AUSTIN, TEXAS (November 9, 2020) – FalconStor Software, Inc. (OTCQB: FALC), a market leader in enterprise-class backup and archive data protection and software-defined storage, today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2020.
Key Highlights
- 11.7% year-over-year increase in recognized revenue,
- 36.7% year-over-year increase in sales bookings, as a result of strong new customer sales and existing customer expansion results in our core markets of the Americas, EMEA, SE Asia, Korea, and Japan,
- 9.9% year-over-year increase in annual recurring sales bookings,
- 214.8% year-over-year increase in Net Income, resulting in $1.1 million in total Net Income,
- Retired $1 million short-term note secured in Q4 2019.
- Expanded early sales of StorSafeTM, our newest patent-pending long-term archive retention and reinstatement product, which leverages the power and simplicity of industry-standard container technology to enable persistent long-term archive storage. StorSafeTM dramatically improves archive data portability, accessibility, security, and integrity validation, especially as it relates to multi-cloud data storage leverage. We believe this will create game-changing capability that solves age old challenges in data usability and portability, resulting in a full spectrum of archive data storage options available to our enterprise customers to efficiently utilize essentially any storage environment, while confidently ensuring data security and efficient archive access.
“I am extremely proud of the FalconStor team and our engaged set of global partners, as we continued to make consistent progress against our strategic plans”, said Todd Brooks, CEO FalconStor. “Our momentum continued during the quarter, as the company delivered year-over-year revenue growth of 11.7%, while carefully managing our expenses. As a result, we generated $1.1 million of Net Income. In addition, our intentional shift to subscription-based offerings continued to improve as we delivered a 9.9% increase in annualized recurring sales. While uncertainties continue to exist as a result of COVID-19, we have seen our customers and prospects invest in the business critical area of data production in which we sell our solutions.
We continue to be encouraged by the strong level of new customers secured during the quarter in our core markets, which allowed us to generate a 19% year-over-year increase in total new customer sales bookings. As we move forward, we will continue to maniacally focus in our core markets, and with our innovative, patent-pending long-term archive retention and reinstatement solution, StorSafeTM, to help our enterprise customers reduce data storage costs, while improving data portability, accessibility, and security – including ransomware protection.”
Additional Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter of 2020
Our 19% year-over-year increase in sales bookings, allowed us to close the three months ended September 30, 2020 with $4.4 million in recognized revenue, compared to $4.0 million for the same period of the previous year. Revenue recognition on sales is driven by several factors. First, the volume of new product licenses and maintenance sales, both for expansion of our existing installed base and the acquisition of new customers. Second, customer retention, which sustains maintenance renewal revenue over long term sales arrangements. Our software solutions play a key role in efficiently managing and protecting critical data for businesses around the world, and we are confident that, as the global economy recovers, our sales momentum will continue to capture the momentum achieved through our recent sales success. As we move forward through the balance of the year, our energy will be concentrated on generating positive cash flow, capital preservation, strategic growth in our core markets and continued product innovation.
During the three months ended September 30, 2020 we improved our Non-GAAP Operating Income to $2.0 million, compared with a Non-GAAP Operating Loss of $0.1 million for the same period of the previous year.
During the three months ended September 30, 2020, we improved our Non-GAAP Net Income to $1.9 million, compared with a Non-GAAP Net Loss of $0.2 million for the same period of the previous year. Deferred revenue as of September 30, 2020 totaled $6.1 million, compared with $7.4 million as of December 31, 2019.
We ended the quarter with $0.9 million of cash and cash equivalents, compared to $1.5 million at December 31, 2019.
In addition, we applied for the Payroll Protection Plan Loan (PPP) from the Small Business Administration and received $754 thousand dollars in May of 2020.
As always, there is no assurance that the Company will be successful in generating sufficient bookings, billings, revenue or continue to reduce operating costs. Failure to generate sufficient revenue, billings, control or further reduce expenditures could result in an inability of the Company to continue as a going concern. Subject to the foregoing, management believes that, based on projected cash flows, the Company will have sufficient capital and liquidity to fund its operations for at least one year from the date of issuance of the accompanying interim condensed financial statements.
Non-GAAP results above exclude the effects of stock-based compensation, restructuring costs and the effects of our Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock. A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP information is provided on page 6 of this release.
Webcast and Presentation
WHO: Todd Brooks, President and Chief Executive Officer, FalconStor Brad Wolfe, Chief Financial Officer, FalconStor
WHEN: Monday, November 9, 2020 3:30 PM CDT
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The Company’s management refers to these non-GAAP financial measures in making operating decisions because they provide meaningful supplemental information regarding the Company’s operating performance. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures facilitate management’s internal comparisons to the Company’s historical operating results and comparisons to competitors’ operating results. We include these non-GAAP financial measures (which should be viewed as a supplement to, and not a substitute for, their comparable GAAP measures) in this press release because we believe they are useful to investors in allowing for greater transparency into the supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision-making. The non-GAAP financial measures exclude (i) restructuring costs, (ii) effects of our Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock, and (iii) non-cash stock-based compensation charges and any potential tax effects. For a reconciliation of our GAAP and non-GAAP financial results, please refer to our Non-GAAP Operating Data GAAP Reconciliation, presented in this release.
About FalconStor Software
FalconStor Software, Inc. (OTCQB: FALC) is a modern enterprise-class data protection company that is mobilizing the past, energizing the present, and empowering the future of data storage and archival. The company provides software and cloud services to optimize long-term retention of historical data, enhance performance and scalability for present data retention, and allow the seamless adoption of future storage technologies. Customers leveraging FalconStor’s container technology have a competitive advantage facilitating the transition between storage systems and the cloud to reduce the complexity and management of the 100-year data retention lifecycle.
Founded in 2000, FalconStor is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has additional offices in New York, Europe and Asia. Our solutions are available and supported by a vast network of system integrators and resellers. For more information, please visit www.falconstor.com. Connect with FalconStor on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the company’s blog.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information, contact:
Brad Wolfe
Chief Financial Officer
FalconStor Software Inc.
investorrelations@falconstor.com
