PTC 10-Q 2023-03-31

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2023

OR

For the transition period from_ to_

Commission File Number: 0-18059

PTC Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

121 Seaport Boulevard**,** Boston**,** MA 02210

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(781) 370-5000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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There were 118,353,472 shares of our common stock outstanding on May 2, 2023.

PTC Inc.

INDEX TO FORM 10-Q

For the Quarter Ended March 31, 2023

PART I—FINANCI****AL INFORMATION

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONS****OLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

PTC Inc.

CONSOLIDATED B****ALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the condensed consolidated financial statements.

PTC Inc.

CONSOLIDATED STATEM****ENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the condensed consolidated financial statements.

PTC Inc.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF C****OMPREHENSIVE INCOME

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

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Business Overview

PTC is a global software company that provides a portfolio of innovative digital solutions that work together to transform how physical products are engineered, manufactured, and serviced.

Our software portfolio includes award-winning offerings that enable companies to author product data (our CAD portfolio solutions) and manage product data management and orchestrate processes (our PLM portfolio solutions). Our software can be delivered on premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid model.

Our customers include some of the world's most innovative companies in the aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics and high tech, industrial machinery and equipment, life sciences, retail and consumer products industries.

We generate revenue through the sale of software subscriptions, which include license access and support (technical support and software updates); support for perpetual licenses; cloud services (hosting for our software and software-as-a-service (SaaS)); perpetual licenses; and professional services (consulting, implementation, and training).

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this document that are not historic facts, including statements about our future financial and growth expectations and potential stock repurchases, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks include: the macroeconomic and/or global manufacturing climates may deteriorate sooner or to a greater extent than we expect due to, among other factors, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including supply chain disruptions, increasing interest rates and inflation, volatile foreign exchange rates and the relative strength of the U.S. dollar, tightening of credit standards and availability, the effects of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, including the effect on energy supplies to Europe, and growing tensions with China, any of which could cause customers to delay or reduce purchases of new software, reduce the number of subscriptions they carry, or delay payments to us, which would adversely affect ARR and/or our financial results, including cash flow; our businesses, including our ServiceMax and SaaS businesses, may not expand and/or generate the revenue, cash flow, or ARR we expect if customers are slower to adopt those technologies than we expect or if they adopt competing technologies; our strategic initiatives and investments, including our accelerated investments in our transition to SaaS and the acquisition of ServiceMax, may not deliver the results when or as we expect; we may be unable to integrate the ServiceMax technology when or as we expect; we may be unable to generate sufficient operating cash flow to return 50% of free cash flow to shareholders, and other uses of cash or our credit facility limits could preclude such repurchases; and foreign exchange rates may differ materially from those we expect. In addition, our assumptions concerning our future GAAP and non-GAAP effective income tax rates are based on estimates and other factors that could change, including the geographic mix of our revenue, expenses, and profits, as well as other risks and uncertainties described below throughout or referenced in Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors of this report.

Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Our discussion of results includes discussion of our ARR (Annual Run Rate) operating measure, non-GAAP financial measures, and disclosure of our results on a constant currency basis. ARR and our non-GAAP financial measures, including the reasons we use those measures, are described below in Results of Operations - Operating Measure and Results of Operations - Non-GAAP Financial Measures, respectively. The methodology used to calculate constant currency disclosures is described in Results of Operations - Impact of Foreign Currency Exchange on Results of Operations. You should read those sections to understand our operating measure, non-GAAP financial measures, and constant currency disclosures.

Executive Overview

ARR of $1.88 billion at the end of Q2’23 represents 23% growth (26% on a constant currency basis) compared to Q2’22, including contribution from ServiceMax, which we acquired in January 2023. Organic constant currency ARR growth year over year was 13%, which excludes ARR associated with our acquired ServiceMax and Codebeamer businesses. ARR growth in Q2'23 compared to the year-ago period was driven by acquisitions, new bookings and churn improvement. While bookings were solid in Q2'23, we saw more ramp deals than expected, which puts some pressure on ARR and revenue in the near term.

We generated $211 million of cash from operations in Q2’23 compared to $142 million in Q2’22, with the increase driven by strong execution, based on a foundation of solid collections and cost discipline. Q2’23 cash from operations included $1 million of restructuring-related cash outflows, compared to $18 million in Q2'22. Free cash flow of $207 million in Q2'23 increased from $140 million in Q2'22, which is net of capital expenditures of $4 million in Q2'23 and $2 million in Q2'22.

