Conduent Reaffirms 2017 Guidance and Reports Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results; Grows New Business Signings and Improves Profitability

Financial and Operational Highlights

• Revenue of $1,496 million
• Net loss of ($4) million, GAAP EPS ($0.03); Adj. net income of $36 million, Adj. EPS $0.16
• Adjusted EBITDA of $157 million, up 6% year-over-year
• Strong cash flow from operations of $67 million and free cash flow of $69 million
•  New business Total Contract Value (TCV) of $657 million, up 25% year-over-year
•  Expect to meet $430 million of cumulative strategic transformation savings targets by end of FY 2017

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - Conduent (NYSE: CNDT), the world's largest provider of diversified business services, today announced its second quarter 2017 financial results.

“Our second quarter demonstrated meaningful progress towards building a profitable and growing company.  We delivered adjusted earnings in-line with our expectations, advanced our cost savings initiatives, implemented our new go-to-market strategy and continued streamlining our operations,” said Ashok Vemuri, CEO of Conduent.  “While we still have work ahead of us, particularly in our customer experience offering, we continue to drive operational excellence and deliver best-in-class service and experiences for our clients.  We believe we are well positioned to achieve our strategic transformation goals and are making steady progress on creating a One Conduent culture.”

Second Quarter 2017 Results

Second quarter 2017 revenues were $1,496 million, down 7% compared to Q2 2016. Pre-tax loss was ($11) million compared to ($34) million in Q2 2016.  The company reported EPS of ($0.03) versus ($0.05) in the same period last year.

Second quarter adjusted operating income was $88 million, with an adjusted operating margin of 5.9% as compared to $77 million, with an adjusted operating margin of 4.8% in Q2 2016. Adjusted EBITDA improved 6% to $157 million, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 10.5%, as compared with $148 million, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 9.2% in Q2 2016. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.16 compared to $0.30 in Q2 2016.

Conduent generated $67 million in cash flow from operations during the second quarter and ended the quarter with a cash balance of $309 million. Total debt was $2,130 million as of June 30, 2017.

Headcount of approximately 89,000 as of June 30, 2017 compared with approximately 96,000 as of December 31, 2016.

Total TCV signings of $1,244 million for the quarter were down 42% compared with Q2 2016, driven by lower renewal signings primarily as a result of fewer renewal opportunities compared with Q2 2016.  New business TCV was $657 million, up 25% compared with Q2 2016 as a result of key wins and expansion of business with both commercial and public sector clients.

Financial and Strategic Outlook Unchanged

Conduent is reaffirming the following guidance ranges for FY 2017:

Note: Please refer to the "Non-GAAP Outlook" in the Non-GAAP section below for certain non-GAAP information concerning outlook

“Our 2017 financial targets remain unchanged as we continue to balance our cost savings and investment strategy,” said Brian Webb-Walsh, Conduent CFO. “We have made solid progress in stabilizing our Other segment and still expect this segment to be break-even by mid-2018.  While our revenue trajectory is under pressure, new business signings growth has been strong the last two quarters, which we expect will help improve our revenue trend over the medium term.  In addition, free cash flow meaningfully improved compared with last year and we expect to see continued margin expansion in the back half of the year.  Overall, we executed on our plan this quarter and believe we are well positioned for the second half of the year."

Conference Call

Management will present the results during a conference call and webcast on August 9, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern.

The call will be available by live audio webcast with the news release and online presentation slides at https://investor.conduent.com/.

The conference call will also be available by calling 877-883-0383 (international dial-in 412-902-6506) at approximately 9:45 a.m. ET. The conference ID for this call is 3476574.

A recording of the conference call will be available by calling 877-344-7529, or 412-317-0088 one hour after the conference call concludes on August 9, 2017. The replay ID is 10109939.

About Conduent

Conduent (NYSE: CNDT) is the world’s largest provider of diversified business services with leading capabilities in transaction processing, automation and analytics. The company’s global workforce is dedicated to helping its large and diverse client base deliver quality services to the people they serve. These clients include 76 of the Fortune 100 companies and over 500 government entities.

Conduent’s differentiated offerings touch millions of lives every day, including two-thirds of all insured patients in the U.S. and nearly nine million people who travel through toll systems daily.  Whether it’s digital payments, claims processing, benefit administration, automated tolling, customer care or distributed learning - Conduent manages and modernizes these interactions to create value for both its clients and their constituents. Learn more at www.conduent.com.

Non-GAAP Measures

We have reported our financial results in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). In addition, we have discussed our financial results using non-GAAP measures. We believe these non-GAAP measures allow investors to better understand the trends in our business and to better understand and compare our results. Accordingly, we believe it is necessary to adjust several reported amounts, determined in accordance with GAAP, to exclude the effects of certain items as well as their related tax effects. Management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide an additional means of analyzing the current periods' results against the corresponding prior periods' results. These non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as a substitute for, the Company's reported results prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Our non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable U.S. GAAP measures and should be read only in conjunction with our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Our management regularly uses supplemental non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage and evaluate our business and make operating decisions, and providing such non-GAAP financial measures to investors allows for a further level of transparency as to how management reviews and evaluates our business results and trends. These non-GAAP measures are among the primarily factors management uses in planning for and forecasting future periods. Compensation of our executives is based in part on the performance of our business based on these non-GAAP measures. Refer to the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section attached to this release for a discussion of these non-GAAP measures and their reconciliation to the reported GAAP measures.

Forward Looking Statements

This report and any exhibits to this Report may contain "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “will,” “should” and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management's current beliefs, assumptions and expectations and are subject to a number of factors that may cause actual results to differ materially. Such factors include, but are not limited to: termination rights contained in our government contracts; our ability to renew commercial and government contracts awarded through competitive bidding processes; our ability to recover capital and other investments in connection with our contracts; our ability to attract and retain necessary technical personnel and qualified subcontractors; our ability to deliver on our contractual obligations properly and on time; competitive pressures; our significant indebtedness; changes in interest in outsourced business process services; our ability to obtain adequate pricing for our services and to improve our cost structure; claims of infringement of third-party intellectual property rights; the failure to comply with laws relating to individually identifiable information, and personal health information and laws relating to processing certain financial transactions, including payment card transactions and debit or credit card transactions; breaches of our security systems and service interruptions; our ability to estimate the scope of work or the costs of performance in our contracts; our ability to collect our receivables for unbilled services; a decline in revenues from or a loss or failure of significant clients; fluctuations in our non-recurring revenue; our failure to maintain a satisfactory credit rating; our ability to attract and retain key employees; increases in the cost of telephone and data services or significant interruptions in such services; our failure to develop new service offerings; our ability to receive dividends or other payments from our subsidiaries; changes in tax and other laws and regulations; changes in government regulation and economic, strategic, political and social conditions; changes in U.S. GAAP or other applicable accounting policies; and other factors that are set forth in the “Risk Factors” section, the “Legal Proceedings” section, the “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section and other sections in our 2016 Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements made by us in this report speak only as of the date on which they are made. We are under no obligation to, and expressly disclaim any obligation to, update or alter our forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, subsequent events or otherwise.

Media Contacts:

Sean Collins, Conduent, +1-310-497-9205, sean.collins2@conduent.com

Investor Contacts:

Alan Katz, Conduent, +1-973-526-7173, alan.katz@conduent.com

Tyler Scott, Conduent, +1-973-526-7171, tyler.scott@conduent.com