Soft Q3 as clients’ projects shifted to Q4 and 2023

2022 segment revenue expected to be around $900m,
stable pro-forma year-on-year

2022 segment EBITDAs expected to be around $380m, up 10% and up 15% pro-forma year-on-year

Strengthening market confirms favorable upcycle

PARIS, France – November 2, 2022 – CGG (ISIN: FR0013181864), a global technology and high-performance computing (HPC) leader announced today its third quarter 2022 non-audited results.

Commenting on these results, Sophie Zurquiyah, CGG CEO, said:

“Throughout the year we continued to see our market environment strengthening globally, mainly driven by increased interest and activity offshore in the Western hemisphere and onshore in the Middle East and North Africa. While stronger market conditions have led to increased commercial activity, confirming the expected multi-year upcycle, near-term macro and geopolitical uncertainties resulted in increased volatility and clients’ projects shift. This particularly affected our Sensing and Monitoring business, which will see significant growth in 2023. However, our Data, Digital and Energy transition business remains solid with growth in line with increased E&P Capex. We anticipate a strong Q4 led by Earth Data sales. We remain focused on capturing the upcycle ahead of us and increasing our topline, with the objective of deleveraging our balance sheet. This growth will be supported by our clear technology differentiation, strong focus on our clients’ priorities, and the ongoing development of our Beyond the Core businesses.”

Q3 2022: A soft quarter as clients’ projects shifted to Q4 and 2023

• IFRS figures: revenue at $255m, EBITDAs at $115m, OPINC at $28m

• Segment revenue at $217m, down (20%) and down (16)% pro-forma* year-on-year.
   
  • Geoscience at $69m, up 8% pro-forma* year-on-year mainly driven by Western hemisphere and high-end technology. The increasing level of year-to-date commercial bids worldwide by 26% and growth of year-to-date order intake by 37% pro-forma year-on-year are clear and positive signals of global market improvement.
  • Earth Data at $62m, down (33)% year-on-year. Prefunding revenue at $19m was lower than expected due to the shift of some prefunding of North Sea projects from Q3 to Q4 and Brazil projects into 2023. After sales were at $43m, up 32% year-on-year
  • Sensing and Monitoring at $86m, down (15)% year-on-year. In contrast to this, SMO level of commercial bids at the end of September was at the highest level since 2016, and several contracts and deliveries in the Middle East and North Africa shifted to 2023.

• Segment EBITDAs at $77m, a 35% margin and adjusted^** segment EBITDAs at $75m
• Segment operating income at $25m, a 12% margin, and adjusted^** segment operating income at $24m
• Group net loss at $(2)m, a significant improvement compared to a net loss of $(16)m last year
• Net cash-flow before M&A cash consideration at $(62)m
• Net cash flow at $(78)m, including $(19)m net payment for the acquisition of ION software division and $(40)m negative change in working capital, mainly related to the SMO business.

9 months 2022: Profitability improvement

• IFRS figures: revenue at $659m, EBITDAs at $290m, OPINC at $97m
• Segment revenue at $610m, down (5)% and slightly up pro-forma* year-on-year
• Segment EBITDAs at $241m, a 40% margin, up 27% year-on-year, and adjusted** segment EBITDAs at $236m
• Segment operating income at $86m, a 14% margin, significantly up from $9m a year ago, and adjusted** segment operating income at $82m
• Group net loss at $(4)m, a significant improvement compared to a net loss of $(152)m last year
• Net cash flow at $(65)m

Balance Sheet at the end of September

• Liquidity of $325m, including cash liquidity of $225m and $100m of undrawn RCF
• Net debt before IFRS 16 at $889m as of September 30, 2022
• Segment leverage ratio of Net debt to Adjusted^** Segment EBITDAs was 2.5x at the end of September 2022, down from 2.9x at the end of December 2021

Full Year 2022 financial guidance update:

• 2022 CGG segment revenue expected to be around $900 million, stable pro-forma* year-on-year.
  • DDE 2022 segment revenue expected to be up around 18% pro-forma* year-on-year
  • SMO 2022 segment revenue expected to be down around 30% year-on-year and below guidance due to the shift of major clients’ projects to 2023 and the ban on exports to Russia ($50m impact). SMO inventories are expected to come down during H1 2023 on the back of higher equipment deliveries.
• 2022 segment EBITDAs is expected to be around $380m, up 10% year-on-year and up 15% pro-forma* year-on-year, and segment EBITDAs margin is expected to increase to around 42% due to a favorable business mix.
• 2022 EDA cash Capex is expected to be around $200m with prefunding at around 60-70% mainly due to the shift of some prefunding revenue for our programs offshore Brazil into 2023. 2022 Industrial and R&D Capex is expected to be around $60m, $10m lower than guidance.
• With these updated EBITDAs and Capex, 2022 Free EBITDAs (EBITDAs - Capex) is expected to be around $120m, broadly in line with our original expectations based on financial objectives provided on March 3, 2022.
• Strenghthening market confirms multi-year upcycle from 2023 onwards

^* Pro-forma indicators represent supplementary information adjusted for GeoSoftware and Physical Asset Storage and Services businesses sold in 2021.

