Palo Alto Networks Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2025 Financial Results

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

A settlement between GAAP and non-GAAP relevant information is included in the tables listed below.” Our Q1 results reinforced our conviction in our separated platformization strategy,” claimed Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks. “Our experts see a growing market awareness that platformization is the activity changer that will solve protection and also enable far better AI outcomes. I expect this are going to be a multiyear pattern for which our team are actually well installed to provide to our customers.”.” Our platformization progress continued in Q1, steering powerful economic results,” stated Dipak Golechha, main financial policeman of Palo Alto Networks.

“As a result, our team are increasing our NGS ARR, income and non-GAAP EPS advice for the year.”.Equity SplitPalo Alto Networks announced that its board of directors has actually authorized a two-for-one forward share split of the provider’s superior shares of common stock. The assets split is actually to be impacted via an amendment to the provider’s restated certificate of unification, which will definitely likewise perform a proportional increase in the lot of legitimate portions of ordinary shares coming from 1.0 billion to 2.0 billion. Each stockholder of file since the close of trading on December 12, 2024 (the “record date”), will certainly get, after the close of exchanging on December thirteen, 2024, one additional share for every single reveal hung on the document day.

Investing is anticipated to start on a split-adjusted manner on December 16, 2024.Financial OutlookPalo Alto Networks supplies direction based on current market circumstances as well as requirements.For the monetary second one-fourth 2025, our team expect:.Next-Generation Safety And Security ARR of $4.70 billion to $4.75 billion, exemplifying year-over-year growth of between 35% as well as 36%.Staying efficiency commitment of $12.9 billion to $13.0 billion, embodying year-over-year development of between 20% and also 21%.Overall income in the range of $2.22 billion to $2.25 billion, standing for year-over-year growth of between 12% as well as 14%.Thinned down non-GAAP income every share in the variety of $1.54 to $1.56, making use of 350 million to 352 thousand allotments outstanding.For the fiscal year 2025, we anticipate:.Next-Generation Safety ARR of $5.52 billion to $5.57 billion, embodying year-over-year development of between 31% and also 32%.Staying functionality commitment of $15.2 billion to $15.3 billion, exemplifying year-over-year development of in between 19% as well as twenty%.Total revenue in the stable of $9.12 billion to $9.17 billion, working with year-over-year growth of 14%.Non-GAAP operating frame in the variety of 27.5% to 28.0%.Weakened non-GAAP take-home pay per cooperate the stable of $6.26 to $6.39, utilizing 350 million to 354 thousand reveals outstanding.Changed free capital scope in the range of 37% to 38%.Assistance for non-GAAP financial actions excludes share-based compensation-related charges, including share-based payroll income tax expenditure, acquisition-related prices, including modification in reasonable market value of contingent point to consider responsibility, amortization cost of obtained abstract possessions, litigation-related costs, non-cash charges related to modifiable details, and also earnings tax obligation and other income tax corrections connected to our long-lasting non-GAAP reliable tax obligation rate, alongside particular non-recurring costs and particular non-recurring cash flows. Our company have actually not integrated non-GAAP operating margin support to GAAP operating scope, diluted non-GAAP take-home pay per reveal guidance to GAAP earnings every watered down reveal or adjusted cost-free cash flow frame assistance to GAAP web cash money coming from functioning tasks given that our team perform certainly not deliver advice on GAAP operating scope, GAAP income or net money coming from operating activities and also will not have the capacity to provide the a variety of resolving cash money and also non-cash items in between GAAP as well as non-GAAP monetary steps since particular items that impact these measures doubt or away from our control, or can easily not be actually moderately anticipated, including share-based settlement expense, without unreasonable initiative. The true amounts of such integrating things will possess a notable influence on the company’s GAAP income every diluted portion and also GAAP net cash money coming from operating tasks.Profits Phone InformationPalo Alto Networks will organize a video recording webcast for analysts and also financiers to explain the provider’s economic first fourth 2025 results along with the overview for its economic second one-fourth and fiscal year 2025 today at 4:30 p.m.

Eastern time/1:30 p.m. Pacific time. Open to everyone, capitalists may access the webcast, supplementary financial relevant information as well as revenues slides from the “Financiers” area of the business’s website at investors.paloaltonetworks.com.

