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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
[X] QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 1996
OR
[ ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from ___________ to __________
Commission file number 0-17136
BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 74-2126120
(State or other jurisdiction of (IRS Employer identification No.)
incorporation or organization)
BMC Software, Inc.
2101 CityWest Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77042
(Address of principal executive officer) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number including area code: (713)918-8800
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports
required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the
registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such
filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes X No
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As of November 11, 1996, there were outstanding 50,455,564 shares of Common
Stock, par value $.01, of the registrant.
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BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Quarter Ended September 30, 1996
INDEX
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Item 1. Financial Statements 3
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
September 30, 1996 (Unaudited) and March 31, 1996 3
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings
Three months and six months ended September 30, 1996
and 1995 (Unaudited) 5
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Six months ended September 30, 1996 and 1995
(Unaudited) 6
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial
Statements 7
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Results
of Operations and Financial Condition 7
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
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Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K 18
SIGNATURES 19
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Part I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands)
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September 30, March 31,
ASSETS 1996 1996
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(Unaudited)
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Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 45,365 $ 62,128
Securities available for sale 7,676 8,464
Securities held to maturity 65,411 59,566
Trade accounts receivable, net 58,187 79,299
Other accounts receivable 11,207 7,723
Prepaid expenses and other 6,939 5,922
Deferred income and other taxes 13,092 4,870
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Total current assets 207,877 227,972
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Property and equipment, net 112,428 107,912
Software development costs, net 31,720 25,840
Purchased software, net 17,622 13,400
Securities available for sale 55,522 39,281
Securities held to maturity 231,353 182,593
Finance receivables, long-term 33,637 4,146
Deferred charges and other assets 10,318 7,074
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$ 700,477 $ 608,218
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except share information)
(continued)
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September 30, March 31,
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY 1996 1996
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(Unaudited)
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Current liabilities:
Trade accounts payable $ 13,361 $ 8,417
Accrued liabilities 29,915 52,544
Taxes payable 571 16,595
Current portion of deferred revenue 118,064 106,641
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Total current liabilities 161,911 184,197
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Deferred revenue and other 84,750 40,313
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Total liabilities 246,661 224,510
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Stockholders' equity:
Preferred stock, $.01 par value,
1,000,000 shares authorized, none
issued and outstanding -- --
Common stock, $.01 par value, 300,000,000
shares authorized, 52,520,000 shares issued 525 525
Additional paid-in capital 67,970 67,888
Retained earnings 464,134 401,775
Foreign currency translation adjustment 43 82
Unrealized gain (loss) on securities available for sale 89 82
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532,761 470,352
Less treasury stock (2,222,000 and 2,547,000
shares, respectively) 77,043 84,480
Less unearned portion of restricted
stock compensation 1,902 2,164
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Total stockholders' equity 453,816 383,708
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$ 700,477 $ 608,218
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS
(in thousands, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
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Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
September 30, September 30,
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1996 1995 1996 1995
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Revenues:
Licenses $ 82,025 $ 49,270 $164,655 $104,066
Maintenance 44,475 38,980 87,895 77,484
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Total revenues 126,500 88,250 252,550 181,550
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Operating expenses:
Selling and marketing 35,735 22,247 73,261 46,819
Research and development 19,833 13,201 37,692 27,307
Cost of maintenance services
and product licenses 13,122 10,456 27,136 20,727
General and administrative 11,083 7,889 21,678 15,827
Acquired research and
development costs --- --- 11,259 ---
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Total operating expenses 79,773 53,793 171,026 110,680
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Operating income 46,727 34,457 81,524 70,870
Other income 4,639 3,902 8,933 7,585
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Earnings before taxes 51,366 38,359 90,457 78,455
Income taxes 16,180 12,076 28,099 24,706
