Appen Ltd. · ASX:APX

Appen — FY2021 Earnings Presentation

41 slides from Appen's earnings presentation, Feb 24, 2022

  1. Slide 1: ASX Announcement: Investor Presentation

    Appen Limited Level 6, 9 Help Street Chatswood NSW 2067 Tel: 02 9468 6300 www.appen.com For personal use only ASX ANNOUNCEMENT 24 February 2022 INVESTOR PRESENTATION Further to the Company’s announcement to the market today on its results for the year ended 31 December 2021, please find attached the

  2. Slide 2: 2021 Full Year Results Presentation

    For personal use only Appen Limited 2021 Full Year Results Presentation 24th February 2022

  3. Slide 3: Important information

    For personal use only Important information The forward-looking statements included in these materials involve subjective judgement and analysis and are subject to significant uncertainties, risks and contingencies, many of which are outside the control of, and are unknown to, Appen Limited. In part

  4. Slide 4: Agenda

    For personal use only Agenda 1. FY21 Highlights 2. Market Overview 3. Our business 4. Growth strategy 5. FY21 Financial performance 6. Outlook 7. Questions 3

  5. Slide 5: Highlights

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  6. Slide 6: Our Company

    For personal use only Our Company Mission & Vision Products Performance Make AI $447M Record revenue in FY21 work in the $78.9M FY21 EBITDA Before FX Impact Data Data Model real world collection preparation evaluation 40% Annualised revenue growth since 2016 #1 Data for the AI Technology Platform 32

  7. Slide 7: Our Impact

    For personal use only Our Impact Crowd People Environment Impact sourcing 38% Scope 1 and 2 Creating opportunities for people in GHG emissions inventory completed developing countries1 female representation amongst senior leadership up from 30% in 2020 17% Net zero were long-term unemployed (>1 year

  8. Slide 8: Our Impact

    For personal use only Our Impact We are making AI work inWe theare realmaking AI world, for work for everyone everyone We helped our customer Wereduce helpedbias ourin AI with a customer diverse reduce crowd bias in AItesting their by testing language their model language model with a diverse crowd

  9. Slide 9: Market overview

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  10. Slide 10: AI is accelerating

    For personal use only AI is accelerating 52% 86% 72% of companies accelerated of companies say AI is of business leaders their AI adoption plans becoming a “mainstream are positive about the because of COVID2 technology” for them2 role AI will play3 AI will be a AI will help alleviate If companies d

  11. Slide 11: The AI training data market is growing rapidly

    The AI training data market is growing rapidly For personal use only Large volumes of human-annotated data remain critical for AI success Growing need for labelling What customers are saying Data labelling market forecast (US$B) 1 22 • Vast, high-quality data sets are required for AI models to work

  12. Slide 12: Appen is the market leader

    For personal use only Appen is the market leader Leading market share Why we win AI data revenue by competitor 1 Data privacy compliant, with platform option Trust for secure, onsite data labelling Platform quality controls ensure unbiased, Quality low-error and globally representative results Usabi

  13. Slide 13: Appen is strongly positioned against competitors

    For personal use only Appen is strongly positioned against competitors Competitive landscape Our differentiators Workforce • Unique combination of leading annotation capacity technology and global crowd • Trusted by global AI leaders to support both in-deployment and emerging AI enabled Scale crowd

  14. Slide 14: Our business

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  15. Slide 15: Our vision: #1 Data for the AI Lifecycle

    For personal use only Our vision: #1 Data for the AI Lifecycle Who we are #1 Data for the AI Lifecycle Trust Quality Usability Scale Speed Data privacy compliant, with option Unbiased, high-quality and Easy to use, with simple UX Breadth and depth of tools to enrich In-built automation that for secu

  16. Slide 16: Growth strategy

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  17. Slide 17: Our growth strategy

    For personal use only Our growth strategy Vision #1 Data for the AI Lifecycle Core strategic pillars Grow Automate Expand Evolve revenue and diversify crowd and labelling processes our product offering how we do business Drive growth in target Leverage AI and ML in our Expand our TAM by adding new I

  18. Slide 18: Delivering against our strategy

    For personal use only Delivering against our strategy High-level roadmap Delivering outcomes by FY26 FY21 FY22 and beyond  New and expanded delivery  Maintain growth through customer and project At least double FY21 centres in Dalian and Wuxi, China diversification revenue  Leverage China success

  19. Slide 19: Automate: Improving crowd productivity

    Automate: Improving crowd productivity For personal use only Full service requires a mix of human-based and automated services Data Sourcing Data Preparation Model Evaluation Data Prelabelled Synthetic Data Knowledge Model Testing Model Collection Datasets Data Annotation Graphs (incl. Relevance) Be

  20. Slide 20: Expand: Impact of new products

    Expand: Impact of new products For personal use only China autonomous vehicles annotation product AI in Computer Vision Market (US$B)1 95 9 2021 2027 • Autonomous vehicles (AV) requires • Successfully developed and • Eleven auto AV customers vast amounts of training data deployed AV data annotation

  21. Slide 21: Expand: Impact of new products

    Expand: Impact of new products For personal use only Geo-locational data • Accurate location data is essential • Quadrant Geolancer: efficient, • Location data will converge with for maps, ecommerce, ride-sharing, crowd-sourced, in-field point- augmented and virtual reality real estate, delivery… of

