AMD Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Financial Results

― Record full year reve­nue of $23.6 Bil­li­on up 44% year-over-year ―

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announ­ced reve­nue for the fourth quar­ter of 2022 of $5.6 bil­li­on, gross mar­gin of 43%, ope­ra­ting loss of $149 mil­li­on, net inco­me of $21 mil­li­on and diluted ear­nings per share of $0.01. On a non-GAAP(*) basis, gross mar­gin was 51%, ope­ra­ting inco­me was $1.3 bil­li­on, net inco­me was $1.1 bil­li­on and diluted ear­nings per share was $0.69.

For full year 2022, the com­pa­ny repor­ted reve­nue of $23.6 bil­li­on, gross mar­gin of 45%, ope­ra­ting inco­me of $1.3 bil­li­on, net inco­me of $1.3 bil­li­on and diluted ear­nings per share of $0.84. On a non-GAAP(*) basis, gross mar­gin was 52%, ope­ra­ting inco­me was $6.3 bil­li­on, net inco­me was $5.5 bil­li­on and diluted ear­nings per share was $3.50.

GAAP Quar­ter­ly Finan­cial Results

  Q4 2022 Q4 2021 Y/Y
Reve­nue ($M) $5,599 $4,826 Up 16%
Gross pro­fit ($M) $2,403 $2,426 Flat
Gross mar­gin % 43% 50% Down 740 bps
Ope­ra­ting expen­ses ($M) $2,557 $1,223 Up 109%
Ope­ra­ting inco­me (loss) ($M) $(149) $1,207 Down 112%
Ope­ra­ting margin % (3)% 25% Down 28pp
Net inco­me ($M) $21 $974 Down 98%
Ear­nings per share $0.01 $0.80 Down 99%

Non-GAAP(*) Quar­ter­ly Finan­cial Results

  Q4 2022 Q4 2021 Y/Y
Reve­nue ($M) $5,599 $4,826 Up 16%
Gross pro­fit ($M) $2,859 $2,427 Up 18%
Gross mar­gin % 51% 50% Up 70 bps
Ope­ra­ting expen­ses ($M) $1,602 $1,103 Up 45%
Ope­ra­ting inco­me ($M) $1,262 $1,328 Down 5%
Ope­ra­ting margin % 23% 27% Down 4pp
Net inco­me ($M) $1,113 $1,122 Flat
Ear­nings per share $0.69 $0.92 Down 25%

Annu­al Finan­cial Results

  GAAP Non-GAAP(*)
  2022 2021 Y/Y 2022 2021 Y/Y
Reve­nue ($M) $23,601 $16,434 Up 44% $23,601 $16,434 Up 44%
Gross pro­fit ($M) $10,603 $7,929 Up 34% $12,273 $7,934 Up 55%
Gross mar­gin % 45% 48% Down 330bps 52% 48% Up 370bps
Ope­ra­ting expen­ses ($M) $9,441 $4,293 Up 120% $6,030 $3,877 Up 56%
Ope­ra­ting inco­me ($M) $1,264 $3,648 Down 65% $6,345 $4,069 Up 56%
Ope­ra­ting margin % 5% 22% Down 17pp 27% 25% Up 2pp
Net inco­me ($M) $1,320 $3,162 Down 58% $5,504 $3,435 Up 60%
Ear­nings per share $0.84 $2.57 Down 67% $3.50 $2.79 Up 25%

2022 was a strong year for AMD as we deli­ver­ed best-in-class growth and record reve­nue despi­te the weak PC envi­ron­ment in the second half of the year,” said AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “We acce­le­ra­ted our data cen­ter momen­tum and clo­sed our stra­te­gic acqui­si­ti­on of Xilinx, signi­fi­cant­ly diver­si­fy­ing our busi­ness and streng­thening our finan­cial model. Alt­hough the demand envi­ron­ment is mixed, we are con­fi­dent in our abili­ty to gain mar­ket share in 2023 and deli­ver long-term growth based on our dif­fe­ren­tia­ted pro­duct portfolio.”

