Red Hat Reports Third Quarter Results

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- Third quarter revenue of $290 million, up 23% year-over-year
- Third quarter GAAP operating income of $54 million, up 41% year-over-year; non-GAAP operating income of $79 million, up 36% year-over-year
- Third quarter GAAP EPS of $0.19, up 46% year-over-year; non-GAAP EPS of $0.28, up 40% year-over-year
- Third quarter operating cash flow of $97 million, up 36% year-over-year

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2012 third quarter ended November 30, 2011.

Total revenue for the quarter was $290.0 million, an increase of 23% from the year ago quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $246.5 million, up 24% year-over-year.

"Red Hat continues to benefit from enterprise customers that are seeking to leverage their IT infrastructure to drive significant productivity gains and agility across their organizations. The combination of strong sales execution, market demand and market share gains contributed to organic billings and revenue growth of 23% for the quarter," stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat. "We also recently completed the acquisition and integration of Gluster, including the launch of our first Red Hat branded storage product for unstructured data. We will continue to expand our storage solutions in cloud computing and big data storage, and believe that Red Hat is well positioned to deliver disruptive solutions in the large and growing storage market."

GAAP operating income for the third quarter was $53.6 million, or 18.5% operating margin. After adjusting for stock compensation and amortization expenses, as detailed in the tables below, non-GAAP operating income for the third quarter was $78.8 million, up 36% year-over-year. Non-GAAP operating margin was 27.2%, up 260 basis points from the year ago quarter.

Net income for the quarter was $38.2 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, compared with $26.0 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, in the year ago quarter. After adjusting for stock compensation and amortization expenses, as detailed in the tables below, non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $55.7 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, as compared to $39.1 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, in the year ago quarter.

Operating cash flow was $96.6 million for the third quarter, as compared to $70.8 million in the year ago quarter. At quarter end, the company's total deferred revenue balance was $819.6 million, an increase of 20% on a year-over-year basis. Total cash, cash equivalents and investments as of November 30, 2011 was $1.2 billion.

"We continued to deliver consistent performance across our business which resulted in strong growth in our key financial metrics. At the same time, we continued to invest in strategic growth initiatives." stated Charlie Peters, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Red Hat. "When compared to the first three quarters of last fiscal year, our year-to-date revenue, non-GAAP operating income and operating cash flow are up 26%, 35% and 35%, respectively."

Additional information on Red Hat's reported results, including a reconciliation of the non-GAAP adjusted results, are included in the financial tables below. A live webcast of Red Hat's results will begin at 5:00 pm ET today and can be accessed by the general public at Red Hat's investor relations website at http://investors.redhat.com. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the live event has ended.

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