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Net earnings $ 35,186 $ 26,283 $ 62,358 $ 53,749
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Earnings per share $ .66 $ .50 $ 1.17 $ 1.03
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Shares used in computing
earnings per share 53,388 52,667 53,228 52,250
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
(Unaudited)
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Six Months Ended
September 30,
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Cash flows from operating activities:
Net earnings $ 62,358 $ 53,749
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings
to net cash provided by operating
activities:
Acquired research and development costs 11,259 --
Depreciation and amortization 15,796 13,246
Net change in receivables,
payables and other items 46,513 (8,783)
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Total adjustments 73,568 4,463
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Net cash provided by operating activities 135,926 58,212
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Cash flows from investing activities:
Technology acquisitions, net of cash acquired (13,580) (14,867)
Purchased software and related assets (4,642) (3,903)
Capital expenditures (13,049) (7,967)
Capitalization of software development (10,288) (8,496)
Purchases of securities (125,774) (46,132)
Proceeds from securities 36,393 26,677
(Increase) decrease in long-term finance receivables (29,491) 1,245
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Net cash used in investing activities (160,431) (53,443)
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Cash flows from financing activities:
Earned portion of restricted
stock compensation 684 675
Income tax reduction relating
to stock options -- 1,313
Stock options exercised and other 7,977 3,051
Treasury stock acquired (880) (5,862)
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Net cash used in financing activities 7,781 (823)
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Effect of exchange rate changes on cash (39) 288
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Net change in cash and cash equivalents (16,763) 4,234
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period 62,128 39,494
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Cash and cash equivalents at end of period $ 45,365 $ 43,728
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Supplemental disclosure of cash
flow information:
Cash paid for Income taxes $ 52,074 $ 14,456
Value of treasury stock issued for technology acquired -- 1,000
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1 - Basis of Presentation
The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include
the accounts of BMC Software, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries
(collectively, the "Company"). All significant intercompany balances and
transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial
statements reflect all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals)
which, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of
the results for the interim periods presented. These financial statements have
been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for
interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and
Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the
information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles
for complete financial statements.
These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the
Company's annual audited financial statements for the year ended March 31,
1996, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-K.
Note 2 - Earnings Per Share
Earnings per share is based on the weighted average number of common
shares and common stock equivalents outstanding for the period. For purposes
of this calculation, outstanding stock options and unearned restricted stock
shares are considered common stock equivalents using the treasury stock method.
Fully diluted earnings per share is the same as, or not materially different
from, primary earnings per share and, accordingly, is not presented.
Note 3 - Technology Acquisitions
During the quarter ended June 30, 1996, the Company completed the
acquisitions of assets of certain technology companies for an aggregate
purchase price of approximately $13 million, including direct acquisition
costs. The Company accounted for these transactions using the purchase method
of accounting and recorded an $11,259,000 charge ($7,318,000 net of income tax
benefits), for acquired research and development costs.
Note 4 - Stock Split
On October 18, 1996, the Company declared a two-for-one stock split of
its common stock. The stock split was effected in the form of a stock
dividend. Stockholders of record at the close of business on November 4, 1996
will receive one share of common stock for each share of common stock held.
The payment date for the distribution of shares is November 18, 1996. The
share and per share data in these condensed consolidated financial statements
do not reflect the effect of this stock split.
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and
Financial Condition
This discussion comprises historical information for the periods
covered, followed by certain forward looking information and information about
certain risks and uncertainties that could affect the Company's future
operating results. This discussion should be read in conjunction with the
attached condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto and with
the audited financial statements and notes thereto, and the Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition,
contained in the Company's Form 10-K for fiscal 1996.
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Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
A. HISTORICAL INFORMATION
RESULTS OF OPERATION
The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the
percentages that selected items in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of
Earnings bear to total revenues. The year to year comparisons of financial
results are not necessarily indicative of future results.