Q4 2022 Results

  • Reve­nue of $5.6 bil­li­on increased 16% year-over-year pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by growth across the Embedded and Data Cen­ter seg­ments, par­ti­al­ly off­set by lower Cli­ent and Gam­ing seg­ment revenue.
  • Gross mar­gin was 43%, a decrease of 7 per­cen­ta­ge points year-over-year, pri­ma­ri­ly due to amor­tiza­ti­on of intan­gi­ble assets asso­cia­ted with the Xilinx acqui­si­ti­on. Non-GAAP gross mar­gin was 51%, an increase of 1 per­cen­ta­ge point year-over-year, pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by a richer pro­duct mix with hig­her Embedded and Data Cen­ter seg­ment reve­nue, par­ti­al­ly off­set by lower Cli­ent seg­ment revenue.
  • Ope­ra­ting loss was $149 mil­li­on, com­pared to ope­ra­ting inco­me of $1.2 bil­li­on, or 25% of reve­nue a year ago. The loss was pri­ma­ri­ly due to the amor­tiza­ti­on of intan­gi­ble assets asso­cia­ted with the Xilinx acqui­si­ti­on. Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting inco­me was $1.3 bil­li­on, or 23% of reve­nue, com­pared to $1.3 bil­li­on or 27% a year ago. The non-GAAP ope­ra­ting mar­gin decli­ne was pri­ma­ri­ly due to lower Cli­ent seg­ment ope­ra­ting income.
  • Net inco­me was $21 mil­li­on com­pared to net inco­me of $974 mil­li­on a year ago pri­ma­ri­ly due to the amor­tiza­ti­on of intan­gi­ble assets asso­cia­ted with the Xilinx acqui­si­ti­on, par­ti­al­ly off­set by a $154 mil­li­on tax bene­fit in the quar­ter. Non-GAAP net inco­me was $1.1 bil­li­on, flat from a year ago.
  • Diluted ear­nings per share was $0.01 com­pared to $0.80 a year ago pri­ma­ri­ly due to the amor­tiza­ti­on of intan­gi­ble assets asso­cia­ted with the Xilinx acqui­si­ti­on, par­ti­al­ly off­set by a $154 mil­li­on tax bene­fit in the quar­ter. Non-GAAP diluted ear­nings per share was $0.69 com­pared to $0.92 a year ago pri­ma­ri­ly due to lower Cli­ent seg­ment ope­ra­ting income.
  • Cash, cash equi­va­lents and short-term invest­ments were $5.9 bil­li­on at the end of the quar­ter. The com­pa­ny retur­ned $250 mil­li­on to share­hol­ders through share repurcha­ses in the quarter.
  • Cash from ope­ra­ti­ons was $567 mil­li­on in the quar­ter, com­pared to $822 mil­li­on a year ago. Free cash flow was $443 mil­li­on in the quar­ter com­pared to $736 mil­li­on a year ago.
  • Good­will and acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted intan­gi­ble assets asso­cia­ted with the acqui­si­ti­ons of Xilinx and Pen­san­do were $48.3 bil­li­on at the end of the quarter.

Quar­ter­ly Finan­cial Seg­ment Summary

  • Pri­or peri­od results have been con­for­med to the cur­rent report­ing seg­ments for com­pa­ri­son purposes. 
  • Data Cen­ter seg­ment reve­nue was $1.7 bil­li­on, up 42% year-over-year pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by strong sales of EPYC™ ser­ver pro­ces­sors. Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $444 mil­li­on, or 27% of reve­nue, com­pared to $369 mil­li­on or 32% a year ago. The ope­ra­ting inco­me increase was pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by hig­her reve­nue, par­ti­al­ly off­set by hig­her R&D invest­ments to sup­port growth. The ope­ra­ting mar­gin decrease was pri­ma­ri­ly due to hig­her R&D invest­ments to sup­port growth.
  • Cli­ent seg­ment reve­nue was $903 mil­li­on, down 51% year-over-year due to redu­ced pro­ces­sor ship­ments resul­ting from a weak PC mar­ket and a signi­fi­cant inven­to­ry cor­rec­tion across the PC sup­p­ly chain. Cli­ent pro­ces­sor ASP was flat year-over-year. Ope­ra­ting loss was $152 mil­li­on, com­pared to ope­ra­ting inco­me of $530 mil­li­on or 29% of reve­nue a year ago pri­ma­ri­ly due to lower revenue.
  • Gam­ing seg­ment reve­nue was $1.6 bil­li­on, down 7% year-over-year dri­ven by lower gam­ing gra­phics sales par­ti­al­ly off­set by hig­her semi-cus­tom pro­duct reve­nue. Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $266 mil­li­on, or 16% of reve­nue, com­pared to $407 mil­li­on or 23% a year ago. The ope­ra­ting inco­me and mar­gin decrea­ses were pri­ma­ri­ly due to lower gra­phics revenue.
  • Embedded seg­ment reve­nue was $1.4 bil­li­on, up 1,868% year-over-year pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by the inclu­si­on of Xilinx embedded reve­nue. Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $699 mil­li­on, or 50% of reve­nue, com­pared to $18 mil­li­on or 25% a year ago. The ope­ra­ting inco­me and mar­gin increa­ses were pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by hig­her revenue.
  • All Other ope­ra­ting loss was $1.4 bil­li­on as com­pared to $117 mil­li­on a year ago pri­ma­ri­ly due to amor­tiza­ti­on of intan­gi­ble assets lar­ge­ly asso­cia­ted with the Xilinx acquisition.

2022 Annu­al Results

  • Reve­nue of $23.6 bil­li­on was up 44% over 2021 dri­ven by hig­her Embedded, Data Cen­ter, and Gam­ing seg­ment reve­nue, par­ti­al­ly off­set by lower Cli­ent seg­ment reve­nue. On a com­bi­ned AMD and Xilinx com­pa­ny basis, 2022 pro for­ma reve­nue was $24.1 bil­li­on, up 20% com­pared to $20.1 bil­li­on in 2021.
  • Gross mar­gin was 45%, a decrease of 3 per­cen­ta­ge points over 2021 pri­ma­ri­ly due to amor­tiza­ti­on of intan­gi­ble assets asso­cia­ted with the Xilinx acqui­si­ti­on. Non-GAAP gross mar­gin was 52%, an increase of 4 per­cen­ta­ge points com­pared to a year ago, pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by a richer pro­duct mix with hig­her Embedded and Data Cen­ter seg­ment reve­nue, par­ti­al­ly off­set by lower Cli­ent seg­ment revenue.
  • Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $1.3 bil­li­on com­pared to $3.6 bil­li­on in the pri­or year. The decrease was pri­ma­ri­ly due to the amor­tiza­ti­on of intan­gi­ble assets asso­cia­ted with the Xilinx acqui­si­ti­on. Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting inco­me was $6.3 bil­li­on com­pared to $4.1 bil­li­on in the pri­or year pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by hig­her reve­nue and gross mar­gin expansion.
  • Net inco­me was $1.3 bil­li­on com­pared to $3.2 bil­li­on in the pri­or year. Non-GAAP net inco­me was $5.5 bil­li­on com­pared to $3.4 bil­li­on in the pri­or year.
  • Diluted ear­nings per share was $0.84 com­pared to $2.57 in the pri­or year. Non-GAAP diluted ear­nings per share was $3.50 com­pared to $2.79 in the pri­or year.
  • Cash, cash equi­va­lents and short-term invest­ments were $5.9 bil­li­on at the end of the year. The com­pa­ny retur­ned a total of $3.7 bil­li­on to share­hol­ders through share repurcha­ses in 2022.
  • Cash from ope­ra­ti­ons was $3.6 bil­li­on, com­pared to $3.5 bil­li­on in the pri­or year. Free cash flow was $3.1 bil­li­on com­pared to $3.2 bil­li­on in the pri­or year.

