Palo Alto Networks Reports Fiscal First One-fourth 2025 Financial End Results

.Fiscal first one-fourth revenue expanded 14% year over year to $2.1 billion.Next-Generation Safety ARR increased 40% year over year to $4.5 billion.Continuing to be functionality responsibility increased twenty% year over year to $12.6 billion.SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. twenty, 2024/ PRNewswire/– Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the worldwide cybersecurity forerunner, introduced today financial end results for its economic first one-fourth 2025, finished October 31, 2024.Overall profits for the economic very first one-fourth 2025 increased 14% year over year to $2.1 billion, compared to complete profits of $1.9 billion for the budgetary 1st quarter 2024. GAAP earnings for the financial very first quarter 2025 was $350.7 thousand, or even $0.99 every watered down share, compared to GAAP earnings of $194.2 thousand, or $0.56 every watered down portion, for the budgetary initial quarter 2024.Non-GAAP take-home pay for the economic initial fourth 2025 was actually $544.9 million, or even $1.56 every watered down reveal, compared to non-GAAP earnings of $466.3 million, or even $1.38 every watered down share, for the monetary first one-fourth 2024.

A getting back together in between GAAP and non-GAAP relevant information is actually had in the dining tables below.” Our Q1 leads improved our sentiment in our separated platformization tactic,” claimed Nikesh Arora, chairman as well as CEO of Palo Alto Networks. “Our experts view an increasing market realization that platformization is actually the activity changer that are going to resolve safety and security and also make it possible for better artificial intelligence outcomes. I expect this will definitely be a multiyear trend for which our company are most ideal installed to provide to our clients.”.” Our platformization progress proceeded in Q1, steering powerful economic results,” mentioned Dipak Golechha, chief financial police officer of Palo Alto Networks.

“As a result, our company are increasing our NGS ARR, earnings as well as non-GAAP EPS guidance for the year.”.Share SplitPalo Alto Networks announced that its own panel of supervisors has actually approved a two-for-one forward share split of the company’s excellent portions of ordinary shares. The equity crack is actually to become effected via a modification to the provider’s reiterated certification of incorporation, which will definitely likewise perform a proportional increase in the lot of legitimate shares of ordinary shares coming from 1.0 billion to 2.0 billion. Each shareholder of record since the shut of trading on December 12, 2024 (the “document date”), will obtain, after the close of trading on December thirteen, 2024, one added share for every portion hung on the document day.

Trading is expected to start on a split-adjusted basis on December 16, 2024.Financial OutlookPalo Alto Networks delivers assistance based on current market circumstances as well as desires.For the monetary 2nd one-fourth 2025, we expect:.Next-Generation Surveillance ARR of $4.70 billion to $4.75 billion, standing for year-over-year development of between 35% as well as 36%.Staying functionality obligation of $12.9 billion to $13.0 billion, exemplifying year-over-year development of between 20% as well as 21%.Total profits in the range of $2.22 billion to $2.25 billion, working with year-over-year growth of between 12% and 14%.Thinned down non-GAAP net income every cooperate the range of $1.54 to $1.56, making use of 350 million to 352 million shares impressive.For the 2025, our experts assume:.Next-Generation Surveillance ARR of $5.52 billion to $5.57 billion, exemplifying year-over-year growth of in between 31% and 32%.Staying efficiency obligation of $15.2 billion to $15.3 billion, working with year-over-year growth of between 19% and also 20%.Total profits in the variety of $9.12 billion to $9.17 billion, working with year-over-year development of 14%.Non-GAAP operating margin in the variety of 27.5% to 28.0%.Weakened non-GAAP income per share in the series of $6.26 to $6.39, making use of 350 million to 354 million allotments excellent.Readjusted cost-free cash flow margin in the variety of 37% to 38%.Guidance for non-GAAP financial steps excludes share-based compensation-related fees, consisting of share-based pay-roll tax cost, acquisition-related expenses, consisting of modification in fair value of contingent factor to consider obligation, amortization expenditure of gotten unobservable resources, litigation-related fees, non-cash fees related to modifiable keep in minds, as well as earnings tax and other tax changes related to our lasting non-GAAP successful tax obligation price, in addition to particular non-recurring costs as well as specific non-recurring capital. We have actually certainly not resolved non-GAAP operating margin assistance to GAAP operating margin, diluted non-GAAP income per portion support to GAAP earnings every diluted share or even changed totally free cash flow margin guidance to GAAP net cash money from running tasks due to the fact that we carry out certainly not provide direction on GAAP operating scope, GAAP income or net money from running tasks and also will certainly not have the capacity to present the various fixing up money and non-cash products in between GAAP and non-GAAP financial steps considering that certain products that impact these actions are uncertain or away from our command, or can easily not be actually moderately predicted, featuring share-based compensation expense, without silly attempt. The actual volumes of such reconciling things are going to possess a notable influence on the firm’s GAAP net income per watered down allotment and also GAAP internet money from operating activities.Revenues Contact InformationPalo Alto Networks will definitely throw a video recording webcast for analysts as well as investors to review the business’s budgetary first quarter 2025 results and also the outlook for its budgetary second quarter as well as fiscal year 2025 today at 4:30 p.m.

