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

.Fiscal 1st quarter earnings developed 14% year over year to $2.1 billion.Next-Generation Protection ARR grew 40% year over year to $4.5 billion.Remaining performance obligation developed 20% year over year to $12.6 billion.SANTA CLAM CLARA, Calif., Nov. 20, 2024/ PRNewswire/– Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity forerunner, revealed today monetary end results for its monetary 1st fourth 2025, finished October 31, 2024.Total income for the financial very first one-fourth 2025 expanded 14% year over year to $2.1 billion, compared to overall income of $1.9 billion for the budgetary first quarter 2024. GAAP earnings for the fiscal very first quarter 2025 was actually $350.7 thousand, or $0.99 every diluted reveal, compared to GAAP take-home pay of $194.2 thousand, or $0.56 every diluted reveal, for the fiscal initial quarter 2024.Non-GAAP earnings for the financial very first quarter 2025 was actually $544.9 thousand, or $1.56 per watered down reveal, compared with non-GAAP net income of $466.3 thousand, or $1.38 every diluted share, for the budgetary initial quarter 2024.

A getting back together between GAAP and also non-GAAP information is included in the tables below.” Our Q1 results strengthened our strong belief in our varied platformization tactic,” mentioned Nikesh Arora, leader and also CEO of Palo Alto Networks. “We see a developing market realization that platformization is actually the activity changer that will solve safety and security and also enable better AI end results. I expect this will be a multiyear trend for which our experts are best placed to deliver to our consumers.”.” Our platformization progression carried on in Q1, driving tough financial end results,” mentioned Dipak Golechha, primary monetary policeman of Palo Alto Networks.

“Because of this, our experts are elevating our NGS ARR, revenue and non-GAAP EPS support for the year.”.Equity SplitPalo Alto Networks declared that its panel of supervisors has actually approved a two-for-one aggressive equity split of the business’s impressive shares of ordinary shares. The equity crack is actually to be impacted with an amendment to the provider’s restated certification of consolidation, which will certainly likewise perform an in proportion boost in the number of certified allotments of ordinary shares from 1.0 billion to 2.0 billion. Each stockholder of report since the close of trading on December 12, 2024 (the “file time”), will certainly get, after the close of exchanging on December 13, 2024, one additional portion for each allotment held on the document day.

Trading is actually expected to begin on a split-adjusted basis on December 16, 2024.Financial OutlookPalo Alto Networks supplies advice based upon existing market circumstances and also assumptions.For the budgetary second fourth 2025, our company assume:.Next-Generation Protection ARR of $4.70 billion to $4.75 billion, exemplifying year-over-year growth of between 35% and 36%.Remaining efficiency responsibility of $12.9 billion to $13.0 billion, working with year-over-year development of between twenty% and also 21%.Complete profits in the stable of $2.22 billion to $2.25 billion, working with year-over-year growth of between 12% and also 14%.Diluted non-GAAP earnings every share in the series of $1.54 to $1.56, utilizing 350 million to 352 million allotments impressive.For the fiscal year 2025, our experts assume:.Next-Generation Safety ARR of $5.52 billion to $5.57 billion, working with year-over-year growth of between 31% and 32%.Continuing to be performance responsibility of $15.2 billion to $15.3 billion, working with year-over-year growth of between 19% and twenty%.Total profits in the stable of $9.12 billion to $9.17 billion, standing for year-over-year growth of 14%.Non-GAAP operating frame in the stable of 27.5% to 28.0%.Thinned down non-GAAP take-home pay per cooperate the series of $6.26 to $6.39, using 350 million to 354 thousand shares excellent.Readjusted free cash flow frame in the stable of 37% to 38%.Guidance for non-GAAP financial procedures excludes share-based compensation-related charges, featuring share-based payroll tax cost, acquisition-related costs, consisting of adjustment in fair worth of contingent factor liability, amortization expense of obtained abstract assets, litigation-related charges, non-cash charges associated with exchangeable notes, and earnings tax and also various other income tax corrections associated with our long-lasting non-GAAP reliable tax obligation fee, alongside specific non-recurring expenses and specific non-recurring capital. Our team have actually certainly not resolved non-GAAP operating frame support to GAAP operating scope, thinned down non-GAAP net income every reveal advice to GAAP net income per watered down share or even changed free of charge capital scope advice to GAAP net cash money from operating activities due to the fact that we perform not supply assistance on GAAP operating frame, GAAP net income or net cash from working tasks as well as would certainly certainly not have the ability to offer the a variety of integrating cash money as well as non-cash products between GAAP and non-GAAP monetary solutions since specific things that impact these procedures are uncertain or even out of our control, or may not be reasonably forecasted, featuring share-based compensation expenditure, without weird attempt. The genuine volumes of such reconciling items will certainly possess a notable effect on the business’s GAAP take-home pay every diluted reveal as well as GAAP web cash money coming from functioning tasks.Earnings Get In Touch With InformationPalo Alto Networks are going to host an online video webcast for experts and entrepreneurs to review the firm’s financial first quarter 2025 leads in addition to the expectation for its budgetary 2nd fourth as well as 2025 today at 4:30 p.m.

