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PTC Inc.
ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020
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Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this Annual Report about our anticipated financial results and growth, as well as about the development of our products and markets, are forward-looking statements that are based on our current plans and assumptions. Important information about factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from these statements is discussed in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” and generally throughout this Annual Report.
Unless otherwise indicated, all references to a year reflect our fiscal year that ends on September 30.
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PTC is a global software and services company that delivers solutions to power our industrial customers' digital transformations, enabling them to better design, manufacture, operate, and service their products. Our Internet of Things (IoT) and Augmented Reality (AR) solutions enable companies to connect factories and plants, smart products, and enterprise systems to transform their businesses. These products, along with Onshape, are considered our Growth Products. The primary products in our Core Products portfolio are innovative Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions that enable manufacturers to create, innovate, and service products. Our Focused Solutions Group (FSG) is a family of software products that target specific vertical industries where we can deliver unique domain expertise and a competitive advantage with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products, Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) products, and other niche tailored solutions. Together, these technologies power the digital thread across industrial enterprises.
We also continue to expand our solution offerings to address the most pressing business problems our customers confront. These solutions are being designed to aggregate technology from across our portfolio as well as from other companies, including our key partners.
Our business is based on a subscription business model, which provides flexibility to customers and increases predictability and consistency of billings for PTC. Our customer success program partners with customers to enable successful deployment and use of our solutions.
We generate revenue through the sale of software subscriptions, which include license access and support (technical support and software updates); support for existing perpetual licenses; professional services (consulting, implementation, and training); and cloud services (hosting for our software and SaaS).
Our Strategy
There are three key elements to our strategy to deliver long-term shareholder value.
Align with market demand to build a strong pipeline. We believe demand for solutions such as ours that enable work from home, global team and supply chain collaboration, remote asset management, and remote frontline worker training and support is strong.
Optimize new and renewal sales and customer success to power top line ARR growth. FY’20 marked the third consecutive year of double-digit ARR growth, despite the extreme volatility of PMIs and the macroeconomic environment that occurred during the same time frame. In the past year, we have accelerated our digital marketing and sales capabilities.
Create an efficient business model and operation that enable us to drive free cash flow growth. As we have completed our subscription transition, we see greater ARR stability and continue to drive operational efficiencies.
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Our Principal Products and Services
Growth Products
Our ThingWorx® IIoT platform delivers end-to-end capabilities that enable customers to address every facet of their digital transformation journey, enabling them to transform their operations, products, and services—and unlock new business models. ThingWorx enables customers to reduce the time, cost, and risk required to build and deploy IIoT applications; easily and more securely connect devices, systems, and applications; build applications quickly and at enterprise scale; analyze IIoT data to proactively optimize operations; manage connected devices, processes and systems; and create digital and AR experiences. ThingWorx Solution Central is a centralized portal in the cloud that allows users of ThingWorx to efficiently discover, deploy, and manage ThingWorx applications across the enterprise from a single location, which allows for cost-effective, efficient, and version-controlled management of applications. Our ThingWorx Kepware® product enables users to connect, manage, monitor, and control disparate devices and software applications. ThingWorx also offers sophisticated artificial intelligence and machine learning technology that enables customers to simplify and automate complex analytical processes, enhancing IIoT solutions through real-time insights, predictions and recommendations from information collected from smart, connected things. ThingWorx also includes AR capabilities that superimpose IoT digital information on a human’s view of the physical world, enabling valuable insights. PTC was named a leader in IIoT platforms in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant, Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ 2020 SPARK Matrix, and Forrester’s 2019 Wave.
Our Vuforia® enterprise AR platform and wide-ranging solution suite enable industrial enterprise customers to address workforce challenges and meet business goals. Our Vuforia Studio™ product is a powerful, easy-to-use, cloud-based tool that enables industrial enterprises to rapidly author and publish augmented reality experiences. These augmented reality experiences overlay important digital information from IoT, CAD, and other sources onto the view of the physical things on which users work. Our Vuforia Expert Capture™ product chronicles the real-time movements of a person wearing an AR headset by monitoring the individual both audio-visually and spatially in three dimensions. Vuforia Expert Capture supports a variety of industrial use cases, such as creating step-by-step operating or repair instructions, procedural guidance, and hands-on training. The Vuforia suite also includes the Vuforia Engine™ technology for application development, Vuforia Chalk™ collaboration and remote assistance solution, and Vuforia Spatial Toolbox™ technology to accelerate the development of spatial computing prototypes and use cases. PTC was named a leader in AR platforms in ABI Research’s 2019 Competitive Assessment and Teknowlogy’s PAC RADAR assessment.
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Our Onshape® Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product development platform unites computer-aided design with data management, collaboration tools, and real-time analytics. A cloud-native multi-tenant solution that can be instantly deployed on virtually any computer or mobile device, Onshape enables teams to work together from anywhere. Real-time design reviews, commenting, and simultaneous editing enable a collaborative workflow where multiple design iterations can be completed in parallel and merged into the final design.
Core Products
Our Creo® interoperable suite of product design software provides a scalable set of packages for design engineers to meet a variety of specialized needs. Creo provides capabilities for generative design, real-time simulation (through our collaboration with ANSYS), additive manufacturing, design flexibility, advanced assembly design, piping and cabling design, advanced surfacing, comprehensive virtual prototyping and other essential design functions. Our Creo solutions also include augmented and virtual reality through a native cloud-dependent integration with our Vuforia® augmented reality (AR) solution. With every seat of Creo, our customers can create and publish AR experiences and share their designs instantly to collaborate with anyone across the entire enterprise around the world on virtually any device.
Our Windchill® suite of PLM software enables efficient and consistent product data management from inception through design, as well as communication and collaboration across the entire enterprise, including product development, manufacturing and the supply chain. Windchill offers a single repository for product information, thus providing a “single source of truth” for product-related content such as CAD models, documents, technical illustrations, embedded software, calculations, and requirement specifications for all phases of the product lifecycle to help companies streamline enterprise-wide communication and make informed decisions. As the “single source of truth,” Windchill provides the digital thread that connects the full product lifecycle. Windchill also includes augmented reality (AR) capabilities, enabling customers to build a digital product definition and publish the representation of the resulting product in AR. Using AR in the product development process connects the digital model to the physical product to determine real-time behavior, conduct product design reviews in real-world environments, and share the product definition with disparate stakeholders. PTC was named a leader in PLM in Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ 2019 SPARK Matrix.
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Focused Group Products (FSG)
Our IntegrityTM application lifecycle management (ALM) and model-based systems engineering capabilities enable users to manage system models, software configurations, test plans and defects.
Our Servigistics® service parts management solution enables customers to effectively manage service parts, improve their products and services, and increase customer satisfaction.
Strategic Alliances
Building an ecosystem of partners is becoming increasingly important as we expand the capabilities of our core solutions and IIoT offerings and expand our addressable markets by leveraging our partner sales and services distribution channels.
We partner with Rockwell Automation to align our respective smart factory technologies to address the market for smart, connected operations, with particular focus on the plant and factory setting. The companies’ primary joint offering, FactoryTalk InnovationSuite Powered by PTC, is the industry’s first comprehensive digital transformation software suite that offers fully integrated IIoT, edge-to-cloud analytics, manufacturing execution systems (MES), and AR. In October 2020, we expanded our strategic alliance with Rockwell Automation to include our PLM and SaaS products to streamline both companies’ commercial efforts to extend a comprehensive digital thread solution, from upfront design through operation and maintenance. PTC will also offer Rockwell Automation’s virtual machinery simulation and testing software to its own customers and partners. Rockwell Automation has exclusive rights to resell certain of our solutions to certain customers and geographic regions. In connection with this strategic alliance, in 2018 Rockwell Automation made a $1 billion equity investment in PTC.
