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UNITED STATES
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FORM 10-K
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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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Commission File No. 001-35300
UBIQUITI NETWORKS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
32-0097377
(I.R.S. Employer
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685 Third Avenue, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10017
(Address of principal executive offices, Zip Code)
(646) 780-7958
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
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The aggregate market value of the registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $1,168,645,715 based upon the
closing price of $57.80 of such common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on December 31, 2016 (the last business day of the registrant’s most recently
completed second quarter). Shares of common stock held as of December 31, 2016 by each director and executive officer of the registrant, as well as shares held by
each holder of 5% of the common stock known to the registrant, have been excluded for purposes of the foregoing calculation. This determination of affiliate status
is not a conclusive determination for other purposes.
As of August 22, 2017 , 80,353,190 shares of Common Stock were issued and outstanding.
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Business
Risk Factors
Unresolved Staff Comments
Properties
Legal Proceedings
Mine Safety Disclosures
PART I
PART II
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Selected Financial Data
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
Controls and Procedures
Other Information
PART III
Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Executive Compensation
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Principal Accounting Fees and Services
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Note About Forward-Looking Statements
UBIQUITI NETWORKS, INC.
PART I
When used in this Report, the words “anticipates,” “believes,” “could,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans” “potential,” “predicts,”
“projects,” “should,” “will,” “would” or similar expressions and negatives of those terms are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These are
statements that relate to future periods and include statements about our future results, sources of revenue, our continued growth, our gross margins, market
trends, our product development, technological developments, the features, benefits and performance of our current and future products, the ability of our products
to address a variety of markets, the anticipated growth of demand for connectivity worldwide, our growth strategies, future price reductions, our competitive
status, our dependence on our senior management and our ability to attract and retain key personnel, dependency on and concentration of our distributors, our
employee relations, current and potential litigation, the effects of government regulations, our compliance with laws and regulations, our expected future
operating costs and expenses and expenditure levels for research and development, selling, general and administrative expenses, fluctuations in operating results,
fluctuations in our stock price, our payment of dividends, our future liquidity and cash needs, our credit facility, future acquisitions of and investments in
complimentary businesses and the expected impact of various accounting policies and rules adopted by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Forward-
looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to, factors affecting our quarterly results, our ability to manage our growth, our ability to sustain or increase profitability, demand for
our products, our ability to compete, our ability to rapidly develop new technology and introduce new products, our ability to safeguard our intellectual property,
trends in the networking industry and fluctuations in general economic conditions, and the risks set forth throughout this Report, including under Item 1,
“Business” and under Item 1A, “Risk Factors.” These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Except as required by law, we expressly
disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in
our expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
This Report also contains estimates and other information concerning our industry, including market size and growth rates, which are based on industry
publications, surveys and forecasts, including those generated by Cisco Systems, Inc. This information involves a number of assumptions and limitations, and you
are cautioned not to give undue weight to these estimates. These industry publications, surveys and forecasts generally indicate that their information has been
obtained from sources believed to be reliable. While we believe these industry publications, surveys and forecasts are reliable, we have not independently verified
such data. The industry in which we operate is subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk due to a variety of factors, including those described under Item 1A.
"Risk Factors."
Item 1. Business
Business Overview
Overview
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. was founded by former Apple engineer, Robert Pera, in 2005. The Company sells equipment, and provides the related software platforms,
worldwide through a network of over 100 distributors and on-line retailers. The Company has a very broad installed base with over 70 million devices sold in over
200 countries and territories around the world. Ubiquiti aims to connect everyone to everything, everywhere.
The Company develops technology platforms for hi-capacity distributed Internet access, unified information technology, and next-generation consumer electronics
for home and personal use. We categorize our solutions in to three main categories: high performance networking technology for service providers, enterprises and
consumers globally.
The majority of the Company’s resources consist of entrepreneurial and de-centralized R&D teams. Ubiquiti does not employ a traditional sales force, but instead
drives brand awareness largely through the company’s user community where customers can interface directly with R&D, marketing, and support. Our technology
platforms were built from the ground up with a focus on delivering highly-advanced and easily deployable solutions that appeal to a global customer base in
underserved and underpenetrated markets. Our differentiated business model has enabled us to break down traditional barriers such as high product and network
deployment costs and offer solutions with disruptive price-performance characteristics. Our growth is supported by the Ubiquiti Community, a global, grass-roots
community of over 4 million entrepreneurial operators and systems integrators who engage in thousands of on-line forums at http://www.ubnt.com.
The Company maintains an industry leading financial profile by leveraging its unique business model. This differentiated business model, combined with our
innovative, proprietary technologies, has resulted in an attractive alternative to traditional
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high touch, high cost providers, allowing us to advance the market adoption of our platforms for ubiquitous connectivity. As a result, our technology has enabled
hundreds of millions of people throughout the world to stay connected.
We offer a broad and expanding portfolio of networking products and solutions for operator-owners of wireless internet services (WISP's), enterprises and smart
homes. Our operator-owned product platforms provide carrier-class network infrastructure for fixed wireless broadband, wireless backhaul systems and routing and
the related software for WISP's to easily control, track and bill their customers. Our enterprise product platforms provide wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure,
video surveillance products, switching and routing solutions, security gateways, and other complimentary WLAN products along with a unique software platform,
which enables users to control their network from one simple, easy to use software interface. Our consumer products, sold under the Ubiquiti Labs brand name, are
targeted to the smart home and highly connected consumers. We believe that our products are highly differentiated due to our proprietary software protocol
innovation, firmware expertise, and hardware design capabilities. This differentiation allows our portfolio to meet the demanding performance requirements of
video, voice and data applications at prices that are a fraction of those offered by our competitors.
In May 2016, we announced Ubiquiti Labs, a division focusing on research and development of consumer electronics. At the same time, we announced a new
consumer product platform, called AmpliFi, which is a Wi-Fi system solution designed to serve the demands of the modern connected home. AmpliFi is distributed
through a network of retailers including Sam’s Club, Best Buy and Game Stop, as well as on-line retailers Amazon.com and Bestbuy.com among others and is
available in North America and the United Kingdom. Frontrow, a new platform for consumers, was launched in August 2017.
