TaskUs, Inc. (Nasdaq: TASK), a leading provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to the world’s most innovative companies, today announced its results for the f...
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas: TaskUs, Inc. (Nasdaq: TASK), a leading provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to the world’s most innovative companies, today announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025.
First Quarter 2025 Financial and Frontline Highlights
($ in thousands, except per share amounts) |
| Three months ended March 31, |
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| 2025 |
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| 2024 |
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| % Change | ||
Service revenue |
| $ | 277,792 |
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| $ | 227,470 |
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| 22.1 | % |
Net income |
| $ | 21,148 |
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| $ | 11,714 |
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| 80.5 | % |
Net income margin |
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| 7.6 | % |
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| 5.1 | % |
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Adjusted Net Income |
| $ | 35,938 |
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| $ | 27,272 |
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| 31.8 | % |
Adjusted Net Income margin |
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| 12.9 | % |
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| 12.0 | % |
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Diluted EPS |
| $ | 0.23 |
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| $ | 0.13 |
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| 76.9 | % |
Adjusted EPS |
| $ | 0.38 |
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| $ | 0.30 |
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| 26.7 | % |
Adjusted EBITDA |
| $ | 59,272 |
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| $ | 50,605 |
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| 17.1 | % |
Adjusted EBITDA margin |
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| 21.3 | % |
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| 22.2 | % |
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Net cash provided by operating activities |
| $ | 36,276 |
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| $ | 51,177 |
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| (29.1 | )% |
Free Cash Flow |
| $ | 21,796 |
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| $ | 47,605 |
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| (54.2 | )% |
Conversion of Adjusted EBITDA to Free Cash Flow |
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| 36.8 | % |
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| 94.1 | % |
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Adjusted Free Cash Flow |
| $ | 22,438 |
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| $ | 47,605 |
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| (52.9 | )% |
Conversion of Adjusted EBITDA to Adjusted Free Cash Flow |
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| 37.9 | % |
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| 94.1 | % |
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Transaction Announcement
In a separate press release issued today, TaskUs announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Blackstone, TaskUs’ Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bryce Maddock, and TaskUs’ Co-Founder and President, Jaspar Weir (the “Buyer Group”). In light of the announced transaction, TaskUs will no longer be holding its previously scheduled earnings conference call and webcast and is withdrawing its previously announced full year 2025 outlook. The Company will post an Excel-based financial metrics file on its investor relations website later today.
TaskUs expects to complete this transaction in the second half of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions and approvals, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals and required stockholder approvals (including the approval of the holders of common stock of the Company not owned by the Buyer Group).
About TaskUs
TaskUs is a leading provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to the world’s most innovative companies, helping its clients represent, protect and grow their brands. Leveraging a cloud-based infrastructure, TaskUs serves clients in the fast-growing sectors, including social media, e-commerce, gaming, streaming media, food delivery and ride-sharing, technology, financial services and healthcare. As of March 31, 2025, TaskUs had a worldwide headcount of approximately 61,400 people across 28 locations in 12 countries, including the United States, the Philippines, and India.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts, and further include, without limitation, statements reflecting our current views with respect to, among other things, our operations, our financial performance, our industry, the impact of the macroeconomic environment on our business, and other non-historical statements. In some cases, you can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “outlook,” “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “seeks,” “predicts,” “intends,” “trends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “position us” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. These factors include but are not limited to: the risk that the proposed transaction may not be completed in a timely manner or at all; the failure to receive, on a timely basis or otherwise, the required approvals of the proposed transaction by our stockholders; the possibility that any or all of the various conditions to the consummation of the proposed transaction may not be satisfied or waived, including the termination or expiration of any required waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended; the possibility that competing offers or acquisition proposals for TaskUs will be made; the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the definitive transaction agreement relating to the proposed transaction, including in circumstances which would require us to pay a termination fee; the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed transaction on our ability to attract, motivate or retain key executives and associates, our ability to maintain relationships with our customers, vendors, service providers and others with whom we do business, or our operating results and business generally; the potential impact of certain provisions of the merger agreement on our liquidity and ability to fund our operations during the pendency of the proposed transaction; risks related to the proposed transaction diverting management’s attention from our ongoing business operations; the risk of shareholder litigation in connection with the proposed transaction, including resulting expense or delay; the dependence of our business on key clients; the risk of loss of business or non-payment from clients; our failure to cost-effectively acquire new clients; the risk that we may provide inadequate service or cause disruptions in our clients’ businesses or fail to comply with the quality standards required by our clients under our agreements; our inability to anticipate clients’ needs by adapting to market and technology trends; utilization of artificial intelligence by our clients or our failure to incorporate artificial intelligence into our operations; unauthorized or improper disclosure of personal or other sensitive information, or security breaches and incidents; negative publicity or liability or difficulty recruiting and retaining employees; our failure to detect and deter criminal or fraudulent activities or other misconduct by our employees or third parties; global economic and political conditions, especially in the social media and meal delivery and transport industries from which we generate significant revenue; the dependence of our business on our international operations, particularly in the Philippines and India; our failure to comply with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations; fluctuations against the U.S. dollar in the local currencies in the countries in which we operate; our inability to maintain and enhance our brand; competitive pricing pressure; our dependence on senior management and key employees; increases in employee expenses and changes to labor laws; failure to attract, hire, train and retain a sufficient number of skilled employees to support operations; our inability to effectively expand our operations into countries or industries in which we have no prior operating experience and in which we may be subject to increased business, economic and regulatory risks; reliance on owned and third-party technology and computer systems; failure to maintain asset utilization levels, price appropriately and control costs; the control of affiliates of Blackstone Inc. and our Co-Founders over us; the dual class structure of our common stock; and the volatility of the market price of our Class A common stock. Additional risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to those described under “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 6, 2025, as such factors may be updated from time to time in our filings with the SEC, which are accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in the Company’s SEC filings. TaskUs undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.
