FIS Reports Strong First Quarter 2025 Results and Reiterates Full-Year Outlook

• First quarter GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.15
• Adjusted EPS of $1.21 increased 11% over the prior-year period
• Revenue increased 3% on a GAAP basis and 4% on an adjusted basis to $2.5 billion
• Repurchased $450 million of shares in the first quarter; reiterates goal to repurchase $1.2 billion of shares in 2025
• Reiterates full-year 2025 outlook for Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS¹
• On April 17, 2025, the Company announced the sale of its remaining Worldpay stake and the strategic acquisition of Global Payments' Issuer Solutions business. Transactions are expected to close simultaneously in the first half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions

FIS^® (NYSE:FIS), a global leader in financial technology, today reported its first quarter 2025 results.

“We had a great start to the year, delivering another quarter of financial outperformance, giving us the confidence to reiterate our full-year outlook,” said FIS CEO and President Stephanie Ferris. “We are very excited about our recently announced strategic transactions that will allow us to fully monetize our Worldpay stake at an attractive valuation and strengthen our financial profile with the acquisition of the Issuer Solutions business. These strategic transactions will expand FIS’ payment product suite, enhancing our relationships with financial institutions and corporate clients.”

First Quarter 2025 Financial Results

On a GAAP basis, revenue increased 3% as compared to the prior-year period to approximately $2.5 billion. GAAP net earnings attributable to common stockholders from continuing operations were $77 million or $0.15 per diluted share.

On an adjusted basis, revenue increased 4% as compared to the prior-year period reflecting recurring revenue growth of 4%. Adjusted EBITDA was approximately $1.0 billion, and Adjusted EBITDA margin contracted by 142 basis points (bps) over the prior-year period to 37.8%, reflecting high license and termination fee revenue in the prior-year period. Adjusted net earnings from continuing operations were $643 million, and Adjusted EPS increased by 11% as compared to the prior-year period to $1.21 per diluted share.

Segment Information

• Banking Solutions:
  
  First quarter revenue increased 2% on a GAAP basis and 2% on an adjusted basis as compared to the prior-year period to $1.7 billion, including recurring revenue growth of 3%. Adjusted EBITDA margin contracted by 379 basis points as compared to the prior-year period to 40.1%, reflecting high license and termination fee revenue in the prior-year period and the timing of expenses.

• Capital Market Solutions:
  
  First quarter revenue increased by 8% on a GAAP basis and 9% on an adjusted basis as compared to the prior-year period to $764 million, reflecting recurring revenue growth of 6% and non-recurring revenue growth of 47%. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded by 90 basis points as compared to the prior-year period to 48.3%, reflecting an increase in higher-margin license revenue and operating leverage.

• Corporate and Other:
  
  First quarter revenue decreased by 36% as compared to the prior-year period to $50 million. Adjusted EBITDA loss was $99 million, including $116 million of corporate expenses.

Balance Sheet and Cash Flows

As of March 31, 2025, debt outstanding totaled $12.0 billion. First quarter net cash provided by operating activities was $457 million, and adjusted free cash flow was $368 million. In the first quarter, the Company returned $670 million of capital to shareholders through $450 million of share repurchases and $220 million of dividends paid.

Capital Allocation Update

The Company repurchased $450 million of shares in the first quarter and is reiterating its goal to repurchase approximately $1.2 billion of shares in 2025. Additionally, the Company will continue to pay quarterly dividends targeting dividend per share growth in line with Adjusted EPS growth.

Second Quarter and Full-Year 2025 Outlook

The Company is introducing its second quarter outlook and, for the full-year, is reiterating its outlook inclusive of accelerated revenue growth of 4.6 to 5.2% and Adjusted EPS growth of 9 to 11%.

Update on Pending Strategic Transactions

On April 17, 2025, FIS entered into definitive agreements to (i) buy the Issuer Solutions business from Global Payments Inc. (“Global Payments”) for an enterprise value of $13.5 billion, inclusive of $1.5 billion of anticipated net present value of tax assets, or a net purchase price of $12.0 billion, subject to customary adjustments (the “Issuer Solutions Acquisition”) and (ii) sell its remaining equity interest in Worldpay to Global Payments for a pre-tax value of $6.6 billion net of transaction fees and other costs (the “Worldpay Minority Interest Sale”).

FIS expects to fund the Issuer Solutions Acquisition through a combination of approximately $8 billion of new debt and the after-tax proceeds from the Worldpay Minority Interest Sale. Following the closing of the transactions, the Company expects pro forma gross leverage to be approximately 3.4x, deleveraging to its target gross leverage of 2.8x within 18 months.

