IBEX Limited (IBEX)
NASDAQ: IBEX · Real-Time Price · USD
28.15
+0.47 (1.70%)
At close: Apr 28, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
28.13
-0.02 (-0.07%)
After-hours: Apr 28, 2026, 4:10 PM EDT
← View all transcripts

Earnings Call: Q4 2022

Sep 22, 2022

Operator

Welcome to the IBEX Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. To note, there is also an accompanying earnings deck presentation available on the IBEX Investor Relations website at investors.ibex.co. I will now turn this conference over to your host, Ms. Brinlea Johnson with The Blueshirt Group.

Brinlea Johnson
Investor Relations, The Blueshirt Group

Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. Before we begin, I want to remind you that matters discussed on today's call may include forward-looking statements related to our operating performance, financial goals and business outlook, which are based on management's current beliefs and assumptions. Please note that these forward-looking statements reflect our opinions as of the date of this call, and we undertake no obligation to revise this information as a result of new developments which may occur. Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expected and described today. For more detailed description of our risk factors, please review our annual report on Form 20-F, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 14, 2021. With that, I'll turn it over to Bob Dechant, CEO.

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Thank you, Brinlea. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you all for joining Karl and me today as we share our Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Results. FY 2022 was a record year across multiple fronts, including revenue, EBITDA, net income, EPS, free cash flow and new client revenue. We accomplished this in the face of continued pressures related to COVID-19 and an increasingly volatile market. We have demonstrated that we can execute and deliver results during the most difficult times, and our momentum continues to build. In the last three consecutive quarters, we accelerated revenue growth to 15%, which is well above our historical 10% rate, and we achieved our revenue guidance for the fiscal year 2022.

Our EBITDA margins continued to expand over the same period, and we are proud to report we achieved 15.1% EBITDA margin in the quarter, a record for the fourth quarter on a year-over-year basis. At the core of IBEX is our powerful new logo engine and our ability to land and expand these partnerships. FY 2022 was a banner year as we won 23 great new clients. IBEX has a unique ability to win new business with both large, digitally transforming blue chip clients and pure play new economy digitally first brands. We continue to successfully compete against both multi-billion-dollar companies as well as new economy only focused providers. These attributes are enabling us to navigate well through the current market conditions as our clients continue to look to outsource more. IBEX is winning because our differentiators are impactful.

There are many elements to our BPO 2.0 capabilities that will continue to resonate well in the market. Our WaveX technology stack is a key enabler for IBEX to consistently outperform our competitors. Our agent first culture is simply the best in the markets where we operate. This allows us to attract and retain great brand ambassadors, which is another key ingredient for us to perform well for our clients. Our world class contact centers are complemented by creative client branding on the production floor, creating a tight link between IBEX and the great brands of our clients. Additionally, our current and prospective clients see an exceptional management team that has leaned into the business and one that is fast and flexible. These are the capabilities they are looking for. That's who IBEX is.

These traits enable our continued delivery of key client wins, rapid speed to green performance, and market share gains away from our competitors. The result is a transformed business in terms of client diversification, key vertical growth, and strategic geographic expansion that will continue to strengthen as our new logo engine gains even more speed. As it relates to geographic expansion, if you recall, we made a strategic decision to aggressively build out capacity throughout the pandemic while operating in a socially distant environment. I am pleased to report that we now have resumed to a pre-pandemic operating model in all of our regions. As a result, we have over 10,000 seats to sell into.

With this additional capacity and our sales pipeline at an all-time high, I'm very excited about our growth and margin trajectory as we head into FY 2023. Q4 was a very strong quarter for IBEX. We delivered organic revenue growth of 13.6%, EBITDA margin of 15.1%, and generated $25 million in free cash flow. Our revenue generated from new clients won since FY 2016, our BPO 2.0 clients continue to grow at an impressive rate of 43% for the quarter. This powerful growth exemplifies not only our ability to attract and win with elite high growth clients, but also our strategy to expand our solutions and become a trusted, differentiated partner. I'm most excited that these new customers now make up 74% of our total company revenues as we exited Q4, up from 59% a year ago.