Recent PR Highlights

  • AMD show­ca­sed con­tin­ued growth and momen­tum in the data cen­ter with AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors powe­ring the modern data cen­ter and cri­ti­cal cloud workloads. 
    • AMD announ­ced the avai­la­bi­li­ty of 4th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, deli­ve­ring lea­der­ship per­for­mance and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy. The latest AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, built on the “Zen 4” core, deli­ver next-gene­ra­ti­on archi­tec­tu­re, tech­no­lo­gy and fea­tures to power the modern data cen­ter. Cloud ser­vice pro­vi­ders inclu­ding Goog­le Cloud, Micro­soft and Ora­cle Cloud Infra­struc­tu­re announ­ced plan­ned solu­ti­ons lever­aging the per­for­mance and secu­ri­ty fea­tures of 4th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs.
    • AMD powers 101 super­com­pu­ters in the latest Top500 list of the most powerful super­com­pu­ters in the world and 75% of the top 20 sys­tems on the Green500 list of the world’s most ener­gy effi­ci­ent supercomputers.
  • AMD deli­ver­ed the ope­ning key­note at CES 2023 along­side part­ners Micro­soft, HP, Leno­vo, Magic Leap and Intui­ti­ve Sur­gi­cal high­light­ing next-gene­ra­ti­on AMD tech­no­lo­gies advan­cing AI, hybrid work, gam­ing, health­ca­re, aero­space and sus­tainable com­pu­ting. During the key­note, AMD announced: 
    • The broa­dest port­fo­lio of high-per­for­mance PC pro­ducts for mobi­le and desk­top appli­ca­ti­ons, inclu­ding Ryzen™ 7000X3D Series Desk­top pro­ces­sors that bring the power of AMD 3D V‑Cache™ tech­no­lo­gy to gamers and crea­tors and Ryzen 7000 Series Mobi­le pro­ces­sors that deli­ver unpar­al­le­led per­for­mance for deman­ding workloads with up to 16 powerful “Zen 4” cores and bring new Ryzen AI tech­no­lo­gy to sel­ect lap­top devices.
    • AMD Rade­on™ RX 7000 Series Gra­phics for lap­top PCs, built on AMD RDNA™ 3 archi­tec­tu­re and desi­gned to deli­ver excep­tio­nal ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy and per­for­mance to power 1080p gam­ing at ultra-set­tings and advan­ced con­tent crea­ti­on appli­ca­ti­ons on next-gene­ra­ti­on pre­mi­um laptops.
    • The AMD Alveo™ V70 AI Acce­le­ra­tor with indus­try-lea­ding per­for­mance and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy for mul­ti­ple AI infe­rence workloads.
    • A pre­view of the world’s first inte­gra­ted data cen­ter CPU and GPU, the AMD Instinct™ MI300. Desi­gned for lea­der­ship HPC and AI per­for­mance, MI300 acce­le­ra­tors levera­ge chip­let design com­bi­ning AMD CDNA™ 3 GPU archi­tec­tu­re, “Zen 4” CPU cores, and HBM.
    • AMD Vitis™ Medi­cal Ima­ging libra­ri­es to bring pre­mi­um medi­cal ima­ging pro­ducts to mar­ket fas­ter by redu­cing deve­lo­p­ment times. The­se soft­ware libra­ri­es acce­le­ra­te pre­mi­um medi­cal ima­ging on AMD Ver­sal™ SoC devices with AI Engi­nes to deli­ver health­ca­re pro­vi­ders and their pati­ents high-qua­li­ty, low-laten­cy imaging.
  • AMD con­tin­ued to show­ca­se its embedded mar­ket leadership. 
    • AMD announ­ced its col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with the Ener­gy Sci­en­ces Net­work on the launch of ESnet6, the newest gene­ra­ti­on of the U.S. Depart­ment of Energy’s high-per­for­mance net­work dedi­ca­ted to science.
    • AMD announ­ced it com­ple­ted Class B qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on for the company’s first space-gra­de Ver­sal adap­ti­ve SoCs.
    • AMD shared that the AMD Xilinx Auto­mo­ti­ve (XA) Zynq™ UltraS­ca­le+™ MPSoC plat­form has been sel­ec­ted to power the Aisin Auto­ma­ted Par­king-Assist (APA) system.
    • AMD unvei­led the new Alveo X3 series net­work cards, the first AMD net­work cards desi­gned with scree­ned FPGAs and opti­mi­zed spe­ci­fi­cal­ly for low laten­cy trading.
    • AMD and Viet­tel High Tech announ­ced a col­la­bo­ra­ti­on on a 5G mobi­le net­work expansion.
    • AMD announ­ced that its adap­ti­ve com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gy is powe­ring lea­ding mobi­li­ty sup­pli­er DENSO Corporation’s next-gene­ra­ti­on LiDAR platform.
  • AMD announ­ced the Rade­on RX 7900 series gra­phics cards, the world’s first gam­ing gra­phics cards to fea­ture an advan­ced AMD chip­let design, deli­ve­ring excep­tio­nal per­for­mance and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy to power high-frame­ra­te 4K and hig­her reso­lu­ti­on gam­ing in the most deman­ding titles.
  • AMD announ­ced chan­ges to its seni­or lea­der­ship team, inclu­ding the reti­re­ment of exe­cu­ti­ve vice pre­si­dent, chief finan­cial offi­cer and tre­asurer Devin­der Kumar after 39 years with the com­pa­ny. The com­pa­ny appoin­ted Jean Hu as AMD exe­cu­ti­ve vice pre­si­dent, chief finan­cial offi­cer and tre­asurer, effec­ti­ve Janu­ary 23, 2023 and announ­ced the pro­mo­ti­on of For­rest Nor­rod to exe­cu­ti­ve vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of the Data Cen­ter Solu­ti­ons busi­ness group.

