Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the OpenText Corporation Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Results Conference Call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen only mode, and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To join the question queue, simply press star then one on your touch- tone phone. Should anyone need assistance during the conference call, they may signal an operator by pressing star and zero on their telephone. I would like to turn the conference over to Harry Blount, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.
Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to OpenText second quarter fiscal 2023 earnings call. With me on the call today are OpenText Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Mark J. Barrenechea, and our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Madhu Ranganathan. Today's call is being webcast live and recorded with a replay available shortly thereafter on the OpenText Investor Relations website. Earlier today, we posted our press release and investor presentation online. These materials will supplement our prepared remarks and can be accessed on the OpenText Investor Relations website at investors.opentext.com. I'm pleased to inform you that OpenText management will be participating at the following upcoming conferences: Bernstein's Technology, Media, Telecom and Consumer One- on- One forum on March 1st in New York, and Scotiabank's TMT conference on March 7th in Toronto. Now on to our safe harbor statement.
Please note that during the course of this conference call, we may make statements relating to the future performance of OpenText that contain forward-looking information. While these forward-looking statements represent our current judgment, actual results could differ materially from a conclusion, forecast, or projection in the forward-looking statements made today. Certain material factors and assumptions were applied in drawing any such statement. Additional information about the material factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from a conclusion, forecast, or projection in the forward-looking information, as well as risk factors that may project future performance results of OpenText are contained in OpenText recent forms 10-K and 10-Q, as well as in our press release that was distributed earlier this afternoon, which may be found on our website. We undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements unless required to do so by law.
In addition, our conference call may include discussions of certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of any non-GAAP financial measures to their most current, most directly comparable GAAP measures may be found within our public filings and other materials, which are available on our website. With that, I'll hand the call over to Mark.
Thank you, Harry. Welcome everyone to our fiscal 2023 Q2 call. Madhu and I are delighted to be hosting today's call from Ottawa. Tomorrow, we ring the opening bell at the Nasdaq live from the nation's capital. It is Nasdaq's first opening from Canada, and tomorrow is a recognition and celebration of Canada's and OpenText's leading role in global technology innovation. We're a differentiated young company, and we're just getting started. Let me get right to the most important points today. OpenText had a truly superb Q2, achieving overall constant currency revenue growth of 7.8%, which reflects very strong cloud revenue growth of 16%, excellent renewals performance, and continued focus on efficiency with 37.7% Adjusted EBITDA margin, even as many of our team members also worked very hard to prepare for the close and integration of Micro Focus.
Many of the same secular factors that contributed to our growth have only increased our confidence in the potential that we see in the acquisition of Micro Focus. Specifically, in an increasingly connected and data-intensive world, our customers need actionable insights and information, strong security, and continuing innovation in the tools that they need to accelerate the digital evolution of their complex business environments in order to securely deliver on their customers' expectations and do so efficiently. We are on track to deliver on every commitment we made at the time of the Micro Focus acquisition announcement. I'll elaborate later, we are more confident than ever about the value we can create for our shareholders, customers, and our employees, and the performance we can realize by applying the OpenText business system as very experienced integrators.
We have a proven track record that has been refined through the course of integrating many large acquisitions over the last decade. In addition, you'll hear today that we're on a path to deliver $6 billion in annual revenues, a $2 billion cloud revenue business, and over $2 billion in Adjusted EBITDA with upper quartile free cash flows based on the trust of our customers. There's five specific topics I want to cover today. One, our vision, our differentiation, and how we plan to win in our markets. Two, delivering on our expanded information management mission and growth programs. Third, multi-year financial milestones and aspirations, including our superb Q2 results. Fiscal 2023 growth targets. We're gonna discuss today our FY 2024 growth targets and even FY 2026 aspirations.
We'll also talk about our strong capital allocation approach and plan and how we intend to create value with the OpenText business system. Let's get into it. First, our vision, our differentiation, and how we plan to win in our markets. Markets are never static. Through time, we've expanded information management to include many types of content experiences and business networks. With a Micro Focus acquisition, OpenText corporate mission expands again. This time to help enterprise professionals secure their operations, gain more insight into their information, and better manage increasingly hybrid and complex digital fabric with a new generation of tools that include cybersecurity, digital operations management, applications automation, and AI and analytics. Digital life is life, and this is generation digital. We call this business 2030. Organizations can only achieve their strategic aspirations by becoming digital leaders.
Top economic performers are already investing disproportionately in digital capabilities. We're on the cusp of a new world era driven by digital, new productivity, and harnessing the world's assets, unlocking human potential, the reshaping of economies by the frictionless flow of goods, people, capital, and ideas, and the new uses of technologies that will drive the next big arena of value and competition. Business 2030 will be achieved through four digital transformations. Total enterprise reinvention. Every industry totally transformed by digital. A new workforce led by Generation Y and Z in only a digital mindset. New digital paradigms and sustainability, climate, trust, and social justice. New digital requirements in extended reality, voice and facial interfaces, the verse in AI. Organizations will continue to need the process advantage, of course, which they receive from ERP and CRM vendors.
The process advantage requires data and actionable insights. Customers need the information advantage, which they receive from OpenText, forged by digital. I speak with a lot of customers, and their business operations are getting more complex as they operate across many countries, many regulatory authorities, platforms, endpoints, and cloud, including the rocketing security and industry compliance requirements. Process and information sprawl is increasing for business information and automation that spans commerce, supply chain, service management, asset management, payment systems, financial systems, communications and service management. The more connected business becomes, the more complex the business operations. At OpenText, we have the end-to-end software and cloud capability to help customers make this transformation rapidly and cost effectively. This is why I like to say we are the platform of platforms for information management.
Customers need a single real-time view of information across these complex business infrastructures that is intelligent, connected, secure, and responsible. That is what we do, and it is unique. This is the OpenText information advantage. Specifically, we believe there are six key markets required to enable the information advantage and deliver the high-impact digital transformations required for business 2030 in winning in this new digital era. The six markets are these: One, Content Services, which include experiences. Two, Business Networks. Three, Cybersecurity. Four, Application Automation, which includes ADM and AMC. Five, Digital Operations Management, formerly ITOM. Six, Analytics and AI. We are organizing around this strategic and growing totally addressable market of $200 billion plus, and we'll keep you updated on our progress in these six market areas.