  22. Slide 22: Financial performance

    For personal use only Financial performance 21

  23. Slide 23: Two reporting segments, five customer-facing business units

    Two reporting segments, five customer-facing For personal use only business units Global Services New Markets Services provided to New Markets reflects progress against our Product Led strategy leading US tech companies utilising their Includes Global Product (Global customer revenue through Appen p

  24. Slide 24: Financial highlights

    For personal use only Financial highlights US$ FY21 vs FY20 Record full year revenue performance driven by strong Group revenue $447.3M +8% 2H Global Services contribution and uplift in New Markets Global Services 1 $344.7M +5% • Global services revenue reflects second half revenue New Markets 2 $10

  25. Slide 25: Global Services

    Global Services For personal use only Record full year revenue driven by strong second half Revenue and EBITDA (US$M) Revenue by half (US$M) 196 344.7 328.1 165 164 164  Strong 2H FY21 144 149  Delivered into  Full year Global projected 2H skew, Services revenue of 32% growth on 1H $344.7M, up 5.

  26. Slide 26: New Markets

    New Markets For personal use only Maintains strong growth Revenue and EBITDA (US$M) Revenue by half (US$M)  FY21 revenue of 55 $102.5M, up 21% 48 48 102.5  Growth supported by  Strong growth 84.5 strong performance 36 34 half on half, up in China 29 15%  EBITDA loss of  Record half for $11.5M d

  27. Slide 27: Global Customers

    Global Customers For personal use only Record 2H revenue - solid annual growth Annual revenue (US$M) Revenue by half and project type (US$M) 300 90% 74% 75% 77%  Record 2H revenue, 80% 250 386.3 69% 68% 70% returns Global to growth 373.5 61% trajectory 41.6  Full year 2021 revenue 215 45.4 200 60%

  28. Slide 28: Digital advertising market trends

    Digital advertising market trends For personal use only Appen continues to support existing companies and new entrants Digital ad spending worldwide (2020-2025) Market observations and implications Billions, % change, and % of total media ad spending 785  Digital Ad Market continues to grow 717  M

  29. Slide 29: Enterprise, China, Government, Quadrant

    Enterprise, China, Government, Quadrant For personal use only Growth continues Annual revenue (US$M) Revenue by half (US$M) 35 60.8  FY21 revenue of 27 25 $60.8M, up 55.4% 22 39.1 on FY20  Record revenue  Growth supported by 16 17 in 2H FY21 strong performance in China  2H FY21 up 59% on PCP  E

  30. Slide 30: China

    China For personal use only Breakout growth in FY21 China revenue by quarter (US$M) Summary of performance  FY21 revenue of $24.7M, 422% up on FY20 9.8  Customers include tech giants, social media, mobile providers and autonomous vehicle (AV) companies 7.4  11 leading auto AV companies as custome

  31. Slide 31: Enterprise, Government and Quadrant

    Enterprise, Government and Quadrant For personal use only Building for high-growth Growing Enterprise Ongoing opportunities Quadrant delivering customer base with Government early wins  Wins with Salesforce, Boeing, • Selected in a partnership for • Quadrant well received by Adobe, Bloomberg the Jo

  32. Slide 32: Revenue, EBITDA and NPAT summary

    For personal use only Revenue, EBITDA and NPAT summary % US$M FY21 FY20 change Revenue growth of 8%, underpinned by strong half-on-half growth of 28%, following a 1H decline of 2% versus pcp Global Services 1 344.7 328.1 5.0% New Markets 2 102.5 84.5 21.3% Major contributor was Global Services which

  33. Slide 33: Strong and resilient balance sheet

    For personal use only Strong and resilient balance sheet  Increase in receivables due to increased volumes US$M Dec 2021 Dec 2020 around year end and includes invoices raised on Cash 47.9 60.5 31 December 21, as time-based billing milestones satisfied, resulting in reduction in contract assets Rece

  34. Slide 34: Investment in product development

    For personal use only Investment in product development Investment in product development 1 (US$M)  FY21 investment of $30.2M reflects continuing focus on product development to drive customer Product development (ex amortisation) as a % of revenue wins, scalability, repeatability, quality data and

  35. Slide 35: Solid cash flow conversion

    For personal use only Solid cash flow conversion US$M FY21 FY20  Cash balance decreased by $12.6M due to upfront payment for Quadrant of $25.3M Receipts 434.3 413.6 Payments and other (374.2) (335.6)  Cash balance and cash conversion impacted by timing issues Cash flow from operations - working ca

  36. Slide 36: We are guiding to long-term shareholder value creation

    For personal use only We are guiding to long-term shareholder value creation FY26 financial targets We are highly focused on long-term revenue growth At least double Our revenue order book including year-to-date revenue plus orders in hand stands at ~$190M at FY21 revenue February 20221 FY22 half on

  37. Slide 37: Questions?

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  38. Slide 38: Appendix

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  39. Slide 39: Conservative approach to amortisation

    Conservative approach to amortisation For personal use only • Product development is amortised over 3 years • Amortisation expense has increased due to the strategic focus on product development, which commenced in FY19. FY21 amortisation is based on spend in FY19, FY20 and FY21, with the nominal sp

  40. Slide 40: Reconciliation between statutory and underlying results

    For personal use only Reconciliation between statutory and underlying results Year ended 31 December Restated Year ended 31 1. Underlying results are a non-IFRS measure used by Change 2021 USD $000 December 2020 USD $000 management to assess the performance of the business and have been calculated f

  41. Slide 41: appen.com/investors

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