Revenue growth of 7% (13% constant currency) in Q2'23 compared to Q2'22 was due to contribution from ServiceMax. Operating margin decreased in Q2'23 compared to Q2'22 mainly due to higher costs associated with the ServiceMax acquisition, including increases in stock-based compensation expense, intangibles amortization, and acquisition and transaction-related charges.

In Q2'23, we closed our previously announced transaction to acquire ServiceMax. and made the first installment payment of $835 million, funded by a new credit facility that we entered into in connection with the closing of the acquisition. In conjunction with financing the acquisition, we incurred a substantial increase in interest expense in the period, which adversely affected our net income and earnings per share results.

Results of Operations

The following table shows the financial measures that we consider the most significant indicators of our business performance. In addition to providing operating income, operating margin, diluted earnings per share and cash from operations as calculated under GAAP, we provide non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP diluted earnings per share, and free cash flow for the reported periods. We also provide a view of our actual results on a constant currency basis. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude the items described in Non-GAAP Financial Measures below. Investors should use these non-GAAP financial measures only in conjunction with our GAAP results.

(1)

See Non-GAAP Financial Measures below for a reconciliation of our GAAP results to our non-GAAP financial measures and Impact of Foreign Currency Exchange on Results of Operations below for a description of how we calculate our results on a constant currency basis.

(2)

Recurring revenue is comprised of on-premises subscription, perpetual support, SaaS, and cloud revenue.

(3)

Cash flow from operations for the second quarter and first six months of FY’23 includes $0.8 million and $1.4 million of restructuring payments, respectively, and $2.3 million and $6.5 million of acquisition and transaction-related payments. Cash flow from operations for the second quarter and first six months of FY’22 includes $17.8 million and $28.4 million of restructuring payments, respectively, and $0.4 million and $0.4 million of acquisition and transaction-related payments, respectively.

Impact of Foreign Currency Exchange on Results of Operations

Approximately 50% of our revenue and 35% of our expenses are transacted in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. Because we report our results of operations in U.S. Dollars, currency translation, particularly changes in the Euro, Yen, Shekel, and Rupee relative to the U.S. Dollar, affects our reported results. Our constant currency disclosures are calculated by multiplying the results in local currency for the quarterly periods for FY’23 and FY’22 by the exchange rates in effect on September 30, 2022. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates were a headwind to reported results in Q2'23 compared to Q2'22, but were a tailwind for Q2'23 compared to the exchange rates in effect on September 30, 2022.

If reported results for the six months ended March 31, 2023 were converted into U.S. dollars based on September 30, 2022 exchange rates, ARR would have been lower by $68 million, revenue would have been lower by $24 million, and expenses would have been lower by $10 million. If reported results for the same period in FY'22 were converted into U.S. dollars based on September 30, 2022 exchange rates, ARR would have been lower by $93 million, revenue would have been lower by $75 million, and expenses would have been lower by $33 million.

Revenue

Under ASC 606, the volume, mix, and duration of contract types (support, SaaS, on-premises subscription) starting or renewing in any given period can have a material impact on revenue in the period, and as a result can impact the comparability of reported revenue period over period. We recognize revenue for the license portion of on-premises subscription contracts up front when we deliver the licenses to the customer, typically on the start date, and we recognize revenue on the support portion of on-premises subscription contracts and stand-alone support contracts ratably over the term. We continue to convert existing support contracts to on-premises subscriptions, resulting in a shift to up-front recognition of on-premises subscription license revenue in the period converted compared to ratable recognition for a perpetual support contract. Revenue from our cloud services (primarily SaaS) contracts is recognized ratably. We expect that over time a higher portion of our revenue will be recognized ratably as we expand our SaaS offerings, release additional cloud functionality into our products, and customers migrate from on-premises subscriptions to SaaS. Given the different mix, duration and volume of new and renewing contracts in any period, year-over-year or sequential revenue comparisons can vary significantly.

