Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed.”– Peter Lynch. A great indictor of a company that exceeds in my view. Find the latest Earnings Report Date for Appen Limited (APPEF) at Nasdaq.com. In other words, it is a part of earnings that is not paid out as dividends or otherwise distributed to owners. -------------------------------------------------. Significant insider selling in the last few days. Changes to the long-term growth rate or the terminal value of Appen leads to enormous variation in the fair value of the business. Withdrawal requests are reviewed and completed once a week by the Appen team. These will take time to mature but Appen will be a trusted partner of the tech giants as they pursue new AI products, I simply doubt Appen will get left behind as the tech giants change their product focus (away from advertising - in the light of increasing regulatory pressures.). If i hadn't already bought I would prob have avoided. So on this analysis a high P/E ratio seems reasonable. Falling prices mean a share might drop below its intrinsic value. We have sent you an email with the details of your registration. The speech does not directly touch on investments but that tells you something – the most enduring advantages are psychological. Conference Call Participants. You are already registered for this event. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Sunday, February 28th. Appen released its full year results today and there was a lot to like. 1. If you are like me and earn AUD it can also be worth remembering that although this hurts Appen your global buying power is rising so I don’t hate this kind of exposure. Relevance is the main driver of the business. There is a trade pending processing for this company. This alone should lead to a 50%-100% increase in share price if the valuation multiples return to APX's average historical levels across 2017 to 2021.Long term, could Appen reach valuations as lofty as Altium's or Wisetech's?Possibly. While speculative and currently immaterial if this was a separate listed entity on the ASX it would probably trade for $200+ mil valuation. What if this is not a one off as widely believed. It’s usually at a subliminal level, but as you know from watching poorly dubbed movies, any slight misalignment between channels can really make the experience challenging. What the crisis has told Appen is to diversify your customer base. © 2017 Morningstar. https://www.tepinvestments.com/blog/appen-apx-entropy-dcf-models-amp-investor-behaviour“The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. The brokers from the chart : Citi, Credit Suisse, Macquarie, Ord Minnett, UBS (taken from FNArena). Our relevance team delivered 90% of our revenue in 2020. The share price is down circa 43% from the all-time high of $43.50 to $24.66 at the time of writing, for a market capitalisation of circa $3 billion AUD. Given our investing style and Appen’s recent fall from grace, the smallest member of the 5 WAAAX giants is looking particularly alluring right now. Altium trades at 53.3 times earnings and Appen trades at 49.4 times earnings, for comparison and according to JP Morgan. You'll see from my portfolio that I unfortunately bought some at $22 and then some at $15. Just as energy tends towards a less useful, more disordered state, so do businesses and organizations in general. Q4 2017 (Dec 2017) EPS of -$0.08 beat by $0.08 Revenue of $50.56M beat by $8.78M. You can earn up to $250 or above, It depends how much you are working with full effort, the more you work more you earn. Some of Appen’s US tech clients have temporarily shifted resources (engineers) away from major existing projects, which are data-intensive, to focus on new project opportunities (that enhance their long-term resilience and value), which are less data-intensive. Create a Premium account, and enjoy 15 day free trial, with unlimited access to all our research & services. First is the fact that policy and regulation are lagging far behind AI development. However, as of 1 Feb 2021 this had risen to $124.4mil. Why only release the expected EBITDA figure? The peer calculation is inclusive of admin and management fees; excludes brokerage and no withdrawals have been made. Possibly another example of expectations getting ahead of reality. Because it's the backbone of getting AI to a level where it's actually usable in real world applications. Uncertainty is good for a fundamental investor. It implies that buy-side research firms have no real indication as to the length, likelihood, and size of Appen’s future cashflows and are tinkering not just with short term earnings but modifying key long term inputs to their Appen valuation models. For the customer to collect, process and use the data this expands the internal scope of the project. ... Appen Limited Dividend policy None Price as of: APR 13, 06:41 AM EDT ... Buy the Stock One Day Before the Ex-Dividend Date Step 3. FY … Get access to Insights, Tools & Portfolio Manager. Appen had a conference call regarding their latest update. Autonomous cars are the way, it will have to most data in the next 5 years. The knowledge we’ll gain about ourselves through developing AI — how we interact with each other and with the world — will be so deep. They believe it is a "near-term" headwind and those customers will continue with previous projects after Covid. Note: Maximum file size should not exceed 2 MB and file type should be JPG, PNG, PDF or DOC. China growth is currently +60% quarter on quarter from a low base while it won’t continue at this rate it implies it could have revenue from $15 – 90million in just two years time (probably lower end). The record date for determining entitlements to the dividend is 2 September 2020. We can refine our throw with practice, industry insights and objective research. Please enter your email address below to request a new password. Please type the 5 digit verification code sent to {{user.DayPhone}}, We cannot send you a code via SMS to {{user.DayPhone}}. There is something more predictable than the future ever could be and this