Cur­rent Outlook
AMD’s out­look state­ments are based on cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. The fol­lo­wing state­ments are for­ward-loo­king and actu­al results could dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly depen­ding on mar­ket con­di­ti­ons and the fac­tors set forth under “Cau­tio­na­ry State­ment” below.

For the first quar­ter of 2023, AMD expects reve­nue to be appro­xi­m­ate­ly $5.3 bil­li­on, plus or minus $300 mil­li­on, a decrease of appro­xi­m­ate­ly 10% year-over-year. Year-over-year the Cli­ent and Gam­ing seg­ments are expec­ted to decli­ne, par­ti­al­ly off­set by Embedded and Data Cen­ter seg­ment growth. AMD expects non-GAAP gross mar­gin to be appro­xi­m­ate­ly 50% in the first quar­ter of 2023.

AMD Tele­con­fe­rence
AMD will hold a con­fe­rence call for the finan­cial com­mu­ni­ty at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET) today to dis­cuss its fourth quar­ter and full-year 2022 finan­cial results. AMD will pro­vi­de a real-time audio broad­cast of the tele­con­fe­rence on the Inves­tor Rela­ti­ons page of its web­site at www.amd.com.

       
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(in mil­li­ons, except per share data) (Unau­di­ted)
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
GAAP gross profit   $ 2,403     $ 2,426     $ 10,603     $ 7,929  
GAAP gross margin %     43 %     50 %     45 %     48 %
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     9       1       29       5  
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted cos­ts(1)     4             193        
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets     443             1,448        
Non-GAAP gross profit   $ 2,859     $ 2,427     $ 12,273     $ 7,934  
Non-GAAP gross margin %     51 %     50 %     52 %     48 %
                 
GAAP ope­ra­ting expenses   $ 2,557     $ 1,223     $ 9,441     $ 4,293  
GAAP ope­ra­ting expenses/revenue %     46 %     25 %     40 %     26 %
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     301       111       983       374  
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted cos­ts(1)     53       9       328       42  
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets     601             2,100        
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expenses   $ 1,602     $ 1,103     $ 6,030     $ 3,877  
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expenses/revenue %     29 %     23 %     26 %     24 %
                 
GAAP ope­ra­ting inco­me (loss)   $ (149 )   $ 1,207     $ 1,264     $ 3,648  
GAAP ope­ra­ting margin %   (3)%     25 %     5 %     22 %
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     310       112       1,012       379  
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted cos­ts(1)     57       9       521       42  
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets     1,044             3,548        
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting income   $ 1,262     $ 1,328     $ 6,345     $ 4,069  
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting margin %     23 %     27 %     27 %     25 %
    Three Months Ended Year Ended
    Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
GAAP net inco­me / ear­nings per share   $ 21     $ 0.01     $ 974     $ 0.80     $ 1,320     $ 0.84     $ 3,162     $ 2.57  
Loss on debt redemption/conversion                                         7        
(Gains) los­ses on equi­ty invest­ments, net     5             (4 )           62       0.04       (56 )     (0.04 )
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     310       0.19       112       0.09       1,012       0.64       379       0.31  
Equi­ty inco­me in investee     (3 )                       (14 )     (0.01 )     (6 )      
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted cos­ts(1)     57       0.04       9             521       0.33       42       0.03  
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets     1,044       0.65                   3,548       2.26              
Inco­me tax provision     (321 )     (0.20 )     31       0.03       (945 )     (0.60 )     (93 )     (0.08 )
Non-GAAP net inco­me / ear­nings per share   $ 1,113     $ 0.69     $ 1,122     $ 0.92     $ 5,504     $ 3.50     $ 3,435     $ 2.79  
(1)   Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted cos­ts pri­ma­ri­ly com­pri­sed of tran­sac­tion cos­ts, purcha­se pri­ce adjus­t­ments for inven­to­ry and cer­tain com­pen­sa­ti­on charges
     
