F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) today announced revenue of $350.2
million for the second quarter of fiscal 2013, down four percent from
$365.5 million in the prior quarter and up three percent from $339.6
million in the second quarter of fiscal 2012.
GAAP net income for the second quarter was $63.4 million ($0.80 per
diluted share) compared to $69.5 million ($0.88 per diluted share) in
the first quarter of 2013 and $68.6 million ($0.86 per diluted share) in
the second quarter a year ago.
Excluding the impact of stock-based compensation and amortization of
purchased intangible assets, non-GAAP net income for the second quarter
was $84.7 million ($1.07 per diluted share), compared to $90.6 million
($1.14 per diluted share) in the prior quarter and $87.1 million ($1.09
per diluted share) in the second quarter of fiscal 2012.
A reconciliation of GAAP net income to non-GAAP net income is included
on the attached Consolidated Statements of Operations.
“As we indicated in our announcement of preliminary results on April 4,
service provider revenues for the second quarter came in significantly
below our expectations,” said John McAdam, F5 president and chief
executive officer. “We believe this was primarily due to project delays,
which caused customers to postpone orders that we had expected to close
during the quarter. The weakness in sales to service providers was
especially pronounced in North America. In addition, sales to the
Federal government were also below our internal forecast as a
consequence of continuing uncertainty over the impact of sequestration
and other efforts to reduce Federal spending.
“Among enterprise customers, business remained relatively strong, fueled
by growing demand for our security offerings, including our new Advanced
Firewall Manager, and our refreshed line of BIG-IP platforms. During the
quarter, sales of BIG-IP 4200v, introduced in October, continued to ramp
in line with our expectations, and BIG-IP 4000 series platforms
accounted for nearly a quarter of the platforms we sold to replace Cisco
ACE products. Sales of BIG-IP 2000, our new entry-level platform
introduced in January, were also in line with our expectations. We
believe this bodes well for the successful launch of additional new
products, including the BIG-IP 5000 and BIG-IP 7000 series, during the
second half of the fiscal year,” McAdam said.
In spite of continuing weakness in the global economy, McAdam said he
believes the growing pipeline for the company’s new products and strong
demand for its security solutions will have a positive impact on product
sales throughout the remainder of fiscal year 2013. For the third
quarter of fiscal 2013, ending June 30, the company has set a revenue
target of $355 million to $365 million and a GAAP earnings target of
$0.80 to $0.83 per diluted share. Excluding stock-based compensation and
amortization of purchased intangible assets, the company's non-GAAP
earnings target is $1.06 to $1.09 per diluted share. A reconciliation of
the company's expected GAAP and non-GAAP earnings is provided in the
following table:
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|
Three months ended
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|
|
June 30, 2013
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|
Reconciliation of Expected Non-GAAP Third Quarter Earnings
|
|
Low
|
|
High
|
|
Net income
|
|
$
|
63.0
|
|
|
$
|
65.4
|
|
Stock-based compensation expense
|
|
$
|
27.5
|
|
|
$
|
27.5
|
|
Amortization of purchased intangible assets
|
|
$
|
1.0
|
|
|
$
|
1.0
|
|
Tax effects related to above items
|
|
($
|
7.7
|
)
|
|
($
|
7.7
|
)
|
Non-GAAP net income excluding stock-based compensation
|
|
|
|
|
expense and amortization of purchased intangible assets
|
|
$
|
83.8
|
|
|
$
|
86.2
|
|
Net income per share - diluted
|
|
$
|
0.80
|
|
|
$
|
0.83
|
|
Non-GAAP net income per share - diluted
|
|
$
|
1.06
|
|
|
$
|
1.09
|
|
Share Repurchase Program
The company also announced today that its board of directors had
authorized an additional $200 million for the company's common stock
share repurchase program. This new authorization is incremental to the
$81.3 million currently in the existing program which was initially
authorized in October 2010.
Acquisitions for the share repurchase program will be made from time to
time in private transactions or open market purchases as permitted by
securities laws and other legal requirements. The program may be
modified or discontinued at any time.
