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Nuance Communications, Inc.

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No Longer Reporting

The company has not filed an annual or quarterly report since its Q1 FY2022 10-Q, filed Feb 7, 2022. Its latest SEC filing is a SC 13G/A from Feb 13, 2023.

The sections below describe the company as of the FY2021 annual report.

What Did They Do?

Provides clinical documentation and imaging software for healthcare organizations, and automated customer-service and sales tools for businesses.

How Did They Make Money?

Customers pay for hosted clinical and customer-service software through usage charges or fixed subscriptions over the service term. They also buy software licenses, support and project services, paid when software is made available, support is provided over the contract, or project work progresses.

FY2021 revenue

Who Were Their Customers?

Healthcare organizations buy clinical documentation and imaging solutions through Nuance’s direct sales force, supplemented by distributors, resellers and healthcare IT partners. Enterprises and contact centers buy automated customer-service tools directly or through reseller partners.

Did Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Not on paper. It lost $26.7M in FY2021, but brought in more cash than it spent: $191.1M of free cash flow.

Operating income, FY2021
6% of revenue
▲ +41% vs FY2020 ($58.7M, 5%)
Net income, FY2021
−2% of revenue
▼ Now a loss vs FY2020 ($21.4M, 2%)
Free cash flow, FY2021
14% of revenue
▼ −1% vs FY2020 ($193.3M, 15%)

How Were They Changing?

Since the FY2021 annual report
Latest quarter: Q1 FY2022, the three months to Dec 31, 2021
Revenue
▼ −7%
vs $345.8M in Q1 FY2021
Net income
▼ Now a loss
vs $14.9M in Q1 FY2021
  • Mar 4, 2022 Nuance completed its merger

Shrank. Revenue fell 21% in 4 years, from $1.7B in FY2017 to $1.4B in FY2021, about 6% a year.

Cloud-based Healthcare offerings The earlier report emphasized growing hosting and transaction-based offerings; the latest report describes a shift of Healthcare solutions toward cloud offerings and a more subscription-based, recurring model.

Portfolio focus The earlier report included Automotive and Imaging as business segments; the latest report lists Healthcare, Enterprise and Other as reportable segments and centers its strategy on Healthcare and Enterprise.

Who Did They Compete With?

Competes with Optum, Amazon, Google, 3M, Phillips, [24]7, Genesys, LivePerson, Salesforce, and Pindrop

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