 
RECONCILIATION OF AMD AS-REPORTED REVENUE TO PRO FORMA REVENUE
(in bil­li­ons) (Unau­di­ted)
   
  Year Ended
  Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
AMD Net Reve­nue — As reported 23.6     16.4  
Pre-Acqui­si­ti­on Reve­nue(1) 0.5     3.7  
AMD Net Reve­nue — Pro for­ma(2) 24.1     20.1  
(1)   Pre-acqui­si­ti­on reve­nue for the year ended Decem­ber 31, 2022 includes unau­di­ted Xilinx reve­nue from Janu­ary 2, 2022 to Febru­ary 13, 2022. Pre-acqui­si­ti­on reve­nue for the year ended Decem­ber 25, 2021 includes unau­di­ted Xilinx reve­nue for the twel­ve months ended Janu­ary 1, 2022.
     
(2)   The unau­di­ted AMD net reve­nue pre­pared on a pro for­ma basis repres­ents the Company’s con­so­li­da­ted reve­nue for the year ended Decem­ber 31, 2022 and Decem­ber 25, 2021, as if the acqui­si­ti­ons had been con­sum­ma­ted as of the begin­ning of the fis­cal year 2021 (i.e., Decem­ber 27, 2020). The unau­di­ted pro for­ma reve­nue is pre­sen­ted on the basis of the Company’s fis­cal year and com­bi­nes the his­to­ri­cal results of the fis­cal peri­ods of the Com­pa­ny with the fol­lo­wing his­to­ri­cal results of Xilinx: the year ended Decem­ber 31, 2022 includes Xilinx reve­nue for the twel­ve-month peri­od begin­ning Janu­ary 2, 2022 through Decem­ber 31, 2022; and the year ended Decem­ber 25, 2021 includes Xilinx reve­nue for the twel­ve months ended Janu­ary 1, 2022.

The unau­di­ted pro for­ma finan­cial reve­nue pre­sen­ted is for infor­ma­tio­nal pur­po­ses only and is not neces­s­a­ri­ly indi­ca­ti­ve of the results of ope­ra­ti­ons that would have been achie­ved if the Xilinx acqui­si­ti­ons were com­ple­ted at the begin­ning of fis­cal year 2021 and are not indi­ca­ti­ve of the future ope­ra­ting results of the com­bi­ned company.

     

About AMD
For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies. AMD employees are focu­sed on buil­ding lea­der­ship high-per­for­mance and adap­ti­ve pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. Bil­li­ons of peo­p­le, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMDweb­siteblogFace­book and Twit­ter pages.

Cau­tio­na­ry Statement
This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) such as AMD’s abili­ty to gain mar­ket share in 2023 and deli­ver long-term growth based on its dif­fe­ren­tia­ted pro­duct port­fo­lio; the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, per­for­mance, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing and expec­ted bene­fits of AMD pro­ducts; and AMD’s expec­ted first quar­ter of 2023 finan­cial out­look, inclu­ding reve­nue and non-GAAP gross mar­gin and expec­ted dri­vers based on cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “may,” “expects,” “belie­ves,” “plans,” “intends,” “pro­jects” and other terms with simi­lar mea­ning. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this press release are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this press release and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty; cycli­cal natu­re of the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try; mar­ket con­di­ti­ons of the indus­tries in which AMD pro­ducts are sold; loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer; impact of the COVID-19 pan­de­mic on AMD’s busi­ness, finan­cial con­di­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­ons; com­pe­ti­ti­ve mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold; quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; AMD’s abili­ty to ade­qua­te­ly pro­tect its tech­no­lo­gy or other intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; unfa­vorable cur­ren­cy exch­an­ge rate fluc­tua­tions; abili­ty of third par­ty manu­fac­tu­r­ers to manu­fac­tu­re AMD’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies; avai­la­bi­li­ty of essen­ti­al equip­ment, mate­ri­als, sub­stra­tes or manu­fac­tu­ring pro­ces­ses; abili­ty to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with expec­ted fea­tures and per­for­mance levels; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty inci­dents inclu­ding IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks; poten­ti­al dif­fi­cul­ties in upgrading and ope­ra­ting AMD’s new enter­pri­se resour­ce plan­ning sys­tem; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents; AMD’s reli­ance on Micro­soft and other soft­ware ven­dors’ sup­port to design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and add-in-board part­ners; impact of modi­fi­ca­ti­on or inter­rup­ti­on of AMD’s inter­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses and infor­ma­ti­on sys­tems; com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty of AMD’s pro­ducts with some or all indus­try-stan­dard soft­ware and hard­ware; cos­ts rela­ted to defec­ti­ve pro­ducts; effi­ci­en­cy of AMD’s sup­p­ly chain; AMD’s abili­ty to rely on third par­ty sup­p­ly-chain logi­stics func­tions; AMD’s abili­ty to effec­tively con­trol sales of its pro­ducts on the gray mar­ket; impact of govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res; AMD’s abili­ty to rea­li­ze its defer­red tax assets; poten­ti­al tax lia­bi­li­ties; cur­rent and future claims and liti­ga­ti­on; impact of envi­ron­men­tal laws, con­flict mine­rals-rela­ted pro­vi­si­ons and other laws or regu­la­ti­ons; impact of acqui­si­ti­ons, joint ven­tures and/or invest­ments, inclu­ding acqui­si­ti­ons of Xilinx and Pen­san­do, on AMD’s busi­ness and AMD’s abili­ty to inte­gra­te acqui­red busi­nesses;  impact of any impair­ment of the com­bi­ned company’s assets on the com­bi­ned company’s finan­cial posi­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­on; rest­ric­tions impo­sed by agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes, the gua­ran­tees of Xilinx’s notes and the revol­ving cre­dit faci­li­ty; AMD’s indeb­ted­ness; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments or gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow to make all of its plan­ned R&D or stra­te­gic invest­ments; poli­ti­cal, legal, eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters; future impairm­ents of good­will and tech­no­lo­gy licen­se purcha­ses; AMD’s abili­ty to attract and retain qua­li­fied per­son­nel; AMD’s stock pri­ce vola­ti­li­ty; and world­wi­de poli­ti­cal con­di­ti­ons. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s most recent reports on Forms 10‑K and 10‑Q.

