ARUN Notes:
Annual Report (year end 7/31) – filed 10/12/07
Product lines offered:
Aruba OS Modular Operating System – optional value added modules
Centralized mobility management system
High performance programmable mobility controllers
Wired and wireless access points
Wireless intrusion detection tools
Spectrum analyzers
Endpoint compliance solutions
Acquisition of wireless security product from Network Chemistry (July 20, 2007)
Extending enterprise network beyond physical office space presents security challenges
Difficulty in limiting costs when adapting to increasing needs for off-site functionality
Necessary to support emerging mobile applications
Goal is to push services beyond customers headquarters – to all access points users employ
Sell products and support directly through sales force and indirectly through value added resellers
Sell products in US, EMEA and APAC (Asia Pacific) regions
Outsource manufacturing of hardware to Flextronics which is more efficient.
March IPO yielded proceeds of 91.8m for general corporate purposes
33.4% of revenues were from outside US compared to 26.7% in 2006
Company currently has no debt
Q1 earnings release (Quarter end Oct 31) – released 11/20/07
Revenues 46.7% up 91% Y/Y and up 12% sequentially
Loss of $0.01 EPS versus 0.34 loss last year – ex non-cash stock expense EPS comes in at 0.04
First quarter demand continued to be strong across wide range of vertical markets including Education, Enterprise, Government and Healthcare
No single vertical accounts for more than 20% of revenue.
Strong momentum in October has carried into first part of next quarter
New customer acquisition strong with now over 3,300 customers
Introduced suite of high performance 802.11n products
Independent report finds ARUN’s market share of enterprise wireless LAN market now > 10% - displaced Motorola as second largest enterprise wireless LAN supplier
Jefferies Note 11/29/07
Shares under pressure after Trinity Ventures (one of three VC holders) filed to distribute 1m shares to limited partners
Trinity holds 7.9m shares (9% of outstanding shares)
Matrix Partners has also been distributing ARUN holdings
VC’s still hold 32.7m or 42% of shares (was 51% before lockup)
Lehman report 12/7/07
Management believes 2008 will see significant adoption of 802.11n standard
OEM relationship with Alcatel-Lucent is attractive to CIO’s who are evaluating ARUN solutions
Key customers include US Airforce, MSFT, SAP, Google, EBAY, Ohio State University etc.
Traction in government and hospitality verticals in Asia
WR Hambrecht 12/6/07
Expect 56% revenue growth in CY 2008 and 50% in CY 2009 – would mean capturing 19-20% WLAN market by 2009
Earnings could triple from CY07 to -08 and double to 09