Shares in game localizer Keywords Studios surge following a trading update and broker buy reports in July. With a market capitalization of nearly one billion USD, Keywords’ valuation is now double that of much larger SDL. Continue reading
Financial Results
The most recent financial results announcements from publicly traded language industry companies
Shares in Sydney-based Appen continue to rally and are up more than 600% since 2015 IPO. Strong 1H 2017 earnings mostly driven by booming unit which trains machine learning products. Continue reading
Not even a solid performance in the core translation business was able to offset a near wipe-out in the conference services division, as revenues slid more than 6% to JPY 2.42bn (USD 22.1m) for the quarter. Continue reading
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SDL posts 5% revenue growth but expansion into new verticals and in Asia hits gross margins. CEO Adolfo Hernandez discusses what affected the bottom line in the first six months, his plans for improving translator productivity, and why he’s not afraid of Amazon. Continue reading
Shares in game localizer Keywords Studios surge on the back of a trading update. With a market capitalization of around GBP 600m, Keywords’ valuation now exceeds that of much larger SDL. Continue reading
With the legal battle for the future of the company in its final stages, TransPerfect grows revenues by nearly 10% in the first half of 2017. June 2017 is the second best month in company history. Mediation between two warring Co-CEOs is ongoing. Continue reading
RWS delivers yet another set of strong results as share price hovers near all-time high. Revenues are up 35% and operating profits up 28% in the first six months of the financial year. Chairman Andrew Brode says they occasionally compete with TransPerfect but would never consider buying them. Continue reading
Tokyo-based language service and technology provider reports USD 17m in annual revenues. Human translation and interpretation business contributes nearly half at USD 8.3m. Company says it has started to transition its MT unit to neural machine translation. Continue reading
Shares in UK language service provider surge on back of trading update. RWS market capitalization breaks through one-billion-US-dollar mark. Continue reading
Nine-year-old language service provider started by thebigword veteran reports 28% revenue growth and 315% jump in pre-tax earnings. Director Robert Timms on how MT is not cannibalizing volumes and why he is frustrated with UK government procurement. Continue reading
Game localizer’s market capitalization closes in on half-a-billion US dollars, as management promises more acquisitions in 2017. CEO dampens expectations that virtual reality will be a major revenue driver this year. Continue reading
The report card is in for SDL CEO Adolfo Hernandez’s year one. Revenues and pre-tax profits are up modestly after stripping out one-offs, and the company discovered a potentially huge source of future margin expansion. Continue reading
LanguageLine contributes EUR 114m in sales and EUR 41 in pre-tax profit in 2016 since its acquisition in mid-September. Company relies almost completely on over-the-phone interpretation, which may make it vulnerable to regulatory changes in the US. Continue reading
UK-based language service provider thebigword took a 10% revenue hit in the year ending May 2016. CEO Larry Gould tells Slator the Crown Commercial Service and Ministry of Justice contracts will boost sales by 35% this year. Continue reading
Language services and data provider Appen continues to ride the machine learning and artificial intelligence boom, clocking up revenue growth of 34% versus 2016. While shares are up more than 300% since IPO, they are down slightly in 2017. Continue reading
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