Ciena Corporation Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Key Financial Highlights

  • Q4 Revenue: $1.35 billion (record), +20% year-over-year (YoY) and $70 million above guidance midpoint.
  • FY2025 Revenue: $4.77 billion (record), +19% YoY.
  • Q4 Adjusted EPS: $0.91, +69% YoY.
  • FY2025 Adjusted EPS: $2.64, +45% from FY2024.
  • FY2025 Orders: Record $7.8 billion, resulting in ~$5 billion backlog entering FY2026 ($3.8 billion hardware/software + services).
  • Adjusted Gross Margin: Q4 43.4% (90 bps above midpoint); FY2025 42.7%.
  • Adjusted Operating Margin: Q4 13.2% (+250 bps sequential, +320 bps YoY); FY2025 11.2% (+150 bps from FY2024).
  • Cash & Capital: Q4 operating cash flow $371 million, free cash flow $326 million; FY2025 free cash flow $665 million. Ended year with $1.4 billion cash. Repurchased ~$330 million shares at avg. $83.34.

Business Segment Performance (YoY Comparisons)

  • Optical: +19% YoY in Q4, driven by RLS (+72% YoY).
  • Routing & Switching: +49% YoY in Q4; 3,005 series products doubled; DCOM opportunity key driver.
  • Global Services: +25% YoY in Q4; advisory/enablement +53%, installation/implementation +45%.
  • Blue Planet: Record $34 million Q4 revenue; FY2025 $115 million (profitable).
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Operator: Good morning, and welcome to Ciena Corporation's Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Year End 2025 Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. By pressing star then 0 after today's presentation, to ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Gregg Lampf, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Gregg Lampf: Thank you, Drew. Good morning, and welcome to Ciena Corporation's 2025 fiscal fourth quarter and year-end results conference call. On the call today is Gary Smith, President and CEO, and Mark Graff, CFO. Scott McFeely, executive adviser, is also with us for Q&A. In addition to this call and the press release, we have posted to the Investors section of our website an accompanying investor presentation that reflects this discussion as well as certain highlighted items for the fiscal quarter and year-end. Our comments today speak to our recent performance, our view on current market dynamics and drivers of our business, as well as a discussion of our financial outlook. Today's discussion includes certain adjusted or non-GAAP measures of Ciena Corporation's results of operations. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to our GAAP results is included in today's press release. Before turning the call over to Gary, I remind you that during this call, we'll
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