C. S. Lo
Analyst · Raymond James
Thank you, Christopher. And thank you, everyone, for joining today's call. NETGEAR net revenue for the first quarter of 2014 was $349.4 million, which is up 19.1% on a year-over-year basis, and down 2% on a sequential basis. Just as a reminder, the sequential result comparatives presented today include full quarters of the AirCard acquisition, which closed in April, 2013. But the year-over-year results comparisons do not. Non-GAAP diluted EPS for the first quarter of 2014 was $0.59, up 18% year-over-year. Please see the first quarter of 2014 earnings press release for a full reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial results. During the first quarter, net revenue for the Americas was $194.8 million, up 24.3% year-over-year, and down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter. As we indicated in our prior guidance, we experienced de-stocking in absolute dollar terms, among our North American retailers in anticipation of a seasonally slower Q2. Europe, the Middle East and Africa or the EMEA, net revenue was $106.8 million, which is flat year-over-year, and up 6.8% quarter-over-quarter. As we anticipated, we are seeing a meaningful uptick in service-provider purchases after the new year in Europe. Our Asia Pacific or APAC net revenue was $47.8 million, which is up 61.6% from the prior year's comparable quarter, and up 5.5% quarter-over-quarter. We are very pleased with our continued share gains in all Asia Pacific markets, particularly in Japan, China, India and Australia. In Q1, we maintained a high level of shipments with 6.8 million units shipped. We also introduced 16 new products during the quarter. As always, sales channel development is the key focus for the company as our sales channel remains a critical strategic asset. By the end of the first quarter of 2014, our products were sold in approximately 49,000 retail outlets around the world and our number of value-added resellers stands at approximately 39,000. Now let's turn to our review of the first quarter results for our 3 business units: Retail, Commercial and Service Provider. For the Retail Business Unit, or RBU, net revenue came in at $118.2 million, down 6.4% year-over-year, and down 13% sequentially. As we alluded to in our previously provided guidance, our Q1 performance for RBU was negatively impact by channel de-stocking by our channel partners in all 3 geographies. During the first quarter, we added 2 new cable modem routers to our growing family of cable products: the N600 Dual Band WiFi cable modem router, and the N300 WiFi cable modem router. These cable modem routers are for the growing number of North American consumers, looking to improve their own network performance and avoid modem rental fees by purchasing their own cable modem routers from retailers. The initial reception from the market has been very encouraging. We now have 4 DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem products available in retail in North America, and expect to add an 802.11ac cable modem router to the lineup during the current quarter. We also introduced 2 11ac WiFi extenders towards the end of the Q1. One for the speed of 750 megabits per second, and one for 1,200 megabits per second. Both have proven to be very popular with our customers worldwide. Again, we are first to market with 11ac technology for world-class WiFi extenders. These 2 new products further solidify our worldwide leadership in this fast-growing category. With the market moving more towards 11ac routers and WiFi extenders, cable modem routers in the U.S., and DSL modem routers in international market, we are seeing a worldwide market trend towards higher ASP products in the retail home networking category. We believe the same will be true for home monitoring cameras, moving from standard definition to high-definition. Higher ASP's will ultimately help expand the market size of retail home networking in the developed market. The Commercial Business Unit, or CBU, generated net revenue of $78.9 million for the first quarter of 2014. That's up 11.3% on a year-over-year basis, and up 5.1% sequentially. We are pleased with the year-over-year and sequential growth that the Commercial Business Unit showed during the quarter. We continued to leverage our strength in switching to increase our presence among SMB channels worldwide. Our 10Gigabit powered with ethernet switches continue to be very popular among end-customers and resellers. We are seeing increased interest in our storage and wireless solutions from our SMB channel resellers as well. We were also pleased with a quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year increase in revenue from our storage solutions. For our Service Provider Business Unit, or SPBU, net revenue came in at $152.3 million for the first quarter of 2014, up 58.3% year-over-year and up 4.5% on a sequential basis. Our Service Provider Business Unit ended a solid first quarter, driven largely by revenue growth from the EMEA region. We are excited to announce that U.S. Cellular has become our newest LTE Gateway customer in Q2. This win comes on the heels of our announcement that Sprint is deploying the NETGEAR LTE Gateway 6100D with our business customers nationwide in the U.S. We firmly believe that these LTE 6 mobile Gateway offerings will be a popular alternative to wired broadband gateways in many geographies, and for many different use cases. We expect the LTE Gateway together with home monitoring and automation devices, would drive SPBU's future revenue growth. U.S. Cellular and Sprint are important wins for the Service Provider Business Unit, and prove that the LTE Gateway market opportunity is real and gaining momentum. I will now turn the call over to Christine for further details on our financials for the quarter.