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Percentage of Total Revenues
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Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
September 30, September 30,
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1996 1995 1996 1995
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Revenues:
License 64.8% 55.8% 65.2% 57.3%
Maintenance 35.2 44.2 34.8 42.7
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Total revenues 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Operating expenses:
Selling and marketing 28.2 25.2 29.0 25.8
Research and development 15.7 15.0 14.9 15.1
Cost of maintenance services
and product licenses 10.4 11.8 10.7 11.4
General and administrative 8.8 8.9 8.6 8.7
Acquired research and development costs -- -- 4.5 --
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Operating income 36.9 39.1 32.3 39.0
Other income 3.7 4.4 3.5 4.2
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Earnings before taxes 40.6 43.5 35.8 43.2
Income taxes 12.8 13.7 11.1 13.6
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Net earnings 27.8% 29.8% 24.7% 29.6%
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Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
REVENUES
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Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
September 30, September 30,
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(in thousands) (in thousands)
1996 1995 Change 1996 1995 Change
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North American license revenues $ 55,488 $ 31,514 76.1% $ 111,216 $ 65,810 69.0%
International license revenues 26,537 17,756 49.5% 53,439 38,256 39.7%
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Total license revenues 82,025 49,270 66.5% 164,655 104,066 58.2%
Maintenance revenues 44,475 38,980 14.1% 87,895 77,484 13.4%
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Total revenues $ 126,500 $ 88,250 43.3% $ 252,550 $181,550 39.1%
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LICENSE REVENUES
The Company's license revenues include fees generated from (a) the
initial licensing of a copy of a software product, (b) central processing unit
("CPU") tier and millions of instructions per second ("MIPS") capacity license
upgrade fees, which allow a customer to run an already-licensed product on
additional processing capacity that is either currently needed or is
anticipated to be needed in the future and (c) license restructurings, wherein
a customer pays a fee to relicense its installed base of products at current
volume-based discount levels, which has the effect of increasing the discounts
of record applicable to the customer's installed base of products that are used
in calculating future maintenance and upgrade charges. For the Company's
mainframe product lines, all of the abovementioned fees are calculated based
on the processing capacity as measured by CPU tier or by the aggregate MIPS on
which the Company's products are running. The license fees for the Company's
open systems product lines are based on the number of servers to which the
products are licensed and the processor speed of those servers. All license
fees, upgrade fees, including those for future additional processing capacity,
and restructuring fees are recognized as revenue when the license agreement is
executed and the applicable products (if any, in the case of upgrade and
restructuring fees) have been delivered.
License revenues in the quarter increased over the prior year quarter
primarily as a result of higher initial license fees for the Company's open
systems products and higher MIPS-capacity upgrade fees associated with future
additional processing capacity. These fees, along with higher initial license
fees for the Company's mainframe products, drove license revenue growth for the
six-month period ended September 30, 1996.
For the three and six month periods presented, North American license
revenues increased primarily as a result of increased license fees for the
Company's open systems products and an
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Results of Operations and Financial Condition
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increase in upgrade fees for future processing capacity. Over half of the
North American license revenues recognized in the quarter and six months ended
September 30, 1996 were derived from initial enterprise license agreements or
the expansion of existing enterprise license agreements, as described below.
In the September quarter, North American license revenues were highly
concentrated in several large enterprise license transactions.
Increased sales of the Company's mainframe and open systems products
and upgrade fees for current additional processing capacity contributed to the
growth in international license revenues for the quarter and six months ended
September 30, 1996. Foreign currency fluctuations reduced international license
revenues by approximately 2% in the quarter ended September 30, 1996.
The Company's mainframe license revenues, which comprised approximately
75% and 86% of total license revenues for the quarters ended September 30, 1996
and 1995, respectively, and 79% and 88% of total license revenues for the
respective six-month periods continue to be increasingly dependent upon large
enterprise license transactions with the Company's active customers. These
customers are typically large corporations and governmental entities who are
heavily reliant on their mainframe-based data centers and derive significant
benefit from the Company's products. An enterprise license agreement allows
the customer to run an unlimited number of copies of a product on its CPUs
without regard to their size, subject to a maximum limit in the aggregate power
of the CPUs. At specified intervals during the term of the agreement, or in
some cases only at the end of the term, the licensee is required to pay
additional charges if the processing capacity on which the licensed products are
being used exceeds the stipulated level. The fees for future additional
processing capacity typically comprise from one-half to substantially all of the
license fees included in an enterprise license transaction, with restructuring
fees representing a less significant component. For the three months ended
September 30, 1996, the aggregate of upgrade fees for future additional
processing capacity and restructuring fees represented 26% of total revenues.
The failure of the Company to consummate one or more of these large transactions
anticipated to close in any given quarter would materially impact the operating
results for that period.
MAINTENANCE REVENUES
Maintenance revenues represent annual maintenance fees charged to
perpetual license customers entitling them to product enhancements, technical
support services and ongoing compatibility with third-party operating systems,
subsystems and applications. Maintenance charges are generally 15% to 20% of
the license fee for the product at the time of renewal. Maintenance revenues
also include the pro rata recognition of bundled fees for first year
maintenance services covered by certain related perpetual license agreements.
All maintenance fees are deferred at the time of billing and recognized ratably
over the term of the agreement.
