Tellabs Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Nov 10, 2009
Tellabs Inc. (TLAB, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-10-02.

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 $2.44 billion; its shares were traded at around $6.17 with a P/E ratio of 20.6 and P/S ratio of 1.4.

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For the third quarter of 2009, revenue was $389.3 million, compared with $424.1 million in the third quarter of 2008 as growth in Transport and Services segment revenue was offset by lower Broadband segment revenue. Revenue for the first nine months of 2009 was $1,136.4 million, compared with $1,320.7 million in the comparable period of 2008. On a nine-month basis, revenue declined in all segments.

Operating expenses in the third quarter of 2009 were $137.2 million, compared with $1,144.2 million in the third quarter of 2008 when the company recorded a goodwill impairment charge of $988.3 million. Excluding the goodwill impairment, intangible asset amortization and restructuring and other charges from each period, operating expenses decreased by $9.7 million, compared with the year-ago quarter.

For the first nine months of 2009, operating expenses were $431.2 million, down $1,035.5 million, compared with the first nine months of 2008. Excluding the goodwill impairment, intangible asset amortization and restructuring and other charges from each period, operating expenses decreased by $35.7 million, compared with the first nine months of 2008.

On a geographic basis, revenue from customers in North America (United States and Canada) was $273.4 million in the third quarter of 2009, up 3.6% from the year-ago quarter. This increase is primarily due to increased revenue from North American wireless carriers, partially offset by lower revenue from North American wireline carriers. On a nine-month basis, North America revenue totaled $749.9 million, down 16.7% from the comparable period in 2008. This decrease is primarily due to increased revenue from North American wireless carriers, offset by lower revenue from North American wireline carriers.

Revenue from customers outside North America was $115.9 million in the third quarter of 2009, down 27.7% from the year-ago quarter. For the first nine months of 2009, revenue from customers outside North America was $386.5 million, down 8.0% from a year ago. The decrease in both periods resulted from lower revenue in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and the Latin American region (Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean), partially offset by increased revenue in the Asia Pacific region.

For the third quarter of 2009 we recorded an income tax expense of $1.0 million, compared with an income tax expense of $17.5 million for the third quarter of 2008. For the first nine months of 2009 we recorded an income tax expense of $23.0 million, compared with an income tax benefit of $9.8 million for the first nine months of 2008.

Read the The complete ReportTLAB is in the portfolios of Third Avenue Management, Martin Whitman of Third Avenue Value Fund, HOTCHKIS & WILEY of HOTCHKIS & WILEY Capital Management LLC, George Soros of Soros Fund Management LLC.