Cegedim SA

Cegedim SA

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Q4 FY2025 · Earnings Call TranscriptJanuary 29, 2026

Damien Buffet

I believe we're going to we're going to start [coughs] sorry, the presentation. Other people will join in later on if they want so.

Thank you for attending the for attending this presentation, which is the about the full year 2025 revenue, and of course Q4 2025 revenue, too. The full year revenue is €649.2 million, which is a growth like-for-like of 1.1% and a slight decrease of 08 0.8% reported.

The difference between both mainly comes from the deconsolidation of In Practice Systems, the doctor activities in UK, in December 2024. Over the year, the best performers were HR's activity, Cloud, e-business, health insurance, and marketing, which drove the growth.

The reorganization of the pharmacist activity in France during H2 has weighed on the annual growth as well as on the Q4 growth. On Q4, it's a like-for-like decrease in revenue of 1.5%, 3.2% reported.

The gap is also coming from the deconsolidation of In Practice Systems by the end of 2024. The growth came in from international healthcare professional activities and in France in from e-business and Cegedim Santé.

Unfortunately, which were offset by the pharmacy activity in France and also on the data activities outside France on Q4. However, we confirm our target for full year adjusted operating income growth of at least 15%.

You can see here the the bridge on on on on growth, decomposing the the reported growth on on with the impact of structure and currency. As I've mentioned, the structure impact is mainly the deconsolidation of In Practice Systems on December 2024.

The currency's impact is mainly due to the sterling pound. As we have mentioned in our previous calls, we would like to present you the group through its business units in the future, even though we will still detail the results by division until the 2025 full year results.

I will sum up the main trends for each business and I will detail a bit more when we get to the division split up later on in the presentation. In Q4, the Health and provident insurance revenue was was mainly flat, 0.7% decrease like-for-like, with the normalization of growth of its third-party payer solution on fraud detection as well as the overflow business in BPO.

We will see that over the year, these have been dynamic growth contributors. Also, they had experienced very strong growth in the previous years and also on Q4 2024.

In Software, the growth mainly came from Activus, the solution in the UK, with two new clients during the year that contributed to project revenues in Q4. On the Cegedim Business Services side, we have a growth of 5.3% reported, 5% like-for-like, due to its HR software activity as well as a pick up—and we will see later on also—in demand for its e-invoicing activity due to the coming up of the French reform that will take place for its first phase in September '26, this year.

Healthcare professional was down 4.5% like-for-like, 11.5% reported, the the gap coming from mainly from from In Practice Systems. This this business unit has mainly suffered from the impact of the reorganization of our pharmacist activities in France, when Cegedim Santé posted a growth of 2.5% and the doctors outside France 14.2% during this quarter.

We will elaborate a bit more when we go to the division. The same for Data and marketing and Cloud and support, which had a a tough comparison Q4 in 2024.

However, you can see that on a full year basis, especially on Data and marketing, you can see that marketing is growing 2.9%, even though last year it had the benefits of the Olympic Games and its target was to at least make the same revenue this full year. It was able to to get some growth, when Data is flat thanks to the French operation, which were getting some growth, when international international data activities were a bit more difficult throughout the year.

However, Data and marketing has been able to post a 1.5% growth reported, 1.3% like-for-like. To get back on the Health and provident insurance, you can see on on the over full year the growth is 3%, 4.4% for its for its software activity due to some project dynamics and also to the run from the project from 2024.

Also, its its offering in fraud detection, which is in the third-party payer solution activity, sorry, was helped it to post a 4.1% growth for this for that activity. Also, its overflow business, even though we said there was a normalization of growth in Q4, over the year was able to contribute positively to the growth for the Health and provident insurance.

On Cegedim Business Services, you can see the growth was almost 7% over the year thanks to its performing HR software activity. Its strategy to address not only the big accounts, but also to the smaller clients is proven successful.

Also, its e-business activity is, as I mentioned earlier, benefiting from the from the reform coming up in France for the e-invoicing reform, sorry. Over the year, the Healthcare professional have seen a decrease of revenue of 7.7% like-for-like.

The gap with reported is, as I mentioned, due to the deconsolidation of In Practice Systems, and it's mainly due to the reorganization of pharmacists activities in France. Over the year, Cloud and support—and I will elaborate a bit later on—has been able to post a a solid growth of 2.6% despite the the the ending of outsourcing contract during Q2 that weighed on the growth on on full year.

Let's go to the to the division, the the breakdown that you are used to, and so you can see here the the bridge by by division. You can see that, as in the bridge for BU, you see that four out of five were able to post a growth a reported growth on the on the full year basis, and also on on like-for-like growth.

Only Software is down 4.9% reported and 0.8% like-for-like, as we will see on the next slide. Here you have some more detail about the the growth in Software & Services division.

As I mentioned before, you can see the growth like-for-like is a slight decrease of 0.8%. On the Q4, it's 0.4% like-for-like decrease.

