Palo Alto Networks News Fiscal First One-fourth 2025 Financial Results

.Fiscal 1st fourth earnings developed 14% year over year to $2.1 billion.Next-Generation Safety and security ARR grew 40% year over year to $4.5 billion.Continuing to be efficiency commitment expanded twenty% year over year to $12.6 billion.SANTA CLAM CLARA, Calif., Nov. 20, 2024/ PRNewswire/– Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the international cybersecurity innovator, announced today economic end results for its financial initial fourth 2025, finished Oct 31, 2024.Total income for the monetary first fourth 2025 developed 14% year over year to $2.1 billion, compared with overall income of $1.9 billion for the budgetary 1st quarter 2024. GAAP income for the financial 1st fourth 2025 was $350.7 million, or $0.99 every watered down reveal, compared to GAAP net income of $194.2 thousand, or $0.56 per watered down share, for the financial very first quarter 2024.Non-GAAP take-home pay for the budgetary very first fourth 2025 was $544.9 million, or $1.56 every watered down portion, compared to non-GAAP net income of $466.3 thousand, or $1.38 every diluted portion, for the monetary initial one-fourth 2024.

A getting back together in between GAAP and also non-GAAP info is actually had in the dining tables listed below.” Our Q1 results reinforced our conviction in our varied platformization strategy,” stated Nikesh Arora, chairman and also chief executive officer of Palo Alto Networks. “Our company find an increasing market awareness that platformization is the video game changer that will certainly address security and make it possible for better artificial intelligence end results. I expect this will certainly be a multiyear style for which our team are actually better installed to deliver to our customers.”.” Our platformization development continued in Q1, driving powerful monetary end results,” said Dipak Golechha, primary economic officer of Palo Alto Networks.

“Because of this, our team are actually elevating our NGS ARR, profits and non-GAAP EPS guidance for the year.”.Share SplitPalo Alto Networks announced that its board of directors has actually approved a two-for-one forward share crack of the company’s superior reveals of common stock. The stock split is to be performed via a change to the provider’s restated certification of unification, which will additionally perform a proportional increase in the number of authorized shares of common stock from 1.0 billion to 2.0 billion. Each stockholder of report since the shut of trading on December 12, 2024 (the “record date”), are going to acquire, after the shut of investing on December thirteen, 2024, one extra share for every single allotment hung on the document date.

Trading is assumed to begin on a split-adjusted basis on December 16, 2024.Financial OutlookPalo Alto Networks provides support based upon current market circumstances and requirements.For the financial 2nd one-fourth 2025, our experts anticipate:.Next-Generation Security ARR of $4.70 billion to $4.75 billion, standing for year-over-year growth of between 35% and 36%.Continuing to be performance commitment of $12.9 billion to $13.0 billion, embodying year-over-year development of between 20% and also 21%.Complete revenue in the variety of $2.22 billion to $2.25 billion, working with year-over-year development of in between 12% and 14%.Diluted non-GAAP earnings per share in the range of $1.54 to $1.56, making use of 350 thousand to 352 million portions outstanding.For the 2025, our team anticipate:.Next-Generation Security ARR of $5.52 billion to $5.57 billion, embodying year-over-year growth of in between 31% and also 32%.Continuing to be performance responsibility of $15.2 billion to $15.3 billion, representing year-over-year development of in between 19% and 20%.Complete earnings in the stable of $9.12 billion to $9.17 billion, embodying year-over-year growth of 14%.Non-GAAP operating frame in the stable of 27.5% to 28.0%.Diluted non-GAAP income every cooperate the stable of $6.26 to $6.39, making use of 350 million to 354 million allotments superior.Changed free cash flow frame in the series of 37% to 38%.Advice for non-GAAP economic procedures omits share-based compensation-related costs, consisting of share-based payroll income tax expense, acquisition-related prices, featuring adjustment in reasonable value of contingent point to consider obligation, amount expense of gotten unobservable assets, litigation-related charges, non-cash fees associated with exchangeable keep in minds, and also earnings tax and also various other income tax corrections related to our lasting non-GAAP effective tax obligation cost, along with specific non-recurring expenses and specific non-recurring capital. Our company have certainly not integrated non-GAAP operating scope direction to GAAP operating margin, thinned down non-GAAP take-home pay every allotment support to GAAP take-home pay every watered down allotment or adjusted free of charge cash flow frame support to GAAP net cash money from running tasks since our experts do not give guidance on GAAP operating margin, GAAP earnings or net money from functioning activities as well as would not have the ability to show the various resolving cash money and also non-cash items in between GAAP and also non-GAAP financial actions because particular products that affect these measures are uncertain or even away from our control, or even can easily not be reasonably anticipated, featuring share-based payment cost, without weird initiative. The actual amounts of such integrating items are going to possess a substantial effect on the firm’s GAAP income every diluted reveal and GAAP net cash from functioning activities.Profits Contact InformationPalo Alto Networks will organize an online video webcast for professionals as well as clients to talk about the provider’s monetary very first one-fourth 2025 leads along with the outlook for its own monetary 2nd fourth and also fiscal year 2025 today at 4:30 p.m.

