WSP Global (WSP) Investor Day 2025 summary

Strategic vision and brand evolution

• Unveiled a three-year Strategic Action Plan (2025-2027) with a refreshed, bolder brand identity focused on uniting 73,000 employees and positioning the firm as a leading brand in professional services, not just engineering.

• Aims to become a leading brand in the professional services universe, expanding beyond engineering to advisory and science-based solutions.

• Focuses on pioneering change, innovation, digital transformation, and sustainability, with a Future Ready® mindset to address global megatrends.

• The new brand aims to attract top talent, foster a visionary, impact-driven culture, and create value for shareholders through disciplined organic and acquisition-driven growth.

• Celebrations for the brand launch spanned globally, reinforcing unity and the ambition to be recognized as the preferred home for engineers, scientists, and advisors.

Financial performance and growth targets (2025–2027)

• Targets over $17B in net revenues (CAD) by 2027, representing a 40% increase versus 2024.

• Achieved over 30% net revenue growth, 40% EBITDA growth, and 50% EPS growth in the last three years, exceeding prior targets.

• Aims for a 50% increase in adjusted EBITDA and a 60% rise in adjusted net earnings per share compared to 2024.

• Seeks over 10% annual net revenue growth, with 5-8% organic growth, and a 19–20% adjusted EBITDA margin.

• Introduced a new goal to grow free cash flow by 70% and align leadership compensation with cash flow metrics.

Strategic priorities and operational transformation

• Focused on digital transformation, including a pioneering partnership with Microsoft to co-develop AI and digital solutions, aiming to double digital services growth in five years.

• Systematically integrates digital solutions into all projects, targeting digital net revenue growth at over 2x the overall organic growth rate and establishing digital leadership.

• Emphasizes expansion in high-growth sectors (energy, water, data centers, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, mining & metals) and geographies (North America, continental Europe, ANZ, Latin America).

• Operational excellence initiatives include simplification, productivity gains, ERP rollout, and leveraging global capability centers to boost efficiency and margin.

• Targeting to have over 30,000 employees as shareholders and 75% of executive roles filled internally, fostering alignment and ownership.