Palo Alto Networks Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2025 Financial Outcomes

.Fiscal very first quarter revenue expanded 14% year over year to $2.1 billion.Next-Generation Surveillance ARR expanded 40% year over year to $4.5 billion.Staying functionality obligation increased 20% year over year to $12.6 billion.SANTA CLAM CLARA, Calif., Nov. 20, 2024/ PRNewswire/– Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the worldwide cybersecurity forerunner, revealed today monetary outcomes for its own economic very first quarter 2025, ended Oct 31, 2024.Overall earnings for the monetary first quarter 2025 grew 14% year over year to $2.1 billion, compared with overall revenue of $1.9 billion for the financial initial fourth 2024. GAAP net income for the fiscal initial one-fourth 2025 was $350.7 million, or even $0.99 every watered down portion, compared to GAAP income of $194.2 thousand, or even $0.56 per diluted share, for the fiscal 1st quarter 2024.Non-GAAP earnings for the financial initial one-fourth 2025 was actually $544.9 million, or $1.56 every watered down allotment, compared with non-GAAP net income of $466.3 thousand, or even $1.38 per diluted allotment, for the economic first one-fourth 2024.

A getting back together in between GAAP as well as non-GAAP details is actually included in the dining tables below.” Our Q1 leads improved our view in our varied platformization strategy,” stated Nikesh Arora, chairman as well as CEO of Palo Alto Networks. “Our experts find a developing market understanding that platformization is actually the video game changer that will fix protection and make it possible for much better artificial intelligence end results. I expect this are going to be actually a multiyear trend for which our experts are actually well set up to deliver to our consumers.”.” Our platformization progression continued in Q1, steering solid economic end results,” said Dipak Golechha, primary monetary policeman of Palo Alto Networks.

“Because of this, our team are actually increasing our NGS ARR, profits and also non-GAAP EPS direction for the year.”.Assets SplitPalo Alto Networks declared that its own board of supervisors has permitted a two-for-one forward equity crack of the provider’s exceptional allotments of common stock. The equity crack is actually to be impacted with a modification to the business’s reiterated certification of unification, which will definitely also perform an in proportion rise in the number of authorized allotments of ordinary shares coming from 1.0 billion to 2.0 billion. Each investor of file since the shut of investing on December 12, 2024 (the “file day”), are going to obtain, after the shut of trading on December thirteen, 2024, one added portion for each portion held on the file date.

Exchanging is assumed to start on a split-adjusted basis on December 16, 2024.Financial OutlookPalo Alto Networks gives direction based upon present market circumstances as well as requirements.For the monetary 2nd fourth 2025, our experts anticipate:.Next-Generation Surveillance ARR of $4.70 billion to $4.75 billion, representing year-over-year development of between 35% and also 36%.Remaining functionality responsibility of $12.9 billion to $13.0 billion, standing for year-over-year development of between twenty% and also 21%.Complete profits in the stable of $2.22 billion to $2.25 billion, embodying year-over-year growth of between 12% as well as 14%.Weakened non-GAAP earnings every share in the stable of $1.54 to $1.56, making use of 350 thousand to 352 million portions exceptional.For the 2025, our company assume:.Next-Generation Surveillance ARR of $5.52 billion to $5.57 billion, exemplifying year-over-year development of in between 31% as well as 32%.Continuing to be functionality commitment of $15.2 billion to $15.3 billion, representing year-over-year growth of in between 19% as well as 20%.Overall earnings in the variety of $9.12 billion to $9.17 billion, working with year-over-year growth of 14%.Non-GAAP operating margin in the variety of 27.5% to 28.0%.Thinned down non-GAAP earnings per cooperate the series of $6.26 to $6.39, using 350 thousand to 354 thousand allotments impressive.Readjusted cost-free capital scope in the series of 37% to 38%.Advice for non-GAAP monetary measures excludes share-based compensation-related charges, featuring share-based payroll tax obligation cost, acquisition-related prices, including change in fair market value of contingent consideration responsibility, amount cost of gotten intangible assets, litigation-related costs, non-cash costs related to modifiable details, and earnings tax and also various other tax obligation changes connected to our lasting non-GAAP successful income tax fee, along with certain non-recurring expenditures as well as particular non-recurring cash flows. Our experts have actually certainly not integrated non-GAAP operating frame direction to GAAP operating frame, diluted non-GAAP take-home pay per share support to GAAP net income every diluted share or even changed free capital margin assistance to GAAP net cash money from functioning activities considering that we do not supply support on GAAP operating scope, GAAP net income or even web cash from operating tasks and will not have the ability to present the numerous reconciling cash money and also non-cash products in between GAAP and non-GAAP economic procedures because certain things that impact these actions are uncertain or even away from our management, or even can easily certainly not be actually reasonably predicted, consisting of share-based compensation expense, without silly initiative. The genuine quantities of such integrating items are going to have a significant effect on the company’s GAAP take-home pay every diluted allotment as well as GAAP internet money from functioning activities.Revenues Get In Touch With InformationPalo Alto Networks will hold a video webcast for experts and clients to go over the firm’s fiscal first fourth 2025 results as well as the overview for its budgetary second one-fourth and 2025 today at 4:30 p.m.

