Citrix Reports Third Quarter Financial Results

Quarterly Revenue of $641 Million, up 13 Percent Year-over-Year

Third Quarter GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share of $0.41

Third Quarter Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share of $0.68

Deferred Revenue of $1.05 Billion up 26 Percent Year-over-Year

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) today reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 ended September 30, 2012.

FINANCIAL RESULTS

In the third quarter of fiscal 2012, Citrix achieved revenue of $641 million, compared to $565 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2011, representing 13 percent revenue growth.

GAAP Results

Net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 was $78 million, or $0.41 per diluted share, compared to $92 million, or $0.49 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2011.

Non-GAAP Results

Non-GAAP net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2012 was $128 million, or $0.68 per diluted share, compared to $121 million, or $0.64 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2011. Non-GAAP net income excludes the effects of amortization of acquired intangible assets, stock-based compensation expenses, and the tax effects related to these items.

"We executed well in Q3 in spite of the macro factors creating heightened uncertainty around IT spending," said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer for Citrix. "We continue to see a fundamental transformation of IT taking place. And Citrix remains in a great position as customers prioritize their investments for a world shaped by mobile workstyles and cloud services."

Q3 Financial Summary

In reviewing the results from the third quarter of 2012, compared to the third quarter of 2011:

• Product and licenses revenue increased 1 percent;
• Software as a service revenue increased 18 percent;
• Revenue from license updates and maintenance increased 19 percent;
• Professional services revenue, which is comprised of consulting, product training and certification, increased 34 percent;
• Revenue increased in the EMEA region by 20 percent, increased in the Pacific region by 17 percent, and increased in the America's region by 7 percent;
• Deferred revenue totaled $1.05 billion, compared to $834 million as of September 30, 2011;
• Cash flow from operations was $181 million, compared with $188 million in the third quarter of 2011;
• GAAP operating margin was 13 percent for the quarter and non-GAAP operating margin was 24 percent for the quarter, excluding the effects of amortization of acquired intangible assets and stock-based compensation expenses; and
• The company repurchased 1.0 million shares at an average price of $76.28.

Financial Outlook for Fourth Quarter 2012

Citrix management expects to achieve the following results during its fourth fiscal quarter of 2012 ending December 31, 2012:

• Net revenue is targeted to be in the range of $700.0 million to $710.0 million.
• GAAP diluted earnings per share is targeted to be in the range of $0.55 to $0.57. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share is targeted to be in the range of $0.83 to $0.85, excluding $0.17 related to the effects of amortization of acquired intangible assets, $0.22 related to the effects of stock-based compensation expenses, and $(0.09) to $(0.13) for the tax effects related to these items.

The above statements are based on current targets. These statements are forward-looking, and actual results may differ materially.

Financial Outlook for Fiscal Year 2012

Citrix management expects to achieve the following results during fiscal year 2012 ending December 31, 2012:

• Net revenue is targeted to be in the range of $2.55 billion to $2.56 billion.
• GAAP diluted earnings per share is targeted to be in the range of $1.81 to $1.83. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share is expected to be in the range of $2.80 to $2.82, excluding $0.61 related to the effects of amortization of acquired intangible assets, $0.79 related to the effects of stock-based compensation expenses, and $(0.39) to $(0.43) for the tax effects related to these items.

The above statements are based on current targets. These statements are forward-looking, and actual results may differ materially.

Preliminary Outlook for Fiscal Year 2013

The company's preliminary outlook for the full fiscal year 2013 is for net revenue to grow by approximately 14%. In addition, Citrix management is targeting an approximately 50 basis point expansion in Non-GAAP operating margins from 2012 levels. Non-GAAP operating margin excludes the effects of amortization of acquired intangible assets and stock-based compensation expense.

These statements are based on current targets and forward-looking, and actual results may differ materially.

Conference Call Information

Citrix will host a conference call today at 4:45 p.m. ET to discuss its financial results, quarterly highlights and business outlook. The call will include a slide presentation, and participants are encouraged to listen to and view the presentation via webcast at http://www.citrix.com/investors.