Our revenue growth is driven primarily by the continued success of our new logo engine, which sells differentiated BPO 2.0 solutions to many of the world's best brands. This quarter, we won 4 new clients across our key verticals for a total of 23 new clients for the fiscal year. This cohort of new clients generated approximately $50 million of in-year revenue, up 67% from our previous high in FY 2021, and we expect these clients to generate well over $100 million in FY 2023. We have done an amazing job in our strategic verticals of health tech and fintech, which includes both new economy brands as well as traditional blue chip companies. These two key verticals now represent over 30% of our business, up from approximately 20% in Q4 FY 2021.

If you recall, we began targeting these verticals in FY 2020, and to build this organically to greater than 30% in three years is not only a remarkable accomplishment, but a testimony to our team. The new logo engine continues to run full throttle into FY 2023. I am delighted to announce that we just signed a very exciting contract with one of the largest healthcare companies in the world for a sizable launch scheduled for the Philippines in October, where we will provide member services for Medicaid subscribers. We expect this client to grow into one of our largest clients over the next several years. Another key vector for our revenue growth is expansion with our embedded base clients, where we continue to land and expand, resulting in increased market share.

As a representative example, we won and launched a major Fortune top 10 client in the beginning of FY 2022. 12 months later, we have displaced two multi-billion-dollar competitors and now have 100% market share to complement their captive centers. They are now one of our top 10 clients, demonstrating our ability to scale and outperform. As a result of our new client wins and expansion within key verticals, we have created a business where our client diversification is among the industry best. Compared to Q4 in fiscal year 2021, our top 5 customers now represent 37% of the revenue, down from 45%. Our top 10 customers represent 55% of total revenues versus 63%, and our top 25 customers now represent 83% of revenues, down from 89%.

IBEX has a great brand with our employees and a very strong reputation with our clients. To this point, we recently completed net promoter surveys with both our employees and our clients. I am delighted to inform you that our employee NPS is among the industry best at 71. This is a testament to our unparalleled employee engagement and culture. As an example, in August, we held our regional agent VIP event in Jamaica for over 500 of our best performers. We hosted them for a two and a half day event at a local resort where my leadership team and I together celebrated their successes. Social media was on fire with the IBEX brand as everyone witnessed the unique environment and agent first culture of IBEX.

As part of our IBEX Cares initiative, this group of 500 top performing IBEXers worked side by side with me and my leadership team, painting an underprivileged school, donating books, toys and money, as well as cleaning up a local beach. I am and continue to be extremely proud of our team. The IBEX brand continues to get stronger in the markets where we operate. A prime example of this, we won Best Places to Work in the Caribbean and Latin America 3 years in a row, and Best Places to Work for women in back-to-back years. Additionally, I am proud of our deep client relationships and our track record of becoming a trusted partner to the world's best brands. Our recent client NPS survey results yielded a top-quartile score of 65.

This is a validation of the client partnerships we have built into our ability to deliver on our promises and outperform the competition. Moving on to profitability. Adjusted EBITDA margins improved sequentially this quarter to a very healthy 15.1%. Our last three quarters have shown EBITDA margin expanding from 10.6% in Q1 to 13.5% in Q2, 14.6% in Q3, and now north of 15% in Q4. This was accomplished while we strategically exited a legacy relationship with our lowest margin client and replaced it with an exciting high-growth health tech client who we are now servicing in two geographies. This pivot, which started and ended in the quarter, had transition costs that impacted both revenue and margin in Q4, resulting in us narrowly missing the low end of EBITDA guidance.

However, we believe this will result in a long-term benefit to the company beginning this quarter in FY 2023. We are also encouraged about the outlook of margin improvement. The majority of our growth continues to occur in our high-margin regions with digitally focused BPO 2.0 clients. Now we have an enviable position of significant capacity to sell into as a result of the removal of social distancing requirements. With this in mind, we expect to realize meaningful margin improvement as we sell into this capacity. Over the last two years, through foresight and planning for expanded growth, we built out world-class capacity to sell into for our clients, and we believe this capacity will accommodate accelerated growth from both our new and existing clients.

