ACI Worldwide, Inc. Reports Financial Results for the Quarter Ended June 30, 2025

HIGHLIGHTS

• Q2 revenue up 7% versus prior year, with recurring revenue up 13%
• YTD revenue up 15% versus prior year, with contribution from both Payment Software segment up 18% and Biller segment up 13%
• YTD net income up 207% versus prior year, and adjusted EBITDA up 24%
• In Q2, repurchased 2.4 million shares, representing 2.4% of outstanding shares
• Raising full-year 2025 guidance range for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, announced financial results today for the quarter ended June 30, 2025. ACI also increased its 2025 financial guidance.

"We delivered solid second quarter and first half results, reflecting the organizational improvements we have invested in and the momentum we generated by signing renewals and new business early in the year,” said Thomas Warsop, president and CEO of ACI. “These structural shifts have enabled us to pursue more strategic opportunities and move towards a more scalable and less seasonally weighted financial model. Looking ahead, we remain focused on increasing shareholder value through sales execution, enhancing the growth orientation across ACI, and the continued development and rollout of Connetic, our next generation payments hub platform.”

“Our momentum from last quarter continued to build in Q2, with revenue from Payment Software segment growing 18% and Biller segment growing 13% over the first half of 2024,” said Robert Leibrock, Chief Financial Officer of ACI. “While Q2 adjusted EBITDA reflected the timing of higher-margin license contracts and renewals, our adjusted EBITDA for the first half of 2025 increased by 24% compared to the same period last year. In line with our commitment to balanced capital allocation and continued shareholder returns, we repurchased 2.4 million shares in Q2, representing 2.4% of shares outstanding. Given the robust performance across the business, we are raising our full-year outlook for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA for 2025.”

Q2 AND 1H 2025 FINANCIAL SUMMARY

In Q2 2025, revenue was $401 million, up 7% from Q2 2024. Recurring revenue in Q2 2025 of $322 million was up 13% from Q2 2024 and represented 80% of total revenue. Q2 2025 net income of $12 million compares to a net income of $31 million in Q2 2024. Q2 2025 adjusted EBITDA was $81 million, down 13% from Q2 2024, reflecting the timing of higher-margin license contracts this year. Q2 cash flow from operating activities was $50 million, versus $55 million in Q2 2024.

• In Q2 2025, Payment Software segment revenue declined 1% and segment adjusted EBITDA decreased 12%, versus Q2 2024.
• In Q2 2025, Biller segment revenue grew 16% and segment adjusted EBITDA grew 6%, versus Q2 2024.

First half 2025 revenue was $796 million, up 15% from first half 2024. Recurring revenue in first half 2025 of $607 million was up 11% from first half 2024 and represented 76% of total revenue. First half 2025 net income of $71 million, which includes a $22 million after-tax gain on the sale of ACI’s minority interest in India-based Mindgate, compares to net income of $23 million in first half 2024. Adjusted EBITDA in first half 2025 was $175 million, up 24% from first half 2024. Cash flow from operating activities in first half 2025 was $128 million, versus $178 million in first half 2024, largely due to the timing of receivables.

• In first half 2025, Payment Software segment revenue grew 18% and adjusted EBITDA grew 29%, versus the first half 2024.
• In first half 2025, Biller segment revenue grew 13% and adjusted EBITDA grew 4%, versus the first half 2024.

ACI ended Q2 2025 with $190 million in cash on hand and a debt balance of $904 million, representing a net debt leverage ratio of 1.4x adjusted EBITDA. In the quarter, the Company also retired its $400 million senior unsecured notes maturing in August 2026 with an incremental term loan under the credit facility that matures in February 2029.

During Q2 2025, the Company repurchased approximately 2.4 million shares for $119 million in capital, representing 2.4% of outstanding shares. First half 2025 repurchases totaled approximately 2.7 million shares for $134 million in capital. At the end of Q2 2025, the Company had approximately $223 million remaining on the share repurchase authorization.

RAISING FULL YEAR 2025 OUTLOOK AND NEW THIRD QUARTER OUTLOOK

ACI is raising guidance for the full year 2025. ACI now expects that total revenue for the full year of 2025 will be in the range of $1.710 billion to $1.740 billion, ahead of the previously issued guidance of $1.690 billion to $1.720 billion, and ahead of the guidance issued in February 2025 of $1.685 billion to $1.715 billion. ACI currently expects adjusted EBITDA for the full year 2025 will be in the range of $490 million to $505 million, ahead of the previously issued guidance of $480 million to $495 million.

The company expects that total revenue for Q3 2025 will be in the range of $460 million to $470 million, and adjusted EBITDA for Q3 2025 will be in the range of $155 million to $165 million.

