Impact of an Investigation in China
We have, since making a voluntary disclosure to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, been cooperating to provide information to those agencies concerning expenditures by certain of our business partners in China and by our China business, including for travel and entertainment, that apparently benefitted employees of customers regarded as state owned enterprises in China. This matter involves issues regarding compliance with laws, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Negotiations with the SEC to reach a resolution of its investigation have begun but have not been concluded. We expect to begin negotiations with the Department of Justice to resolve its investigation in the near future. Resolution of this matter is likely to include fines and penalties. Given the uncertainty regarding whether settlements can be reached and, if reached, on what terms, we are not able to estimate a range of reasonably possible loss with regard to any such settlements and have not recorded any liability in connection with this matter. If settlements are reached, we believe that the associated financial liability could be material to our results of operations for the fiscal period in which the liability is recorded. Further, any settlement or other resolution of this matter could have collateral effects on our business in China, the United States and elsewhere.
PTC’s Second Quarter FY’15 Results Conference Call, Prepared Remarks and Financial Data Tables
Prepared remarks for the conference call and financial data tables have been posted to the Investor Relations section of our website. The Company will host a management presentation to discuss results at 4:30pm ET on Wednesday April 29, 2015. To access the live webcast, please visit PTC’s Investor Relations website at investor.ptc.com at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to download any necessary audio or plug-in software. To participate in the live conference call, dial 8008575592 or 7737993757 and provide the passcode PTC. The call will be recorded and a replay will available for 10 days following the call by dialing 8885660674 and entering the pass code 1308. The archived webcast will also be available on PTC’s Investor Relations website.
Bookings Metric
We offer both perpetual and subscription licensing options to our customers. Given the difference in revenue recognition between the sale of a perpetual software license (revenue is recognized at the time of sale) and a subscription (revenue is deferred and recognized ratably over the subscription term), we use bookings for internal planning, forecasting and reporting of new license and cloud services transactions. In order to normalize between perpetual and subscription transactions, we define bookings as either the perpetual license revenue or the annualized contract value (ACV) of a new subscription multiplied by a conversion factor of 2. We arrived at the conversion factor of 2 by considering a number of variables including pricing, support, length of term, and renewal rates. We define ACV as the total value of a new subscription solutions booking divided by the term of the contract (in days) multiplied by 365, unless the term is less than one year, in which case the contract value equals the ACV. When calculating L&SS bookings, we multiply subscription solutions ACV by a conversion factor of 2, and then add this amount to our perpetual license sales.
License Mix-Adjusted Metrics
These metrics assumes that all new software and cloud services bookings since the start of FY’14 were perpetual license sales that included support in subsequent periods. The license mix-adjusted amount is calculated by converting the ACV (as defined above) of a new subscription solutions booking in the period to an assumed perpetual license equivalent by multiplying the ACV by a conversion factor of 2 (as defined above), and adding that amount to the perpetual license revenue amounts recognized in that period. Support calculated at 20% of the annual value of the converted amount is added to support revenue in future periods, beginning the quarter after the converted booking is assumed to be recognized. The assumed support revenue is recognized ratably over a 12 month period and is assumed to renew in subsequent years.
Constant Currency Change Metric
Year-over-year changes in revenue on a constant currency basis compare actual reported results converted into U.S. dollars based on the corresponding prior year’s foreign currency exchange rates to reported results for the comparable prior year period.
Important Information About Non-GAAP References
PTC provides non-GAAP supplemental information to its financial results.
Non-GAAP revenue, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating
margin, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP net
income and non-GAAP EPS exclude the effect of purchase accounting on the
fair value of acquired deferred revenue, stock-based compensation
expense, amortization of acquired intangible assets, restructuring
charges, acquisition-related expenses, costs associated with terminating
a U.S. pension plan, certain identified non-operating gains and losses,
the related tax effects of the preceding items, and certain discrete tax
items. We use these non-GAAP measures, and we believe that they assist
our investors, to make period-to-period comparisons of our operational
performance because they provide a view of our operating results without
items that are not, in our view, indicative of our core operating
results. We believe that these non-GAAP measures help illustrate
underlying trends in our business, and we use the measures to establish
budgets and operational goals, communicated internally and externally,
for managing our business and evaluating our performance. We believe
that providing non-GAAP measures affords investors a view of our
operating results that may be more easily compared to the results of
peer companies. In addition, compensation of our executives is based in
part on the performance of our business based on these non-GAAP
measures. However, non-GAAP information should not be construed as an
alternative to GAAP information as the items excluded from the non-GAAP
measures often have a material impact on PTC’s financial results.
Management uses, and investors should consider, non-GAAP measures in
conjunction with our GAAP results.
