FIS® (NYSE:FIS), a global leader in financial technology, today reported its first quarter 2025 results. “We had a great start to the year, delivering another quarter of financial outperformance, ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.: FIS® (NYSE:FIS), a global leader in financial technology, today reported its first quarter 2025 results.
“We had a great start to the year, delivering another quarter of financial outperformance, giving us the confidence to reiterate our full-year outlook,” said FIS CEO and President Stephanie Ferris. “We are very excited about our recently announced strategic transactions that will allow us to fully monetize our Worldpay stake at an attractive valuation and strengthen our financial profile with the acquisition of the Issuer Solutions business. These strategic transactions will expand FIS’ payment product suite, enhancing our relationships with financial institutions and corporate clients.”
First Quarter 2025 Financial Results
On a GAAP basis, revenue increased 3% as compared to the prior-year period to approximately $2.5 billion. GAAP net earnings attributable to common stockholders from continuing operations were $77 million or $0.15 per diluted share.
On an adjusted basis, revenue increased 4% as compared to the prior-year period reflecting recurring revenue growth of 4%. Adjusted EBITDA was approximately $1.0 billion, and Adjusted EBITDA margin contracted by 142 basis points (bps) over the prior-year period to 37.8%, reflecting high license and termination fee revenue in the prior-year period. Adjusted net earnings from continuing operations were $643 million, and Adjusted EPS increased by 11% as compared to the prior-year period to $1.21 per diluted share.
($ millions, except per share data, unaudited) |
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||||
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| % |
| Adjusted | ||||
Continuing Operations |
| 2025 |
| 2024 |
| Change |
| Growth | ||||
Banking Solutions Revenue |
| 1,718 |
|
| 1,685 |
|
| 2% |
| 2% | ||
Capital Market Solutions Revenue |
| 764 |
|
| 706 |
|
| 8% |
| 9% | ||
Operating Segment Total Revenue |
| $ | 2,482 |
|
| $ | 2,391 |
|
| 4% |
| 4% |
Corporate and Other Revenue |
|
| 50 |
|
|
| 77 |
|
| (36)% |
| - |
Consolidated FIS Revenue |
| $ | 2,532 |
|
| $ | 2,468 |
|
| 3% |
| - |
Adjusted EBITDA |
| $ | 958 |
|
| $ | 969 |
|
| (1)% |
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Adjusted EBITDA Margin |
|
| 37.8 | % |
|
| 39.3 | % |
| (142) bps |
|
|
Net Earnings (Loss) (GAAP) |
| $ | 77 |
|
| $ | (1) |
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| * |
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Diluted Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share (GAAP) |
| $ | 0.15 |
|
| $ | — |
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| * |
|
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Adjusted Net Earnings |
| $ | 643 |
|
| $ | 629 |
|
| 2% |
|
|
Adjusted EPS |
| $ | 1.21 |
|
| $ | 1.09 |
|
| 11% |
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*Indicates comparison not meaningful |
Segment Information
Balance Sheet and Cash Flows
As of March 31, 2025, debt outstanding totaled $12.0 billion. First quarter net cash provided by operating activities was $457 million, and adjusted free cash flow was $368 million. In the first quarter, the Company returned $670 million of capital to shareholders through $450 million of share repurchases and $220 million of dividends paid.
Capital Allocation Update
The Company repurchased $450 million of shares in the first quarter and is reiterating its goal to repurchase approximately $1.2 billion of shares in 2025. Additionally, the Company will continue to pay quarterly dividends targeting dividend per share growth in line with Adjusted EPS growth.
Second Quarter and Full-Year 2025 Outlook
The Company is introducing its second quarter outlook and, for the full-year, is reiterating its outlook inclusive of accelerated revenue growth of 4.6 to 5.2% and Adjusted EPS growth of 9 to 11%.
($ millions, except share data) | 2Q 2025 |
| FY 2025 |
Revenue | $2,560 - $2,585 |
| $10,435 - $10,495 |
Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP)1 | $1,020 - $1,035 |
| $4,305 - $4,335 |
Adjusted EPS (Non-GAAP)1 | $1.34 - $1.38 |
| $5.70 - $5.80 |
1The Company does not provide a reconciliation for non-GAAP estimates on a forward-looking basis where it is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items and the information is not available without unreasonable effort. |
Update on Pending Strategic Transactions
On April 17, 2025, FIS entered into definitive agreements to (i) buy the Issuer Solutions business from Global Payments Inc. (“Global Payments”) for an enterprise value of $13.5 billion, inclusive of $1.5 billion of anticipated net present value of tax assets, or a net purchase price of $12.0 billion, subject to customary adjustments (the “Issuer Solutions Acquisition”) and (ii) sell its remaining equity interest in Worldpay to Global Payments for a pre-tax value of $6.6 billion net of transaction fees and other costs (the “Worldpay Minority Interest Sale”).
