third quarter. The update notes that the sales pipeline for the balance of the year remains ‘robust’. Unsurprisingly, the Board says that it sees the strong performance as indicative of the growing maturity both of the Enterprise Innovation Management solutions market and of Sopheon’s reputation and business model. New customer wins in the first half of 2018 were some 50% ahead of those achieved in the comparator period and momentum has clearly continued. We increase estimates for revenue and Adjusted EBITDA by 5% and 8% respectively for FY 2018E and also nudge up FY 2019E to reflect the updated revenue visibility in the trading update. After an impressive performance so far in 2018 and with Q4 typically a key contributor of revenue performance, we look forward to further positive updates.