Half-year Results

02 December 2025

Celebrus Technologies plc

Half-year results for the six months to 30 September 2025

Celebrus Technologies plc (AIM: CLBS, "the Group", "Celebrus"), the AIM-listed data solutions provider, announces its half year results for the six months to 30 September 2025 ("H1 FY26" or the "Period").

From 1 April 2025, the Group introduced a number of changes to its commercial contractual arrangements with customers which impact accounting for contracts including the definition of cost of sales, the segmentation of revenue type and the move to straight line revenue recognition of future license revenues. Financial and operating metrics in respect of the prior periods are restated to reflect those changes.

Financial highlights

Operational highlights

Outlook

Our focus for the rest of FY26 on growing and closing the late-stage pipeline is total and the Board remains comfortable that the Group continues to trade in line with its expectations. 

The Group is mindful however of the current market uncertainty with slower decisioning and tighter budgets remaining a feature inevitable slowing down deal closure. The Board continues to monitor this closely, but we believe we are well placed to navigate these challenges.

Bill Bruno, CEO of Celebrus, commented:

"We continue to see improvements across the board as we refine our in-market approach. Our pipeline continues to grow, and people are excited by our platform when they see it, although deals are moving more slowly than we had expected as the market continues to prove challenging and customer budgets are delayed. Our customers are more engaged across the globe, thanks to our Customer Success team, and this is building a value-driven upsell pipeline from which we will also benefit. Our team is working diligently to continue to deliver for each other and our shareholders, with a clear focus for the rest of FY26 on growing and closing the late-stage pipeline."

1 'Celebrus ARR' is defined as the amount of revenue contracted at a point in time, derived from Celebrus software, that is expected to recur within the next twelve months. It excludes non-Celebrus managed services and third-party software license revenue.

2 Adjusted profit/loss before tax is calculated before amortization of intangibles, foreign exchange gains/losses, share based payment charges and one-off reorganization costs.

 ***For the purpose of this announcement, the Group believes market consensus for FY26 to be revenue of $22.7m, and adjusted loss before tax of $0.6m.

Inside Information: This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon the publication of this announcement via Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

About Celebrus Technologies plc

Celebrus sets the gold standard globally for improving marketing effectiveness and preventing fraud across all industries. We are laser-focused on improving the relationships between brands and consumers via better data. This means innovating better ways to manage digital identity and know your consumers, even when they are not logged in. Celebrus provides frictionless data capture across all digital channels and devices, ensures compliance by design, and ultimately makes digital data instantly usable wherever required. We thrive on solving complex digital data challenges to help businesses succeed.

Celebrus Technologies plc is a global business operating in over 30 countries today. We are quoted on the AIM Market of The London Stock Exchange (CLBS).

For more information, please see www.celebrus.com.

Operational review

Strategy

The mission for our business is to improve the relationships between brands and consumers via better data. Better data, from our perspective, means data that is compliant, complete, timely, and usable in real-time. We have continued to innovate and build solutions for some of the most difficult digital challenges that organizations face today. Much of this has revolved around three pain points that continue to grow: the lack of digital data in a usable format, the inability to identify customers in a manner compliant with local data laws, and the struggle with bringing digital data into other systems. All three of these are easily demonstrable in Celebrus when we meet with organizations grappling with these challenges.

The pipeline in the business is quite diverse in terms of geography and vertical, but we do continue to excel naturally in Financial Services as that has been the foundation for us for many years. In our eyes, the challenges outlined above apply to all B2C verticals with a significant digital presence. We have worked diligently to refine our ability to show the value of the platform and help customers understand how Celebrus would change their day-to-day operations. However, our largest "headwind" continues to be organizations that have a fear of change and choose to remain with the status quo despite the acknowledgment that Celebrus would fix their problems.

Continuous improvement is one of our core values, and we continue to use data to evaluate every process and approach across the business. From a Sales perspective, we evaluate every deal (win or loss) and identify what we could be doing better or different next time around. Customer Success has a full remit now across the globe and we've improved that model to allow for more freedom and innovation. Marketing also continues to evolve based on data; we are not wasting any time or money when we see that something isn't working as intended. Our content vehicle has driven a lot of interest and eyes to our brand, and we continue to produce weekly content and social engagement.