We partner with Microsoft to make the ThingWorx® Industrial Innovation Platform available on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform as our preferred cloud platform. By partnering with Microsoft, we are able to leverage the two companies’ complementary technologies and together pursue opportunities in industrial sectors. This integration enables us to deliver a combined and connected solution for IIoT and digital product lifecycle management that enables companies to bring new products to market faster, enhance customer service, and introduce new revenue streams, while reducing operating costs.
In Q3’20, we expanded our strategic alliances with Microsoft and Rockwell Automation into a three-way alliance to take to market a new class of IIoT solutions called Factory Insights as a Service. Factory Insights as a Service is a turnkey cloud solution that enables manufacturers to achieve significant impact, speed, and scale with their digital transformation initiatives.
We partner with ANSYS to embed Ansys' Discovery Live real-time simulation within Creo, enabling us to offer a fully-integrated CAD and real-time simulation solution. We are also working towards integrating Ansys’s broader Discovery AIM suite with the Creo suite.
Our Markets and How We Address Them
We compete in the IIoT, AR, CAD and PLM markets. The markets we serve present different growth opportunities for us. We see greater opportunity for market growth for our IIoT and AR solutions for the enterprise, followed by more moderate market growth for our CAD and PLM solutions.
We derive most of our sales from products and services sold directly by our sales force to end-user customers. Approximately 30% to 35% of our sales of products and services are through third-party resellers. Our sales force focuses on large accounts, while our reseller channel provides a cost-effective means of covering the small- and medium-size business market. Our strategic services partners provide service offerings to help customers implement our product offerings. As we grow our IIoT business, we expect that our go-to-market strategy will rely more on selling through partners, including the types of strategic partners described above, and marketing directly to end users and developers.
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Additional financial information about our segments and international and domestic operations may be found in Note 18. Segment and Geographic Information of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K, which information is incorporated herein by reference.
Competition
We compete with a number of companies whose offerings address one or more specific functional areas covered by our solutions. In our IIoT business, we compete with large established companies such as Amazon, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Siemens AG, Software AG, and GE. There are also a number of smaller companies that compete in the market for IIoT products. For enterprise CAD and PLM solutions, we compete with companies including Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes SA, and Siemens AG. For PLM solutions, we also compete with Oracle and SAP, but we believe our products are more specifically targeted toward the business process challenges of manufacturing companies and offer broader and deeper functionality for those processes than ERP-based solutions. For our AR products, our primary competitors include Microsoft, Upskill, Ubimax, ScopeAR and Re’Flekt.
Proprietary Rights
Our software products and related technical know-how, along with our trademarks, including our company names, product names and logos, are proprietary. We protect our intellectual property rights in these items by relying on copyrights, trademarks, patents and common law safeguards, including trade secret protection. The nature and extent of such legal protection depends in part on the type of intellectual property right and the relevant jurisdiction. In the U.S., we are generally able to maintain our trademark registrations for as long as the trademarks are in use and to maintain our patents for up to 20 years from the earliest effective filing date. We also use license management and other anti-piracy technology measures, as well as contractual restrictions, to curtail the unauthorized use and distribution of our products.
Our proprietary rights are subject to risks and uncertainties described under Item 1A. “Risk Factors” below. You should read that discussion, which is incorporated into this section by reference.
Employees
As of September 30, 2020, we had 6,243 employees, including 1,949 in research and development; 1,679 in customer support, training, consulting, cloud services and product distribution; 1,866 in sales and marketing; and 749 in general and administration. Of these employees, 2,315 were in the United States; 2,218 in the Asia Pacific region, including 1,501 in India; 1,566 in Europe; and 144 in the Americas (excluding the U.S.).
As a software company, our employees are a significant asset and we aim to create an environment that is equitable, inclusive and representative in which our employees can grow and advance their careers, with the overall goal of developing, expanding and retaining our workforce to support our business.
Inclusion and Diversity. We have prioritized inclusion and diversity (I&D) as part of our corporate-wide strategic goals. Strategies we’ve taken to create and sustain a more inclusive and diverse environment include: hiring a dedicated head of I&D; expanding our recruiting efforts at schools and job fairs focused on minorities and other diversity dimensions; and launching, expanding and supporting our Employee Resource Groups—groups of PTC employees that voluntarily join together based on shared characteristics, life experiences, or interest around particular activities.
Workforce Planning and Retention. Our efforts to recruit and retain a diverse and passionate workforce include providing competitive compensation and benefit packages worldwide and ensuring we listen to our employees. To that end, we regularly survey our employees to obtain their views and assess employee satisfaction. We use the views expressed in the surveys to influence our people strategy and policies. We also use employee survey information, headcount data and cost analyses to gain insights into how and where we work.
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Website Access to Reports and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
We make available free of charge on our website at www.ptc.com the following reports as soon as reasonably practicable after electronically filing them with, or furnishing them to, the SEC: our Annual Reports on Form 10-K; our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q; our Current Reports on Form 8-K; and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Our Proxy Statements for our Annual Meetings and Section 16 trading reports on SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5 also are available on our website. The reference to our website is not intended to incorporate information on our website into this Annual Report by reference.
Our Code of Ethics for Senior Executive Officers is embedded in our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, which is also available on our website. Additional information about this code and amendments and waivers thereto can be found below in Part III, Item 10 of this Annual Report.
Executive Officers
Information about our executive officers is incorporated by reference from our 2021 Proxy Statement.
Corporate Information
PTC was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1985 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The following are important factors we have identified that could affect our future results and your investment in our securities. You should consider them carefully when evaluating an investment in PTC securities or any forward-looking statements made by us, including those contained in this Annual Report, because these factors could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or the performance projected in forward-looking statements. The risks described below are not the only risks we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial may also materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and/or operating results.
I.Risks Related to Our Business Operations and Industry
We face significant competition, which may reduce our profitability and limit or reduce our market share.
The markets for our products and solutions are rapidly changing and characterized by intense competition, disruptive technology developments, evolving distribution models and increasingly lower barriers to entry. If we are unable to provide products and solutions that address customers’ needs as well as our competitors’ products and solutions do, or to align our pricing, licensing and delivery models with customer preferences, we could lose customers and/or fail to attract new customers, which could cause us to lose revenue and market share.
For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused companies worldwide to close their offices and their employees to have to work remotely from their homes, which has focused companies on the need for solutions that empower and support remote work by employees. We believe customers and potential customers will increasingly seek software solutions that support remote work by employees. Although many of our solutions support remote work, others are less efficient at doing so. We have embarked on an effort to make our solutions available on a SaaS platform, however, this will require significant effort and investment and we cannot be sure that we will be able to make our solutions available as SaaS solutions as quickly as we expect. If we are unable to compete successfully with competitors offering SaaS solutions, we could lose customers and/or fail to attract new customers, which could cause us to lose revenue and market share, which would adversely affect our business and financial results.
In addition, competitive pressures could cause us to reduce our prices, which could reduce our revenue and margins.
Finally, our current and potential competitors range from large and well-established companies to emerging start-ups. Some of our competitors and potential competitors have greater name recognition in the markets we serve and greater financial, technical, sales and marketing, and other resources, which could limit our ability to gain customer recognition and confidence in our products and solutions and successfully sell our products and solutions, which could adversely affect our ability to grow our business.
A breach of security in our products or computer systems, or those of our third-party service providers, could compromise the integrity of our products, cause loss of data, harm our reputation, create additional liability and adversely impact our financial results.
