Intercede Regulatory News (IGP)

8 April 2025

INTERCEDE GROUP plc

('Intercede', the 'Company' or the 'Group')

Trading Update

Intercede, the leading cybersecurity software company specialising in digital identities, today announces the following trading update for the financial year ending 31 March 2025 (FY25).

As highlighted in the announcements dated 8 January 2025, 12 March 2025 and 2 April 2025, Intercede's underlying trading performance has continued to show strong momentum for the year, compared to market forecasts. The Group is pleased to announce that, subject to the completion of the year end audit, revenues for FY25 are expected to be approximately £17.7m (2024: £20m), 11.4% lower than FY24, with the previous year benefiting from an exceptional perpetual licence and associated support and maintenance order of c£6.3m. The Group's revenues are 9.6% lower on a constant currency basis. Recurring support & maintenance and subscription revenues of c£10.2m represented c58% of total revenues, reflecting the continued progress in licence wins and low churn rates.

The combination of strong revenues and high operational gearing is expected to result in improved forecasted profitability, subject to completion of the year end audit.

As at 31 March 2025, gross cash balances totalled £18.7m (2024: £17.2m), even after the Group had exceptional cash outflows of c£0.9m, relating to Share Buy Backs (£0.42m) and change in R&D tax election resulting in a repayment of £0.44m from the FY23 R&D cash claim and foregoing a FY24 forecasted R&D cash claim of c£0.5m-£0.6m. The key purpose for the R&D tax election change is to ulitise R&D expense deductions against the Group's future taxable profits. The Group has no debt.

Further details will be provided within Intercede's final preliminary results which are expected to be published in June 2025.

ENQUIRIES

The information contained within this announcement is deemed to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU No. 596/2014) which is part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon the publication of this announcement, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

About Intercede

Intercede is a cybersecurity software company specialising in digital identities, and its innovative solutions enable organisations to protect themselves against the number one cause of data breach: compromised user credentials.

The Intercede suite of products allows customers to choose the level of security that best fits their needs, from Secure Registration and ID Verification to Password Security Management, One-Time Passwords, FIDO and PKI. Uniquely, Intercede provides the entire set of authentication options from Passwords to PKI, supporting customers on their journey to passwordless and stronger authentication environments. In addition to developing and supporting Intercede software, the Group offers professional services and custom development capabilities as well as managing the world's largest password breach database.

For over 20 years, global customers in government, aerospace and defence, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, cloud services and information technology have trusted Intercede solutions and expertise in protecting their mission critical data and systems at the highest level of assurance.

For more information visit: www.intercede.com