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Last Earnings Call

Fiscal Period
Q1 2027
Call Date
Sep 2, 2026
AI Summary
Q1 2027

Record quarter: NetApp reported Q1 revenue of $2.03 billion, up 30% year-over-year, exceeding the high end of guidance on every metric.

AI momentum: The company won approximately 350 AI and data lake modernization deals, with larger deal sizes as customers move from testing to production workloads.

Broad demand: Management described strength across customer sizes, industries, geographies, products and sales channels, while noting that accelerated purchases were limited to a small portion of customers.

Margin pressure: Gross margin was 70.6%, down 50 basis points year-over-year as product revenue represented 49% of sales and component costs increased.

Raised outlook: Fiscal 2027 revenue guidance increased by $650 million to a midpoint of $8.1 billion, while EPS guidance rose to a midpoint of $9.88.

Cloud and flash growth: Public cloud revenue reached $206 million, up 28%, while all-flash array revenue reached $1.31 billion, up 47%.

Strategic acquisitions: NetApp acquired DataPelago to strengthen in-place AI data processing and JetStream to expand cloud-native disaster recovery for VMware workloads.

Key Financials
Revenue
$2.03 billion
Earnings per share
$2.58
Gross margin
70.6%
Operating margin
31.9%
Gross profit
$1.43 billion
Hybrid cloud revenue
$1.82 billion
Product revenue
$987 million
Support revenue
$720 million
Professional Services revenue
$112 million
Public cloud revenue
$206 million
All-flash array revenue
$1.31 billion
Deferred revenue
$4.85 billion
Remaining performance obligations
$5.65 billion
Operating expenses
$784 million
Operating income
$645 million
Cash flow from operations
$503 million
Free cash flow
$401 million
Capital returned to shareholders
$302 million
Dividend per share
$0.52
Cash and short-term investments
$3.6 billion
Gross debt
$2.5 billion
Net cash
$1.1 billion
AI and data lake modernization deals
approximately 350
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