Dennis B. Story
Analyst · Janney Capital Market
Okay. Thanks, Eddie. I'm going to cover our Q1 2013 non-GAAP results and GAAP EPS performance and then review our updated 2013 full year guidance. As Eddie noted, a solid start to 2013, posting $96.6 million in total revenue, the highest quarterly result in our company's history, besting our previous record of $95.8 million we posted in Q3 2012. Total revenue increased 6% over Q1 2012, with services leading the way. Recall that our services revenue in Q1 2012 included a $2 million benefit from the recognition of a previously deferred services revenue contract. Apples to apples versus Q1 2012, total revenue growth was 8% and services revenue growth was 10%. For the quarter, Americas grew total revenue 9% while EMEA and APAC declined 8% and 9%, respectively, compared to Q1 last year. Adjusted earnings per share for the quarter was $0.74, increasing 23% over prior year, fueled by revenue and operating profit growth and lower income tax rate and our buyback program. License revenue for the quarter totaled $14.2 million, coming in at about our expectation. As Eddie mentioned, we closed 3 $1-plus million deals. From a regional perspective, Americas posted license revenue of $11.5 million; EMEA, $1.3 million against a tough comp; and APAC, $1.4 million. Our license performance continues to depend heavily on the number and relative value of large deals we close in a given quarter. And as Eddie mentioned, our win rates continue to be strong. Shifting to services, demand continues to be solid. Q1 services revenue totaled $74.9 million, increasing 6% year-over-year. As you may recall, our services revenue is comprised of 2 revenue streams, consulting and maintenance. Our consulting revenue for the quarter totaled $49.2 million, growing 5% over Q1 last year. And apples to apples, consulting revenue grew 10% adjusting for the $2 million of previously deferred consulting revenue recognized in Q1 of last year. Maintenance revenue for the quarter totaled $25.7 million, increasing 8% over last year. Solid license revenue growth over the last several quarters, cash collections and retention rates of 90-plus percent contributed to year-over-year growth. As a reminder, we recognize maintenance renewal revenue on a cash basis, so the timing of cash collections can cause some inter-period lumpiness from quarter-to-quarter. Consolidated services margins for the quarter were 53.5%, in line with our expectations and comparable with Q4 2012's 53.4% and Q1 2012's 54.8%. Excluding the impact of the $2 million in deferred services revenue from Q1 of 2012, which essentially had no incremental carrying cost, our prior year Q1 2012 underlying services margin was 53.4%. We expect our first half 2013 services margin will likely be in the range of 53.5% to 53.8% and our full year 2013 services margins to normalize into the 53.75% to 54.25% range, as we have achieved a better demand capacity alignment over the past several quarters. Now turning to operating income and margins. With solid revenue growth and expense management, we delivered record Q1 adjusted operating income of $21.6 million with an operating margin of 22.3%. That's up 90 basis points from Q1 2012. For the full year, we continue to target a 50 basis point expansion in 2013 operating margin. We expect Q2 through Q4 operating margins to range between 24% and 25%, adjusted for quarterly license and services revenue mix due to seasonality. Below-the-line in other income, which includes net interest income, net gains or losses on asset disposals and the net impact of realized and unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses, totaled $151,000 of income in the quarter, including FX losses of $179,000. Regarding taxes, our adjusted effective income tax rate for Q1 was 32.8%, resulting in a $0.03 positive EPS impact in the quarter, driven by Congress' January 2013 approval of the 2012 R&D tax credit. We are now projecting a full year effective tax rate of 35.3%, which assumes a Q2 through Q4 effective rate of 36%. Transitioning to diluted shares. For the quarter, the diluted shares totaled 19.7 million shares, down from Q4 2012 shares of 19.9 million. We repurchased 226,000 shares of Manhattan stock in the quarter totaling $15.9 million against option exercises of 131,000 shares. For the balance of 2013, we estimate Q2 through Q4 2013 diluted shares to be 19.7 million shares and the full year weighted average diluted shares to be 19.8 million. Our estimate does not assume additional common stock repurchases and depends on a number of variables, including stock price, option exercises, forfeitures and share repurchases, which can significantly impact estimates. Lastly, on shares, last week, our board approved raising our share repurchase authority limit to a total of $50 million, 5-0. That covers the adjusted results. Our Q1 2013 GAAP diluted earnings per share was a record $0.68, increasing 24% over $0.55 we posted in Q1 2012. Our GAAP performance was driven by the strength of adjusted operating results. A detailed reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP adjustments is included in our earnings release today. That covers the P&L results. Turning to cash flow. For the quarter, cash flow from operations was $20.1 million, that's 2-0-point-1 million dollars, up from $13.1 million generated in Q1 2012. DSOs improved to 56 days versus 60 days in Q4 2012. Capital expenditures were $600,000 in the quarter, and we estimate full year 2013 CapEx to be about $6 million to $8 million. Our balance sheet continues to support long-term strategic flexibility and stability with 0 debt and cash and investments totaling $108,500,000 at March 31, 2013. That's 1-0-8-point-5 million compared to $103 million at the end of Q4 2012. Strong cash flow from operations in the quarter, less our share buyback program, drove the net increase over December 2012. Now I'll update our 2013 guidance and then hand off to Eddie for the business update. So overall, while we remain cautious given the global macro, we are maintaining our existing revenue guidance and are increasing our EPS guidance to include the impact of the favorable Q1 results. So for 2013 revenue, guidance for the full year total revenue remains at $410 million to $415 million, representing 9% to 10% growth over 2012. We expect our full year total revenue percentage split to be about 48% to 52% -- 48% in the first half, 52% in the second half. We expect a more typical seasonal pattern with Q3 license revenue, due to summer holidays being lower than Q2 and Q4 license revenue and services revenue lower in Q4 due to seasonal holidays. For 2013 adjusted diluted earnings per share, we are raising our range $0.06 to $3.21 to $3.27, representing 14% to 16% growth over 2012 adjusted EPS of $2.82. We continue to expect full year EPS to have about the same percentage split of 48% in the first half and 52% in the second half. For 2013 GAAP diluted earnings per share, we expect to deliver $2.91 to $2.97, again representing 14% to 16% growth over 2012 GAAP EPS of $2.56. The $0.30 full year EPS difference between GAAP and non-GAAP adjusted EPS represents the impact of stock-based compensation. We expect the EPS impact to be about $0.075 per quarter. Regarding adjusted operating margins, we continue to focus on a year-over-year adjusted operating margin expansion and are maintaining our 50 basis point improvement over 2012. We expect Q2 through Q4 operating margins to range between 24% and 25%, adjusted for quarterly license and services revenue mix due to seasonality. That covers our updated 2013 guidance. Now I'll turn the call back to Eddie for the business update.