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Exhibit 99.1
 
Pure Storage Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2021 Financial Results

Subscription services momentum continues with 37% year-over-year revenue growth

International revenue grew 20% year-over-year

 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., August 25, 2020 – Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced financial results for its second quarter ended August 2, 2020.

“We had a solid quarter, reflecting Pure’s unmatched technology leadership, simplicity, performance and extraordinary reliability that makes us the right decision during this time,” said Charles Giancarlo, Chairman and CEO, Pure Storage. “Pure delivers the Modern Data Experience by providing dynamic storage, a cloud-like experience via APIs, shared services and flexible on-demand consumption. Looking forward, I am confident in our opportunity, long-term strategy and ability to reaccelerate growth upon exiting the global crisis.”

Second Quarter Financial Highlights 

Revenue $403.7 million, up 2% year-over-year
Subscription services revenue $131.4 million, up 37% year-over-year
GAAP gross margin 68.0%; non-GAAP gross margin 69.8%
GAAP operating loss $(64.1) million; non-GAAP operating income $11.2 million
Operating cash flow was $50.7 million, up $1.9 million year-over-year
Free cash flow was $25.7 million, up $5.8 million year-over-year
Total cash and investments of $1.3 billion
Deferred revenue of $724.8 million, up 2.6% quarter-over-quarter and 19.3% year-over-year
Remaining performance obligations (RPO) of $956.4 million, up 4.9% quarter-over-quarter and 24.2% year-over-year

“Pure, with its channel partners, continues to deliver solid results during the global economic recession caused by COVID-19,” said Kevan Krysler, CFO, Pure Storage. “We are particularly pleased with the sustained strong growth and momentum of our subscription services that offer customers a cloud-like experience with more flexibility and compelling total cost of ownership.”

Second Quarter Company Highlights

Pure’s second quarter delivered technology enhancements that support modern applications, multi-dimensional performance, differentiated consumption models and simplicity that make the Modern Data Experience a reality for customers.
Introducing the second generation FlashArray//C - Today we announced the second generation FlashArray//C, delivering even lower effective cost/GB, making it now substantially less expensive than competing legacy hybrid disk arrays. The industry’s only all-QLC storage array, FlashArray//C features 24TB and 49TB QLC DirectFlash Modules and fully leverages the broad suite of efficiency and reliability features in FlashArray’s Purity software. With FlashArray//C for capacity-oriented workloads, FlashArray//X for performance-centric workloads, and Cloud Block Store in the cloud, customers are able to consolidate tier 1, tier 2 and cloud workloads onto a single platform.

Delivering rapid recovery at scale - In Q2, Pure announced a partnership with Cohesity to deliver an integrated data recovery solution, Pure FlashRecover™, Powered by Cohesity®. The solution provides all-flash data backup and recovery capabilities that enterprises require for restoring data rapidly in the face of a disaster or ransomware attack. The companies joined forces to develop this solution based on strong demand from their customers to ensure they will always have fast access to their data.

Strong subscription services momentum - Pure’s subscription services saw continued strength and execution with 37% year-over-year growth from existing and new customers. In Q2, Arrow Energy, BidFX, Dizzion Managed
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Desktop as-a-Service, Lafayette General Hospital and Telstra joined the rapidly growing list of existing Pure as-a-Service customers such as CDK Global and Options IT.

Additionally, the Pure Good Foundation, which has had a substantial impact on communities around the globe, celebrates its fifth anniversary this month. Through its philanthropic efforts and hands-on volunteerism, Pure employees engaged in more than 8,000 volunteer activities over the last five years.

Guidance

Through the first half of the year Pure has delivered solid results through execution, focus, and operating discipline. The core fundamentals of Pure’s business are strong, however, the significant global economic contraction caused by COVID-19 continues to create variability. Therefore, consistent with the prior quarter Pure is not providing formal guidance.

Pure’s current view of fiscal Q3 outcomes, which should not be viewed as guidance, is that total revenue will be approximately flat sequentially. In Q3, we expect recurring revenue and sales of our Evergreen and unified subscription services will continue to show strong growth. The company continues to exercise solid operating discipline throughout the organization and estimates that operating margin during Q3 will be slightly below break even, near negative 2%.