^** Adjusted indicators represent supplementary information adjusted for non-recurring charges triggered by economic downturn.

Key Figures - Third Quarter 2022

Key Figures – End of September 2022

Key Segment Figures - Third Quarter 2022

Key Segment Figures – End of September 2022

Key figures bridge: Segment to IFRS - Third Quarter 2022

Key figures bridge: Segment to IFRS – End of September 2022

Third Quarter 2022 Segment Financial Results

Data, Digital & Energy Transition (DDE)

Digital, Data and Energy Transition (DDE) segment revenue was $131 million, down (22%) and down (16)% pro-forma* year-on-year.

• Geoscience (GEO) revenue was $69 million, down 10% and up 8% pro-forma* year-on-year.
  
  

Sequentially, Geoscience revenue was stable this quarter supported by strong activity in the Americas and demand for high-end technology. Geoscience commercial activity is increasing worldwide with high level of bid submissions, up 26% year-on-year, and order intake up 37% year-on-year, during the first 9 months of 2022.

• Earth Data (EDA) revenue was $62 million, down (33)% year-on-year.
  
  

Earth Data cash capex was $(72) million this quarter, up 26% year-on-year. In Q3, we had two vessels acquiring data for our program in the Norwegian North Sea and one vessel offshore Brazil. Prefunding revenue of our Earth Data projects was low at $19 million as some prefunding for North Sea and Brazil multi-client programs shifted to Q4. Prefunding rate was low this quarter at 26%.

Earth Data after-sales were $43 million this quarter, up 32% year-on-year sustained by sales in South America, Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea.

The segment library Net Book Value was $375 million ($449 million after IFRS 15 adjustments) at the end of September 2022, split 94% offshore and 6% onshore.

DDE segment EBITDAs was $64 million, a 49% margin, and DDE adjusted^** segment EBITDAs was $66 million.

DDE segment operating income was $21 million, a 16% margin, and DDE adjusted^** segment operating income was $23 million.

DDE capital employed decreased to $1.5 billion at the end of September 2022.

Sensing & Monitoring

Sensing & Monitoring (SMO) segment revenue was $86 million, down (15)% year-on-year.

• Land equipment sales represented 58% of total sales, sustained by deliveries of wireless Wing channels and of over 100,000 508^XT channels to the Middle East and North Africa and Asia
• Marine equipment sales represented 26% of total sales driven by significant deliveries of GPR300 OBN nodes. SMO completed the acquisition of ION Geophysical Corporation’s (“ION”) software business.
• Downhole equipment sales were $4 million.
• Sales from Beyond the Core businesses were $10 million, significantly up year-on-year and included contribution from the newly acquired Geocomp business

SMO segment EBITDAs was $18 million, a 21% margin and SMO adjusted^** segment EBITDAs was $15 million.

SMO segment operating income was $11 million, a 13% margin and SMO adjusted^** segment operating income was $8 million.

SMO capital employed increased to $0.6 billion at the end of September 2022.

Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results

2022 Financial Results

Segment revenue was $217 million, down (20)% and down (16)% pro-forma* year-on-year. The respective contributions from the Group’s businesses were 32% from Geoscience, 28% from Earth Data (60% for the DDE segment) and 40% from Sensing & Monitoring.

Segment EBITDAs was $77 million, down (35)% year-on-year, a 35% margin due to the unfavorable business mix and adjusted^** segment EBITDAs was $75 million.

Segment operating income was $25 million, a 12% margin, and adjusted^** segment operating income was $24 million.

IFRS 15 adjustment at operating income level was $2 million and IFRS operating income, after IFRS 15 adjustment, was $28 million.

Cost of financial debt was $(24) million. The total amount of interest paid during the quarter was $(1) million.

Taxes were at $(4) million.

Net income from continuing operations was $(1) million.

Group Net Income this quarter was $(2) million.

