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- Novell Fiscal 1991 Revenue Increases 29 Percent to $640.1 Million
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- Net Income up 72 Percent to $162.5 Million
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- December 9, 1991 -- Provo, Utah -- Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) today
- reported net revenue of $640.1 million for its fiscal year ended October
- 26, 1991, up 29 percent from net revenue of $497.5 million in fiscal 1990.
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- Net income for the year was $162.5 million, up 72 percent from $94.3
- million in 1990. Earnings in fiscal 1991 were $1.10 per share up from
- $0.68 the previous year.
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- In the fourth fiscal quarter 1991, net revenue was $187.2 million, up 33
- percent from the $140.5 million reported in the same period of 1990. Net
- income for the fourth quarter was $50.6 million, up from $32.6 million in
- 1990. Fourth quarter 1991 earnings were $0.34 per share, up from $0.23 per
- share the year before. Sequentially, fourth quarter 1991 revenue increased
- by 11 percent over the third quarter 1991, with third to fourth quarter
- sequential earnings up 18 percent.
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- Fiscal year revenue from software product sales rose 47 percent to $571
- million, spurred by more than $300 million in sales of NetWare 3.x network
- services operating system software. Total network operating system
- software sales accounted for approximately 80 percent of Novell revenue.
- Additional software products, including communications and database
- products that support the NetWare network environment, LANalyzer network
- analysis and monitoring products, and TCP/IP communications protocol
- products recorded sales increases of more than 40 percent year-over-year.
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- International revenue grew 42 percent year-over-year to $280 million, or 44
- percent of total sales. In the fourth quarter international sales reached
- 47 percent of total. As expected, the company realized a significant
- increase in year-over-year sales from its Novell Japan, Ltd. subsidiary as
- the first Japanese language version of NetWare began shipping in July 1991.
- Regional European sales managed by Novell's country subsidiaries in
- France, Germany and the United Kingdom account for over 70 percent of
- Novell sales outside the U.S. Revenue growth in the U.S. reached 20
- percent year-over-year, the highest domestic growth rate since 1988.
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- "1991 marks our most successful year yet in accelerating the growth of
- network computing by meeting the needs of users for integrating their
- computer systems," said Raymond J. Noorda, chairman, president and chief
- executive officer of Novell. "We see this success in the response of
- customers to our products, in the willingness of other vendors to recognize
- customer needs, and in our steadily expanding partnerships with vendors
- across the computer marketplace."
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- On the balance sheet, cash and short term investments increased by $92
- million over fiscal year-end 1990, reaching $347 million at the close of
- fiscal 1991. During the year, operations generated $170 million in cash.
- Capital expenditures for the year reached $86.9 million, including
- significant facilities expansion at the company's Provo, Utah headquarters
- and a $46 million purchase of property in San Jose, California.
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- The company announced a two-for-one stock split to shareholders of record
- as of August 12, 1991. The distribution date for the additional shares was
- August 30. Earnings per share numbers for all periods referenced in this
- press release reflect this stock split.
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- On October 28, the first business day of Novell's fiscal year 1992, Digital
- Research, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell. Its general
- purpose and specialized operating system products include DR DOS, DR
- Multiuser DOS and FlexOS.
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- Novell, Inc., (NASDAQ: NOVL), an operating system software company, is the
- developer of industry-leading network services software. Novell's NetWare
- network computing products manage and control the sharing of services, data
- and applications among computer workgroups, departmental networks and
- business-wide information systems.
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