A replay will certainly be actually offered 3 hours after the closure of the webcast as well as archived for one year.Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release consists of progressive statements that involve threats, anxieties, as well as assumptions including claims regarding our platformization approach and financial overview for the economic 2nd fourth 2025 and fiscal year 2025. There are actually a significant variety of factors that could induce real outcomes to vary materially coming from positive declarations produced or suggested in this news release, featuring: growths and changes in general market, political, economical, as well as service conditions breakdown of our platformization item offerings failing to achieve the expected perks of our strategic collaborations as well as accomplishments changes in the decent market value of our contingent consideration responsibility associated with achievements threats related to handling our development risks associated with brand new item, registration and also support offerings, including our item offerings that utilize AI shifts in top priorities or even hold-ups in the growth or release of brand-new product or even membership or even various other offerings, or even the failing to timely cultivate and also attain market recognition of new items and registrations as well as existing products, registrations and help offerings failure of our business strategies rapidly evolving technological progressions out there for safety and security products, memberships and support offerings defects, mistakes, or even vulnerabilities in our items, registrations or even support offerings our consumers’ purchasing decisions as well as the length of sales cycles our competition our capability to attract and also preserve brand-new consumers our capacity to acquire and combine various other business, products, or innovations in a prosperous fashion our financial debt payment obligations and also our reveal repurchase plan, which may not be entirely consummated or even improve investor market value, and any kind of portion repurchases which can impact the rate of our ordinary shares.Added threats and anxieties on these and various other factors that can impact our financial results and also the forward-looking declarations our company create within this news release are actually consisted of under the inscriptions “Danger Aspects” as well as “Monitoring’s Conversation and also Study of Financial Disorder and Outcomes of Operations” as well as in other places in our Annual Report on Type 10-K filed along with the U.S. Stocks as well as Swap Compensation (” SEC”) on September 6, 2024, which is offered on our web site at investors.paloaltonetworks.com and on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Additional relevant information is going to also be actually set forth in other documents that our team submit with or even furnish to the SEC periodically. All forward-looking declarations in this particular press release are actually based on our views and also details readily available to monitoring since the date in this regard, and also we carry out not presume any kind of obligation to improve the positive declarations offered to reflect activities that take place or even situations that exist after the date on which they were made.Non-GAAP Financial Steps and Various Other Key MetricsPalo Alto Networks has actually supplied within this press release financial relevant information that has actually not been readied based on commonly allowed audit guidelines in the USA (GAAP). The business utilizes these non-GAAP economic actions and also various other crucial metrics internally in assessing its own financial results and believes that making use of these non-GAAP monetary measures and also crucial metrics are actually valuable to financiers as an extra device to assess on-going operating end results and also fads, as well as in contrasting the company’s financial end results along with various other providers in its own field, many of which current identical non-GAAP financial steps or crucial metrics.The discussion of these non-GAAP monetary solutions and also crucial metrics are actually certainly not indicated to be looked at alone or as a substitute for similar GAAP monetary steps as well as need to know merely together with the provider’s consolidated economic declarations readied according to GAAP.

A settlement of the provider’s historical non-GAAP economic measures to their very most directly equivalent GAAP measures has actually been delivered in the financial statement tables consisted of within this news release, as well as capitalists are actually motivated to assess these reconciliations.Non-GAAP operating margin. Palo Alto Networks defines non-GAAP operating scope as non-GAAP operating revenue separated by complete revenue. The business defines non-GAAP operating income as running revenue plus share-based compensation-related costs, including share-based payroll tax obligation cost, acquisition-related costs, consisting of improvement in decent worth of contingent consideration liability, amount expenditure of gotten abstract possessions, and also litigation-related costs.

The firm strongly believes that non-GAAP operating frame provides monitoring as well as clients with more significant visibility in to the rooting functionality of the business’s center company operating end results.Non-GAAP take-home pay and income per share, diluted. Palo Alto Networks specifies non-GAAP income as net income plus share-based compensation-related fees, including share-based pay-roll income tax expenditure, acquisition-related expenses, including modification in decent market value of contingent factor obligation, amount expense of gotten unobservable assets, litigation-related charges, consisting of legal negotiations, and also non-cash charges connected to exchangeable notes. The firm also omits from non-GAAP net income tax obligation adjustments related to our long-term non-GAAP reliable income tax price so as to offer a complete photo of the company’s reoccuring primary organization operating results.

The business defines non-GAAP net income every share, diluted, as non-GAAP take-home pay partitioned by the weighted-average diluted portions excellent, which includes the potentially dilutive result of the company’s worker equity reward program awards as well as the provider’s convertible elderly details impressive and also similar warrants, after offering effect to the anti-dilutive influence of the firm’s note bush deals, which lessens the potential economic dip that typically would occur upon transformation of the provider’s exchangeable senior keep in minds. Under GAAP, the anti-dilutive influence of the note hedge is actually not demonstrated in diluted allotments impressive. The provider considers these non-GAAP economic steps to become beneficial metrics for monitoring as well as real estate investors for the very same explanations that it uses non-GAAP operating margin.Next-Generation Protection ARR.