We have implemented and continue to implement measures intended to maintain the security and integrity of our products, source code and computer systems. The potential for a security breach or system disruption has significantly increased over time as the scope, number, intensity and sophistication of attempted cyberattacks and cyberintrusions have increased. We face cyberattacks and intrusions designed to access and exfiltrate information and to disrupt and lock-up access to systems for the purpose of demanding a ransom payment. Despite efforts to create security barriers to such threats, it is impossible for us to eliminate the risk of a successful cyberattack or intrusion, and, in fact, we deal with security issues on a regular basis and have experienced security incidents from time to time. Accordingly, there is a risk that a cyberattack or intrusion will be successful and that such event will be material.
In addition, we offer cloud services to our customers and some of our products are hosted by third-party service providers, which expose us to additional risks as those repositories of our customers’ proprietary data may be targeted and a cyberattack or intrusion may be successful and material.
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A significant breach of the security and/or integrity of our products or systems, or those of our third-party service providers, could prevent our products from functioning properly, could enable access to sensitive, proprietary or confidential information, including that of our customers, or could disrupt our business operations or those of our customers. This could require us to incur significant costs of investigation, remediation and/or payment of a ransom; harm our reputation; cause customers to stop buying our products; and cause us to face lawsuits and potential liability, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
We may be unable to hire or retain personnel with the necessary skills to operate and grow our business, which could adversely affect our ability to compete.
Our success depends upon our ability to attract and retain highly skilled managerial, sales and marketing, technical, financial and administrative personnel to operate and grow our business. Competition for such personnel in our industry is intense, particularly in the Boston, Massachusetts area where our global headquarters is located.
The technical personnel required to develop our products and solutions are in high demand, particularly technical personnel with augmented and virtual reality and analytics expertise as there are comparatively fewer persons with those skills. If we are unable to attract and retain technical personnel with the requisite skills, our product and solution development efforts could be delayed, which could adversely affect our ability to compete and thereby adversely affect our revenues and profitability.
The managerial, sales and marketing, financial and administrative personnel necessary to guide our operations, market and sell our solutions and support our business operations are also in high demand due to the intense competition in our industry.
If we are unable to attract and retain the personnel we need to develop compelling products and solutions, and guide, operate and support our business, we may be unable to successfully compete in the marketplace, which would adversely affect our revenues and profitability.
The extent to which the novel coronavirus COVID-19 may impact our business is uncertain and it could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted global economic activity and has created macroeconomic uncertainty. Public and private sector policies and initiatives to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, such as the imposition of travel restrictions, temporary closures of businesses, and the adoption of remote working, have significantly changed the way we and our customers work. The effects and duration of this disruption remain uncertain.
While PTC was able to transition to remote working without significant disruption to our day-to-day operations, disruption to our customers’ and our prospects’ operations and the way we work with them have adversely affected our business.
Demand for our solutions has declined and could decline further due to challenges associated with conducting in-person sales meetings and project scoping and implementation activities while social distancing measures are in place, which has deterred or prevented, and could further deter or prevent, customers from proceeding with new software purchases and deployments. Likewise, temporary plant closures, layoffs and furloughs at our customers and the challenges they face forecasting business needs in this time of global economic uncertainty have caused, and could continue to cause, our customers to delay or reduce new license purchases.
Longer term plant closures and layoffs among our customer base could cause existing subscription customers to renew fewer existing licenses when their subscriptions come up for renewal and could cause existing support customers to discontinue support at the time of renewal. We experienced an increase in churn in FY’20 to 8.6%, versus a churn rate of 7.4% for FY’19. If churn increases in the future, our ARR and financial results and condition could be negatively impacted.
Reductions in new license sales and/or renewals and in professional services delivered could reduce our ARR growth or cause our ARR to decline, and would reduce our professional services revenue, all of
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which would adversely affect our revenue, earnings and cash flow. Further prolonged disruption could continue to negatively impact the businesses of our customers and prospective customers and, therefore, our business and financial condition.
The economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has also caused our customers to focus on their liquidity. This focus on liquidity, or our customers’ lack of liquidity, could adversely affect our cash flows if we make concessions in the amount or timing of payments due from customers or if our customers do not pay when or as expected. Moreover, some of our resellers may face liquidity challenges, which could adversely affect our cash flows if they do not pay us when or as expected.
If our business declines due to the above, we could be required to reduce our expenses, which could result in material restructuring charges and/or reduce or delay investments in our business, including hiring. Reductions in our workforce and/or investments in our business could hamper our ability to recover and compete successfully, which could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Finally, while we expect to have sufficient liquidity with cash on hand, cash generated from operations, and amounts available under our credit facility to meet our working capital and capital expenditure requirements through at least the next twelve months and our known long-term capital requirements, declines in cash flows could adversely affect our liquidity and we may be unable to draw on our credit facility as we expect due to covenants under the credit facility. If our liquidity is significantly impaired, it would significantly adversely affect our business due to our inability to pay our suppliers and our employees. Further, a significant liquidity impairment could cause us to be unable to make the required periodic interest payments due on our outstanding Senior Notes due 2028 and 2025, which would constitute an event of default under the applicable notes, and cause the aggregate principal amount of those notes on which we defaulted to become due and payable.
We depend on sales within the discrete manufacturing sector and our business could be adversely affected if manufacturing activity does not grow, or if it contracts, or if manufacturers are adversely affected by other economic factors.
A large amount of our sales are to customers in the discrete manufacturing sector. The global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) declined significantly in the second and third quarters of 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19 and, though it has recovered somewhat, remained approximately at the 50% level in September 2020. Although the volatility in Manufacturing PMI did not have a significant adverse effect on our business in FY’20, if the manufacturing sector does not improve or continues to decline, our customers in this sector may, as they have in the past, reduce or defer purchases of our products and services, which could adversely affect our financial results.
In addition, manufacturers worldwide are facing increasing uncertainty about the global economic climate due to, among other factors, the COVID-19 pandemic, the geopolitical environment and ongoing trade tensions and tariffs. In addition, within the technology industry the U.S. Administration’s focus on technology transactions with non-U.S. entities and potential expanded prohibitions has created additional uncertainty. In light of these concerns and challenges, including the potential enactment or expansion of laws that restrict our ability to sell our solutions to customers, customers may delay, reduce or forego purchases of our solutions, which would adversely affect our business and financial results.
If we fail to successfully manage our transition to a subscription-based licensing company, our business and financial results could be adversely affected.
We completed our transition from offering perpetual licenses for our products to offering only subscription-based licenses worldwide in January 2019 (excluding Kepware). While we expect our subscription base, recurring revenue and cash flow to increase over time as a result of this licensing model transition, our ability to achieve these financial objectives is subject to risks and uncertainties. Becoming a subscription-based licensing company requires a considerable investment of technical, financial, legal and sales resources, and a scalable organization. Whether our transition will be successful and will accomplish our business and financial objectives is subject to uncertainties, including but not limited to: customer demand, attach and renewal rates, channel acceptance, our ability to further develop and scale infrastructure, our ability to include functionality and usability in such offerings that address customer
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requirements, and our costs. If we are unable to successfully establish these new offerings and navigate our business transition due to the foregoing risks and uncertainties, our business and financial results could be adversely impacted.
Because our sales and operations are globally dispersed, we face additional compliance risks and any compliance risk could adversely affect our business and financial results.
We sell and deliver software and services, and maintain support operations, in many countries whose laws and practices differ from one another and are subject to unexpected changes. Managing these geographically dispersed operations requires significant attention and resources to ensure compliance with laws of those countries and those of the U.S. governing our activities in non-U.S. countries.