Conference Call Information

Pure will host a teleconference to discuss the second quarter fiscal 2021 results at 2:00 p.m. PT on August 25, 2020. A live audio broadcast of the conference call will be available at the Pure Storage Investor Relations website at investor.purestorage.com. Pure will also post its supplemental earnings presentation and prepared conference call remarks to the Investor Relations website in advance of the call for reference. A replay will be available following the call on the Pure Storage Investor Relations website or for two weeks at (800) 585-8367 or (416) 621-4642 for international callers with passcode 6089753.

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.

Analyst Recognition: Pure Storage has been named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage.

Upcoming Event:

Pure will be presenting at the Deutsche Bank Virtual Technology Conference on September 15th, at 9:30 a.m. PT. The presentation from the event will be webcast live and all information will be available on the investor relations website at investor.purestorage.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding our products, business and operations, including but not limited to our views relating to future period outcomes, the scope and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our business operations, liquidity and capital resources, employees, customers, supply chain, financial results and the economy, our expectations regarding product and technology differentiation, including our new offerings, strategy and adoption of subscription services, and other statements regarding our products, business, operations and results. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or implied by the forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted, and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from the results predicted include, among others, those risks and uncertainties included under the captions "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our filings and reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on our Investor Relations website at investor.purestorage.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Additional information is also set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 2, 2020. All information provided in this release and in the attachments is as of August 25, 2020, and we undertake no duty to update this information unless required by law.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, we use the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating income (loss), non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income (loss), non-GAAP net income (loss) per share, free cash flow and free cash flow as a percentage of revenue.

We use these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision-making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures such as stock-based compensation expense, payments to former shareholders of acquired company, payroll tax expense related to stock-based activities, amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs, amortization of intangible assets acquired from acquisitions, restructuring activities, and expenses directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic that may not be indicative of our ongoing core business operating results. We believe that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing our performance and when analyzing historical performance and liquidity and planning, forecasting, and analyzing future periods. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and our non-GAAP measures may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.

For a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP measures, please see the tables captioned "Reconciliations of non-GAAP results of operations to the nearest comparable GAAP measures" and "Reconciliation from net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow," included at the end of this release.

Nicole Noutsios - Investor Relations, Pure Storage
ir@purestorage.com
 
Rena Fallstrom – Public Relations, Pure Storage
pr@purestorage.com
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PURE STORAGE, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, unaudited)
 
At the End of
Second Quarter of Fiscal 2021
Fiscal 2020
 
Assets 
Current assets: 
Cash and cash equivalents$355,601 $362,635 
Marketable securities937,514 936,518 
Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $587 and $542
366,698 458,643 
Inventory36,363 38,518 
Deferred commissions, current39,507 37,148 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets76,701 56,930 
Total current assets1,812,384 1,890,392 
Property and equipment, net145,126 122,740 
Operating lease right-of-use-assets121,576 112,854 
Deferred commissions, non-current105,180 102,056 
Intangible assets, net52,855 58,257 
Goodwill37,584 37,584 
Restricted cash 15,287 15,287 
Other assets, non-current31,620 25,034 
Total assets$2,321,612 $2,364,204 
Liabilities and stockholders' equity  
Current liabilities:  
Accounts payable$56,366 $77,651 
Accrued compensation and benefits96,438 106,592 
Accrued expenses and other liabilities46,818 47,223 
Operating lease liabilities, current29,517 27,264 
Deferred revenue, current378,072 356,011 
Total current liabilities607,211 614,741 
Convertible senior notes, net491,132 477,007 
Operating lease liabilities, non-current109,606 92,977 
Deferred revenue, non-current346,679 341,277 
Other liabilities, non-current20,878 8,084 
Total liabilities1,575,506 1,534,086 
Stockholders’ equity:  
Common stock and additional paid-in capital2,172,418 2,107,605 
Accumulated other comprehensive income12,185 5,449 
Accumulated deficit(1,438,497)(1,282,936)
Total stockholders' equity746,106 830,118 
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity$2,321,612 $2,364,204 

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PURE STORAGE, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except per share data, unaudited)
 