Palo Alto Networks describes Next-Generation Surveillance ARR as the annualized designated profits of all energetic contracts since the ultimate time of the reporting duration for Prisma and also Pallium offerings inclusive of the VM-Series as well as relevant solutions, as well as certain cloud-delivered security companies. Starting the financial very first fourth 2025, Next-Generation Safety and security ARR includes earnings derivable to QRadar software application as a solution deals that our team recently acquired from International Business Machines Corporation. The firm looks at Next-Generation Safety and security ARR to become a helpful metric for monitoring and also clients to analyze the functionality of the company since Next-Generation Protection is actually where the firm has actually centered its technology and also the provider expects its own total earnings to become overmuch driven by this Next-Generation Protection collection.

Since Next-Generation Security ARR performs certainly not possess the impact of providing a mathematical step that is actually different from any kind of comparable GAAP solution, the business performs rule out it a non-GAAP measure.Financiers are actually forewarned that there are a variety of limitations connected with using non-GAAP economic procedures and also essential metrics as logical resources. Much of the changes to the provider’s GAAP economic procedures demonstrate the omission of items that are repeating and also will certainly be demonstrated in the business’s economic end results for the direct future, like share-based settlement, which is an integral part of Palo Alto Networks staff members’ settlement and effects their performance. In addition, these non-GAAP economic solutions are not based upon any sort of standard method suggested by GAAP, and also the elements that Palo Alto Networks excludes in its own calculation of non-GAAP monetary solutions might contrast from the parts that its own peer business leave out when they mention their non-GAAP outcomes of procedures.

Palo Alto Networks makes up for these restrictions through offering details details relating to the GAAP amounts excluded coming from these non-GAAP monetary procedures. In the future, the provider might additionally exclude non-recurring costs and also other expenses that perform not show the company’s center service operating outcomes.Concerning Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks is the global cybersecurity leader, devoted to making on a daily basis more secure than the one prior to along with industry-leading, AI-powered answers in system security, cloud safety and security and also safety and security operations. Powered through Precision AI, our technologies supply specific threat diagnosis and also fast response, lessening incorrect positives and enhancing protection performance.

Our platformization approach incorporates unique security services in to a linked, scalable platform, streamlining control as well as giving working performances with complete protection. Coming from fighting for network perimeters to securing cloud environments as well as ensuring swift happening reaction, Palo Alto Networks empowers businesses to attain No Trust fund surveillance and also with certainty accept electronic change in an ever-evolving threat landscape. This steadfast dedication to protection as well as advancement produces us the cybersecurity partner of option.At Palo Alto Networks, our company are actually devoted to bringing together the best individuals operational of our goal, so our experts’re additionally proud to be the cybersecurity office of choice, identified one of Newsweek’s A lot of Enjoyed Workplaces (2021-2024), with a score of 100 on the Impairment Impartiality Mark (2024, 2023, 2022), and also HRC Finest Places for LGBTQ+ Impartiality (2022 ).

To learn more, browse through www.paloaltonetworks.com.Palo Alto Networks, the Palo Alto Networks logo design, and also Precision artificial intelligence are trademarks of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the planet. All other hallmarks, trade names, or registered trademark used or even mentioned here come from their corresponding owners.

Any sort of unreleased services or attributes (and any solutions or functions certainly not generally available to consumers) referenced in this particular or even various other news release or public statements are actually not currently available (or even are actually certainly not yet commonly on call to customers) as well as might certainly not be actually supplied when expected or even in all. Consumers who acquire Palo Alto Networks applications must create their investment selections based upon services and also functions currently usually offered. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Preliminary Compressed Consolidated Statements of Procedures.( In thousands, other than per portion data).( Unaudited). Three Months Ended. October 31,.

2024.2023.Income:. Item.$ 353.8.$ 341.1.Registration and also assistance.1,785.0.1,537.0.Complete earnings.2,138.8.1,878.1.Price of income:. Item.75.0.77.4.Subscription and also assistance.479.1.395.4.Overall price of profits.554.1.472.8.Complete markup.1,584.7.1,405.3.General expenses:.

R &amp d.480.4.409.5.Purchases as well as advertising.720.1.660.5.General as well as administrative.97.7.120.1.Complete operating expenses.1,298.2.1,190.1.Functioning earnings.286.5.215.2.Rate of interest expenditure.( 1.2 ).( 2.9 ).Other earnings, net.83.3.70.3.Profit prior to profit tax obligations.368.6.282.6.Arrangement for revenue taxes.17.9.88.4.Income.$ 350.7.$ 194.2. Income per reveal, fundamental.$ 1.07.$ 0.63.Income per allotment, diluted.$ 0.99.$ 0.56. Weighted-average reveals used to compute take-home pay per reveal, fundamental.326.8.310.1.Weighted-average shares utilized to calculate take-home pay every share, thinned down.354.5.349.8.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Settlement of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Amounts.( In millions, apart from per portion quantities).( Unaudited). Three Months Ended.