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Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
For the quarter and six months ended September 30, 1996, maintenance
revenues increased over the prior-year periods as a result of the continued
growth in the base of installed products, primarily in the higher CPU capacity
for which the products are licensed, CPU capacity on which they run and the
continued high level of maintenance renewal rates. Maintenance revenue in a
particular period is impacted by the level of license revenue in the preceding
periods, the bundled fees for first-year maintenance, customer mergers and
outsourcing arrangements and restructuring activity. As discussed under
"License Revenues" above, restructuring fees entitle a customer to higher,
volume-based discounts that apply to future maintenance and other charges.
This increased level of discounts has been the primary contributor to the
reduction in the maintenance revenue growth rate over the past several years.
PRODUCT LINE REVENUES
The Company's database management product lines comprise the
administrative tools and high performance utilities for IBM's IMS and DB2
mainframe database management systems. These product lines contributed
approximately 67% of total revenues and 65% of license revenues for the quarter
ended September 30, 1996, and approximately 66% and 65% of total and license
revenues, respectively, in the six-month period. These product lines showed
combined total revenue growth of 36% and license revenue growth of 55% as
compared to the second fiscal quarter of the prior fiscal year. Year-to-date,
the database management products produced 29% growth in total and 40% license
revenue growth.
The Company's open systems product lines include the PATROL application
and database management products, the PATROL DB data administration and
management products and the backup and recovery utilities from DataTools, Inc.
(for whom the Company acts as an exclusive distributor). In the aggregate,
both total and license revenues from these products grew in excess of 200% as
compared to the quarter ended September 30, 1995. For the six month period,
total revenues for these product lines grew approximately 190%, and license
revenues grew approximately 181%. These products contributed 18% of total
revenues and 25% of license revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 1997 and
16% and 21% of total and license revenues, respectively for the six-month
period.
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Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
EXPENSES
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September 30, September 30,
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Selling and marketing $35,735 $ 22,247 60.6% $ 73,261 $ 46,819 56.5%
Research and development 19,833 13,201 50.2% 37,692 27,307 38.0%
Cost of maintenance services
and product licenses 13,122 10,456 25.5% 27,136 20,727 30.9%
General and administrative 11,083 7,889 40.5% 21,678 15,827 37.0%
Acquired research and
development --- --- N/A 11,259 --- N/A
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Total operating expenses $79,773 $ 53,793 48.3% $171,026 $110,680 54.5%
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SELLING AND MARKETING EXPENSES
Selling and marketing expenses represented the largest absolute and
percentage growth of the Company's operating expenses, for both the three months
and six months ended September 30, 1996 over prior period levels. Growth in
both of these periods was primarily due to increased personnel costs and sales
commissions. Personnel costs increased as the result of a 40% increase in
headcount (sales representatives and pre-sales support personnel) from
September 30, 1995 to September 30, 1996. Sales commissions increased as a
direct result of the 67% increase in license revenues. Other contributors to
the increase were certain marketing activities and travel expenses.
Agent/distributor commissions were also a factor in the expense growth from the
six months ended September 30, 1995 to the six months ended September 30, 1996.
As a percentage of total revenues, selling and marketing expenses increased
from 25% in the second quarter of fiscal 1996 to 28% in the second quarter of
fiscal 1997, and from 26% in the six months ended September 30, 1995 to the six
months ended September 30, 1996. These increases are primarily attributable to
the headcount and travel expense increases.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENSES
Research and development expenses increased primarily due to the
addition of permanent and contract personnel who were hired to develop new
product offerings and, to a lesser extent, support existing products. Research
and development headcount from September 30, 1995 to September 30, 1996,
including contract developers, increased by 26%. Growth in research and
development expenses during the three and six months ended September 30, 1996
from prior year comparable periods was also caused by increased commissions
paid to product authors for the sale of software licenses. These increases
have been offset by decreases in hardware costs within the Company's data
center during the three and six months ended September 30, 1996 from prior year
comparable periods. These increases have also been offset during the first
six months of fiscal 1997 compared to
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Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
the same period in fiscal 1996 by an increase in software capitalization and by
decreases in hardware costs within the Company's data center. For the second
quarter of fiscal 1997, the Company capitalized $4,378,000 in software
development costs. In the second quarter of fiscal 1996, the Company
capitalized $4,319,000 in software development costs. The Company capitalized
$10,288,000 and $8,496,000 in software development costs during the six months
ended September 30, 1996 and the six months ended September 30, 1995,
respectively.
