VMware veröffentlicht Ergebnisse für das dritte Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2022

• Der Umsatz für das dritte Quartal beträgt 3,19 Milliarden US-Dollar, ein Anstieg von 11 % gegenüber dem dritten Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2021.
• Der kombinierte Umsatz aus Subscription, SaaS und Lizenzen beläuft sich auf 1,53 Milliarden US-Dollar, was einem Anstieg von 16 % gegenüber dem dritten Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2021 entspricht.
• Der Subscription- und SaaS-Umsatz beläuft sich im dritten Quartal auf 820 Millionen US-Dollar, was einem Anstieg von 21 % gegenüber dem Vorjahresquartal entspricht.
• Der ARR für Subscription und SaaS lag im dritten Quartal bei 3,31 Milliarden US-Dollar, was einem Anstieg von 25 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr entspricht.
• Der GAAP-Nettogewinn für das dritte Quartal beträgt 398 Millionen US-Dollar bzw. 0,94 US-Dollar pro verwässerter Aktie, ein Rückgang von 8 % pro verwässerter Aktie gegenüber 434 Millionen US-Dollar bzw. 1,02 US-Dollar pro verwässerter Aktie im dritten Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2021. Der Non-GAAP-Nettogewinn für das dritte Quartal beträgt 725 Millionen US-Dollar bzw. 1,72 US-Dollar pro verwässerter Aktie, ein Plus von 3 % pro verwässerter Aktie gegenüber 704 Millionen US-Dollar bzw. 1,66 US-Dollar pro verwässerter Aktie im dritten Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2021.
• Das GAAP-Betriebsergebnis für das dritte Quartal beträgt 519 Mio. US-Dollar, ein Anstieg von 21 % gegenüber dem dritten Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2021. Das Non-GAAP-Betriebsergebnis für das dritte Quartal beträgt 935 Mio. US-Dollar, ein Anstieg von 5 % gegenüber dem dritten Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2021.
• Der operative Cashflow für das dritte Quartal beträgt 1,09 Mrd. US-Dollar. Der freie Cashflow für das dritte Quartal beträgt 984 Millionen US-Dollar.
• Im dritten Quartal belief sich der RPO auf insgesamt 11,12 Milliarden US-Dollar, was einem Anstieg von 9 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr entspricht.

„Wir freuen uns über unsere anhaltend starke Leistung im 3. Quartal. In diesem Quartal haben wir auf der VMworld viele neue Angebote vorgestellt und gezeigt, wie wir unsere Kunden bei der Transformation ihrer Unternehmen unterstützen", sagt Raghu Raghuram, CEO von VMware. "Unsere Mission ist es, eine vertrauenswürdige Softwarebasis zu bieten, um die Innovationen unserer Kunden ohne Kompromisse zu beschleunigen. Wir haben uns verpflichtet, Unternehmen dabei zu helfen, das volle Potenzial von Multi-Cloud auszuschöpfen."

"Wir haben im dritten Quartal weiterhin ein solides Umsatzwachstum und eine hohe Rentabilität erzielt, wobei der ARR für Subscription und SaaS im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 25% auf 3,3 Milliarden US-Dollar gestiegen ist", sagt Zane Rowe, Executive Vice President und CFO von VMware. "Unsere Leistung im 3. Quartal spiegelt das starke Wachstum in den wichtigsten Produktkategorien im Vergleich zum Vorjahr wider, da wir unseren Kunden einen überzeugenden Mehrwert bieten."

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Business Highlights & Strategic Announcements

• At VMworld 2021, the company articulated its strategy to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with VMware Cross-Cloud services. This family of integrated services will help deliver a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses. Announcements included:
• New advancements in VMware Cloud, the industry’s first and only cloud-agnostic computing infrastructure that enables customers to move their apps to the cloud quickly and efficiently.
• The VMware Sovereign Cloud initiative, where VMware is partnering across its VMware Cloud Provider Partners to deliver cloud services on sovereign digital infrastructure to customers in regulated industries.
• Advancements to the VMware Tanzu portfolio, including Tanzu Application Platform, currently in beta, which delivers a superior developer experience for enterprises building and deploying apps and APIs on any Kubernetes.
• The introduction of VMware Edge, a product portfolio that will enable organizations to run, manage and better secure edge-native apps across multiple clouds, anywhere.
• VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) achieved FedRAMP Agency Authority to Operate at the High Impact Level. FedRAMP is a mandatory U.S. government-wide program that provides a standardized approach and baseline requirements for security assessment, authorization and monitoring of cloud products.
• VMware unveiled enhancements to its Telco Cloud Platform designed to help service providers speed their multi-cloud transformation, as well as several updates to its Radio Access Network (RAN) portfolio of products and introduced VMware RAN Intelligent Controller.
• The Company announced a collaboration with eero, an Amazon company, on work-from-home capabilities that will boost remote network connectivity while extending critical security services to devices connecting to an at-home corporate network.
• In the third quarter, VMware received recognition from leading industry analyst firms:
• VMware was positioned as a Leader in “The Forrester New Wave™: Zero Trust Network Access, Q3, 2021."¹
• VMware was also once again named a Leader in the August 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Endpoint Management Tools, August 2021.²
• VMware once again was named a Leader in the September 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for WAN Edge Infrastructure, September 2021.³
• VMware was once again ranked No. 1 in the September 2021 IDC report, “Worldwide Cloud System and Service Management Software Market Shares, 2020: Growth Continues for Top Vendors.”⁴
• VMware joined the Valuable 500, as part of its commitment to diversity inclusion. The Valuable 500 is a global business collective that is igniting systemic change and unlocking the business, social and economic value of more than 1 billion people with disabilities around the world.
• VMware received recognition for its ESG leadership by being invited to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI North America)—one of the world’s leading ESG benchmarks—for the second consecutive year.

¹Forrester, The Forrester New Wave™: Zero Trust Network Access, Q3, 2021, August 24, 2021
²Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management Tools, 16 August 2021
³Gartner, Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, 20 September 2021
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⁴IDC, Worldwide Cloud System and Service Management Software Market Shares, 2021: Growth Continues for Top Vendors, #US48074121, September 2021

The company will host a conference call today at 1:30 p.m. PT/ 4:30 p.m. ET to review financial results and business outlook. A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the VMware investor relations website at ir.vmware.com. Slides will accompany the web broadcast. The replay of the webcast and slides will be available on the website for two months. In addition, six quarters of historical data for unearned revenue will also be made available at ir.vmware.com in conjunction with the conference call.

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Annual Recurring Revenue (“ARR”)
ARR is an operating measure VMware uses to assess the strength of the Company’s subscription and SaaS offerings. ARR is a performance metric and should be viewed independently of, and not as a substitute for or combined with, revenue and unearned revenue. ARR represents the annualized value of VMware’s committed customer subscription and SaaS contracts as of the end of the reporting period, assuming any contract that expires during the next 12 months is renewed on its existing terms, except that, for consumption-based subscription and SaaS offerings, ARR represents the annualized quarterly revenue based on revenue recognized for the current reporting period.

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