Mentor Graphics Corporation announced financial results for the company’s fiscal fourth quarter ended January 31, 2015. The company reported revenues of $439.1 million, non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.09, and GAAP earnings per share of $0.96. For the full fiscal year, revenues were $1.244 billion, non-GAAP earnings per share were $1.77, and GAAP earnings per share were $1.26.
“Mentor Graphics set all-time records for the fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2015,” said Walden C. Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics. “Fourth quarter results were driven primarily by Asian foundries and their customers adopting Design-to-Silicon solutions for 14nm and 10nm nodes and by the automotive sector’s continued demand for embedded software and electrical design products. Mentor’s board of directors is raising the quarterly dividend by 10% to $0.055 per share.”
During the quarter, the company announced new releases of its award-winning computational fluid dynamics product, FloEFD™, and of its Flowmaster® simulation software for modeling thermo-fluid systems. Both products provide advanced capabilities to support the automotive industry. The company also announced Mentor® Embedded virtual prototype kits for the company’s Vista™ and Sourcery™ CodeBench products. The kits enable embedded developers to integrate and optimize software on various platforms, especially for automotive in-vehicle infotainment and electronic control unit networks. Mentor also made available automotive Ethernet support in the Volcano™ VSA™ product for network design of electronic control units. This addresses timing analysis challenges where a mixture of network busses co-exist, for example in advanced driver assistance systems.
“In the fourth quarter we posted numerous all-time records including bookings, revenue, and both GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share,” said Gregory K. Hinckley, president of Mentor Graphics. “Similarly, we had record revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share for the full year. Strength in the Design-to-Silicon products category reinforces our leadership position in traditional EDA markets and our transportation offerings continue to benefit from expanding opportunities for advanced electrical design. Continued attention to expenses drove record non-GAAP operating margins for the quarter and year.”
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