 
Second Quarter of Fiscal
First Two Quarters of Fiscal
 2021202020212020
 
Revenue:  
Product$272,309 $300,128 $519,248 $538,869 
Subscription services131,414 96,199 251,594 184,158 
Total revenue403,723 396,327 770,842 723,027 
Cost of revenue:  
Product (1)
84,731 92,870 154,016 169,462 
Subscription services(1)
44,266 35,138 85,275 68,859 
Total cost of revenue128,997 128,008 239,291 238,321 
Gross profit274,726 268,319 531,551 484,706 
Operating expenses:  
Research and development (1)
114,652 107,020 227,098 212,095 
Sales and marketing (1)
171,434 186,188 344,867 352,814 
General and administrative (1)
44,471 40,016 85,596 82,126 
Restructuring and other (2)
8,288  22,990  
Total operating expenses338,845 333,224 680,551 647,035 
Loss from operations(64,119)(64,905)(149,000)(162,329)
Other income (expense), net1,603 (652)(1,813)(2,468)
Loss before provision for income taxes(62,516)(65,557)(150,813)(164,797)
Income tax provision2,451 461 4,748 1,557 
Net loss$(64,967)$(66,018)$(155,561)$(166,354)
Net loss per share attributable to common
   stockholders, basic and diluted
$(0.25)$(0.26)$(0.59)$(0.67)
Weighted-average shares used in computing net
   loss per share attributable to common
   stockholders, basic and diluted
264,799 251,298 263,867 248,336 


(1) Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows:
Cost of revenue -- product$990 $954 $1,986 $1,931 
Cost of revenue -- subscription services3,686 3,633 7,078 7,584 
Research and development29,839 29,108 58,550 57,353 
Sales and marketing16,848 16,055 33,120 34,369 
General and administrative10,089 8,654 19,412 19,324 
Total stock-based compensation expense$61,452 $58,404 $120,146 $120,561 

(2) Includes expenses related to restructuring and incremental expenses directly related to COVID-19
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PURE STORAGE, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands, unaudited)
 
 
Second Quarter of Fiscal
First Two Quarters of Fiscal
 2021202020212020
 
Cash flows from operating activities  
Net loss$(64,967)$(66,018)$(155,561)$(166,354)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization16,464 22,531 31,597 43,591 
Amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs7,189 6,800 14,125 13,290 
Stock-based compensation expense61,452 58,404 120,146 120,561 
Impairment of long-lived assets7,505  7,505  
Other267 1,138 1,972 327 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisition:
Accounts receivable, net(17,545)(40,746)91,896 26,553 
Inventory3,105 8,875 1,735 6,852 
Deferred commissions(2,324)(5,311)(5,483)(3,595)
Prepaid expenses and other assets(20,091)6,663 (26,389)(635)
Operating lease right-of-use assets7,475 7,229 14,181 13,438 
Accounts payable(6,796)(5,020)(21,090)(30,827)
Accrued compensation and other liabilities46,426 18,289 (3,217)(25,704)
Operating lease liabilities (6,145)(7,049)(13,071)(13,083)
Deferred revenue18,691 43,032 27,463 71,045 
Net cash provided by operating activities50,706 48,817 85,809 55,459 
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of property and equipment(24,994)(28,933)(48,776)(53,229)
Acquisition, net of cash acquired   (47,881)
Purchase of intangible assets (9,000) (9,000)
Purchases of marketable securities(193,076)(175,638)(291,237)(488,497)
Sales of marketable securities73,694 38,024 91,351 60,368 
Maturities of marketable securities 110,799 106,617 206,174 270,756 
Net cash used in investing activities(33,577)(68,930)(42,488)(267,483)
Cash flows from financing activities
Net proceeds from exercise of stock options12,383 2,499 21,658 19,260 
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan  16,021 32,042 
Proceeds from borrowing  4,950  
Repayment of debt assumed from acquisition   (11,555)
Tax withholding on vesting of restricted stock(1,467)(1,501)(2,841)(7,173)
Repurchases of common stock(20,024) (90,143) 
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities(9,108)998 (50,355)32,574 
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash8,021 (19,115)(7,034)(179,450)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period362,867 303,478 377,922 463,813 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period$370,888 $284,363 $370,888 $284,363 



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Reconciliations of non-GAAP results of operations to the nearest comparable GAAP measures
The following table presents non-GAAP gross margins by revenue source before certain items (in thousands except percentages, unaudited):
 