Second thing I want to talk about today is delivering on our expanded information management vision and growth programs. It's been a great first week speaking with Micro Focus employees and customers, and we have already completed our leadership, structural, and key people integrations. There's enormous amount of energy and excitement. Please recall the transactional financial highlights are as follows. We paid an enterprise value of $5.8 billion, financed with cash and debt. This equates to a revenue multiple of approximately 2.3x and an Adjusted EBITDA multiple of 6.7x, a very attractive multiple. The business is immediately accretive to Adjusted EBITDA dollars.
We love the amazing talent, marquee customers, and great products, including IDOL in the Content space, Vertica in AI, Fortify & Voltage in Security, SMAX in Digital Operations, and LoadRunner & ValueEdge in Applications Automation, including critical mainframe technologies that power the Global 10,000 today and tomorrow. We also intend to fix the things that need fixing. Accelerate to the cloud, reinvention of the customer engagement with the OpenText LOVE model, centralizing renewals and implementing OT best practices, and right-sizing the organization for speed, impact, and growth. On growth, let me summarize a few key programs. OpenText delivered a 95% renewal rate for off cloud in Q2. We expect to make steady progress in transforming the customer experience with Micro Focus products and raising their low 80s renewal rate to ours by the end of fiscal 2025 or sooner.
Rapid innovation. The highest correlation to high renewal rates is product value, and we are taking several actions to accelerate innovation to all our customers. Specifically, we are immediately engaging customers to migrate to the OpenText private cloud for all major Micro Focus offerings and transitioning Micro Focus to our 90-day release cycles to accelerate innovation. Within these six markets, customers will benefit from some fantastic new product value. Our growth strategy is to win the six markets and go deep in its, in each space with select and strategic cross-market integrations that include cloud, AI, and security. Let me highlight some of those growth areas in our six markets. In the content space, we intend four programs to help customers expand the areas of digital potential. We're gonna leverage our new IDOL capabilities to incorporate new business workloads that leverage voice, video, imaging, and facial recognition.
These are all new workloads we can bring content into. We're gonna offer the OpenText private cloud capabilities to all Micro Focus customers to accelerate innovation. We're gonna deliver the most secure content platform in the market with our new Voltage. With Titanium, gain larger share in SaaS ECM market. We're on track with Titanium. In the business network space, integrate our new Vertica advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities into the OpenText Trading Grid to provide massive data analytics to drive the next generation of supply chain transformations, and leverage our new digital operations management capabilities to increase the speed of change, the rate of change within the supply chain. Security is job number one. In Cybersecurity, with the acquisitions of Carbonite, Zix, and Micro Focus security products, OpenText is now one of the largest cybersecurity businesses in the world.
We've created a single go-to-market motion covering enterprise, SMB, and consumer, providing a complete cybersecurity stack in the marketplace from endpoint, forensic, identity, encryption, and cloud-based application security. We intend to invest in cybersecurity, gain share, and ensure this is a top driver of customer value from OpenText. With our Applications Automation space, we've added significant new DevOps capabilities and performance quality and application testing. With our cloud scale and experience, we will turn up the volume in helping customers use these new tools to migrate and modernize into the cloud even faster. Our new digital operations management space will help customers increase service levels and customer experiences by integrating Extended ECM and digital operations. We ran this play very successfully with SAP applications. We'll run it again with ECM and digital operations.
In Analytics & AI, we believe Vertica is a gem. We have two clear value plays. Integrate Magellan in our new Vertica for standalone AI and analytics, the two products already have their initial integration, we demoed it live this week, embedded Vertica in all our major offerings from content, business network, and security. Information management in the cloud, secured, intelligent, and at scale. Customers will benefit from some fantastic new product value. On our cost reduction programs, we confirm our approach to removing 400 million of combined company costs over the next 18 months by reducing overlapping work, removing inefficiencies, eliminating redundant facilities, and automating work. Madhu will speak more about this in a few moments.
Earlier this week, we announced our plan to right-size our combined workforce from 25,000 employees to 23,000 employees on an approximate reduction of 8% within fiscal 2023. This reduction is solely driven by the acquisition, and we still plan for strategic hiring of key roles in select geographies to help us drive growth and innovation. This is going to be a rapid value creative integration. Third thing I wanna talk about today is our growth plans, financial milestones, and aspirations. As I said at the start, we had a superb Q2, and we're integrating Micro Focus from a position of strength. Let me walk through some of our Q2 highlights and year-over-year constant currency. It's our eighth consecutive quarter of cloud and ARR organic growth.
We delivered $945 million in total revenues or 7.8% growth, $423 million of cloud revenues or 16% growth. With Micro Focus, our cloud revenues are going to approach $2 billion a year. We reported enterprise cloud bookings growth of 12%, and our Adjusted EBITDA was 37.7%. On a reported basis, we delivered $163 million in free cash flow and adjusted EPS of $0.89 or $0.94 in constant currency. I couldn't be more pleased about what we have accomplished with and for our customers this quarter. We had strong customer adoption of Cloud Additions within the quarter, R.R. Donnelley, Lear, Royal Bank of Canada, Los Alamos National Laboratory, AMD, the U.S. Defense Health Agency, and Transport for London.
We're excited to partner with these leaders as they accelerate their digital transformation and look to own their digital capabilities. You know, in an uncertain environment, we see continuing high customer engagement and strong demand for our solutions. Last quarter, I talked about the concurrent compounding challenges in the world inclusive of currency, wage and goods inflation, fuel prices, Russia's war on Ukraine, supply chain constraints, skill shortages, and more. Many of these trends continue. The only answer is digitalization to deliver insights, improve efficiency, and lower costs. Our strong Q2 results reflect the corresponding increasing need of businesses to partner with OpenText. It is clear that technology is playing a significant role in boosting productivity in the face of these challenges, and technology is a greater portion of GDP today. IDC's research makes it clear that technology budgets are growing.
They forecast IT spend will grow 5% in 2023, this year. Software spend at 8% and software as a service spend at 15%. Transitioning to our financial outlook, we promised more visibility. We are providing it today. In our investor presentation, we have provided our FY 2024 preliminary targets, and FY 2026 aspirations. Each include Micro Focus. Let me summarize in year-over-year terms and in constant currency. FY 2023 targets include total revenues up 28%-30% or $4.47 billion-$4.55 billion, with Micro Focus contributing between $870 million-$920 million. Continued enterprise cloud bookings growth of 15%+. The total company is expected to grow organically.