Oct 31,. 2024.2023. GAAP operating profit.$ 286.5.$ 215.2.Share-based compensation-related fees.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related costs( 1 ).15.1.–.Amount cost of obtained unobservable properties.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related charges( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-GAAP operating income.$ 616.2.$ 529.3.Non-GAAP operating scope.28.8 %.28.2 %.

GAAP earnings.$ 350.7.$ 194.2.Share-based compensation-related fees.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related expenses( 1 ).15.1.–.Amount expense of acquired abstract resources.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related fees( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-cash costs related to exchangeable keep in minds( 3 ).0.5.1.0.Profit tax obligation and also various other tax obligation adjustments( 4 ).( 136.0 ).( 43.0 ).Non-GAAP earnings.$ 544.9.$ 466.3. GAAP earnings every share, watered down.$ 0.99.$ 0.56.Share-based compensation-related fees.0.92.0.86.Acquisition-related costs( 1 ).0.04.0.00.Amortization expense of obtained abstract properties.0.11.0.07.Litigation-related charges( 2 ).( 0.12 ).0.01.Non-cash costs related to exchangeable notes( 3 ).0.00.0.00.Earnings tax and also various other income tax adjustments( 4 ).( 0.38 ).( 0.12 ).Non-GAAP net income every reveal, thinned down.$ 1.56.$ 1.38. GAAP weighted-average portions utilized to calculate earnings every reveal, thinned down.354.5.349.8.Weighted-average anti-dilutive effect newsworthy hedge agreements.( 5.9 ).( 11.6 ).Non-GAAP weighted-average portions made use of to figure out take-home pay every portion, thinned down.348.6.338.2.

( 1 ).Be composed of accomplishment transaction expenses, share-based remuneration related to the cash negotiation of specific equity awards, change in decent value of dependent point to consider obligation, and also expenses to end particular work, working lease, and other arrangements of the gotten firms.( 2 ).Include the amount of patent licenses and also agreement certainly not to sue. During the course of the 3 months ended October 31, 2024, it likewise includes a launch of previously accrued legal emergency cost.( 3 ).Feature non-cash enthusiasm expenditure for amortization of personal debt publication costs connected to the business’s modifiable senior keep in minds.( 4 ).Contain profit tax changes related to our long-term non-GAAP efficient tax obligation fee. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Preparatory Concise Consolidated Equilibrium Linens.( In millions). Oct 31, 2024.July 31, 2024. ( unaudited).

Assets. Existing resources:. Cash and also cash money substitutes.$ 2,282.8.$ 1,535.2.Temporary assets.1,108.2.1,043.6.Accounts receivable, internet.1,132.9.2,618.6.Temporary finance receivables, net.805.1.725.9.Temporary delayed arrangement expenses.367.6.369.0.Prepaid expenses and other present resources.546.1.557.4.Overall present properties.6,242.7.6,849.7.Residential or commercial property and also tools, web.361.0.361.1.Functioning lease right-of-use resources.389.0.385.9.Long-term assets.4,119.7.4,173.2.Lasting finance receivables, net.1,092.2.1,182.1.Long-term deferred deal expenses.531.9.562.0.A good reputation.4,050.8.3,350.1.Abstract possessions, internet.809.6.374.9.Prolonged tax assets.2,397.5.2,399.0.Other possessions.380.2.352.9.Overall resources.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9.Obligations and also stockholders’ equity.

Present obligations:. Accounts payable.$ 211.6.$ 116.3.Built up compensation.354.5.554.7.Built up as well as other responsibilities.683.1.506.7.Deferred profits.5,507.7.5,541.1.Modifiable elderly keep in minds, net.645.8.963.9.Overall current liabilities.7,402.7.7,682.7.Long-lasting deferred profits.5,585.9.5,939.4.Deferred income tax obligations.250.8.387.7.Long-term operating lease liabilities.379.6.380.5.Other long-term liabilities.843.8.430.9.Complete liabilities.14,462.8.14,821.2.Investors’ equity:. Preferred stock.–.–.Common stock and also added paid-in resources.4,214.9.3,821.1.Accumulated other extensive reduction.( 4.0 ).( 1.6 ).Preserved earnings.1,700.9.1,350.2.Complete stockholders’ equity.5,911.8.5,169.7.Total responsibilities and investors’ equity.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9.

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