Eastern time/1:30 p.m. Pacific time. Ready for the public, real estate investors might access the webcast, extra monetary info and profits slides coming from the “Clients” area of the business’s website at investors.paloaltonetworks.com.

A replay will definitely be readily available three hrs after the outcome of the webcast and archived for one year.Positive StatementsThis news release consists of progressive statements that include risks, unpredictabilities, as well as beliefs consisting of statements concerning our platformization method as well as monetary outlook for the monetary second one-fourth 2025 and also fiscal year 2025. There are actually a significant amount of elements that can create real outcomes to vary materially from forward-looking claims created or even implied within this press release, featuring: progressions as well as adjustments typically market, political, economic, and also business problems breakdown of our platformization product offerings failure to attain the expected perks of our strategic alliances and also acquisitions improvements in the reasonable worth of our dependent factor obligation linked with achievements threats related to handling our growth risks connected with new product, registration and assistance offerings, featuring our item offerings that utilize AI switches in priorities or hold-ups in the advancement or even launch of brand new item or registration or even other offerings, or the breakdown to timely establish as well as attain market acceptance of brand-new products and subscriptions as well as existing products, subscriptions and also help offerings breakdown of our business approaches swiftly growing technological advancements available for security products, registrations as well as help offerings issues, mistakes, or vulnerabilities in our items, memberships or even support offerings our clients’ acquiring selections as well as the duration of sales patterns our competitors our ability to bring in and preserve brand new clients our potential to acquire as well as integrate various other business, items, or even technologies in an effective way our financial debt repayment responsibilities and also our reveal repurchase course, which might not be actually completely consummated or even enhance investor market value, and any sort of reveal repurchases which could influence the cost of our common stock.Added risks and also unpredictabilities on these as well as various other factors that could affect our economic results and also the progressive claims our company produce in this press release are consisted of under the subtitles “Danger Factors” and “Control’s Discussion as well as Study of Financial Ailment and End Results of Procedures” as well as in other places in our Yearly Report on Kind 10-K filed along with the united state Securities and also Exchange Commission (” SEC”) on September 6, 2024, which is available on our site at investors.paloaltonetworks.com as well as on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Added information will definitely additionally be stated in other records that our team file along with or even decorate to the SEC from time to time.