The conference call may also be accessed by dialing: (888) 799-0519 or (706) 634-0155, using passcode CITRIX. A replay of the webcast can be viewed by visiting the Investor Relations section of the Citrix corporate website at http://www.citrix.com/investors for approximately 30 days. In addition, an audio replay of the conference call will be available by dialing (855) 859-2056 or (404) 537-3406 (passcode required: 36764318).

About Citrix

Citrix (Nasdaq:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

For Citrix Investors

This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release, which are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, statements by Citrix's president and chief executive officer, statements contained in the Financial Outlook for Fourth Quarter 2012, Financial Outlook for Fiscal Year 2012 and Preliminary Outlook for Fiscal year 2013 sections, under the Non-GAAP Financial Measures Reconciliation section, and statements regarding management's plans, objectives and strategies, constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the impact of the global economy and uncertainty in the IT spending environment; the success and growth of the company's product lines, including risks associated with successfully introducing new products into Citrix's distribution channels and ability of markets for these products to become mainstream and sustain growth; the company's product concentration and its ability to develop and commercialize new products and services, including XenDesktop and its other virtualization, networking and cloud offerings, while maintaining sales of its established products, especially XenApp; disruptions due to changes in key personnel and succession risks; seasonal fluctuations in the company's business; failure to execute Citrix's sales and marketing plans; failure to successfully partner with key distributors, resellers, system integrators, OEM's and strategic partners and the company's reliance on and the success of those partners for the marketing and distribution of the company's products; the company's ability to maintain and expand its business in small sized and large enterprise accounts; the size, timing and recognition of revenue from significant orders; the success of investments in its product groups, foreign operations and vertical and geographic markets; Citrix's ability to develop virtualization, networking, cloud platform and collaboration products; the introduction of new products by competitors or the entry of new competitors into the markets for Citrix's products and services; the ability of Citrix to make suitable acquisitions on favorable terms in the future; risks associated with Citrix's acquisitions (including its recently completed acquisition of Bytemobile), including failure to further develop and successfully market the technology and products of acquired companies, failure to achieve or maintain anticipated revenues and operating performance contributions from acquisitions, which could dilute earnings, the retention of key employees from acquired companies, difficulties and delays integrating personnel, operations, technologies and products, disruption to our ongoing business and diversion of management's attention from our ongoing business; the management of expenses associated with anticipated future growth; the recruitment and retention of qualified employees; risks in effectively controlling operating expenses, including failure to manage untargeted expenses; the effect of new accounting pronouncements on revenue and expense recognition; the risks associated with securing data and maintaining security of customer data stored by our services, including in an environment of anticipated higher demand; failure to comply with federal, state and international regulations; litigation and disputes, including challenges to our intellectual property rights or allegations of infringement of the intellectual property rights of others; the inability to further innovate our technology or enter into new businesses due to the intellectual property rights of others; changes in the company's pricing and licensing models, promotional programs and product mix, all of which may impact Citrix's revenue recognition, including with respect to XenDesktop and SaaS business models, or those of its competitors; charges in the event of the impairment of acquired assets, investments or licenses; competition, international market readiness, execution and other risks associated with the markets for Citrix's products and services; unanticipated changes in tax rates or exposure to additional tax liabilities; risks of political and social turmoil; and other risks detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein.

Citrix® is a trademarks or registered trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income (In thousands, except per share data - unaudited)
		Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
		2012		2011			2012		2011
Revenues:
Product and licenses		$195,690		$193,880			$561,971		$515,466
Software as a service		129,659		109,558			375,902		315,809
License updates and maintenance (a)		285,051		238,710			822,113		691,771
Professional services (a)		31,022		23,200			86,141		63,980
Total net revenues		641,422		565,348			1,846,127		1,587,026
Cost of net revenues:
Cost of product and licenses revenues		24,218		22,345			63,876		54,834
Cost of services and maintenance revenues (b)		58,920		42,665			166,328		116,745
Amortization of product related intangible assets		22,930		14,679			56,565		39,920
Total cost of net revenues		106,068		79,689			286,769		211,499
Gross margin		535,354		485,659			1,559,358		1,375,527
Operating expenses:
Research and development (b)		114,713		96,676			328,363		278,598
Sales, marketing and services (b)		263,136		223,967			773,732		640,907
General and administrative (b)		65,252		55,907			186,407		162,970
Amortization of other intangible assets		9,838		4,430			25,499		11,876
Restructuring		-		-			-		24
Total operating expenses		452,939		380,980			1,314,001		1,094,375
Income from operations		82,415		104,679			245,357		281,152
Other income (loss), net		8,483		(1,861	)		15,636		10,799
Income before income taxes		90,898		102,818			260,993		291,951
Income tax expense		12,653		10,642			22,475		45,020
Net income		78,245		92,176			238,518		246,931
Net loss attributable to non-controlling interest		-		-			-		692
Net income attributable to Citrix Systems, Inc.		$78,245		$92,176			$238,518		$247,623
Earnings per common share — diluted		$0.41		$0.49			$1.26		$1.30
Weighted average shares outstanding — diluted		189,671		189,730			189,282		191,155