Adjusted EBITDA dollars between $1.46 billion and $1.52 billion, or Adjusted EBITDA margin of 32.5%-33.5%. Reported cash flow of $500 million-$600 million impacted from integration spend. It will be a year of cloud acceleration and onboarding Micro Focus. Let me provide our FY 2024 targets. Total revenues up 33%-35% or $5.7 billion-$5.9 billion of total revenues. Enterprise cloud bookings growth of 15%+. The total company is expected to grow organically. Adjusted EBITDA dollars between $2.1 billion to $2.24 billion or between 36%-38%. Approximately $800 million-$900 million of reported free cash flow. Let me spend a moment on Micro Focus in fiscal 2024.
We are baselining Micro Focus revenues to our financial quarters and to our standards and expectations. We want to make this simple and clear for you. They ended their last fiscal year at approximately $2.5 billion in revenues and declining mid-single digit. Our revenue baseline for fiscal 2024 is approximately $2.3 billion in annual revenues, and that is what we've modeled into our F 2024 preliminary targets. The F 2024 baseline includes transitioning from IFRS to U.S. GAAP, transitioning to our reporting periods, our seasonality, the complete exiting of Russia, their previous sale of Digital Safe, and stopping some non-strategic items. To be clear, that is all history now. The baseline for fiscal 2024 is a stable $2.3 billion from which we intend to grow organically in fiscal 2025.
Now, if you want to do the forward metric on the purchase price, that is 2.5x forward revenues, and at the midpoint of Adjusted EBITDA, 6.8x. This is an outstanding value purchase. We are replacing FY 2025 three-year aspirations with FY 2026 aspirations. Total company organic growth up 2%-4%. Enterprise cloud bookings continue at 15%+. Adjusted EBITDA margin expansion to 38%-40% and reported free cash flows of $1.5 billion+. Fourth thing I want to talk about today is our capital allocation approach and plan. We have a strong three-year plan, and we have the leadership, talent, and tools to deliver. We're on a clear path to a $2 billion cloud revenue business and $2 billion+ in Adjusted EBITDA dollars.
Based on this, our capital allocation approach can be summarized as follows. A rapid delevering program. Starting in fiscal Q4, we expect to pay down our debt by a minimum of CAD 150 million a quarter and over eight quarters until we are under 3x leverage. Continuance of our dividend program. We intend to grow our dividend as our free cash flows grow. The OpenText board approved a cash dividend of CAD 0.24299 per share with a record date of March 3rd and a payment date of March 23rd. Share count. Our long-term plan is to hold our share count constant. Our business model is being designed to have a 20%+ conversion rate from revenue to free cash flow. This is upper quartile performance, and we're on that path.
Before I wrap up, let me just speak to how we create value with the OpenText business system. The company is focused on growth, profits, and creating value. We see 3 key stakeholder groups in the OpenText business system: customers, employees, and shareholders. For 125,000 enterprise customers, 1 million SMB businesses, and 8 million home users, it starts with world-class delivery, trust in our products and cloud, and the OpenText LOVE model: land, operate, value, expand, and creating a customer for life. For our employees, we invest in three areas: Performance, Achievement, and Learning. For our shareholders, total revenue growth that includes organic and acquired revenues like our superb Q2.
A reinvestment strategy for growth with customer-informed R&D and sales and marketing, building a digital business that removes costs, improves productivity via high automation, upper quartile Adjusted EBITDA margins, strong free cash flow with a yield of 20%+, a capital allocation plan, as I previously noted, and continued acquisitions. You know, we intend to acquire strategic assets that create value, leveraging the OpenText business system, as we just did with Micro Focus. This is our virtuous cycle, how we create value using the OpenText business system. Let me express something beyond our numbers and our business system. I have strong confidence in our business, team, and plan. And I'll keep you updated in the coming quarters as to our progress. I've always liked the motto from the great state of Missouri, "The Show Me State." Our results will speak for themselves.
In summary, OpenText is a unique company because we understand the complexity of our customers, and we help them reliably manage that complexity. As a result, we have earned their trust every day, and we deliver demonstrable value with the information advantage. I'll end my prepared remarks by reviewing the comments we made at the time of the Micro Focus acquisition announcement. One, we are reaffirming returning Micro Focus products to organic growth. The five months of fiscal 2024 will be onboarding FY 2024, a year of returning to constant and FY 2025 organic growth. Accelerated cloud growth. On a combined basis, expect enterprise cloud bookings growth of 15%+. We expect to transform the Micro Focus customer engagement and renewal model, as previously noted.
The acquisition is dollar-accretive from day one and contributes significantly more as we integrate, take cost out, improve renewal rates, and return to organic growth. Upper quartile Adjusted EBITDA margin of 36%-38% in fiscal 2024 and 38%-40% in fiscal 2026. Upper quartile free cash flows of $800 million-$900 million in fiscal 2024, $1.5 billion+ in fiscal 2026. Rapid delevering, continuation of our dividend program, and enhanced visibility as we're doing today and will continue to do so. We're on track to deliver on every commitment we made.
Let me express my deepest gratitude to our customers that place their trust in OpenText every day, my deepest gratitude to our OpenText colleagues who did outstanding work over the last six months completing the acquisition, delivering an amazing Q2 and strong momentum into the second half of this fiscal year and doing the hard work to prepare for applying our proven integration playbook. Finally, a huge and warm welcome to our 11,000 new colleagues from Micro Focus, customers, and value-added partners. We will grow and innovate as a united OpenText. May the one that brings peace bring peace for all. Let me turn the call over to Madhu Ranganathan, OpenText CFO, and my business partner. Madhu.
Thank you, Mark, and thank you all for joining us today. All references in millions of U.S.D and compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year and are on a reported basis unless I state otherwise. During Q2 at OpenText, we redefined one more time what consistent and solid execution means. We delivered a superb quarter of results better than the expectations of our target growth strategy shared with you on the last earnings call and proceeded towards closing Micro Focus acquisition on the thirty-first in line with our planned timing. OpenText is entering an exciting new phase, acquiring Micro Focus from a solid position of strength with momentum and confidence in our total growth and integration plan. On Q2 results, we are very pleased with our Q2 revenue performance.
On a year-over-year basis, enterprise cloud bookings of $145 million, up 12% year-over-year. Foreign exchange in Q2 with a revenue headwind of $48 million, approximately 45% in customer support and 31% in cloud. Cloud revenue of $409 million, up 12% as reported and 16% in constant currency. Strong renewals with 94% enterprise cloud and 95% in off cloud. ARR, annual recurring revenue, of $725 million, up 3.6% as reported and 8.7% in constant currency and representing 81% of total revenue. Total revenue of $897 million, up 2.4% as reported and 7.8% in constant currency. Q2 was the eighth consecutive quarter of organic growth in constant currency for both cloud and ARR.