As such, we believe we have reached our peak spending, and we expect to see significantly lower capital needs going forward to support our growth. As we foreshadowed in previous calls, this will result in a meaningful inflection in our free cash flow. In fact, our free cash flow for the fourth quarter was $25.1 million, up from -$3.2 million a year ago last quarter. Karl will provide more details on free cash flow in his section. We ended the year with a strong balance sheet of $49 million of cash, which in a turbulent market is a desirable position to be in. We believe M&A can and will be an important part of our growth and differentiation strategy going forward. We continue to look at acquisitions that will be accretive to the business.

We believe our strong balance sheet positions us well once we evaluate the right opportunities. Looking forward to FY 2023, we are confident that we have built a business where revenues will accelerate beyond our historical rates and margins will continue to expand. Our success on client diversification and strategic vertical expansions has positioned us well in today's market as we have less exposure to any one client or any one vertical. Therefore, in FY 2023, we expect revenue to be in the range of $545 million-$555 million, representing a year-over-year growth of 11.4% at the midpoint. We anticipate EBITDA to be in the range of $77 million-$79 million, representing a margin of 14.2% at the respective midpoints, up from 13.5% in FY 2022.

Additionally, we expect CapEx to be between $18 million and $22 million for the year. While we have not given quarterly guidance in the past, I believe with all the market turbulence that it would be appropriate and helpful to discuss Q1 FY 2023. For Q1, we expect revenue to grow to a range of $124 million-$127 million, with a midpoint growth of 15.6% versus prior year quarter. Adjusted EBITDA of $16.5 million-$18.5 million, resulting in an EBITDA margin of 13.9% at the respective midpoints. Our business has great momentum, and we are very excited about the future of IBEX into FY 2023 and beyond. I will now turn the call over to Karl to go into more details on the financials. Karl?

Karl Gabel
CFO, IBEX

Thank you, Bob, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining the call today. We had a strong year with record results in top line revenue and net income growth and adjusted EBITDA. The demand for our solutions continues to increase, both organically with our existing clients and through new logo wins. Our client diversification is a strength and continues to improve as we added new high-profile health tech, fintech, and retail e-commerce clients over the course of the year. I'll start with a review of our fourth quarter, followed by fiscal year 2022 financial results. In my discussion, references to revenue, net income, and net cash generated from operations are on an IFRS basis, while adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow are on a non-GAAP basis.

Reconciliations of our IFRS to non-GAAP measures are included in the tables attached to our earnings press release. Fourth quarter revenue increased 13.6% to $123.7 million, compared to $108.9 million in the prior year quarter. We continued to experience high growth in our cohort of clients won since fiscal year 2016, particularly in health tech and fintech, retail and e-commerce, and travel, transportation, and logistics verticals. This cohort grew by 43% over the prior year quarter and now represents 74% of our total revenue versus 59% in the prior year quarter. The above revenue growth was partially offset by continued decreases related to our legacy three clients, which now represent only 15% of our total revenue. During the quarter, the company strategically replaced one legacy client with a new fast-growing health tech client.

The transition suppressed revenue by $3.9 million and negatively impacted margin compared to last quarter as we moved our agents to this new high-growth launch. Net income increased to $4.9 million versus $4 million in the prior year quarter. The increase in net income was primarily driven by stronger operating results, including a decrease in non-recurring costs and a deferred tax benefit recognized in the current quarter, partially offset by increased depreciation and a negative impact from fair value measurement of share warrants. On a non-GAAP basis, adjusted net income increased to $7.9 million compared to $5.8 million in the prior year quarter. Non-GAAP fully diluted adjusted earnings per share increased 35% to $0.42 compared to $0.31 in the prior year quarter.

The increase in adjusted net income and adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was primarily driven by stronger operating results and a tax benefit recognized in the current quarter, partially offset by increased depreciation. Adjusted EBITDA increased to $18.7 million, or 15.1% of revenue, compared to $15.9 million, or 14.6% of revenue for the same period last year. The increase in adjusted EBITDA margin was primarily driven by growth in our new clients since fiscal year 2016, along with continued revenue growth in higher margin nearshore and offshore regions, offset by costs associated with ramping a new health tech client in the current quarter.

Net cash generated from operations was $27.8 million for the quarter, compared to $1.8 million in the prior year quarter, primarily due to higher collections, stronger operating results, including lower non-recurring expenses and lower cash taxes. Our DSOs continue to be well below the industry average. In the fourth quarter, our DSOs improved to 55 days, down one day year-over-year, down five days sequentially. We reduced total capital expenditures to $2.7 million or 2.2% of revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022 versus $5 million or 4.5% of revenue last year as we begin utilizing our open capacity we have as a result of the removal of social distancing requirements.