Certain fiscal 2012 reclassifications have been reflected retroactively to provide comparability.

(a) During the first quarter of 2012, Citrix reviewed the presentation of its Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income and adopted a revised presentation, which the company believes is more comparable to those presented by other companies in the industry. As a result, technical support, hardware maintenance and software updates revenues, which were previously presented in Technical Services and License Updates are classified together as License Updates and Maintenance. A corresponding change was made to rename Cost of Services Revenues to Cost of Services and Maintenance Revenues; however, there was no change in classification. Product training, certification and consulting services, which were previously presented in Technical Services, are classified together as Professional Services. Product Licenses has been renamed to Product and Licenses to more appropriately describe its composition of both software and hardware; however, there was no change in classification. The classification of Software as a Service remains unchanged. This change in manner of presentation does not affect the Company's total net revenues, total cost of net revenues or gross margin.

Conforming changes related to (a) have been made for the prior period presented, as follows:

			Three Months Ended September 30, 2011
As Previously Reported			Amount Reclassified				As Reported Herein
Revenues:							Revenues:
License updates	$	187,169	$	51,541			License updates and maintenance (2)	$	238,710
Technical services (1)		74,741		(51,541	)		Professional services (3)		23,200
Total	$	261,910	$	-			Total	$	261,910

			Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011
As Previously Reported			Amount Reclassified				As Reported Herein
Revenues:							Revenues:
License updates	$	548,920	$	142,851			License updates and maintenance (2)	$	691,771
Technical services (1)		206,831		(142,851	)		Professional services (3)		63,980
Total	$	755,751	$	-			Total	$	755,751

(1) Technical services revenue was comprised of hardware maintenance, consulting services, product training and certification and technical support.

(2) License updates and maintenance is comprised of license updates, hardware and software maintenance and technical support.

(3) Professional services is comprised of consulting services and product training and certification.

(b) During the first quarter of 2012, Citrix revised its methodology for allocating certain IT support costs to more closely align these costs to the employees directly utilizing the related assets and services. As a result, certain IT support costs have been reclassified from general and administrative expenses to cost of services and maintenance revenues, research and development expenses and sales, marketing and services expenses based on the headcount in each of these functional areas. This change in manner of presentation does not affect the company's income from operations or cash flows. Conforming changes related to (b) have been made for the prior period presented, as follows:

			Three Months Ended September 30, 2011
As Previously Reported			Amount Reclassified				As Reported Herein
Cost of services revenues	$	39,711	$	2,954			Cost of services and maintenance revenues	$	42,665
Research and development		88,933		7,743			Research and development		96,676
Sales, marketing and services		212,985		10,982			Sales, marketing and services		223,967
General and administrative		77,586		(21,679	)		General and administrative		55,907
Total	$	419,215	$	-			Total	$	419,215

			Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011
As Previously Reported			Amount Reclassified				As Reported Herein
Cost of services revenues	$108,283		$	8,462			Cost of services and maintenance revenues	$	116,745
Research and development	254,963			23,635			Research and development		278,598
Sales, marketing and services	606,587			34,320			Sales, marketing and services		640,907
General and administrative	229,387			(66,417	)		General and administrative		162,970
Total	$1,199,220		$	-			Total	$	1,199,220

CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC. Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (In thousands - unaudited)
		September 30, 2012				December 31, 2011
ASSETS:
Cash and cash equivalents		$	324,127			$	333,296
Short-term investments			358,920				406,461
Accounts receivable, net			456,545				484,431
Inventories, net			10,961				8,507
Prepaid expenses and other current assets			124,723				95,419
Current portion of deferred tax assets, net			44,238				44,916
Total current assets			1,319,514				1,373,030
Long-term investments			723,205				737,844
Property and equipment, net			295,934				277,429
Goodwill			1,504,373				1,239,120
Other intangible assets, net			575,024				343,372
Long-term portion of deferred tax assets, net			3,372				67,479
Other assets			67,731				61,267
Total assets		$	4,489,153			$	4,099,541
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY:
Accounts payable		$	68,214			$	58,034
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities			234,763				223,136
Current portion of deferred tax liabilities, net			102				79,318
Current portion of deferred revenues			862,795				818,642
Total current liabilities			1,165,874				1,179,130
Long-term portion of deferred revenues			190,358				141,241
Long-term portion of deferred tax liabilities, net			67,358				20,247
Other liabilities			29,525				28,433
Stockholders' equity:
Common stock			287				283
Additional paid-in capital			3,643,127				3,385,053
Retained earnings			2,449,989				2,211,471
Accumulated other comprehensive loss			(10,133	)			(11,561	)
Less — common stock in treasury, at cost			(3,047,232	)			(2,854,756	)
Total stockholders' equity			3,036,038				2,730,490
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity		$	4,489,153			$	4,099,541

CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC. Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (In thousands - unaudited)
		Three Months Ended September 30, 2012				Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net Income		$	78,245			$	238,518
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Amortization and depreciation			58,710				154,055
Stock-based compensation expense			40,103				108,922
Provision for accounts receivable allowances			2,709				9,532
Other non-cash items			(7,803	)			(13,952	)
Total adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities			93,719				258,557
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of acquisitions:
Accounts receivable			(414	)			70,485
Inventory			(3,108	)			(2,163	)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets			4,644				(27,114	)
Other assets			3,206				2,392
Deferred tax assets, net			(3,778	)			11,142
Accounts payable			(10,206	)			(7,051	)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities			13,218				18,226
Deferred revenues			4,336				72,816
Deferred tax liabilities, net			991				(43,733	)
Other liabilities			139				(269	)
Total changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of acquisitions			9,028				94,731
Net cash provided by operating activities			180,992				591,806
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
(Purchases) proceeds from available-for-sale investments, net			(339,809	)			58,033
Proceeds from sales of cost method investments			14,938				21,413
Purchases of property and equipment			(36,043	)			(87,290	)
Purchases of other assets			(2,602	)			(5,149	)
Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired			(405,969	)			(488,347	)
Cash paid for licensing and core technology			(2,277	)			(14,277	)
Other			3,450				3,450
Net cash used in investing activities			(768,312	)			(512,167	)
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under stock-based compensation plans
compensation plans			34,307				95,796
Repayment of acquired debt			(16,609	)			(24,346	)
Excess tax benefit from exercise of stock options			7,997				31,976
Stock repurchases, net			(77,417	)			(192,475	)
Other			-				1,050
Net cash used in financing activities			(51,722	)			(87,999	)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents			1,329				(809	)
Change in cash and cash equivalents			(637,713	)			(9,169	)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period			961,840				333,296
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period		$	324,127			$	324,127

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures to Comparable U.S. GAAP Measures

(Unaudited)

Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation G, the Company has provided a reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure used in this earnings release and related conference call, slide presentation or webcast to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. These measures differ from GAAP in that they exclude amortization primarily related to acquired intangible assets, stock-based compensation expenses and the related tax effect of those items. The Company's basis for these adjustments is described below.

