Lenovo delivers record quarter, as strategy and investments in innovation continue to drive sustainable profitability growth

HONG KONG — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 22, 2022 — Lenovo Group (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced record quarterly results for the Group, with historic highs for both profit and revenue and the Group’s first US$20 billion quarter. The company’s focus on innovation and profitability, supported by its operational excellence, has helped it navigate wider industry supply challenges and delivered rapid growth and profitability across all key business groups and geographies.

Lenovo’s performance delivered significant year-on-year improvements. Net income grew at a rate of over 50% for the 6^th consecutive quarter, with Q3 growing 62% year-on-year to a record US$640 million. Net income margin improved by nearly one point, on track towards the Group’s goal of doubling in three years. Pre-tax income was a record US$855 million, up 45% year-on-year, and Group revenue continued its strong growth trajectory hitting a record US$20.1 billion, up 17% year-on-year.

Lenovo continues to invest significantly in innovation, with R&D expenses for the quarter up 38% year-on-year, as part of the company’s wider commitment to double R&D investment over three years. Investments are aligned to driving Lenovo’s ongoing transformation to a solutions and services company, by developing technologies focused on the “New IT” full stack architecture of “Client-Edge-Cloud-Network-Intelligence.” Looking ahead, the company remains focused on its 3S strategy (Smart devices/IoT, Smart Infrastructure, Smart Verticals) seeing continued opportunities for sustainable growth and profitability improvements across all areas of the business, keeping it on track to double net margin by the end of FY 2023/2024.

The Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited announced last week that effective March 7, 2022, Lenovo will be included as a constituent stock on the Hang Seng Index – Hong Kong’s benchmark stock gauge.

Financial Highlights:

Chairman and CEO quote – Yuanqing Yang:

“Lenovo continued to embrace the opportunities driven by accelerated digital and intelligent transformation, and our New IT architecture prepared us well with ‘client-edge-cloud-network-intelligence’ capabilities. With another record quarter, we delivered the 6^th quarter of more than 50% net income year-on-year growth, and the first US$20 billion revenue quarter in our history. We remain on track to double both our net margin and R&D investment in three years from FY20/21 levels,” said Yuanqing Yang, Lenovo Chairman and CEO. “Once again, we have shown that Lenovo’s innovation, transformation strategy, and strong execution can consistently deliver sustainable profitability increases for the future.”

Solutions and Services Group (SSG): delivering strong growth and high margins - driving higher overall profitability for the Group

Opportunity:

The Solutions and Services Group continues to drive strong profitability and growth in a rapidly expanding market. As technology architecture becomes more complex, customers demand more sophisticated IT services, and the market is predicted to be worth over one trillion US dollars through 2025. This includes higher demand for premier support and customized fulfillment from knowledge workers, nearly half of whom now work remotely.

Q3 performance:

• Significant Q3 revenue growth (25% year-on-year to US$1.5 billion), delivering 7.1% of overall Group revenue and with an operating margin of over 22%, a nearly three-point increase year-on-year.
• Support services saw revenue growth of 21% year-on-year.
• Managed Services saw revenue improve 50% year-on-year, driven by Lenovo TruScale as-a-Service offerings announced last quarter. Breakthroughs in Smart Retail helped Project Services and Solutions achieve revenue growth of 23% year-on-year.

Looking ahead:

• Lenovo will continue to seize the sizeable market opportunity to drive both revenue growth and higher profitability. This starts with the growth in remote workers, where Lenovo will leverage its global service footprint to help transform worker productivity through premier support, as-a-Service, and digital workplace solutions.
• In managed services, Lenovo will continue to invest in Lenovo TruScale offerings, hybrid cloud solutions and additional software and services based on the company’s own IP.
• The company will also further expand sustainability solutions for customers, such as its asset recovery service and the recent expansion of its carbon offset service.

Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG): reaching profitability, growing at a strong premium to market

Opportunity:

Opportunities continue to grow for ISG as ICT infrastructure modernization expands around the world. The ICT infrastructure market is expected to become a US$250 billion market through 2025. By that same time, the edge infrastructure market alone is expected to exceed US$41 billion.

Q3 performance:

• ISG delivered record performance, reaching the milestone of achieving profitability for the first time since the IBM x86 acquisition in 2014. Revenue grew 19% year-on-year to reach US$1.9 billion. This was the fourth straight quarter that revenue grew at a double-digit premium to the market.
• The business outgrew the market in nearly every segment. Cloud Service Provider revenue grew 38% growth year-on-year; Enterprise/SMB revenue improved 7% year-on-year.