Symantec notes continued cautiousness among IT buyers
- — 03 August, 2010 06:36
Global provider of security, storage and systems management solutions Symantec saw longer procurement cycles due to continued cautiousness among IT buyers.
The company recently reported the results of its first quarter of fiscal year 2011, ended 2 July 2010. The report shows that the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) revenue for the fiscal first quarter was US$1.433 billion, flat versus the comparable period a year ago.
Double-digit growth
Enrique Salem, president and chief executive officer, Symantec, said the longer procurement cycles significantly impacted the company's storage management results.
Despite the storage management results, Symantec is optimistic about the strength it saw in the public sector as well as with its data loss prevention solutions. There is good news from Symantec's software-as-a-service offerings as they posted double-digit growth while expanding in this high-growth market.
"On a constant currency basis, we saw year-over-year revenue growth across all of our geographies and solid deferred revenue performance," said James Beer, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Symantec. "We also saw continued growth in our consumer business as we finalised the successful transition to our in-house e-commerce platform."
GAAP net income
Symantec reports that GAAP operating margin for the first quarter of fiscal year
2011 was 13.5 per cent and GAAP net income for the fiscal first quarter was US$161 million compared with net income of US$74 million for the same quarter last year.
As of 2 July 2010, GAAP deferred revenue was US$2.998 billion compared with US$2.973 billion as of 3 July 2009. Cash flow from operating activities for the first quarter of fiscal year 2011 was US$335 million, says Symantec that ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of US$2.739 billion.
According to Symantec, non-GAAP operating margin for the first quarter of fiscal year 2011 was 26.5 per cent and non-GAAP net income for the first quarter was US$284 million. Also, non-GAAP diluted earnings per share were 35 US cents compared with earnings per share of 33 US cents for the year-ago quarter.
strelaoz
Wed 04/08/2010 - 08:34
I am happy to know I was right about predicting Symantec's stock price and the furture trend. As I have pointed out a few times, I think cautious investers shall definitely wait for the earnning result on July 28. Let me repeat the reasons again! 1. Volume & price trend: whenever the price went down, the volume went up and vis ver sa. What does that mean? Isn't that Lesson 101? 2. The group president of Enterprise RESIGNED at the quarter end June 30 and no replacement has been announced yet nor the reason. Enterprise account for 65% profit and revenue. Last quarter must be bad for Enterprise, even consumer business might look good, simply becasue the sales is easily to manipulated as it's sell in rather than sell through. Besides, the bottom line probably is not good either, as current CEO only familiar with consumer business, so he put much more marketing budget than ever. Can you trust someone who only know the 35% of the business as the captain?