Non-GAAP Measures
TaskUs supplements results reported in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), with non-GAAP financial measures, such as Adjusted Net Income, Adjusted Net Income Margin, Adjusted Earnings Per Share, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Free Cash Flow, Adjusted Free Cash Flow, Conversion of Adjusted EBITDA to Free Cash Flow and Conversion of Adjusted EBITDA to Adjusted Free Cash Flow. Management believes these measures help illustrate underlying trends in TaskUs’ business and uses the measures to establish budgets and operational goals, communicate internally and externally, and manage TaskUs’ business and evaluate its performance. Management also believes that certain of these measures help investors compare TaskUs’ operating performance with its results in prior periods or assess liquidity. TaskUs anticipates that it will continue to report both GAAP and certain non-GAAP financial measures in its financial results, including non-GAAP results that exclude the impact of certain costs, losses and gains that are required to be included in our profit and loss measures under GAAP. Because TaskUs’ reported non-GAAP financial measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP, these measures are not comparable to GAAP and may not be comparable to similarly described non-GAAP measures reported by other companies within TaskUs’ industry. Consequently, TaskUs’ non-GAAP financial measures should not be evaluated in isolation or supplant comparable GAAP measures, but rather, should be considered together with the information in TaskUs’ consolidated financial statements, which are prepared in accordance with GAAP. Definitions of non-GAAP financial measures and the reconciliations to the most directly comparable measures in accordance with GAAP are provided in subsequent sections of this press release narrative and supplemental schedules.
Additional Information and Where to Find it
This communication may be deemed to be solicitation material in respect of the proposed acquisition of the Company by Breeze Merger Corporation. In connection with the proposed transaction, the Company intends to file relevant materials with the SEC, including the Company’s proxy statement in preliminary and definitive form. In addition, the Company and certain affiliates of the Company intend to jointly file a transaction statement on Schedule 13E-3 (the “Schedule 13E-3”). INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE URGED TO READ ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC, INCLUDING THE COMPANY’S PROXY STATEMENT AND SCHEDULE 13E-3 (IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE), BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. Investors and security holders are or will be able to obtain the documents (if and when available) free of charge either from the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, or from the Company’s Investor Relations webpage at ir.taskus.com.
Participants in the Solicitation
The Company and its directors, executive officers and other members of management and employees, under SEC rules, will be deemed to be “participants” in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders of the Company in favor of the proposed transaction. Information about the Company’s directors and executive officers is set forth in the Company’s Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for its 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 8, 2025 (available here), under the sections “Executive and Director Compensation”, “Beneficial Ownership of Securities” and “Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions”. To the extent holdings of the Company’s securities by its directors or executive officers have changed since the amounts set forth in such 2025 proxy statement, such changes have been or will be reflected on Initial Statements of Beneficial Ownership on Form 3 or Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC.
Additional information concerning the interests of the Company’s participants in the solicitation, which may, in some cases, be different than those of the Company’s stockholders generally, will be set forth in the Company’s proxy statement relating to the proposed transaction when it becomes available.
TaskUs, Inc. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income (unaudited) (in thousands, except per share data) | ||||||||
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| Three months ended March 31, | ||||||
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| 2025 |
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| 2024 |
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Service revenue |
| $ | 277,792 |
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| $ | 227,470 |
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Operating expenses: |
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Cost of services |
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| 171,181 |
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| 135,411 |
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Selling, general and administrative expense |
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| 57,424 |
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| 52,904 |
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Depreciation |
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| 10,003 |
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| 10,789 |
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Amortization of intangible assets |
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| 4,976 |
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| 4,985 |
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Gain on disposal of assets |
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| (30 | ) |
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| (177 | ) |
Total operating expenses |
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| 243,554 |
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| 203,912 |
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Operating income |
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| 34,238 |
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| 23,558 |
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Other income, net |
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| (173 | ) |
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| (202 | ) |
Financing expenses |
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| 4,663 |
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| 5,538 |
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Income before income taxes |
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| 29,748 |
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| 18,222 |
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Provision for income taxes |
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| 8,600 |
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| 6,508 |
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Net income |
| $ | 21,148 |
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| $ | 11,714 |
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Net income per common share: |
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Basic |
| $ | 0.23 |
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| $ | 0.13 |
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Diluted |
| $ | 0.23 |
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| $ | 0.13 |
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Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding: |
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Basic |
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| 90,040,348 |
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| 88,795,211 |
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Diluted |
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| 93,655,539 |
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| 91,849,886 |
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TaskUs, Inc. Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited) (in thousands) | |||||||
| March 31, |
| December 31, | ||||
Assets |
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Current assets: |
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Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 196,852 |
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| $ | 192,166 |
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