Artificial Intelligence is also something we have embraced as a business, both externally in terms of product features and capabilities and internally to improve our own efficiencies and support. This is something we monitor closely and have policies and monitoring in place to ensure we are protecting the business and our IP every step of the way.

Contract wins

ARR increased to $15.6 million, and key wins included a Fintech platform in the US and a Financial Services company in Europe. The Fintech platform chose our platform to drive all of their analytics and measurement. The Financial Services company elected to replace Adobe with our platform. Both organizations are also already in active upsell discussions with our Customer Success teams. We also had several renewals and upsells during the period, including a significant upsell to one of our banking customers in the US.

Partnerships

Our partner engagement model is one that is being actively rebuilt. The good news is that we have a strong list of partners with whom we continue to have great engagement. The focus now is on building a mutually beneficial pipeline with key partners and ensuring that both organizations are seeing value in the time we invest.

We have also established a new Reseller model, in addition to our Referral model, following expressions of interest from a couple of our partners.

People

We are very fortunate to have our global team continually driving our business forward and working to ensure that we are always customer-first in our thinking and actions. This team has really banded together to help us deliver on our mission, and we continue to invest in training programs to grow our management skills and ensure we are giving all of our teams the best opportunities to succeed and grow.

Financial review

Basis of presentation

From 1 April 2025, the Group introduced a number of changes to its commercial contractual arrangements with customers which impact accounting for contracts including the definition of cost of sales, the segmentation of revenue type and the move to straight line revenue recognition of future license revenues. Financial and operating metrics in respect of the prior periods are restated to reflect those changes.

Revenue and Gross Margin

Total Revenues for the period were $10.4 million (H1 FY25: $17.2 million, FY25: $38.7 million) whilst total Software revenues were $7.9 million (H1 FY25: $11.2 million, FY25: $22.6 million), with hardware revenues of $2.5 million (H1 FY25: $6.0 million, FY25: $16.1 million).

Celebrus Software revenue decreased to $4.1 million (H1 FY25: $5.7 million, FY25: $13.3 million). The lower revenues reflect the changes in the Group's contracts with customers, as detailed in the final results announcement in July 2025. Under those changes, the software license revenues from all Celebrus contracts entered into from 1 April 2025 are recognized on a monthly basis instead of being recognized annually up front in each year of a contract.

The gross profit for the period was $8.8 million (H1 FY25: $11.5 million, FY25: $30.5 million) with a gross margin of 84.9% (H1 FY25: 66.9%, FY25: 78.9%). The gross profit on Software revenues was $7.3 million (H1 FY25: $10.7 million, FY25: $21.6 million) resulting in a Software revenues gross profit percentage of 93.1% (H1 FY25: 95.4%, FY25; 95.6%). The gross profit has been restated from prior periods to reflect the changes announced in July 2025 to no longer reallocate a certain proportion of employee costs from operating expenditure to cost of sales. Cost of sales now includes only software costs related to customer delivery and occasional costs for hardware which cannot be sold to customers on an agency basis.

Annual Recurring Revenue ("ARR")

Under the new definition of ARR, total ARR increased during the period to $20.8 million (H1 FY25: $17.8 million, FY25: $18.8 million). Within that total, Celebrus ARR increased to $15.6 million (H1 FY25: $12.9 million, FY25: $13.6 million), an increase of 14.7% in the period. The Board is confident of further growth in ARR in the second half as a result of the signing of new contracts currently under negotiation.

Administration expenses and Profit before Tax

Administration expenses decreased to $11.5 million (H1 FY25: $11.9 million, FY25: $24.2 million). Excluding items such as net foreign exchange differences and share-based payments, operating expenses were $10.6 million (H1 FY25: $11.1 million, FY25: $22.9 million), reflecting the tight control of costs, and the elimination of certain roles due to increased automation in the business.

Loss before tax was $2.3 million (H1 FY25: profit of $0.3 million, FY25: profit of $7.3 million), and the adjusted loss before tax was $1.4 million (H1 FY25: profit of $1.0 million, FY25: profit of $8.7 million). The adjustments include a share-based payment charge of $0.4 million (H1 FY25: $0.5 million, FY25: $0.6 million), and a restructuring charge of $0.5 million, (H1 FY25: $0.1 million, FY25: $0.3 million).

Interest income

The Group continues to have a strong focus on maximizing interest income from cash holdings and in the period earned interest income of $0.5 million (H1 FY25: $0.7 million, FY25: $1.1 million).

