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• Overall Financial Performance

  • The quarter delivered strong year-over-year growth and improved profitability, marking a solid start to fiscal 2027, with results demonstrating built operating leverage that translates top-line growth into higher profitability and stronger cash generation.
  • Total revenue increased 43% YoY to $21.9 million, up from $15.3 million in the prior year quarter; gross profit rose to $6.4 million with gross margin expanding to 29.2%; income from operations increased to $3.4 million from $0.8 million YoY; net income increased 32% YoY to $2.2 million; operating cash flow reached $4.8 million, up from $1.4 million in the prior year quarter.
  • SG&A expenses held essentially flat at $3.0 million despite strong revenue growth, highlighting the company's operating leverage. Previously disclosed customer additions contributed $2.7 million to revenue and profitability in the quarter.

• Strategic Market Positioning

  • The company is evolving from a pure managed operations provider to an end-to-end AI transformation and enterprise operations partner, with clients increasingly engaging ARIES not just for operational management, but for enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives, expanding the scope and value of client engagements.
  • ARIES sees large long-term opportunity in enterprise AI transformation, as the market shifts from AI experimentation to large-scale production deployment, creating demand for partners that can support full lifecycle delivery from strategy and pilots to enterprise deployment and ongoing operations.
  • The company recently launched AFAL, its new agentic AI solution built on its forward-deploy engineering model, which integrates with ADESA, ARIES' AI-native enterprise operations platform, to create a full-stack capability covering strategy, engineering, deployment, and managed operations for enterprise AI at scale.

• Balance Sheet and Capital Actions

  • ARIES recorded its sixth consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flow. Strong cash generation allowed the company to strengthen its balance sheet, continue settling legacy obligations from prior business combination transactions, repurchase more than 10% of its outstanding common shares, and complete a previously announced 1-for-8 share consolidation during the quarter.

• Geographic Execution

  • Consistent operational execution was delivered across the company's operating markets in India and Mexico, with engagements signed in the prior fiscal year progressing to steady state operations during the quarter to drive current revenue growth and strengthen long-term client relationships.

• ARIES management reaffirms its full fiscal 2027 guidance, maintaining the previously issued targets with no upward or downward revision.
• The reaffirmed guidance calls for total fiscal 2027 revenue in the range of $80 million to $84 million, and adjusted EBITDA between $10 million and $12 million.
• Management's confidence in the guidance is supported by a backlog of multi-year client engagements, expanding relationships with existing clients, and a pipeline of engagements progressing into steady-state operations.

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