As a core part of our strategy, we have developed a differentiated business model for marketing and selling high volumes of carrier and enterprise-class
communications platforms. Our business model is driven by a large, growing and highly engaged community of service providers, distributors, value added
resellers, systems integrators and corporate IT professionals, which we refer to as the Ubiquiti Community. The Ubiquiti Community is a critical element of our
business strategy as it enables us to drive:
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Rapid customer and community driven product development. We have an active, loyal community built from our customers that we believe is a
sustainable competitive advantage. Our solutions benefit from the active engagement between the Ubiquiti Community and our development engineers
throughout the product development cycle, which eliminates long and expensive multistep internal processes and results in rapid introduction and adoption
of our products. This approach significantly reduces our development costs and time to market.
Scalable sales and marketing model. We do not currently have, nor do we plan to hire, a direct sales force, but instead utilize the Ubiquiti Community to
drive market awareness and demand for our products and solutions. This community-propagated viral marketing enables us to reach underserved and
underpenetrated markets far more efficiently and cost-effectively than is possible through traditional sales models. Leveraging the information transparency
of the Internet allows customers to research, evaluate and validate our solutions with the Ubiquiti Community and via third party web sites. This allows us
to operate a scalable sales and marketing model and effectively create awareness of our brand and products. Word of mouth referrals from the Ubiquiti
Community generate high quality leads for our distributors at relatively little cost.
Self-sustaining product support. The engaged members of the Ubiquiti Community have enabled us to foster a large, cost efficient, highly-scalable and,
we believe, self-sustaining mechanism for rapid product support and dissemination of information.
By reducing the cost of development, sales, marketing and support we are able to eliminate traditional business model inefficiencies and offer innovative solutions
with disruptive price performance characteristics to our customers.
Our revenues were $865.3 million , $666.4 million and $595.9 million in the fiscal years ended June 30, 2017 , 2016 and 2015 , respectively. We reported net
income of $257.5 million , $213.6 million and $129.7 million in the fiscal years ended June 30, 2017 , 2016 and 2015 , respectively. In this Annual Report on Form
10-K, we refer to the fiscal years ended June 30, 2017 , 2016 and 2015 as fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively.
Industry Overview
Internet traffic worldwide has grown rapidly in recent years, driven by an increase in the number of users, increasing mobility of those users and high bandwidth
applications, such as video, audio, cloud-based applications, online gaming and social networking. According to Cisco Visual Networking Index, global Internet
protocol, or IP, traffic is expected to increase from 96 exabytes per month in 2016 to 278 exabytes per month in 2021, representing an approximate 24% compound
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rate, or CAGR, over that period. Additionally, it is estimated that there will be 3.5 networked devices per capita connected to IP networks in 2021, up from 2.3
networked devices per capita in 2016. Wired networking solutions have traditionally been used to address increasing consumer and enterprise bandwidth needs.
However, the high initial capital requirements and ongoing operating costs and long market lead times associated with building and installing infrastructure for
wired networks has severely limited the widespread deployment of these networks in underserved and underpenetrated markets. Wireless networks has emerged as
an attractive alternative for addressing the broadband access needs of underserved and underpenetrated markets in both emerging and developed countries.
Underserved and underpenetrated markets . There is a significant market opportunity in both emerging and developed economies. In “unconnected” emerging
markets, the lack of an established network infrastructure and the high initial deployment costs associated with traditional wired network infrastructure build-outs
have encouraged adoption of wireless networking infrastructure. In “under-connected” markets, bandwidth demand exceeds either the available capacity from
existing infrastructure or the affordable supply of new infrastructure, resulting in an attractive market opportunity for wireless systems to bolster connectivity.
Additionally, we believe there is a large market opportunity in connected markets serving customers that want to deploy reliable, scalable and customizable
wireless networks and whose primary buying criterion is based on price-performance characteristics.
Increasing use of the unlicensed spectrum . In the absence of affordable broadband access in the licensed spectrum, the number of users of the unlicensed RF
spectrum has increased for communications equipment, as well as consumer devices such as cordless phones, baby monitors and microwave ovens. This increasing
use of unlicensed RF spectrum has made providing high quality wireless networking more challenging due to increasing congestion in the unlicensed spectrum.
The Federal Communications Commission continues to regulate use of unlicensed RF spectrum. Existing and contemplated regulations may affect the cost and/or
effectiveness of products that rely on access to such unlicensed RF spectrum.
Government incentives for broadband access . Governments around the world are increasingly taking both regulatory and financial steps to expand access to
broadband networks and increase availability of advanced broadband services to consumers and businesses.
Challenges facing incumbent solutions. To provide robust wireless networks that meet the price-performance needs of service providers and enterprises, vendors
of wireless networking solutions must address the problems facing incumbent solutions:
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Poor performance . To deliver high performance, wireless networking solutions need to satisfy diverse performance requirements for video, voice and
data. The challenges of operating in the unlicensed RF spectrum, including spectrum noise and interference resulting from the proliferation of devices,
often result in difficulty establishing network connections and unreliable or poor performance. Additionally, the performance and reliability of existing
wireless networking solutions decline rapidly as the number of subscribers and range of service delivery increases. Lack of hardware and software
integration between products, technologies and vendor devices can diminish network performance significantly and increase the complexity of network
management, integration and expansion.
• High cost of ownership . Existing alternative solutions, such as fiber-to-the-premises, cable, digital subscriber line, or DSL, worldwide interoperability for
microwave access, or WiMAX, LTE and traditional backhaul, provide high capacity, high performance broadband access; however, these solutions can be
extremely costly, and often do not meet the demanding price-performance requirements of underserved markets.
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Complexity . Existing alternative solutions are often difficult to deploy and manage and require skilled employees or high cost consultants to install and
operate. In addition, existing enterprise solutions often offer a large variety of features and functionalities that enterprise customers may find overwhelming
or unnecessary.
Lack of product support and customer-driven features. Product support and feedback for alternative suppliers’ wireless networking solutions are often
costly and ineffective. Existing wireless solutions are not accompanied by dynamic product support to assist customers in efficiently setting up and
troubleshooting their networks. Additionally, alternative suppliers generally lack an effective mechanism to communicate with their end-users and
incorporate feedback from usage into product roadmaps.
