Company Reports Q3 FY'12 Revenue of $1.566 Billion, Delivering Ninth Consecutive Quarter of over 20% Year over Year Revenue Growth
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Sunnyvale, Calif.- February 15, 2012 - NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today reported results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, which ended January 27, 2012. Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012 totaled $1.566 billion compared to revenues of $1.290 billion for the same period one year ago.
For the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, GAAP net income was $120 million, or $0.32 per share[1], compared to GAAP net income of $186 million, or $0.46 per share, for the same period a year ago. Non-GAAP net income for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012 was $216 million, or $0.58 per share[2], compared to non-GAAP net income of $226 million, or $0.56 per share, for the same period a year ago.
Revenues for the first nine months of fiscal year 2012 totaled $4.531 billion compared to revenues of $3.694 billion for the first nine months of the prior fiscal year, an increase of 23% year over year. GAAP net income for the first nine months of fiscal year 2012 totaled $425 million, or $1.10 per share, compared to GAAP net income of $513 million, or $1.31 per share for the first nine months of the prior fiscal year. Non-GAAP net income for the first nine months of fiscal year 2012 totaled $674 million, or $1.75 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $629 million, or $1.61 per share for the first nine months of the prior fiscal year.
More and more customers are leveraging storage virtualization to re-architect their data centers in order to gain efficiency, flexibility and cost savings, and NetApp provides the most compelling value proposition in the industry for both private and public cloud deployments, said Tom Georgens, president and CEO. Our success is evident in our results, as NetApp won a record number of new customers, significantly increased our units shipped-including a record number of high-end systems, and saw solid revenue growth across almost all geographies in our third quarter.
Outlook
NetApp estimates revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012 to be in the range of $1.645 billion to $1.725 billion, which equates to approximately 5% to 10% sequential revenue growth and approximately 15% to 21% year-over-year revenue growth.
NetApp estimates that fourth quarter fiscal year 2012 GAAP earnings per share will be approximately $0.38 to $0.43 per share. NetApp estimates that fourth quarter fiscal year 2012 non-GAAP earnings per share will be approximately $0.60 to $0.65 per share.
NetApp estimates that share count for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012 will increase to approximately 378 million shares, including an estimated 8 million shares from the Companys outstanding convertible notes[3]. Share count does not include the Companys outstanding note hedges which are expected to offset 80% of the dilution from the convertible notes at maturity or conversion.
Business Highlights
During the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, NetApp continued to demonstrate the innovation and commitment needed to help its customers and partners address todays expanding data requirements to drive business success. NetApp unveiled its Smart Decisions initiative aimed at helping midsize business customers start right, keep it simple, and grow smart, while at the same time enabling its partners to offer the best technologies and solutions to grow their own businesses, increase profits, and help their customers succeed. Highlights for the quarter include the following:
Midsize Business Customers Build on NetApp to Address Growing Business Demands and the Need to Do More with Less
NetApp unveiled the new NetApp FAS2000 entry product line which enables customers to start right and grow with the needs of their business. The enhanced portfolio also allows partners to offer their customers the best technologies and solutions to increase their own business, increase profits, and help their customers succeed. The powerful new FAS2240 delivers a two to three times of performance improvement and greater flexibility, allowing customers to maximize their storage investments, support demanding workloads, and add capabilities as their business needs change. NetApp OnCommand System Manager 2.0 software helps customers simplify, control, and automate setup and management of NetApp storage. With more than 10,000 midsize business customers already turning to NetApp each year for their storage needs, the enhanced portfolio will help NetApp continue to build on its position as an industry leader.
Be The Match Leverages NetApp to Turn Its IT Environment into a Catalyst for Life-Saving Speed and Flexibility
Be The Match, which operates the worlds largest listing of potential marrow donors and donated cord blood units, depends on its IT infrastructure to allow the organization to facilitate thousands of potentially life-saving transplants each year. To help accelerate the flow of data and enhance its ability to match donors with patients, Be The Match recently chose NetApp as its storage foundation. By transforming its IT infrastructure, utilizing NetApp as one of its vendors, the organization expects to reduce the time to transplant by 15%, double its annual donor registrations, and facilitate 50% more transplants around the world.
NetApp Helps Customers Control Explosive Data Growth and Gain Greater Insight
New NetApp solution helps customers maximize enterprise Hadoop implementations. The NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop provides customers with improved flexibility and performance along with lower total cost of ownership, enabling customers to gain greater insight into and a competitive advantage from their data. Additionally, NetApp teamed with Cloudera to distribute Clouderas Distribution, including Apache Hadoop and Cloudera En
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Company Reports Q3 FY'12 Revenue of $1.566 Billion, Delivering Ninth Consecutive Quarter of over 20% Year over Year Revenue Growth 
