QinetiQ Group plc First Quarter Trading Update (4893G)
24 Luglio 2019 - 8:00AM
UK Regulatory
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QinetiQ Group plc
24 July 2019
QinetiQ Group plc
First Quarter Trading Update
24 July 2019 - QinetiQ Group plc (QinetiQ or the Group) today
issues a trading update covering its first quarter of trading.
Maintaining full year expectations
We have made a good start to the new financial year with strong
operational performance across the Group. Revenue under contract is
now 85%, up from 74% in April 2019 and we are on track to deliver
mid-single digit revenue growth this year. Overall, we are
reiterating expectations for Group performance in FY20 as set out
in our FY19 results statement, with revenue growth at stable
margins delivering continued operating profit progression excluding
non-recurring trading items.
EMEA Services
In EMEA Services, we have continued to deliver on our growth
strategy with orders and revenue in the quarter ahead of the prior
year at expected margins. This growth was driven by good
performance across the division, particularly in our Cyber
Information & Training business.
Global Products
Our Global Products division has also performed well in the
first quarter with orders, revenue and operating profit all ahead
of the prior year, driven by good performance in all of our core
product businesses, particularly QinetiQ North America.
Strategy Update
Our strategy to focus on our customers' needs and grow the
company, whilst enhancing returns for shareholders, continues to
gather momentum. In the first quarter, we have delivered a number
of milestones that demonstrate progress in leveraging investments
in our core capabilities, such as the recently renegotiated Long
Term Partnering Agreement (LTPA) contract with the UK MOD, and the
acquisitions of QinetiQ Germany and QinetiQ Target Systems. We
continue to pursue strategy-led investments in further organic
opportunities and complementary acquisitions to drive sustainable
growth in the years ahead.
We are building on our commitment to lead and modernise UK test
and evaluation:
-- Exercise Formidable Shield 2019, one of the world's largest maritime live-fire integrated
air and missile defence exercises was delivered at the Hebrides range that we operate on behalf
of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). Ships from Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands,
Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States participated in more than a dozen
successful live-fire and simulated engagements against subsonic, supersonic, and ballistic
targets. This exercise was enabled by our recent investment in the LTPA contract, through
the air range modernisation programme.
-- We delivered the first major milestone of the renegotiated LTPA contract, achieving initial
operating capability on schedule for the UK MOD, which demonstrates that we are meeting our
customers' performance requirements and successfully transitioning to the new ways of working.
-- Building on the renegotiated LTPA, we secured a GBP19m, nine-year contract to modernise and
deliver acoustic and electromagnetic signature measurement and analysis services. These services
are critical to enhancing the operational advantage of Royal Navy warships and submarines
by decreasing their chances of detection.
We have made further progress in becoming a more international
company:
-- Following our successful competitive win of the Common Robotic System Individual (CRS-I) program
of record from the US Department of Defense in March 2019, we have delivered the first robots
on schedule under the Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) phase. Through the CRS-I program
we will be delivering up to 3,000 advanced back-packable ground robots to the US Army over
the next seven years.
-- As part of the LTPA air range modernisation programme contracted in 2016, QinetiQ Germany
has secured a EUR10m contract to provide range clearance services in the UK over the next
nine years. These services will leverage our acquisition of QinetiQ Germany by utilising our
fleet of PC-12 aircraft configured as maritime patrol aircraft.
We are also advancing both our commercial and technical
innovation to meet our customers' needs:
-- In October 2018, we signed a ten-year framework contract to be the Engineering Delivery Partner
(EDP) to the UK MOD's procurement agency DE&S, leading a supply chain of more than 120 companies
through which we have now secured over GBP100m of tasking orders.
-- We are successfully leveraging our acquisition of QinetiQ Target Systems, with the integration
for the Royal Navy of the new Rattler supersonic target into UK ranges we operate under the
LTPA. We are also undertaking final flight-testing of the completely re-designed Banshee Next
Generation (NG) aerial target as part of our continued investment in the future generation
of unmanned aerial systems.
AGM
QinetiQ's 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 11am
today at the offices of Ashurst LLP, Fruit and Wool Exchange, 1
Duval Square, London, E1 6PQ.
About QinetiQ:
QinetiQ (QQ.L) is a leading science and engineering company
operating primarily in the defence, security and critical
infrastructure markets. We work in partnership with our customers
to solve real world problems through innovative solutions
delivering operational and competitive advantage. Visit our website
www.QinetiQ.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @QinetiQ. Visit
our blog www.QinetiQ-blogs.com.
For further information please contact:
David Bishop, Group Director Investor Relations
and Communications: +44 (0) 7920 108675
Ian Brown, Group Head of Investor Relations: +44 (0) 7908 251123
QinetiQ press office: +44 (0) 1252 393500
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