About F5 Networks
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) makes the connected world run better. F5
helps organizations meet the demands and embrace the opportunities that
come with the relentless growth of voice, data, and video traffic,
mobile workers, and applications—in the data center, the network, and
the cloud. The world’s largest businesses, service providers, government
entities, and consumer brands rely on F5’s Intelligent Services Platform
to deliver and protect their applications and services while ensuring
people stay connected. Learn more at www.f5.com.
You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for
more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete
listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.
Forward Looking Statements
Statements in this press release concerning the continuing strength of
F5’s business, sequential growth, the target revenue and earnings range,
share amount and share price assumptions, demand for application
delivery networking and storage virtualization products and other
statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements.
Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well
as assumptions and other factors that, if they do not fully materialize
or prove correct, could cause the actual results, performance or
achievements of the company, or industry results, to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed
or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but
are not limited to: customer acceptance of our new traffic management,
security, application delivery, WAN optimization and storage
virtualization offerings; the timely development, introduction and
acceptance of additional new products and features by F5 or its
competitors; competitive pricing pressures; increased sales discounts;
uncertain global economic conditions which may result in reduced
customer demand for our products and services and changes in customer
payment patterns; F5’s ability to sustain, develop and effectively
utilize distribution relationships; F5’s ability to attract, train and
retain qualified product development, marketing, sales, professional
services and customer support personnel; F5’s ability to expand in
international markets; the unpredictability of F5’s sales cycle; the
share repurchase program; future prices of F5’s common stock; and other
risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with
or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All
forward-looking statements in this press release are based on
information available as of the date hereof and qualified in their
entirety by this cautionary statement. F5 assumes no obligation to
revise or update these forward-looking statements.
GAAP to non-GAAP Reconciliation
F5’s management evaluates and makes operating decisions using various
operating measures. These measures are generally based on the revenues
of its products, services operations and certain costs of those
operations, such as cost of revenues, research and development, sales
and marketing and general and administrative expenses. One such measure
is net income excluding stock-based compensation, amortization of
purchased intangible assets and acquisition-related charges, net of
taxes, which is a non-GAAP financial measure under Section 101 of
Regulation G under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This
measure consists of GAAP net income excluding, as applicable,
stock-based compensation, amortization of purchased intangible assets
and acquisition-related charges. This measure of non-GAAP net income is
adjusted by the amount of additional taxes or tax benefit that the
company would accrue if it used non-GAAP results instead of GAAP results
to calculate the company’s tax liability. Stock-based compensation is a
non-cash expense that F5 has accounted for since July 1, 2005 in
accordance with the fair value recognition provisions of Financial
Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification
(“ASC”) Topic 718 Compensation—Stock Compensation (“FASB ASC Topic
718”). Amortization of intangible assets is a non-cash expense.
Investors should note that the use of intangible assets contribute to
revenues earned during the periods presented and will contribute to
revenues in future periods. Acquisition-related expenses consist of
professional services fees incurred in connection with acquisitions.
Management believes that non-GAAP net income per share provides useful
supplemental information to management and investors regarding the
performance of the company’s core business operations and facilitates
comparisons to the company’s historical operating results. Although F5’s
management finds this non-GAAP measure to be useful in evaluating the
performance of the core business, management’s reliance on this measure
is limited because items excluded from such measures could have a
material effect on F5’s earnings and earnings per share calculated in
accordance with GAAP. Therefore, F5’s management will use its non-GAAP
earnings and earnings per share measures, in conjunction with GAAP
earnings and earnings per share measures, to address these limitations
when evaluating the performance of the company’s core business.
Investors should consider these non-GAAP measures in addition to, and
not as a substitute for, financial performance measures in accordance
with GAAP.
F5 believes that presenting its non-GAAP measure of earnings and
earnings per share provides investors with an additional tool for
evaluating the performance of the company’s core business and which
management uses in its own evaluation of the company’s performance.
Investors are encouraged to look at GAAP results as the best measure of
financial performance. However, while the GAAP results are more
complete, the company provides investors this supplemental measure
since, with reconciliation to GAAP, it may provide additional insight
into the company’s operational performance and financial results.
For reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the most
directly comparable GAAP financial measure, please see the section in
our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations entitled “GAAP to
Non-GAAP Reconciliation.”
|
F5 Networks, Inc.
|
Consolidated Balance Sheets
|
(unaudited, in thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
September 30,
|
|
|
2013
|
|
2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
Assets
|
|
|
|
|
Current assets
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
$
|
229,662
|
|
|
$
|
211,181
|
|
Short-term investments
|
|
|
293,186
|
|
|
|
320,970
|
|
Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $3,113 and $3,254
|
|
|
192,796
|
|
|
|
185,172
|
|
Inventories
|
|
|
17,963
|
|
|
|
17,410
|
|
Deferred tax assets
|
|
|
10,578
|
|
|
|
10,362
|
|
Other current assets
|
|
|
60,239
|
|
|
|
30,986
|
|
Total current assets
|
|
|
804,424
|
|
|
|
776,081
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property and equipment, net
|
|
|
63,182
|
|
|
|
59,604
|
|
Long-term investments
|
|
|
662,822
|
|
|
|
662,803
|
|
Deferred tax assets
|
|
|
31,165
|
|
|
|
35,478
|
|
Goodwill
|
|
|
447,799
|
|
|
|
348,239
|
|
Other assets, net
|
|
|
56,517
|
|
|
|
28,996
|
|
Total assets
|
|
$
|
2,065,909
|
|
|
$
|
1,911,201
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity
|
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
$
|
39,100
|
|
|
$
|
27,026
|
|
Accrued liabilities
|
|
|
84,966
|
|
|
|
86,409
|
|
Deferred revenue
|
|
|
396,678
|
|
|
|
352,594
|
|
Total current liabilities
|
|
|
520,744
|
|
|
|
466,029
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other long-term liabilities
|
|
|
23,006
|
|
|
|
21,078
|
|
Deferred revenue, long-term
|
|
|
93,980
|
|
|
|
94,694
|
|
Total long-term liabilities
|
|
|
116,986
|
|
|
|
115,772
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Commitments and contingencies
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shareholders’ equity
|
|
|
|
|
Preferred stock, no par value; 10,000 shares authorized, no shares
outstanding
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Common stock, no par value; 200,000 shares authorized, 78,380 and
78,715 shares issued and outstanding
|
|
|
294,875
|
|
|
|
326,922
|
|
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
|
|
|
(5,908
|
)
|
|
|
(3,829
|
)
|
Retained earnings
|
|
|
1,139,212
|
|
|
|
1,006,307
|
|
Total shareholders' equity
|
|
|
1,428,179
|
|
|
|
1,329,400
|
|
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity
|
|
$
|
2,065,909
|
|
|
$
|
1,911,201
|
|
|
F5 Networks, Inc.