Market opportunity . Existing service provider wireless networking technologies have been developed to satisfy the increasing demand for broadband access,
support mobility and provide the performance and reliability demanded by customers. However, these existing solutions based upon wired, satellite or cellular
technologies, often fail to meet the price-performance requirements of fixed wireless networking in emerging markets, rural markets, or price-sensitive markets,
which in turn has led to low penetration of wireless broadband access and large populations of unaddressed users in these areas. Similarly, passive
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optical networking (PON) has been utilized globally to improve internet connectivity but it hasn’t previously been available at economically viable pricing to very
large underserved populations. An economically viable solution utilizing fiber, or other wireless technology, would further expand use of the internet to these
populations.
Within the enterprise, existing WLAN deployments are often relatively complex and costly, providing customers with a large number of non-critical features and
functionalities at a high cost. Given the growth in Internet connected devices, and the consumer’s desire for constant connectivity, there exists growing demand for
WLAN solutions that provide critical features at significantly lower cost than existing solutions.
Broadband household penetration is also growing significantly globally with the percent of homes utilizing broadband for internet consumption in developed
nations expected to exceed 90% of households by 2019 according to Future source. This greater broadband uptake will drive consumer upgrades of home Wi-Fi
systems to manage increasingly larger consumption.
Our Solutions
Our products and solutions enable both operator-owner service providers, enterprises and consumers to cost effectively deploy the infrastructure for high
performance, scalable and reliable wireless networks. Our wireless networking solutions offer the following key benefits:
• High performance proprietary technology solutions. Our proprietary products and solutions include high performance radios, antennas, software,
communications protocols and management tools that have been designed to deliver carrier and enterprise class wireless broadband access and other
services primarily in the unlicensed RF spectrum. Our radios and antennas, which incorporate our innovative proprietary technologies and firmware, are
designed and field tested to deliver carrier-class network speeds, throughput, range and coverage, while simultaneously meeting the varying performance
requirements of video, voice and data traffic. Our products and solutions overcome significant performance challenges such as dynamic spectrum noise,
device interference, outdoor obstacles and unpredictable levels of video, voice and data performance. Importantly, we are able to utilize the Ubiquiti
Community to validate the effectiveness of our end user experience and focus our development efforts on those features and functionality that are critical to
their requirements.
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Price disruptive offering . Our products and solutions have been designed to enable service providers and enterprises to deliver high performance to their
users at highly disruptive price points. The deployment and operation of our solutions require a fraction of the capital expenditures, implementation
expenses and network maintenance costs of those associated with existing solutions.
Integrated and easy to deploy and manage . Our integrated products and solutions reduce the complexity associated with the installation, management and
expansion of wireless networks. Within each of our product families, products are based on firmware that is built on a common codebase. This allows us to
offer common features and functionality and leads to consistent usability across each product family. The integration between our products is designed to
enable service providers and enterprises to deliver wireless broadband access and other services that have high performance characteristics without
significant management, deployment costs or upgrade complexity.
Scalable community-led approach . Purchasing our proprietary products and solutions enables immediate access to the Ubiquiti Community, including
current and historical troubleshooting and technical information as well as best practices and deployment advice for our end users. Product support from the
Ubiquiti Community is self-sustaining and scales efficiently, with growth and relevance driven by the size and engagement of our customer base. This
scalable community-led approach to customer support contributes to the lower total cost of ownership of our products and solutions relative to incumbent
providers. Additionally, the Ubiquiti Community provides an effective channel for product feedback from our customer base.
We are growing our intellectual property portfolio to help protect the development of our proprietary software, hardware and complete solutions. We believe that
protecting the innovation and technology underlying our comprehensive wireless networking solutions is key to ensuring our continued ability to provide
customers with differentiated value .
Our Strategy
Our goal is to disrupt the market for communications technology with innovative solutions that provide leading performance at prices that are a fraction of those of
alternative solutions. Key elements of our strategy include the following:
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Continue to deliver high performance characteristics at disruptive price points. We intend to expand the market opportunity for operator-owned WISP's
by continuing to provide products and solutions with disruptive price-performance characteristics. We also intend to expand the market and displace high-
priced alternative solutions in enterprise and consumer Wi-Fi markets. We believe that we can sustain our disruptive strategy through our unique business
model, focusing on the features and functionalities most critical to customers and avoiding the fringe features, which add both cost and complexity. These
features and functions include easy to set-up and use software platforms to control our hardware solutions.
Leverage our technologies and business model in adjacent markets. We intend to continue to leverage our technologies and business model to target
other large and growing markets that we believe are ripe for disruption such as video surveillance, routing, switching, gigabit passive optical networking
(GPON fiber connectivity) and licensed microwave wireless backhaul markets. For the enterprise market, we enhanced our enterprise WLAN product line,
UniFi, and have experienced strong adoption by a largely new customer base as we move up-channel to increasingly larger, more sophisticated
organizations and more broad verticals. These verticals include the more traditional small office home office (SOHO) customers, but a much larger portion
of our growth has been driven by larger enterprise clients in the hospitality, medical, education, government, warehousing, retail and other verticals. We
believe we are well positioned to gain traction in these new addressable markets and will continue to accelerate our innovation in these products.
• Maintain and extend our technological leadership . We intend to continue to develop innovative solutions for our target markets. We believe that our
continued focus on developing such technologies with customer-driven feedback from the Ubiquiti Community will allow us to deliver products and
solutions with disruptive price-performance characteristics that are specifically targeted to our markets. In addition, we believe our continued innovation is
key to the value our products and solutions provide, and is a critical component to achieving user lock-in.
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Continue to grow our powerful user community. We believe our differentiated business model, powered by the Ubiquiti Community, provides us with a
significant and sustainable competitive advantage over competitors. The Ubiquiti Community facilitates streamlined and efficient product development
coupled with a highly efficient sales and distribution model that allows us to avoid the costs associated with expensive direct and channel organizations.
The self-sustaining product support aspect of the Ubiquiti Community simplifies the deployment process and provides a highly effective real-time support
system for customers.
Continue to sell to our existing customers. We plan to continue to provide our customers with high performance, reliable, and cost-effective integrated
products and solutions. In particular, we believe our use of differentiated proprietary protocols and the scalability of our products position us to grow with
our customers as they build out their networks. Furthermore, we intend to cross-sell complementary solutions to our existing customers. For example, we
believe customers of our airMAX solutions can benefit significantly from the incremental deployment of our EdgeMAX, airFiber and UFiber products.