FIS expects to fund the Issuer Solutions Acquisition through a combination of approximately $8 billion of new debt and the after-tax proceeds from the Worldpay Minority Interest Sale. Following the closing of the transactions, the Company expects pro forma gross leverage to be approximately 3.4x, deleveraging to its target gross leverage of 2.8x within 18 months.
The transactions are expected to close simultaneously in the first half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Financial Reporting Considerations for Completed 2024 Worldpay Sale
On January 31, 2024, FIS sold a 55% stake in its Worldpay Merchant Solutions business to private equity funds managed by GTCR (the "2024 Worldpay Sale").
Unless otherwise noted, all results are presented on a continuing operations basis and exclude the results of the Worldpay Merchant Solutions business that was classified as discontinued operations as of the third quarter of 2023.
Following the close of the 2024 Worldpay Sale, FIS retained a non-controlling 45% equity interest in a new standalone joint venture, Worldpay Holdco, LLC ("Worldpay"), and records its proportionate share of Worldpay's earnings (loss) in the "Equity method investment earnings (loss), net of tax" ("EMI") line of the income statement.
Webcast
FIS will host a live webcast of its earnings conference call with the investment community beginning at 8:30 a.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. To access the webcast, go to the Investor Relations section of FIS’ homepage, www.fisglobal.com. A replay will be available after the conclusion of the live webcast.
About FIS
FIS is a financial technology company providing solutions to financial institutions, businesses and developers. We unlock financial technology to the world across the money lifecycle underpinning the world's financial system. Our people are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests, by helping our clients to confidently run, grow and protect their businesses. Our expertise comes from decades of experience helping financial institutions and businesses of all sizes adapt to meet the needs of their customers by harnessing where reliability meets innovation in financial technology. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. To learn more, visit FISglobal.com. Follow FIS on LinkedIn, Facebook and X.
FIS Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is the term used to refer to the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting in the United States. GAAP includes the standards, conventions, and rules accountants follow in recording and summarizing transactions and in the preparation of financial statements. In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with GAAP, we have provided certain non-GAAP financial measures.
These non-GAAP measures include constant currency revenue, Adjusted revenue growth, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin, Adjusted net earnings, Adjusted EPS, and Adjusted free cash flow. These non-GAAP measures may be used in this release and/or in the attached supplemental financial information.
We believe these non-GAAP measures help investors better understand the underlying fundamentals of our business. As further described below, the non-GAAP revenue and earnings measures presented eliminate items management believes are not indicative of FIS’ operating performance. The constant currency revenue and Adjusted revenue growth measures adjust for the effects of exchange rate fluctuations and exclude discontinued operations, while Adjusted revenue growth also excludes revenue from Corporate and Other, giving investors further insight into our performance. Finally, Adjusted free cash flow provides further information about the ability of our business to generate cash. For these reasons, management also uses these non-GAAP measures in its assessment and management of FIS’ performance.
Constant currency revenue represents reported segment revenue excluding the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates in the current period.
Adjusted revenue growth reflects the percentage change in constant currency revenue for the current period as compared to the prior period. Constant currency revenue is calculated by applying prior-year period foreign currency exchange rates to current-period revenue. When referring to Adjusted revenue growth, revenue from our Corporate and Other segment is excluded.
Adjusted EBITDA reflects net earnings (loss) before interest, other income (expense), taxes, equity method investment earnings (loss), and depreciation and amortization, and excludes certain costs that do not constitute normal, recurring, cash operating expenses necessary to operate our business. These excluded costs generally include purchase price amortization of acquired intangible assets, as well as acquisition, integration and certain other costs and asset impairments. These excluded costs are recorded in the Corporate and Other segment. Adjusted EBITDA for the respective segments excludes the foregoing items. This measure is reported to the chief operating decision maker, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and President, who utilizes the measure for purposes of making decisions about allocating resources to the segments and assessing their performance. For this reason, Adjusted EBITDA, as it relates to our segments, is presented in conformity with FASB ASC Topic 280, Segment Reporting.
