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- Revenues for fiscal 2007 up 18% to $709.5 million.
- Operating income for fiscal 2007 up 23% to $160.4 million.
- Diluted net income per share up 34% to $2.33 per share.
- 75.4 million active digital TV smart cards.
- 61.8 million cumulative middleware clients deployed.
- 7.3 million cumulative DVR clients deployed.
NDS Group plc (“NDS” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority-owned subsidiary of News Corporation that supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-television platform operations and content providers, announced today its results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007.
Commenting on NDS’s performance, Dr. Abe Peled, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDS said, “The transition to digital pay-television across the world is continuing to accelerate, changing the way people are entertained and informed worldwide. It is fueled by declining hardware prices for the underlying technologies and increasingly technology-literate and demanding consumers.
“NDS products and services that secure and enable the digital distribution of television are at the heart of this rapid change in the media landscape. We are pleased with our outstanding security record and with the adoption of our new technologies by our current customers, the most prominent being our DVR technology, now being shipped in 14 accounts across the world, with the fiscal 2007 number close to double the fiscal 2006 number. We are also gratified to see our investments in winning new platforms in Eastern Europe, China and India starting to translate into significant revenues and subscriber additions. Our middleware products have continued to gain acceptance in the marketplace and to outpace the competition. In addition, our Orbis subsidiary has performed very well, introducing new games and winning new customers.
“We have also made progress towards our vision of the convergence of broadcast and broadband delivery with the introduction of a number of pioneering new products, like VG DRM Key, as well as laid the foundation for integration in the home with the acquisition of Jungo. NDS continues to invest in better support for our customers, improving our current technologies and the development of new products and services that will enable our customers to benefit from the opportunities arising form the rapidly changing media distribution landscape.”
Alex Gersh, Chief Financial Officer, commented, “2007 was another year of significant accomplishments for NDS. As we continue to invest additional resources to support our customers and develop new products, we stay focused on achieving our financial goals.”
Please see pdf attached to view the complete NDS Earnings Release.
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Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-looking Statements
This document may contain certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management’s views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance as of the time the statements are made. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in global economic, business, competitive market, regulatory and other factors. More detailed information about these and other factors that could affect future results is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any "forward-looking statements" included in this document are made only as of the date of this document and we do not have any obligation, nor do we undertake, to publicly update any "forward-looking statements" to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law.
- Revenues for fiscal 2007 up 18% to $709.5 million.
- Operating income for fiscal 2007 up 23% to $160.4 million.
- Diluted net income per share up 34% to $2.33 per share.
- 75.4 million active digital TV smart cards.
- 61.8 million cumulative middleware clients deployed.
- 7.3 million cumulative DVR clients deployed.
NDS Group plc (“NDS” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority-owned subsidiary of News Corporation that supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-television platform operations and content providers, announced today its results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007.
Commenting on NDS’s performance, Dr. Abe Peled, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDS said, “The transition to digital pay-television across the world is continuing to accelerate, changing the way people are entertained and informed worldwide. It is fueled by declining hardware prices for the underlying technologies and increasingly technology-literate and demanding consumers.
“NDS products and services that secure and enable the digital distribution of television are at the heart of this rapid change in the media landscape. We are pleased with our outstanding security record and with the adoption of our new technologies by our current customers, the most prominent being our DVR technology, now being shipped in 14 accounts across the world, with the fiscal 2007 number close to double the fiscal 2006 number. We are also gratified to see our investments in winning new platforms in Eastern Europe, China and India starting to translate into significant revenues and subscriber additions. Our middleware products have continued to gain acceptance in the marketplace and to outpace the competition. In addition, our Orbis subsidiary has performed very well, introducing new games and winning new customers.
“We have also made progress towards our vision of the convergence of broadcast and broadband delivery with the introduction of a number of pioneering new products, like VG DRM Key, as well as laid the foundation for integration in the home with the acquisition of Jungo. NDS continues to invest in better support for our customers, improving our current technologies and the development of new products and services that will enable our customers to benefit from the opportunities arising form the rapidly changing media distribution landscape.”
Alex Gersh, Chief Financial Officer, commented, “2007 was another year of significant accomplishments for NDS. As we continue to invest additional resources to support our customers and develop new products, we stay focused on achieving our financial goals.”
Please see pdf attached to view the complete NDS Earnings Release.
# # #
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-looking Statements
This document may contain certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management’s views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance as of the time the statements are made. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in global economic, business, competitive market, regulatory and other factors. More detailed information about these and other factors that could affect future results is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any "forward-looking statements" included in this document are made only as of the date of this document and we do not have any obligation, nor do we undertake, to publicly update any "forward-looking statements" to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law.