Our Technology and Products
We offer products and solutions based on our proprietary technology with disruptive price-performance characteristics across multiple markets. Utilizing low cost
hardware, consumer chipsets and innovative software and firmware, we build price-performance solutions to address both service providers and enterprises. In
addition, our technology allows us to design our products for ease of manufacture. Our focus on cost efficiency, robust product design and high performance drives
the development of our technology, products and solutions.
Technology Platforms
Our current major service provider and carrier solutions include:
Base Station/Backhaul/Customer Premise Equipment (“CPE”)/Bridge—airMAX
We offer end-to-end solutions that incorporate our proprietary RF technology, antenna design and firmware technologies. These technologies simplify the adoption
and use of our products and provide our products and solutions with performance characteristics usually found only in the carrier-class wireless networking
solutions and solve significant performance, reliability, scalability and ease-of-use challenges in the unlicensed RF spectrum.
Our airMAX platform includes proprietary protocols developed by us that contain advanced technologies for minimizing signal noise. These proprietary protocols
help our products deliver carrier-class wireless networking performance for video, voice and
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data applications. airMAX is able to support a wireless network that can scale to hundreds of clients per base station over long distances while maintaining low
latency and high throughput. Unlike most systems using 802.11 standard protocols, which are primarily designed for indoor networks, our airMAX systems use a
proprietary Time Division Multiple Access, or TDMA, protocol to manage the sending and receiving of data over the network to maximize air time efficiency.
Since the initial launch, we have expanded the airMAX product line with significant improvements in performance, including the airMAX ac products.
A majority of our airMAX products and solutions can leverage multiple input multiple output, or MIMO, technology, which relates to the use of multiple antennas
at both the transmitter and receiver to improve performance. Most of our radios employ multiple independent transmitters and receivers to create independent
communication channels using the same frequency spectrum. We use advanced array signal processing techniques to combine our radios’ communications
channels into a single, higher data rate channel. Our high performance outdoor antennas are designed to amplify signal power, resulting in stronger signals and
better link quality, and to block noise. Our design produces a better signal-to-noise ratio for each channel and
simplified signal processing to combine the channels, which in turn effectively doubles the throughput of our antennas, when compared to single input single
output devices. Our devices support various WPA and WPA2 encryption protocols.
Network Routing Platform—EdgeMAX
Our EdgeMAX platform is a disruptive price-performance software and systems routing platform. EdgeMAX is powered by our full-featured EdgeOS operating
system that includes advanced QoS, firewall, dynamic routing and VPN functionality. Since the initial launch we have introduced a full series of routers and
switches that address our core markets.
Point-to-point Wireless Backhaul—airFiber
Our AirFiber platform is a point-to-point radio system. Components of the airFiber product, including the radio, were designed to provide low latency with high
throughput. Our airFiber product uses an integrated split antenna and a global positioning system to simultaneously send data packets from each side of the link.
We engineered proprietary communication protocols so that airFiber does not suffer from the traditional packet overhead associated with Wi-Fi based standards. In
February 2015, we introduced airFiber 5X, the first airFiber X radio with full 5GHz global 5GHz band operation. We believe the airFiber family of products offers
a compelling alternative to wired backhaul as airFiber is not easily susceptible to vandalism, copper theft, and fiber optic damage because only the endpoints need
to be secured. airFiber does not require physical infrastructure such as laying cable or fiber, and by utilizing unlicensed spectrum, customers achieve significantly
faster deployment.
Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON)-UFiber
The UFiber Platform is designed to enable internet service providers (ISPs) to quickly build high-speed fiber internet networks for many users and over long
distances. The plug and play solution significantly reduces the time it takes to get a network up and running and makes it easy to manage a network through the
free Ubiquiti Network Management System (UNMS). Both the UFiber OLT and Nano G are low power solutions, helping to save energy and reduce operating
costs.
Our current major enterprise solutions include:
Enterprise WLAN—UniFi
Our UniFi Enterprise Wi-Fi System is a scalable Wi-Fi solution that includes Wi-Fi certified hardware with a software based management controller, targeting
enterprise customers. UniFi hardware utilizes Wave 2 MIMO technology, works with 802.11a/b/g/n and ac standards and uses a single cable for data transmission
and power-over-Ethernet. UniFi uses a virtual controller that allows for on-site management or remote management through the cloud, allowing customers to
deploy UniFi in both indoor and outdoor applications. Each UniFi access point can be managed centrally with the UniFi Controller software, which we provide
free of charge. The UniFi Controller enables enterprise WLAN managers to centrally configure and administer a UniFi network and individual access points. The
UniFi platform provides UniFi access point detection, firmware updates, real-time status, map loading, advanced security options and “zero handoff roaming,” our
proprietary innovation for seamless roaming for mobile devices. Since the initial launch, we have expanded our UniFi Enterprise system to include UniFi AC
products.
Video Surveillance—UniFi Video
Our line of UniFi Video IP cameras use a single cable for data transmission and power-over-Ethernet. Our management controller software can be used to manage
multiple UniFi Video IP cameras as well as manage digital video recorder devices.
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UniFi Video software is available for download at no cost on our website and only manages Ubiquiti Network camera devices. Similar to our other network
management products, UniFi Video can be accessed securely from any web browser, provides detailed statistical reporting and advanced analytics and provides a
management console with multiple views, versatile camera settings and customizable event recordings. Since the initial launch, we have expanded the UniFi Video
platform to include new products such as UniFi Video Camera G3 products, our 1080p cameras with infrared, and UniFi Video Micro products, our smaller 720p
cameras.
UniFi Switch
UniFi Switch is one of our top selling categories as end customers can easily add equipment as they expand their networks. Managed by the UniFi Controller
software, UniFi Switches deliver performance, switching, and PoE+ support for enterprise networks. The UniFi Switches can power UniFi AP's, and UniFi Video
Cameras.
UniFi Security Gateway
The UniFi Security Gateway extends the UniFi enterprise solutions to provide cost-effective, reliable routing and advanced network security. Managed by the
UniFi Controller software, the UniFi Security Gateway offers advanced firewall, virtual network segments, a site-to-site VPN, QoS priority and other
functionalities.