|
Consolidated Statements of Operations
|
(unaudited, in thousands, except per share amounts)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended
|
|
Six Months Ended
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
2013
|
|
2012
|
|
2013
|
|
2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Products
|
|
$
|
185,107
|
|
|
$
|
205,165
|
|
|
$
|
389,819
|
|
|
$
|
401,719
|
|
Services
|
|
|
165,125
|
|
|
|
134,457
|
|
|
|
325,864
|
|
|
|
260,335
|
|
Total
|
|
|
350,232
|
|
|
|
339,622
|
|
|
|
715,683
|
|
|
|
662,054
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of net revenues (1)(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Products
|
|
|
29,773
|
|
|
|
33,668
|
|
|
|
61,565
|
|
|
|
66,868
|
|
Services
|
|
|
30,529
|
|
|
|
23,926
|
|
|
|
59,622
|
|
|
|
46,332
|
|
Total
|
|
|
60,302
|
|
|
|
57,594
|
|
|
|
121,187
|
|
|
|
113,200
|
|
Gross profit
|
|
|
289,930
|
|
|
|
282,028
|
|
|
|
594,496
|
|
|
|
548,854
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating expenses (1)(2)(3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sales and marketing
|
|
|
119,031
|
|
|
|
110,995
|
|
|
|
241,299
|
|
|
|
217,233
|
|
Research and development
|
|
|
52,534
|
|
|
|
43,568
|
|
|
|
101,075
|
|
|
|
82,690
|
|
General and administrative
|
|
|
25,889
|
|
|
|
22,785
|
|
|
|
50,562
|
|
|
|
44,462
|
|
Total
|
|
|
197,454
|
|
|
|
177,348
|
|
|
|
392,936
|
|
|
|
344,385
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income from operations
|
|
|
92,476
|
|
|
|
104,680
|
|
|
|
201,560
|
|
|
|
204,469
|
|
Other income, net
|
|
|
2,118
|
|
|
|
1,428
|
|
|
|
3,668
|
|
|
|
3,289
|
|
Income before income taxes
|
|
|
94,594
|
|
|
|
106,108
|
|
|
|
205,228
|
|
|
|
207,758
|
|
Provision for income taxes
|
|
|
31,182
|
|
|
|
37,467
|
|
|
|
72,323
|
|
|
|
72,625
|
|
Net income
|
|
$
|
63,412
|
|
|
$
|
68,641
|
|
|
$
|
132,905
|
|
|
$
|
135,133
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income per share - basic
|
|
$
|
0.81
|
|
|
$
|
0.87
|
|
|
$
|
1.69
|
|
|
$
|
1.71
|
|
Weighted average shares - basic
|
|
|
78,601
|
|
|
|
79,156
|
|
|
|
78,696
|
|
|
|
79,214
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income per share - diluted
|
|
$
|
0.80
|
|
|
$
|
0.86
|
|
|
$
|
1.68
|
|
|
$
|
1.69
|
|
Weighted average shares - diluted
|
|
|
79,114
|
|
|
|
79,775
|
|
|
|
79,263
|
|
|
|
79,853
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income as reported
|
|
$
|
63,412
|
|
|
$
|
68,641
|
|
|
$
|
132,905
|
|
|
$
|
135,133
|
|
Stock-based compensation expense (4)
|
|
|
27,610
|
|
|
|
23,345
|
|
|
|
54,320
|
|
|
|
45,468
|
|
Amortization of purchased intangible assets (5)
|
|
|
1,033
|
|
|
|
1,339
|
|
|
|
2,066
|
|
|
|
1,339
|
|
Acquisition-related charges (5)
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
750
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
750
|
|
Tax effects related to above items
|
|
|
(7,313
|
)
|
|
|
(6,964
|
)
|
|
|
(13,926
|
)
|
|
|
(13,339
|
)
|
Net income excluding stock-based compensation expense,
amortization of purchased intangible assets and
acquisition-related charges (non-GAAP) - diluted
|
|
$
|
84,742
|
|
|
$
|
87,111
|
|
|
$
|
175,365
|
|
|
$
|
169,351
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income per share excluding stock-based compensation expense,
amortization of purchased intangible assets and
acquisition-related charges (non-GAAP) - diluted
|
|
$
|
1.07
|
|
|
$
|
1.09
|
|
|
$
|
2.21
|
|
|
$
|
2.12
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted average shares - diluted
|
|
|
79,114
|
|
|
|
79,775
|
|
|
|
79,263
|
|
|
|
79,853
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of net revenues
|
|
$
|
2,927
|
|
|
$
|
2,584
|
|
|
$
|
5,894
|
|
|
$
|
5,122
|
|
Sales and marketing
|
|
|
10,718
|
|
|
|
9,354
|
|
|
|
21,274
|
|
|
|
18,408
|
|
Research and development
|
|
|
8,262
|
|
|
|
6,510
|
|
|
|
16,064
|
|
|
|
12,336
|
|
General and administrative
|
|
|
5,703
|
|
|
|
4,897
|
|
|
|
11,088
|
|
|
|
9,602
|
|
|
|
$
|
27,610
|
|
|
$
|
23,345
|
|
|
$
|
54,320
|
|
|
$
|
45,468
