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• Delivered solid execution in Q2'25 and exceeded guidance across all metrics
  • Constant Currency ARR Growth of 10%
  • Operating Cash Flow Growth of 12%
  • Free Cash Flow Growth of 13%
• Proceeding with share repurchases under our $2 billion authorization
• Continuing to build a strong foundation for AI-driven and verticalized growth
• Updating FY'25 guidance to proactively manage macroeconomic risk

BOSTON, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) today reported financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2025.

"Q2 was a solid quarter for us, and I remain extremely optimistic about our position as an enabler of the digital economy – particularly our position as a supplier of software tools that make our customers more efficient as they design, manufacture, and service their products," said Neil Barua, President and CEO, PTC.

"While the current macroeconomic uncertainty makes it challenging for us to predict precisely how our customers will react, PTC is in a better position today to meet our customers' demand than ever before. I am confident that PTC can help our customers navigate this period by accelerating their continued transition into the digital age," concluded Barua.

Second Fiscal Quarter 2025 Highlights

Key operating and financial highlights are set forth below. The definitions of our operating and non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to comparable GAAP measures are included below and in the reconciliation tables at the end of this press release.

"In Q2'25, the selling environment remained challenging. Given this backdrop, our ARR was solid, growing 10% year over year. Our Q2'25 cash flow was also solid, with operating cash flow growing 12% year over year and free cash flow growing 13% year over year, driven by our ARR growth, subscription business model, and diligent financial management. Additionally, we continued to execute our capital allocation strategy in a disciplined and consistent manner, repurchasing $75 million worth of our stock in Q2'25," said Kristian Talvitie, CFO.

"We have updated our FY'25 guidance ranges to reflect our first half results and the potential for elevated macroeconomic uncertainty in the second half of FY'25. Supported by our guidance for 7% to 9% constant currency ARR growth, the predictability of our cash collections, the disciplined budgeting structure we have in place, and being mindful of foreign exchange rate fluctuations, we expect $840 million to $850 million of free cash flow in FY'25. We also remain focused on the disciplined and consistent execution of our capital allocation strategy, and we intend to proceed with approximately $75 million of share repurchases in Q3'25," Talvitie concluded.

Full Fiscal Year 2025 and Third Fiscal Quarter Guidance

Reconciliation of Operating Cash Flow Guidance to Free Cash Flow Guidance

Reconciliation of EPS Guidance to Non-GAAP EPS Guidance

FY'25 financial guidance includes the following assumptions:

• We provide ARR guidance on a constant currency basis, using our FY'25 Plan foreign exchange rates (rates as of September 30, 2024) for all periods.
• We expect churn to remain low.
• For cash flow, due to largely similar invoicing seasonality, and consistent with the past 4 years, we expect the majority of our collections to occur in the first half of our fiscal year and for fiscal Q4 to be our lowest cash flow generation quarter.
• Compared to FY'24, given our FY'25 ARR guidance range, FY'25 GAAP operating expenses are expected to increase approximately 3% and FY'25 non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to increase approximately 4%, primarily due to investments to drive future growth.
• Cash flow guidance includes approximately $19 million of outflows related to go-to-market realignment, of which $14 million was paid out in the first half of FY'25, approximately $4 million is expected to be paid out in Q3'25, and approximately $1 million is expected to be paid out in Q4'25.
• Capital expenditures are expected to be approximately $15 million.
• Cash interest payments are expected to be approximately $90 million.
• Cash tax payments are expected to be approximately $110 million.
• GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are expected to be approximately 20% to 25%.
• GAAP P&L results are expected to include the items below, totaling approximately $284 million to $314 million, as well as their related tax effects:
  • approximately $200 million to $230 million of stock-based compensation expense,
  • approximately $79 million of intangible asset amortization expense,
  • approximately $4 million of impairment charges to right-of-use lease assets related to facilities subleasing activities, and
  • approximately $1 million, net, related to acquisition and transaction-related expenses.
• As expected, we retired $500 million of senior notes that were due in Q2'25.
• We currently intend to repurchase approximately $300 million of our common stock in FY'25, of which $150 million was repurchased in the first half of FY'25, and approximately $75 million is expected to be repurchased in each of the two remaining quarters of FY'25.
• We currently expect our fully diluted share count to be approximately flat in FY'25.

PTC's Second Fiscal Quarter Results Conference Call

The Company will host a conference call to discuss results at 5:00 pm ET on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. To participate in the live conference call, dial (888) 330-2508 or (240) 789-2735, provide the passcode 7328695, and press # or log in to the webcast, available on PTC's Investor Relations website. A replay will also be available.

Important Information About Our Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We provide supplemental non-GAAP financial measures to our financial results. We use these non-GAAP financial measures, and we believe that they assist our investors, to make period-to-period comparisons of our operating performance because they provide a view of our operating results without items that are not, in our view, indicative of our operating results. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be construed as an alternative to GAAP results as the items excluded from the non-GAAP financial measures often have a material impact on our operating results, certain of those items are recurring, and others often recur. Management uses, and investors should consider, our non-GAAP financial measures only in conjunction with our GAAP results.