Non-GAAP free cash flow increased to $25.1 million in the current quarter compared to -$3.2 million in the prior year quarter. Fiscal year 2022 revenue increased 11.2% to $493.6 million compared to the prior year. Since our shift to the digital-first marketplace in fiscal year 2016, the clients we have won since then make up more than $342 million, or approximately 69% of our fiscal year 2022 revenues. New clients launched in fiscal year 2022 contributed approximately $49 million in revenue in the year. Revenue related to our remaining legacy clients in Q4 fiscal year 2022 was approximately $17 million, and we currently expect it will continue in that range going forward.

Net income for the fiscal year was $23 million compared to $2.8 million in fiscal year 2021. The increase in net income was primarily due to stronger operating results, including lower non-recurring expenses, a positive impact from the fair value adjustment of warrants, a decrease in share-based payments expense, and a deferred tax benefit, partially offset by higher depreciation related to our capacity expansion over the last two years. Our annual effective tax rate on a normalized basis, excluding the effect of the warrant fair value adjustment and a one-time deferred tax benefit of $4 million, was approximately 10% in fiscal year 2022, which is down from 13% in fiscal year 2021 as a result of our ongoing tax planning efforts.

On a non-GAAP basis, fiscal year 2022 adjusted net income was $24.6 million versus $23.6 million last year, and fiscal year 2022 adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was $1.32 versus $1.28 in the prior year. The increase in adjusted net income and adjusted fully diluted earnings per share was primarily driven by lower taxes, partially offset by higher depreciation in the current fiscal year. Fiscal year 2022 adjusted EBITDA increased to $66.8 million, or 13.5% of revenue, compared to $66.2 million, or 14.9% of revenue in the prior year. The adjusted EBITDA margin decreased compared to the prior year, primarily due to costs associated with ramping new business, particularly in the first and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2022.

For fiscal year 2022, our top five client concentration decreased to 39% from 50% of overall revenue last year, exiting the year at 37% in the fourth quarter. Our top ten clients now account for 57% of total revenue, down from 70% in the prior fiscal year. We have worked hard to diversify our client base and are proud of the progress we've made this year. Switching to verticals, retail and e-commerce increased to 19.4% of annual revenue versus 18% in the prior year. Fintech and health tech increased to 26% of annual revenue versus 14.6% in the prior year. Travel, transportation, and logistics increased to 13.4% of annual revenue versus 10.2% in the prior year.

Conversely, our exposure to the telecommunications vertical decreased to 18.1% of annual revenue versus 29.3% in the prior year. Net cash from operations was $50.1 million for the year ended June 30, 2022, compared to $25.9 million in fiscal year 2021. The increase was primarily driven by stronger operating results, including lower non-recurring expenses, improved working capital, and lower cash taxes paid in fiscal year 2022. The capital expenditure for $25.9 million or 5.3% of revenue for the fiscal year 2022 versus $20.8 million or 4.7% of revenue last year. Non-GAAP free cash flow increased to $24.2 million from $5.1 million in the prior year.

Free cash flow increased as a result of higher net cash provided by operating activities, offset by an increase in capital expenditures over the prior year as we continue to invest primarily in nearshore capacity expansion. The company measures capacity utilization, including both agents working at home and on-site, against total workstations. Capacity utilization decreased to 69% from 77% in the prior year as we continue to invest primarily in nearshore expansion while experiencing lower utilization rates due to pandemic-related restrictions, which have now been lifted in all regions. This will free up approximately 10,000 seats, which we can deploy for our robust revenue backlog in the coming year. We ended the fiscal year with $48.8 million in cash, down from $57.8 million in the prior year.

Total debt was $104.7 million, including total borrowings of $15 million and lease liabilities of $89.7 million, down from total debt of $112.5 million as of the prior year. Borrowing availability under our revolving credit facilities was $50.5 million at June 2022 compared to $33.6 million in the prior year. In closing, our business has great momentum. We continue to grow at a record pace and steadily expand our current base of business across multiple geographies. We remain extremely confident about the growth of our business and look forward to a strong year ahead. With that, Bob and I will now take questions. Operator, please open the line.

