9/25/2025

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Operator
Conference Call Operator

Good day, everyone, and welcome to Concentrix's third quarter 2025 financial results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To participate, you will need to press star 1-1 on your telephone. You will then hear a message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, simply press star 1-1 again. Please note that this conference is being recorded. Now it's my pleasure to turn the call over to the Vice President of Investor Relations, Sarah Buda. Please go ahead.

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Sarah Buda
Vice President of Investor Relations

Great. Thank you, Operator, and good evening. Welcome to the Concentrix Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. This call is the property of Concentrix and may not be recorded or rebroadcast without the written permission of Concentrix. This call contains forward-looking statements that address our expected future performance and that by their nature address matters that are uncertain. These uncertainties may cause our actual future results to be materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future expectations, events, or developments. Please refer to today's earnings release and our most recent filings with the SEC for additional information regarding uncertainties that could affect our future financial results. This includes the risk factors provided in our annual report on Form 10-K and our other public filings with the SEC. Also during the call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted free cash flow, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP EPS, and constant currency revenue growth. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures is available in the news release and on the company's investor relations website under financials. With me on the call today are Chris Caldwell, our President and CEO, and Andre Valentine, our Chief Financial Officer. Chris will provide a summary of our operating performance and growth strategy, and Andre will cover our financial results and business outlook. Then we'll open the call up for your questions. And so now I'll turn the call over to Chris.

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Chris Caldwell
President and CEO

Thank you very much, Sarah. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for our third quarter 2025 earnings call. In Q3, we exceeded our revenue guidance once again with solid year-on-year growth across the board. We are gaining share and securing new wins by combining AI, CX, and IT services into a powerful, tightly integrated solution. Our adjacent offerings continue to scale and complement our traditional business, and we believe our IX suite is giving us clear, competitive differentiation in front of clients. Overall, I am pleased with our strong market position and our revenue momentum. Turning to profit, margins were below plan in the quarter, which Andre will provide more details in his comments. What is important to understand is that we have line of sight to modest sequential quarterly margin improvement over the next few quarters, even as we continue to lean into growth and believe we can drive further margin expansion from there. Now, let's dive into the details of our demand environment and how we see our business evolving. The positive revenue momentum we've seen this year is a direct reflection of our commitment to establish concentrics at the forefront of the change happening in our industry. We believe we are becoming a leader in solutions that combine practical AI, human intelligence, where applicable, at global scale. As a result, we are well positioned to be a trusted strategic partner clients rely on to support their business in these times of change. In fact, almost 40% of our new wins this year include our AI technology platforms as part of the solution. This percentage only increases as we include our partners' technology. As a reminder, our IX AI technology suite addresses clients' needs for both fully automation of tasks that can be handled completely autonomously and for partial automation using AI and agentics to supercharge human advisors to make them more effective and efficient. Within a year of commercially availability, our IX suite of AI solutions are ramping and on track to be accretive as we exit this year. This achievement in its own right sets us apart from many of our pure AI players and from traditional CX players in the space. Clients recognize that they need partners to help them convert AI promises into reality. A recent study from MIT showed that only 33% of AI projects built internally are succeeding on plan. Conversely, the same study showed that externally sourced AI projects with strategic partners succeeded about 67% of the time, more than double the success rate. Our rate of success with our deployments is even higher, with early data showing that the vast majority of our use cases result in a documented positive outcome for the client to improve revenue, better CSAT, or process efficiency. This is reflective of our ability to deliver pragmatic AI solutions that are aligned with what clients need and what they value most. The strategic role of partners that can combine AI with CX and IT services has support of our own blind study of 450 global enterprises that stated by an overwhelming majority, clients plan to increase their outsourcing spend as they deploy AI. We absolutely are focused on capturing as much of this growth as we can, and I am confident that we are in a strong position to make that happen. In summary, our strategy is paying off. Despite all the market speculation about the negative impacts of AI on our business, we have shown that AI is indeed a positive tailwind. We are growing our major accounts and securing new wins with our integrated offerings. With a strong competitive position, we are leaning into growth, delivering solutions that align with our clients' business needs, gaining share, and scaling our business. This gives us the foundation to support our progression towards a higher growth rate in coming years while generating strong cash flow. Lastly, I would like to thank our game changers across more than 70 countries for their commitment to client success and welcome our new team members from SAI Digital who joined us in September. I'm optimistic about our strategy as we capitalize on the opportunities we have in front of us today. Now, let me turn over to Andre for details of the quarter and our outlook.

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