Eastern time/1:30 p.m. Pacific opportunity. Ready for the public, investors might access the webcast, additional economic details and profits slides from the “Investors” section of the provider’s web site at investors.paloaltonetworks.com.

A replay will be actually available 3 hrs after the result of the webcast and archived for one year.Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release consists of forward-looking claims that include risks, uncertainties, and assumptions featuring statements regarding our platformization strategy as well as monetary expectation for the fiscal 2nd quarter 2025 as well as 2025. There are actually a considerable lot of elements that might trigger true end results to differ materially coming from positive declarations produced or even implied in this press release, featuring: advancements and also improvements typically market, political, economic, and also company problems failing of our platformization item offerings breakdown to attain the assumed advantages of our calculated alliances and also achievements modifications in the fair value of our dependent factor to consider liability related to achievements risks connected with managing our growth risks connected with brand-new item, registration and help offerings, featuring our product offerings that utilize AI changes in top priorities or hold-ups in the growth or launch of brand new item or even membership or even various other offerings, or even the failing to prompt develop as well as obtain market recognition of new items and also registrations in addition to existing products, registrations and assistance offerings breakdown of our service approaches quickly progressing technological developments in the marketplace for protection products, subscriptions and also support offerings defects, mistakes, or even susceptibilities in our items, memberships or even help offerings our consumers’ buying selections and also the length of sales patterns our competition our capacity to attract and keep brand new clients our capacity to obtain and include other companies, products, or modern technologies in an effective method our personal debt payment obligations and also our share repurchase program, which may not be actually fully consummated or even improve shareholder worth, and any reveal repurchases which could possibly influence the price of our common stock.Additional dangers and also unpredictabilities on these as well as other factors that might impact our financial results and also the progressive claims we make in this news release are actually included under the captions “Threat Factors” as well as “Administration’s Conversation and Review of Financial Condition and Outcomes of Workflow” as well as somewhere else in our Yearly Record on Kind 10-K filed with the USA Stocks and also Substitution Payment (” SEC”) on September 6, 2024, which is readily available on our internet site at investors.paloaltonetworks.com as well as on the SEC’s internet site at www.sec.gov. Extra information is going to likewise be actually set forth in other files that we file along with or even provide to the SEC occasionally.

