VMware Earnings Fall But Surpass Wall Street Expectations
April 19 2016 - 06:00PM
Dow Jones News
VMware Inc. posted better-than-expected adjusted earnings for
its latest quarter and said it plans to buy back $1.2 billion of
its own stock by the end of this year.
Shares of the company rose 4% to $53.50 after hours.
The stock-buyback plan "underscores the confidence we have in
the business," said Zane Rowe, chief financial officer of VMware.
The company has a market value of roughly $22 billion.
Though the technology company's income slipped 18% in the first
quarter from the year-earlier period, VMware posted adjusted
earnings of 86 cents, beating Wall Street's forecasts by 2
cents.
For the quarter, VMware earned $161 million, or 38 cents a
share, compared with a profit of $196 million, or 45 cents a share,
a year earlier. Excluding certain items, adjusted earnings were
flat at 86 cents. Sales rose 5.2% to $1.6 billion, in line with the
expectations of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
Earlier in the year, the Palo Alto, Calif., company launched a
restructuring plan that aimed to cut as many as 800 positions.
Write to Ezequiel Minaya at ezequiel.minaya@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 19, 2016 17:45 ET (21:45 GMT)
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