The transactions are expected to close simultaneously in the first half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

Financial Reporting Considerations for Completed 2024 Worldpay Sale

On January 31, 2024, FIS sold a 55% stake in its Worldpay Merchant Solutions business to private equity funds managed by GTCR (the "2024 Worldpay Sale").

Unless otherwise noted, all results are presented on a continuing operations basis and exclude the results of the Worldpay Merchant Solutions business that was classified as discontinued operations as of the third quarter of 2023.

Following the close of the 2024 Worldpay Sale, FIS retained a non-controlling 45% equity interest in a new standalone joint venture, Worldpay Holdco, LLC ("Worldpay"), and records its proportionate share of Worldpay's earnings (loss) in the "Equity method investment earnings (loss), net of tax" ("EMI") line of the income statement.

Webcast

FIS will host a live webcast of its earnings conference call with the investment community beginning at 8:30 a.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. To access the webcast, go to the Investor Relations section of FIS’ homepage, www.fisglobal.com. A replay will be available after the conclusion of the live webcast.

About FIS

FIS is a financial technology company providing solutions to financial institutions, businesses and developers. We unlock financial technology to the world across the money lifecycle underpinning the world's financial system. Our people are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests, by helping our clients to confidently run, grow and protect their businesses. Our expertise comes from decades of experience helping financial institutions and businesses of all sizes adapt to meet the needs of their customers by harnessing where reliability meets innovation in financial technology. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. To learn more, visit FISglobal.com. Follow FIS on LinkedIn, Facebook and X.

FIS Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is the term used to refer to the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting in the United States. GAAP includes the standards, conventions, and rules accountants follow in recording and summarizing transactions and in the preparation of financial statements. In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with GAAP, we have provided certain non-GAAP financial measures.

These non-GAAP measures include constant currency revenue, Adjusted revenue growth, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin, Adjusted net earnings, Adjusted EPS, and Adjusted free cash flow. These non-GAAP measures may be used in this release and/or in the attached supplemental financial information.

We believe these non-GAAP measures help investors better understand the underlying fundamentals of our business. As further described below, the non-GAAP revenue and earnings measures presented eliminate items management believes are not indicative of FIS’ operating performance. The constant currency revenue and Adjusted revenue growth measures adjust for the effects of exchange rate fluctuations and exclude discontinued operations, while Adjusted revenue growth also excludes revenue from Corporate and Other, giving investors further insight into our performance. Finally, Adjusted free cash flow provides further information about the ability of our business to generate cash. For these reasons, management also uses these non-GAAP measures in its assessment and management of FIS’ performance.

Constant currency revenue represents reported segment revenue excluding the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates in the current period.

Adjusted revenue growth reflects the percentage change in constant currency revenue for the current period as compared to the prior period. Constant currency revenue is calculated by applying prior-year period foreign currency exchange rates to current-period revenue. When referring to Adjusted revenue growth, revenue from our Corporate and Other segment is excluded.

Adjusted EBITDA reflects net earnings (loss) before interest, other income (expense), taxes, equity method investment earnings (loss), and depreciation and amortization, and excludes certain costs that do not constitute normal, recurring, cash operating expenses necessary to operate our business. These excluded costs generally include purchase price amortization of acquired intangible assets, as well as acquisition, integration and certain other costs and asset impairments. These excluded costs are recorded in the Corporate and Other segment. Adjusted EBITDA for the respective segments excludes the foregoing items. This measure is reported to the chief operating decision maker, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and President, who utilizes the measure for purposes of making decisions about allocating resources to the segments and assessing their performance. For this reason, Adjusted EBITDA, as it relates to our segments, is presented in conformity with FASB ASC Topic 280, Segment Reporting.

Adjusted EBITDA margin reflects Adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, divided by revenue.

Adjusted net earnings excludes the effect of purchase price amortization, as well as certain costs that do not constitute normal, recurring, cash operating expenses necessary to operate our business. For purposes of calculating Adjusted net earnings, our equity method investment earnings (loss) ("EMI") from Worldpay is also adjusted to exclude certain costs and other transactions in a similar manner.

Adjusted EPS reflects Adjusted net earnings, as defined above, divided by weighted average diluted shares outstanding.

Adjusted free cash flow reflects net cash provided by operating activities, adjusted for the net change in settlement assets and obligations and excluding certain transactions that are closely associated with non-operating activities or are otherwise non-operational in nature and not indicative of future operating cash flows, less capital expenditures. Adjusted free cash flow does not represent our residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures since we have mandatory debt service requirements and other non-discretionary expenditures that are not deducted from the measure. Adjusted free cash flow as presented in this earnings release excludes cash flow from discontinued operations, which our management cannot freely access following the Worldpay separation.

