Penguin Solutions Reports Q2 Fiscal 2025 Financial Results

Revenue up 28% compared with year-ago quarter

Company raises midpoint of annual revenue outlook

Penguin Solutions, Inc. ("Penguin Solutions," "we," "us," or the "Company") (NASDAQ: PENG) today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025 and announced the planned retirement of Chief Operating Officer ("COO") and President of Integrated Memory Jack Pacheco.

Second Quarter Fiscal 2025 Highlights

• Net sales of $366 million, up 28.3% versus the year-ago quarter
• GAAP gross margin of 28.6%, down 20 basis points versus the year-ago quarter
• Non-GAAP gross margin of 30.8%, down 70 basis points versus the year-ago quarter
• GAAP diluted EPS of $0.09 versus $(0.26) in the year-ago quarter
• Non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.52 versus $0.27 in the year-ago quarter

"We are pleased with the progress we are making in fiscal year 2025," said Mark Adams, Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of Penguin Solutions. "Our results reinforce our capabilities in managing the complexity of AI for our valued customers. Given our strong start to the fiscal year, we are raising the midpoint of our revenue outlook for the full year."

Quarterly Financial Results

Business Outlook

As of April 2, 2025, Penguin Solutions is providing the following financial outlook for fiscal year 2025:

Second Quarter Fiscal 2025 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast Details

Penguin Solutions will hold a conference call and webcast to discuss the second quarter of fiscal 2025 results and related matters today, April 2, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time). Interested parties may access the call by dialing +1-833-470-1428 in the United States or +1-404-975-4839 from international locations, using the access code 858614. The earnings presentation and a live webcast of the conference call can be accessed from the Company's investor relations website (https://ir.penguinsolutions.com/investors/default.aspx) where they will remain available for approximately one year.

Jack Pacheco to Retire as Chief Operating Officer and President of Integrated Memory

Jack Pacheco, Executive Vice President ("EVP"), COO and President of Integrated Memory, is expected to retire from the Company on December 31, 2025. The Company has initiated a succession planning process. Mr. Pacheco is expected to transition into a special advisor role if his successor is appointed before his retirement, and to provide consulting services following his retirement to ensure continuity and a smooth transition of his responsibilities.

Mr. Pacheco first joined the Company in 1994 and has served in various leadership roles during his tenure. He remained with the Company from 1994 until 2001, and then returned in 2004 as Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), a position he held until 2008. In 2011, Mr. Pacheco returned to the Company and served as Senior Vice President, COO and CFO until becoming EVP, COO and President of Integrated Memory in September 2020.

"On behalf of the entire company, I want to thank Jack for his nearly 25 years of leadership and dedication," said Mark Adams, CEO of Penguin Solutions. "Jack played a key role in scaling our memory business and strengthening our global operations. We're grateful for his many contributions and his support through this transition."

Use of Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning or regarding future events and the future financial and operating performance of Penguin Solutions; statements regarding the extent and timing of and expectations regarding Penguin Solutions' future revenues and expenses; statements regarding Penguin Solutions' strategic transformation and priorities; statements regarding long-term effective tax rates; statements regarding the business and financial outlook for fiscal year 2025 described under "Business Outlook" above; and statements regarding the expected retirement of Mr. Pacheco and related succession planning activities.

These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Forward-looking statements often use words such as "anticipate," "target," "expect," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "goal," "believe," "could," and other words of similar meaning. Forward-looking statements provide our current expectations or forecasts of future events, circumstances, results or aspirations and are subject to a number of significant risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of our control, including but not limited to: global business and economic conditions and growth trends in technology industries (including trends and markets related to artificial intelligence), our customer markets and various geographic regions; uncertainties in the geopolitical environment; the ability to manage our cost structure; disruptions in our operations or supply chain as a result of global pandemics or otherwise; changes in trade regulations or adverse developments in international trade relations and agreements; changes in currency exchange rates; overall information technology spending; appropriations for government spending; the success of our strategic initiatives including our proposed redomiciliation to the United States (which remains subject to shareholder and court approval), our rebranding and related strategy, any existing or potential collaborations and additional investments in new products and additional capacity; acquisitions of companies or technologies and the failure to successfully integrate and operate them or customers' negative reactions to them; issues, delays or complications in integrating the operations of Stratus Technologies; failure to achieve the intended benefits of the sale of SMART Brazil and its business; limitations on or changes in the availability of supply of materials and components; fluctuations in material costs; the temporary or volatile nature of pricing trends in memory or elsewhere; deterioration in customer relationships; our dependence on a select number of customers and the timing and volume of customer orders; production or manufacturing difficulties; competitive factors; technological changes; difficulties with, or delays in, the introduction of new products; slowing or contraction of growth in the memory market, LED market or other markets in which we participate; changes to applicable tax regimes or rates; changes to the valuation allowance for our deferred tax assets, including any potential inability to realize these assets in the future; prices for the end products of our customers; strikes or labor disputes; deterioration in or loss of relations with any of our limited number of key vendors; the inability to maintain or expand government business; and the continuing availability of borrowings under term loans and revolving lines of credit and our ability to raise capital through debt or equity financings.