Those laws include, but are not limited to, anti-corruption laws and regulations (including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the U.K. Bribery Act 2010), data privacy laws and regulations (including the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulation), and trade and economic sanctions laws and regulations (including laws administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the United Nations Security Council and other relevant sanctions authorities). Our compliance risks are heightened due to the go-to-market approach for our business that relies heavily on a partner ecosystem, the fact that we operate in, and are expanding into, countries with a higher incidence of corruption and fraudulent business practices than others, the fact that we deal with governments and state-owned business enterprises, and the fact that global enforcement of laws has significantly increased.
Accordingly, while we strive to maintain a comprehensive compliance program, we cannot guarantee that an employee, agent or business partner will not act in violation of our policies or U.S. or other applicable laws or that we may inadvertently violate such laws. Investigations of alleged violations of those laws can be expensive and disruptive. Violations of such laws can lead to civil and/or criminal prosecutions, substantial fines and other sanctions, including the revocation of our rights to continue certain operations, and also cause business and reputation loss, which could adversely affect our financial results and/or stock price.
II.Risks Related to Acquisitions and Strategic Relationships
Businesses we acquire may not generate the revenue and earnings we anticipate and may otherwise adversely affect our business.
We have acquired, and intend to continue to acquire, new businesses and technologies. If we fail to successfully integrate and manage the businesses and technologies we acquire, if an acquisition does not further our business strategy as we expect, or if a business we acquire has unexpected legal or financial liabilities, our operating results will be adversely affected.
The types of issues that we may face in integrating and operating the acquired business include:
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Further, if we do not achieve the expected return on our investments it could impair the intangible assets and goodwill that we recorded as part of an acquisition, which could require us to record a reduction to the value of those assets.
We may incur significant debt or issue a material amount of debt or equity securities to finance an acquisition, which could adversely affect our operating flexibility and financial statements.
If we were to incur a significant amount of debt—whether by borrowing funds or issuing new debt securities—to finance an acquisition, our interest expense, debt service requirements and leverage would increase significantly. The increases in these expenses and in our leverage could adversely impact our ability to operate the company as we might otherwise and to borrow additional amounts.
If we were to issue a significant amount of equity securities in connection with an acquisition, existing stockholders would be diluted and earnings per share could decrease.
Our inability to maintain or develop our strategic and technology relationships could adversely affect our business.
We have many strategic and technology relationships with other companies with which we work to offer complementary solutions and services, that market and sell our solutions, and that provide technologies that we embed in our solutions. We may not realize the expected benefits from these relationships and such relationships may be terminated by the other party. If these companies fail to perform or if a company terminates or substantially alters the terms of the relationship, we could suffer delays in product development, reduced sales or other operational difficulties and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.
III.Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property
We may be unable to adequately protect our proprietary rights, which could adversely affect our business and our ability to compete effectively.
Our software products are proprietary. We protect our intellectual property rights in these items by relying on copyrights, trademarks, patents and common law safeguards, including trade secret protection, as well as restrictions on disclosures and transferability contained in our agreements with other parties. Despite these measures, the laws of all relevant jurisdictions may not afford adequate protection to our products and other intellectual property. In addition, we frequently encounter attempts by individuals and companies to pirate our software. If our measures to protect our intellectual property rights fail, others may be able to use those rights, which could reduce our competitiveness and revenues.
In addition, any legal action to protect our intellectual property rights that we may bring or be engaged in could be costly, may distract management from day-to-day operations and may lead to additional claims against us, and we may not succeed, all of which would materially adversely affect our operating results.
Intellectual property infringement claims could be asserted against us, which could be expensive to defend and could result in limitations on our use of the claimed intellectual property.
The software industry is characterized by frequent litigation regarding copyright, patent and other intellectual property rights. If a lawsuit of this type is filed, it could result in significant expense to us and divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel. We cannot be sure that we would prevail against any such asserted claims. If we did not prevail, we could be prevented from using the claimed intellectual property or be required to enter into royalty or licensing agreements, which might not be available on terms acceptable to us. In addition to possible claims with respect to our proprietary products, some of our products contain technology developed by and licensed from third parties and we may likewise be susceptible to infringement claims with respect to these third-party technologies.
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IV.Risks Related to Our Indebtedness
Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations, as well as our ability to meet our payment obligations under our debt.
We have a significant amount of indebtedness. As of November 20, 2020, our total debt outstanding was approximately $1.0 billion, all of which was associated with the 3.625% Senior Notes and 4.000% Senior Notes (together, “Senior Notes”) issued February 2020, which mature in February 2025 and 2028, respectively, and are unsecured. All amounts outstanding under the credit facility and the Senior Notes will be due and payable in full on their respective maturity dates. As of November 20, 2020, we had unused commitments under our credit facility of $1.0 billion. PTC Inc. and one of our foreign subsidiaries are eligible borrowers under the credit facility and certain other foreign subsidiaries may become borrowers under our credit facility in the future, subject to certain conditions.
Specifically, our level of debt could:
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make it more difficult for us to satisfy our debt obligations and other ongoing business obligations, which may result in defaults; |
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result in an event of default if we fail to comply with the financial and other covenants contained in the agreements governing our debt instruments, which could result in all of our debt becoming immediately due and payable or require us to negotiate an amendment to financial or other covenants that could cause us to incur additional fees and expenses; |
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limit our ability to obtain additional financing to fund future working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions or other general corporate requirements; |
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reduce the availability of our cash to fund working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes and limit our ability to obtain additional financing for these purposes; |
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increase our vulnerability to the impact of adverse economic and industry conditions; |
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expose us to the risk of increased interest rates as certain of our borrowings, including borrowings under the credit facility, are at variable rates of interest; |
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limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, and increasing our vulnerability to, changes in our business, the industries in which we operate, and the overall economy; |
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place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to other, less leveraged competitors; and |
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increase our cost of borrowing. |
Any of the above-listed factors could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and our ability to meet our payment obligations under our debt agreements.
Despite our current level of indebtedness, we and our subsidiaries may still be able to incur substantially more debt and other obligations. This could further exacerbate the risks to our financial condition described above.
We and our subsidiaries may be able to incur significant additional indebtedness and other obligations in the future, including secured debt. Although the credit agreement governing our credit facility contains restrictions on the incurrence of additional indebtedness, these restrictions are subject to a number of qualifications and exceptions. The additional indebtedness incurred in compliance with these restrictions could be substantial. In addition, the credit agreement and the indenture governing the Senior Notes will not prevent us from incurring obligations that do not constitute indebtedness. If new debt is added to our current debt levels, or we incur other obligations, the related risks that we now face could intensify.
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We may not be able to generate enough cash to service all our indebtedness and may be forced to take other actions to satisfy our obligations under our indebtedness, which may not be successful.
Our ability to make scheduled payments on or refinance our debt obligations depends on our financial condition and operating performance, which are subject to prevailing economic and competitive conditions and to certain financial, business, legislative, regulatory and other factors, some of which are beyond our control. We may be unable to maintain a level of cash flows from operating activities sufficient to permit us to pay the principal, premium, if any, and interest on our indebtedness.