Any non-GAAP measures should be considered in context with the GAAP financial presentation and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP measures. Further, FIS’ non-GAAP measures may be calculated differently from similarly titled measures of other companies. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to related GAAP measures, including footnotes describing the adjustments, are provided in the attached schedules and in the Investor Relations section of the FIS website, www.fisglobal.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This earnings release and today’s webcast contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. Statements that are not historical facts, as well as other statements about our expectations, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements about anticipated financial outcomes, including any earnings outlook or projections, projected revenue or expense synergies or dis-synergies, business and market conditions, outlook, foreign currency exchange rates, deleveraging plans, expected dividends and share repurchases of the Company, the Company’s sales pipeline and anticipated profitability and growth, plans, strategies and objectives for future operations, strategic value creation, risk profile and investment strategies, any statements regarding future economic conditions or performance and any statements with respect to the future impacts of the pending acquisition of Global Payments' Issuer Solutions business ("Issuer Solutions") and the pending sale of our remaining equity interest in Worldpay. These statements may be identified by words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “continue,” “likely,” and similar expressions, and include statements reflecting future results or outlook, statements of outlook and various accruals and estimates. These statements relate to future events and our future results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management.

Actual results, performance or achievement could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties to which forward-looking statements are subject include the following, without limitation:

• changes in general economic, business and political conditions, a recession, intensified or expanded international hostilities, acts of terrorism, increased rates of inflation or interest, effects of announced or future tariff increases and any resulting regulatory changes in global trade relations, changes in consumer or business confidence; changes in either or both the United States and international lending, capital and financial markets or currency fluctuations;
• the risk that acquired businesses will not be integrated successfully or that the integration will be more costly or more time-consuming and complex than anticipated;
• the risk that cost savings and synergies anticipated to be realized from acquisitions may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected or that costs may be greater than anticipated;
• the risks of doing business internationally;
• the effect of legislative initiatives or proposals, statutory changes, governmental or applicable regulations and/or changes in industry requirements, including privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, cyber resilience and AI laws and regulations;
• our ability to comply with climate change legal and regulatory requirements and to maintain practices that meet our stakeholders' evolving expectations;
• the risks of reduction in revenue from the elimination of existing and potential customers due to consolidation in, or new laws or regulations affecting, the banking, retail and financial services industries or due to financial failures or other setbacks suffered by firms in those industries;
• changes in the growth rates of the markets for our solutions;
• the amount, declaration and payment of future dividends is at the discretion of our Board of Directors and depends on, among other things, our investment opportunities, results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, future prospects, and other factors that may be considered relevant by our Board of Directors, including legal and contractual restrictions;
• the amount and timing of any future share repurchases is subject to, among other things, our share price, our other investment opportunities and cash requirements, our results of operations and financial condition, our future prospects and other factors that may be considered relevant by our Board of Directors and management;
• failures to adapt our solutions to changes in technology or in the marketplace;
• internal or external security or privacy breaches of our systems, including those relating to unauthorized access, theft, corruption or loss of personal information and computer viruses and other malware affecting our software or platforms, and the reactions of customers, card associations, government regulators and others to any such events;
• the risk that implementation of software, including software updates, for customers or at customer locations or employee error in monitoring our software and platforms may result in the corruption or loss of data or customer information, interruption of business operations, outages, exposure to liability claims or loss of customers;
• the risk that partners and third parties may fail to satisfy their legal obligations to us;
• risks associated with managing pension cost, cybersecurity issues, IT outages and data privacy;
• our ability to navigate the opportunities and risks associated with using and/or incorporating AI technologies into our business;
• the reaction of current and potential customers to communications from us or regulators regarding information security, risk management, internal audit or other matters;
• the risk that the pending acquisition of Issuer Solutions will not be completed or will not provide the expected benefits, including the anticipated cost or revenue synergies, within the expected timeframe, in full or at all;
• the risk that the integration of Issuer Solutions will be more difficult, time-consuming or expensive than anticipated;
• competitive pressures on pricing related to the decreasing number of community banks in the U.S., the development of new disruptive technologies competing with one or more of our solutions, increasing presence of international competitors in the U.S. market and the entry into the market by global banks and global companies with respect to certain competitive solutions, each of which may have the impact of unbundling individual solutions from a comprehensive suite of solutions we provide to many of our customers;
• the failure to innovate in order to keep up with new emerging technologies, which could impact our solutions and our ability to attract new, or retain existing, customers;
• an operational or natural disaster at one of our major operations centers;
• failure to comply with applicable requirements of payment networks or changes in those requirements;
• fraud by bad actors; and
• other risks detailed elsewhere in the “Risk Factors” section and other sections of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Except as required by applicable law or regulation, we do not undertake (and expressly disclaim) any obligation and do not intend to publicly update or review any of these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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