All forward-looking declarations in this press release are based upon our views and relevant information available to control as of the date in this regard, and our company perform not presume any kind of obligation to upgrade the forward-looking claims provided to demonstrate events that develop or circumstances that exist after the day on which they were actually made.Non-GAAP Financial Procedures and Various Other Trick MetricsPalo Alto Networks has offered within this news release financial information that has actually not been readied according to commonly accepted accounting principles in the USA (GAAP). The business utilizes these non-GAAP monetary solutions as well as various other key metrics internally in examining its monetary outcomes and also feels that using these non-GAAP economic solutions as well as key metrics are actually valuable to capitalists as an extra tool to assess ongoing operating outcomes as well as patterns, and also in comparing the firm’s economic end results along with various other firms in its own market, a lot of which present similar non-GAAP financial actions or vital metrics.The presentation of these non-GAAP monetary measures and crucial metrics are certainly not meant to be thought about alone or even as a substitute for equivalent GAAP economic measures as well as must know simply in conjunction with the provider’s combined monetary statements readied in accordance with GAAP. A settlement of the business’s historical non-GAAP financial actions to their very most directly similar GAAP actions has been actually given in the economic declaration dining tables consisted of in this particular news release, as well as capitalists are encouraged to examine these reconciliations.Non-GAAP operating margin.

Palo Alto Networks describes non-GAAP operating scope as non-GAAP operating revenue divided by overall earnings. The firm determines non-GAAP operating income as running revenue plus share-based compensation-related charges, featuring share-based pay-roll income tax expenditure, acquisition-related prices, consisting of adjustment in reasonable market value of contingent consideration liability, amount cost of acquired intangible properties, and litigation-related fees. The provider strongly believes that non-GAAP operating frame delivers management and financiers along with better presence right into the rooting functionality of the business’s center service operating outcomes.Non-GAAP net income and also income every allotment, watered down.

Palo Alto Networks specifies non-GAAP net income as net income plus share-based compensation-related costs, including share-based payroll tax obligation expense, acquisition-related prices, featuring adjustment in reasonable value of dependent point to consider obligation, amount cost of gotten abstract possessions, litigation-related costs, featuring legal resolutions, and non-cash costs associated with exchangeable details. The provider likewise excludes coming from non-GAAP net income tax obligation corrections related to our lasting non-GAAP successful income tax price so as to give a comprehensive photo of the provider’s repeating center service operating results. The company describes non-GAAP earnings every share, thinned down, as non-GAAP take-home pay portioned due to the weighted-average diluted portions exceptional, which includes the possibly dilutive effect of the company’s employee equity reward planning awards and the business’s modifiable senior details outstanding and also similar warrants, after offering result to the anti-dilutive impact of the provider’s keep in mind hedge arrangements, which decreases the prospective financial dip that or else will develop upon sale of the business’s modifiable elderly notes.

Under GAAP, the anti-dilutive influence of the details hedge is actually certainly not shown in diluted reveals impressive. The firm takes into consideration these non-GAAP economic actions to become valuable metrics for control as well as real estate investors for the very same factors that it utilizes non-GAAP operating frame.Next-Generation Safety And Security ARR. Palo Alto Networks specifies Next-Generation Safety and security ARR as the annualized assigned revenue of all active arrangements as of the final day of the reporting time frame for Prisma and also Cerebral cortex offerings comprehensive of the VM-Series and related services, as well as specific cloud-delivered surveillance solutions.

Starting the monetary initial fourth 2025, Next-Generation Surveillance ARR features revenue attributable to QRadar program as a solution agreements that our company lately obtained from International Business Machines Corporation. The provider thinks about Next-Generation Security ARR to be a useful metric for control and also entrepreneurs to assess the performance of the firm because Next-Generation Safety is actually where the firm has actually concentrated its own advancement and the provider anticipates its own total revenue to become overmuch steered through this Next-Generation Protection collection. Considering That Next-Generation Surveillance ARR does certainly not have the result of providing a mathematical procedure that is actually different from any sort of comparable GAAP procedure, the firm performs rule out it a non-GAAP solution.Entrepreneurs are cautioned that there are actually an amount of limitations associated with the use of non-GAAP monetary measures as well as vital metrics as logical tools.

Most of the changes to the provider’s GAAP financial solutions demonstrate the omission of items that are reoccuring as well as will certainly be mirrored in the business’s monetary end results for the near future, like share-based payment, which is actually a vital part of Palo Alto Networks employees’ compensation and impacts their performance. Furthermore, these non-GAAP financial actions are actually not based on any kind of standard approach prescribed by GAAP, and the elements that Palo Alto Networks leaves out in its estimation of non-GAAP financial solutions may vary from the parts that its own peer providers leave out when they disclose their non-GAAP end results of operations. Palo Alto Networks compensates for these restrictions through giving particular details concerning the GAAP amounts omitted coming from these non-GAAP economic actions.

