National Instruments Reports Third Quarter Revenue of $340 Million
Summary
With our clear focus on industries coupled with our strong balance sheet, we believe we are in a position to accelerate growth when the market recovers.” “I am pleased to see the significant impact our company realignment is having on our profitability. Our culture of operational excellence and increased scalability led to strong earnings performance in the third quarter,” said Karen Rapp, NI CFO. The company’s non-GAAP results exclude, as applicable, the impact of stock-based compensation, amortization of acquisition-related intangibles, acquisition-related transaction costs, taxes levied on the transfer of acquired intellectual property, foreign exchange loss on acquisitions, restructuring charges, tax reform charges, disposal gains on buildings and related charitable contributions, and capitalization and amortization of internally developed software costs. This release contains “forward-looking statements” including statements regarding remaining focused on our long-term growth strategy, believing the differentiation and flexibility of our software-centric platform will enable us to increase market share as customers look to new options to meet market demands, remaining committed to our goal of delivering structurally higher profitability, believing we are on track to achieve our 18 percent non-GAAP operating margin goal in 2019, believing we are in a position to accelerate growth when the market recovers, the significant impact our company realignment is having on our profitability, our confidence in achieving our 18 percent non-GAAP operating margin goal in 2019 and through the cycle, being the right choice to take our business forward to become the leader in software-defined automated test and automated measurement, expecting Q4 revenue to be in the range of $345 million to $375 million, and expecting that GAAP fully diluted EPS will be in the range of $0.25 to $0.39 for Q4, with non-GAAP fully diluted EPS expected to be in the range of $0.43 to $0.57. The following tables provide details with respect to the amount of GAAP charges related to stock-based compensation, amortization of acquisition-related intangibles, acquisition-related transaction costs, capitalization and amortization of internally developed software costs, restructuring charges, disposal gains on office buildings and related charitable contributions, and other that were recorded in the line items indicated below (unaudited) (in thousands)