Tellabs Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Aug 12, 2009
Tellabs Inc. (TLAB, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-07-03.

Tellabs helps the world\'s leading communications service providers build tomorrow\'s converged networks of voice data and video. Tellabs employees design build and service optical networking broadband access and next-generation switching equipment. (Company Press Release) Tellabs Inc. has a market cap of $2.43 billion; its shares were traded at around $6.15 with a P/E ratio of 23.7 and P/S ratio of 1.4.

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For the second quarter of 2009, revenue was $385.4 million, compared with $432.5 million in the second quarter of 2008. For the first six months of 2009, revenue was $747.1 million, compared with $896.6 million in the comparable period of 2008. In both periods, revenue declined in all segments.

Operating expenses in the second quarter of 2009, including $6.0 million in intangible asset amortization and $4.1 million in restructuring and other charges, were $143.0 million, down $15.0 million from $158.0 million in the second quarter of 2008. Excluding intangible asset amortization and restructuring and other charges, our operating expenses decreased by $14.1 million. On a six-month basis, operating expenses, including $12.0 million in intangible asset amortization and $10.8 million in restructuring and other charges, were $294.0 million, down $28.5 million, compared with the first six months of 2008. Excluding intangible asset amortization and restructuring and other charges, our operating expenses decreased by $26.0 million during the first six months of 2009.

Net earnings for the second quarter of 2009 were $15.7 million or $0.04 per share (basic and diluted) compared with $39.0 million or $0.10 per share (basic and diluted) in the same period of 2008. (In the second quarter of 2008, we had a tax benefit of $34.8 million or $0.09 per share [basic and diluted] related to the resolution of federal income tax audits for the years 2001 through 2005.) Net earnings for the first six months of 2009 were $22.2 million or $0.06 per share (basic and diluted) compared with $55.6 million or $0.14 per share (basic and diluted) for the first six months of 2008.

On a geographic basis, revenue from customers in North America (United States and Canada) was $229.5 million in the second quarter of 2009, down 20.1% from the year ago quarter. On a six-month basis, North America revenue totaled $476.5 million, down 25.2% from the comparable period in 2008. Revenue from customers outside North America was $155.9 million in the second quarter of 2009, up 7.4% from the year ago quarter. For the first six-months of 2009, revenue from customers outside North America was $270.6 million in 2009, up 4.2% from a year ago.

Revenue from the Broadband segment was $210.2 million in the second quarter of 2009, compared with $231.5 million in the prior-year quarter. For the first six months of 2009, Broadband segment revenue was $388.5 million, compared with $433.6 million in the first six months of 2008. In both periods, increased revenue from data products was offset by lower managed access and access revenue.

Data product revenue was $106.6 million in the second quarter of 2009, up 139.6% from $44.5 million in the second quarter of 2008 and up 69.2% from $63.0 million in the first quarter of 2009. The increase in data revenue between the first quarter of 2009 and the second quarter of 2009 is primarily attributable to customer acceptance of two data deployments and reflects equipment shipped in prior quarters. On a six-month basis, data revenue was $169.6 million, up 92.9% from $87.9 million in the comparable period of 2008. In both periods, revenue also benefited from the continuing rollout of our next-generation wireless backhaul solution in multiple geographies

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