Moving to other financial metrics, GAAP net income of $259 million, up from $88 million due to a non-cash mark-to-market benefit on Micro Focus-related derivatives and lower debt extinguishment cost. Note that the mark-to-market benefit in Q2 is a reversal of Q1 loss, partially reflective of the significant currency movements of euro and GBP to the U.S. dollar. GAAP gross margin of 71% versus 70% led by improved cloud margins. Adjusted EBITDA of $341 million or 38% of revenue versus $344 million or 39.2%, down 0.8% as reported, up 3.7% in constant currency. Cost of sales and operating expenses were up $24 million on a non-GAAP basis, all related to revenue growth, integration of Zix, and growth-related investments in R&D and sales and marketing.
Our organic growth rate trends are testament to the benefits accruing from continued investments in products and go-to-market. On operating cash flows, we generated $195 million in operating cash flows in Q2. Free cash flows in the quarter of $163 million or 18% of revenue. DSOs of 47 days versus 44 days in the prior year. Q2 DSO is reflective of December quarter seasonality with high annual billings relating to our renewal business. Our working capital performance remains strong. Year-over-year, FCF was also impacted by front-end loaded CapEx investments. On enterprise cloud bookings, our trailing twelve-month cloud bookings were a strong $511 million, up 25%, the highest in our history. We continue to see steady demand in large cloud deals and average minimum cloud contract value increases.
In content, we saw strength in insurance, engineering, construction, and telecommunications. In business network, we saw strength in wholesale, retail, and banking sectors. Experience saw strength in telecommunications. Regionally, our international markets, such as those in APAC, saw key cloud wins. Our full quarter cloud pipeline growth is trending strongly upwards with solid growth in key industries such as government, healthcare, and banking. Moving to balance sheet and liquidity, please do refer to page 15 of our investor presentation. We ended the December quarter with $2.8 billion of cash, which includes $990 million in net proceeds from the senior note offering completed on December 1st, 2022. Our net leverage ratio was 2 x for Q2. Turning to outlook, targets, and aspirations.
We plan our business in constant currency and present our business on a constant currency basis for our quarterly factors, total growth strategy, and medium-term aspirations. The financial visibility that Mark provided earlier, it reflects our integration and business planning. First of all, the Micro Focus financial consolidation starts on February first and will be included for five months during our current fiscal year ending June 30th, 2023. That means Micro Focus revenues are included for two months in our March quarter and three months or full quarter for the June quarter. In our outlook, we have fully aligned IFRS to GAAP and reporting periods. I will share more details. Given the partial year inclusion, we are providing insights for five months relating to Micro Focus, which we have provided in the slides 17-21 of our investor presentation.
Looking at fiscal 2024 and beyond, we view OpenText in aggregate and will speak to entire company as well as our products in the six markets that Mark outlined in his commentaries. Regarding Micro Focus' Adjusted EBITDA profile, we acquired a high EBITDA margin business. Converting from IFRS to U.S. GAAP will burden Micro Focus Adjusted EBITDA due to the following items: the revenue timing relating to license renewals, R&D capitalization, and lease accounting. Our baseline for Micro Focus commencing February 1st for financial consolidation, it fully includes the IFRS to U.S. GAAP conversion. During our integration period and beyond, we expect to gain operational efficiencies in the combined company. As you can see, the margin targets for the combined company are at 36%-38% for fiscal 2024 at a solid $2 billion-plus in Adjusted EBITDA dollars.
Next, let me provide details with respect to significant items in our outlook that relate to the overall expense structure: cost reduction, interest expense, integration expense, and special charges. First of all, on cost reductions. We remain confident to execute towards our $400 million cost reduction plan. Earlier this week, on January 31st, we announced a restructuring plan that will impact our global workforce following the Micro Focus acquisition in an effort to further streamline our operations. The total size of the plan is expected to result in a reduction of the combined workforce of approximately 8% or 2,000 employees with an estimated cost of $70 million-$80 million. We expect to complete the plan by the end of our current fiscal 2023.
We also expect to eliminate redundant global facilities with the acquisition of Micro Focus, and we will provide further details when they become available. Lastly, we have several programs to optimize the usual duplicative efforts, including automation and procurement vendor consolidation, all as part of our operational integration. These savings span several quarters and are fully reflected in our outlook. Turning to interest expense is based on our debt service arrangements and are included in our free cash flow outlook. Our capital structure and initial mix between fixed and floating debt was very intentional to have the ability to make repayments, delever, and reduce interest expense over time. On integration expenses, approximately $80 million are included in the outlook for our non-GAAP or adjusted results for fiscal 2023 and 2024.
Special charges and alignment of global entities for an organization at our scale, they require significant investments and ranging from $380 million-$420 million are also included in our outlook for fiscal 2023 and 2024. These estimates will continue to be refined as we start the integration efforts. Let me draw your attention to the free cash flow slide number 10 in our investor presentation. You will notice our targets of $500 million-$600 million for fiscal 2023 and $800 million-$900 million for fiscal 2024, and a rapid growth trajectory to $1.5 billion in fiscal 2026.
The expenses and investments I just outlined play a significant role during fiscal 2023 and 2024, while our cost reduction programs and continued working capital improvements will drive a highly efficient organization at scale with upper quartile Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flows. Let me transition to our debt levels and delever plan. With the closing of the Micro Focus acquisition on January 31st, we will finish March quarter with approximately $9.3 billion in debt, excluding cash. This pro forma debt structure reflects the senior secured note financing, the acquisition term loan amendment completed December 1st, 2022, and the subsequent drawdown from our revolver of $450 million during January. Our pro forma debt structure has a 5.9-year weighted average maturity and a 6.3% weighted average interest rate and a net leverage ratio of 3.8 x.
Approximately half our debt is fixed. We are planning a debt repayment of a minimum of $175 million per quarter. It's $175 million per quarter commencing Q4 fiscal 2023, ending June 30, 2023, over eight quarters to bring the leverage to lower than 3 x. As shared since the initial announcement of the Micro Focus acquisition, we remain committed to within eight full quarters to bring the net leverage ratio to less than 3 x. We have a solid delever plan. I would also refer you to slides 15 and 23 in our investor presentation for details on our debt towers and our deleveraging program. With respect to outlook targets and aspirations, let me amplify Mark's commentaries on the same topics, and I will highlight on Q3 quarterly factors and Q3 fiscal 2023 target model.
