全球开源解决方案的领导者红帽公司(纽约证交所上市代码:RHT)今天公布了2010年11月30日截止的2011财年第三季度财报。
总收益2.356亿美元,较上年同季度增长21%。订阅收入为1.988亿美元,较上年增长21%。
红帽公司总裁兼首席执行官卫赫士说:“凭借强劲的市场需求和销售执行,再加上极富吸引力的价值主张,我们的订单收入实现了超过20%的增长。同样,在第三
季度中,我们还荣幸地在CIO
Insight杂志举办的厂商价值调查中连续第七年被诸多CIO们评为最优秀的IT厂商之一。除了为客户提供极具吸引力的价值外,我们还为满足客户对数据
中心的需求而推进了多方面的创新。今年11月,我们发布了最新版的旗舰操作系统 – 红帽企业Linux
6,为虚拟化和云计算等下一代架构提供了一种优秀的平台。”
第三季度的经公认会计准则(GAAP)调整运营收入为3800万美元,比上年增涨92%。在去年同一季度中,在支付880万美元的诉讼解决费用后,经公认
会计准则调整的运营收入为1980万美元。经下表所示的股票报酬和分期支付费用调整后,第三季度未经公认会计准则调整的运营收入为5800万美元,较上年
增长26%。
本季度净收入为2600万美元,即每股摊薄收益0.13美元,相比之下,去年同一季度净收入为1640万美元,即每股摊薄收益0.08美元。根据非公认会
计准则(Non-GAAP),在调整下表详述的股票报酬和分期支付和诉讼解决费用后,该季度的净收入为3910万美元,即每股摊薄收益0.20美元。与此
类比,去年同一季度经非公认会计准则调整的净收入为3350万美元,即每股摊薄收益0.17美元。
运营现金流总额为7080万美元,去年同一季度5410万美元。至该季度末,公司的总延期收入余额为6.852亿美元,按年增长11%。截止2010年
11月30日,公司的总现金、现金等值物和投资总额为11亿美元。
红帽公司执行副总裁兼首席财务官Charlie
Peters指出:“公司在本季度实现了21%的收入增长率,而且运营收入的增长更为强劲,这些都为运营现金流31%的增长率做出了贡献。我们在多个热门
的IT领域中占据了非常有利的整体地位;开源、虚拟化和云计算。此外,我们的执行工作一直保持着连贯态势,并且在一些成长性计划中进行了重点投资。例如,
我们在今年11月收购了云应用部署和管理解决方案开发商Makara公司。Makara的技术将加快红帽平台即服务(PaaS)解决方案在红帽云基础产品
组合中的开发速度,而该产品组合正是我们的关键增长计划之一。”
有关红帽公司财务报告的其它信息,包括非公认会计准则调整结果的核对情况,均列入下列的财务报表中。红帽公司财报将于今天下午5时东部时间开始通过网络直
播,普通公众可通过红帽公司投资者关系网站http:
//investors.redhat.com访问相关内容。在直播结束后,重播内容将在稍后时间通过网络公布。
关于红帽公司(Red Hat, Inc.)
红帽公司是世界领先的开源码解决方案提供商,标准普尔500指数(S&P500)的一员。总部设在北卡罗来纳州瑞利市(Raleigh,NC),
并且在全球各地都设有超过65家分支办公室。在《CIOInsight》杂志的厂商价值调查报告中,红帽连续六年被CIO评为业界企业软件最具价值厂商。
红帽强大的操作系统平台提供经济而又高质量的技术,即红帽企业Linux(RHEL)。同时提供各种虚拟化解决方案、应用程序、管理和服务导向架构
(SOA),包括红帽企业虚拟化及JBoss企业中间件套装。此外,红帽还为全球客户提供各种支援、培训和谘询服务。更多讯息,请浏
览:www.redhat.com.cn。
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