In fiscal 2017, we announced Ubiquiti Labs, a division focusing on research and development of consumer electronics and introduced a new consumer product
platform, called AmpliFi, which is a Wi-Fi system solution designed to serve the demands of the modern connected home. AmpliFi is distributed through a
network of retailers including Sam’s Club, Best Buy and Game Stop, as well as on-line retailers Amazon.com and Bestbuy.com among others. This division is
focused on delivery direct to consumer based solutions in an array of high technology products.
The table below summarizes information about our major product platforms:
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Service Provider Products
airMAX
EdgeMAX
airFiber
Ufiber
Enterprise Products
UniFi
UniFi Video
UniFi Switch
AmpliFi
Target Applications
Base station/Backhaul/CPE/Bridge
Routing/Switching
Wireless Backhaul
Gigabit Passive Optical Networking
WLAN
IP Video Surveillance
Switching
Home Wi-Fi Mesh
(1) MSRP listed is for one airFiber unit only, but is typically sold in pairs.
The Ubiquiti Community
Bands of
Operation (GHz)
0.9/ 2.4/ 3/ 5/10
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2.4/3/4/5/11/24
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2.4/5
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MSRP
$49 - $499
$49 - $1,599
$199 - $3,000( 1)
$69 - $1,499
$59 - $2,649
$79 - $679
$99 - $1,025
$149 - $379
We established the Ubiquiti forum, wiki and newsletter to foster a large, growing and engaged online community of service providers and distributors, customers
and employees among others. The Ubiquiti Community powers our business model by facilitating rapid introductions and development of customer-oriented
products. The Ubiquiti Community provides best practices, advice, troubleshooting and product feedback. It also acts as a source of product support and drives
viral marketing.
The following describes the key aspects of our sustainable business model that are powered by the Ubiquiti Community:
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Rapid customer and community-driven product development . We seek to identify features and products that are, or are expected to be, needed or desired
by the majority of customers for that product. We rely on the Ubiquiti Community as a significant source of requests for features that we translate into new
product ideas and designs. We leverage our Beta store for super-users who purchase early models of newly released technology, which they provide
feedback on. This feedback is incorporated into the final product offering upon official launch
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Scalable sales and marketing model . We rely on the Ubiquiti Community to drive market awareness and demand for our products and solutions. This
community-propagated viral marketing enables us to reach underserved and underpenetrated markets far more efficiently and cost effectively than is
possible through traditional sales models. For example, there have been many instances where members of the Ubiquiti Community, who happen to be on
online forums not affiliated with us, have strongly recommended that users of other wireless networking solutions try our products and solutions. We also
hold conferences as an effective way to introduce and promote our products and solutions to the global Ubiquiti Community.
Self-sustaining product support. Our service providers and IT professionals, who enthusiastically support each other through the Ubiquiti forum, as well
as other blogs and online groups, have fostered a large, scalable and, we believe, self-sustaining mechanism for rapid product support and dissemination of
information. The members of the Ubiquiti Community respond to user questions posted on our forum in a rapid manner. These responses are then rated by
other members of the Ubiquiti Community to help ensure that the users are receiving the best possible answers. Top answers to common questions are
stored in the Ubiquiti Networks Community Knowledge Base. In addition, our internal customer support organization provides feedback on critical product
issues, and augments the information in the Ubiquiti Community.
Research and Development
Our research and development organization is responsible for the design, development and testing of our products. Our engineering team has deep expertise and
experience in networking and antenna design, and we have a number of personnel with longstanding experience with network architecture and operation. We have
developed and intend to continue to develop our technology in part by operating with a relatively flat reporting structure that relies on individual contributors or
small development teams to develop, test and obtain feedback for our products. Our products and solutions benefit from the active engagement between the
Ubiquiti Community and our research and development personnel throughout the product development cycle, resulting in rapid introduction and adoption of new
products. Our research and development personnel evaluate the input from service providers, IT professionals and enterprises and respond to their needs by
modifying our products or developing new products based on the input received.
As of June 30, 2017 , our research and development team consisted of 440 full time equivalent employees, including contractors, located in the United States,
Taiwan, China, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Latvia and elsewhere. Our research and development operations work on product development of new
products and new versions of existing products. Our research and development expenses were $69.1 million , $57.8 million and $54.6 million for fiscal 2017 ,
fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively. We expect that the number of our research and development personnel will increase over time and that our research and
development expenses will also increase.
Manufacturing and Suppliers
We retain contract manufacturers to manufacture, control the quality of our products. We primarily utilize contract manufacturers located in China. Our
relationships with contract manufacturers allow us to conserve working capital, reduce manufacturing costs and minimize delivery lead times while maintaining
high product quality and the ability to scale quickly to handle increased order volume. Over the long term, our contract manufacturers are not required to
manufacture our products for any specific period or in any specific quantity. We expect that it would take approximately three to six months to transition
manufacturing, quality assurance and shipping services to new providers.
Our internal manufacturing organization consists of supply chain managers, logistics employees and contractors who supervise the manufacture of our products at
contract manufacturer sites and test engineers. We rely on our contract manufacturers and our internal quality assurance resources to implement quality assurance
programs designed to achieve high product quality and reliability. We believe that our low warranty expenses and product return rate to date reflect a high level of
product quality. We tightly integrate our research and development efforts with our supplier selection process. Once product manufacturing quality reaches a
satisfactory level, we move full scale production to the contract manufacturer site. We also evaluate and utilize other suppliers for components from time to time.
We rely on third party components and technology to build and operate our products, and we rely on our contract manufacturers to obtain the components,
subassemblies and products necessary for the manufacture of our products. While components and supplies are generally available from a variety of sources, we
and our contract manufacturers currently depend on a single or limited number of suppliers for several components for our products. We and our contract
manufacturers rely on purchase orders rather than long-term contracts with these suppliers. The majority of our product revenues are dependent upon
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the sale of products that incorporate components from Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. ("Qualcomm Atheros"). We are party to a non-exclusive license agreement with
Qualcomm Atheros whereby we license certain technology that we incorporate into our products. This agreement automatically renews for successive one year
periods unless the agreement is terminated by written notice of nonrenewal at least 90 days prior to the end of its then-current term. The Company has not received
a termination notice as of the date of this Report. We depend on this license agreement to modify and replace firmware that Qualcomm Atheros provides with the
chipsets with our proprietary firmware. While our agreement with Qualcomm Atheros remains effective, in accordance with the current terms of the agreement,
either party may terminate the agreement without cause at the end of the annual contract term.
