HIGHLIGHTS
REVENUE EQUAL TO EURO 37,1M VS EURO 34,6M +7%
RECURRING REVENUE EQUAL TO 94% OF THE TOTAL REVENUE
EBITDA EQUAL TO EURO 12,0M VS EURO 10,4M +15%
EBIT EQUAL TO EURO 6,8M VS EURO 4,9M +39%
NET PROFIT EQUAL TO EURO 3,7M VS EURO 2,2M +66%
OPERATING CASH FLOW EQUAL TO EURO 9,2M VSEBITDA EQUAL TO EURO 12,0M – CASH CONVERSION EQUAL TO 76%
NET FINANCIAL POSITION EQUAL TO EURO 3,1M (DEBT), WITH EURO 13,3M IN CASH AVAILABILITIES
Giandomenico Sica, President of DHH’s Board of Directors, comments: “Despite a challenging macroeconomic environment marked by global conflicts and geopolitical tensions, we conclude this three-year term as a Board of Directors with a group that has surpassed €100 million in market capitalization and has grown from €19,6 million to €35,9 million in net sales, achieving a CAGR of 22,35%. EBITDA has increased from €6,9 million to €12,0 million. This growth has been driven by a combination of organic expansion, cost control, and external acquisitions, recording continuous positive development across all key financial KPIs in every semester of this period. We look to the future with the ambition to build a project that can make a difference in our industry, confident in our capabilities, fully aware of what we can achieve, and eager to see how far we will have come at the end of this next stage. We aim to play a leading role in Europe’s technological resurgence, and if this resurgence doesn’t come on its own, we will be among those pushing to make it happen!”
Milan, 21 March 2025. DHH S.p.A. DHH S.p.A. (DHH.MI) (ISIN shares IT0005203622) announces that today the Board of Directors examined and approved the draft statutory and consolidated financial statements as of 31 December 2024.
The above-mentioned documents shall be submitted, for approval and acknowledgment, at the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting scheduled for April 29, 2025 (first call) and, if necessary, for April 30, 2025 (second call).
The relevant notice of call will be available – together with all supporting documentation – within the term provided for by the law and DHH’s by-laws at the Company’s registered office, at the website www.dhh.international, section “For Investors” and on the website of Borsa Italiana.
DHH’s shareholders may view such documentation and request copy thereof. The financial reports will be made available to the public as per EGM regulations as well as on the Company’s.
Comment to the results
In the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, DHH recorded consolidated net sales of €35,9 million, marking a +7% increase compared to €33,7 million in 2023. 94% of revenue from sales is recurring and distributed across tens of thousands of business and professional clients, thus ensuring financial stability and predictability, reducing reliance on continuously securing new contracts and enabling more sustainable long-term growth.
The core business lines showed solid performance: Cloud Computing grew by +5% to €14,2 million, Cloud Hosting increased by +7% to €8,4 million, and Business Connectivity rose by +9% to €8 million. Among the complementary business lines, Datacenter & Networking grew by +2% to €3,2 million, Managed Services remained substantially flat at €0,8 million, and other non core revenue from sales reached €1,3 million. Growth was entirely organic across all segments and reflects a strategy based on multiple levers: acquiring new customers for established products, increasing the value of existing customers through up-selling and cross-selling activities, and developing early-stage products, including Cloud Server GPU/NPU, streaming solutions for municipalities, Kubernetes as a Service, and Enterprise Email Hosting.
Geographically, growth was recorded across all key markets. Italy, the company’s largest market, generated €24,3 million in revenue from sales, up +6% from €22,9 million in 2023. Slovenia grew by +9% to €3,1 million, while Croatia increased by +10% to €3,4 million. Serbia recorded a +7% growth, reaching €0,8 million, and Switzerland saw the highest relative growth at +11%, reaching €0,9 million. Bulgaria also reported positive performance, with revenue from sales increasing by +2% to €3,3 million.
