Greg Straughn
Analyst · Pacific Crest Securities. Please go ahead
Thank you, Lee and thank all of you for joining us today. Fourth quarter revenue grew to a record $56.6 million, up 25% compared with $45.2 million in the prior year. Deferred revenue grew 27% year-over-year and 10% sequentially to reach a record high of $72.8 million and revenue for the full year grew 11% to $199 million, up from $179 million in 2014. Fourth quarter product revenue grew 22% year-over-year to reach $39.5 million, representing 70% of total revenue. This compares with $32.3 million, or 71% of total revenue in the prior year fourth quarter. Service revenue grew 33% to $17.2 million, or 30% of total revenue, compared with $12.9 million, or 29%, in the fourth quarter of 2014. From a geographic standpoint, fourth quarter revenue from the United States grew 54% year over-year to reach a record $31.5 million, representing 56% of total revenue. Fourth quarter revenue from Japan was $11.4 million, or 20% of total revenue, compared with $10.1 million or 22% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2014. Revenue from EMEA was $6.8 million, or 12% of total revenue, up 9% year-over-year. And revenue from APAC excluding Japan was up 5% year over year to reach $5.7 million, or 10% of total revenue. For the full year, the U.S. and EMEA were our fastest growing regions at 25% and 41%, respectively. Our enterprise and service provider revenue mix this quarter was 48% and 52% of total revenue, respectively. We achieved enterprise revenue of $27.3 million, representing a 16% increase from Q4 of last year. Service provider revenue came in at $29.3 million, up 35% when compared with $21.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2014. From a customer perspective, as Lee mentioned, we secured a large win with an existing service provider customer in the quarter that when combined with other orders and ongoing purchases from this customer, accounted for 19.7% of total revenue in the fourth quarter. For the full year, our revenue was well diversified with no single customer accounting for more than 10% of our revenue. As we move beyond revenue, all further metrics discussed on this call are on a non-GAAP basis, unless expressly stated otherwise. We delivered fourth quarter total gross margin of 76.4%, within our expected range of 75% to 77% and up 60 basis points over the prior quarter. Product gross margin was 75.8% in Q4 of 2015, unchanged from the prior quarter and compared with 77.2% in the fourth quarter of 2014. Our services gross margin came in at 77.8%, an increase of 193 basis points versus Q3’15 and a 62 basis point increase from Q4 of 2014. We ended the quarter with staff of 826, up from 816 at the end of Q3. Q4 Sales and marketing expense was $27.6 million or 48.7% of revenue, compared with $23.7 million or 46.6% of revenue in the prior quarter. The increase in sales and marketing expense was primarily attributable to higher sales commissions. Q4 R&D expense totaled $12.2 million or 21.50% of revenue, compared with $12.1 million or 23.8% of revenue in the prior quarter. Fourth quarter combined G&A and litigation expense was approximately $6.7 million or 11.8% of revenue, compared with $6.8 million or 13.3% of revenue in Q3. In total, fourth quarter non-GAAP operating expenses were $46.4 million or 82% of revenue, compared with $42.5 million or 84% of revenue in the prior quarter. Fourth quarter non-GAAP operating loss was $3.2 million, compared with a loss of $4 million in the third quarter. Our non-GAAP net loss in the fourth quarter was $3.7 million or $0.06 per share, within our guided range of $0.06 to $0.09 per share. Q4’s net loss represents a 15% sequential improvement, compared with a net loss of $4.4 million or $0.07 per share in Q3 and a 70% improvement when compared with a loss of $12 million or $0.20 per share in the fourth quarter of 2014. Basic and diluted weighted outstanding shares for the fourth quarter were approximately 63.7 million shares. Moving to the balance sheet, at December 31, 2015 we had $98.1 million in total cash and equivalents, a $2.4 million decrease from the end of September and up $6.2 million compared with December 31, 2014. During the quarter, cash used in operations was $4.2 million and for the full year, we generated $3.4 million in cash from operations. We ended Q4 with $57.8 million of net accounts receivable, compared with the Q3’15 balance of $41.5 million. Average days sales outstanding increased by one day from the prior quarter to 81 days. Moving on to our outlook. We are entering Q1 with a very strong and diversified backlog and are pleased with our strong start to the year. We currently expect first quarter revenue to be in the range of $52 million to $55 million. At the midpoint, this represents a 22% year-over-year revenue growth. We expect gross margin to remain in the range of 75% to 77% and operating expenses to be between $45 million and $47 million. For modeling purposes, please note that we are currently planning modest sequential increases in OpEx throughout 2016, and we remain committed to achieving our stated goal of reaching non-GAAP operating income profitability during 2016. We expect to report a non-GAAP net loss of between $0.07 and $0.09 per share using approximately $64.3 million shares on a basic and diluted basis. In setting this, we are assuming the yen exchange rate remains in a range of approximately 115 to 120. With that, I’d like to open up the call for your questions. Operator?