17% Year-Over-Year Growth in Revenue and improvement in profitability parameters
HOD HASHARON, Israel, May 14, 2019 – Allot Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT, TASE: ALLT), a global provider of leading innovative network intelligence and security solutions for service providers worldwide, today announced its first quarter 2019 financial results.
First Quarter 2019 – Financial Highlights
- Revenues were $25.3 million, up 17% year-over-year;
- GAAP gross margin improved to 71.2% up from 68.1% in Q1 2018; Non-GAAP gross margin improved to 72.4% up from 69.6% in Q1 2018;
- GAAP operating loss narrowed to $3.3 million compared to $3.5 million in Q1 2018; Non-GAAP operating loss narrowed to $1.8 million compared to $2.3 million in Q1 2018;
Financial Outlook
- Management maintains its 2019 expectations of revenues between $106-110 million, representing continued double-digit year-over-year growth;
- Continue to expect full year 2019 book to bill ratio at above 1;
- Management goal to sign security OPEX deals with an aggregate MAR (Maximum Annual Revenue) of $100M during 2019, remains unchanged.
Management Comment
Erez Antebi, President & CEO of Allot, commented: “We are pleased with the continued strong year-over-year growth in revenue as well as the improvement in profitability parameters in the quarter, and we are on target with our longer-term goals. Our momentum in the quarter remained positive and includes the win of a contract to provide a full suite of solutions comprising of network-based traffic management and network security solutions to Rakuten Mobile in Japan. Our pipeline of potential security OPEX deals remains strong and we are actively working to close further deals. We look forward to continued and sustainable growth in 2019 and beyond.”
Q1 2019 Financial Results Summary
Total revenues for the quarter were $25.3 million, up 17% compared to $21.7 million in the first quarter of 2018.
Gross profit on a GAAP basis for the quarter was $18.0 million (gross margin of 71.2%), a 22% improvement compared with $14.8 million (gross margin of 68.1%) in the first quarter of 2018.
Gross profit on a non-GAAP basis for the quarter of was $18.3 million (gross margin of 72.4%), a 21% improvement compared with $15.1 million (gross margin of 69.6%) in the first quarter of 2018.
Operating loss on a GAAP basis for the quarter was $3.3 million, an improvement compared with an operating loss of $3.5 million, in the first quarter of 2018.
Non-GAAP operating loss for the quarter of 2019 was $1.8 million, an improvement compared with a non-GAAP operating loss of $2.3 million in the first quarter of 2018.
Net loss on a GAAP basis for the quarter was $3.3million, or $0.1 per basic and diluted share, an improvement compared with a net loss of $3.7 million, or $0.11 per basic and diluted share, in the first quarter of 2018.
Non-GAAP net loss for the quarter was $1.9 million, or $0.05 per basic and diluted share, an improvement compared with a non-GAAP net loss of $2.4 million, or $0.07 per basic and diluted share, in the first quarter of 2018.
Cash and investments as of March 31, 2019 totaled $101.5 million, compared to $103.9 million as of December 31, 2018.
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Conference Call & Webcast:
The Allot management team will host a conference call to discuss first quarter 2019 earnings results today, May 14, 2019 at 8:30 am ET, 3:30 pmIsrael time. To access the conference call, please dial one of the following numbers:
US: 1-888-668- 9141, UK: 0-800-917- 5108, Israel: +972-3-918-0609
A live webcast and, following the end of the call, an archive of the conference call, will be accessible on the Allot website at: https://investors.allot.com/index.cfm
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About Allot
Allot Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT, TASE: ALLT) is a provider of leading innovative network intelligence and security solutions for service providers worldwide, enhancing value to their customers. Our solutions are deployed globally for network and application analytics, traffic control and shaping, network-based security services, and more. Allot’s multi-service platforms are deployed by over 500 mobile, fixed and cloud service providers and over 1000 enterprises. Our industry leading network-based security as a service solution has achieved over 50% penetration with some service providers and is already used by over 21 million subscribers in Europe. Allot. See. Control. Secure.
For more information, visit www.allot.com
GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliation
Non-GAAP net income is defined as GAAP net income after excluding stock-based compensation expenses, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, deferred tax asset adjustment, exchange rate differences related to revaluation of assets and liabilities denominated in non-dollar currencies and other acquisition-related expenses.
These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, comparable GAAP measures. The non-GAAP results and a full reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results is provided in the accompanying Table 2. The Company provides these non-GAAP financial measures because it believes they present a better measure of the Company’s core business and management uses the non-GAAP measures internally to evaluate the Company’s ongoing performance. Accordingly, the Company believes they are useful to investors in enhancing an understanding of the Company’s operating performance.
Safe Harbor Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements, which express the current beliefs and expectations of Company management. Such statements involve a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause our future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from the results, performance or achievements set forth in such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include risks relating to: our ability to compete successfully with other companies offering competing technologies; the loss of one or more significant customers; consolidation of, and strategic alliances by, our competitors, government regulation; the timing of completion of key project milestones which impact the timing of our revenue recognition; lower demand for key value-added services; our ability to keep pace with advances in technology and to add new features and value-added services; managing lengthy sales cycles; operational risks associated with large projects; our dependence on fourth party channel partners for a material portion of our revenues; court approval of the Company’s proposed share buy-back program; and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s annual report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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