Eastern time/1:30 p.m. Pacific time. Open up to the public, capitalists may access the webcast, supplemental financial info and also incomes slides from the “Real estate investors” area of the provider’s web site at investors.paloaltonetworks.com.

A replay will definitely be offered 3 hrs after the conclusion of the webcast as well as archived for one year.Progressive StatementsThis press release includes progressive claims that include risks, unpredictabilities, and assumptions featuring statements regarding our platformization tactic as well as financial expectation for the budgetary second quarter 2025 as well as 2025. There are actually a notable number of elements that could trigger real results to differ materially from progressive declarations produced or even signified in this news release, consisting of: developments and changes as a whole market, political, economical, and company disorders breakdown of our platformization item offerings failure to obtain the anticipated perks of our key alliances as well as acquisitions adjustments in the reasonable value of our dependent factor responsibility linked with accomplishments risks associated with handling our development risks connected with brand-new item, registration and support offerings, featuring our item offerings that utilize AI changes in concerns or hold-ups in the advancement or launch of brand-new item or registration or other offerings, or the failure to timely build and attain market acceptance of brand new items and memberships as well as existing items, registrations as well as help offerings failing of our service methods rapidly progressing technological advancements in the market for surveillance products, memberships as well as support offerings problems, errors, or even weakness in our items, subscriptions or support offerings our consumers’ investing in selections as well as the span of sales patterns our competition our ability to bring in and also preserve brand-new consumers our capacity to acquire and also incorporate various other business, items, or even modern technologies in a prosperous manner our financial obligation payment commitments as well as our allotment redeemed system, which might not be totally consummated or improve investor market value, and any kind of allotment repurchases which could impact the cost of our common stock.Additional dangers and unpredictabilities on these and other aspects that might influence our monetary outcomes and the progressive claims our company create within this news release are consisted of under the captions “Danger Aspects” as well as “Administration’s Conversation as well as Study of Financial Health Condition and also Outcomes of Workflow” as well as in other places in our Yearly Report on Form 10-K submitted with the U.S. Securities as well as Exchange Percentage (” SEC”) on September 6, 2024, which is actually on call on our site at investors.paloaltonetworks.com and also on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Added details is going to also be actually stated in other papers that our experts submit with or equip to the SEC every now and then. All positive claims in this particular press release are actually based upon our ideas and details readily available to monitoring as of the day hereof, as well as our experts do certainly not think any type of commitment to update the forward-looking claims supplied to demonstrate occasions that happen or conditions that exist after the day on which they were created.Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Various Other Secret MetricsPalo Alto Networks has offered in this particular press release monetary relevant information that has not been prepared based on normally taken bookkeeping guidelines in the USA (GAAP). The provider uses these non-GAAP financial procedures and also various other crucial metrics internally in assessing its own economic outcomes and strongly believes that the use of these non-GAAP economic actions and also crucial metrics are valuable to entrepreneurs as an additional tool to analyze recurring operating results as well as trends, as well as in comparing the provider’s monetary outcomes with various other firms in its own market, a number of which existing comparable non-GAAP monetary procedures or even key metrics.The discussion of these non-GAAP financial actions and also crucial metrics are actually certainly not meant to become considered alone or even as a substitute for equivalent GAAP financial actions and also need to be read just combined with the company’s consolidated financial claims readied in accordance with GAAP.

A getting back together of the provider’s historical non-GAAP economic procedures to their very most directly similar GAAP procedures has actually been actually delivered in the monetary statement dining tables included in this particular news release, and investors are promoted to evaluate these settlements.Non-GAAP operating margin. Palo Alto Networks determines non-GAAP operating margin as non-GAAP operating profit divided through total earnings. The firm determines non-GAAP operating revenue as operating income plus share-based compensation-related costs, including share-based pay-roll income tax expense, acquisition-related expenses, featuring adjustment in decent worth of contingent factor responsibility, amortization expense of acquired intangible resources, and also litigation-related charges.

The firm thinks that non-GAAP operating margin gives management and also clients with better presence into the underlying efficiency of the provider’s center company operating results.Non-GAAP net income as well as net income per reveal, diluted. Palo Alto Networks defines non-GAAP take-home pay as income plus share-based compensation-related fees, featuring share-based pay-roll tax expenditure, acquisition-related prices, consisting of adjustment in fair value of dependent factor obligation, amortization cost of acquired unobservable properties, litigation-related charges, featuring legal resolutions, as well as non-cash fees connected to modifiable keep in minds. The business likewise leaves out coming from non-GAAP take-home pay tax obligation corrections related to our long-lasting non-GAAP effective tax fee in order to offer a total picture of the company’s repeating core company operating results.