Eastern time/1:30 p.m. Pacific time. Available to the public, entrepreneurs might access the webcast, supplementary monetary information and incomes slides from the “Entrepreneurs” area of the firm’s site at investors.paloaltonetworks.com.

A replay will definitely be actually offered three hours after the end of the webcast as well as archived for one year.Progressive StatementsThis press release includes positive claims that entail risks, uncertainties, and also beliefs featuring statements regarding our platformization technique and financial outlook for the fiscal 2nd quarter 2025 and also fiscal year 2025. There are actually a substantial lot of elements that can create actual outcomes to differ materially coming from progressive statements produced or even signified in this news release, consisting of: progressions and also adjustments in general market, political, financial, and organization ailments failing of our platformization item offerings breakdown to achieve the assumed benefits of our calculated collaborations and acquisitions adjustments in the reasonable market value of our contingent factor responsibility associated with achievements threats linked with handling our growth risks linked with new product, registration and also support offerings, including our item offerings that take advantage of AI shifts in concerns or even problems in the growth or even launch of brand-new product or even subscription or other offerings, or the failure to timely create as well as obtain market approval of brand new items and also registrations along with existing items, registrations as well as help offerings failure of our organization approaches rapidly growing technical developments on the market for protection products, registrations and also support offerings problems, mistakes, or even susceptabilities in our products, registrations or even assistance offerings our customers’ getting decisions and the length of sales cycles our competitors our potential to bring in and also preserve brand-new consumers our capacity to get and also integrate various other providers, products, or even modern technologies in a productive way our financial obligation repayment obligations and also our share bought system, which may certainly not be actually fully consummated or boost investor worth, and any kind of reveal repurchases which might have an effect on the rate of our ordinary shares.Additional dangers as well as uncertainties on these and various other variables that could possibly affect our monetary results and also the positive claims we create within this press release are actually included under the captions “Threat Elements” and “Management’s Discussion and also Analysis of Financial Ailment and also Outcomes of Workflow” and in other places in our Yearly Record on Kind 10-K submitted along with the USA Securities and also Swap Compensation (” SEC”) on September 6, 2024, which is accessible on our internet site at investors.paloaltonetworks.com as well as on the SEC’s internet site at www.sec.gov. Added details will definitely additionally be set forth in other documentations that we submit along with or provide to the SEC occasionally.