Revenue by Line of Business

Software revenue in Q2'23 and the first six months of FY'23 includes contributions of $39 million from ServiceMax, which was acquired early in Q2'23, and from Codebeamer, which was acquired in Q3'22. The decline in the value of foreign currencies compared to the U.S. Dollar was a headwind to year-over-year revenue growth. In addition to contributions from the acquired businesses, constant currency revenue growth for Q2'23 was driven by revenue from our IIoT, Arena, and Windchill offerings, offset by a decrease in Creo revenue. Constant currency revenue growth for the first six months of FY'23 was driven by revenue from our IIoT, Windchill, Arena and Creo offerings.

Within software revenue, license revenue is impacted by the duration of on-premises subscription contracts that start in the period. In Q2’23, the weighted-average duration of contracts starting in the quarter decreased significantly compared to Q2’22. The decrease was primarily due to a small number of high-value Creo and Windchill renewing contracts in Q2’22 that had durations of 4+ years, which exceeded our typical contract terms of 1-3 years. Because longer duration contracts typically have a higher total contract value, which drives the amount of license revenue recognized on on-premises contracts, this year-over-year duration decrease resulted in a decrease in license revenue in Q2'23.

Professional services revenue decreased in Q2'23 and first six months of FY’23 as we continue to execute on our strategy of leveraging partners to deliver services rather than contracting to deliver services ourselves, including the Q3'22 sale of a portion of our PLM services business to ITC Infotech. The decline in the value of foreign currencies compared to the U.S. Dollar also contributed to the year-over-year revenue decline. These decreases were partially offset by ServiceMax professional services revenue.

Our expectation is that professional services revenue will continue to trend down over time as we execute on our partner strategy and deliver products that require less consulting and training services.

Software Revenue by Product Group

PLM software revenue growth in Q2'23 and first six months of FY’23 benefited from contributions from ServiceMax (acquired early in Q2'23) and Codebeamer (acquired in Q3’22). The decline in the value of foreign currencies compared to the U.S. Dollar was a headwind to year-over-year revenue growth. Excluding contributions from ServiceMax and Codebeamer, constant currency revenue growth was driven by IIoT, Windchill and Arena.

PLM ARR grew 36% (39% constant currency) from Q2’22 to Q2'23, driven by ServiceMax and Windchill.

CAD software revenue declined in Q2'23 and the first six months of FY'23, driven by a decline in the value of foreign currencies compared to the U.S. Dollar. The constant currency revenue decline for Q2'23 was driven by Creo, due in part to a decline in the average duration of on-premises subscription contract renewals starting in Q2’23 compared to Q2’22, resulting in less up-front revenue recognized. Revenue growth the first six months of FY'23 was driven by Creo.

CAD ARR grew 7% (10% constant currency) from Q2’22 to Q2’23, driven by Creo.

Software Revenue by Geographic Region

A significant portion of our software revenue is generated outside the U.S. In the first six months of FY'23 and FY'22, approximately 45% of software revenue was generated in the Americas, 40% in Europe, and 15% in Asia Pacific.

Americas software revenue growth in the second quarter and first six months of FY’23 was driven by contribution from ServiceMax, with additional revenue growth from Windchill, IIoT, Creo and Arena.

Americas ARR was up 29% actual and constant currency in Q2'23, driven by ServiceMax, Windchill and Creo.

Europe software revenue in Q2’23 and the first six months of FY’23 was adversely affected by a decline in the value of foreign currencies compared to the U.S. Dollar. On a constant currency basis, Europe software revenue grew in Q2'23 and the first six months of FY'23, driven by contributions from ServiceMax and Codebeamer. The average duration of on-premises subscription contract renewals starting in the period decreased for both Windchill and Creo, resulting in lower Q2'23 revenue from both products and lower Creo revenue for the first six months of FY'23.

Europe ARR was up 21% (25% constant currency) in Q2'23, driven by ServiceMax, Windchill, Codebeamer and Creo.

Asia Pacific software revenue in Q2’23 and the first six months of FY’23 was adversely affected by a decline in the value of foreign currencies compared to the U.S. Dollar. Revenue growth on a constant currency basis in Q2'23 was driven by ServiceMax and IIoT. Growth in the first six months of FY'23 was driven by Creo and ServiceMax, offset by a decline in Windchill, which was primarily due to a reduction in the average duration of on-premises subscription contract renewals starting in the period.

Asia Pacific ARR was up 10% (19% constant currency) in Q2'23, driven by ServiceMax, Creo and Windchill.