After minority interests, Group net income attributable to CGG shareholders was $ (2) million/ €(1) million.

Third Quarter 2022 Cash Flow

Segment operating cash flow was $37m million, including $(40) million negative change in working capital & provisions mainly related to the SMO business.

Total capex was $(82) million:

• Industrial capex was $(6) million,
• Research & Development capex was $(4) million,
• Earth Data cash capex was $(72) million.
  
  

Segment free cash flow was $(61) million, including $(19) million for the acquisition of the ION software business.

After $(11) million lease repayments, $(7) million CGG 2021 Plan cash costs and $1 million free cash flow from discontinued operations, the net cash flow was $(78) million.

9 months 2022 Financial Results

Segment revenue was $610 million, down (5)% and slightly up pro-forma* compared to the same period last year. The respective contributions from the Group’s businesses were 35% from Geoscience, 38% from Earth Data (73% for the DDE segment) and 27% from SMO.

DDE segment revenue was $444 million, up 17% and up 30% pro-forma* year-on-year.

Geoscience revenue was $214 million, flat and up 19% pro-forma* year-on-year.

Earth Data sales were $230 million, up 41% year-on-year. Prefunding revenue was $69 million, down (25)% year-on-year. Earth Data cash capex was $(180) million, up 37% year-on-year. Cash prefunding rate at the end of September was 38%.
After-sales were $161 million, up 126% year-on-year.

SMO segment revenue was $165 million, down (37)% year-on-year.  

Segment EBITDAs was $241 million, up 27% year-on-year, a 40% margin. DDE EBITDAs was $256 million, up 35% year-on-year, a high 58% margin, and Sensing & Monitoring EBITDA was $(1) million. Adjusted^** segment EBITDAs was $236 million.

Segment operating income was $86 million, a 15% margin, significantly up from $9m a year ago, and adjusted^** segment operating income was $82 million, including net positive impact from EUR/USD exchange rate estimated at $12m compared to last year.

IFRS 15 adjustment at operating income level was $11 million and IFRS operating income, after IFRS 15 adjustment, was $97 million.

Cost of financial debt was $(75) million. The total amount of interest paid during the first nine months 2022 was $(47) million.

Other financial items were $2 million.

Taxes were at $(27) million.

Net income from continuing operations was $(2) million.

Group net loss was $(4) million.

After minority interests, 2022 Group net income attributable to CGG’s shareholders at the end of September 2022 was $(2) million / €(1) million.

Cash Flow

Segment operating cash flow was $243 million up 3%, including $9 million positive change in working capital & provisions.

Capex was $(210) million, up 22% year-on-year:

Industrial capex was $(15) million, down (15)% year-on-year,

Research & development capex was $(15) million, down (37)% year-on-year,

Earth Data cash capex was $(180) million, up 37% year-on-year.

Segment free cash flow was $35 million, down (42)% year-on-year.

After lease repayments of $(36) million, $(47) million of interest expenses, $(19) millon of CGG Plan 2021 and $2 million free cash flow from discontinued operations, Group net cash flow was $(65) million, compared to $(61) million for the first 9 months of 2021.

Balance Sheet 

Group’s liquidity amounted to $325 million at the end of September 30, 2022, including $225 million of cash liquidity and $100 million undrawn RCF.

Group gross debt before IFRS 16 was $1,114 million and net debt was $889 million at the end of September 30, 2022.

Group gross debt after IFRS 16 was $1,201 million and net debt was $976 million at the end of September 30, 2022.

Segment leverage ratio of Net debt to Adjusted^** Segment EBITDAs was 2.5x at the end of September 2022.

^* Pro-forma indicators represent supplementary information adjusted for GeoSoftware and Physical Asset Storage and Services businesses sold in 2021.

^** Adjusted indicators represent supplementary information adjusted for non-recurring charges triggered by economic downturn.

Q3 2022 Conference call

An English language analysts conference call is scheduled today at 6.30 pm (CET)

• The press release and the presentation are available on our website www.cgg.com at 5:45 pm (CET)
  
  

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About CGG

CGG (www.cgg.com) is a global technology and HPC leader that provides data, products, services and solutions in Earth science, data science, sensing and monitoring. Our unique portfolio supports our clients in efficiently and responsibly solving complex digital, energy transition, natural resource, environmental, and infrastructure challenges for a more sustainable future. CGG employs around 3,300 people worldwide and is listed on the Euronext Paris SA (ISIN: 0013181864).

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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  
SEPTEMBER 30,  2022 

Unaudited Interim Consolidated statement of operations – Year-To-Date

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