TRMB Trimble Inc

• Record annualized recurring revenue, reflecting ongoing execution of the Connect & Scale strategy
• Record gross margin, demonstrating continued business transformation and favorable mix shift
• Continued simplification and focusing of business via recently completed Mobility divestiture
• $1 billion share repurchase authorized
• Establishing full year guidance

WESTMINSTER, Colo., Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble Inc. (Nasdaq: TRMB) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024.

Fourth Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights

• Revenue of $983.4 million, up 5 percent on a year-over-year basis, up 17 percent on an organic basis
• Annualized recurring revenue ("ARR") was $2.26 billion, up 14 percent year-over-year, up 14 percent on an organic basis
• GAAP operating income was $173.5 million, 17.6 percent of revenue and non-GAAP operating income was $283.6 million, 28.8 percent of revenue
• GAAP net income was $90.2 million and non-GAAP net income was $221.5 million
• Diluted earnings per share ("EPS") was $0.36 on a GAAP basis and $0.89 on a non-GAAP basis
• Adjusted EBITDA was $298.1 million, 30.3 percent of revenue

Executive Quote

"Fiscal 2024 was a transformative year for Trimble. We simplified and focused the Company through portfolio moves and re-segmentation. We also delivered for our customers while strengthening the Company — as evidenced by record levels of software as a percent of total revenue, and record levels of ARR, gross margin and profitability," said Rob Painter, president and CEO of Trimble. "We thank all of our Trimble colleagues for their dedication and hard work in 2024, and we look forward to further executing and progressing Connect & Scale in 2025 and beyond."

Fiscal 2024 Financial Highlights

• Revenue of $3,683.3 million, down 3 percent on a year-over-year basis, up 5 percent on an organic basis
• GAAP operating income was $460.7 million, 12.5 percent of revenue, and non-GAAP operating income was $937.2 million, 25.4 percent of revenue
• GAAP net income was $1,504.4 million and non-GAAP net income was $704.4 million
• Diluted EPS was $6.09 on a GAAP basis, and $2.85 on a non-GAAP basis
• Adjusted EBITDA was $1,000.4 million, 27.2 percent of revenue
• During fiscal 2024, Trimble repurchased approximately 2.9 million shares for $175.0 million.

Forward-Looking Guidance

For the full-year 2025, Trimble expects to report revenue between $3,370 million and $3,470 million, GAAP earnings per share of $1.46 to $1.67, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $2.76 to $2.98. GAAP guidance assumes a tax rate of 22.0 percent and non-GAAP guidance assumes a tax rate of 17.4 percent. Both GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share assume approximately 243 million shares outstanding.

For the first quarter of 2025, Trimble expects to report revenue between $794 million and $824 million, GAAP earnings per share of $0.21 to $0.27, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.55 to $0.61. GAAP guidance assumes a tax rate of 23.0 percent and non-GAAP guidance assumes a tax rate of 17.4 percent. Both GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share assume approximately 246 million shares outstanding.

Full-year 2025 and first quarter of 2025 guidance both reflect the closing of the mobility divestiture, which closed on February 8, 2025. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures and other information relating to these non-GAAP measures are included in the supplemental reconciliation schedule attached.

Share Repurchase Authorization

The Board of Directors has authorized a common stock repurchase authorization of up to $1 billion, which replaces the Company's existing authorization and goes into effect immediately.

Investor Conference Call / Webcast Details

Trimble will hold a conference call on February 19, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. ET to review its fourth quarter and full year 2024 results. An accompanying slide presentation will be made available on the "Investors" section of the Trimble website, https://www.trimble.com, under the subheading "Events & Presentations." The call will be broadcast live on the web at https://investor.trimble.com. Investors and participants who wish to dial into the call may do so by first registering at https://registrations.events/direct/Q4I841133938. Upon registration, dial-in details will be sent via email to the registrant. A replay will also be available on the web at the address above.

About Trimble

Trimble is transforming the ways people move, build and live. Core technologies in positioning, modeling and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve our customers' productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB), visit: https://www.trimble.com.

Safe Harbor

Certain statements made in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include expectations about our future financial and operational results and expectations regarding the execution and progress of the Connect and Scale strategy. These forward-looking statements are subject to change, and actual results may materially differ due to certain risks and uncertainties. The Company's results may be adversely affected if the Company is unable to market, manufacture and ship new products, obtain new customers, effectively integrate new acquisitions or consummate divestitures in a timely manner, or get the benefits it is expecting from its joint ventures and partnerships, including with AGCO and Platform Science. The Company's results would also be negatively impacted due to weakness and deterioration in the US and global macroeconomic outlook, including slowing growth, inflationary pressures and increases in interest rates, which may affect demand for our products and services and increase our costs, adversely affecting our revenues and profitability, supply chain shortages and disruptions, the pace at which our dealers work through their inventory, changes in our distribution channels, adverse geopolitical developments and the potential impact of volatility and conflict in the political and economic environment, including the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and its direct and indirect impact on our business, foreign exchange fluctuations, the pace we transition our business model towards a subscription model, the imposition of barriers to international trade, the impact of acquisitions or divestitures, and our ability to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting, including our ability to remediate our material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting. Any failure to achieve predicted results could negatively impact the Company's revenue, cash flow from operations, and other financial results. In addition, the Company may not repurchase all of the authorized $1 billion of shares of its common stock and the stock repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time without notice. The Company's financial results will also depend on a number of other factors and risks detailed from time to time in reports filed with the SEC, including its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its annual report on Form 10-K. Undue reliance should not be placed on any forward-looking statement contained herein. These statements reflect the Company's position as of the date of this release. The Company expressly disclaims any undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any statements to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change of events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