Gross Margin

(1)

Non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled to GAAP results under Non-GAAP Financial Measures below.

License gross margin decreased in the second quarter and first six months of FY’23 compared to the corresponding FY’22 periods due to decreases in license revenue of $21.4 million and $17.8 million, respectively, along with increases in cost of license of $5.1 million and $8.1 million, respectively, which were driven by higher intangible amortization expense due to the ServiceMax acquisition and higher royalty expense.

Support and cloud services gross margin increased in the second quarter and first six months of FY’23 compared to the corresponding FY’22 periods due to increases in support and cloud services revenue of $60.2 million and $73.4 million, respectively, partially offset by increases in cost of support and cloud services of $14.4 million and $18.7 million, respectively, which were driven by higher royalty expenses, cloud hosting costs, and compensation costs.

Professional services gross margin decreased in the second quarter and first six months of FY’23 compared to the corresponding FY’22 periods due to decreases in professional services revenue of $1.9 million and $10.4 million, respectively, offset by a decrease of $6.0 million in professional services costs in the first six months of FY’23. The decreases in professional services revenue are mainly due to the sale of a portion of our services business in FY'22 and our continued execution on our strategy of leveraging partners to deliver services rather than contracting to deliver services ourselves.

Operating Expenses

Headcount increased 11% between Q2’23 and Q2’22, primarily driven by our acquisitions of ServiceMax and Intland (Codebeamer).

Operating expenses in Q2'23 increased compared to Q2'22, primarily due to the following:

a $23 million increase in compensation expense (including benefit costs), largely driven by our acquisition of ServiceMax;

a $13 million increase in stock-based compensation, largely driven by post-acquisition grants to ServiceMax employees; and

an $8 million increase in acquisition and transaction-related costs.

Operating expenses in the first six months of FY’23 increased compared to the first six months of FY’22, due to the following:

a $17 million increase in compensation expense (including benefit costs), largely driven by our acquisition of ServiceMax, offset by the impact foreign currency;

a $13 million increase in acquisition and transaction-related costs, largely driven by our acquisition of ServiceMax; and

a $10 million increase in stock-based compensation;

partially offset by:

a $33 million decrease in restructuring charges.

Interest Expense

Interest expense includes interest on our credit facility and senior notes and imputed interest on the ServiceMax deferred acquisition payment. We had $1.9 billion of total debt as of March 31, 2023, compared to $1.3 billion as of March 31, 2022. In Q2'23, we had net new borrowings of $771 million (consisting of a $500 million term loan and a $271 million incremental draw on our revolving credit facility) and made payments of $205 million on the new revolving facility. The average interest rate on borrowings outstanding was approximately 5.2% and 4.7% during the second quarter and first six months of FY’23, respectively, and 3.2% and 3.2% during the second quarter and first six months of FY’22, respectively.

Other Income (Expense)

Interest income represents earnings on the investment of our available cash and cash equivalents.

The decrease in other income (expense), net in the FY’23 periods over the FY’22 periods was driven by a recognized loss on our equity investment in a publicly-traded company of $44.6 million and $34.8 million in the three and six months ended March 31, 2022, respectively.

Income Taxes

In the second quarter and first six months of FY’23 and FY’22, our effective tax rate differed from the statutory federal income tax rate of 21% due to our corporate structure in which our foreign taxes are at a net effective tax rate lower than the U.S. rate. A significant amount of our foreign earnings is generated by our subsidiaries organized in Ireland and the Cayman Islands. In 2023 and 2022, the foreign rate differential predominantly relates to these earnings.

In FY’23 and FY’22, in addition to the foreign rate differential, the effective tax rate was impacted by the net effects of the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI) and Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) regimes and the excess tax benefit related to stock-based compensation.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The financial information included in Item 1 reflects no material changes in our critical accounting policies and estimates as set forth under the heading Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates in Part II, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of our 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

As discussed in Note 1. Basis of Presentation to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, there have been no accounting pronouncements or changes in accounting pronouncements that are expected to have a material effect on our financial statements or results.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash

We invest our cash with highly rated financial institutions. Cash and cash equivalents include highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.

