UDS Q3 FY26 earnings call.
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Updater Services reported Q3 FY26 with EBITDA adjusted for one-time losses at ₹45 crore for the quarter and ₹28.5 crore for 9 months, with margin above 5.8%. The IFM segment delivered strong 14% QoQ growth reaching ₹518.2 crore quarterly run rate, driven by 13 new marquee logo additions and favorable labor law changes. However, the BSS segment faces headwinds from sales mix shifts and technology disruption impacting the demand generation business, where EBITDA margins have compressed to approximately 4% versus 5.2% previously. A ₹23 crore fraud provision was taken at Avon subsidiary (logistics brokerage vertical, now halted), wiping out most of its net worth. Management targets 9-10% consolidated revenue growth for FY26 and 10-12% IFM segment growth, expecting margins to stabilize around the 6% level. The company holds ₹252-253 crore for potential acquisitions. Near-term risks include AI disruption affecting D&A and Athena, DSO elevation from large project stabilization, and execution uncertainty during BSS business model transition.
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Guidance to track
- Full year consolidated revenue growth guidance maintained at 9-10%, supported by IFM momentum and BSS stabilization, with disciplined execution across diversified client base.
- IFM segment expected to deliver 10-12% revenue growth, supported by strong favorable long-term industry outlook, workforce formalization under new wage code, and increasing outsourcing by corporates.
- Management believes current 5.8%+ margins represent the floor, with expectations of stabilization and gradual improvement toward 6% as IFM momentum continues and BSS transition normalizes over next 2-3 quarters.
- BSS/D&A segment margins expected to show early positive signals from agentic AI transition within 2-3 quarters, with customers moving from pilot projects to scaled implementations and outcome-based pricing delivering better margins.
Risks flagged
- Large global customers in D&A's mid-market segment are reassessing their go-to-market strategies and AI adoption, creating uncertainty. Athena faces similar technological uncertainty in voice bot space with no scalable commercial-grade model yet emerged.
- Transition from people-led to technology-led demand generation model is still in early stages with pilots moving to implementations at smaller scale. Margin headwinds from mix shift expected to persist for another 2-4 quarters before high-margin business recovery.
- Days Sales Outstanding increased due to large project stabilization and business growth. Two very large customers where terms were 120+ days are being resolved; cash received post reporting date but full normalization not yet achieved.
- Snehasis Mishra's exit from D&A board raises questions despite management framing it as planned succession. Analyst directly questioned whether systemic control weaknesses contributed to the ₹23 crore fraud at Avon, with management deflecting by emphasizing it was isolated.
Key quotes
- This 20 crore or 23 crore fraud is a fraud that has happened on the company and the minute it came to light we have informed the market and as a part of great and good governance we have taken the entire hit.
- We are dealing with people and we are dealing with humans and humans sometimes act in a manner that defies all logic and act extremely craftily in a manner that sidesteps the controls that are there in a company in the best of companies.
- Demand generation as a business was a people-led process enabled and technology leveraged business till now. It is completely transitioning to a technology-led process enabled and then people supported business.
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