Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. Announces Record Quarterly Results

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX)(TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage systems, today announced record revenue of $63.3 million for its fiscal second quarter 2011, ended June 30, 2011, exceeding the quarter billion dollar annualized revenue run rate milestone.

Second Quarter Highlights

• Revenues were $63.3 million
• GAAP gross margins were 64.9 percent; non-GAAP gross margins were 68.9 percent
• GAAP operating income was $2.8 million; non-GAAP operating income was $10.9 million, or 17.3 percent of revenues
• GAAP net income: $2.1 million; non-GAAP net income $10.3 million
• GAAP net income per diluted share: $0.06; non-GAAP net income per diluted share $0.27
• $12.5 million in cash provided by operating activities
• $107.1 million in total cash and investments at June 30, 2011; a sequential increase of $13.7 million

Financial Results

In accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the company reported revenue of $63.3 million, up 15.1 percent from $55.1 million in the first quarter of 2011, and up 58.5 percent from $40.0 million in the second quarter of 2010.

GAAP gross margins in the second quarter of 2011 were 64.9 percent, compared with 64.7 percent in the first quarter of 2011 and 74.5 percent in the second quarter of 2010.

Non-GAAP gross margins in the second quarter of 2011 were 68.9 percent, compared with 68.4 percent in the first quarter of 2011 and 74.7 percent in the second quarter of 2010.

GAAP net income in the second quarter of 2011 was $2.1 million or $0.06 per diluted share, compared with net loss of ($1.6) million or ($0.05) per diluted share in the first quarter of 2011, and $5.3 million or $0.15 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2010.

Non-GAAP net income in the second quarter was $10.3 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, compared with $9.2 million or $0.24 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2011, and $10.4 million, or $0.29 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2010.

The second quarter 2011 non-GAAP net income results exclude $5.4 million of share-based compensation expenses compared to $4.3 million in the first quarter of 2011. It also excludes amortization of acquired intangible assets of $2.8 million associated with the acquisition of Voltaire, Ltd. on February 7, 2011, compared to $2.1 million in the first quarter of 2011. The first quarter 2011 non-GAAP net income results also excluded $4.4 million of other acquisition related charges.

Total cash and investments were $107.1 million at June 30, 2011. The company generated $12.5 million in cash from operating activities during the quarter.

“Reaching the quarter-billion dollar annualized revenue run rate is a significant milestone for Mellanox,” said Eyal Waldman, chairman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “We completed the successful integration of Voltaire into Mellanox, and during the quarter we introduced our end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect solutions. We are encouraged by the momentum of design-wins and traction we see in various vertical markets and applications for these solutions.”

Recent Mellanox Press Release Highlights

• June 27 – Mellanox Accelerates Half of the World’s Petaflop Systems; Delivers Scalable Networking for Next Generation Supercomputers
• June 20 – Mellanox and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Demonstrate Leading Performance and Scalability for HPC Applications
• June 20 – Mellanox FDR InfiniBand Selected to Deliver PetaScale Performance for Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer
• June 20 – Mellanox Announces Complete End-to-End FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Interconnect Solutions for Uncompromised Clustering Performance and Scalability
• June 13 – CNSX Markets Selects Mellanox 10GbE to Accelerate Trading and Market Data Distribution
• June 6 – Mellanox Introduces ConnectX-3, The Industry’s First FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Multi-Protocol Adapter; Delivers World-Record Bandwidth and Latency Performance
• May 18 – Mellanox Sets New Low-Latency Record for Real-time Market Data over 10GbE on IBM Systems
• May 16 – Mellanox Message Acceleration Software Enables Lowest-Latency for a Wide Range of Financial Services and Web 2.0 Applications
• May 9 – Mellanox Introduces World’s First High Density, 36-Port 40 Gigabit Ethernet Switches for Superior Server and Storage Connectivity
• May 9 – Mellanox Accelerates Hadoop and Memcached for Web 2.0 Applications

Conference Calls

Mellanox will broadcast its second quarter conference call at 2 p.m. Pacific Time (5 p.m. Eastern). To listen to the call, dial 877-831-3840 approximately ten minutes prior to the start time.

Mellanox will also conduct a conference call on Thursday, July 21 at 9 a.m. Israel Time to discuss the company’s second quarter 2011 financial results in Hebrew. To listen to the call, dial +972-3-9180609 approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call.

The Mellanox financial results conference call will be available via a live webcast on the investor relations section of the Mellanox website at http://ir.mellanox.com. Access the web site 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to download and install any necessary audio software. An archived webcast replay will also be available on the Mellanox website.

About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox products optimize data center performance and deliver industry-leading bandwidth, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof architecture. The company offers innovative solutions that address a wide range of markets including HPC, enterprise, mega warehouse data centers, cloud computing, Internet and Web 2.0.

Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and Yokneam, Israel. For more information, visit Mellanox at www.mellanox.com.

GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliation

To supplement our consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), Mellanox uses non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP gross profit, operating income, net income and earnings per share. These supplemental measures exclude share-based compensation expenses, changes in certain deferred tax assets and acquisition related charges. The company believes the non-GAAP results provide useful information to both management and investors, as these non-GAAP results exclude expenses that are not indicative of our core operating results. Management believes it is useful to exclude share-based compensation expenses, changes in deferred tax assets and acquisition related charges because it enhances investors' ability to understand our business from the same perspective as management, which believes that such items are not directly attributable to nor reflect the underlying performance of the company's business operations. Further, management believes certain non-cash charges, such as share-based compensation and changes in certain deferred tax assets do not reflect the cash operating results of the business. These measures should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for or superior to GAAP results. These non-GAAP measures may be different than the non-GAAP measures used by other companies. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP adjustments is also presented in the financial statements portion of this release and is posted under the “Investors” section at our web site.

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The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include the continued expansion of our product line, customer base and the total available market of our products, the continued growth in demand for our products, the continued, increased demand for industry standards-based technology, the impact of our acquisition of Voltaire discussed herein on the Company’s actual financial results, negative customer reaction to the acquisition, our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate, our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs, the adoption rate of our products, our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our OEM customers, our ability to effectively compete in our industry, fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services, our success converting design wins to revenue-generating product shipments, our ability to successfully integrate Voltaire’s operations with our operation following the closing of the transaction, and our ability to protect our intellectual property rights.

In addition, current uncertainty in the global economic environment poses a risk to the overall economy as businesses may defer purchases in response to tighter credit conditions, changing overall demand for our products, and negative financial news. Consequently, our results could differ materially from our prior results due to these general economic and market conditions, political events and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

More information about the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may impact our business is set forth in our form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 9, 2011, and our form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 7, 2011. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Mellanox, BridgeX, ConnectX, CORE-Direct, InfiniBridge, InfiniHost, InfiniScale, PhyX, Virtual Protocol Interconnect and Voltaire are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. FabricIT, MLNX-OS, and SwitchX are trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

* Under GAAP, shares used in computing income per share are adjusted for the amount of time they are outstanding during the period. The number of shares used in computing income per share has been adjusted to a non-GAAP measure as if those ordinary shares were outstanding during the entire period to provide a comparable share number in future quarters.

** This adjustment adds back the GAAP effect of additional ordinary shares that would have been outstanding if the dilutive potential common shares from stock options had been issued under the Treasury method.