On Q3 quarterly factors in constant currency, page 18 of the investor presentation. We expect revenue of $1.18 billion-$1.22 billion, inclusive of $310 million-$325 million of Micro Focus revenues. ARR of $0.96 billion-$1 billion, inclusive of $245 million-$260 million of Micro Focus revenues. At exchange rates being forecasted, FX will be a headwind of $30 million-$35 million. Adjusted EBITDA on a year-over-year basis, margin percentage down 600-700 basis points, reflecting Micro Focus integration cost. Excluding Micro Focus, Adjusted EBITDA dollars and margin would be constant. As shared in our communications, Micro Focus remains immediately accretive from an EBITDA dollar perspective. Expect effects to be an Adjusted EBITDA headwind of less than $5 million.
Q3 fiscal 2023 target model, our target model ranges are usually provided for annual and fiscal years. For this quarter only, we are providing a Q3 fiscal 2023 target model to reflect and assist the Micro Focus onboarding. Please refer to page 19 of the investor presentation, all figures in constant currency and as a % of total revenue. We expect cloud revenue to be 35%-37% of total revenue. ARR to be 82%-84%. Licensed revenue, 9%-11%. Non-GAAP gross margin of 74%-76%. R&D of 17%-19%. Sales and marketing of 21%-23%. G&A of 9%-11%. Total operating expenses, 52%-54%. Interest expense of $115 million-$125 million.
With respect to preliminary fiscal 2024 financial targets, please refer to page 17 of the investor presentation and the commentary shared earlier by Mark. With respect to our fiscal 2026 medium-term aspirations, please refer to page 22 of our investor deck and the comments shared earlier by Mark. As you can surmise, our targets and aspirations are strong and at scale. The horsepower of the combined company to generate upper quartile cash flows is strong. Our fiscal 2026 aspirations of 38%-40% Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow of $1.5 billion plus, they fully reflect continued OpenText growth, particularly cloud growth and return to organic growth by Micro Focus, completion of the cost reduction program and the integration program with its related investments.
In summary, consistent and solid execution are core to the OpenText business system and our operating DNA that came to life as people and operations delivered a superb Q2 and achieved an unprecedented readiness to close the transformative acquisition of Micro Focus. During the last 48 hours since we announced the close, our teams have kicked off a highly successful onboarding of a global organization of 11,000 professionals to OpenText, another testament of the OpenText execution engine that is well poised to continue the momentum. On behalf of OpenText, I would like to thank our shareholders, our loyal customers, partners, and team members as we embark on the exciting journey ahead. I will now open the call for your questions. Operator?
Thank you. We will now begin the question- and- answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on your touch-tone telephone to join the question queue. You will hear a tone acknowledging your request. If you're using a speakerphone, please ensure you lift the handset before pressing any keys. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two. Anyone who has a question may press star and one at this time. The first question comes from Paul Treiber of RBC. Please go ahead.
Thanks very much and good afternoon. Just a couple open-ended questions. Just first on the product roadmap, You sound very excited about the combined product roadmap. Among all the acquisitions that OpenText has done, how would you rate the product fit and the potential revenue synergy opportunity just coming from products alone, between these two companies?
Yeah, Paul, thanks for the question. Great to hear your voice. Well, this is the largest expansion of information management that we've done. You know, Documentum effectively bought market share and some capabilities in a couple of industries. GXS certainly put us in business networks, and we've added to that over time, like Liaison. Our acquisition of Carbonite and Zix put us, you know, gave us a solid footprint in cybersecurity. This is the largest expansion of our mission, largest expansion of information management. You know, as I noted in my remarks, this has created a cybersecurity business of scale.
That will rival our content business in terms of scale and resources. We're entering a whole new application automation space which we think is essential for the needs of digitalization. Digital operations management, and we're bringing on Global 10,000 critical technologies. We're the market leader in EDI, we're gonna be the market leader in mainframe technologies, and bringing those workloads distributed. Paul... Then of course, Vertica, and some other tools. It's the largest expansion, brings our TAM up to over $200 billion. You know, at this scale I'll bridge back to, you know, what I said on our fiscal 2024 plan.
You know, we'll, on this growth rate, you know, we're looking to generate $2.1 billion-$2.24 billion in Adjusted EBITDA. It's also the largest expansion of being able to generate, profit and EBITDA. It's the largest step forward we've made.
That's great to hear. You know, there's a lot of work obviously with the integration that you need to chew through over the next couple quarters or maybe years. What are the most important factors that need to happen in your view for this acquisition to work out very well for shareholders here?
Yeah. Again, thank you Paul. You know, we're off to a great start. I mean, the energy and excitement internally has in week one just been electric. Look, we wanted to put out there FY 2024 preliminary plan. Then I, and I. Look, it's the. I have confidence in what we're doing, and the results are gonna speak for themselves. You know, in FY 2024 plan, we're looking to deliver $5.75 billion-$5.8 billion in total revenues. $2.1 billion-$2.24 billion in Adjusted EBITDA, and up to $900 million of free cash flows.
Supporting that are the beginning of the transformation of how they engage customers and getting their renewal rate to ours. Underneath that is an accelerated product roadmap every 90 days. Underneath that is long-term value, accelerating customers to the private cloud, then more public cloud. It's just as we outlined, Paul, of the game play. You know, the game play we outlined pre-close is the same post-close, and it's relatively straightforward. Get the renewal rate up. How do you do that? Highest correlation is product innovation. The piece where we feel that OpenText can add the most value is our private cloud, accelerate innovation, and then more public cloud services. We know how to run this play.
It's the same pre-announcement as it is today. We have the confidence to present to you today our FY 2024 plan of $2.2 billion-$2.24 billion in Adjusted EBITDA, 15% enterprise cloud bookings growth, and revenues up to $5.8 billion.
Thank you. I'll pass the line.
The next question comes from Steven Enders of Citi. Please go ahead.
Hi, this is George on for Steve. Congrats on closing the deal. It's very, very exciting. I wanted to talk about the FY 2023 guide. If I'm understanding correctly, the organic revenue growth guide came down a couple points despite, you know, a really strong quarter. I guess I'm wondering, you know, how much macro is potentially baked in there, how much conservatism, if you could just talk through that change. Thank you.
Yep. Thank you again for your, you know, for your comments. It's Madhu here. When you look at fiscal 2023, the OpenText growth trajectory, there's no change in it, right? As we bring Micro Focus on for the five months, and when you look at it in aggregate, we are bringing Micro Focus on at a baseline in fiscal 2024 of $2.3 billion we shared, and we've also given you the five-month numbers. I would also urge that it's not going to be reasonable to annualize the five-month number just given their own seasonality and how their license and other aspects operate, which we understand quite well and hence able to provide the baseline for fiscal 2024. I would say OpenText organic growth rate is strong.
