Computacenter is “well placed” for 2026, its CEO said after an “outstanding” contribution from North America fuelled a 32% annual top-line jump.
The LSE-listed VAR and services giant struck a bullish tone in its full-year results statement, which confirmed a full-year gross invoiced income (GII) of £12.99bn (just shy of our previous £13.05bn back-of-fag-packet calculation).
That helped fuel an 11.3% rise in adjusted operating profits to £274.7m.
Computacenter also exited the year with a product order backlog treble that of 12 months previously, at £7.1bn.
In his results commentary, CEO Mike Norris said Computacenter’s North American business enjoyed an “outstanding year with both enterprise and hyperscale customers”.
“We are well-placed for further strategic and financial progress in 2026, entering the year with a record number of major customers, a strong product order backlog, which has increased across all our geographies, and a clear focus on helping our customers realise the transformative benefits of IT,” Norris said.
Computacenter saw some customers move part of their workloads back from the public cloud to on-premises environments during the period, Norris said.
He chalked this up to their desire to “secure predictability of supply, manage costs, and address increasing demand for data sovereignty, control, and compliance”.
“We are extremely well-suited to help them design, deploy and integrate their evolving IT estates,” Norris said.
The Hatfield-based goliath’s number of “major” customers – namely those generating over £1m of gross profit annually – rose from 188 to 215.
North American GII leapt 54.3% to £5.88bn, with the region generating 39% of group profits (up from 24% a year previously).
But the UK also returned to rude growth following a “more challenging period”.
Computacenter said its UK arm delivered “improved results in a market that remains relatively subdued”, as total GII and adjusted operating profit here rose by 27.1% to £2.81bn and by 3.9% to £42.3m, respectively.
UK technology sourcing GII vaulted 32.7% to £2.33bn thanks to its success in delivering more high-performance AI-related infrastructure projects (including two large datacentre projects in Norway and Sweden).
UK services revenues advanced 5.6% to £478.3m, with professional services up 27.6% to £201.9m and managed services down 6.2% to £276.4m, meanwhile.
Its number of “major customers” here rose from 54 to 63.
