The Sage Group plc (SGPYY) Q1 2026 Sales/Trading Call Transcript

Operator

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Q1 Trading Update Call for The Sage Group. Your speakers today will be Steve Hare, Chief Executive Officer; and Jacqui Cartin, Chief Financial Officer. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Hare. Please go ahead.

Stephen Hare
CEO & Executive Director

Thank you very much, and good morning to everyone. And as always, thank you for joining us. I’m really pleased to be joined this morning by Jacqui Cartin, who is our new CFO, as you know, started on the 1st of January and without further ado, I’m going to hand over to Jacqui, who’s going to talk us through the Q1 performance, and then we’ll open up for some questions. So over to you, Jacqui.

Jacqui Cartin
Executive VP, CFO & Group Financial Controller and Director

Thanks, Steve. Good morning, everyone. So I’m pleased to say that Sage has made a strong start to the year, with growth strengthening across our key regions. As a result, total revenue for the group increased by 10% and to GBP 674 million. In North America, revenue grew by 13% to GBP 304 million. That was driven by a strong performance from Sage Intacct and was supported by continued growth in Sage 200 and Sage 50.

In the UKIA region, revenue increased by 10% to