(*) In this ear­nings press release, in addi­ti­on to GAAP finan­cial results, AMD has pro­vi­ded non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res inclu­ding non-GAAP gross pro­fit, non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expen­ses, non-GAAP ope­ra­ting inco­me, non-GAAP net inco­me, non-GAAP diluted ear­nings per share. AMD uses a nor­ma­li­zed tax rate in its com­pu­ta­ti­on of the non-GAAP inco­me tax pro­vi­si­on to pro­vi­de bet­ter con­sis­ten­cy across the report­ing peri­ods. For fis­cal 2022, AMD uses a non-GAAP tax rate of 13%, which excludes the tax impact of pre-tax non-GAAP adjus­t­ments. AMD also pro­vi­ded adjus­ted EBITDA and free cash flow as sup­ple­men­tal non-GAAP mea­su­res of its per­for­mance. The­se items are defi­ned in the foot­no­tes to the sel­ec­ted cor­po­ra­te data tables pro­vi­ded at the end of this ear­nings press release. In addi­ti­on, AMD pro­vi­ded pro for­ma reve­nue for the year ended Decem­ber 31, 2022 and Decem­ber 25, 2021 which include unau­di­ted Xilinx pre-acqui­si­ti­on reve­nue from Janu­ary 2, 2022 to Febru­ary 13, 2022 and for the twel­ve months ended Janu­ary 1, 2022, respec­tively, as sup­ple­men­tal infor­ma­ti­on. AMD is pro­vi­ding the­se finan­cial mea­su­res becau­se it belie­ves this non-GAAP pre­sen­ta­ti­on makes it easier for inves­tors to compa­re its ope­ra­ting results for cur­rent and his­to­ri­cal peri­ods and also becau­se AMD belie­ves it assists inves­tors in com­pa­ring AMD’s per­for­mance across report­ing peri­ods on a con­sis­tent basis by exclu­ding items that it does not belie­ve are indi­ca­ti­ve of its core ope­ra­ting per­for­mance and for the other reasons descri­bed in the foot­no­tes to the sel­ec­ted data tables. The non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res dis­c­lo­sed in this ear­nings press release should be view­ed in addi­ti­on to and not as a sub­sti­tu­te for or supe­ri­or to AMD’s repor­ted results pre­pared in accordance with GAAP and should be read only in con­junc­tion with AMD’s Con­so­li­da­ted Finan­cial State­ments pre­pared in accordance with GAAP. The­se non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res refe­ren­ced are recon­ci­led to their most direct­ly com­pa­ra­ble GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res in the data tables in this ear­nings press release. This ear­nings press release also con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king non-GAAP gross mar­gin con­cer­ning AMD’s finan­cial out­look, which is based on cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons as of Janu­ary 31, 2023 and assump­ti­ons and beliefs that invol­ve num­e­rous risks and uncer­tain­ties. AMD under­ta­kes no intent or obli­ga­ti­on to publicly update or revi­se its out­look state­ments as a result of new infor­ma­ti­on, future events or other­wi­se, except as may be requi­red by law.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, EPYC, Rade­on, Ryzen, Thre­ad­rip­per, Ver­sal and com­bi­na­ti­ons the­reof, are trade­marks of Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for infor­ma­tio­nal pur­po­ses only and used to iden­ti­fy com­pa­nies and pro­ducts and may be trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owner.

 
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Mil­li­ons except per share amounts and per­cen­ta­ges) (Unau­di­ted)
         
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
Net reve­nue   $ 5,599     $ 4,826     $ 23,601     $ 16,434  
Cost of sales     2,753       2,400       11,550       8,505  
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted intangibles     443             1,448        
Total cost of sales     3,196       2,400       12,998       8,505  
Gross pro­fit     2,403       2,426       10,603       7,929  
Gross mar­gin %     43 %     50 %     45 %     48 %
Rese­arch and development     1,366       811       5,005       2,845  
Mar­ke­ting, gene­ral and administrative     590       412       2,336       1,448  
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted intangibles     601             2,100        
Licen­sing gain     (5 )     (4 )     (102 )     (12 )
Ope­ra­ting inco­me (loss)     (149 )     1,207       1,264       3,648  
Inte­rest expense     (19 )     (8 )     (88 )     (34 )
Other inco­me (expen­se), net     32       4       8       55  
Inco­me (loss) befo­re inco­me taxes and equi­ty income     (136 )     1,203       1,184       3,669  
Inco­me tax pro­vi­si­on (bene­fit)     (154 )     229       (122 )     513  
Equi­ty inco­me in investee     3             14       6  
Net inco­me   $ 21     $ 974     $ 1,320     $ 3,162  
Ear­nings per share                
Basic   $ 0.01     $ 0.81     $ 0.85     $ 2.61  
Diluted   $ 0.01     $ 0.80     $ 0.84     $ 2.57  
Shares used in per share calculation                
Basic     1,613       1,208       1,561       1,213  
Diluted     1,618       1,222       1,571       1,229  
                                 