COST OF MAINTENANCE SERVICES AND PRODUCT LICENSES
Cost of maintenance services and product licenses expenses consist of
amortization of purchased and internally developed software, costs associated
with technical support operations and royalty fees. These costs have increased
in the second quarter of fiscal 1997 primarily as a result of increased product
licenses costs due to increased amortization of purchased and internally
developed software and increases in royalty fees. During the second quarter of
fiscal 1997, the Company accelerated the amortization of some of its older
products which also led to the increase in cost of maintenance services and
product licenses. As a percentage of total revenues, these expenses have
decreased from 12% to 10% for the three months ended September 30, 1996 and the
three months ended September 30, 1995, respectively, while these expenses have
remained constant, at 11%, for the six months ended September 30, 1996 and
September 30, 1995, respectively.
For the second quarter of fiscal 1997, the Company's amortization of
internally developed software costs totaled $1,112,000 versus $2,367,000 in
the second quarter of fiscal 1996. The Company's amortization of internally
developed software costs totaled $4,304,000 and $4,880,000 during the six
months ended September 30, 1996, and the six months ended September 30, 1995,
respectively.
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
The Company's general and administrative expenses increased by
$3,194,000 in the second quarter of fiscal 1997 as compared to the second
quarter of fiscal 1996. The increase is primarily related to personnel costs
associated with a 29% increase in headcount and increases in professional fees
and management bonuses. As a percentage of total revenues, general and
administrative expenses remained constant at approximately 9%.
OTHER INCOME
For the second quarter of fiscal 1997, other income was $4,639,000,
reflecting an increase of 19% over $3,902,000 of other income in the same
quarter of fiscal 1996. Other income consists primarily of interest earned on
tax-exempt municipal securities, auction preferred stock, Eurodollar deposits,
corporate debt securities, financed receivables and money market funds. The
increase in other income is primarily due to the increase in cash available for
investment.
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Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
INCOME TAXES
For the second quarter of fiscal 1997, income tax expense was
$16,180,000, compared to $12,076,000 for the same quarter in fiscal 1996. The
Company's income tax expense represents the federal statutory rate of 35%, plus
certain state taxes, reduced by the benefit from the Company's Foreign Sales
Corporation, the effect of tax exempt interest earned from cash investments,
the effect of tax deductions on certain technology acquisitions and foreign
income taxes. Excluding the impact of technology acquisitions, the Company's
effective income tax rate for the six months ended September 30, 1996, and 1995
approximated 32%.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
The Company has financed its growth through funds generated from
operations. As of September 30, 1996, the Company had cash, cash equivalents
and investment securities of $405,327,000.
During the quarter ended September 30, 1996, the Company did not
repurchase any shares of its common stock in open market transactions. As of
September 30, 1996, the Company was authorized to repurchase 2,785,000 shares.
The Company believes that existing cash balances and funds generated
from operations will be sufficient to meet its liquidity requirements for the
foreseeable future.
B. FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION AND CERTAIN RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES THAT
COULD AFFECT FUTURE OPERATING RESULTS.
The forward looking statements made in the above Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition
include statements regarding the continued significance of enterprise license
transactions and the Company's ability to meet its future liquidity
requirements.
Numerous important factors affect the Company's operating results and
could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from the results
indicated in this discussion or in any other forward looking statements made
by, or on behalf of the Company. There can be no assurance that future results
will meet expectations. These important factors include, but are not limited
to those described in the following paragraphs.
Future revenues, earnings and stock prices may be subject to wide
swings, particularly on a quarterly basis in response to variations in
operating and financial results, perceived revenue growth rates and other
factors. The Company's stock price is primarily based on expectations of
future revenue and earnings growth and has been highly volatile over the last
several years. Any failure of revenues or earnings to meet expected levels in
a period would likely have a significant adverse effect on the Company's stock
price. The timing and amount of the Company's license revenues are subject to
a number of factors that make estimation of operating results prior to the end
of a quarter extremely
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Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
uncertain. The Company generally operates with little or no sales backlog and,
as a result, license revenues in any quarter are dependent on contracts entered
into or orders booked and shipped in that quarter. Most of the Company's sales
are closed at the end of each quarter, and the Company continues to become
increasingly dependent upon larger, individually significant enterprise license
transactions, which can have extended sales cycles and are less predictable.
