31% growth in total revenue during the first
half-year
Very strong growth of catalog revenues of
+112%
Increase of current operating income by
+19%
Confirmation of strong growth perspectives and
maintained high profitability
Regulatory News:
Xilam Animation (ISIN Code: FR0004034072, Symbol: XIL),
the independent animation program production and distribution
company, announces its financial results for the first half-year of
2022, fixed by the Board of Directors having met on September 27,
2022 under the chairmanship of Marc du Pontavice.
Marc du Pontavice, Chairman and CEO of Xilam, says: “The first
half-year stands out with a record launch of seven new series in
production. We are driven by the strong investments from streaming
platforms and television networks and we are fully using our global
market expertise as well as our creative capacity on all segments,
including the fast-growing teenage-adult segment; we are thus
successfully proceeding with our Ambition 2026 plan.”
(in thousands of euros)
06.30.2022 (1)
Consolidated
06.30.2021
Consolidated
% change
Sales of new production and
developments
9,566
7,894
+21.1%
New production grants (2)
2,654
3,064
-13.2%
Total new productions and developments
products
12,221
10,957
+11.5%
Total catalog products
5,259
2,486
+111.5%
Other revenue
130
25
-
Total revenue and other income
17,609
13,468
+30.7%
Other grants and current operating income
(including ATC)
1,640
1,201
+36.5%
Total operating revenues (3)
19,249
14,669
+31.2%
Operating expenses
(14,466)
(10,636)
+36.0%
Current operating income
4,782
4,032
+18.6%
% of revenue
27.2%
29.9%
Operating income
4,684
4,060
+15.4%
% of revenue
26.6%
30.1%
Group consolidated net income
2,964
3,144
-5.7%
% of revenue
16.8%
23.3%
(1) The limited review of the half-year financial information
has been finalized (2) Excluding Audiovisual Tax credit (ATC) (3)
The variation when compared to the publication dated July 21, 2022
is explained by the inclusion of grants for which documents came in
late and to the exchange rate impact on foreign currency customer
receivables
Total operating revenues up by 31% in the first half-year of
2022
The Xilam group’s total operating revenues stand at €19.2M in
the first half-year of 2022, up by +31% compared to the first
half-year of 2021.
The first half-year cements the group’s ability to maintain a
high level of growth on the new production segment, notably by
implementing its strategy on non-proprietary productions,
contributing a third of the new production turnover in the first
half-year.
Similarly, the catalog products are showing very strong growth
(+112%), demonstrating the appeal of the group’s brands.
Finally, the first half-year confirms the Xilam group’s strong
international presence (74% of sales) and digital platform presence
(67% of sales). It should be noted that the first half-year’s
revenues are higher by €1.6M than the amount published on July 21
last, due to the inclusion of grants for which documents came in
late and to the exchange rate impact on foreign currency customer
receivables.
Record number of series in production
The group’s business during the first half-year is marked by a
very strong diversity of programs, with more than 17 series at
various production stages, including:
- 3 programs for preschoolers, 11 for kids
and 3 for teenagers-adults, - 12 programs in 2D and 5 in CGI, - 13
programs in proprietary model and 4 in non-proprietary model.
Production costs in the first half-year of 2022 (€15.7M compared
to €16.7M in the first half-year of 2021) is explained by the large
number of series in their launching phase, whose expenses will be
greatly increasing from the second half-year onwards.
The production investment for the first half-year of 2022 is
broken down as follows: €12.7M for 13 proprietary programs and
€3.0M for 4 non-proprietary series.
Strong growth of operating income
The current operating income has reached a historic record level
of €4.8M for the first half-year of 2022 (compared to €4.0M for the
first half-year of 2021), up by 19%.
The current operating margin amounts to 27.2%, cementing the
stability of the group’s economic model, even though the recent
acquisition of Cube Creative hasn't reached the profitability of
its parent company yet.
The operating income has reached €4.7M (compared to €4.1M in the
first half-year of 2021), up by 15%.
The consolidated net income in the first half-year of 2022
amounts to €3.0M, with a slight decrease compared to the first
half-year of 2021, due to a financial result of €(1.0)M. The
half-year was impacted by exceptional currency movements on USD
production credits as well as the one-off effect of rising interest
rates on the accounting updating of accounts receivable.
The nominal tax rate amounts to 20% compared to 22% in the first
half-year of 2021.
Financial position
As of 06/30/2022, net financial debt, excluding rental debts,
stood at €25.5M, compared to €18.6M as of 12/31/2021. It is broken
down as follows:
- Non-self liquidating net financial debt of
€5.3M, down by €0.6M compared to the level as of 12/31/2021 which
stood at €5.9M. This drop results from the cash flow amounting to
€10.5M as of 06/30/2022 (up by €0.6M compared to 12/31/2021), while
non-self liquidating gross financial debts remain stable at €15.8M.
- Self-liquidating financial debts (such as factoring) stand at
€20.2M, up by €7.4M compared to 12/31/2021, when they stood at
€12.8M. This increase results from the high number of proprietary
series in production in the first half-year of 2022.
The group’s financial debt situation should evolve very
positively from 2024 onwards, due to the shortening of the payment
term of the streaming platforms and to the strengthening of the
non-proprietary model which generates a negative WCR.
As of June 30, 2022, shareholders’ equity amounted to €70.9M,
compared to €67.6M as of December 31, 2021.
Strong objectives and perspectives
With a fairly full order book, Xilam plans production costs
between €33M and €36M in 2022. The group thus plans to launch at
least 10 new productions during the year 2022, including, for the
first time, several adult series.
This means growth will remain very strong in the second
half-year.
Streaming platforms and television networks keep investing
massively in animation, and this investment flow should continue
growing with platforms entering the increasingly promising field of
AVOD as well as with the development of FAST channels (Free
Ad-supported Streaming TV).
With its worldwide reputation in increasingly diversified market
segments, Xilam is ideally placed to profit from this growth, in a
model which combines profitability and security.
Xilam is thus proceeding with its Ambition 2026 plan, which aims
to ultimately bring revenues up to €80M.
The group will communicate in the coming months on the results
and prospects of its ESG policy.
About Xilam As a major player in the animation industry,
Xilam is an integrated studio founded in 1999 that creates,
produces and distributes original programmes in more than 190
countries for children and adults, broadcast on television and on
SVoD (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, NBC Universal, etc.) and AVoD
(YouTube, Facebook, etc.) platforms. With a global reputation for
creativity and its capacity for innovation, an editorial and
commercial expertise at the forefront of its industry, Xilam is
positioned as a key player in a fast-growing market. Each year,
Xilam, builds on its real successes and capitalises on powerful
historical brands (Oggy and the Cockroaches, Zig & Sharko,
Chicky, etc.) and new brands (Oggy Oggy in the pre-school sector,
Mr. Magoo, Trico, etc.) which are consolidating and expanding a
significant catalogue of more the 2,700 episodes and 3 feature
films including the Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body. Xilam has
unique GCI skills. Xilam employs more than 500 people, including
400 artists, across its studios in Paris, Lyon, Angoulême and
Hô-Chi-Minh in Vietnam. Xilam is listed on Euronext Paris
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