The business determines non-GAAP take-home pay per portion, weakened, as non-GAAP take-home pay split by the weighted-average watered down allotments superior, that includes the potentially dilutive result of the business’s staff member equity motivation planning awards as well as the firm’s modifiable senior details superior and associated warrants, after giving effect to the anti-dilutive influence of the business’s note hedge arrangements, which minimizes the possible economic dip that otherwise would take place upon conversion of the provider’s exchangeable elderly notes. Under GAAP, the anti-dilutive influence of the note bush is certainly not reflected in diluted allotments exceptional. The firm looks at these non-GAAP monetary solutions to be practical metrics for control and also real estate investors for the very same factors that it makes use of non-GAAP operating margin.Next-Generation Security ARR.

Palo Alto Networks defines Next-Generation Safety and security ARR as the annualized alloted income of all energetic deals as of the ultimate time of the coverage duration for Prisma and also Pallium offerings inclusive of the VM-Series and also related companies, and also particular cloud-delivered surveillance companies. Starting the monetary very first one-fourth 2025, Next-Generation Surveillance ARR includes revenue derivable to QRadar software program as a service contracts that our experts lately obtained from International Company Machines Company. The company thinks about Next-Generation Surveillance ARR to be a useful statistics for administration and also real estate investors to examine the functionality of the firm due to the fact that Next-Generation Security is actually where the provider has focused its own innovation as well as the firm expects its own total earnings to be overmuch driven through this Next-Generation Protection portfolio.

Since Next-Generation Safety ARR performs certainly not possess the effect of supplying a mathematical solution that is actually various coming from any sort of equivalent GAAP action, the provider carries out not consider it a non-GAAP procedure.Investors are actually forewarned that there are actually a number of limitations related to the use of non-GAAP economic steps and essential metrics as analytical devices. A number of the corrections to the provider’s GAAP financial actions mirror the exemption of items that are actually recurring as well as will definitely be demonstrated in the provider’s economic end results for the not far off future, like share-based settlement, which is an important part of Palo Alto Networks employees’ settlement and effects their performance. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures are actually not based on any sort of standardized technique suggested through GAAP, and also the elements that Palo Alto Networks omits in its estimation of non-GAAP monetary actions may vary coming from the parts that its own peer providers leave out when they mention their non-GAAP results of functions.

Palo Alto Networks compensates for these constraints through giving certain info relating to the GAAP totals omitted from these non-GAAP financial measures. In the future, the business may additionally exclude non-recurring expenditures and also various other costs that do not mirror the firm’s primary company operating outcomes.Concerning Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks is actually the worldwide cybersecurity leader, devoted to producing on a daily basis more secure than the one prior to along with industry-leading, AI-powered answers in system protection, cloud safety and security and also safety and security operations. Powered through Precision artificial intelligence, our innovations supply exact hazard diagnosis and swift action, minimizing inaccurate positives and also boosting protection performance.

Our platformization technique incorporates varied surveillance solutions into a combined, scalable platform, simplifying administration as well as supplying working productivities along with thorough protection. From guarding network borders to securing cloud environments and ensuring fast event feedback, Palo Alto Networks encourages companies to accomplish Zero Rely on protection as well as with confidence accept electronic improvement in an ever-evolving danger landscape. This unwavering devotion to surveillance and technology makes our company the cybersecurity partner of selection.At Palo Alto Networks, our team’re devoted to combining the greatest folks in service of our purpose, so our experts are actually additionally happy to be the cybersecurity work environment of option, acknowledged amongst Newsweek’s A lot of Liked Workplaces (2021-2024), with a score of 100 on the Special Needs Equal Rights Index (2024, 2023, 2022), and also HRC Greatest Places for LGBTQ+ Impartiality (2022 ).

To read more, browse through www.paloaltonetworks.com.Palo Alto Networks, the Palo Alto Networks logo, and Precision artificial intelligence are actually hallmarks of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in the United States and also in territories throughout the world. All other hallmarks, brand, or even registered trademark utilized or mentioned here belong to their respective proprietors.

Any sort of unreleased companies or even attributes (and also any kind of services or even components certainly not normally readily available to clients) referenced in this particular or even other news release or public declarations are certainly not presently on call (or are actually not yet typically offered to customers) as well as may not be actually delivered when anticipated or even in all. Customers that acquire Palo Alto Networks treatments should make their purchase selections based upon solutions as well as functions currently commonly offered. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Preparatory Short Consolidated Statements of Functions.( In thousands, except every portion data).( Unaudited). Three Months Ended. October 31,.