All progressive claims in this news release are actually based upon our views as well as relevant information offered to monitoring since the day in this regard, and also our experts carry out certainly not suppose any type of responsibility to improve the progressive declarations delivered to demonstrate occasions that occur or scenarios that exist after the day on which they were actually made.Non-GAAP Financial Steps and Other Trick MetricsPalo Alto Networks has actually offered within this press release financial relevant information that has not been prepared based on usually taken accounting guidelines in the USA (GAAP). The business utilizes these non-GAAP economic procedures and various other crucial metrics inside in analyzing its economic outcomes as well as thinks that making use of these non-GAAP economic steps as well as crucial metrics are actually helpful to clients as an additional device to examine continuous operating outcomes as well as patterns, and in comparing the company’s monetary end results along with various other providers in its own market, much of which existing similar non-GAAP economic actions or even crucial metrics.The presentation of these non-GAAP monetary solutions and also key metrics are actually not indicated to be thought about in isolation or alternatively for equivalent GAAP financial actions as well as must know simply together with the business’s combined economic declarations prepped in accordance with GAAP. A getting back together of the company’s historical non-GAAP monetary measures to their very most straight equivalent GAAP procedures has been given in the financial declaration tables included in this press release, as well as entrepreneurs are encouraged to evaluate these settlements.Non-GAAP operating frame.

Palo Alto Networks describes non-GAAP operating frame as non-GAAP operating revenue split through overall revenue. The business specifies non-GAAP operating earnings as operating revenue plus share-based compensation-related fees, consisting of share-based payroll income tax expenditure, acquisition-related expenses, including change in reasonable value of dependent factor responsibility, amortization cost of obtained abstract properties, and litigation-related fees. The firm thinks that non-GAAP operating margin supplies control and capitalists with better visibility right into the rooting functionality of the business’s core company operating results.Non-GAAP take-home pay and take-home pay per allotment, diluted.

Palo Alto Networks defines non-GAAP take-home pay as earnings plus share-based compensation-related charges, consisting of share-based pay-roll tax expenditure, acquisition-related expenses, featuring modification in decent market value of contingent point to consider obligation, amortization expenditure of acquired intangible possessions, litigation-related fees, featuring lawful settlements, as well as non-cash costs associated with exchangeable notes. The business also leaves out from non-GAAP income tax obligation adjustments associated with our lasting non-GAAP efficient tax rate to supply a total photo of the company’s recurring core organization operating outcomes. The firm specifies non-GAAP income per allotment, weakened, as non-GAAP take-home pay portioned by the weighted-average diluted reveals excellent, which includes the possibly dilutive result of the firm’s worker equity motivation planning awards and also the firm’s modifiable elderly notes superior and also related warrants, after providing effect to the anti-dilutive effect of the provider’s details bush contracts, which minimizes the possible financial dilution that typically would happen upon conversion of the provider’s convertible elderly notes.

Under GAAP, the anti-dilutive influence of the note bush is certainly not reflected in diluted allotments superior. The business takes into consideration these non-GAAP financial steps to be useful metrics for management and capitalists for the exact same reasons that it uses non-GAAP operating scope.Next-Generation Safety And Security ARR. Palo Alto Networks specifies Next-Generation Surveillance ARR as the annualized assigned earnings of all energetic contracts as of the last time of the coverage duration for Prisma and also Cerebral cortex offerings comprehensive of the VM-Series as well as related solutions, and particular cloud-delivered safety companies.

Starting the fiscal 1st quarter 2025, Next-Generation Surveillance ARR includes profits attributable to QRadar software application as a solution deals that we just recently got from International Company Machines Corporation. The business considers Next-Generation Security ARR to become a valuable measurement for monitoring and investors to evaluate the performance of the provider considering that Next-Generation Protection is where the provider has focused its own innovation as well as the firm anticipates its overall earnings to be overmuch driven by this Next-Generation Safety portfolio. Considering That Next-Generation Security ARR performs not have the result of delivering a mathematical measure that is actually various coming from any comparable GAAP step, the firm does rule out it a non-GAAP solution.Financiers are forewarned that there are a variety of limitations connected with the use of non-GAAP monetary procedures and also essential metrics as rational tools.