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2) Includes amortization of purchased intangible assets as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of net revenues
|
|
$
|
958
|
|
|
$
|
1,199
|
|
|
$
|
1,916
|
|
|
$
|
1,199
|
|
Sales and marketing
|
|
|
75
|
|
|
|
140
|
|
|
|
150
|
|
|
|
140
|
|
|
|
$
|
1,033
|
|
|
$
|
1,339
|
|
|
$
|
2,066
|
|
|
$
|
1,339
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(3) Includes acquisition-related charges as follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
General and administrative
|
|
$
|
-
|
|
|
$
|
750
|
|
|
$
|
-
|
|
|
$
|
750
|
|
|
|
$
|
-
|
|
|
$
|
750
|
|
|
$
|
-
|
|
|
$
|
750
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(4) Stock-based compensation is accounted for in accordance with the
fair value recognition provisions of Financial Accounting Standards
Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 718,
Compensation – Stock Compensation (“FASB ASC Topic 718”)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(5) Beginning with the second quarter of fiscal 2012, the company
will exclude amortization of purchased intangible assets and
acquisition-related charges in addition to stock-based compensation
expense as a non-GAAP financial measure
|
|
F5 Networks, Inc.
|
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
|
(unaudited, in thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Six Months Ended
|
|
|
March 31,
|
|
|
2013
|
|
2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating activities
|
|
|
|
|
Net income
|
|
$
|
132,905
|
|
|
$
|
135,133
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by
operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
Realized (gain) loss on disposition of assets and investments
|
|
|
(217
|
)
|
|
|
457
|
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
54,320
|
|
|
|
45,468
|
|
Provisions for doubtful accounts and sales returns
|
|
|
578
|
|
|
|
633
|
|
Depreciation and amortization
|
|
|
19,913
|
|
|
|
14,935
|
|
Deferred income taxes
|
|
|
(1,313
|
)
|
|
|
(1,645
|
)
|
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of amounts acquired:
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts receivable
|
|
|
(8,202
|
)
|
|
|
(18,139
|
)
|
Inventories
|
|
|
(553
|
)
|
|
|
125
|
|
Other current assets
|
|
|
(29,198
|
)
|
|
|
(17,252
|
)
|
Other assets
|
|
|
621
|
|
|
|
688
|
|
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
|
|
|
13,243
|
|
|
|
3,933
|
|
Deferred revenue
|
|
|
43,371
|
|
|
|
69,147
|
|
Net cash provided by operating activities
|
|
|
225,468
|
|
|
|
233,483
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investing activities
|
|
|
|
|
Purchases of investments
|
|
|
(446,978
|
)
|
|
|
(482,403
|
)
|
Maturities of investments
|
|
|
329,141
|
|
|
|
375,746
|
|
Sales of investments
|
|
|
138,171
|
|
|
|
76,444
|
|
Increase in restricted cash
|
|
|
(729
|
)
|
|
|
(25
|
)
|
Acquisition of intangible assets
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
(250
|
)
|
Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired
|
|
|
(124,918
|
)
|
|
|
(128,335
|
)
|
Purchases of property and equipment
|
|
|
(14,769
|
)
|
|
|
(12,818
|
)
|
Net cash used in investing activities
|
|
|
(120,082
|
)
|
|
|
(171,641
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Financing activities
|
|
|
|
|
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation
|
|
|
2,395
|
|
|
|
5,456
|
|
Proceeds from the exercise of stock options and purchases of stock
under employee stock purchase plan
|
|
|
12,040
|
|
|
|
10,093
|
|
Repurchase of common stock
|
|
|
(100,000
|
)
|
|
|
(84,776
|
)
|
Net cash used in financing activities
|
|
|
(85,565
|
)
|
|
|
(69,227
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
19,821
|
|
|
|
(7,385
|
)
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
(1,340
|
)
|
|
|
60
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
|
|
|
211,181
|
|
|
|
216,784
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period
|
|
$
|
229,662
|
|
|
$
|
209,459
|
|
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