Our cloud revenue growth rate, it remains strong, and it's really the Micro Focus piece that we're incorporating for the five months.
Got it. That makes sense. Thank you. One quick follow-up. You know, you announced this headcount reduction, cost savings plan. I'm just wondering, so is that fully, just according to your acquisition, you know, pre-planned cost out, or is there any, element of kind of responding to some of the same pressures that some of your peers are facing that are going through similar programs? Thank you.
Mark, do you wanna take that and I can add as needed?
Sure. George, thanks for the question. you know, we announced conjunctive with our announcement of our intent to acquire Micro Focus, we said we'd take out $400 million. After closing here, we're confirming we're gonna take out $400 million of expense. Our 8% reduction, rebalancing of the workforce is completely due to the acquisition. Our cloud bookings growth is growing 15% plus, as you can see. We had a stealth superb Q2. you know, it's interesting, when you look at the economy and the factors out there. My best way to describe it is it's uneven, right? There are very specific issues to companies. They need to, you know, all talk about their own companies. In relation to OpenText, our demand is strong.
Digitalization is the only answer. You're seeing that in our 16% cloud revenue growth, 7%, near 8% total revenue growth, and our increased confidence in growing, enterprise cloud bookings at 15%+. The factors exist out there, for sure. It's uneven and disproportional, and digitalization is the only answer, and we're doing well in this volatile time.
Yeah, thank you, Mark. I was just gonna add that, you know, before COVID or during COVID, the OpenText operating model has always been very thoughtful and measured adding of resources that is very conjunctive with growth and innovation. The factors you hear outside are absolutely not applicable to us. Even now, the rebalancing the workforce, as Mark shared in his comments, we'll continue to hire in the sales and the, you know, product innovation areas.
Great. Thanks for taking the questions.
Yeah. Thank you, George.
The next question comes from Kevin Krishnaratne from Scotiabank. Please go ahead.
Hey there. Good evening. Congrats on the, on the deal. Very exciting times. Just a question for you on the, you know, your outlook 2024, 2026. It's got an improving organic growth profile there. I'm just wondering, a lot of different moving pieces there. How do we think about sort of the contributions of, say, call it straight up cross-sell, versus, you know, helping Micro Focus be maybe better cloud-enabled when it gets onto your cloud, private cloud platform versus renewal rate, sort of improvements? Just walk through the different pieces and what might be the bigger contributors, to the improving organic, growth rates over the next few years.
Thank you, Kevin. The first is, as I outlined in my remarks, we wanna win each of the markets. I don't think of that as cross-selling per se, but winning that stack. We wanna win the cybersecurity full stack. It's suite selling. You know, win the cybersecurity suite, win the content suite, win the business network suite. That is a straightforward growth on-ramp for us to win the stack in each of those six markets. Second is select strategic integrations across the six markets, like Vertica and Magellan across the six, security across the six, private cloud, our cloud APIs across the six. It's a very straightforward play for us, and we're, we've actually organized the company around that. Ted in E nterprise Sales, Prentiss.
We're giving Cybersecurity a lot of focus, Prentiss leading Cybersecurity. We have James McGourlay leading International Sales, Paul Duggan running all worldwide renewals through customer success, and Kristina leading our Corporate Sales. We've, you know, structure follows strategy, and we put that structure underneath that growth play of winning each. Now, there's some very select things that we think are going to stand out, IDOL and content services. Our ability to compete against FileNet, Box, Hyland and others by incorporating facial recognition, voice, imagery. We're gonna take a big step up with this capability. It's, it's a gem. Being able to, like, integrate security, Voltage into content and having the most secure content platform. Play number one is win the stack.
Number two, select integrations. Three, you know, fixing the things that need fixing at Micro Focus. Acceleration private cloud, get the renewal rate up as we outlined. Kevin, it's a pretty straightforward run of play, easy to articulate, we're putting it all in motion.
Thanks for that color, Mark. Maybe just a follow-up there then. You know-
Sure
... some of these integrations sound really, really unique and interesting. I'm wondering how do we think about, you know, once they're integrated and up and running and being offered to customers, is the opportunity more that they're opening up new TAMs or new use cases, or are you being, are these better competitive products than you're displacing? Just how do you think about, you know, where and how the wins are coming when you're looking at the other end?
Yeah. I mean, the these markets are bringing us to a galactic TAM of $200 billion, right? We don't need TAM expansion. We got a big playing field in front of us at $200 billion+. It's two things. We have new use cases we can go after. Smart cities, smart transportation. You know, as we move, you know, Gen X and Y move from using their fingers and using more voice, we're in a great position to capture them. There's just new use cases. I'm just giving one in content. A new market, cybersecurity for us.
You know, we'll be larger than some brand names out there like RSA with this, you know, a comprehensive stack that we have. Our competitive position is going to increase. It's the same competitors out there. Our position against FileNet just got stronger. Our position against Box just got stronger. Our position against Sterling Commerce just got stronger. Our position against some of the security providers just got stronger. It's new use cases. We love the TAM, don't need to expand it. Win the full stack, stronger against our competitors. We'll spend more time on that in an investor day and another presentation to lay out that competitive landscape.
It's a really interesting question and thanks for it.
Great. Look forward to the progress and congrats again. I'll pass the line.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Stephanie Price of CIBC. Please go ahead.
Good evening. Thanks for taking my question.
Hi, Stephanie.
Hi. I wanted to focus in on that fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2024 target market or, sorry, target model, and maybe talk a little bit about where you've potentially baked in some conservatism and what you think kind of gets you to exceed potentially the targets that you've set out, especially on the margin side.
Yeah. If there's any model questions or target, I'd hand that to Madhu first, and then I can take maybe the second part. Any questions on the model you wanna go through, Steph?
Just more generally on where you might have baked in some conservatism in that fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2024 target model. Just thinking about upside from here.
Yeah, for sure. I'll take that, Stephanie. A couple things, whether it's conservatism or not, we have a very educated baseline for Micro Focus, right? That's actually number one. We've shared very explicitly the five months. There's plenty of seasonality to just support us and to support you. We've shared where we see. Since you're asking about fiscal 2023, the Micro Focus numbers come in. Vis-à-vis the historical Adjusted EBITDA, it is getting burdened by the three items I outlined, including some of the license renewals, and second, the lease accounting and also the R&D capitalization. The entry point for Micro Focus coming in is definitely from IFRS to U.S. GAAP, and we've made sure we've aligned that as well.