Earnings per share

The adjusted diluted loss per share for the period was 3.51 cents (H1 FY25: earnings of 2.55 cents; FY25: earnings of 18.24 cents). The dilutive share options included in the calculation amount to 1.27 million shares. The company currently holds 1.09 million shares which would substantially offset any future dilution to shareholders.

Balance Sheet

Trade debtors and other receivables (current) were $4.0 million (H1 FY25: $6.4 million; FY25: $9.2 million) with good billing and collection in the period, and no bad debts.

Deferred income decreased during the period to $4.9 million (H1 FY25: $11.9 million; FY25: $7.1 million). The prior period comparison was higher due to certain hardware sales having already been billed for delivery in the second half of FY25.

Cash balance and cash flows

Net cash from operating activities was an outflow of $1.7 million (H1 FY25: outflow of $10.9 million, FY25: outflow of $9.1 million) with the loss before tax of $2.3 million being partially offset by interest income and positive working capital movements.

Net cash used in financing activities was $2.5 million (H1 FY25: $1.4 million, FY25: $2.3 million) with the majority comprised of the $1.2 million final dividend payment for the prior year, and $1.0 million used in the share buyback scheme.

The total decrease in cash and cash equivalents in the period was $4.3 million resulting in a closing cash balance of $27.3 million (H1 FY25: $25.9 million; FY25: $31.5 million), the bulk of which is held as US Dollars. The Group remains debt-free.

Dividend

The Board continually monitors the balance between delivering on a progressive dividend policy whilst at the same time balancing investment in the business for future growth, both organic and by acquisition.

During the Period, the Group paid a final dividend of 2.32p per share. For this current half year, the Board is pleased to declare an interim dividend of 0.98p per share, a 3.2% increase over the comparative period last year. The interim dividend will be paid on 14 January 2026 to shareholders on the Register as at 12 December 2025. The shares will become ex-dividend on 11 December 2025.

Consolidated income statement for the period ended 30 September 2025 (unaudited)

Consolidated statement of comprehensive income for the period ended 30 September 2025 (unaudited)

Consolidated statement of changes in equity attributable to Equity Holders of the Parent for the period ended 30 September 2025 (unaudited)

Consolidated statement of financial position as at 30 September 2025 (unaudited)

Consolidated cash flow statement for the period ended 30 September 2025 (unaudited)

Notes to the financial statements

1. Basis of preparation

These consolidated interim financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as adopted by the UK and on a historical basis, using the accounting policies which are consistent with those set out in the Group's annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025, except for the changes in reporting outlined in the final results announcement on 08 July 2025. The interim financial information for the six months to 30 September 2025, which complies with IAS 34 'Interim Financial Reporting', has been approved by the Board of Directors on 02 December 2025.

The unaudited interim financial information for the period ended 30 September 2025 does not constitute statutory accounts within the meaning of Section 435 of the Companies Act 2006. The comparative figures for the year ended 31 March 2025 are extracted from the statutory financial statements which have been filed with the Registrar of Companies and contain an unqualified audit report and did not contain statements under Section 498 to 502 of the Companies Act 2006.

2. Business and geographical segments

The Group operates as a single business with no separation into divisions or allocation of people or assets to a particular division or product group. The management team is responsible for all products with no individual having responsibility for a particular product or product group. This is consistent with the internal reporting for management purposes. Management does however monitor revenues by revenue type due to the differing nature and margins of each revenue type.

The revenue analysis set out below is consistent with that provided to the Board of Directors.

The geographical revenue segment is determined by the domicile of the customer.

3. Administration expenses

4. Adjusted (loss)/profit before tax

5. Earnings per share

6. Trade and other receivables

7. Trade and other payables

8. Dividends

An interim dividend of 0.98p per share (H1 FY25: 0.95p) will be paid on 14 January 2026 to Members on the Register as at 12 December 2025. The shares will become ex-dividend on 11 December 2025.

10. Investor presentation

The investor presentation will be available on the company's investor website later today https://investors.celebrus.com/.

Bill Bruno (CEO) and Ash Mehta (CFO) will host a live presentation of the results via the Investor Meet Company platform later today at 2.00pm GMT.

Investors can sign up to Investor Meet Company for free and add to meet Celebrus via:

https://www.investormeetcompany.com/celebrus-technologies-plc/register-investor