All the companies within the group, without exception, recorded growth in 2024. This performance underscores the resilience of DHH’s business model, where growth is distributed across multiple companies, different business segments, and various geographies. As an example, in 2024 Seeweb, the group’s leading company, recorded single-digit growth below its historical trend due to contingent factors, as several key clients were acquired through M&A transactions, in some cases by DHH competitors, leading them to shift their technology investment strategies. Despite this, the overall growth of the group remained single high digit (+7%), driven by the solid performance of other subsidiaries. Connesi, the group’s second-largest company, posted a +15% increase, while Webtasy, Plus, and Artera, the group’s foreign subsidiaries operating in the hosting sector, achieved approximately +10% average growth.
This balanced distribution of growth across different companies, segments, markets and products further reinforces the stability of DHH’s business model, which has maintained a consistent organic growth trend in the ca. 5-10% range for the past 10 years. The cost structure evolved in an orderly manner, in line with revenue growth. The most significant variation was in Purchases of Raw Materials and Consumables, primarily due to the impact of increased software license costs. Additionally, Professional Services costs improved as 2024 no longer includes the effect of the stock option plan recorded in the previous year.
The increase in personnel costs is mainly due to business development as well as contractual adjustments introduced by the renewal of collective labor agreements.
Net financial debt improved significantly, decreasing from €6,5 million in the previous year to €3,1 million at the end of the reporting period. This reduction was primarily driven by an increase in liquidity, which grew from €10,4 million to €13,3 million, supported by cash flow generation. On the debt side, current financial liabilities increased from €4,5 million to €5,4 million, mainly due to new financing during the year. However, this increase was offset by a reduction in non-current financial liabilities, which decreased from €12,4 million to €11,0 million.
During the year, the operating cash flow was €9,2 million. With regard to the most significant uses, investments in tangible and intangible fixed assets amounted to €2,7 million, in line with the previous year if adjusted for extraordinary investments in 2023. And investments in right of use for €4,0 million, an increase compared to €2,7 million in the previous year and including not only the operating leases of the hardware but also the renewal of the rental contracts for the offices of some of the group companies. €0,1 million in the acquisition of the remaining minority of Sysbee and approximately €1 million in the purchase of treasury shares.
Business outlook
The group’s performance in the early months of the year, despite the current slowdown in European market growth, indicates positive prospects, supported by increasing revenue volumes across its companies. Growth expectations are also driven by the continued development of early-stage products, including Cloud Server GPU/NPU, video streaming solutions for municipalities, Kubernetes as a Service, and Enterprise Email Hosting. Additionally, the group intends to capitalize in 2025 on the M&A groundwork laid in 2024, leveraging its solid financial position to pursue synergistic acquisitions that strengthen market presence and expand growth potential. In particular, the group is actively working to identify acquisition targets with a compatible corporate culture to support its long-term business objectives.
Profit allocation in the holding
The financial year ending December 31, 2024 of DHH SpA as a holding closes with a net profit of €2.553.931,59, for which the following allocation is proposed: €6.900,00 to the Legal Reserve; €2.547.031,59 to the Extraordinary Reserve.
Issuance of warrants against payment
The Board of Directors has approved the proposal to the Shareholders’ Meeting to issue a maximum of 1.039.485 warrants against payment (the “Warrants”) to be offered for subscription to shareholders at a unit price of €0,10 for each Warrant.
The transaction will be carried out by assigning to the shareholders a subscription and pre-emption right (the “Right”) at a ratio of one Right for each share held on 6 May 2025 (record date), therefore for a total of 5.197.425 Rights issued, taking into account the 40.345 treasury shares currently held by the Company and subject to the waiver by the shareholder Antonio Baldassarra of 2 Rights, for the purposes of balancing the transaction.
The Rights (which will not be negotiable or transferable) will give the right to subscribe, for a fee, 1 Warrant for every 5 Rights exercised, at a unit price of €0,10 for each Warrant.
The Rights may be exercised (under penalty of forfeiture) by the holders in the period between 7 May 2025 and 13 May 2025 (inclusive – the “Exercise Period”), through authorized intermediaries participating in the centralized management system at Euronext Securities (Monte Titoli S.p.A.), by signing, within the aforementioned final deadline and subject to verification by the same intermediaries of the legitimacy of the subscriber, a specific form prepared in accordance with the sample form that will be distributed by the Company to the intermediaries through Euronext Securities and made available on the Company’s website www.dhh.international (in the “Shareholders meetings” section) by the beginning of the Exercise Period. (the “Subscription Form”).