Operator

Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. Please stand by while we compile a Q&A roster. Our first question comes from Tobey Sommer with Truist. You may proceed.

Tobey Sommer
Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Truist Securities

Thanks. Well, you talked about your sales pipeline in being quite good. I was wondering if you could describe what the front of the top of the sales funnel looks like in terms of client behavior, certainly relative to news flow and capital markets. There's volatility being expressed, and I'm wondering if there's any change in the top of the funnel metrics in your sales process.

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Sure, Tobey, thanks for that question. Really, kind of a very thoughtful considering where things are today. Look, I think the overall pipeline, as I said, is at an all-time high and really strong. As you peel back the onion, and this is part of what we like in our position across multiple verticals with big blue chips as well as some new economies, we are seeing a lot of fast deal flow, especially from the blue chips that are evaluating their current scenarios, their current captives, their current business that they have that are struggling, keeping those things operating and needing outsourcing to fill the gap on, in a fairly fast, on a fast basis.

Typically, because they know the pressures that exist in the U.S. market, we're seeing a lot of demand in, what I'll say, in our nearshore and Philippine market. As an example, you know, very, very large healthcare provider, originally, we were pretty close and in discussions with the U.S. launch, and then that pivoted late into that deal cycle for an extremely aggressive Philippine launch. I think that's very representative. We feel that the pipeline is very strong. It'll come in a lot of different fronts, but we really like our position where we're, you know, where we have our irons in the fire across multiple fronts. We think decisions are being made relatively fast as a result of that.

Tobey Sommer
Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Truist Securities

I appreciate that. Thanks. Could you give us a little bit of color on the pace of what you expect for cash flow in fiscal 2023? I kinda ask that in the context of being pleasantly surprised at the cash from ops in the fourth quarter itself.

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Sure. Let me touch on the kind of the broad part, and then Karl, if you wanted to then add in, feel free to do that. But we've been saying this, Tobey, for a while, that we aggressively built out in a socially distanced environment. If we launched a 1,000-seat center, we were able to only use 500 seats with that. With the growth that we had and have had, you know, there was a lot of CapEx that we used. Now, we said when, you know, we will hit that inflection point at some point. We didn't know when. Really, as we got to March and April, our markets all opened up, and now you see the power of the business that we've built from a free cash flow standpoint.

Now, as we think ahead into FY 2023, we're looking at a fairly low CapEx spend for the year and a very good EBITDA year. When you put those together, we feel the outlook, not only in 2023, but also the size of the capacity we have. We look at that into 2024 and also spilling into 2025. We think we are in a high cash kind of free cash flow generation here over the next quite some time, and we're really excited about that. Karl, you may wanna add some color ,

Karl Gabel
CFO, IBEX

Sure, Bob. Just to add to that, I'd say that as Bob mentioned earlier, you know, we hit our, you know, a free cash flow inflection point in the back half, specifically in Q4. If you look at the drivers that are, you know, while we don't give free cash flow guidance, but the guidance we do give indicates continued improvement, higher adjusted EBITDA margins, lower CapEx. I think the other point I'll just hit on that Bob didn't hit on is just the DSOs. You know, we continue to focus in on DSOs with the company for working capital management, and that is part of the free cash flow equation.

Tobey Sommer
Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Truist Securities

Okay. Thank you very much. I'll get back in the queue.

Operator

Thank you. One moment for questions. Our next question comes from Ryan Potter with Citi. You may proceed.

Ryan Potter
Equity Research Analyst, Citi

Hey, thanks for taking my question. I wanted to start on your new economy client exposure. I was wondering if you first could remind us what your current exposure that is there in terms of percent of revenue, then also what trends you've been seeing recently in your new economy clients, particularly as funding levels have reduced for more startup-type companies.

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Yeah. Good question. You know, if we look at our new economy clients as a whole, I think that number, Ryan, maybe we'll get back to you on that, the exact total number. When I drill down on the respective verticals that sit inside that or sub verticals, you know, the one market that we have that we've done a really good job of winning in is in the crypto world. That is a much smaller. You know, there's other competitors of ours that have heavy exposure in the crypto world. Ours was probably about 5%, you know, of total, as you know, as the crypto world kind of went upside down.