All forward-looking claims within this press release are based upon our ideas and details accessible to monitoring as of the date hereof, as well as our company do not presume any sort of responsibility to improve the positive statements supplied to show occasions that occur or even conditions that exist after the time on which they were helped make.Non-GAAP Financial Procedures and also Other Key MetricsPalo Alto Networks has provided within this press release monetary details that has actually certainly not been actually readied based on generally allowed accounting principles in the USA (GAAP). The company uses these non-GAAP financial solutions and also other vital metrics internally in studying its economic outcomes and thinks that the use of these non-GAAP economic solutions as well as vital metrics are actually practical to financiers as an added resource to review ongoing operating end results and patterns, and also in contrasting the company’s financial end results along with other firms in its industry, a number of which found identical non-GAAP financial actions or even crucial metrics.The presentation of these non-GAAP economic steps as well as vital metrics are not meant to become thought about alone or even as a substitute for similar GAAP monetary procedures as well as must read just in conjunction with the company’s combined economic claims prepped based on GAAP. A reconciliation of the firm’s historical non-GAAP economic solutions to their most straight similar GAAP procedures has actually been given in the economic claim dining tables featured in this particular news release, as well as real estate investors are promoted to review these reconciliations.Non-GAAP operating scope.

Palo Alto Networks determines non-GAAP operating frame as non-GAAP operating earnings separated by total income. The company defines non-GAAP operating profit as operating income plus share-based compensation-related fees, featuring share-based payroll tax expenditure, acquisition-related prices, featuring improvement in decent worth of contingent factor liability, amount cost of acquired intangible assets, and also litigation-related fees. The company believes that non-GAAP operating frame provides management and investors along with more significant visibility right into the rooting efficiency of the business’s primary service operating end results.Non-GAAP earnings as well as income per portion, watered down.

Palo Alto Networks defines non-GAAP net income as net income plus share-based compensation-related fees, including share-based payroll income tax cost, acquisition-related expenses, consisting of modification in decent value of dependent consideration responsibility, amortization cost of obtained unobservable assets, litigation-related fees, consisting of lawful resolutions, and non-cash fees connected to exchangeable details. The provider also leaves out from non-GAAP earnings tax obligation changes related to our long-lasting non-GAAP efficient tax obligation price to give a comprehensive picture of the firm’s persisting center company operating end results. The company specifies non-GAAP income every share, diluted, as non-GAAP income portioned due to the weighted-average diluted reveals superior, that includes the possibly dilutive effect of the firm’s worker equity incentive plan awards as well as the firm’s modifiable elderly keep in minds superior as well as relevant warrants, after giving impact to the anti-dilutive influence of the company’s note hedge contracts, which decreases the possible economic dip that otherwise would occur upon transformation of the firm’s exchangeable senior details.

Under GAAP, the anti-dilutive influence of the details hedge is actually not reflected in watered down shares exceptional. The business looks at these non-GAAP economic steps to be practical metrics for monitoring and also capitalists for the same explanations that it uses non-GAAP operating frame.Next-Generation Safety ARR. Palo Alto Networks describes Next-Generation Security ARR as the annualized allocated profits of all active contracts since the ultimate day of the reporting time period for Prisma as well as Cerebral cortex offerings comprehensive of the VM-Series as well as associated companies, and also certain cloud-delivered surveillance solutions.

Starting the budgetary very first one-fourth 2025, Next-Generation Security ARR consists of revenue derivable to QRadar software as a solution contracts that our company lately obtained from International Organization Machines Company. The company takes into consideration Next-Generation Security ARR to be a beneficial statistics for management as well as real estate investors to analyze the performance of the provider since Next-Generation Safety is actually where the provider has actually centered its own development as well as the company anticipates its general profits to be disproportionately driven through this Next-Generation Protection portfolio. Since Next-Generation Security ARR does not have the effect of delivering a numerical solution that is various from any sort of equivalent GAAP procedure, the firm does rule out it a non-GAAP measure.Capitalists are cautioned that there are actually an amount of limits connected with using non-GAAP monetary actions as well as crucial metrics as rational resources.

