Company Looks Toward Sixth Consecutive Year of Growth
NEWARK, Calif. & ZURICH, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
In advance of a meeting to be held with financial analysts and investors
in Zurich, Logitech International (SIX:LOGN) (Nasdaq:LOGI) today:
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Announced a Fiscal Year 2019 outlook of high single-digit sales growth
in constant currency and $310 million to $320 million in non-GAAP
operating income, an increase of approximately 15 percent from the
midpoint of the Company’s profitability outlook for Fiscal Year 2018.
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Reaffirmed its Fiscal Year 2018 outlook of 12 to 14 percent sales
growth in constant currency and $270 million to $280 million in
non-GAAP operating income.
“Fiscal Year 2019 will be our sixth consecutive year of growth,” said
Bracken Darrell, Logitech president and chief executive officer. “We are
progressing toward our vision of Logitech as a multi-category,
multi-brand design company. Our design, engineering, marketing,
go-to-market and operations capabilities are the engine behind our
continued growth - an engine we’re investing in for the future.”
Logitech's Analyst and Investor Day will be held today at 9:00
a.m. Central European Time. A live webcast and replay of the meeting
will be available on the Logitech corporate website at http://ir.logitech.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information and Constant Currency
To facilitate comparisons to Logitech’s historical results, Logitech has
included non-GAAP adjusted measures, which exclude share-based
compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, purchase
accounting effect on inventory, acquisition-related costs, change in
fair value of contingent consideration for business acquisition,
restructuring charges (credits), gain (loss) on investments in privately
held companies, investigation and related expenses, non-GAAP income tax
adjustment, and other items detailed under “Supplemental Financial
Information” in our quarterly earnings press releases and posted to our
website at http://ir.logitech.com.
Historical GAAP and corresponding non-GAAP measures are provided with
our earnings releases and presentations in the Investors section of our
website. Logitech also presents percentage sales growth in constant
currency to show performance unaffected by fluctuations in currency
exchange rates. Percentage sales growth in constant currency is
calculated by translating prior period sales in each local currency at
the current period’s average exchange rate for that currency and
comparing that to current period sales. Logitech believes this
information, used together with the GAAP financial information, will
help investors to evaluate its current period performance and trends in
its business. With respect to the Company’s outlook for non-GAAP
operating income, most of these excluded amounts pertain to events that
have not yet occurred and are not currently possible to estimate with a
reasonable degree of accuracy. Therefore, no reconciliation to the GAAP
amounts has been provided for Fiscal Years 2018 or 2019.
About Logitech
Logitech designs products that have an everyday place in people's lives,
connecting them to the digital experiences they care about. More than 35
years ago, Logitech started connecting people through computers, and now
it’s a multi-brand company designing products that bring people together
through music, gaming, video and computing. Brands of Logitech include Ultimate
Ears, Jaybird,
Logitech
G and ASTRO
Gaming. Founded in 1981, and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland,
Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss
Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI). Find
Logitech at www.logitech.com,
the company
blog or @Logitech.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the federal securities laws, including, without limitation,
statements regarding: our outlook for Fiscal Year 2018 operating income
and sales growth, our outlook for Fiscal Year 2019 operating income and
sales growth, consecutive years of growth, our vision, and investments
in our business. The forward-looking statements in this release involve
risks and uncertainties that could cause Logitech’s actual results and
events to differ materially from those anticipated in these
forward-looking statements, including, without limitation: if our
product offerings, marketing activities and investment prioritization
decisions do not result in the sales, profitability or profitability
growth we expect, or when we expect it; if we fail to innovate and
develop new products in a timely and cost-effective manner for our new
and existing product categories; if we do not successfully execute on
our growth opportunities or our growth opportunities are more limited
than we expect; the effect of pricing, product, marketing and other
initiatives by our competitors, and our reaction to them, on our sales,
gross margins and profitability; if our products and marketing
strategies fail to separate our products from competitors’ products; if
we do not fully realize our goals to lower our costs and improve our
operating leverage; if there is a deterioration of business and economic
conditions in one or more of our sales regions or product categories, or
significant fluctuations in exchange rates. A detailed discussion of
these and other risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
and events to differ materially from such forward-looking statements is
included in Logitech’s periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
quarter ended December 31, 2017 and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, available at www.sec.gov,
under the caption Risk Factors and elsewhere. Logitech does not
undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to
reflect new information or events or circumstances occurring after the
date of this press release.
Note that unless noted otherwise, comparisons are year over year.
Logitech and other Logitech marks are trademarks or registered
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other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. For more information about Logitech and its products,
visit the company’s website at www.logitech.com.
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