Later on, the firm might also omit non-recurring expenditures and also other expenses that perform certainly not reflect the provider’s center company operating results.About Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks is actually the worldwide cybersecurity leader, committed to creating per day much safer than the one prior to with industry-leading, AI-powered options in system safety, cloud safety and surveillance functions. Powered by Accuracy AI, our modern technologies provide precise hazard detection and speedy feedback, reducing incorrect positives as well as boosting surveillance performance. Our platformization strategy combines varied security services in to a merged, scalable system, improving management and giving functional performances with detailed defense.

From guarding system perimeters to protecting cloud environments and making certain quick case feedback, Palo Alto Networks inspires organizations to accomplish No Rely on safety and security and confidently embrace digital change in an ever-evolving risk yard. This undeviating devotion to protection and innovation creates our company the cybersecurity partner of option.At Palo Alto Networks, we are actually devoted to uniting the absolute best people in service of our purpose, so our company’re also pleased to become the cybersecurity workplace of option, identified one of Newsweek’s The majority of Loved Offices (2021-2024), with a score of one hundred on the Handicap Impartiality Index (2024, 2023, 2022), as well as HRC Finest Places for LGBTQ+ Equal Rights (2022 ). For more details, browse through www.paloaltonetworks.com.Palo Alto Networks, the Palo Alto Networks logo design, and Precision AI are trademarks of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

in the USA and also in legal systems throughout the planet. All other trademarks, brand, or registered trademark utilized or mentioned here belong to their respective owners. Any kind of unreleased services or even components (and also any type of solutions or even attributes certainly not generally available to customers) referenced in this or other press releases or social claims are certainly not presently accessible (or even are certainly not however usually on call to consumers) and may not be supplied when anticipated or even at all.

Consumers that obtain Palo Alto Networks treatments need to produce their acquisition choices based upon services as well as attributes currently generally on call. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Preparatory Concise Consolidated Statements of Workflow.( In thousands, except per allotment records).( Unaudited).

3 Months Ended. Oct 31,. 2024.2023.Profits:.

Product.$ 353.8.$ 341.1.Registration as well as support.1,785.0.1,537.0.Overall earnings.2,138.8.1,878.1.Expense of income:. Item.75.0.77.4.Registration as well as assistance.479.1.395.4.Overall price of income.554.1.472.8.Total gross profit.1,584.7.1,405.3.Operating budget:. Research and development.480.4.409.5.Sales and also marketing.720.1.660.5.General and also management.97.7.120.1.Total overhead.1,298.2.1,190.1.Running revenue.286.5.215.2.Rate of interest expenditure.( 1.2 ).( 2.9 ).Various other earnings, web.83.3.70.3.Profit just before earnings tax obligations.368.6.282.6.Stipulation for revenue tax obligations.17.9.88.4.Earnings.$ 350.7.$ 194.2.

Earnings every portion, general.$ 1.07.$ 0.63.Take-home pay every portion, watered down.$ 0.99.$ 0.56. Weighted-average shares used to calculate net income per reveal, general.326.8.310.1.Weighted-average portions made use of to figure out take-home pay per reveal, thinned down.354.5.349.8. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Settlement of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Amounts.( In thousands, except every portion volumes).( Unaudited). 3 Months Ended. Oct 31,.

2024.2023. GAAP operating income.$ 286.5.$ 215.2.Share-based compensation-related fees.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related costs( 1 ).15.1.–.Amount expenditure of acquired intangible properties.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related charges( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-GAAP operating income.$ 616.2.$ 529.3.Non-GAAP operating margin.28.8 %.28.2 %. GAAP earnings.$ 350.7.$ 194.2.Share-based compensation-related charges.315.1.287.8.Acquisition-related costs( 1 ).15.1.–.Amortization expenditure of obtained intangible properties.40.7.24.5.Litigation-related fees( 2 ).( 41.2 ).1.8.Non-cash costs related to exchangeable notes( 3 ).0.5.1.0.Income income tax and also other income tax changes( 4 ).( 136.0 ).( 43.0 ).Non-GAAP earnings.$ 544.9.$ 466.3.