This dependency on large license agreements also increases the risks of
quarter-to-quarter fluctuations and the uncertainty of estimating quarterly
operating results. Failure to close an expected individually significant
transaction would cause the Company's revenues and earnings in a period to fall
short of expectations with little warning. The Company generally does not know
whether revenues and earnings will meet expected results until the end of a
quarter.
CPU upgrade fees and enterprise license transactions are a substantial
and integral component of the Company's mainframe business, and the percentage
of license revenues contributed by enterprise license transactions has
increased over the last three fiscal years. In the second quarter of fiscal
1997 and 1996, the enterprise license fees for future additional processing
capacity and license restructurings comprised 26% and 16%, respectively, of
total revenues. The Company's future operating results are dependent upon
customers' continued requirements for, and investment in, their mainframe
systems software and customers' continually increasing need to use the
Company's existing software products on substantially greater mainframe
processing capacity. The Company believes that the demand for enterprise
licenses has been driven by customers' re-commitment over the last 18 to 24
months to the MVS mainframe platform for large scale, transaction intensive
information systems. Whether this trend will continue is difficult to predict.
There can be no assurance that these trends of MIPS growth and of customers
using the Company's current mainframe products on more powerful computers will
continue or that demand for increasingly larger enterprise license transactions
will be sustained.
The Company derives over 80% of its total revenues from software
products for IBM and IBM-compatible mainframe computers. IBM is attempting to
reduce the overall software costs associated with the MVS mainframe platform
and has announced its intentions to provide lower cost alternatives to the
Company's high speed database utilities for IMS and DB2. The Company has
traditionally maintained sufficient performance and functional advantages over
IBM's offerings, although there can be no assurance that it will continue to
maintain such advantages.
Upgrade fees have historically provided approximately 25% of the
Company's total revenues. The charging of upgrade fees based on CPU tier
classifications is standard among mainframe systems software vendors, including
IBM. The pricing of mainframe systems software, including the charging of
tier-based upgrade fees or other capacity-based fees, is under continued
pressure from customers. The Company believes its current pricing policies
most properly reflect the value provided by its products. IBM provides
alternatives to tier-based pricing with respect to its large mainframe CPUs and
is attempting to reduce the costs of its mainframe systems software to increase
the overall cost competitiveness of its mainframe computing platforms. These
actions have increased pricing pressures within the mainframe systems software
markets. The advent of IBM's "Sysplex" pricing of its mainframe systems
software when installed in a complex of coupled mainframe CPU's may
additionally increase these pricing pressures. If changes in mainframe
systems software pricing or
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Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
increased competition were to result in significant price decreases that were
not offset by sales volume increases, the Company's business and financial
results would be adversely affected.
Future operating results are also dependent on sustained improvement of
the Company's international operating results, which have been inconsistent
over the last three fiscal years. The Company's operations and financial
results could be significantly adversely affected by factors associated with
international operations, including changes in foreign currency exchange rates,
uncertainties relative to regional economic circumstances and difficulties in
staffing and managing international operations.
Operating income as a percentage of revenues, excluding the impact of
acquired research and development costs ("Operating Margins"), decreased
slightly in the second quarter of fiscal 1997 compared to the second quarter of
fiscal 1996. Since the Company's costs are to a large extent fixed in the
short term and are planned primarily based on sales forecasts, failure to
achieve planned revenue growth in a period would likely have a material adverse
affect on Operating Margins and net earnings. The Company has increased its
spending significantly in fiscal 1996 and in the first and second quarters of
fiscal 1997 on its open systems initiatives, with the investment being targeted
to research and development, sales and pre-sales personnel. Because the
investment is concentrated in increased payroll costs, the Company's operating
expenses will continue to increase. The Company intends to continue such
increased investment, which will place additional pressure on its Operating
Margins, particularly if revenue expectations are not met by its open systems
products. Sales, support and distribution costs for client/server software
products are generally higher, as a percentage of sales, than for mainframe
products, because of lower unit prices, more widely dispersed customers and
prospects and intense competition. The Company is developing indirect channels
through major open systems vendors to increase its coverage and presence in
open systems markets in a cost effective manner. There can be no assurance
that this strategy will be effective, however. Although the Company has made
significant progress in implementing reseller and distribution arrangements for
PATROL, open systems indirect sales were not material in the first half of
fiscal 1997. If the Company's direct sales force remains the primary channel
for its client/server products, its cost of sales will likely increase and
Operating Margins could be reduced.