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

Trial and error.480.4.409.5.Purchases and advertising and marketing.720.1.660.5.General as well as managerial.97.7.120.1.Total operating costs.1,298.2.1,190.1.Running profit.286.5.215.2.Interest expense.( 1.2 ).( 2.9 ).Other earnings, web.83.3.70.3.Income before profit tax obligations.368.6.282.6.Regulation for earnings tax obligations.17.9.88.4.Income.$ 350.7.$ 194.2. Net income per portion, general.$ 1.07.$ 0.63.Earnings every share, thinned down.$ 0.99.$ 0.56. Weighted-average portions utilized to compute net income per allotment, essential.326.8.310.1.Weighted-average shares made use of to figure out net income every portion, diluted.354.5.349.8.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Settlement of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures.( In millions, except per allotment amounts).( Unaudited). 3 Months Ended.

October 31,. 2024.2023. GAAP operating profit.$ 286.5.$ 215.2.Share-based compensation-related costs.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related prices( 1 ).15.1.–.Amortization expense of obtained abstract assets.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 earnings.$ 350.7.$ 194.2.Share-based compensation-related costs.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related prices( 1 ).15.1.–.Amortization cost of acquired abstract properties.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related costs( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-cash costs associated with modifiable details( 3 ).0.5.1.0.Profit tax as well as other tax obligation modifications( 4 ).( 136.0 ).( 43.0 ).Non-GAAP earnings.$ 544.9.$ 466.3. GAAP income every reveal, thinned down.$ 0.99.$ 0.56.Share-based compensation-related charges.0.92.0.86.Acquisition-related costs( 1 ).0.04.0.00.Amortization cost of gotten intangible properties.0.11.0.07.Litigation-related costs( 2 ).( 0.12 ).0.01.Non-cash costs related to modifiable notes( 3 ).0.00.0.00.Income tax obligation as well as various other tax obligation corrections( 4 ).( 0.38 ).( 0.12 ).Non-GAAP earnings every allotment, thinned down.$ 1.56.$ 1.38. GAAP weighted-average shares used to figure out income every reveal, watered down.354.5.349.8.Weighted-average anti-dilutive impact newsworthy hedge agreements.( 5.9 ).( 11.6 ).Non-GAAP weighted-average reveals used to figure out take-home pay every reveal, diluted.348.6.338.2.

( 1 ).Consists of accomplishment deal costs, share-based remuneration related to the cash negotiation of specific equity awards, adjustment in decent value of contingent factor to consider responsibility, and also prices to end specific employment, working lease, and various other contracts of the acquired firms.( 2 ).Consists of the amortization of trademark licenses and covenant not to file suit. In the course of the 3 months finished October 31, 2024, it also consists of a release of formerly built up lawful contingency cost.( 3 ).Consists of non-cash rate of interest expenditure for amount of financial debt issue costs associated with the provider’s convertible senior keep in minds.( 4 ).Feature earnings tax corrections connected to our lasting non-GAAP helpful tax price. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

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

Properties. Existing possessions:. Money and also cash substitutes.$ 2,282.8.$ 1,535.2.Temporary expenditures.1,108.2.1,043.6.Accounts receivable, net.1,132.9.2,618.6.Temporary funding receivables, web.805.1.725.9.Short-term put off contract costs.367.6.369.0.Prepaid expenditures and other current possessions.546.1.557.4.Overall existing resources.6,242.7.6,849.7.Building and tools, web.361.0.361.1.Functioning lease right-of-use properties.389.0.385.9.Long-term assets.4,119.7.4,173.2.Long-term loan receivables, net.1,092.2.1,182.1.Long-term put off agreement prices.531.9.562.0.Goodwill.4,050.8.3,350.1.Unobservable possessions, net.809.6.374.9.Prolonged tax resources.2,397.5.2,399.0.Various other resources.380.2.352.9.Total assets.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9.Obligations and also stockholders’ equity.

Current obligations:. Funds owed.$ 211.6.$ 116.3.Built up remuneration.354.5.554.7.Accumulated as well as various other responsibilities.683.1.506.7.Deferred income.5,507.7.5,541.1.Exchangeable senior details, net.645.8.963.9.Complete existing liabilities.7,402.7.7,682.7.Long-term postponed revenue.5,585.9.5,939.4.Prolonged income tax responsibilities.250.8.387.7.Long-lasting operating lease obligations.379.6.380.5.Other lasting obligations.843.8.430.9.Overall responsibilities.14,462.8.14,821.2.Investors’ equity:. Preferred stock.–.–.Ordinary shares and also extra paid-in funding.4,214.9.3,821.1.Accumulated other complete reduction.( 4.0 ).( 1.6 ).Maintained profits.1,700.9.1,350.2.Complete stockholders’ equity.5,911.8.5,169.7.Overall obligations and stockholders’ equity.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9.

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