C. S. Lo
Analyst · Wedbush Securities
Thank you, Christopher, and thank you, everyone, for joining today's call. Before we begin, I'd like to invite you all to join us for our 2013 Analyst Day, being held in New York City on November 7. The Analyst Day will provide an excellent opportunity to meet our management team, including our new Commercial Business Unit General Manager, Mr. John McHugh. We will discuss our vision for the future and what technologies we believe we can master to win and thus grow our business for the long term. For additional details on this event, please reach out to NETGEAR Investor Relations on the Investor Relations portion of our website. Moving on to our financial results. For the third quarter of 2013, NETGEAR's net revenues were $361.9 million, which is up 14.8% on a year-over-year basis and slightly above our guided range. Non-GAAP diluted EPS came in at $0.58 per diluted share. Please see the third quarter 2013 earnings press release for a full reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial results. During the third quarter, net revenue for the Americas was $220.5 million, up 24.1% year-over-year and up 9.8% quarter-over-quarter. The sequential results include full quarters of the AirCard acquisition in both Q2 and Q3 quarters, but the year-over-year results do not. The Americas continue to show modest strength in an uncertain global economy, and the third quarter marked another successful back-to-school season for NETGEAR. Europe, the Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, net revenue was $97.2 million, down 6.8% year-over-year and down 10.3% quarter-over-quarter. The unfavorable economic climate in Europe continues to weigh on all 3 business units, and we expect continued headwinds in coming quarters. Our Asia Pacific, or APAC, net revenue was $44.2 million, which is up 33.1% from the prior year's comparable quarter, and down 8.9% quarter-over-quarter. Note that this also includes full quarters of the AirCard acquisition in both the Q2 and Q3 quarters, but the year-over-year results do not. The sequential decline in APAC is typical of seasonality in Australia when Q3 is the start of their financial year. In Q3, we maintained a high level of shipments with 7.4 million units shipped. We also introduced 21 new products during the quarter. By the end of the third quarter of 2013, our products were sold in approximately 45,000 retail outlets around the world, and our number of value-added resellers stands at approximately 39,000. Now let's turn to a review of the third quarter results for our 3 business units: Retail, Commercial and Service Provider. In our Retail Business Unit, or RBU, net revenue came in at $130.3 million, up 5.5% year-over-year and up 11% sequentially. RBU's strength during the third quarter was driven by increased sales for the back-to-school season and the continued 802.11ac upgrade cycle. Additionally, WiFi range extenders continue to be a market success for us, growing significantly above average RBU growth on a quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year basis. We expect consumers will continue to upgrade their home WiFi as they purchase more and more connected devices and increasingly engage in data-intensive activities such as media streaming and online gaming. These upgrades mean more 11ac routers and more WiFi range extenders among households worldwide. On October 1, we introduced the release of the Nighthawk AC1900 Smart WiFi Router. The Nighthawk is our latest addition to the 802.11ac family, and practically across the board, according to multiple independent reviews, the best WiFi router in the world today. It uses high-power WiFi amplifiers and 3 specially designed external antennas to provide outstanding range while sporting a 1 gigahertz dual core processor and advanced upstream QoS software optimized for online gaming and video streaming. We look forward to having this product on retail shelves during the upcoming holiday season. We will be demonstrating the Nighthawk at the Analyst Day in New York City on November 7. We believe that far superior products like this will further strengthen our market leadership position, and thus allow us to continue to gain share against our competitors worldwide even in the emerging markets. Turning to our Commercial Business Unit or CBU. Net revenue came in at $77 million for the third quarter of 2013. That's down 2.9% on a year-over-year basis, and down 13% sequentially. We experienced weaker-than-expected storage sales during the quarter, which led to the CPU revenue slowdown. We continued the strength in our storage lineup by refreshing 2 rack mount ReadyNAS products during Q3, and we will increase our marketing program activities in the following quarters to promote the superior data protection capabilities of our storage devices. Growing storage sales and regaining our market share in storage continues to be a top focus area for the Commercial Business Unit. This includes expanding on the cloud capabilities of our ReadyNAS products. We have recently released iPhone apps to access and manage our storage products and plan to continue innovating in this area. In an increasingly mobile world, it is important that customers have the ability to remotely access and configure their NAS device using mobile apps. Beyond storage, we had committed to growing our switching and wireless effort solutions for small businesses. On the switching side, we are seeing SMBs continue to upgrade their network capabilities from 1 gigabit to 10 gigabit. In the not-too-distant future, we will see them moving up to 40-gigabit and 100-gigabit switching. In addition, NETGEAR has been successful in offering easy-to-use and reliable Power-over-Ethernet switches to SMBs at price points that are within their budgets. We recently launched the ProSafe 16-port gigabit Smart Switch featuring Power-over-Ethernet capabilities, as well as PD or powered-device capabilities. The Switch is an industry first for the SMB market as we are providing flexible power options so that businesses do not need to be constrained by the lack of AC power outlets in close proximity when deploying their networks. It is a perfect example of how NETGEAR works to make products simpler, easy to use -- easier to use and more affordable for SMBs. On the wireless access side, we are seeing increased wireless deployments in the K-12, hospitality and health care verticals. BYOD trends are making smarter and more capable wireless solutions increasingly necessary. We are very focused in these industries, and we want to be the first stop for connectivity and capacity for commercial wireless implementation in these sectors. For our Service Provider Business Unit, or SPBU, net revenue came in at $154.6 million for the third quarter of 2013, up 37.4% year-over-year and up 1.8% on a sequential basis. During the quarter, we received an unexpected order from one of our customers, and I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate on our team on delivering that order with a shortened lead time. That being said, we continue to expect the Service Provider Business to be lumpy, specifically we believe the active consolidation among the service providers in Europe will cause weakness in SPBU business during the fourth quarter of 2013. The third quarter marked the second full quarter of NETGEAR owning the AirCard business purchased from Sierra Wireless in April of this year. Results for the quarter were in line with expectations and we continue to work on integrating the 2 businesses. We're especially pleased with the release of the NETGEAR Zing Mobile Hotspot, which has been a hit with Sprint subscribers. It can keep you connected for up to 10 hours of continuous use on a single charge, is perfect for the family on-the-go with multiple devices, or the traveling business person who needs constant contact with the office. Based on reviews from the press, we believe we have a much better product than our competitors. We remain positive on the product opportunities we have from combining AirCard's engineering strengths in LTE and NETGEAR's strength in WiFi. We expect this will be an area of excitement in 2014. As always, we remain focused on long-term growth driven by our mission to connect everyone to the high-speed Internet. We will continue to invest in growth markets of the Smart Home, access networks with cloud computing and LTE gateways. Our vision for the future has not changed. In the developed world, Smart Homes will be enabled by whole-home, high-speed WiFi coverage. SMB will have the same technological advantages as enterprises through the cloud. In the developing world, Internet access will be available to all, enabled by the rollout of LTE. We think that over the next 2 to 4 years, there are large opportunities for NETGEAR to enter additional new markets and gain market share in existing markets. We will go more in-depth on this vision in our Analyst Day on November 7 in New York City. We look forward to speaking with you all about it then. I will now turn the call over to Christine for further details on our financials for the past quarter.