Adjusted EBITDA margin reflects Adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, divided by revenue.
Adjusted net earnings excludes the effect of purchase price amortization, as well as certain costs that do not constitute normal, recurring, cash operating expenses necessary to operate our business. For purposes of calculating Adjusted net earnings, our equity method investment earnings (loss) ("EMI") from Worldpay is also adjusted to exclude certain costs and other transactions in a similar manner.
Adjusted EPS reflects Adjusted net earnings, as defined above, divided by weighted average diluted shares outstanding.
Adjusted free cash flow reflects net cash provided by operating activities, adjusted for the net change in settlement assets and obligations and excluding certain transactions that are closely associated with non-operating activities or are otherwise non-operational in nature and not indicative of future operating cash flows, less capital expenditures. Adjusted free cash flow does not represent our residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures since we have mandatory debt service requirements and other non-discretionary expenditures that are not deducted from the measure. Adjusted free cash flow as presented in this earnings release excludes cash flow from discontinued operations, which our management cannot freely access following the Worldpay separation.
Any non-GAAP measures should be considered in context with the GAAP financial presentation and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP measures. Further, FIS’ non-GAAP measures may be calculated differently from similarly titled measures of other companies. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to related GAAP measures, including footnotes describing the adjustments, are provided in the attached schedules and in the Investor Relations section of the FIS website, www.fisglobal.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This earnings release and today’s webcast contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. Statements that are not historical facts, as well as other statements about our expectations, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements about anticipated financial outcomes, including any earnings outlook or projections, projected revenue or expense synergies or dis-synergies, business and market conditions, outlook, foreign currency exchange rates, deleveraging plans, expected dividends and share repurchases of the Company, the Company’s sales pipeline and anticipated profitability and growth, plans, strategies and objectives for future operations, strategic value creation, risk profile and investment strategies, any statements regarding future economic conditions or performance and any statements with respect to the future impacts of the pending acquisition of Global Payments' Issuer Solutions business ("Issuer Solutions") and the pending sale of our remaining equity interest in Worldpay. These statements may be identified by words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “continue,” “likely,” and similar expressions, and include statements reflecting future results or outlook, statements of outlook and various accruals and estimates. These statements relate to future events and our future results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management.
Actual results, performance or achievement could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties to which forward-looking statements are subject include the following, without limitation:
Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Except as required by applicable law or regulation, we do not undertake (and expressly disclaim) any obligation and do not intend to publicly update or review any of these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Earnings Release Supplemental Financial Information May 6, 2025 | ||
Exhibit A | Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings (Loss) - Unaudited for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 | |
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Exhibit B | Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets - Unaudited as of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024 | |
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Exhibit C | Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows - Unaudited for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 | |
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Exhibit D | Supplemental Non-GAAP Adjusted Revenue Growth - Unaudited for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 | |
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Exhibit E | Supplemental Disaggregation of Revenue - Recast and Unaudited for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 | |
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Exhibit F | Supplemental Non-GAAP Adjusted Free Cash Flow Measures - Unaudited for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 | |
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Exhibit G | Supplemental GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations - Unaudited for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 | |
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Exhibit H | Supplemental Financial Information of Worldpay Holdco, LLC - Unaudited for the three months ended March 31, 2025, and two months ended March 31, 2024 |
FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICES, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS (LOSS)— UNAUDITED (In millions, except per share amounts) | |||||||
Exhibit A | |||||||
| Three months ended March 31, | ||||||
|
| 2025 |
|
|
| 2024 |
|
Revenue | $ | 2,532 |
|
| $ | 2,468 |
|
Cost of revenue |
| 1,653 |
|
|
| 1,559 |
|
Gross profit |
| 879 |
|
|
| 909 |
|
Selling, general, and administrative expenses |
| 558 |
|
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| 573 |
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Asset impairments |
| 2 |
|
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| 14 |
|
Other operating (income) expense, net - related party |
| (28 | ) |
|
| (33 | ) |
Operating income |
| 347 |
|
|
| 355 |
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Other income (expense): |
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Interest expense, net |
| (80 | ) |
|
| (77 | ) |
Other income (expense), net |
| (37 | ) |
|
| (172 | ) |
Total other income (expense), net |
| (117 | ) |
|
| (249 | ) |
Earnings (loss) before income taxes and equity method investment earnings (loss) |
| 230 | <
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