GDS Holdings Limited Q3 FY2022 Earnings Call

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Business Performance Overview

  • Revenue grew 15% year-over-year, demonstrating resilience despite a slower demand environment in China.
  • Adjusted EBITDA increased 11% year-over-year.
  • Management emphasized conservative CapEx spending in China and selective new business pursuit, while accelerating international expansion.
  • International business development, particularly in Southeast Asia, is emerging as a major second growth engine for the company.

Operational Highlights

  • New bookings reached 61,000 sqm for the first nine months of 2022, including 28,000 sqm from international operations. Management expects to exceed the revised 70,000 sqm full-year target.
  • Customer mix: approximately 60% large internet companies, 20% financial institutions, 20% cloud customers.
  • Backlog totals 258,000 sqm, with 122,000 sqm tied to data centers already in service.
  • Utilization exceeded 70% following better capacity management and move-ins.
  • One anticipated churn event of 3,000 sqm (1.2% of backlog), with substantial termination fee to be collected. A larger churn of 17,000 sqm will occur across Q4 2022–Q2 2023, offset by customer redeployment to other GDS sites.

International Expansion

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Operator: Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by for GDS Holdings Limited Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After management's prepared remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Today's conference call [technical difficulty]. I will now turn the call over to your host, Ms. Laura Chen, Head of Investor Relations for the company. Please go ahead, Laura. Laura Chen: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the third quarter 2022 earnings conference call of GDS Holdings Limited. The company's results were issued via Newswire Services earlier today and are posted online. A summary presentation, which we will refer to during this conference call can be viewed and downloaded from our IR Web site at investorsgdsservices.com. Leading today's call is Mr. William Huang, GDS Founder, Chairman and CEO, who will provide an overview of our business strategy and performance; Mr. Dan Newman, GDS CFO, will then review the financial and operating results; Ms. Jamie Khoo, our COO, is also available to answer questions. Before we continue, please note that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. As such, the company's results may be materially different from the views expressed today. Further information regarding these and other r

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