Schedule F of this press release provides the reconciliation of the Company’s historical adjusted cash flow measures to its cash flow measures.

Management uses adjusted free cash flow to measure the liquidity of its continuing operations and evaluate the Company’s operating cash performance against past periods. Free cash flow is defined as cash provided by (used in) operating activities less capital expenditures. Adjusted free cash flow is defined by the Company as free cash flow adjusted for payments (refunds) that are not reflective of our ongoing operating cash performance. Management believes that the presentation of this adjusted financial measure is useful to investors because it provides investors with the operating cash flow results that management uses to manage the Company and enables investors and analysts to evaluate the Company’s liquidity from continuing operations.

The following item is excluded from our fourth quarter fiscal 2015 adjusted free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow margin:

Pension Conversion Payments: Costs incurred as a result of the conversion of the benefits provided to participants in the Company’s Irish defined benefit pension plan to benefits provided under the Company’s Irish defined contribution plan including settlement charges, legal, accounting, tax and other professional fees. We excluded these costs from our adjusted financial measures because they relate to a specific transaction and are not reflective of our ongoing financial performance.

Analog Devices believes that these non-GAAP measures 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.

Investors should consider our non-GAAP financial measures in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures.

About Analog Devices
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Analog Devices, First Quarter, Fiscal 2016
Schedule A
Revenue and Earnings Summary (Unaudited)
(In thousands, except per-share amounts)
			Three Months Ended
			1Q 16					4Q 15					1Q 15
			Jan. 30, 2016					Oct. 31, 2015					Jan. 31, 2015
Revenue			$	769,429				$	978,722				$	771,986
Year-to-year change				(0	)%				20	%				23	%
Quarter-to-quarter change				(21	)%				13	%				(5	)%
Cost of sales (1)				292,136					336,926					268,379
Gross margin				477,293					641,796					503,607
Gross margin percentage				62.0	%				65.6	%				65.2	%
Year-to-year change (basis points)				(320	)				590					10
Quarter-to-quarter change (basis points)				(360	)				(30	)				550
Operating expenses:
R&D (1)				157,428					170,736					151,706
Selling, marketing and G&A (1)				107,462					121,400					120,171
Amortization of intangibles				17,358					17,358					23,796
Other operating expense				—					223,672					—
Total operating expenses				282,248					533,166					295,673
Total operating expenses percentage				36.7	%				54.5	%				38.3	%
Year-to-year change (basis points)				(160	)				1,320					180
Quarter-to-quarter change (basis points)				(1,780	)				1,930					(300	)
Operating income				195,045					108,630					207,934
Operating income percentage				25.3	%				11.1	%				26.9	%
Year-to-year change (basis points)				(160	)				(730	)				(170	)
Quarter-to-quarter change (basis points)				1,420					(1,960	)				850
Other expense				12,868					3,953					7,164
Income before income tax				182,177					104,677					200,770
Provision for income taxes				17,673					8,372					22,013
Tax rate percentage				9.7	%				8.0	%				11.0	%
Net income			$	164,504				$	96,305				$	178,757
Shares used for EPS - basic				311,166					312,829					311,274
Shares used for EPS - diluted				314,793					316,571					315,684
Earnings per share - basic			$	0.53				$	0.31				$	0.57
Earnings per share - diluted			$	0.52				$	0.30				$	0.57
Dividends paid per share			$	0.40				$	0.40				$	0.37
(1) Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows:
Cost of sales			$	2,092				$	2,188				$	2,392
R&D			$	6,704				$	6,487				$	6,874
Selling, marketing and G&A			$	6,813				$	7,408				$	11,105

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