The most recent financial results announcements from publicly traded language industry companies
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
Revenues for the first nine months of the fiscal year at Tokyo-based language service provider come in at USD 68.7m. Core translation business grows a more modest 4.4%. Continue reading
Sajan reports flat revenue growth and a small net loss for 2016. Results impacted by restructuring costs from failed attempt to boost operating margins earlier in the year. CEO says 2017 began well with two major deals closed. Continue reading
Shares in game localization and technical services provider Keywords Studios continue their relentless rise on the back of stronger-than-expected results. CEO says 2017 will see a continuation of acquisitive growth strategy. Continue reading
UK-based language services and technology provider SDL projects full-year results to come in slightly ahead of market expectations. Market capitalization briefly breaks through USD half-billion mark. Continue reading
Generating a profit of nearly USD 40m on revenues of barely USD 150m, RWS needs its shares to climb just 20% to crack the billion-dollar mark. The compay has posted uninterrupted growth since 2003 and CEO says having in-house translators is part of the recipe for success. Continue reading
Strong performance in translation services offsets pullback elsewhere as Donnelley Financial reports results for Q3 2016; Teleperformance says LanguageLine to significantly boost bottom line; Keywords continues buying spree. Continue reading
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