is what the best investors manage to understand and take advantage of – human behaviour. Moreover, Appen has an opportunity to secure blue-chip Asian technology clients in the future, such as Tencent or Alibaba, and we believe this opportunity is not priced into the share price. We believe those customers to be Microsoft (Azure), Google (Google Cloud), Facebook, Twitter, Mozilla, IBM (Watson), VMware and American Express, in addition to smaller AI application developers. Appen (previously known as Leapforce) has been one of my most reliable source of income over the past year, as I have mentioned in my Appen earnings report. Important to make it through the current downturn. No Morningstar-affiliated company or any of their employees is providing you with personalised financial advice. Facebook's breakthrough for self-supervised learning, From the Macquarie presentation transcript- there were headwinds for big customers last year as they adapted to COVID and 'regulatory pressures such as anti-trust and data privacy'.- "The competitive environment for relevance is unchanged with us and Lionbridge AI the key providers. The key piece of information for investors to understand is that the earnings update relates to the re-allocation of work by Appen’s customers. But it gets even more interesting. Broker’s evaluation of Appen… There are no uninteresting projects in AI, and while I can’t give specifics, we’ve started to move into multimodal data creation and product evaluation projects that require a new focus on time and timing — for example, how the visual output of the AI engine, such as an avatar face or face and body, aligns in time with the synthesized speech. Over this 5-year period, the PE multiple has ranged from 44 to 114, reflecting its status as a high growth firm. At a granular level my guess is teams are all working from home in the US and its probably getting to the point where teamwork is dropping off and new projects are less important than keeping to your known strengths. Momentum and sentiment are very negative. Earnings Date: Feb 24, 2021: Forward Dividend & Yield: 0.10 (0.64%) Ex-Dividend Date: Mar 01, 2021: 1y Target Est: 14.89 When just about everybody is convinced something is not right they're usually spectacularly wrong, I assume this will be no different. They are very optimistic about autonomous driving technology and are labelling data on test cars across race tracks. Just saw Dino's straw (WOW) Scale AI already in the space and doing data labelling for autonomous driving cars. Just when you think things couldn’t get worse, shares in the data solutions provider dived last Wednesday on poor FY20 earnings… Appen Earnings Report (2018-19) Post date; Updated On April 9th, 2020. Copyright © 2021 Strawman Pty Ltd. All rights reserved. I believe we're heading into a massive Metals Boom and Australia as a whole will do very well out of this with our Nickel/Lithium and Rare Earth projects. They need to drop a lot further before I'd get seriously interested in buying some. Underlying EBITDA growth of 42% to $101M excludes figure 8 contribution. We look forward to helping you on your financial journey. In 2020 the utilisation of Appen’s services plateaued significantly by most of their major customers, currency headwinds have been felt harshly as well. You now have access to Intelligent Investor Free Insights. I like APX, but I considered them expensive for what they are. Date Event; 23 February 2022: Report (Annual) 23 February 2022: Report (Prelim) 26 August 2021: Report (Interim) No concerns raised invalidate my thesis for Appen and my expectation is medium to strong sustainable growth for at least the next five years. View our membership page for more information. Fee data may not include all costs being charged such as platform and adviser fees. Figure 8 ARR of 33.7M (56% CAGR over last 4 years) – Acquisition now performing strongly and expected to positively contribute to EBITDA from second half 2020 but possibly even in current half. Several studies and casual observation reveal that individual prices oscillate widely around a central price year in year out, and for no apparent reason. China office sounds well set up but low expectations being set for growth there. On the 10th of December 2020, Appen downgraded its FY2020 earnings guidance on the back of its heavyweight US-technology customers confronting new lockdowns in California and shifting their resources to new projects away from data-intensive mature projects in the wake of COVID-19. Brokers downgrading due to the poor result causing downward price action. Unless the case was for a strong bear case. Appen General Information Description. The CTO of Facebook,  Mike Schroepfer, teeted on MAy 1 the following breakthrough: "Here’s our new computer vision system achieving state of the art results in image segmentation, without needing any labeled training data. The need to be physically present to make sales is underestimated in my opinion. In this scenario, we assume a terminal value multiple of 8x 2030F EBITDA to match the high growth trajectory of the business. More broadly, there is going to be a lot more investment in AI from all sorts of organisations. Purposefully hazy on year-to-date revenue whether its better or worse I can’t tell? 1) Earnings quality and 2) earnings reliability.1) Earnings quality is reflected below in the operating statistics of ALU v WTC v APX, across gross margin (%) and EBITDA margin.ALU has a gross margin approximately 1.9x higher than APX. Fees are calculated by Morningstar as the average over 10 years. It may take a few minutes to update your subscription details, during this time you will not be able to view locked content. Ex-dividend date 1 Mar 2021: Frequency Semi-annual Annual dividend +18.75%: Next dividend N/A Dividend yield 0.63%: Growth period 1 year: Last dividend date Yield 3 years 0.46%: Growth 3 years -6.39%: Last dividend Yield 5 years 0.73%: Growth 5 years +40.84% We are talking about the BIG end of town. Buy the blood!, This company is not going anywhere and is part of a larger macro trend being machine learning/AI which will grow significantly long term time to scale in. This new model was trained on random, unlabeled data, but quickly achieved state-of-the-art results. I've been under a contract with Appen for over 7 years, which is a long time in the freelance/contractor field for staying in one place. Appen Limited (Appen) (ASX:APX) a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence(AI), has today announced its results for the full year ended 31 December 2020, Wisdom From The Women Leading The AI Industry, With Dr. Judith Bishop of Appen. Competition is maturing; but we're nimble and can deal with it. China doesn't appear far of the US in terms of AI tech. Still too much uncertainty for high conviction.]