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FOOTNOTES TO GAAP TO NON-GAAP RECONCILIATION

This press release includes GAAP financial measures as well as non-GAAP financial measures, which are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to investors and others in understanding our "core operating performance", which excludes (i) the effect of non-cash items and certain variable charges not expected to recur; and (ii) transactions that are not meaningful in comparison to our past operating performance or not reflective of ongoing financial results. Lastly, we believe that our core operating performance offers a supplemental measure for period-to-period comparisons and can be used to evaluate our historical and prospective financial performance, as well as our performance relative to competitors.

The non-GAAP definitions, and explanations to the adjustments to comparable GAAP measures are included below:

Non-GAAP Definitions

Non-GAAP gross margin

We define Non-GAAP gross margin as GAAP gross margin, excluding the effects of amortization of purchased intangible assets, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, deferred compensation, and restructuring and other costs.  We believe our investors benefit by understanding our non-GAAP gross margin as a way of understanding how product mix, pricing decisions, and manufacturing costs influence our business.

Non-GAAP operating expenses

We define Non-GAAP operating expenses as GAAP operating expenses, excluding the effects of amortization of purchased intangible assets, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, deferred compensation, and restructuring and other costs.  We believe this measure is important to investors evaluating our non-GAAP spending in relation to revenue.

Non-GAAP operating income

We define Non-GAAP operating income as GAAP operating income, excluding the effects of amortization of purchased intangible assets, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, deferred compensation, and restructuring and other costs.  We believe our investors benefit by understanding our non-GAAP operating income trends, which are driven by revenue, gross margin, and spending.

Non-GAAP non-operating expense, net

We define Non-GAAP non-operating expense, net as GAAP non-operating income (expense), net, excluding acquisition/divestiture items, deferred compensation, and restructuring and other costs.  We believe this measure helps investors evaluate our non-operating expense trends.

Non-GAAP income tax provision

We define Non-GAAP income tax provision as GAAP income tax provision, excluding charges and benefits such as net deferred tax impacts resulting from the non-U.S. intercompany transfer of intellectual property, deferred tax impacts from global intangible low-taxed income, and significant reserve releases upon the statute of limitations expirations.  We believe this measure helps investors because it provides for consistent treatment of excluded items in our non-GAAP presentation and a difference in the GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates.

Non-GAAP net income

We define Non-GAAP net income as GAAP net income, excluding the effects of amortization of purchased intangible assets, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, restructuring and other costs, and non-GAAP tax adjustments.  This measure provides a supplemental view of net income trends, which are driven by non-GAAP income before taxes and our non-GAAP tax rate.

Non-GAAP diluted net income per share

We define Non-GAAP diluted net income per share as GAAP diluted net income per share, excluding the effects of amortization of purchased intangible assets, acquisition/divestiture items, stock-based compensation, restructuring and other costs, and non-GAAP tax adjustments.  We believe our investors benefit by understanding our non-GAAP operating performance as reflected in a per share calculation as a way of measuring non-GAAP operating performance by ownership in the Company.

Adjusted EBITDA

We define Adjusted EBITDA as non-GAAP operating income plus depreciation expense, cloud computing amortization, and income from equity method investments, net, excluding our proportionate share of items such as goodwill impairment, amortization of purchased intangibles, stock-based compensation, and restructuring costs.  Other companies may define Adjusted EBITDA differently.  Adjusted EBITDA is a performance measure that we believe offers a useful view of the overall operations of our business because it facilitates operating performance comparisons by removing potential differences caused by variations unrelated to operating performance, such as capital structures (interest expense), income taxes, depreciation, and amortization of purchased intangibles and cloud computing costs. 

Free Cash Flow

We define free cash flow as cash flow from operating activities minus capital expenditures. We believe this measure is important to investors evaluating our generation of cash flow.

Explanations of Non-GAAP adjustments

OTHER KEY METRICS

Annualized Recurring Revenue
In addition to providing non-GAAP financial measures, Trimble provides an ARR performance measure in order to provide investors with a supplementary indicator of the value of the Company's current recurring revenue contracts.  ARR represents the estimated annualized value of recurring revenue.  ARR is calculated by taking our subscription and maintenance and support for the current quarter and adding the portion of the contract value of all our term licenses attributable to the current quarter, then dividing that sum by the number of days in the quarter and then multiplying that quotient by 365.  ARR should be viewed independently of revenue and deferred revenue as it is a performance measure and is not intended to be combined with or to replace either of those items.

Organic Annualized Recurring Revenue
Organic annualized recurring revenue refers to annualized recurring revenue excluding the impacts of (i) foreign currency translation, and (ii) acquisitions and divestitures that closed in the prior 12 months.

Organic Revenue
Organic revenue refers to revenue excluding the impacts of (i) foreign currency translation, and (ii) acquisitions and divestitures that closed in the prior 12 months.

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