Non-GAAP operating expense, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS exclude the effect of the following items: stock-based compensation; amortization of acquired intangible assets; acquisition and transaction-related charges included in general and administrative expenses; impairment and other charges (credits), net; non-operating charges (credits), net shown in the reconciliation provided; and income tax adjustments. Additional information about the items we exclude from our non-GAAP financial measures and the reasons we exclude them can be found in "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024.

In Q2'25, we changed the income statement caption of Restructuring and other charges (credits), net to Impairment and other charges (credits), net to reflect that the amounts presented are mainly impairment charges rather than restructuring charges. We correspondingly revised the caption with respect to the list of items excluded from our non-GAAP financial measures and, as reflected below, the list of items covered under that caption to reflect the primary charges and credits included in the adjustment. All charges and credits under the captioned line item remain the same.

Impairment and other charges (credits), net are charges associated with disposal or exit activities, including lease impairment and abandonment charges, net charges or income related to impaired or exited facilities, restructuring severance charges resulting from substantial employee reduction actions, and other related costs.

Free Cash Flow: We provide information on free cash flow to enable investors to assess our ability to generate cash without incurring additional external financings and to evaluate our performance against our announced long-term goals and intent to return excess cash to shareholders via stock repurchases. Free cash flow is cash provided by (used in) operations net of capital expenditures. Free cash flow is not a measure of cash available for discretionary expenditures.

Constant Currency (CC): We present CC information to provide a framework for assessing how our underlying business performed excluding the effects of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. To present CC information, FY'25 and comparative prior period results for entities reporting in currencies other than United States dollars are converted into United States dollars using the foreign exchange rate as of September 30, 2024, rather than the actual exchange rates in effect during that period.

Operating Measure

ARR: ARR (Annual Run Rate) represents the annualized value of our portfolio of active subscription software, SaaS, hosting, and support contracts as of the end of the reporting period. We calculate ARR as follows:

• We consider a contract to be active when the product or service contractual term commences (the "start date") until the right to use the product or service ends (the "expiration date"). Even if the contract with the customer is executed before the start date, the contract will not count toward ARR until the customer right to receive the benefit of the products or services has commenced.
• For contracts that include annual values that change over time, we include in ARR only the annualized value of components of the contract that are considered active as of the date of the ARR calculation. We do not include any future committed increases in the contract value as of the date of the ARR calculation.
• As ARR includes only contracts that are active at the end of the reporting period, ARR does not reflect assumptions or estimates regarding future customer renewals or non-renewals.
• Active contracts are annualized by dividing the total active contract value by the contract duration in days (expiration date minus start date), then multiplying that by 365 days (or 366 days for leap years).

We believe ARR is a valuable operating measure to assess the health of a subscription business because it is aligned with the amount that we invoice the customer on an annual basis. We generally invoice customers annually for the current year of the contract. A customer with a one-year contract will typically be invoiced for the total value of the contract at the beginning of the contractual term, while a customer with a multi-year contract will be invoiced for each annual period at the beginning of each year of the contract.

ARR increases by the annualized value of active contracts that commence in a reporting period and decreases by the annualized value of contracts that expire in the reporting period.

As ARR is not annualized recurring revenue, it is not calculated based on recognized or unearned revenue and is not affected by variability in the timing of revenue under ASC 606, particularly for on-premises license subscriptions where a substantial portion of the total value of the contract is recognized as revenue at a point in time upon the later of when the software is made available, or the subscription term commences.

ARR should be viewed independently of recognized and unearned revenue and is not intended to be combined with, or to replace, either of those items. Investors should consider our ARR operating measure only in conjunction with our GAAP financial results.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this document that are not historic facts, including statements about our future operating, financial and growth expectations, and potential stock repurchases, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks include: the macroeconomic and/or global manufacturing climates may not improve or may deteriorate due to, among other factors, the effects of recently imposed import tariffs, threats of additional and reciprocal import tariffs, and global trade tensions and uncertainty, volatile foreign exchange rates, high interest rates or increases in interest rates, inflation, tightening of credit standards and availability, geopolitical uncertainty, including the effects of the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East, and tensions between the U.S. and China, any of which could cause customers to delay or reduce purchases of new software, adopt competing software solutions, reduce the number of subscriptions they carry, or delay payments to us, which would adversely affect our ARR (Annual Run Rate) and/or financial results and cash flow and growth; our investments in our software solutions may not drive expansion of those solutions and/or generate the ARR and/or cash flow we expect if customers are slower to adopt those solutions than we expect or if they adopt competing solutions; our go-to-market realignment and other strategic initiatives to improve organizational and operational efficiency may not do so when or as we expect and may disrupt our business to a greater extent than we expect; other uses of cash or our credit facility limits could limit or preclude the return of excess cash to shareholders via share repurchases, or could change the amount and timing of any share repurchases; and foreign exchange rates may differ materially from those we expect. In addition, our assumptions concerning our future GAAP and non-GAAP effective income tax rates are based on estimates and other factors that could change, including changes to tax laws in the U.S. and other countries and the geographic mix of our revenue, expenses, and profits. Other risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected are described from time to time in reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)

PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) is a global software company that enables industrial and manufacturing companies to digitally transform how they engineer, manufacture, and service the physical products that the world relies on. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PTC employs over 7,000 people and supports more than 30,000 customers globally. For more information, please visit www.ptc.com.

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