These and other risks, uncertainties and factors are described in greater detail under the sections titled "Risk Factors," "Critical Accounting Estimates," "Results of Operations," "Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk" and "Liquidity and Capital Resources" contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and our other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, such risks, uncertainties and factors as outlined above and in such filings do not constitute all risks, uncertainties and factors that could cause our actual results to be materially different from such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements that we make in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, we do not undertake to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that may arise after the date that the forward-looking statements were made.

Statement Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release and the accompanying tables contain the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP effective tax rate, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP weighted-average shares outstanding, non-GAAP diluted earnings per share and adjusted EBITDA. Penguin Solutions' management uses these non-GAAP measures to supplement Penguin Solutions' financial results under GAAP. Management uses these measures to analyze its operations and make decisions as to future operational plans and believes that this supplemental non-GAAP information is useful to investors in analyzing and assessing the Company's past and future operating performance. These non-GAAP measures exclude certain items, such as share-based compensation expense; amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets (consisting of amortization of developed technology, customer relationships and trademarks/trade names acquired in connection with business combinations); cost of sales-related restructuring; diligence, acquisition and integration expense; redomiciliation costs; restructuring charges; impairment of goodwill; changes in the fair value of contingent consideration; gains (losses) from changes in foreign currency exchange rates; amortization of debt issuance costs; gain (loss) on extinguishment or prepayment of debt; other infrequent or unusual items and related tax effects and other tax adjustments. While amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets is excluded, the revenues from acquired companies are reflected in the Company's non-GAAP measures and these intangible assets contribute to revenue generation. Management believes the presentation of operating results that exclude certain items provides useful supplemental information to investors and facilitates the analysis of the Company's core operating results and comparison of operating results across reporting periods. Management also uses adjusted EBITDA, which represents GAAP net income (loss), adjusted for net interest expense; income tax provision (benefit); depreciation expense and amortization of intangible assets; share-based compensation expense; cost of sales-related restructuring; diligence, acquisition and integration expense; redomiciliation costs; impairment of goodwill; restructuring charges; loss on extinguishment of debt and other infrequent or unusual items.

In fiscal 2024, for our non-GAAP reporting, we began to utilize a long-term projected non-GAAP effective tax rate of 28%, which includes the tax impact of pre-tax non-GAAP adjustments and reflects currently available information as well as other factors and assumptions. While we expect to use this normalized non-GAAP effective tax rate through fiscal 2025, this long-term non-GAAP effective tax rate may be subject to change for a variety of reasons, including the rapidly evolving global tax environment, significant changes in our geographic earnings mix or changes to our strategy or business operations. Our GAAP effective tax rate can vary significantly from quarter to quarter based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, discrete items which are recorded in the period they occur, the tax effects of certain items of income or expense, significant changes in our geographic earnings mix or changes to our strategy or business operations. We are unable to predict the timing and amounts of these items, which could significantly impact our GAAP effective tax rate, and therefore we are unable to reconcile our forward-looking non-GAAP effective tax rate measure to our GAAP effective tax rate.

Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP, as they exclude important information about Penguin Solutions' financial results, as noted above. The presentation of these adjusted amounts varies from amounts presented in accordance with GAAP and therefore may not be comparable to amounts reported by other companies. In addition, adjusted EBITDA does not purport to represent cash flow provided by, or used for, operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be used as a measure of liquidity. Investors are encouraged to review the "Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures" tables below.

About Penguin Solutions

The most exciting technological advancements are also the most challenging for companies to adopt. At Penguin Solutions, we support our customers in achieving their ambitions across our computing, memory, and LED lines of business. With our expert skills, experience, and partnerships, we turn our customers' most complex challenges into compelling opportunities.

For more information, visit www.penguinsolutions.com.

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