Assystem S.A. provided update on earnings guidance for the full year 2018. When it released its annual results for 2017, the company announced the following financial targets for 2018: at least 10% year-on-year growth in consolidated revenue and EBITA; free cash flow representing over 5% of revenue. Based on year-to-date actual results for 2018 and available full-year forecasts, the company is standing by its free cash flow and revenue growth targets, especially given that, as previously announced, revenue growth is expected to be much stronger in the second half of the year than in the first. On the other hand, as the situation currently stands, the target of at least 10% EBITA growth no longer seems attainable. Based on the information currently available, the company is revising this target downwards to year-on-year stability in absolute value terms. In the same way as for revenue, the company expects to see a significantly different picture between the first and second halves of 2018, with EBITA decreasing year on year in the first half, then swinging back up in the second. The three main underlying reasons for this revision of Assystem's consolidated EBITA target for 2018 are as follows: The fact that actual cost dis-synergies arising as a result of recent changes in the Group's scope of consolidation have exceeded its original estimates, particularly for recurring operating costs related to information systems. Significant one-off costs that it has incurred for client communications and recruitment campaigns, again due to the changes in the scope of consolidation. The legal restructurings and corresponding mergers of operating entities in France, Belgium and Switzerland carried out for the purpose of setting up Assystem Care, the entity that brings together, in those three countries, the Group's Life Sciences activities that existed prior to its acquisition of BQG in late 2017 and the activities of BQG. These restructurings and mergers are having a temporary disruptive effect on Assystem Care's operations and are therefore weighing on its profitability for 2018.