Most of the modifications to the provider’s GAAP economic procedures reflect the exclusion of products that are actually recurring and will be actually shown in the firm’s economic outcomes for the not far off future, like share-based payment, which is an integral part of Palo Alto Networks staff members’ compensation and impacts their functionality. Moreover, these non-GAAP financial measures are actually not based upon any standard methodology recommended by GAAP, as well as the elements that Palo Alto Networks omits in its own calculation of non-GAAP monetary steps may vary coming from the elements that its peer providers omit when they disclose their non-GAAP outcomes of procedures. Palo Alto Networks makes up for these restrictions by supplying specific information concerning the GAAP amounts excluded coming from these non-GAAP economic steps.

Later on, the business may also leave out non-recurring expenses and also other expenses that do certainly not mirror the business’s core service operating end results.Regarding Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks is actually the global cybersecurity forerunner, devoted to creating daily much safer than the one prior to along with industry-leading, AI-powered solutions in network surveillance, cloud security and also safety operations. Powered through Preciseness AI, our technologies supply specific threat diagnosis as well as fast reaction, minimizing misleading positives and also boosting safety and security efficiency. Our platformization method includes varied protection solutions in to a linked, scalable platform, improving control and also supplying operational productivities with comprehensive protection.

From fighting for network boundaries to safeguarding cloud settings and also making sure rapid event feedback, Palo Alto Networks empowers services to accomplish Zero Trust fund safety and security and with certainty welcome digital improvement in an ever-evolving hazard landscape. This steadfast dedication to protection and also innovation makes our company the cybersecurity partner of selection.At Palo Alto Networks, our team’re dedicated to uniting the greatest people operational of our objective, so our experts are actually also pleased to become the cybersecurity work environment of choice, identified one of Newsweek’s The majority of Liked Workplaces (2021-2024), with a rating of 100 on the Handicap Impartiality Mark (2024, 2023, 2022), as well as HRC Greatest Places for LGBTQ+ Impartiality (2022 ). To find out more, see www.paloaltonetworks.com.Palo Alto Networks, the Palo Alto Networks logo, as well as Precision AI are actually trademarks of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the globe. All other trademarks, brand, or service marks used or even mentioned within concern their respective owners. Any kind of unreleased services or even features (and any kind of companies or components not generally on call to consumers) referenced in this particular or even various other press releases or public statements are not presently on call (or are not yet normally offered to clients) and may certainly not be actually provided when expected or in any way.

Clients who acquire Palo Alto Networks requests must produce their acquisition decisions based on solutions as well as attributes presently usually readily available. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Preparatory Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.( In millions, other than every share information).( Unaudited).

Three Months Ended. October 31,. 2024.2023.Profits:.

Product.$ 353.8.$ 341.1.Registration and also assistance.1,785.0.1,537.0.Total profits.2,138.8.1,878.1.Cost of revenue:. Product.75.0.77.4.Subscription as well as help.479.1.395.4.Complete expense of profits.554.1.472.8.Complete gross profit.1,584.7.1,405.3.Overhead:. R &amp d.480.4.409.5.Purchases and advertising.720.1.660.5.General as well as administrative.97.7.120.1.Total general expenses.1,298.2.1,190.1.Working revenue.286.5.215.2.Interest cost.( 1.2 ).( 2.9 ).Various other profit, net.83.3.70.3.Income before income taxes.368.6.282.6.Stipulation for income tax obligations.17.9.88.4.Earnings.$ 350.7.$ 194.2.

Net income per allotment, fundamental.$ 1.07.$ 0.63.Net income per portion, weakened.$ 0.99.$ 0.56. Weighted-average shares utilized to figure out take-home pay per share, standard.326.8.310.1.Weighted-average shares used to compute net income every share, weakened.354.5.349.8. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Settlement of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures.( In millions, except per share amounts).( Unaudited). Three Months Finished. October 31,.

2024.2023. GAAP operating earnings.$ 286.5.$ 215.2.Share-based compensation-related charges.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related prices( 1 ).15.1.–.Amortization expenditure of gotten unobservable assets.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related fees( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-GAAP operating revenue.$ 616.2.$ 529.3.Non-GAAP operating frame.28.8 %.28.2 %. GAAP earnings.$ 350.7.$ 194.2.Share-based compensation-related costs.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related costs( 1 ).15.1.–.Amount cost of acquired unobservable properties.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related charges( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-cash fees connected to modifiable notes( 3 ).0.5.1.0.Revenue tax as well as various other tax obligation changes( 4 ).( 136.0 ).( 43.0 ).Non-GAAP net income.$ 544.9.$ 466.3.