A significant portion of our cash is generated and held outside the U.S. As of March 31, 2023, we had cash and cash equivalents of $51.9 million in the U.S., $113.8 million in Europe, $126.0 million in Asia Pacific (including India) and $28.8 million in other non-U.S. countries. We have substantial cash requirements in the U.S., but believe that the combination of our existing U.S. cash and cash equivalents, our ability to repatriate cash to the U.S., future U.S. operating cash flows, and cash available under our credit facility will be sufficient to meet our ongoing U.S. operating expenses and known capital requirements.

Cash Provided by Operating Activities

Cash provided by operating activities increased $111.8 million in the first six months of FY’23, compared to the first six months of FY’22. The increase in was driven by an increase in collections, including contributions from ServiceMax, and lower restructuring payments, partially offset by increases in salary-related payments and vendor disbursements driven by the ServiceMax acquisition. Cash from operations for the first six months of FY'23 includes $1.4 million of restructuring payments and $6.5 million of acquisition and transaction-related payments compared to $28.4 million of restructuring payments and $0.4 million of acquisition and transaction-related payments in the prior-year period.

Cash Provided by (Used In) Investing Activities

Cash used in investing activities in the first six months of FY’23 was driven by the acquisition of ServiceMax for $828.2 million in Q2'23. Cash provided by investing activities in the first six months of FY’22 was driven by the sale of our investment in a publicly-traded company of $42.7 million.

Cash Provided by (Used In) Financing Activities

Cash provided by financing activities in the first six months of FY’23 was primarily due to net new borrowings of $771 million in Q2'23 (a $500 million term loan and a $271 million incremental revolving line) to fund the ServiceMax acquisition and our Q2'23 repayments of $205 million on the new revolving facility. Cash used in financing activities in the first six months of FY’22 primarily reflects our use of cash generated to pay down debt and repurchase stock.

Outstanding Debt

In addition to the debt shown in the above table, we have recorded a $620.0 million Deferred acquisition payment liability related to the fair value of the $650.0 million installment due in October 2023 for the ServiceMax acquisition. Of the $650 million to be paid, $620 million will be a financing outflow and $30 million of imputed interest will be an operating cash outflow.

As of March 31, 2023, we were in compliance with all financial and operating covenants of the credit facility and the note indentures.

Our credit facility and our senior notes are described in Note 12. Debt to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Future Expectations

We believe that existing cash and cash equivalents, together with cash generated from operations and amounts available under the credit facility, will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure requirements (expected capital expenditures of approximately $7 million in the second half of FY’23) through at least the next twelve months and to meet our known long-term capital requirements.

During the remainder of FY'23 and in FY'24, we expect to use a substantial portion of our cash generated from operating activities to repay debt outstanding under our credit facility revolving line and to make the deferred ServiceMax acquisition payment. We expect that we will not repurchase shares in the remainder of FY'23 or in FY'24 as we seek to reduce our debt.

Our expected uses and sources of cash could change, our cash position could be reduced, and we could incur additional debt obligations if we decide to retire debt, engage in strategic transactions, or repurchase shares, any of which could be commenced, suspended or completed at any time. Any such repurchases or retirement of debt will depend on prevailing market conditions, our liquidity requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors. The amounts involved in any debt retirement or issuance, share repurchases, or strategic transactions may be material.

Operating Measure

ARR

ARR (Annual Run Rate) represents the annualized value of our portfolio of active subscription software, cloud, SaaS, and support contracts as of the end of the reporting period. We calculate ARR as follows:

We consider a contract to be active when the product or service contractual term commences (the “start date”) until the right to use the product or service ends (the “expiration date”). Even if the contract with the customer is executed before the start date, the contract will not count toward ARR until the customer right to receive the benefit of the products or services has commenced.

For contracts that include annual values that increase over time, which we refer to as ramp contracts, we include in ARR only the annualized value of components of the contract that are considered active as of the date of the ARR calculation. We do not include any future committed increases in the contract value as of the date of the ARR calculation.

As ARR includes only contracts that are active at the end of the reporting period, ARR does not reflect assumptions or estimates regarding future customer renewals or non-renewals.

Active contracts are annualized by dividing the total active contract value by the contract duration in days (expiration date minus start date), then multiplying that by 365 days (or 366 days for leap years).

We believe ARR is a valuable operating measure to assess the health of a subscription business because it is aligned with the amount that we invoice the customer on an annual basis. We generally invoice customers annually for the current year of the contract. A customer with a one-year contract will typically be invoiced for the total value of the contract at the beginning of the contractual term, while a customer with a multi-year contract will be invoiced for each annual period at the beginning of each year of the contract.

