Lesaka Technologies Inc
LSAK
$4.06 -0.73%
Exchange: NASDAQ | Sector: Technology | Industry: Software Infrastructure
Q4 2024
Published: Sep 11, 2024

Earnings Highlights

  • Revenue of $146.05M up 9.7% year-over-year
  • EPS of $-0.08 increased by 56.7% from previous year
  • Gross margin of 22.6%
  • Net income of -5.04M
  • "β€œThe Adumo transaction which is expected to close in October 2024, will enhance our platform, adding customers and products as well as meaningful scale.”" - Ali Mazanderani
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Executive Summary

Lesaka Technologies delivered a meaningful quarterly and full-year performance in QQ4 2024, underscored by accelerating EBITDA gains, improving cash generation, and successful integration of acquisitions that broaden the group’s scale and addressable market. In USD terms, revenue for the quarter stood at 146.0 million with EBITDA of 8.38 million and a net loss of 5.04 million, reflecting ongoing investments and a higher concentration of growth initiatives within the merchant and consumer ecosystems. Management emphasized the Adumo acquisition close in October 2024 and the strategic restructuring to create a three-pillar merchant platform (micro-merchant, merchant, and enterprise) with Prism Switch and EasyPay as core enablers. The consumer franchise showed pronounced profitability acceleration, with consumer segment adjusted EBITDA up 361% for the year to 274 million ZAR, highlighting durable cross-sell dynamics across lending and micro-insurance. Importantly, Lesaka reiterated FY2025 guidance (in ZAR) of 10-11 billion revenue and 900 million to 1 billion EBITDA, underscoring an explicitly higher-growth, more scalable platform post-Adumo. The callout on leverage targets and capital allocation signals a disciplined path to a mid-teens to low-20s percent revenue growth and like-for-like EBITDA expansion, contingent on Adumo timing and macro conditions. Investors should monitor: (i) Adumo integration progress and cross-sell momentum into the non-grant customer base, (ii) normalize EBITDA trajectory excluding one-off items and Nuets/Kazang Pay Advance effects, (iii) working capital and cash flow from operations, and (iv) currency effects given Rand-USD translation dynamics.

Key Performance Indicators

Revenue
Increasing
146.05M
QoQ: 5.68% | YoY: 9.69%
Gross Profit
Increasing
32.98M
22.58% margin
QoQ: 8.71% | YoY: 9.01%
Operating Income
Increasing
295.00K
QoQ: -79.30% | YoY: 104.45%
Net Income
Increasing
-5.04M
QoQ: -24.41% | YoY: 57.72%
EPS
Increasing
-0.08
QoQ: -37.00% | YoY: 56.74%

Revenue Trend

Margin Analysis

Historical Earnings Comparison

PeriodRevenue ($M)EPS ($)YoY GrowthReport
Q3 2025 135.67 -0.27 -1.8% View
Q2 2025 146.82 -0.40 +2.0% View
Q1 2025 145.55 -0.07 +7.0% View
Q4 2024 146.05 -0.08 +9.7% View
Q3 2024 138.19 -0.06 +3.2% View