If our cash flows and capital resources are insufficient to fund our debt service obligations, we could face substantial liquidity problems and could be forced to reduce or delay investments and capital expenditures or to dispose of material assets or operations, seek additional debt or equity capital or restructure or refinance our indebtedness. We may not be able to effect any such alternative measures, if necessary, on commercially reasonable terms or at all and, even if successful, those alternative actions may not allow us to meet our scheduled debt service obligations. Our debt agreements restrict our ability to dispose of assets and use the proceeds from those dispositions and may also restrict our ability to raise debt or equity capital to be used to repay other indebtedness when it becomes due. We may not be able to consummate those dispositions or to obtain proceeds in an amount sufficient to meet any debt service obligations then due.
Our inability to generate sufficient cash flows to satisfy our debt obligations, or to refinance our indebtedness on commercially reasonable terms or at all, would materially and adversely affect our financial position and results of operations and our ability to satisfy our debt obligations.
If we cannot make scheduled payments on our debt, we will be in default and the lenders under our credit facility could terminate their commitments to loan money, the lenders could foreclose against the assets securing their borrowings, the holders of our Senior Notes could declare all outstanding principal, premium, if any, and interest to be due and payable, and we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation. These events could result in a loss of your investment.
We are required to comply with certain financial and operating covenants under our debt agreements. Any failure to comply with those covenants could cause amounts borrowed to become immediately due and payable and/or prevent us from borrowing under the credit facility.
We are required to comply with specified financial and operating covenants under our debt agreements and to make payments under our debt, which limit our ability to operate our business as we otherwise might operate it. Our failure to comply with any of these covenants or to meet any debt payment obligations could result in an event of default which, if not cured or waived, would result in any amounts outstanding, including any accrued interest and/or unpaid fees, becoming immediately due and payable. We might not have enough working capital or liquidity to satisfy any repayment obligations if those obligations were accelerated. In addition, if we are not in compliance with the financial and operating covenants under the credit facility when we wish to borrow funds, we will be unable to borrow funds.
In addition, the financial and operating covenants under the credit facility may limit our ability to borrow funds, including for strategic acquisitions and share repurchases.
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Our credit facility has variable interest tied to LIBOR and we could become subject to higher interest rates if the replacement rate we agree on with our banks is higher.
Borrowings under our revolving credit facility use the London Interbank Offering Rate (LIBOR) as a benchmark for establishing the interest rate. LIBOR is the subject of recent national, international, and other regulatory guidance and proposals for reform. These reforms and other pressures may cause LIBOR to disappear entirely or to perform differently than in the past. Although we believe the recent discussions about alternative rates will not materially increase the interest rates on our credit facility, the final agreed rate may increase the cost of our variable rate indebtedness.
V.Risks Related to Our Common Stock
Our operating results fluctuate from quarter to quarter, making future operating results difficult to predict; failure to meet market expectations could cause the price of our securities to decline.
Our quarterly operating results historically have fluctuated and are likely to continue to fluctuate depending on many factors, including:
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variability in our contracts, including timing of start dates, length of contracts, and mix of on-premises and cloud-based purchases, which would impact our revenue and earnings; |
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a high percentage of our orders historically have been generated in the third month of each fiscal quarter and any failure to receive, complete or process orders at the end of any quarter could cause us to fall short of our financial and operating targets; |
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our adoption of Accounting Standards Update 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Topic 606 in 2019 creates significant revenue volatility; |
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a significant percentage of our orders comes from transactions with large customers, which tend to have long lead times that are less predictable; |
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because our operating expenses are largely fixed in the short term and are based on expected revenues, any failure to achieve our revenue targets could cause us to miss our earnings targets; |
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because a significant portion of our revenue and expenses are generated from outside the U.S., shifts in foreign currency exchange rates could adversely affect our reported results; and |
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we may incur significant expenses in a quarter in connection with corporate development initiatives, restructuring efforts or the investigation, defense or settlement of legal actions that would increase our operating expenses and reduce our earnings for the quarter in which those expenses are incurred. |
Accordingly, our quarterly results are difficult to predict prior to the end of the quarter and we may be unable to confirm or adjust expectations with respect to our operating results for a quarter until that quarter has closed. Any failure to meet our quarterly revenue or earnings expectations could adversely impact the market price of our securities.
Our stock price has been volatile, which may make it harder to resell shares at a favorable time and price.
Market prices for securities of software companies are generally volatile and are subject to significant fluctuations that may be unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of these companies. Further, our stock price has been more volatile than that of other software companies. Accordingly, the trading prices and valuations of software companies’ stocks, and of ours, may not be predictable. Negative changes in the public’s perception of the prospects of software companies, or of PTC or the markets we serve, could depress our stock price regardless of our operating results.
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Also, a large percentage of our common stock is held by institutional investors and by Rockwell Automation. Purchases and sales of our common stock by these investors could have a significant impact on the market price of the stock. For more information about those investors, please see our proxy statement with respect to our most recent annual meeting of stockholders and Schedules 13D and 13G filed with the SEC with respect to our common stock.
VI.Risks Related to Our Senior Notes
Our Senior Notes are unsecured and do not limit our ability to incur indebtedness, which could reduce any payments to holders of the Senior Notes in connection with any insolvency, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution or other winding up of PTC.
Unlike the credit facility, which is secured, the Senior Notes are not secured. Although the indenture governing the Senior Notes limits our ability to incur secured debt, the covenant is subject to significant exceptions, and we may incur additional secured debt in the future. The effect of this subordination is that upon a default in payment on, or the acceleration of, any of our secured indebtedness, or in the event of bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, dissolution or reorganization of our company (collectively, “Adverse Events”), the proceeds from the sale of assets securing our secured indebtedness will be available to pay obligations on the Senior Notes only after all indebtedness under the credit facility and any other secured debt has been paid in full. As a result, the holders of the Senior Notes may receive less, ratably, than the holders of secured debt if an Adverse Event occurs.
In addition, the indenture governing the Senior Notes does not limit our ability to incur unsecured indebtedness. If we incur any additional indebtedness that ranks equally with the Senior Notes, subject to collateral arrangements, the holders of that debt will be entitled to share ratably with holders of the Senior Notes in any proceeds distributed in connection with any of the Adverse Events described above. This may reduce the amount of proceeds to holders of the Senior Notes.
Our Senior Notes are not guaranteed by any of our subsidiaries, which could adversely affect our ability to pay interest on or redeem the Senior Notes when due.
We conduct a substantial portion of our operations through our subsidiaries, none of which currently guarantees the Senior Notes. Accordingly, payment of interest on the Senior Notes and redemption of the Senior Notes is dependent on the generation of cash flow by our subsidiaries and their ability to make such cash available to us, by dividend, debt repayment or otherwise. Unless they become guarantors of the Senior Notes, our subsidiaries do not have any obligation to pay amounts due on the Senior Notes or to make funds available for that purpose. Our subsidiaries may not be able to, or may not be permitted to, make distributions to enable us to make payments in respect of the Senior Notes. Each subsidiary is a distinct legal entity, and, under certain circumstances, legal and contractual restrictions may limit our ability to obtain cash from our subsidiaries. If we do not receive distributions from our subsidiaries, we may be unable to make required payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Senior Notes.
Our Senior Notes are not listed on any national securities exchange or included in any automated quotation system, which could make it harder to resell the notes at a favorable time and price.
Our Senior Notes are not listed on any national securities exchange or included in any automated quotation system. As a result, an active market for the notes may not exist or be maintained, which would adversely affect the market price and liquidity of the notes. In that case, holders may not be able to sell their notes when they want to or at a favorable price.
The market for non-investment grade debt historically has been subject to severe disruptions that have caused substantial volatility in the prices of securities similar to the notes. The market, if any, for the notes may experience similar disruptions and any such disruptions may adversely affect the liquidity in that market or the prices at which the notes may be sold.