We do not stockpile sufficient chipsets to cover the time it would take to re-engineer our products to replace the Qualcomm Atheros chipsets which comprise the
raw materials for our product offerings. If we need to seek a suitable second source for Qualcomm Atheros in our products, there can be no assurance that we
would be able to successfully source our chipsets on suitable terms, if at all. In any event, our use of chipsets from multiple sources may require us to significantly
modify our designs and manufacturing processes to accommodate these different chipsets.
In addition to utilizing contract manufacturers, we outsource most of our logistics warehousing and order fulfillment functions, which are located primarily in
China, and to a lesser extent, Taiwan and United States. We also evaluate and utilize other vendors for various portions of our supply chain from time to time. Our
operations organization consists of employees and consultants engaged in the management of our contract manufacturers, new product introduction activities,
logistical support and engineering.
Sales and Distribution
Historically, we have not employed a direct sales force, nor do we plan to in the future. We sell our products and solutions globally to service providers and
enterprises primarily through our extensive network of distributors, and, to a lesser extent, direct customers. During fiscal 2017 , we sold our products to over 100
distributors and direct customers (collectively, “customers”) in over 70 countries. In fiscal 2017, one customer represents 11% of our revenues. No other customer
accounted for 10% or more of our revenues in fiscal 2017, fiscal 2016, and fiscal 2015. Refer to Note 12 in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for
more information
A substantial majority of our sales are made to distributors outside the United States and we anticipate that non-U.S. sales will continue to be a significant portion
of our revenues. Sales in South America accounted for 12% , 13% and 16% of our revenues in fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively. Sales in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa accounted for 39% , 39% , and 40% of our revenues in fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively. Sales in Asia
Pacific accounted for 11% , 12% , and 11% of our revenues in fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively. We do not have any visibility on the location
or extent of purchases of our products by individual network operators and service providers from our distributors. Information regarding financial data by
geographic areas is set forth in Item 7 and Item 15 of this Form 10-K. See Note 12 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements under Item 15.
Although we publish a manufacturer's suggested retail price, or MSRP, for our products, our distributors have control of pricing to the ultimate purchaser.
Historically, we have not provided our distributors with any substantial sales training or marketing materials; however, currently, we are expanding our product
education offerings for distributors, as well as increasing marketing support. Our agreements with our distributors do not limit their ability to carry products that
compete with ours. Our distribution agreements generally have a one year term, subject to automatic renewal unless canceled by one of the parties. Our distributors
typically provide us with purchase orders for delivery within six weeks, which we use to forecast future demand and estimate desired inventory builds.
We have expanded the scope of our training certification program for distributors and other interested individuals through updated classroom curriculum and new
online courses. In fiscal 2017 , Ubiquiti had 294 certified trainers across our various product platforms with more than 50,000 students enrolled in training.
The goal is for those completing the certification process to in turn educate and train service providers and enterprise customers on the effective deployment and
use of our products and solutions. We offer the training program to distributors and other interested individuals in different languages throughout the world.
Backlog
Our sales are primarily made through standard purchase orders for delivery of products. Some orders remain in backlog due to concerns about the credit worthiness
of the customer and delivery held due to inventory channel, we do not believe our backlog information is a reliable indicator of our ability to achieve any particular
level of revenue of financial performance.
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Competition
The markets for networking solutions for service providers, enterprise WLAN, video surveillance, microwave backhaul and machine-to-machine communications
technology are highly competitive and are influenced by the following competitive factors, among others:
total cost of ownership and return on investment associated with the solutions;
simplicity of deployment and use of the solutions;
ability to rapidly develop high performance integrated solutions;
reliability and scalability of the solutions;
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ability to offer a suite of products and solutions;
ability to allow centralized management of the solutions; and
ability to provide quality product support.
We believe we compete favorably with respect to these factors. Although we are a recent entrant in the video surveillance, microwave backhaul, routing GPON
fiber markets, we believe our products compete favorably in these product categories. We have been successful in rapidly developing high performance integrated
solutions because we use individual contributors and small, experienced development teams that focus on the key needs of underserved and underpenetrated
markets. Our products and solutions are designed to meet the price-performance characteristics demanded by our customers to achieve a strong overall return on
their investment. Our products are designed to operate in growing networks without degradation in performance or operational complexity.
In the backhaul market, our competitors include Cambium Networks, Ceragon Networks, DragonWave, Mikrotîkls, Mimosa, SAF Tehnika and Trango. In the CPE
market, our competitors include Cambium Networks, Mikrotîkls, Ruckus Wireless and TP-LINK Technologies. In the antenna market, we primarily compete with
PCTEL, ARC, ITELITE and Radio Waves. In the enterprise WLAN market, we primarily compete with Huawei, Aerohive Networks, Aruba Networks (HPE),
Ruckus Wireless (Arris), Cisco Meraki and Cisco. In the video surveillance market, we primarily compete with Axis Communications, HIKVISION, Mobotix and
Vivotek. We expect increased competition from other established and emerging companies if our market continues to develop and expand. As we enter new
markets, we expect to face competition from incumbent and new market participants.
Intellectual Property
We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual restrictions, to establish and
protect our proprietary rights. These laws, procedures and restrictions provide only limited protection and the legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability
and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain and still evolving. Furthermore, effective patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret
protection may not be available in every country in which our services and products are available. We seek patent protection for certain of our key concepts,
components, protocols, processes and other inventions.
As of June 30, 2017 , we had 53 issued patents in the United States, 34 issued patents in foreign countries and over 100 pending U.S. and foreign patent
applications. These patent applications relate to various features embedded in certain of our products, including the integration of components in a microwave
system and certain performance improvements to radio receivers, and certain technologies in developments. We have filed, and will continue to file, patent
applications in the United States and other countries where we believe there to be a strategic technological or business reason to do so. Any patents issued to us
now or in the future may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented and may not provide sufficiently broad protection or may not prove to be enforceable in
actions against alleged infringers.