ARR increases by the annualized value of active contracts which commence in a reporting period and decreases by the annualized value of contracts which expire in the reporting period.

As ARR is not annualized recurring revenue, it is not calculated based on recognized or unearned revenue and is not affected by variability in the timing of revenue under ASC 606, particularly for on-premises license subscriptions where a substantial portion of the total value of the contract is recognized at a point in time upon the later of when the software is made available, or the subscription term commences.

ARR should be viewed independently of recognized and unearned revenue and is not intended to be combined with, or to replace, either of those items. Investors should consider our ARR operating measure only in conjunction with our GAAP financial results.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Our non-GAAP financial measures and the reasons we use them and the reasons we exclude the items identified below are described in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2022.

The non-GAAP financial measures presented in the discussion of our results of operations and the respective most directly comparable GAAP measures are:

free cash flow—cash flow from operations

non-GAAP gross margin—GAAP gross margin

non-GAAP operating income—GAAP operating income

non-GAAP operating margin—GAAP operating margin

non-GAAP net income—GAAP net income

non-GAAP diluted earnings per share—GAAP diluted earnings per share

We provide information on free cash flow to enable investors to assess our ability to generate cash without incurring additional external financings and to evaluate our performance against our announced long-term goals and intent to return approximately 50% of our free cash flow to shareholders via stock repurchases. Free cash flow is cash flow from operations net of capital expenditures, which are expenditures for property and equipment and consist primarily of facility improvements, office equipment, computer equipment, and software.

The non-GAAP financial measures other than free cash flow exclude, as applicable, stock-based compensation expense; amortization of acquired intangible assets; acquisition and transaction-related charges included in general and administrative expenses; restructuring and other charges (credits), net; non-operating charges (credits), including those associated with the sale of a portion of our PLM services business and gains or losses on equity investments; and income tax adjustments as defined in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2022.

We use these non-GAAP financial measures, and we believe that they assist our investors, to make period-to-period comparisons of our operational performance because they provide a view of our operating results without items that are not, in our view, indicative of our core operating results. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures help illustrate underlying trends in our business, and we use the measures to establish budgets and operational goals (communicated internally and externally) for managing our business and evaluating our performance. We believe that providing non-GAAP financial measures also affords investors a view of our operating results that may be more easily compared to the results of other companies in our industry that use similar financial measures to supplement their GAAP results.

The items excluded from the non-GAAP financial measures often have a material impact on our financial results, certain of those items are recurring, and other such items often recur. Accordingly, the non-GAAP financial measures included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for or superior to, the comparable measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. The following tables reconcile each of these non-GAAP financial measures to its most closely comparable GAAP measure on our financial statements.

(1)

In the three and six months ended March 31, 2023, we recognized financing charges of $3.7 million and $4.2 million, respectively, for a debt commitment agreement associated with our anticipated acquisition of ServiceMax. In the three and six months ended March 31, 2022, we recognized expenses of $44.6 million and $34.8 million, respectively, due to the reduction in value of an equity investment in a publicly-traded company.

(2)

Income tax adjustments reflect the tax effects of non-GAAP adjustments which are calculated by applying the applicable tax rate by jurisdiction to the non-GAAP adjustments listed above.

Operating margin impact of non-GAAP adjustments:

There have been no significant changes in our market risk exposure as described in Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk of our 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Evaluation of Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management maintains disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is processed, recorded, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively), as appropriate, to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

We evaluated, under the supervision and with the participation of management, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report. Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level as of March 31, 2023.

Management excluded ServiceMax from its assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2023 because it was acquired in a business combination in the period. ServiceMax's total assets and total revenues represent approximately 2% (excluding the impact of goodwill and intangibles from the acquisition) and 8%, respectively, of our total assets and total revenues, as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2023.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting identified in management's evaluation pursuant to Rules 13a or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the period ended March 31, 2023 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II—OTHE****R INFORMATION

In addition to other information set forth in this report, you should carefully consider the risk factors described in Part I. Item 1A. Risk Factors in our 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K, which could materially affect our business, financial condition or future results. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial also may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and/or operating results.

• Indicates that the exhibit is being furnished, not filed, with this report.

SIGNA****TURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: May 3, 2023