Most of the corrections to the business’s GAAP economic procedures show the omission of items that are reoccuring as well as will definitely be actually demonstrated in the firm’s monetary outcomes for the foreseeable future, such as share-based remuneration, which is a fundamental part of Palo Alto Networks workers’ payment and also impacts their efficiency. Moreover, these non-GAAP economic steps are certainly not based upon any standardized process suggested by GAAP, and the elements that Palo Alto Networks omits in its own estimation of non-GAAP economic procedures might differ from the elements that its own peer providers exclude when they disclose their non-GAAP outcomes of functions. Palo Alto Networks makes up for these limitations through providing specific details regarding the GAAP totals left out coming from these non-GAAP monetary actions.

Later on, the business may likewise leave out non-recurring expenditures as well as various other expenses that perform certainly not mirror the provider’s primary organization operating end results.Concerning Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks is the worldwide cybersecurity innovator, devoted to helping make per day much safer than the one just before along with industry-leading, AI-powered answers in system security, cloud safety as well as surveillance functions. Powered through Accuracy artificial intelligence, our modern technologies deliver exact threat diagnosis and quick response, reducing untrue positives and also enhancing safety effectiveness. Our platformization strategy incorporates unique protection remedies into a combined, scalable platform, streamlining monitoring as well as delivering functional effectiveness along with detailed defense.

From defending system borders to protecting cloud environments and guaranteeing fast event action, Palo Alto Networks empowers businesses to obtain No Leave protection and with certainty take advantage of electronic improvement in an ever-evolving hazard landscape. This unwavering devotion to surveillance as well as technology creates our company the cybersecurity partner of option.At Palo Alto Networks, our experts’re devoted to combining the very best individuals operational of our objective, so we’re likewise pleased to be the cybersecurity place of work of option, realized amongst Newsweek’s A lot of Really loved Offices (2021-2024), with a rating of 100 on the Handicap Equality Index (2024, 2023, 2022), and HRC Best Places for LGBTQ+ Equal Rights (2022 ). For more information, see www.paloaltonetworks.com.Palo Alto Networks, the Palo Alto Networks logo design, and Precision AI are trademarks of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

in the United States as well as in territories throughout the planet. All other hallmarks, trade names, or registered trademark utilized or even mentioned herein concern their particular proprietors. Any type of unreleased companies or even features (as well as any sort of services or even attributes certainly not usually available to consumers) referenced in this particular or even various other press releases or public claims are not currently on call (or even are actually certainly not however typically accessible to consumers) and also might certainly not be actually delivered when expected or even whatsoever.

Customers that buy Palo Alto Networks treatments should create their investment selections based on solutions and also attributes currently normally readily available. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Preliminary Compressed Consolidated Statements of Procedures.( In thousands, except every portion data).( Unaudited).

Three Months Finished. Oct 31,. 2024.2023.Income:.

Product.$ 353.8.$ 341.1.Subscription and support.1,785.0.1,537.0.Total revenue.2,138.8.1,878.1.Price of profits:. Item.75.0.77.4.Membership as well as help.479.1.395.4.Complete expense of income.554.1.472.8.Complete markup.1,584.7.1,405.3.Business expenses:. Trial and error.480.4.409.5.Sales and advertising and marketing.720.1.660.5.General and managerial.97.7.120.1.Overall business expenses.1,298.2.1,190.1.Running income.286.5.215.2.Enthusiasm expense.( 1.2 ).( 2.9 ).Various other profit, net.83.3.70.3.Profit prior to revenue tax obligations.368.6.282.6.Provision for earnings taxes.17.9.88.4.Earnings.$ 350.7.$ 194.2.

Take-home pay per allotment, simple.$ 1.07.$ 0.63.Take-home pay every share, diluted.$ 0.99.$ 0.56. Weighted-average reveals used to calculate take-home pay every share, general.326.8.310.1.Weighted-average reveals made use of to calculate take-home pay per share, watered down.354.5.349.8. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures.( In millions, except every portion quantities).( Unaudited). 3 Months Finished. Oct 31,.

