Conference Call Scheduled for 5:00 pm ET
ADI will host a conference call to discuss the second quarter results and short-term outlook today, beginning at 5:00 pm ET. Investors may join via webcast, accessible at investor.analog.com, or by telephone (call 706-634-7193 ten minutes before the call begins and provide the password "ADI").
A replay will be available two hours after the completion of the call. The replay may be accessed for up to two weeks by dialing 855-859-2056 (replay only) and providing the conference ID: 28570593, or by visiting investor.analog.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Information
This release includes non-GAAP financial measures that are not in accordance with, nor an alternative to, generally accepted accounting principles and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. In addition, these non-GAAP measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles.
Schedule E of this press release provides the reconciliation of the Company’s historical non-GAAP measures to its GAAP measures.
Management uses non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margins, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share to evaluate the Company’s operating performance from continuing operations against past periods and to budget and allocate resources in future periods. These non-GAAP measures also assist management in evaluating the Company’s core business and trends across different reporting periods on a consistent basis. Management also believes that the presentation of these Non-GAAP items is useful to investors because it provides investors with the operating results that management uses to manage the Company and enables investors and analysts to evaluate the Company’s core business.
The following items are excluded from our Non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share:
Acquisition-Related Expenses: Expenses incurred in the first and second quarters of fiscal 2015 as a result of the Hittite acquisition primarily include: expense associated with the fair value adjustments to inventory and property, plant and equipment; and amortization of acquisition related intangibles, which include acquired intangibles such as purchased technology and customer relationships. We excluded these costs from our non-GAAP measures because they relate to a specific transaction and are not reflective of our ongoing financial performance.
Stock-Based Compensation Expense: In the first quarter of fiscal 2015, the Company recorded $3.0 million of stock-based compensation expense for one of its former executive officers due to the accelerated vesting of restricted stock units and a reduction in the requisite service period for stock options in accordance with the terms of the applicable agreements. In addition, in the first quarter of fiscal 2015, the Company recorded $1.3 million of stock-based compensation expense due to the accelerated vesting of restricted stock units and stock options in conjunction with the restructuring charge recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014. These stock-based compensation expenses and income and the related tax effect have no direct correlation to the operation of our business in the future.
The following items are excluded from our non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share:
Acquisition-Related Transaction Costs: Costs incurred as a result of the Hittite acquisition in the first and second quarters of fiscal 2015 include legal, accounting and other professional fees directly related to the Hittite acquisition. We excluded these costs from our non-GAAP measures because they relate to a specific transaction and are not reflective of our ongoing financial performance.
The following item is excluded from our non-GAAP diluted earnings per share:
Tax-Related Items: In the second quarter of fiscal 2015, the Company recorded $1.5 million of tax adjustments related to the Hittite acquisition. In the first quarter of fiscal 2015, the Company recorded $3.8 million of tax adjustments related to the Hittite acquisition. In addition, the Company recorded a $7.0 million tax benefit related to the reinstatement of the R&D tax credit in December 2014, retroactive to January 1, 2014. We excluded these tax-related items from our non-GAAP measures because they are not associated with the tax expense on our current operating results.
Analog Devices believes that non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating
expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margins, and
non-GAAP diluted EPS have material limitations in that they do not
reflect all of the amounts associated with our results of operations as
determined in accordance with GAAP and that these measures should only
be used to evaluate our results of operations in conjunction with the
corresponding GAAP measures. In addition, our non-GAAP measures may not
be comparable to the non-GAAP measures reported by other companies. The
Company’s use of non-GAAP measures, and the underlying methodology when
excluding certain items, is not necessarily an indication of the results
of operations that may be expected in the future, or that the Company
will not, in fact, record such items in future periods.