The Company's ability to sustain growth depends in part on the timely
development or acquisition of successful new and updated products. The
Company's growth prospects are dependent upon the success of its open systems
products. Software development is, however, a complex and creative process
that can be difficult to accurately schedule and predict, and the Company has
experienced long development cycles and product delays and expects to have
delays in the future. Delays in new mainframe or client/server product
introductions or less-than-anticipated market acceptance of these new products
are possible and would have an adverse effect of the Company's revenues and
earnings. New products or new versions of existing products may, despite
testing, contain undetected errors or bugs that will delay the introduction or
adversely affect commercial acceptance of such products. The Company's
strategic plans and business models contemplate significant revenue growth from
its open systems product families. This market is highly dynamic and is
characterized by rapid change and intense competition. Many of the Company's
competitors and potential competitors have significantly greater financial,
technical, sales and marketing resources than
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Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
(continued)
the Company and greater experience in open systems development and sales. A
key factor in determining the success of the Company's products, particularly
its open systems offerings, will be its ability to interoperate and perform
well with existing and future leading database management systems and other
systems software products supported by the Company's products. While the
Company believes its products that address this market, including those under
development, will compete effectively, this market will be relatively
unpredictable over the next few years and there can be no assurance that
anticipated results will be achieved. The emergence of the Internet and
enterprise intranets as potential alternatives to the client/server paradigm
heightens such unpredictability.
Litigation seeking to enforce patents, copyrights and trade secrets is
increasing in the software industry. There can be no assurance that a third
party will not assert that its patents or other proprietary rights are violated
by products offered by the Company. Any such claims, with or without merit,
can be time consuming and expensive to defend and could have an adverse effect
on the Company's business, results of operations, financial position and cash
flows.
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BMC SOFTWARE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
The Company filed a lawsuit styled BMC SOFTWARE, INC. VS. PEREGRINE
SYSTEMS, INC. ET AL., Cause No. 95-10161, in the 200th Judicial District Court
of Travis County, Texas, in August 1995. The lawsuit seeks an injunction
prohibiting seven former employees and their employer, among other things, from
using the Company's confidential information and trade secrets in the
development of products similar to the products on which they worked while
employed by the Company. The defendants have filed several counterclaims
against the Company, alleging that the Company has tortiously interfered with
Peregrine Systems, Inc.'s business relations, breached its nondisclosure
agreements with the individual defendants, violated Section 15.05(a) of the
Texas Free Enterprise and AntiTrust Act and misappropriated certain trade
secrets and confidential information belonging to Peregrine/Bridge Transfer
Corporation in violation of a confidentiality agreement between the Company and
Peregrine Systems, Inc. The defendants' counterclaims seek injunctive relief
preventing the Company from using Peregrine/Bridge Transfer Corporation's trade
secrets and confidential information allegedly disclosed to the Company, a
declaratory judgment that the Company's trade secrets and confidential
information at issue are unqualified for protection as trade secrets or
confidential information and actual and exemplary monetary damages. Management
believes the ultimate resolution of the above matters will not be material to
the Company's financial condition.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
The Company's Annual Stockholders Meeting was held on August 19, 1996.
At the meeting, the stockholders elected all of the management's six nominees
to serve as directors for the following year. Also at the meeting, the
stockholders voted on (a) a proposal to adopt the BMC Software, Inc. 1996
Employee Stock Purchase Plan and (b) a proposal to amend the Company's Restated
Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of
common stock, par value $.01 per share, from 90,000,000 to 300,000,000. The
proposal to adopt the BMC Software, Inc. 1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
received 43,351,577 affirmative and 897,641 negative votes. The proposal to
amend the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation received 28,018,066
affirmative and 16,354,968 negative votes.
Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K
(a) Exhibits.
None
(b) Reports on Form 8-K.
None
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
Date: November 14, 1996 By: /s/ MAX P. WATSON JR.
---------------------------------
Max P. Watson Jr.
Chairman of the Board, President
and Chief Executive Officer
Date: November 14, 1996 By: /s/ KEVIN M. KLAUSMEYER
---------------------------------
Kevin M. Klausmeyer
Chief Accounting Officer
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibits Description
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