Management uses these non-GAAP measures for internal reporting and forecasting purposes, when publicly providing its business outlook, to evaluate the Company's performance and to evaluate and compensate the Company's executives. The Company has provided these non-GAAP financial measures in addition to GAAP financial results because it believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to certain investors and financial analysts for comparison across accounting periods not influenced by certain non-cash items that are not used by management when evaluating the Company's historical and prospective financial performance. In addition, the Company has historically provided this or similar information and understands that some investors and financial analysts find this information helpful in analyzing the Company's operating margins, operating expenses and net income and comparing the Company's financial performance to that of its peer companies and competitors.

Management typically excludes the amounts described above when evaluating the Company's operating performance and believes that the resulting non-GAAP measures are useful to investors and financial analysts in assessing the Company's operating performance due to the following factors:

• The Company does not acquire businesses on a predictable cycle. The Company, therefore, believes that the presentation of non-GAAP measures that adjust for the impact of amortization and certain stock-based compensation expenses and the related tax effects that are primarily related to acquisitions, provide investors and financial analysts with a consistent basis for comparison across accounting periods and, therefore, are useful to investors and financial analysts in helping them to better understand the Company's operating results and underlying operational trends.
• Amortization costs and the related tax effects are fixed at the time of an acquisition, are then amortized over a period of several years after the acquisition and generally cannot be changed or influenced by management after the acquisition.
• Although stock-based compensation is an important aspect of the compensation of the Company's employees and executives, stock-based compensation expense is generally fixed at the time of grant, then amortized over a period of several years after the grant of the stock-based instrument, and generally cannot be changed or influenced by management after the grant.

These non-GAAP financial measures are not prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP") and may differ from the non-GAAP information used by other companies. There are significant limitations associated with the use of non-GAAP financial measures. The additional non-GAAP financial information presented here should be considered in conjunction with, and not as a substitute for or superior to, the financial information presented in accordance with GAAP (such as net income and earnings per share) and should not be considered measures of the Company's liquidity. Furthermore, the Company in the future may exclude amortization primarily related to newly acquired intangible assets , additional charges related to its restructuring program and the related tax effects from financial measures that it releases, and the Company expects to continue to incur stock-based compensation expenses.

CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC. Non-GAAP Financial Measures Reconciliation
(In thousands, except per share and operating margin data - unaudited)
The following tables show the non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release reconciled to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.
		Three Months Ended September 30,
		2012
GAAP operating margin		12.9						%
Add: stock-based compensation		6.2						%
Add: amortization of product related intangible assets		3.6						%
Add: amortization of other intangible assets		1.5						%
Non-GAAP operating margin		24.2						%
		Three Months Ended September 30,
		2012				2011
GAAP net income		$	78,245			$	92,176
Add: stock-based compensation			40,103				24,954
Add: amortization product related intangible assets			22,930				14,679
Add: amortization of other intangible assets			9,838				4,430
Less: tax effects related to above items			(22,934	)			(15,665	)
Non-GAAP net income		$	128,182			$	120,574
		Three Months Ended September 30,
		2012				2011
GAAP earnings per share — diluted		$	0.41			$	0.49
Add: stock-based compensation			0.21				0.13
Add: amortization of product related intangible assets			0.12				0.08
Add: amortization of other intangible assets			0.05				0.02
Less: tax effects related to above items			(0.11	)			(0.08	)
Non-GAAP earnings per share — diluted		$	0.68			$	0.64

CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC. Forward Looking Guidance
		For the Three Months Ended		For the Twelve Months Ended
		December 31,		December 31,
		2012		2012
GAAP earnings per share - diluted		$0.55 to $0.57		$1.81 to $1.83
Add: adjustments to exclude the effects of amortization of intangible assets		0.17		0.61
Add: adjustments to exclude the effects of expenses related to stock-based compensation
		0.22		0.79
Less: tax effects related to above items		(0.09) to (0.13)		(0.39) to (0.43)
Non-GAAP earnings per share - diluted		$0.83 to $0.85		$2.80 to $2.82

Citrix
For media inquiries, contact:
Eric Armstrong, 954-267-2977
eric.armstrong@citrix.com
or
For investor inquiries, contact:
Eduardo Fleites, 954-229-5758
eduardo.fleites@citrix.com

Source: Citrix

News Provided by Acquire Media

Close window | Back to top

• delicious
• Digg
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Mixx
• Twitter
• Yahoo! Buzz