Second Quarter of Fiscal 2021
Second Quarter of Fiscal 2020
 GAAP
results
GAAP
gross
margin (a)
Adjustment Non-
GAAP
results
Non-
GAAP
gross
margin (b)
GAAP
results
GAAP
gross
margin (a)
Adjustment Non-
GAAP
results
Non-
GAAP
gross
margin (b)
$990 (c)$954 (c)
15 (d)27 (d)
297 (e)
2,003 (f)1,971 (f)
Gross profit --
product
$187,578 68.9 %$3,305  $190,883 70.1 %$207,258 69.1 %$2,952  $210,210 70.0 %
   $3,686 (c)    $3,633 (c)  
47 (d)98 (d)
Gross profit -- subscription services$87,148 66.3 %$3,733  $90,881 69.2 %$61,061 63.5 %$3,731  $64,792 67.4 %
   $4,676 (c)    $4,587 (c)  
62 (d)125 (d)
297 (e)
2,003 (f)1,971 (f)
Total gross profit$274,726 68.0 %$7,038  $281,764 69.8 %$268,319 67.7 %$6,683  $275,002 69.4 %


(a) GAAP gross margin is defined as GAAP gross profit divided by revenue.
(b) Non-GAAP gross margin is defined as non-GAAP gross profit divided by revenue.
(c) To eliminate stock-based compensation expense.
(d) To eliminate payroll tax expense related to stock-based activities.
(e) To eliminate hazard pay premiums directly related to COVID-19 pandemic.
(f) To eliminate amortization expense of acquired intangible assets.






















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The following table presents certain non-GAAP consolidated results before certain items (in thousands, except per share amounts and percentages, unaudited):
 
Second Quarter of Fiscal 2021
Second Quarter of Fiscal 2020
 GAAP
results
GAAP
operating
margin (a)
Adjustment Non-
GAAP
results
Non-
GAAP
operating
margin (b)
GAAP
results
GAAP
operating
margin (a)
Adjustment Non-
GAAP
results
Non-
GAAP
operating
margin (b)
$61,452 (c)$56,460 (c)
2,009 (d)1,944 (d)
1,259 (e)1,355 (e)
306 (f)
8,279 (g)
2,003 (h)1,971 (h)
Operating Income (loss)$(64,119)-15.9 %$75,308  $11,189 2.8 %$(64,905)-16.4 %$61,730  $(3,175)-0.8 %
   $61,452 (c)    $56,460 (c) 
2,009 (d)1,944 (d)
   1,259 (e)    1,355 (e) 
306 (f)
8,279 (g)
2,003 (h)1,971 (h)
7,189 (i)6,801 (i)
Net income (loss)$(64,967) $82,497 $17,530  $(66,018) $68,531  $2,513  
Net income (loss) per share -- basic and diluted $(0.25)   $0.06  $(0.26)   $0.01  
Weighted-average shares used in per share calculation -- basic and diluted264,799  17,698 (j)282,497  251,298  19,550 (j)270,848 

(a) GAAP operating margin is defined as GAAP operating loss divided by revenue.
(b) Non-GAAP operating margin is defined as non-GAAP operating loss divided by revenue.
(c) To eliminate stock-based compensation expense.
(d) To eliminate payments to former shareholders of acquired company.
(e) To eliminate payroll tax expense related to stock-based activities.
(f) To eliminate hazard pay premiums directly related to COVID-19 pandemic.
(g) To eliminate restructuring expenses related to (1) impairment of long-lived assets associated with the cease-use of certain facilities and (2) workforce reduction.
(h) To eliminate amortization expense of acquired intangible assets.
(i) To eliminate amortization expense of debt discount and debt issuance costs related to our convertible debt.
(j) To include effect of dilutive securities (employee stock options, restricted stock, and shares from employee stock purchase plan).




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Reconciliation from net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow (in thousands except percentages, unaudited):
 
 
Second Quarter of Fiscal
Change
 20212020$
Net cash provided by operating activities$50,706 $48,817 $1,889 
Less: purchases of property and equipment(24,994)(28,933)3,939 
Free cash flow (non-GAAP)$25,712 $19,884 $5,828 
Free cash flow as % of revenue6.4 %5.0 %

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