Dennis B. Story
Analyst · Raymond James
Thanks, Eddie. Now we'll review our Q2 2013 non-GAAP results and GAAP EPS performance and close out with our 2013 full year guidance. As Eddie noted, our 2013 performance continues to be solid, posting record total revenue of $102.5 million in the quarter, an increase of 10% over Q2 2012. License revenue grew 5% and services, 13% over the prior year. By region, Americas grew 8%, EMEA declined 3% against a very tough Q2 license comp last year, and APAC was up 68% on a weak comp. Negative FX impact to revenue growth was not meaningful at 0.1%. Adjusted earnings per share for the quarter was $0.96, increasing 26% over prior year, fueled by solid revenue growth, continued expense management and our buyback program. Our Q2 results, due to the expiration of a tax audit statutes, includes a $0.05 EPS benefit for the release of a $1.6 million sales tax reserve previously accrued in Q4 of 2008. In addition, below the operating profit line and other income, we have an FX gain totaling $1 million or $0.03 from foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, primarily in the Indian rupee. Excluding the benefit of the sales tax reserve release, EPS grew 20% over Q2 2012. License revenue for the quarter totaled $16.1 million and from a regional perspective, Americas posted license revenue of $13.5 million; EMEA, $1.1 million; and APAC, $1.5 million. In the backdrop of anemic global growth, our license performance continues to depend heavily on the number in relative value of large deals we closed in a given quarter. Shifting to services, demand remained solid. Q2 services revenue totaled $78.2 million, increasing 13% year-over-year. Our services revenue is comprised of 2 revenue streams: consulting and maintenance. Our consulting revenue for quarter totaled $52.5 million, growing 15% over Q2 last year. With solid demand, we hired another 50 associates across the globe in the quarter. Year-over-year, we have grown our services practice by nearly 200 associates, up 13%, as we continue to support growth for demand and focus on customer satisfaction. Maintenance revenue for the quarter totaled $25.7 million, increasing 8% over last year. Solid license revenue performance, 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 inter-period lumpiness from quarter-to-quarter. Consolidated services margins for the quarter were 55.6%, exceeding our expectations. We expected our first half 2013 services margins to be in the range of 53.5% to 53.8%, and we achieved 54.6% due to our strong Q2 results. With the recent hires I mentioned earlier, second half projected hires of 50 to 100 associates, combined with lower utilization in Q3 and Q4 due to summer and seasonal holidays, we continue to expect our full year 2013 services margins to be in the range of 53.75% to 54.25%. Turning to operating income and margins. With solid revenue growth and expense management, we delivered record Q2 adjusted operating income of $28.3 million with an operating margin of 27.6%, up 270 basis points over Q2 2012. On apples-to-apples, excluding the impact of the sales tax reserve totaling $1.6 million, Q2 operating margins were 26.1%. The reserve release contributed 150 basis points of onetime benefit to our operating margin for the quarter and 80 basis points year-to-date. The benefit of the sales tax reserve release is reflected in the G&A line and operating expenses. Also, in the quarter, we had a nonmeaningful, positive FX impact to operating profit totaling $112,000. For the full year, we are now targeting a 130-basis-point expansion in 2013 operating margin, including the sales tax reserve reversal. Excluding the sales tax benefit, the underlying operating profit improvement or margin represents an 80- to 100-basis-point improvement compared to our previous target of 50 basis points. We expect Q3 and Q4 operating margins to run at about 24.5%, adjusted for quarterly license and services revenue mix due to seasonality. Below the line, other income was $1.2 million in Q2, which included an FX gain of about $1 million in the quarter or $0.03 benefit to Q2 results, and a $0.01 incremental benefit over Q2 2012, which had an FX gain of about $600,000 last year. Regarding taxes, our adjusted effective income tax rate for Q2 was 36.4%. We are projecting a second half effective rate of 36% and we should close out the full year with an overall effective tax rate of about 35.5%. Transitioning to diluted shares. For the quarter, diluted shares totaled 19.5 million shares, down from Q1 2013 shares of 19.7 million. We repurchased 196,000 shares of Manhattan common stock in the quarter, totaling $14.4 million against option exercises of 48,000 shares. For the balance of 2013, we estimate Q3 and Q4 diluted shares to be about 19.5 million and the full year weighted average diluted shares to be 19.6 million. Our estimates do not assume additional common stock repurchases. And lastly on shares, last week, our board approved raising our share repurchase authority limit to a total of $50 million. That covers the adjusted results. Our Q2 2013 GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.89, increasing 27% over the $0.70 we posted in Q2 2012. Our GAAP performance was driven by adjusted operating results. A detailed reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP adjustments is included in our earnings release today. Turning to cash flow. For the quarter, cash flow from operations was $13.6 million, down from $20.9 million generated in Q2 2012. Year-to-date cash flow from operations versus 2012 is flat at $34 million due primarily to working capital growth on record first half revenues and increased estimated income tax payments on higher taxable earnings. Our DSOs were 61 days versus 56 days in Q1 2013 and 60 days in Q4 2012. Capital expenditures were $1 million in the quarter and we continue to 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 $106.5 million at June 30, 2013, compared to $108.5 million at March 31, 2013, and $103 million at the end of Q4 2012. That covers our results. Now I'll update our 2013 guidance and then hand off to Eddie for the business update. Overall, while we continue to remain cautious given stagnant global growth, we are expanding our existing revenue guidance range and are increasing our EPS guidance to include the impact of favorable Q2 results. Our caution regarding the global macro picture is that with business uncertainty comes buying hesitation with respect to IT capital spend. Unfortunately, these headwinds for software companies continued to persist. That said, for full year 2013 revenue, we are adjusting our guidance range from $410 million to $415 million to $407 million to $415 million, representing 8% to 10% growth over 2012. Our hardware and other revenue was down 8% in Q2 so we're holding the top end of the range to our original guidance and lowering the bottom end of the range to primarily contend with lower hardware sales as a percent of our overall total revenue mix. We expect our full year total revenue percentage split to be about 48% to 52%, first half versus second half. We expect Q3 license revenue to be slightly lower than Q4 license revenue due to typical seasonal summer holidays, impacting buying, and services revenue down sequentially from Q3 to Q4 due to traditional seasonal holidays. For 2013 adjusted diluted earnings per share, we are raising our range to $3.37 to $3.45, representing 20% to 22% growth over 2012 adjusted EPS of $2.82. With the combined $0.08 Q2 EPS benefit from the sales tax release and the $0.03 FX gain in other income, we now expect full year EPS to have about a 50-50 first half versus second half split for the year. The $3.37 bottom end of our range excludes the $0.03 impact of our Q2 FX gain in other income. Our revised 2013 GAAP diluted earnings per share guidance range is $3.07 to $3.15, representing 20% to 23% 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 expense. Regarding adjusted operating margins, due to strong operating results combined with the onetime benefit of the Q2 sales tax reserve, we now expect our full year 2013 adjusted operating margin to improve by about 130 basis points over 2012. Excluding the Q2 sales tax benefit, as I mentioned earlier, we expect our full year underlying operating margin expansion to improve by 80 to 100 basis points versus our previous forecast of 50 basis points. And we expect Q3 and Q4 operating margins to run at about 24.5%. That covers our 2013 guidance. Now I'll turn the call back to Eddie for the business update.