LG CNS said on Wednesday it posted first-quarter 2026 revenue of 1.315 trillion won and operating profit of 94.2 billion won.

Revenue rose 8.6 percent and operating profit increased 19.4 percent from a year earlier. The company said revenue from AI and cloud businesses grew 6.7 percent to 765.4 billion won, accounting for about 58 percent of total revenue.

In AI, LG CNS expanded its portfolio across industries including the public and defence sectors, finance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and biotech, shipbuilding and defence. It said it is strengthening competitiveness in its AX business by providing services in which agentic AI-based multi-agents collaborate autonomously.

In cloud, it is accelerating the expansion of its data centre DBO (Design, Build, Operation) business. LG CNS recently said it won orders worth more than about 1 trillion won from the Samsong data centre alone, strengthening its position in the DBO market.

It also moved to diversify DBO profit models through new businesses. LG CNS introduced a modular AI data centre that can be built within 6 months in response to the spread of AI and cloud.

First-quarter revenue from the smart engineering business rose 10.4 percent from a year earlier to 227.8 billion won. The company said revenue in the smart logistics business increased as logistics automation centre construction projects for customers in beauty, food, fashion and defence progressed smoothly.

First-quarter revenue from the digital business services business rose 11.9 percent from a year earlier to 321.9 billion won. It was helped by work on next-generation IT system construction and integration projects for major financial clients such as NH NongHyup Bank, Mirae Asset Life Insurance, Shinhan Investment Corp, Korea Securities Depository and Hanwha General Insurance.

LG CNS said it is speeding up robot commercialisation by pushing a "full-stack RX (Robot Transformation) service" that combines an industry-specialised RFM (robot foundation model), hardware and a platform in physical AI, a field aimed at securing future growth engines. For the industry-specialised RFM, it will work with Config following Skilled AI to strengthen capabilities for on-site tasks such as precise two-arm operations. In hardware, it made a strategic investment in U.S. robotics company Dexmate to build a lineup that includes bipedal humanoids, quadruped robots and wheel-type humanoids. LG CNS plans to publicly unveil next month a robot training and operations platform it developed in-house and move to expand its business.

It is also continuing to expand its global business. An overseas (Indonesia) AI data centre won by LG CNS is scheduled for completion at the end of this year. The company said its enterprise solutions business is stepping up market efforts in Japan and the United States centred on two "Perfectwin" solutions, while its finance DX business is targeting the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) market.