Cegedim Santé is is down 0.5% reported, 2.6% like-for-like. Remember, we talked about it at the beginning of the year, there's been a renegotiation of a data-providing contract that weighed on the revenue growth.

Unfortunately, it overshadows the good performance of the Maiia suite and also the Claude Bernard database throughout the year. Without this this renegotiation of contract, you would have seen here a growth both on reported and like-for-like.

It's worth noting also that in Q4, Cegedim Santé benefited from from the start of the wave two of Ségur de la santé for doctors that also contributed positively. In other activities in France, we mentioned earlier the good performance of HR softwares and insurance, which performed with a solid growth over the year, that this good performance is is offset by by the pharmacists activities in France, of which the reorganization I talked about earlier happened during H2.

Remember, we had a redundancy of about a third of the workforce at the pharmacy activity, which led to a reorganization of of the activity during H2, and that weighed on the revenue generated during the second half. On International activities, you can see a a big gap between reported and like-for-like growth, which is mainly due to the deconsolidation of In Practice Systems.

The growth the like-for-like growth is mainly due to to Spain, to the Spain activity, doctors in in Spain, with the project around the High Council for Sports over there and also the start of the project in the Balearic Island. In the UK, it benefits from both from Activus, which I mentioned earlier, which is gaining new clients and thus some project also in revenue, and also from pharmacies in the UK in the UK, which were able to conquer some some new clients too and contributed to growth also for these intentional activities in the Software & Services division.

On the on the Flow division, you know there are both two activities, the e-business activity and the third-party payer activity. On the e-business, you can you can see the division is growing 6.1% reported, 6.2% like-for-like.

The e-business segment was able to generate 7.6% growth this year. As I mentioned earlier, the French reform for electronic invoicing is coming up in September for its first first phase, so that we so we see a pick up in demand from companies for this activity.

It's worth noting also that its second segment, the healthcare flow practice, has also experienced growth throughout the year, especially thanks to its offering for hospital that are designed to make their purchasing secure. All in, the e-business is growing by more than 7%.

On the third-party payer side, you can see that is still a solid growth of more than 4% over the year, driven by its offering on the on fraud and long-term illness detection, and that were that was able to to drive the growth, sorry. The Data & marketing division now, you can see the the growth is about 1.5% throughout the year.

Q4 had been tough last year to had been, excuse me, tough to beat because we had a very good activity in Q4 in 2024. Over the year, Data is flat, and the growth in France, it experienced some growth, but the momentum in international operation was unfavorable during the year, it led to this to this flattish performance in Data.

In Marketing, I will repeat myself, but I think it's very worth noting that despite the tough comparison basis in in 2024 due to the Olympic Games, especially in Q3, the marketing activity was able to generate some growth over the year, almost 3%, which is a a very a very solid performance because we were expecting a flattish growth for this activity. On the BPO division, I already talked a bit about both.

It has experienced a growth of 1% over the year, and almost the same in between insurance and business services BPO. The insurance BPO has been led, its growth has been led by overflow business by its overflow business, which served the clients.

It was launched three years ago and experienced last year very strong growth, it was a bit harder to beat this year. Still, it's able to to generate growth over the year.

On the business services BPO side, the growth of 1.6% over the year is mainly due to its business compliance offering, especially for pharmaceutical labs. Last but not least, the Cloud and support division, as I mentioned earlier, has grown by 2.6% over over the year.

It had an adverse effect in Q2 that you can see on the graph on the on the left-hand side, due to the end of an outsourcing contract that also weighed on the on the rest of the year. However, it has been able to to post growth and and generate a 2.6% over the year.

On the outlook, we would like to confirm to you that we will be able to to grow the adjusted operating income on the 2025 full year by at least 15%. I think it was worth telling you that.

It's pretty much on the outlook for the moment. You can see here the the next agenda, we will announce the full year 2025 earnings on March 26, which will be the next the next meeting we'll have together.

Now I think you may have some question, and as usual, if so, please if you can raise your hand on your side and I will give you the floor. I think we'll start with Amira.

Please, the floor is yours.

Yes, hello. Thank you for the presentation.

I have a few questions. The first one is, can you give us more colors on the decline in third-party payment activity in Q4?

Second one is about the outlook of 2026. What will be the growth dynamic for next year?

Should we expect continued stable activity? Can we expect also an improvement in the current operating margin in 2026 also?

What will be the impact of the restructuring plan for the pharmacy division in France and the sale of INPS on profitability, on the bottom line of that's it for me.

Damien Buffet

Okay. Maybe the first one on the third-party payer on the fourth quarter, it's worth noting that last year was a very strong growth.

It experienced almost 18% growth last year as we had launched it, it was a very tough comparison basis. When I said that the growth is normalizing, it's also that the comparison effect was tough to beat.

However, we still experienced growth in this solution on fraud and long-term illness detection. We won't have 18% growth like we had last year, still it's still performing quite well.