In fiscal 2023, as you look at our annual model ranges, we continue to have enterprise cloud bookings at 15%+. Our cloud revenue, including Micro Focus, is actually at 11%-13%. You know, previously it was 8%-10% from an OpenText only. I mean, again, as we see the demand strong about the cloud bookings and cloud revenue, the target model, I would say, you know, fully represents what we see in the market. Integration begins, I've shared color on some of the integration costs that we are going to incur, and we factored all of those in.
Stephanie, I would amplify, or rather not amplify, I'd add two things, right, to the great comments from Madhu. you know, things I think about to deliver these great targets, right, before I say, you know, are they conservative or exceed them, but to deliver these great targets we put out there. I'm very confident in the pace and speed given our track record over the last decade of many large acquisitions. To the extent we can go faster, the results would thus be accelerated. I'd be very pleased with landing between $2.1 billion and $2.24 billion in Adjusted EBITDA for 2024. If it was a little faster, the results should improve.
Second thing, I actually like our euro exposure of our business and, with OpenText and now the Micro Focus customers, part of OpenText. A rising euro rises OpenText.
Yes.
I also like the mix of business that we have geographically. To the extent that the euro goes up, we're in a good place.
Thanks for that. Just one final one from me. Just curious about the R&D, and how you think about the combined R&D in the business. What areas are you looking to prioritize post the Micro Focus acquisition?
Yeah. Well, on, as we bring the two, we've, brought the two organizations together already, you know, you'll note, in fiscal 2023 on our target model range our engineering investment is between 14%-16%.
The partial year.
On the partial year. You can expect it, on a combined basis to, you know, tick up from the previous OpenText model, right? It's not just up on a combined basis, it's up 'cause we're gonna be investing, to accelerate cloud. Continue to accelerate cloud. 15%+ bookings growth. You can see our FY 2026 aspirations. Oh, what's the organic-?
Seven. Yeah, the 7%-9%.
The 7% - 9% organic cloud revenue growth in FY 2026. That's a big number, very important number, a strategic set of initiatives for us. You can see that R&D percent up, 15% plus cloud bookings growth, and 7% - 9% organic cloud revenue growth as we approach 2026. Where is that investment gonna go? It's gonna go right to where I highlight it in my script today. I won't repeat it, but we'll go back to the transcript. I outlined quite precisely where the priority is gonna be.
Mark, I was just gonna add, and you could certainly amplify, definitely the global footprint of R&D, the professionals we are acquiring, you know, to add to the OpenText team is quite incredible. It's gonna be somewhere to the 8,000 people. You know, we have a huge concentration in India now and including of Canada, Germany, et cetera. I mean, I was just gonna add, the quality and caliber and the skill sets of the R&D professionals, is, I mean, is really gonna be very strong.
Great. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Thanos Moschopoulos of BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Hi, good afternoon. Madhu, can you clarify the difference between IFRS to U.S. GAAP that you referenced on the licenses? Is it that they were booking upfront license on multi-year terms and you're gonna recognize it ratably, or what's the dynamic there as you go from IFRS to GAAP?
Yeah, of course. Happy to. I specifically mentioned the license renewals, which means, the IFRS allows you to take it upon signing of a renewal contract, whereas in the U.S. GAAP, you start to take revenue, obviously on a ratable basis, upon the official date of the renewal when you start delivering the services. That's the big difference. The other two pieces, as I mentioned, IFRS allows a higher rate of R&D capitalization than U.S. GAAP does, and lease accounting, in U.S. GAAP is treated as rent, so it goes into the operating expense model.
Okay.
As opposed to depreciation. Yeah.
Right. Then just to clarify, since it's hard for us to do an apples to apples comparison, if we look at your FY 2023 revenue contribution from Micro Focus, apples to apples, does that sort of imply a single-digits type of organic decline, or might it be larger than that initially because of some of the near-term integration?
Yeah. Is that question, Thanos, for Micro Focus? If you look at our target model, OpenText, the organic growth is still maintaining at 1%-2%. Was your question specific to Micro Focus?
Specific to the Micro Focus contribution implied in the fiscal 2023 guidance, is that?
Yeah.
Sort of apples- to- apples? Yeah.
Yeah. I would say the best reference for the Micro Focus contribution is what we've shared on $870 million-$920 million, and then calling the baseline at $2.3 billion for fiscal 2024, sort of taking the narrative out of, you know, like how much is it over or under, and this is our completely educated, you know, estimate of $870 million-$920 million for the year, for the partial year, and then $2.3 billion baseline for revenue in fiscal 2024.
Yeah. Thanos, to add to that, look, I'm expecting solid performance from Micro Focus of these five months. It's really tough, and I don't actually think it's meaningful to look at those five months a year ago because they didn't run the business that way, and they don't have an end of March, right? They didn't have an end of March. They had an end of April. We have an end of March. They didn't have an end of June, right? They had an end of October. We're gonna get them on board to our periods, and we're gonna drive performance hard. The team's quite motivated, right? I'm expecting solid performance, as Madhu highlighted, $870-$920.
Do not annualize that number, because they didn't run as an IFRS reporter every six months to our periods. We're gonna get all that period stuff out of the way immediately. We can get all that noise out of the system. We've aligned to our calendar. We wanted to make it easy for you and say it's $870-$920, and next year, the baseline is $2.3. We expect strong performance, strong customer wins, and I'm can't wait to shout some out when we close the quarter.
Perfect. Appreciate all that and appreciate all the guidance and disclosure you provided. Thanks.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Richard Tse of National Bank Financial. Please go ahead.
Yes. Yeah, thanks for providing all that color. That's, super helpful in terms of, kind of helping us forecast the outlook. I just have one question. You know, it looks like a great transaction, like from a valuation standpoint and everything. If there were any potential blind spots, where would they be, sort of based on your kind of past experience with previous acquisitions?
Fair, you know, fair enough. Look, always top of the house is our talent, which we're off to a great start on. Understanding customer needs, and that's gonna be a big outreach from for us. You know, on the system side, in this case, we're integrating to our systems. I appreciate all the work that they've done historically, but, you know, we're taking their product line, and we're gonna integrate into SAP. We'll integrate into our Salesforce. We'll integrate into our M365 Teams environment. We'll integrate into our information system. Typically, there's could be surprises on the system side, but we'll be integrating into our world-class tech stack that run and scales OpenText.
