Progress Software Corp. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Jan 30, 2012
Progress Software Corp. (PRGS, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-11-30.

Progress Software Corp. has a market cap of $1.43 billion; its shares were traded at around $22.36 with a P/E ratio of 19.11 and P/S ratio of 2.68. Progress Software Corp. had an annual average earning growth of 8% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Progress Software Corp. the business predictability rank of 3-star.

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Maintenance and services revenue increased 4% from $336.6 million in fiscal 2010 to $349.4 million in fiscal 2011. Maintenance and services revenue would have increased by 1% if exchange rates had been constant in fiscal 2011 as compared to exchange rates in effect in fiscal 2010. Excluding the impact of changes in exchange rates, the increase in maintenance and services revenue was primarily the result of an increase in our installed customer base for maintenance renewals and slight growth in our professional services revenue primarily from our Enterprise Business Solutions segment. Maintenance revenue increased 4% or $12.2 million over the previous fiscal year and professional services increased 1% or $0.7 million over the previous fiscal year.

Total revenue generated in North America increased 3% from $244.7 million in fiscal 2010 to $251.5 million in fiscal 2011 and represented 46% of total revenue in fiscal 2010 and 47% of total revenue in fiscal 2011. Total revenue generated in markets outside North America decreased 1% from $284.5 million in fiscal 2010 to $282.1 million in fiscal 2011 and represented 54% of total revenue in fiscal 2010 compared to 53% of total revenue in fiscal 2011. Revenue from the EMEA and Latin America regions decreased in fiscal 2011 as compared to fiscal 2010, and was partially offset by an increase in revenue from the Asia Pacific region. Total revenue generated in markets outside North America would have represented 52% of total revenue if exchange rates had been constant in fiscal 2011 as compared to the exchange rates in effect in fiscal 2010.

Maintenance and services revenue increased 6% from $318.6 million in fiscal 2009 to $336.6 million in fiscal 2010. Maintenance and services revenue would have increased by 5% if exchange rates had been constant in fiscal 2010 as compared to exchange rates in effect in fiscal 2009. Excluding the impact of changes in exchange rates, the increase in maintenance and services revenue was primarily the result of a slight increase in our installed customer base for maintenance renewals and growth in our professional services revenue, including projects related to Savvion. Maintenance revenue increased 3% or $7.1 million over the previous fiscal year and professional services increased 28% or $10.9 million over the previous fiscal year.

Total revenue generated in North America increased 11% from $221.2 million in fiscal 2009 to $244.7 million in fiscal 2010 and represented 45% of total revenue in fiscal 2009 and 46% of total revenue in fiscal 2010. Total revenue generated in markets outside North America increased 4% from $272.9 million in fiscal 2009 to $284.5 million in fiscal 2010 and represented 55% of total revenue in fiscal 2009 compared to 54% of total revenue in fiscal 2010. Revenue from the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions each increased in fiscal 2010 as compared to fiscal 2009, but such increase was partially offset by a decrease in revenue from the EMEA region. Revenue in EMEA would have been essentially the same if exchange rates had been constant in fiscal 2010 as compared to the exchange rates in effect in fiscal 2009. Total revenue generated in markets outside North America would have represented 53% of total revenue if exchange rates had been constant in fiscal 2010 as compared to the exchange rates in effect in fiscal 2009.

Restructuring Expenses. We incurred total restructuring expenses of $40.0 million in fiscal 2010 as compared to $5.2 million in fiscal 2009. During the first quarter of fiscal 2010, our management approved, committed to and initiated plans to restructure and improve efficiencies in our operations as a result of certain management and organizational changes and our recent acquisitions. The restructuring was undertaken to enhance and re-focus our product strategy, to improve the way we take our products to market by becoming more customer and solutions driven, and to increase our market awareness. To accomplish these goals, and with a view toward better optimizing operations and improving productivity and efficiency, we reduced our global workforce by approximately 13% primarily within the sales, development, marketing and administrative organizations. This workforce reduction was conducted across all geographies and also resulted in a consolidation of offices in certain locations. The total costs associated with the restructuring was $26.0 million in fiscal 2010, primarily related to employee severance, excess facilities costs for unused space and, to a lesser extent, termination costs of automobile leases for terminated employees. The restructuring charge included $0.3 million of noncash stock-based compensation.

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