GAAP earnings every share, thinned down.$ 0.99.$ 0.56.Share-based compensation-related costs.0.92.0.86.Acquisition-related costs( 1 ).0.04.0.00.Amortization expenditure of acquired intangible properties.0.11.0.07.Litigation-related charges( 2 ).( 0.12 ).0.01.Non-cash charges associated with exchangeable keep in minds( 3 ).0.00.0.00.Income tax obligation as well as other tax modifications( 4 ).( 0.38 ).( 0.12 ).Non-GAAP earnings per allotment, thinned down.$ 1.56.$ 1.38. GAAP weighted-average shares used to calculate income every allotment, weakened.354.5.349.8.Weighted-average anti-dilutive impact of note bush contracts.( 5.9 ).( 11.6 ).Non-GAAP weighted-average portions utilized to compute income every allotment, weakened.348.6.338.2. ( 1 ).Contain accomplishment deal expenses, share-based settlement pertaining to the cash settlement deal of particular equity honors, adjustment in decent value of dependent consideration responsibility, and also expenses to terminate particular employment, operating lease, and various other contracts of the gotten companies.( 2 ).Feature the amount of patent licenses and covenant certainly not to file a claim against.

In the course of the 3 months ended Oct 31, 2024, it likewise includes a release of recently accrued lawful contingency charge.( 3 ).Include non-cash passion cost for amortization of debt issuance costs related to the company’s convertible elderly keep in minds.( 4 ).Feature revenue tax adjustments connected to our lasting non-GAAP efficient tax fee. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Preliminary Short Consolidated Balance Sheets.( In thousands).

Oct 31, 2024.July 31, 2024. ( unaudited). Resources.

Current possessions:. Cash money and cash matchings.$ 2,282.8.$ 1,535.2.Short-term financial investments.1,108.2.1,043.6.Accounts receivable, web.1,132.9.2,618.6.Temporary finance receivables, web.805.1.725.9.Short-term deferred contract expenses.367.6.369.0.Prepaid expenditures as well as various other present assets.546.1.557.4.Overall current assets.6,242.7.6,849.7.Residential property as well as tools, internet.361.0.361.1.Functioning lease right-of-use properties.389.0.385.9.Long-term investments.4,119.7.4,173.2.Long-term lending receivables, internet.1,092.2.1,182.1.Lasting delayed agreement costs.531.9.562.0.Goodwill.4,050.8.3,350.1.Unobservable possessions, web.809.6.374.9.Prolonged tax assets.2,397.5.2,399.0.Various other resources.380.2.352.9.Total possessions.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9.Liabilities and stockholders’ equity. Current obligations:.

Funds owed.$ 211.6.$ 116.3.Built up compensation.354.5.554.7.Accrued and various other liabilities.683.1.506.7.Prolonged revenue.5,507.7.5,541.1.Convertible elderly notes, net.645.8.963.9.Total existing liabilities.7,402.7.7,682.7.Long-term deferred income.5,585.9.5,939.4.Deferred tax obligation responsibilities.250.8.387.7.Long-lasting operating lease obligations.379.6.380.5.Other long-lasting responsibilities.843.8.430.9.Overall liabilities.14,462.8.14,821.2.Shareholders’ equity:. Participating preferred stock.–.–.Ordinary shares and also extra paid-in capital.4,214.9.3,821.1.Accumulated other thorough reduction.( 4.0 ).( 1.6 ).Preserved earnings.1,700.9.1,350.2.Overall shareholders’ equity.5,911.8.5,169.7.Complete liabilities as well as shareholders’ equity.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9. SOURCE Palo Alto Networks, Inc

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