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VII.General Risk Factors
Our international businesses present economic and operating risks, which could adversely affect our business and financial results.
We expect that our international operations will continue to expand and to account for a significant portion of our total revenue. Because we transact business in various foreign currencies, the volatility of foreign exchange rates has had and may in the future have a material adverse effect on our revenue, expenses and operating results.
Other risks inherent in our international operations include, but are not limited to, the following:
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difficulties in staffing and managing foreign sales and development operations; |
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possible future limitations upon foreign-owned businesses; |
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increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities; |
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inadequate local infrastructure; and |
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greater difficulty in protecting our intellectual property. |
We may have exposure to additional tax liabilities and our effective tax rate may increase or fluctuate, which could increase our income tax expense and reduce our net income.
As a multinational organization, we are subject to income taxes as well as non-income based taxes in the U.S. and in various foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide income tax provision and other tax liabilities. In the ordinary course of a global business, there are many intercompany transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. Our tax returns are subject to review by various taxing authorities. Although we believe that our tax estimates are reasonable, the final determination of tax audits or tax disputes could be different from what is reflected in our historical income tax provisions and accruals. For example, we have an open tax dispute in South Korea with respect to which we paid $12 million in 2017 to accommodate the potential tax liability through 2015, which we are disputing. If we do not prevail in that challenge, we could be subject to additional liabilities for periods after 2015, which we estimate could be $17 million.
Our effective tax rate can be adversely affected by several factors, many of which are outside of our control, including:
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changes in tax laws, regulations, and interpretations in multiple jurisdictions in which we operate; |
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assessments, and any related tax interest or penalties, by taxing authorities; |
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changes in the relative proportions of revenues and income before taxes in the various jurisdictions in which we operate that have differing statutory tax rates; |
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changes to the financial accounting rules for income taxes; |
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unanticipated changes in tax rates; and |
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changes to a valuation allowance on net deferred tax assets, if any. |
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ITEM 1B. |
Unresolved Staff Comments |
None.
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ITEM 2. |
Properties |
We currently have 88 office locations used in operations in the United States and internationally, predominately as sales and/or support offices and for research and development work. Of our total of approximately 1,288,000 square feet of leased facilities used in operations, approximately 521,000 square feet are located in the U.S., including 250,000 square feet at our headquarters facility located in Boston, Massachusetts, and approximately 260,000 square feet are located in India, where a significant amount of our research and development is conducted. In addition, approximately 276,000 feet are associated with facilities that have been restructured, primarily our previous headquarters facility in Needham, Massachusetts. We believe that our facilities are adequate for our present and foreseeable needs.
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ITEM 3. |
Legal Proceedings |
Information on legal proceedings can be found in Note 10. Commitments and Contingencies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K, which information is incorporated herein by reference.
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ITEM 4. |
Mine Safety Disclosures |
Not applicable.
PART II
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ITEM 5. |
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities |
Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "PTC."
On September 30, 2020, the close of our fiscal year, and on November 18, 2020, our common stock was held by 1,072 and 1,070 shareholders of record, respectively.
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ITEM 6. |
Selected Financial Data |
Our five-year summary of selected financial data and quarterly financial data for the past two years is located on page A-1 at the end of this Form 10-K and incorporated herein by reference.
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ITEM 7. |
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this Annual Report about anticipated financial results and growth, as well as about the development of our products and markets, are forward-looking statements that are based on our current plans and assumptions. Important information about the bases for these plans and assumptions and factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from these statements is contained below and in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of this Annual Report.
Unless otherwise indicated, all references to a year reflect our fiscal year that ends on September 30.
Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Our discussion of results includes discussion of our ARR operating measure, non-GAAP financial measures, and disclosure of our results on a constant currency basis. ARR and our non-GAAP financial measures, including the reasons we use those measures, are described below in Results of Operations - Operating Measure and Results of Operations - Non-GAAP Financial Measures, respectively. The methodology used to calculate constant currency disclosures is described in Results of Operations - Impact of Foreign Currency Exchange on Results of Operations. You should read those sections to understand our operating measure, non-GAAP financial measures, and constant currency disclosures.
Executive Overview
ARR increased 14% to $1,270 million (11% and $1,236 million constant currency) compared to the end of FY’19. ARR growth was strong in our much larger Core business and accelerated in our Growth business, but declined modestly in our Focused Solutions Group (FSG) business. Churn of 8.6% was slightly higher than expected.
FY’20 revenue of $1.46 billion increased 16% year over year driven by 26% recurring revenue growth, due in part to the adoption of ASC 606 and related business policy changes. In Q4’20, contract durations were slightly longer than forecasted and we had a higher than anticipated number of conversions, both of which positively impacted the amount of upfront subscription revenue recognized in the quarter. FY’20 operating margin of 14% increased approximately 900 basis points and EPS increased significantly year over year due to the increase in revenue and a decrease in the effective tax rate, primarily due to a reduction of the U.S. valuation allowance.
We generated $234 million of cash from operations in FY'20 compared to $285 million in FY'19, primarily due to higher interest and restructuring payments in the year. We ended FY’20 with $335 million of cash and marketable securities and $1.0 billion of debt outstanding, including $1 billion of Senior Notes with a weighted average cost of debt of 3.8%, and $18 million outstanding under our credit facility, which was paid down subsequent to year end.
Results of Operations
The following table shows the financial measures that we consider the most significant indicators of our business performance. In addition to providing operating income, operating margin, diluted earnings per share and cash from operations as calculated under GAAP, we provide non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP diluted earnings per share, and free cash flow for the reported periods. We also provide a view of our actual results on a constant currency basis. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude the items described in Non-GAAP Financial Measures below. Investors should use these non-GAAP financial measures only in conjunction with our GAAP results.
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For discussion of FY'19 results and comparison with FY'18 results, refer to Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2019.
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Year ended September 30, |
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Percent Change |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Actual |
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Constant Currency(1) |
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Total recurring revenue |
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$ |
1,281.9 |
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$ |
1,017.4 |
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26 |
% |
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27 |
% |
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Perpetual license |
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32.7 |
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70.7 |
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(54 |
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(53 |
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Professional services |
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143.8 |
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167.5 |
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(14 |
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(13 |
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Total revenue |
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1,458.4 |
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1,255.6 |
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16 |
% |
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17 |
% |
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Total cost of revenue |
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334.3 |
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325.4 |
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3 |
% |
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3 |
% |
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Gross margin |
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1,124.1 |
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930.3 |
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21 |
% |
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22 |
% |
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Operating expenses |
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913.2 |
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867.2 |
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5 |
% |
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6 |
% |
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Operating income |
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$ |
210.9 |
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$ |
63.0 |
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234 |
% |
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281 |
% |
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Non-GAAP operating income(1) |
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$ |
423.4 |
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$ |
255.3 |
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66 |
% |
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69 |
% |
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Operating margin |
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14.5 |
% |
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5.0 |
% |
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Non-GAAP operating margin(1) |
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29.0 |
% |
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20.3 |
% |
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Diluted earnings (loss) per share |
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$ |
1.12 |
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$ |
(0.23 |
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Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share(1)(2) |
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$ |
2.57 |
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$ |
1.64 |
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Cash flow from operations(3) |
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$ |
233.8 |
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$ |
285.1 |
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Free cash flow(4) |
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$ |
213.6 |
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$ |
220.7 |
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(1) |
See Non-GAAP Financial Measures below for a reconciliation of our GAAP results to our non-GAAP measures and Impact of Foreign Currency Exchange on Results of Operations below for a description of how we calculate our results on a constant currency basis. |
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We have a full valuation allowance against our U.S. net deferred tax assets and a valuation allowance against net deferred tax assets in certain foreign jurisdictions. As we are profitable on a non-GAAP basis, the non-GAAP tax provisions are calculated assuming there is no valuation allowance. Income tax adjustments reflect the tax effects of non-GAAP adjustments, which are calculated by applying the applicable tax rate by jurisdiction to the non-GAAP adjustments listed above. |
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Cash flow from operations for FY’20 and FY’19 includes $42 million and $25 million of restructuring payments, respectively, and $60.6 million and $40.8 million of interest payments, respectively. Cash from operations for FY’20 includes $9.6 million of acquisition-related payments. |
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Free cash flow is cash from operations net of capital expenditures of $20.2 million and $64.4 million in FY’20 and FY’19, respectively. |
Impact of Foreign Currency Exchange on Results of Operations
Approximately 60% of our revenue and 40% of our expenses are transacted in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Because we report our results of operations in U.S. Dollars, currency translation, particularly changes in the Euro, Yen, Shekel, and Rupee relative to the U.S. Dollar, affects our reported results. Starting in Q1’20, our constant currency disclosures are calculated by multiplying the results in local currency for FY’20 and FY’19 by the exchange rates in effect on September 30, 2019, excluding the effect of any hedging. If FY'20 reported results were converted into U.S. dollars based on this methodology, FY'20 revenue would have been lower by $12 million and expenses would have been lower by $4 million. The net impact on year-over-year results would have been a decrease in operating income of $8 million in FY'20.