2024.2023. GAAP operating earnings.$ 286.5.$ 215.2.Share-based compensation-related fees.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related costs( 1 ).15.1.–.Amortization cost of gotten abstract possessions.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related costs( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-GAAP operating revenue.$ 616.2.$ 529.3.Non-GAAP operating frame.28.8 %.28.2 %. GAAP take-home pay.$ 350.7.$ 194.2.Share-based compensation-related charges.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related prices( 1 ).15.1.–.Amount cost of acquired unobservable resources.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related charges( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-cash fees associated with modifiable keep in minds( 3 ).0.5.1.0.Income tax and other tax obligation adjustments( 4 ).( 136.0 ).( 43.0 ).Non-GAAP earnings.$ 544.9.$ 466.3.

GAAP income per reveal, diluted.$ 0.99.$ 0.56.Share-based compensation-related charges.0.92.0.86.Acquisition-related prices( 1 ).0.04.0.00.Amortization expenditure of gotten unobservable assets.0.11.0.07.Litigation-related charges( 2 ).( 0.12 ).0.01.Non-cash charges related to convertible keep in minds( 3 ).0.00.0.00.Income income tax and also other tax obligation changes( 4 ).( 0.38 ).( 0.12 ).Non-GAAP net income every allotment, watered down.$ 1.56.$ 1.38. GAAP weighted-average portions made use of to compute earnings per reveal, weakened.354.5.349.8.Weighted-average anti-dilutive impact newsworthy hedge agreements.( 5.9 ).( 11.6 ).Non-GAAP weighted-average allotments utilized to calculate take-home pay every portion, thinned down.348.6.338.2. ( 1 ).Consists of acquisition deal expenses, share-based settlement related to the cash money settlement deal of specific equity awards, adjustment in decent value of contingent factor to consider obligation, as well as costs to end certain work, operating lease, and various other contracts of the gotten business.( 2 ).Contain the amortization of patent licenses as well as agreement certainly not to file suit.

In the course of the three months finished October 31, 2024, it also features a release of previously built up lawful contingency cost.( 3 ).Be composed of non-cash rate of interest expenditure for amount of personal debt issuance costs related to the business’s modifiable elderly notes.( 4 ).Consists of earnings tax obligation adjustments associated with our long-term non-GAAP helpful income tax rate. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Preparatory Concise Consolidated Balance Linens.( In millions).

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

Existing resources:. Cash and money equivalents.$ 2,282.8.$ 1,535.2.Temporary assets.1,108.2.1,043.6.Accounts receivable, net.1,132.9.2,618.6.Temporary lending receivables, net.805.1.725.9.Short-term deferred deal expenses.367.6.369.0.Prepaid expenses and also other existing properties.546.1.557.4.Overall current resources.6,242.7.6,849.7.Property and devices, internet.361.0.361.1.Running lease right-of-use resources.389.0.385.9.Long-lasting investments.4,119.7.4,173.2.Long-lasting financing receivables, net.1,092.2.1,182.1.Long-lasting deferred agreement prices.531.9.562.0.Goodwill.4,050.8.3,350.1.Unobservable properties, web.809.6.374.9.Deferred tax obligation possessions.2,397.5.2,399.0.Various other possessions.380.2.352.9.Complete possessions.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9.Liabilities and shareholders’ equity. Current responsibilities:.

Accounts owed.$ 211.6.$ 116.3.Built up remuneration.354.5.554.7.Accumulated and various other obligations.683.1.506.7.Prolonged earnings.5,507.7.5,541.1.Modifiable senior details, web.645.8.963.9.Complete existing obligations.7,402.7.7,682.7.Long-lasting postponed earnings.5,585.9.5,939.4.Prolonged tax obligations.250.8.387.7.Long-term operating lease obligations.379.6.380.5.Other lasting obligations.843.8.430.9.Complete obligations.14,462.8.14,821.2.Stockholders’ equity:. Preferred stock.–.–.Ordinary shares and extra paid-in resources.4,214.9.3,821.1.Accumulated other comprehensive reduction.( 4.0 ).( 1.6 ).Maintained incomes.1,700.9.1,350.2.Complete stockholders’ equity.5,911.8.5,169.7.Overall obligations and also stockholders’ equity.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9. Resource Palo Alto Networks, Inc

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