As of June 30, 2017 , we owned U.S. trademark registrations in Ubiquiti, Ubiquiti Networks, Ubiquiti World Network, UBNT, U Ubiquiti Networks & Design,
UniFi & Design, UniFi Video, the U logo, the beam logo, airMAX, airControl, airOS, airOS and Design, airFiber, airGateway, airGrid, airPRISM, airView,
airCam, airMagic, airVision, airSelect, Bullet, Bullet 2 Ubiquiti AmpliFI & Design, CRM Point, Device Design, EdgeMAX, EdgeOS & Design, Edgepoint,
Edgeswitch Stylized, FiberProtect, InnerFeed, Isobeam, Litebeam, mFi, mFi & Design, mPort, Multi-Lane, NanoBeam, NanoStation, NanoBridge, PicoStation,
PowerBeam, PowerBridge, Prism, Rocket, The Future Can't Wait, U CRM Control, and a number of trademark applications and registrations in the United States
and other countries.
We endeavor to enter into agreements with our employees and contractors and with parties with whom we do business in order to limit access to and disclosure of
our proprietary information. We cannot be certain that the steps we have taken will prevent
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unauthorized use or reverse engineering of our technology. Moreover, others may independently develop technologies that are competitive with ours or that
infringe on our intellectual property. The enforcement of our intellectual property rights also depends on the success of our legal actions against infringers and
counterfeiters, but these actions may not be successful, even when our rights have been infringed.
Employees
As of June 30, 2017 , we employed and or contracted with 725 full time equivalent employees, which included 440 in research and development, 92 in sales,
general and administrative and 193 in operations. None of our employees are represented by a labor union or is a party to a collective bargaining agreement. We
consider our relations with our employees to be good.
Corporate Information
We were incorporated in the State of California in 2003 as Pera Networks, Inc., and we commenced our current operations in 2005 and changed our name to
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. at that time. In June 2010, Ubiquiti Networks, Inc., a California corporation, changed its state of organization to Delaware by merging with
and into Ubiquiti Networks, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Our executive offices are located at 685 Third Avenue, 27th Floor, New York, New York 10047, and our
telephone number is (646) 780-7958. Our website address is www.ubnt.com. The information on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not part of this
Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Unless the context requires otherwise, the words “we,” “us,” “our” “Company” and “Ubiquiti” refer to Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and its subsidiaries as a whole.
Financial Information About Geographic Areas
Refer to Note 12 in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included under Part IV, Item 15 of this report for financial information about our geographic
areas.
Available Information
The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to reports filed pursuant to
Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), are filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”). Such reports and other information filed by the Company with the SEC are available free of charge on the Company’s website at
http://ir.ubnt.com/sec.cfm when such reports are available on the SEC website. The public may read and copy any materials filed by the Company with the SEC at
the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Room 1580, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public
Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other
information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov . The contents of these websites are not incorporated into this filing. Further,
the Company’s references to the URLs for these websites are intended to be inactive textual references only.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
This Report contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected.
These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth below. These risks and uncertainties are not the only ones we face. If any
event related to these known or unknown risks or uncertainties actually occurs, our business prospects, results of operation, and financial condition could be
materially adversely affected.
Fluctuations in our operating results could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
Our quarterly operating results fluctuate significantly due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control and are difficult or impossible to predict.
We expect our operating results will continue to fluctuate. You should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance. If our revenues or
operating results fall below the expectations of investors or securities analysts, or below any estimates we may provide to the market, the price of our common
shares would likely decline substantially, which could have a material adverse impact on investor confidence and employee retention. Our common stock has
experienced substantial price volatility since our initial public offering. In addition, the stock market as a whole has experienced major price and volume
fluctuations that have affected the stock price of many technology companies in ways that may have been unrelated to these companies’ operating performance.
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Factors that could cause our operating results and stock price to fluctuate include:
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varying demand for our products due to the financial and operating condition of our distributors and their customers, distributor inventory management
practices and general economic conditions;
shifts in our fulfillment practices including increasing inventory levels as part of efforts to decrease our delivery lead times;
failure of our suppliers to provide chips or other components;
failure of our contract manufacturers and suppliers to meet our demand;
success and timing of new product introductions by us, and our competitors;
increased warranty costs;
announcements by us or our competitors regarding products, promotions or other transactions;
costs related to legal proceedings or responding to government inquiries;
our ability to control and reduce product costs; and
expenses of our entry into new markets.
In addition, our business may be subject to seasonality, although our recent growth rates and timing of product introductions may have masked seasonal changes in
demand. For example, our consumer products may be subject to general seasonal spending trends associated with holidays.
We have limited visibility into future sales, which makes it difficult to forecast our future operating results.
Because of our limited visibility into end customer demand and channel inventory levels, our ability to accurately forecast our future sales is limited. We sell our
products and solutions globally to network operators, service providers and consumers, primarily through our network of distributors and resellers. We do not
employ a direct sales force. Sales to our distributors have accounted for nearly all of our revenues. Our distributors do not make long term purchase commitments
to us, and do not typically provide us with information about market demand for our products. We endeavor to obtain information on inventory levels and sales
data from our distributors. This information has been generally difficult to obtain in a timely manner, and we cannot always be certain that the information is
reliable. If we over forecast demand, we may not be able to decrease our expenses in time to offset any shortfall in revenues. If we under forecast demand, our
ability to fulfill sales orders will be compromised and sales to distributors may be deferred or lost altogether.
Sales to the service provider market are especially volatile, and weakness in orders from this industry could harm our future operating results.
Weakness in orders, directly or indirectly, from the service provider industry, including as a result of any slowdown in capital expenditures by service providers
(which may be more prevalent during a global economic downturn, or periods of economic, political or regulatory uncertainty), could have a material adverse
effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition. Such slowdowns may continue or recur in future periods. Orders from this industry could decline
for many reasons other than the competitiveness of our products and services within their respective markets. These conditions have harmed our business and
operating results in the past, and some of these or other conditions in the service provider market could affect our business and operating results in any future
period.
We are subject to risks associated with our distributors’ inventory management practices.
Our distributors purchase and maintain their own inventories of our products, and we do not control their inventory management. Distributors may manage their
inventories in a manner that causes significant fluctuations in their purchases from quarter to quarter, and which may not be in alignment with the actual demand of
end customers for our products. If some distributors decide to purchase more of our products than are required to satisfy their customers’ demand in any particular
quarter, because they do not accurately forecast demand or otherwise, they may reduce future orders until their inventory levels realign with their customers’
demand. If some distributors decide to purchase less of our products than are required to satisfy their customers’ demand in any particular quarter, because they do
not accurately forecast demand or otherwise, sales of our products may be deferred or lost altogether.