When I think of our current position with the new economy players, that's really the one market that we're seeing, I guess, what I would say, kind of sizable softness. For us, our exposure is only, you know, has been only 5% in that. We don't feel, you know, that any of those areas are going to impact, you know, what I think is what is a strong growth engine really driven by the diversification of our clients, our segments, our, you know, our winning with blue chips, our winning with, you know, leading new economy folks. I feel, you know, I feel very good. I feel that we've done an amazing job in building a very, you know, diversified business on all fronts.

Ryan Potter
Equity Research Analyst, Citi

Got it. I guess shifting gears to the talent and supply side, where are you seeing in terms of wage inflation and attrition trends? Have they begun to stabilize? Also could you give an update on where you are in terms of return to office footprint overall? Like how many of the 10,000 seat capacity that you guys opened up can be kind of backfilled by employees returning to office versus hiring new employees?

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Yeah. Let me touch the second part first, because that's a really, you know, kind of important part of our business. We obviously went aggressively with work at home during the pandemic, and that started to reel back in over, let's say, the last four quarters. Today we're about 20% work at home. We had a choice when these markets opened up to say, we're gonna push all those agents back into the centers to allow us to, you know, kind of maximize utilization in those centers or keep them at, you know, in a work at home environment.

We chose to keep the lion's share of our people in a work at home environment because many of my competitors have highlighted this, that when they force their folks to go back into the center, agent attrition went through the roof. Our attrition hasn't really moved significantly over this timeframe because we kept our people in the environments that were. Now, the beauty of that for us is now we have all this capacity rather than moving all the people in and then, you know, utilizing a lot of your capacity for call it in that, you know, like for like in flat revenue.

I think that decision is a great decision for our people, for our agents, for our attrition, and then as a result, you know, your costs associated with that. Now, on your first part of your question, certainly wage inflation, wage pressures exist in all markets, and certainly the US would be, you know, I think the market that has the most pressure. We've done an amazing job in there selling to clients with high agent wage rates. We're driving, you know, great results in the US, margins moving up, etc., you know, kind of as a result of really that partnership with clients in the business we're attracting. In some of the other markets, you know, we see some wage pressures.

Just to give you an idea, they would be, you know. We've had to do some wage adjustments at an agent level, but nothing of, you know, of major. Certainly less than 5% wage adjustments, probably more in the, you know, in the 3% adjustments. You know, the good news is the dollar has been extremely strong in those markets. You know, we've insulated ourselves from an FX standpoint, but more importantly, we've insulated ourselves from a client standpoint where we've negotiated COLA increases in many of our contracts, or we've negotiated successfully with clients outside of COLA provisions, you know, kind of outside of the, you know, those timelines.

We've been very successful in getting, you know, appropriate price increases that allow us to move the wages. If you put all of that, you know, kind of in the mixer. I think the end result will be stronger margin coming out of this business as a result of, you know, all of those elements.

Ryan Potter
Equity Research Analyst, Citi

Great. Thanks again.

Operator

Thank you. One moment for questions. Our next question comes from Robbie Bamberger with Baird. You may proceed.

Robbie Bamberger
VP and Senior Equity Research Associate, Baird

Yeah, thanks for taking my question. So you're expecting about 15% growth in Q1, and then it seems like about 10% in Q2 through Q4. Is that deceleration just because of tough comps? Should we expect sort of the normal seasonality that we've seen typically where it's about, you know, the highest revenue in Q2 and then maybe mild deceleration, sequential deceleration after that?

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Yeah, Robbie, that's a good, you know, it's a good question. Look, there's a lot of turbulence in this market and volatility, right? Our goal is to continue. Just think about, you know, the last three quarters on it. If you put all that together, we were at about a 15% growth. We're, you know, saying roughly that for this quarter one. Our goal is to push towards that. Just with a lot of turbulence in this market, you know, we've just kind of taken what I guess I would say is a bit of a conservative approach on this, let's say, rather than leading with your chin, which, you know, we've seen that happen.

You know, so I think your math plays out right, but I think it's driven by us just kind of sitting and saying, with that volatility, let's make sure we're, you know, kind of just thinking through this conservatively.