CONFERENCE CALL TO DISCUSS FINANCIAL RESULTS

Today, management will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss these results. Interested persons may access a real-time teleconference webcast at http://investor.aciworldwide.com/. To join the live audio call, please dial +1 (800) 715-9871, provide your name, the conference name of ACI Worldwide, Inc. and conference ID 88945; alternatively, to reduce operator assisted delays joining the call, we invite you to register in advance by visiting https://registrations.events/direct/Q4I889453. This process will provide you with a unique passcode allowing you to join the call without operator assistance.

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide, an original innovator in global payments technology, delivers transformative software solutions that power intelligent payments orchestration in real time so banks, billers, and merchants can drive growth, while continuously modernizing their payment infrastructures, simply and securely. With nearly 50 years of trusted payments expertise, we combine our global footprint with a local presence to offer enhanced payment experiences to stay ahead of constantly changing payment challenges and opportunities.

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To supplement our financial results presented on a GAAP basis, we use the non-GAAP measures indicated in the tables, which exclude significant transaction-related expenses, as well as other significant non-cash expenses such as depreciation, amortization, and stock-based compensation, that we believe are helpful in understanding our past financial performance and our future results. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to our GAAP results and are not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. Management generally compensates for limitations in the use of non-GAAP financial measures by relying on comparable GAAP financial measures and providing investors with a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures only in addition to and in conjunction with results presented in accordance with GAAP.

We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures reflect an additional way to view aspects of our operations that, when viewed with our GAAP results, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting our business. Certain non-GAAP measures include:

• Adjusted EBITDA: net income (loss) plus income tax expense (benefit), net interest income (expense), net other income (expense), depreciation, amortization and stock-based compensation, as well as significant transaction-related expenses. Adjusted EBITDA should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, net income (loss).
• Net adjusted EBITDA margin: Adjusted EBITDA divided by revenue net of pass-through interchange revenue. Net adjusted EBITDA margin should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, net income (loss).
• Diluted EPS adjusted for non-cash and significant transaction related items: diluted EPS plus tax effected significant transaction related items, amortization of acquired intangibles and software, and non-cash stock-based compensation. Diluted EPS adjusted for non-cash and significant transaction related items should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, diluted EPS.
• Recurring revenue: revenue from software as a service and platform as a service fees and maintenance fees. Recurring revenue should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, total revenue.
• ARR: New annual recurring revenue expected to be generated from new accounts, new applications, and add-on sales bookings contracts signed in the period.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Generally, forward-looking statements do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and may include words or phrases such as “believes,” “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” and words and phrases of similar impact. The forward-looking statements are made pursuant to safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Forward-looking statements in this press release include but are not limited to: (i) our move towards a more scalable and less seasonally-weighted financial model, (ii) looking ahead, we remain focused on increasing shareholder value through sales execution, enhancing the growth orientation across ACI, and the continued development and rollout of Connetic, our next generation payments hub platform, (iii) given the robust performance across the business, we are raising our full-year outlook for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA for 2025, and (iv) Q3 2025 and full-year 2025 revenue and adjusted EBITDA financial guidance.

All of the foregoing forward-looking statements are expressly qualified by the risk factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such factors include, but are not limited to, increased competition, business interruptions, cybersecurity incidents or failure of our information technology and communication systems, security breaches, our ability to attract and retain senior management personnel and skilled technical employees, future acquisitions, strategic partnerships and investments, divestitures and other restructuring activities, implementation and success of our strategy, impact if we convert some or all on-premise licenses from fixed-term to subscription model, anti-takeover provisions, exposure to credit or operating risks arising from certain payment funding methods, loss caused by theft or fraud, customer reluctance to switch to a new vendor, our ability to adequately defend our intellectual property, litigation, consent orders and other compliance agreements, our offshore software development activities, risks from operating internationally, including fluctuations in currency exchange rates, events in eastern Europe and the Middle East, adverse changes in the global economy, compliance of our products with applicable legislation, governmental regulations and industry standards, the complexity of our products and services and the risk that they may contain hidden defects, legal and business risks from artificial intelligence technology incorporated into our products, risks to our business from the use of artificial intelligence by our workforce, complex regulations applicable to our payments business, our compliance with privacy and cybersecurity regulations, compliance with requirements of the payment card networks and Nacha, exposure to unknown tax liabilities, changes in tax laws and regulations, consolidations and failures in the financial services industry, volatility in our stock price, demand for our products, failure to obtain renewals of customer contracts or to obtain such renewals on favorable terms, delay or cancellation of customer projects or inaccurate project completion estimates, changes in card association and debit network fees or products, impairment of our goodwill or intangible assets, the accuracy of management’s backlog estimates, the cyclical nature of our revenue and earnings and the accuracy of forecasts due to the concentration of revenue-generating activity during the final weeks of each quarter, restrictions and other financial covenants in our debt agreements, our existing levels of debt, incurring additional debt, events outside of our control including natural disasters, wars, and outbreaks of disease, and revenues or revenue mix below expectations. For a detailed discussion of these risk factors, parties that are relying on the forward-looking statements should review our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

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