The results of operations in the table above and revenue by line of business, product group, and geographic region in the tables that follow present both actual percentage changes year over year and percentage changes on a constant currency basis.
Revenue
Our revenue results period to period are impacted by contract terms, including the duration and start dates of our subscription contracts. Early in Q4’19, we discontinued offering cancellation rights for multi-year subscription contracts, which results in the recognition of the license portion of revenue for all years of the contract at the beginning of the multiyear contract period for our on-premises subscription licenses. The discontinuation of the cancellation clause is expected to have less of an impact in FY’21. We are expanding our SaaS offerings and are releasing additional cloud functionality into our products. As a result, our revenue will be impacted as a higher portion of it will be recognized ratably.
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Revenue by Line of Business
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Year ended September 30, |
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Percent Change |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Constant Currency |
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License |
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$ |
509.8 |
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$ |
324.4 |
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57 |
% |
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58 |
% |
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Support and cloud services |
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804.8 |
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763.7 |
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5 |
% |
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6 |
% |
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Total software revenue |
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1,314.6 |
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1,088.1 |
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21 |
% |
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22 |
% |
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Professional services |
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143.8 |
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167.5 |
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(14 |
)% |
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(13 |
)% |
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Total revenue |
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$ |
1,458.4 |
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$ |
1,255.6 |
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16 |
% |
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17 |
% |
Software revenue increased in FY’20 compared to FY’19 due to subscription revenue growth, offset by declines in perpetual license and perpetual support revenue due to conversions of support contracts to subscriptions. In FY’20, subscription license revenue increased 88% (89% constant currency) compared to the year-ago period, due in part to the discontinuation of the annual cancellation right in new multi-year contracts and in part to new conversions in FY’20.
Professional services engagements typically result from sales of new licenses; revenue is recognized over the term of the engagement. Our expectation is that professional services revenue will trend flat-to-down over time due to our strategy to expand margins by migrating more services engagements to our partners and delivering products that require less consulting and training services, and in the near-term will trend down due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professional services revenue declined in FY’20 due to challenges with project scoping and implementation activities and performance due to social distancing measures and facility closures implemented to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, there was an increase in the estimated costs to complete a large fixed price professional services contract, which led to a corresponding decrease in the estimated percent complete and a related reversal of revenue.
Revenue by Product Group
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Software Revenue by Product Group |
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
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Year ended September 30, |
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Percent Change |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Actual |
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Constant Currency |
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Core (CAD and PLM) |
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$ |
947.1 |
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$ |
762.2 |
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24 |
% |
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|
25 |
% |
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Growth (IoT, AR, Onshape) |
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183.8 |
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140.2 |
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31 |
% |
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|
32 |
% |
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FSG (Focused Solutions Group) |
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183.7 |
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185.7 |
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(1 |
)% |
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(1 |
)% |
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Software revenue |
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$ |
1,314.6 |
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$ |
1,088.1 |
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21 |
% |
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22 |
% |
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Total Revenue by Product Group |
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
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Year ended September 30, |
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Percent Change |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Actual |
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Constant Currency |
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Core (CAD and PLM) |
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$ |
1,025.7 |
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$ |
869.0 |
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18 |
% |
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|
19 |
% |
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Growth (IoT, AR, Onshape) |
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222.6 |
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167.5 |
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33 |
% |
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34 |
% |
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FSG (Focused Solutions Group) |
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210.1 |
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219.1 |
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(4 |
)% |
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(4 |
)% |
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Total revenue |
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$ |
1,458.4 |
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$ |
1,255.6 |
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|
16 |
% |
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|
17 |
% |
Core product software revenue growth in FY’20 compared to FY’19 was driven by subscription revenue growth of 68% (69% constant currency), offset by expected declines in perpetual license and perpetual support revenue due to the end of sales of perpetual licenses at the end of Q1’19 and conversions of support contracts to subscriptions. Total revenue growth was lower than software revenue growth due to a decline in professional services revenue. In FY’20, professional services revenue declined 26% (actual and constant currency) compared to the year-ago period due in part to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the professional services contract described above. ARR increased 14% (11% constant currency) for FY’20 compared to FY’19, reflecting solid ARR growth for both PLM and CAD.
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Growth product software revenue growth in FY’20 was driven by subscription revenue growth of 49% (50% constant currency) compared to the year-ago period, offset by an expected decline in perpetual license revenue due to the end of sales of perpetual licenses at the end of Q1’19. The revenue growth rate has been impacted by a decrease in the proportion of license revenue recognized upfront as we have released additional cloud functionality (for which revenue is recognized ratably) into our IoT products. Growth product ARR increased 34% (32% constant currency) for FY’20 compared to FY’19, including growth from sales of our products through our strategic alliance with Rockwell Automation and reflecting strong growth in all three product lines.
FSG product software revenue declined in FY’20 compared to FY’19, primarily driven by a 13% (actual and constant currency) decrease in perpetual support revenue due to conversions of support contracts to subscriptions. This decline was partially offset by a 12% (13% constant currency) increase in subscription revenue in FY’20 compared to the year-ago period. The total revenue decrease in FY’20 was higher than the decline in software revenue due to a decrease in professional services revenue, which declined 21% (20% constant currency) in FY’20 compared to FY’19 due in part to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our ability to execute professional services projects. FSG product ARR decreased 2% (4% constant currency) for FY’20 compared to FY’19, largely due to the impact of COVID-19 on FSG markets, primarily due to the non-renewal of a government contract which did not receive renewed funding.
Software Revenue by Geographic Region
A significant portion of our software revenue is generated outside the U.S. In both FY'19 and FY'20, approximately 45% of software revenue was generated in the Americas, 35% in Europe, and 20% in Asia Pacific.