Robbie Bamberger
VP and Senior Equity Research Associate, Baird

Yep, that makes sense. Maybe on the largest healthcare client, that you talked about, it seems like it's expected to grow into one of your biggest clients in the next few years. Are there other higher value-added services? It seems like you're providing them and can you maybe expand a little on those and if you could provide those to other healthcare companies or other companies outside of this company as well?

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Sure. You know, Robbie, let me just maybe add one other asterisk. This new client we announced that we won this quarter, the prior move and the health tech client that we pivoted to, that client will be a top five client in this fiscal year. So, we're really excited about the traction we have in the healthcare. One landed in FY 2022. In the second half of FY 2022 will be a top five client in this year. Now add on that, you know, this healthcare provider. You know, this is one of those that we've been working with for several years.

We finally were able to break through with this provider as they finally said, and this is a really important point because we are winning against many multibillion-dollar players. The client finally said, "We're ready to move to something that looks radically different," and IBEX fit the bill. Now, our whole solution in healthcare spans revenue cycle management, member services, things like that. You know, a wide range, appointment scheduling. There's a wide range of solutions that we are providing in this space. With this client, we believe, and you know our largest client that we have and the diversification that we have with our current largest client, we believe that there's many lines of business, many services that we're going to use that as a model to try to drive to.

I feel very good about our footprint, our technology, and our ability to, you know, kind of very, you know, disruptively serve this client versus some of their legacy incumbents. That recipe has worked in a big way multiple times, and I expect it to do the same here.

Robbie Bamberger
VP and Senior Equity Research Associate, Baird

Great. Yeah. Thank you very much.

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Yeah. Thanks, Robbie.

Operator

Thank you. Our last question comes from Arvind Ramnani with Piper Sandler. You may proceed.

Arvind Ramnani
Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Piper Sandler

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. You know, most of them have been answered, but just a question on, you know, how much of your revenue is exposed to, you know, kind of transactional volume? You know, for instance, you know, if you have Lyft, I think is an example you used before, you know, I'm sure there's a certain amount of revenue you get from, kind of resolving certain issues on Lyft. If you can just kind of outline how much of your revenue is exposed to transaction. What I'm really trying to get to here is like, you know, if you get into a tough macro and some of your volume is impacted because of transactions, but your contracts are intact, how much of downside would that really kind of suggest?

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Yeah. Very thoughtful question, Arvind. Thank you for that. Look, between a lot that we do in the retail world, and then you know let's say in the ridesharing world or you know some of these other areas in today's world there's you know those are consumers that are reaching out for service and support. Whether it's a you know where's my stuff or whatever. That's transactional. Now let me give you you know a couple examples. You know I highlighted in my remarks if you heard those about you know in the with the Fortune top 10 client that is big in membership transactional and their volumes were a little bit under pressure. Well we were outperforming. We were out...

As a result, we were then able to take market share to where we fully displaced two multibillion-dollar providers to grow our business with an overall enterprise that's shrinking. I could go down my top 10 client list and articulate that same thing playing out multiple times, with very large e-commerce providers. In this space right now, even where there are challenges, based on our ability to outperform the health of our relationships and just the way we move fast, flexible, the fact that we actually went aggressively in build-outs when my competitors didn't, we're grabbing market share by the droves out of these folks. On an overall macro, sure, you get concerned about that.

The DNA of these clients, we're gonna take out our bottom performers and give that business to our top performers. I'll take that value proposition all day long because that's how we're winning huge market share inside those clients. Arvind, I don't know if there's a follow-on to that at all or you know. Certainly we keep focused on it. You know, we really like our position on you know, on being able to keep our top line growing by grabbing market share, even if the enterprise is shrinking. That's probably the most important element.

Operator

Thank you. I'm not showing any further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Bob Dechant for any further remarks.

Bob Dechant
CEO, IBEX

Great, Josh. Thanks very much, and thank you all for joining us again. We're excited to be out in front of you all. We just love the position that we're in, this business that we've built, and I think FY 2023, you're gonna see this momentum continue to go extremely strong. Thank you all for your continued interest, and commitment into IBEX. Thanks. See you all.

Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

Powered by