I think it's the usual markers that we're gonna continue to pay obviously very close attention to: people, customers, and systems.
Okay, great. Thank you.
The next question comes from Daniel Chan at TD Securities. Please go ahead.
Hey, Mark. now that the deal is closed, I'm hoping you can give us more color on how some of those early conversations are going with Micro Focus' customers on being able to cross-sell cloud services into their installations.
Early days feedback from customers I've. Obviously a busy week. I've spoken to almost 12 customers this week, and the overarching theme is we love where the products have landed. Incredible talent, incredible products. We love where Micro Focus products landed. Two, lots of joint opportunity on integration. A lot of interesting use cases and potential coming out. A real reaffirmation of where we feel the value drivers are. Faster integration. Mind you, they haven't had this innovation culture per se, right? We have a CEO and CTO. We have a great head of engineering.
We organize, you know, one of our If our heart has four valves, one of those valves is innovation. Getting to our every 90 days accelerated innovation. They have an amazingly talented engineering organization, and now they have more tools to leverage, as do all parts of engineering. A real affirmation of great people, great products move faster, which is our 90-day cycles, and provide more cloud options. Private cloud for many is the destination. More API work as well. Dan, I'd say this is a. It was a very strong affirmation of our strategic rationale.
Sounds good. Thanks for that. Maybe switching gears to the renewals business. Based on our prior conversations, it sounds like you had some pretty big structural shifts in changing Micro Focus' renewals business. What's the timeline on completely revamping that business, and how long do you think it'll take before we start seeing those renewal rates start to improve?
The re-renewal rates are in the low 80s. You saw ours in the mid-90s for our Q2. You know, our business practice is taking our renewals rate over time to an expansion business, I do hope over time to talk expansion rates versus renewal rates. That's the big prize on the hill, right, is advancing as we get more and more, you know, as we approach this $2 billion cloud business and beyond, our narrative will change from renewal rates to an expansion rate. That said for a moment, we have strong performance in the mid-90s. They're operating in the low 80s.
We're in full motion on deploying the OpenText LOVE model, land, operate, value, expand, centralization of renewals, the new procedures, new authorities, APA, doing this direct, not through partners. We expect to uplift them to our renewal rates by the end FY 2025, and make steady progress along the way. Right? You know, renewals happen in one-year cycles. We'll start to integrate. It's really the things below that. The renewal rate is a lagging indicator. It's not a leading indicator.
As we get on our 90-day release cycles, as we get private cloud, as we accelerate public cloud, as we build more confidence, we put all the procedural things in place, we will see steady progress, but that landing zone of getting to our kind of our rate, we believe will land there by the end FY 2025 with steady progress along the way, and we'll keep you updated along the way.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Steven Li of Raymond James. Please go ahead.
Hey, guys. Hi, Mark. Hi, Madhu. I understand IFRS GAAP has an impact on it, but the free cash flow also looks a bit off. What I'm looking at is OpenText on its own TTM generated $800 million. The free cash flow with Micro Focus for 2023 is below that, and for 2024 is $800 million-$900 million. I already had OpenText in that range. My question is, why is Micro Focus not additive to free cash flow for the first six quarters?
It's a great question. Thank you, Steve. If I could just refer back to the category of expenses I talked about, right? You know, certainly the $400 million cost reduction is at play. Again, when we think of fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2024, and add on to that is the special charges, the integration charges. I wanted to clear what is non-GAAP or otherwise, all of these cost impact free cash flow. We are having about $80 million in integration expense, somewhere in the $380 million-$420 million on special charges, cash outflow, as well as how we rationalize, you know, global entities.
The combined company is gonna be pretty large and complex in terms of its global operations. Sort of rationalizing that is usually, it requires investments and expenses, right? When they're like whether you think the OpenText ledger or the Micro Focus ledger, of course you have like significant interest expense as well. During fiscal 2023 and 2024, if you put aside interest expense, that is the period of time when all of these charges are coming into the cash flows. Then we recover pretty quickly from there, to get to the $1.5 billion plus, you'll start to see the recovery coming in the early part of fiscal 2025.
From a working capital perspective, it's important to note that throughout this process the model assumes that we're actually improving Micro Focus working capital very steadily, from day one, and we're maintaining the like OpenText working capital performance as well.
Right. And Madhu.
Yeah.
Just to clarify, Micro Focus when they acquired HP, the HP assets, they had this Reverse Morris structure. Is that in your numbers? Which year does it go away? Is it already expired?
Yeah.
It's gone, does not exist. It's third history, does not exist at OpenText.
Okay.
Right. I was just gonna add, Steve-
Yeah.
...that our efforts on this is gonna be grounds up, brand new, taking what they have today and looking at the opportunities for optimization ahead. I agree with Mark on the Reverse Morris Trust question.
Yeah.
Okay.
Absolutely gone, doesn't exist. Steven, if I can, I just wanna note something, right? We're being crystal clear on what our free cash flow targets are, right? $500 million-$600 million in FY 2023, $800 million-$900 million in FY 2024, and $1.5 billion plus in fiscal 2026. I know you can see that place will be crystal clear, right? That we're providing that visibility today. As we do notice, I do wanna make a kind of three pieces of emphasis that in fiscal 2024, we're not reaching our free cash flow potential yet because we're reaching our EBITDA potential of $22.1 billion in EBITDA-
Yeah.
-and to, uh, $2.24 Billion-
Yeah.
in Adjusted EBITDA. We have three things going on that are really important. One is the integration expenses as Madhu spoke about. We're going for a rapid integration, and we're going for simplification, right? We are gonna simplify this business, and we're gonna do it upfront. legal entity structures, all the things Madhu talked about. The word is simplification. Three, we're investing in our cloud. 15% plus cloud bookings growth, 7%- 9% organic cloud revenue growth in FY 2026, and that takes investment. Those are the three things that we've decided on to make, as you say, over the next six months or six quarters.
Thank you. Very helpful, Mark and Madhu.
Thank you as well.
Thank you. I will now hand the call back over to Mr. Barrenechea for closing remarks.
All right. Thank you, everyone. I know today's call ran a little longer than usual, and our script's a bit more fulsome than most. Madhu and I felt it was very important to provide this level of visibility and simplification to how we're looking at the Micro Focus business and their products combined into OpenText. I hope you'll join us live tomorrow as we open the Nasdaq from the National Arts Center here in Ottawa. Have a good evening.
Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines. Thank you for participating, and have a pleasant day.