 
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Mil­li­ons)
         
    Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
    (Unau­di­ted)    
ASSETS        
Cur­rent assets:        
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 4,835     $ 2,535  
Short-term invest­ments     1,020       1,073  
Accounts receiva­ble, net     4,126       2,706  
Invent­ories     3,771       1,955  
Receiv­a­bles from rela­ted parties     2       2  
Pre­paid expen­ses and other cur­rent assets     1,265       312  
Total cur­rent assets     15,019       8,583  
Pro­per­ty and equip­ment, net     1,513       702  
Ope­ra­ting lea­se right-of use assets     460       367  
Good­will     24,177       289  
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted intan­gi­bles, net     24,118        
Invest­ment: equi­ty method     83       69  
Defer­red tax assets     58       931  
Other non-cur­rent assets     2,152       1,478  
Total Assets   $ 67,580     $ 12,419  
         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERSEQUITY        
Cur­rent liabilities:        
Accounts paya­ble   $ 2,493     $ 1,321  
Paya­bles to rela­ted parties     463       85  
Accrued lia­bi­li­ties     3,077       2,424  
Cur­rent por­ti­on of long-term debt, net           312  
Other cur­rent liabilities     336       98  
Total cur­rent liabilities     6,369       4,240  
Long-term debt, net of cur­rent portion     2,467       1  
Long-term ope­ra­ting lea­se liabilities     396       348  
Defer­red tax liabilities     1,934       12  
Other long-term liabilities     1,664       321  
         
Stock­hol­ders’ equity:        
Capi­tal stock:        
Com­mon stock, par value     16       12  
Addi­tio­nal paid-in capital     58,005       11,069  
Tre­asu­ry stock, at cost     (3,099 )     (2,130 )
Accu­mu­la­ted deficit     (131 )     (1,451 )
Accu­mu­la­ted other com­pre­hen­si­ve loss     (41 )     (3 )
Total stock­hol­ders’ equity   $ 54,750     $ 7,497  
Total Lia­bi­li­ties and Stock­hol­ders’ Equity   $ 67,580     $ 12,419  
                 
 
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
SELECTED CASH FLOW INFORMATION
(Mil­li­ons) (Unau­di­ted)
         
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
Net cash pro­vi­ded by (used in)                
Ope­ra­ting activities   $ 567     $ 822     $ 3,565     $ 3,521  
Inves­t­ing activities   $ 1,067     $     $ 1,999     $ (686 )
Finan­cing activities   $ (197 )   $ (727 )   $ (3,264 )   $ (1,895 )
                                 
 
SELECTED CORPORATE DATA
(Mil­li­ons) (Unau­di­ted)
         
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
Seg­ment and Cate­go­ry Infor­ma­ti­on(1)                
Data Cen­ter                
Net reve­nue   $ 1,655     $ 1,163     $ 6,043     $ 3,694  
Ope­ra­ting income   $ 444     $ 369     $ 1,848     $ 991  
Cli­ent                
Net reve­nue   $ 903     $ 1,829     $ 6,201     $ 6,887  
Ope­ra­ting inco­me (loss)   $ (152 )   $ 530     $ 1,190     $ 2,088  
Gam­ing                
Net reve­nue   $ 1,644     $ 1,763     $ 6,805     $ 5,607  
Ope­ra­ting income   $ 266     $ 407     $ 953     $ 934  
Embedded                
Net reve­nue   $ 1,397     $ 71     $ 4,552     $ 246  
Ope­ra­ting income   $ 699     $ 18     $ 2,252     $ 44  
All Other                
Net reve­nue   $     $     $     $  
Ope­ra­ting loss   $ (1,406 )   $ (117 )   $ (4,979 )   $ (409 )
Total                
Net reve­nue   $ 5,599     $ 4,826     $ 23,601     $ 16,434  
Ope­ra­ting inco­me (loss)   $ (149 )   $ 1,207     $ 1,264     $ 3,648  
                 
Other Data                
Capi­tal expenditures   $ 124     $ 86     $ 450     $ 301  
Adjus­ted EBITDA(2)   $ 1,438     $ 1,446     $ 6,971     $ 4,476  
Cash, cash equi­va­lents and short-term investments   $ 5,855     $ 3,608     $ 5,855     $ 3,608  
Free cash flow(3)   $ 443     $ 736     $ 3,115     $ 3,220  
Total assets   $ 67,580     $ 12,419     $ 67,580     $ 12,419  
Total debt   $ 2,467     $ 313     $ 2,467     $ 313  
(1)   The Data Cen­ter seg­ment pri­ma­ri­ly includes ser­ver micro­pro­ces­sors (CPUs) and gra­phics pro­ces­sing units (GPUs), data pro­ces­sing units (DPUs), Field Pro­gramma­ble Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Adap­ti­ve Sys­tem-on-Chip (SoC) pro­ducts for data centers.
     