The Subscription Form will also include the right for anyone who makes a simultaneous (and irrevocable) request to subscribe for a fee any Warrants that remain “unopted” (i.e. not subscribed) during the Exercise Period (the “Pre-emption on the Unopted”), expressly indicating (under penalty of forfeiture) the maximum number of Warrants for which the Pre-emption Right is to be exercised on the Unopted. Any requests exceeding the total amount of Warrants not subscribed during the Exercise Period will be satisfied according to an allotment procedure proportional to the number of Rights exercised.
The Company (also through its representatives) will subsequently communicate the results of the offer to the shareholders, taking into account any Pre-emption on the Unexercised Warrants, as well as the terms and methods of payment/settlement, by means of a specific press release published on the Company’s website and directly to the intermediaries with whom the rights have been exercised. the regulation of the subscribed Warrants (and therefore the related availability to those entitled) through the authorized intermediaries participating in the centralized management system at Euronext Securities, also taking into account the procedure for the admission to trading of the Warrants.
Any Warrants that remain unsubscribed, including after the Pre-emption Right Procedure, may be placed by the Company (including for the purpose of future issues and/or extraordinary capital transactions) by December 31, 2026.
For the purposes of the above, the Company will arrange for the allocation to the shareholders of the Rights representing coupon no. 3 on 7 May 2025.
The Warrants will give the right to subscribe to a maximum total of 623.691 DHH ordinary shares, with regular dividend rights and completely fungible with the current ordinary shares in circulation, according to the exercise ratio provided for in the aforementioned regulations and at the time between June 1, 2027 and December 29, 2028 (unless extended as provided for therein), in accordance with the terms of the Warrant regulations, according to the exercise ratio provided for in the aforementioned regulation and at a unit price of €3,10 each.
For the purposes of the above, the administrative body has also resolved to propose to the Shareholders’ Meeting the resolution of a capital increase, in divisible form, to service the exercise of the Warrants for a maximum nominal value of €62.369,10 (plus share premium), through the issue of a maximum of 623.691 conversion shares and therefore with a par value of €0,10 for each conversion share.
The Company will apply to Borsa Italiana for the Warrants to be admitted to trading on Euronext Growth Milan, with the aim of proceeding with the issue and commencement of trading during the month of May 2025. The related warrant admission document will be made public according to the timing and methods provided for by the applicable regulations and will be available on the Company’s website www.dhh.international.
The Board of Directors has decided to propose the issuance of the aforementioned Warrants with the aim of encouraging greater active, careful and informed participation of shareholders (generally understood) in the growth of the Company. Participation in the operation aims to allow all shareholders to benefit from the potential creation of value in the medium to long term with a substantial “leverage effect” for those shareholders interested in taking part in the co-investment operation, in a logic of complete alignment of interests, in an equal manner and with the effect of a concrete “democratization” of the incentive.
Renewal of the delegation to the administrative body to increase the share capital and issue bonds (including convertible bonds)
The Board of Directors has also resolved to submit for approval to the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, subject to revocation for the unexercised portion of the proxy granted by the previous Shareholders’ Meeting of April 28, 2021, the renewal of the proxy to the administrative body, pursuant to Articles 2443 and 2420-ter of the Italian Civil Code, to increase the share capital and to issue bonds, including convertible bonds, up to a maximum of €30.000.000, also with the exclusion of option rights or free of charge, also pursuant to Article 2441, paragraphs 4, 5 and 8, and Article 2349 of the Italian Civil Code.
Earnings call
Giandomenico Sica (Executive President) and Antonio Baldassarra (CEO) will webcast a discussion about FY2024 results in a conference call with investors and analysts to be held on 24 March 2025 at 3.00 pm CET. Live at the link: https://whereby.com/dhhspa
People interested in participating are invited to send any questions or topics of interest to the following email address: investor.relations@dhh.international
ESG report
DHH has published its new Sustainability Report (ESG) Report. This document details the Company’s approach to addressing the ESG issues deemed most critical by the Company and its stakeholders.
The report, non audited and covering the period from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024, has been compiled in accordance with the GRI Standards and aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) as outlined in the 2021 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI Standards).
The full document is accessible online at the Company’s website at www.dhh.international, section “For Investors”.