. impacts of an advertising downturn, regulatory factors on customers’ spending and investment priorities appear to have spooked investors. We take a long-term view on value creation, seeking companies that have a disciplined growth strategy, a laser-like focus on their core market and are the leader in their industry. 30% Worst case - growth stops and Appen can only maintain profitability at current levels. Energy disperses, and systems dissolve into chaos. In short, we can predictably assume that human behaviour is unpredictable. This type of benefit will be replicated across many industries. APPEN FPO Retained Earnings is currently at (4 M). People don’t like to be uncertain. On call stated one large customer had agreed to fixed pricing for next five years which management were happy with stating that it relieved margin pressure although said they would be lower in first half due to investment in sales and marketing before returning to mid to high teens in second half. Price appears to have a strong floor at around $20-22 since Feb 19. Any graph of revenue, profits, cash flows is the same. To use the popular jargon I see Appen as an "AI data/training as a service or AI data/training on demand" company. A company that pays out close to half its earnings as dividends and retains the other half of earnings has ample room to grow its business and pay out more dividends in the future. APPEN FPO Earnings Per Share is currently at 0.37 X. That's cyclical not fundamental. Let’s take a look and see how the artificial intelligence company performed for the period. I would recommend listening to the call to get some extra explanation of the presented numbers from the company that can be found here. Confirmation from Appen that their long term earnings growth trajectory is sound (probably towards the end of this year with CY2022 earnings guidance) will lead to a normalisation of future growth rate expectations by analysts -- this will lead to broker upgrades and a rising share price. Our conclusion is that this is a short-term cyclical earnings impact not a structural headwinds earnings downgrade – AI is here to stay. What are the 5 things that concern you about the AI industry? The average Appen salary ranges from approximately $28,706 per year for Engineer to $117,605 per year for Program Manager. Accounting for differences in gross margin, EBITDA margin and recurring revenue, it is my view that Appen deserves to trade on at least half of Altium's revenue multiple -- which would be a revenue multiple of ~7x (versus ALU at 14.6x). Still do. My suggestion, work out your conviction now, look out at the years, rather than the months ahead. 5 year ROE = 21% CAGR. Such a metric looks lofty even when compared to Australia’s other high-flying tech stocks. Signed As authorised by the Board of Directors Signed _____ Date: 27 August 2020 Mark Brayan Managing Director Sydney Appen Limited (APX) is a globally focused company that provides language technology data and services in more than 180 languages and dialects in over 70,000 locations and 130 countries to range of industries including technology companies and government agencies. Do large technology companies actually not require Appen’s data sets? IMO the last call had quite a few caveats, MD was quite cautious, APX do not have significant visability on sales and although the US stock market is booming C19 is still impacting normal activity. We consider this a viable scenario, but, there is a fair chance that the business outperforms this scenario if Appen can match and maintain the industry growth rate. Appen Limited Appendix 4D Half -year report 11. Registration for this event is available only to Intelligent Investor members. Momentum, as JP Morgan notes: looks to be the name of the game right now, with investors seemingly disregarding many other factors. The percentage of Appen's revenue that is recurring.In 2H20, Appen reported a 343% increase in committed revenue versus 2H2019. Currency had a wild year with the AUD swinging between mid 50 cents to mid 70 cents USD. I see Appen as a strong "value" growth buy. For the effect of fees on your cumulative returns, please see our report How Fees Can Destroy Your Wealth. SMS code cannot be sent due to: {{ twilioStatus }}, Looks you are already a member. Certainly, business values do not do this. Please contact for more information: Mark Brayan (CEO) mbrayan@appen.com +612 9468 6300 Kevin Levine (CFO) klevine@appen.com +612 9468 6300 About Appen Currently, they trade 340% (ALU) to 540% (WTC) higher on a revenue multiple basis and 55% (ALU) to 194% (WTC) higher on an EBITDA multiple basis.There a few factors that dictate why Altium and Wisetech are being rewarded with higher multiples. This scenario leads to a fair value share price estimate of $36.71 per share. Finally, reverse engineering the model to arrive at the current share price (circa $25 per share) reveals insights into what the investor community currently collectively believe the growth rate of Appen will be going forward. Quantity for at least the next year is going backwards and growth is superb conversion. It is marked down. ” – Warren Buffett and published under licence from ASX Operations Pty ACN! A service or AI data/training as a whole, the Appen team of their systems installed in China, that. 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