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
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Year ended September 30, |
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Percent Change |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Actual |
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Constant Currency |
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Americas |
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$ |
592.7 |
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$ |
484.1 |
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|
|
22 |
% |
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23 |
% |
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Europe |
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|
482.5 |
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|
|
379.9 |
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|
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27 |
% |
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28 |
% |
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Asia Pacific |
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|
239.4 |
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|
|
224.1 |
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|
7 |
% |
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|
7 |
% |
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Total revenue |
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$ |
1,314.6 |
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|
$ |
1,088.1 |
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|
|
21 |
% |
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|
22 |
% |
Americas software revenue growth in FY’20 was driven by growth in subscription revenue of 44% (actual and constant currency) as compared to FY’19, partially offset by a decline of 16% (15% constant currency) in perpetual support revenue, resulting in recurring revenue growth of 24% (25% constant currency).
Europe software revenue growth in FY’20 was driven by growth in subscription revenue of 67% (69% constant currency) as compared to FY’19, partially offset by a decline in perpetual support revenue, resulting in recurring revenue growth of 28% (30% constant currency).
Asia Pacific software revenue growth in FY’20 was driven by growth in subscription revenue of 70% (actual and constant currency) as compared to FY’19, partially offset by declines of 86% (actual and constant currency) and 20% (actual and constant currency) in perpetual license and support revenue, respectively. Recurring revenue growth was 26% (actual and constant currency).
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Gross Margin
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
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Year ended September 30, |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Percent Change |
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Gross margin: |
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License gross margin |
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$ |
456.6 |
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$ |
272.5 |
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|
68 |
% |
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License gross margin percentage |
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|
90 |
% |
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|
84 |
% |
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|
|
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Support and cloud services gross margin |
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$ |
659.4 |
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$ |
630.2 |
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|
|
5 |
% |
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Support and cloud services gross margin percentage |
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|
82 |
% |
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|
83 |
% |
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|
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Professional services |
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$ |
8.1 |
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$ |
27.6 |
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(71 |
)% |
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Professional services gross margin percentage |
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6 |
% |
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|
16 |
% |
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Total gross margin |
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$ |
1,124.1 |
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|
$ |
930.3 |
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21 |
% |
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Total gross margin percentage |
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|
77 |
% |
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|
74 |
% |
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Non-GAAP gross margin(1) |
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$ |
1,165.5 |
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$ |
970.0 |
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20 |
% |
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Non-GAAP gross margin percentage(1) |
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|
80 |
% |
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|
77 |
% |
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(1) |
Non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled to GAAP results under Non-GAAP Financial Measures below. |
License gross margin increased in FY’20 compared to FY’19 due to revenue increasing significantly as a result of ASC 606 and the discontinuation of the cancellation clause, while cost of license expenses increased only slightly. License revenue growth was driven by an 88% (89% constant currency) increase in subscription license revenue year over year, partially offset by a 54% (53% constant currency) decrease in perpetual license revenue.
Support and cloud services gross margin decreased in FY’20 compared to FY’19 due to a decrease in perpetual support revenue and increases in costs associated with our cloud services business due to increased demand for those services, royalty expenses, and outside service costs. This was partially offset by increases in subscription support and cloud services revenue.
Professional services gross margin decreased in FY’20 compared to FY’19 primarily due to a decrease in revenue driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a revenue reversal on a fixed price professional services contract due to a change in the estimated cost to complete, partially offset by decreases in outside services and travel costs.
Operating Expenses
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
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Year ended September 30, |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Percent Change |
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Sales and marketing |
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$ |
435.5 |
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$ |
417.4 |
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|
4 |
% |
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% of total revenue |
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|
30 |
% |
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|
33 |
% |
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Research and development |
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256.6 |
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|
246.9 |
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|
4 |
% |
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% of total revenue |
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|
18 |
% |
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|
20 |
% |
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|
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General and administrative |
|
|
159.8 |
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|
|
127.9 |
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|
25 |
% |
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% of total revenue |
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|
11 |
% |
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|
10 |
% |
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|
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Amortization of acquired intangible assets |
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|
28.7 |
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|
|
23.8 |
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|
20 |
% |
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% of total revenue |
|
|
2 |
% |
|
|
2 |
% |
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|
|
|
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Restructuring and other charges, net |
|
|
32.7 |
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|
|
51.1 |
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(36 |
)% |
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% of total revenue |
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|
2 |
% |
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|
4 |
% |
|
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Total operating expenses |
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$ |
913.3 |
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|
$ |
867.2 |
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|
5 |
% |
Total headcount increased by 3% in FY’20 to 6,243 from 6,055 at the end of FY’19. Headcount at the end of FY’20 includes approximately 130 people from Onshape and other smaller acquisitions.
Operating expenses in FY'20 compared to FY'19 increased primarily due to the following:
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• |
an increase in general and administrative expenses driven by a $17.6 million increase in compensation (including benefit costs), primarily related to stock-based compensation; a $6.1 million increase in professional fees; and a $5.5 million increase in acquisition-related charges; |
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|
• |
a $37.3 million increase in sales and marketing compensation (including benefit costs) due to higher salaries related partially to higher headcount, higher commissions due to amortization of capitalized commissions under ASC 606, and higher stock-based compensation; |
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|
• |
an increase in research and development costs primarily related to a $9.2 million increase in compensation (including benefit costs) primarily due to higher salaries and stock-based compensation; and |
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|
• |
an increase of $4.9 million in intangible amortization related to the acquisition of Onshape; |
partially offset by:
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• |
decreases of $16.1 million in travel costs and $8.3 million in event and meeting expenses, both of which primarily impacted sales and marketing, due to the COVID-19 global pandemic; and |
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• |
an $18.4 million decrease in restructuring and other charges. |
Restructuring and other charges in FY’20 primarily related to an employee restructuring plan in the first half of the fiscal year to shift resources to support our SaaS initiatives. Restructuring and other charges in FY’19 largely related to the exit of our Needham headquarters facility.
Interest Expense
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
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Year ended September 30, |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Percent Change |
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Interest expense |
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$ |
(76.4 |
) |
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$ |
(43.0 |
) |
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|
78 |
% |
Interest expense includes interest under our credit facility and senior notes. Interest expense was higher in FY’20 as compared to FY’19 primarily due to increased debt to complete the Onshape acquisition: we had $1,018 million of total debt at September 30, 2020, compared to $673 million at September 30, 2019. Additionally, we recognized $15 million of expense in FY’20 related to penalties for the early redemption of the 6.000% Senior Notes due 2024. For additional detail on the changes in our debt structure, see Note 9. Debt, included in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report.
The average interest rate on our total borrowings was 4.3% in FY'20 and 5.4% in FY'19. Our average interest rate on the $1.0 billion in Senior Notes will be 3.8% in FY’21.
Other Income (Expense)
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
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Year ended September 30, |
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2020 |
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2019 |
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Percent Change |
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Interest income |
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$ |
3.8 |
|
|
$ |
4.1 |
|
|
|
(7 |
)% |
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Other expense, net |
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(3.5 |
) |
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|
(3.8 |
) |
|
|
(6 |
)% |
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Other income (expense), net |
|
$ |
0.3 |
|
|
$ |
0.3 |
|
|
|
(11 |
)% |
Interest income represents earnings on the investment of our available cash and marketable securities.
Other expense, net includes foreign currency gains and losses and other non-operating gains and losses. Foreign currency gains and losses include costs of hedging contracts, certain realized and unrealized foreign currency transaction gains or losses, and foreign exchange gains or losses resulting from the required period-end currency remeasurement of the assets and liabilities of our subsidiaries that use the U.S. dollar as their functional currency.
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Income Taxes
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
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Year ended September 30, |
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|
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2020 |
|
|
2019 |
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Percent Change |
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|
Income before income taxes |
|
$ |
134.7 |
|
|
$ |
20.3 |
|
|
|
564 |
% |
|
Provision for income taxes |
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