Then your next question was regarding growth in 20 in 2026. I don't know, Pierre, if you want to answer or I will.

For the moment, and we'll maybe we will refine later on, but we expect in 2026 a growth in a range between 2% and 4%. There are a few trends which are positive, especially as I mentioned at Cegedim Business Services on the reform for the e-invoicing that will help the growth.

We expect also we believe that Cegedim Santé could be able also to achieve some growth. We believe we will be in a range between 2% and 4% in 2026.

Pierre Marucchi

Maybe I can add something?

Damien Buffet

Sure.

Pierre Marucchi

We may have a decrease in the revenue for the BPO insurance part. The reason for that is that we have three very big contracts with big insurance firm, and in those contracts, which are long-term contracts, during the negotiation, we have agreed to lower the revenue because what we have sold to the client is that we are going to improve our efficiency.

Somehow, we may have next year a decrease in the BPO revenue because this is written in the contract. This will not have negative impact on the EBIT in the sense that we are just giving back to the client the positive effect of the increase of our efficiency.

That's the reason why we feel that the growth globally for the group will be between 2% and 4%. In terms of EBIT for next year, we will have an improvement due to the fact that we have reduced staff in our pharmacist business for France by 100 people.

At least, we expect, of course, more than just this effect, meaning that we should have also at least 15% growth on the EBIT, as we will have for the year 2025. That's the target.

Damien Buffet

I think your last question, Amira, was on the impact of the deconsolidation of In Practice Systems. We had mentioned that the deconsolidation could improve the adjusted operating income by around €5 million.

I think there was also your question on the impact on the pharmacists plan, the collective plan that we announced. Remember that all the provision were passed on the first half.

I don't know if this answers your question. Yes, thank you so much.

Thank you very much, Amira. Are there some other questions?

Yes, Johannes. The floor is yours.

Thank you for taking my question. A short question concerning the BPO contract with Allianz.

Did I understand it right that this is now on a profitable basis, and what can we expect here as profitability for 2026? Thank you.

Pierre Marucchi

2026 will be the year where we will be break-even.

Okay.

Pierre Marucchi

We know that we are going in our business plan, profits are coming after the third years, third year of contract. Next year, it will not generate a higher EBIT.

Okay. Are there other contracts as well that improve to profitability?

Pierre Marucchi

We have two other contracts which look like the Allianz contract. It's the Klesia contract

and

Pierre Marucchi

it's the BCAC contract. BCAC, it's the insurance company which insure the people who are working in insurance company in France.

You see? Klesia, it's a big insurance company and they are providing services to a lot of pharmacists, a lot of restaurants, and so on.

Okay. Those contracts, they are profitable, but those two contracts, we will have a decrease in terms of revenue for the reason I said previously.

We have negotiated a reduction in terms of revenue because we improve the profits on those contracts by being more efficient. Roughly, those contracts, they can generate between 3% and 5% EBIT.

The total improvement of all these BPO activities, what will be the EBIT difference to 2025 approximately?

Pierre Marucchi

No, we won't have any growth. It will be roughly the same amount, same figure.

The same EBIT?

Pierre Marucchi

Something same EBIT in percentage. 5% something, something like that, with a small reduction of the revenue.

Roughly, it will be the same amount.

No improvement from the BPO side.

Pierre Marucchi

No, no. The improvement will come from the software for pharmacists business, because the reduction of people generates between €5 million and €6 million EBIT, and the improvement of Cegedim Santé, the Maiia suite, because it is growing, we are gaining clients.

The renegotiation of the data-providing contract to IQVIA is behind us. This has a very negative impact on on the year 2025, but will have no impact on 2026 compared to 2025.

The fact that we are growing in terms of market share and we will receive some sub subscriptions subsidies from the Ségur plan, we will have an improvement of profit there, too.

Okay. The profitability with Maiia, what can we expect from there in absolute figures?

Pierre Marucchi

In fact, we don't compute the profitability of Maiia. We compute the profitability of the business unit Cegedim software for healthcare professionals, because Maiia is now a part of all our offers.

I don't think I have the figures. Probably, for 2025, we will be break-even, Damien?

Yes. Yeah.

We should make something like €2 million to €3 million more in 2026.

Okay. Thank you.

Pierre Marucchi

Those figures, I'm not sure of that, because first of all, the the the figures the annual figures are not finished, and I should have looked for, but this is what we have in our heads. Okay.

Okay. Thank you.

Pierre Marucchi

Thank you.

Damien Buffet

Are there any other questions? I believe that I don't see any other question, either written or by hand raising, thank you for attending the presentation.

As I mentioned, our next meeting will be by the end of March, on March 26, for the annual results of the group. Thank you very much for attending the presentation, and have a good evening.

Thank you and bye-bye.

Pierre Marucchi

Thank you very much. Bye-bye.

Bye.

Pierre Marucchi

Thank you. Bye.