GAAP income every share, weakened.$ 0.99.$ 0.56.Share-based compensation-related charges.0.92.0.86.Acquisition-related expenses( 1 ).0.04.0.00.Amount expenditure of acquired abstract resources.0.11.0.07.Litigation-related costs( 2 ).( 0.12 ).0.01.Non-cash fees associated with modifiable notes( 3 ).0.00.0.00.Revenue tax obligation as well as other tax adjustments( 4 ).( 0.38 ).( 0.12 ).Non-GAAP income every portion, thinned down.$ 1.56.$ 1.38. GAAP weighted-average allotments utilized to figure out earnings every allotment, diluted.354.5.349.8.Weighted-average anti-dilutive effect newsworthy bush deals.( 5.9 ).( 11.6 ).Non-GAAP weighted-average shares made use of to compute take-home pay per share, weakened.348.6.338.2. ( 1 ).Be composed of acquisition purchase expenses, share-based compensation related to the cash money negotiation of certain equity awards, improvement in reasonable worth of dependent factor to consider liability, as well as prices to cancel specific work, operating lease, and various other agreements of the acquired companies.( 2 ).Consists of the amortization of patent licenses as well as commitment certainly not to file suit.

During the 3 months finished Oct 31, 2024, it also includes a release of earlier built up lawful contingency charge.( 3 ).Be composed of non-cash passion cost for amortization of financial obligation issue prices related to the provider’s convertible elderly keep in minds.( 4 ).Feature revenue tax modifications connected to our long-term non-GAAP helpful income tax fee. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Initial Concise Consolidated Equilibrium Sheets.( In thousands).

October 31, 2024.July 31, 2024. ( unaudited). Properties.

Current possessions:. Cash money and cash equivalents.$ 2,282.8.$ 1,535.2.Short-term investments.1,108.2.1,043.6.Accounts receivable, web.1,132.9.2,618.6.Short-term finance receivables, web.805.1.725.9.Temporary put off agreement expenses.367.6.369.0.Prepaid costs as well as other existing properties.546.1.557.4.Complete present resources.6,242.7.6,849.7.Residential or commercial property and equipment, web.361.0.361.1.Working lease right-of-use resources.389.0.385.9.Long-lasting expenditures.4,119.7.4,173.2.Lasting lending receivables, net.1,092.2.1,182.1.Long-term deferred deal expenses.531.9.562.0.Goodwill.4,050.8.3,350.1.Abstract resources, web.809.6.374.9.Prolonged income tax properties.2,397.5.2,399.0.Various other possessions.380.2.352.9.Complete properties.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9.Liabilities and also investors’ equity. Existing liabilities:.

Accounts payable.$ 211.6.$ 116.3.Accrued payment.354.5.554.7.Accumulated and also other obligations.683.1.506.7.Deferred income.5,507.7.5,541.1.Exchangeable elderly keep in minds, net.645.8.963.9.Total current obligations.7,402.7.7,682.7.Lasting postponed earnings.5,585.9.5,939.4.Deferred income tax obligations.250.8.387.7.Lasting operating lease obligations.379.6.380.5.Other long-lasting obligations.843.8.430.9.Overall obligations.14,462.8.14,821.2.Shareholders’ equity:. Participating preferred stock.–.–.Ordinary shares as well as added paid-in financing.4,214.9.3,821.1.Collected various other detailed loss.( 4.0 ).( 1.6 ).Kept earnings.1,700.9.1,350.2.Total investors’ equity.5,911.8.5,169.7.Complete responsibilities as well as investors’ equity.$ 20,374.6.$ 19,990.9. Resource Palo Alto Networks, Inc

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