    The Cli­ent seg­ment pri­ma­ri­ly includes CPUs, acce­le­ra­ted pro­ces­sing units that inte­gra­te micro­pro­ces­sors and GPUs (APUs), and chip­sets for desk­top and note­book per­so­nal computers.
     
    The Gam­ing seg­ment pri­ma­ri­ly includes dis­crete GPUs, semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts and deve­lo­p­ment services.
     
    The Embedded seg­ment pri­ma­ri­ly includes embedded CPUs and GPUs, FPGAs, and Adap­ti­ve SoC products.
     
    From time to time, the Com­pa­ny may also sell or licen­se por­ti­ons of its IP portfolio.
     
    All Other cate­go­ry pri­ma­ri­ly includes cer­tain expen­ses and cre­dits that are not allo­ca­ted to any of the ope­ra­ting seg­ments, such as acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted intan­gi­ble asset amor­tiza­ti­on expen­se, employee stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on expen­se, acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted cos­ts and licen­sing gain.
(2)   Recon­ci­lia­ti­on of GAAP Net Inco­me to Adjus­ted EBITDA
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
GAAP net income   $ 21     $ 974     $ 1,320     $ 3,162  
Inte­rest expense     19       8       88       34  
Other (inco­me) expen­se, net     (32 )     (4 )     (8 )     (55 )
Inco­me tax pro­vi­si­on (bene­fit)     (154 )     229       (122 )     513  
Equi­ty inco­me in investee     (3 )           (14 )     (6 )
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     310       112       1,012       379  
Depre­cia­ti­on and amortization     176       118       626       407  
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets     1,044             3,548        
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted costs     57       9       521       42  
Adjus­ted EBITDA   $ 1,438     $ 1,446     $ 6,971     $ 4,476  

The Com­pa­ny pres­ents “Adjus­ted EBITDA” as a sup­ple­men­tal mea­su­re of its per­for­mance. Adjus­ted EBITDA for the Com­pa­ny is deter­mi­ned by adjus­ting GAAP net inco­me for inte­rest expen­se, other inco­me (expen­se), net, inco­me tax pro­vi­si­on (bene­fit), equi­ty inco­me in inves­tee, stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on, depre­cia­ti­on and amor­tiza­ti­on expen­se and acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted cos­ts. The Com­pa­ny also included amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets for the three months and year ended Decem­ber 31, 2022. The Com­pa­ny cal­cu­la­tes and pres­ents Adjus­ted EBITDA becau­se manage­ment belie­ves it is of importance to inves­tors and len­ders in rela­ti­on to its over­all capi­tal struc­tu­re and its abili­ty to bor­row addi­tio­nal funds. In addi­ti­on, the Com­pa­ny pres­ents Adjus­ted EBITDA becau­se it belie­ves this mea­su­re assists inves­tors in com­pa­ring its per­for­mance across report­ing peri­ods on a con­sis­tent basis by exclu­ding items that the Com­pa­ny does not belie­ve are indi­ca­ti­ve of its core ope­ra­ting per­for­mance. The Company’s cal­cu­la­ti­on of Adjus­ted EBITDA may or may not be con­sis­tent with the cal­cu­la­ti­on of this mea­su­re by other com­pa­nies in the same indus­try. Inves­tors should not view Adjus­ted EBITDA as an alter­na­ti­ve to the GAAP ope­ra­ting mea­su­re of inco­me or GAAP liqui­di­ty mea­su­res of cash flows from ope­ra­ting, inves­t­ing and finan­cing acti­vi­ties. In addi­ti­on, Adjus­ted EBITDA does not take into account chan­ges in cer­tain assets and lia­bi­li­ties that can affect cash flows.

(3)   Recon­ci­lia­ti­on of GAAP Net Cash Pro­vi­ded by Ope­ra­ting Acti­vi­ties to Free Cash Flow
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 31,
2022
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
GAAP net cash pro­vi­ded by ope­ra­ting activities   $ 567     $ 822     $ 3,565     $ 3,521  
Ope­ra­ting cash flow margin %     10 %     17 %     15 %     21 %
Purcha­ses of pro­per­ty and equipment   $ (124 )   $ (86 )   $ (450 )   $ (301 )
Free cash flow   $ 443     $ 736     $ 3,115     $ 3,220  
Free cash flow margin %     8 %     15 %     13 %     20 %

The Com­pa­ny also pres­ents free cash flow as a sup­ple­men­tal Non-GAAP mea­su­re of its per­for­mance. Free cash flow is deter­mi­ned by adjus­ting GAAP net cash pro­vi­ded by ope­ra­ting acti­vi­ties for capi­tal expen­dit­ures, and free cash flow mar­gin % is free cash flow expres­sed as a per­cen­ta­ge of the Company’s net reve­nue. The Com­pa­ny cal­cu­la­tes and com­mu­ni­ca­tes free cash flow in the finan­cial ear­nings press release becau­se manage­ment belie­ves it is of importance to inves­tors to under­stand the natu­re of the­se cash flows. The Company’s cal­cu­la­ti­on of free cash flow may or may not be con­sis­tent with the cal­cu­la­ti­on of this mea­su­re by other com­pa­nies in the same indus­try. Inves­tors should not view free cash flow as an alter­na­ti­ve to GAAP liqui­di­ty mea­su­res of cash flows from ope­ra­ting activities.