Worldline - 2019 Universal Registration Document

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APPENDIX Definitions

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Pipeline: The value of revenues that may be earned from outstanding commercial proposals issued to clients. Qualified pipeline applies an estimated percentage likelihood of proposal success. Human Resources Staff: The total number of employees under Worldline employment contracts at the end of the period. Staff includes those on long sickness or long absence, apprentices, trainees, and employees on maternity leave, but excludes subcontractors and interims. FTE (Full-time equivalent staff): The total number of staff calculated using information from time sheets on the basis of working time divided by standard contractual workable time per employee. In general, a person working on a full time contract is considered as one FTE, whereas a person working on a part time contract would be less considered than one FTE. Calculations are based on contractual working time (excluding overtime and unpaid holidays) with potential workable time (in hours or days) = nominal time + overtime balance – unpaid vacation. For subcontractors and interim staff, potential workable hours are based on the number of hours billed by the supplier to Atos. Subcontractors: External subcontractors are third-party suppliers. Outsourced activities (e.g. printing or call center activities) and fixed price subcontracting are excluded from the recorded number of subcontractors or interims. Interims: Staff from an agency for temporary personnel. Interims are usually used to cover seasonal peaks or for situations requiring staff for a short period of time. Direct Staff: Direct staff includes permanent staff and subcontractors, whose work is billable to a third party. Indirect staff: Indirect staff includes permanent staff or subcontractors, who are not billable to clients. Indirect staff is not directly involved in the generation of products and/or services delivered to clients. Permanent staff: Permanent staff members have a contract for an unspecified period of time. Temporary staff: Temporary staff has a contract for a fixed or limited period of time. Staff turnover and attrition rate (for legal staff): Turnover and attrition rates indicate the proportion of legal staff that has left the Group (voluntary and/or involuntary) in a defined period: Turnover measures the percentage of legal staff that has ● left the business in a defined period; Attrition measures the percentage of legal permanent staff ● that has voluntarily left the business in a defined period. Attrition rate is a ratio based on total voluntary leavers in the period on an annual basis divided by the average number of permanent staff in the period.

Dilutive instruments: Financial instruments such as bonds, warrants, stock subscription options, free shares, which could be converted into shares and have therefore a potential dilutive impact on common stock. Dividends: Cash or stock payments from a company’s profits that are distributed to stockholders. Enterprise Value (EV): Market capitalization + debt. Free float: Free float is the proportion of a company’s share capital that is regularly traded on the stock exchange. It excludes shares in the six categories listed below (source Euronext): Shares held by Group companies: Shares of the listed ● company held by companies that it controls within the meaning of article 233/3 of the French Commercial Code; Shares held by founders: shares held directly or indirectly ● by the founders (individuals or family group) when these founders have managerial or supervisory influence (management positions, control by voting rights, influence that is a matter of public knowledge, etc.); Shares held by the State: Interests held directly by the ● State, or by public sector or other companies which are themselves controlled by the State; Shares within the scope of a shareholders’ agreement: ● Shares subject to a shareholders’ agreement within the meaning of article 233/10 and 11 of the French Commercial Code, and other than those held by founders or the State; Controlling interest: Shares held by juridical persons (other ● than founders or the State) exercising control within the meaning of article 233/3 of the French Commercial Code; Interests considered stable: Interests exceeding 5%, which ● have not declined by one percentage point or more, excluding the impact of dilution, in the three preceding years. This category also includes shareholders that, in addition to or in association with the link represented by share ownership, have recently entered into significant industrial or strategic agreements with the Group. Dilutive instruments: dilutive instruments are financial instruments (bonds, share subscription warrant, share subscription options, free shares) that can be converted in shares and that have therefore a dilutive impact on the share capital. PER (Price Earnings Ratio): Market capitalization divided by net income for a trailing (or forward) 12-month period. Market capitalization: The share price of a company multiplied by the number of its shares in issue.

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