If our forecasts of future sales are inaccurate, we may manufacture too many or not enough products.
We may over or under forecast our customers’ actual demand for our products or the actual mix of our products that they will ultimately demand. If we over-
forecast demand, we may build excess inventory which could materially adversely affect our
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operating results. If we under-forecast demand, we may miss opportunities for sales and may impair our customer relationships, which could materially adversely
affect our operating results.
The lead times that we face for the procurement of components and subsequent manufacturing of our products are usually much longer than the lead time from our
customers’ orders to the expected delivery date. This increases the risk that we may manufacture too many or not enough products in any given period.
We may decide to increase or maintain higher levels of inventory, which may result in inventory write-downs.
The Company must order components for its products and build inventory in advance of product announcements and shipments. With the use of third party
logistics and warehousing providers, we may decide to increase or maintain higher levels of inventory of finished products or components, which may expose us to
a greater risk of carrying excess or obsolete inventory. Decisions to increase or maintain higher inventory levels are typically based upon uncertain forecasts or
other assumptions. Because the markets in which the Company compete are volatile, competitive and subject to rapid technology and price changes, if the
assumptions on which we base these decisions turn out to be incorrect, our financial performance could suffer and we could be required to write-off the value of
excess products or components inventory or not fully utilize firm purchase commitments.
We rely on a limited number of distributors, and changes in our relationships with our distributors or changes within our distributors may disrupt our sales.
Although we have a large number of distributors in numerous countries who sell our products, a limited number of these distributors represent a significant portion
of our sales. One or more of our major distributors may suffer from a decline in their financial condition, decrease in demand from their customers, or a decline in
other aspects of their business which could impair their ability to purchase and resell our products. Any distributor may also cease doing business with us at any
time with little or no notice. The termination of a relationship with a major distributor, either by us or by the distributor, could result in a temporary or permanent
loss of revenues. We may not be successful in finding other suitable distributors on satisfactory terms, or at all, and this could adversely affect our ability to sell in
certain geographic markets or to certain network operators and service providers.
We may not be able to enhance our products to keep pace with technological and market developments while offering competitive prices.
The market for our wireless broadband networking equipment is emerging and is characterized by rapid technological change, evolving industry standards,
frequent new product introductions and short product life cycles. The markets for enterprise networking equipment and consumer products possess similar
characteristics of rapid technological updates, evolving industry standards, frequent changes in consumer preferences, frequent new product introductions and short
and unpredictable product life cycles. Our ability to keep pace in these markets depends upon our ability to enhance our current products, and continue to develop
and introduce new products rapidly and at competitive prices. The success of new product introductions or updates on existing products depends on a number of
factors including, but not limited to, timely and successful product development, market acceptance, our ability to manage the risks associated with new product
production ramp-up, the effective management of our inventory and manufacturing schedule and the risk that new products may have defects or other deficiencies
in the early stages of introduction. The development of our products is complex and costly, and we typically have several products in development at the same
time. Given the complexity, we occasionally have experienced, and could experience in the future, lower than expected yields on new or enhanced products and
delays in completing the development and introduction of new products and enhancements to existing products. In addition, new products may have lower selling
prices or higher costs than existing products, which could negatively impact our operating results. Our ability to compete successfully will depend in large measure
on our ability to maintain a technically skilled development and engineering staff, to successfully innovate, and to adapt to technological changes and advances in
the industry. Development and delivery schedules for our products are difficult to predict. We may fail to introduce new products or enhancements to existing
products in a timely fashion. If new releases of our products are delayed, our distributors may curtail their efforts to market and promote our products and our users
may switch to competing products.
The markets in which we compete are highly competitive.
The networking, enterprise WLAN, routing, switching, video surveillance, wireless backhaul, machine-to-machine communications and consumer markets in
which we primarily compete are highly competitive and are influenced by competitive factors including:
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the reliability and scalability of the solutions;
the market awareness of a particular brand;
our ability to provide secure access to wireless networks;
our ability to offer a suite of products and solutions;
our ability to allow centralized management of the solutions; and
our ability to provide quality product support.
New entrants seeking to gain market share by introducing new technology and new products may also make it more difficult for us to sell our products, and could
create increased pricing pressure. In addition, broadband equipment providers or system integrators may also offer wireless broadband infrastructure equipment for
free or as part of a bundled offering, which could force us to reduce our prices or change our selling model to remain competitive.
If there is a shift in the market such that network operators and service providers begin to use closed network solutions that only operate with other equipment from
the same vendor, we could experience a significant decline in sales because our products would not be interoperable.
We expect competition to continuously intensify as other established and new companies introduce new products in the same markets that we serve or intend to
enter, as these markets consolidate. Our business will suffer if we do not maintain our competitiveness.
A number of our current or potential competitors have longer operating histories, greater brand recognition, larger customer bases and significantly greater
resources than we do.
As we move into new markets for different types of products, our brand may not be as well-known as incumbents in those markets. Potential customers may prefer
to purchase from their existing suppliers or well-known brands rather than a new supplier, regardless of product performance or features. We expect increased
competition from other established and emerging companies if our markets continue to develop and expand. As we enter new markets, we expect to face
competition from incumbent and new market participants and there is no assurance that our entry into new markets will be successful.
Many of these companies have significantly greater financial, technical, marketing, distribution and other resources than we do and are better positioned to acquire
and offer complementary products and technologies.
Industry consolidation, acquisitions and other arrangements among competitors may adversely affect our competitiveness because it may be more difficult to
compete with entities that have access to their combined resources. As a result of such consolidation, acquisition or other arrangements, our current and potential
competitors might be able to adapt more quickly to new technologies and consumer preference, devote greater resources to the marketing and promotion of their
products, initiate or withstand price competition, and take advantage of acquisitions or other opportunities more readily and develop and expand their products
more quickly than we do. These combinations may also affect customers’ perceptions regarding the viability of companies our size and, consequently, affect their
willingness to purchase our products.
The complexity of our products could result in unforeseen delays or expenses caused by undetected defects or bugs.
Our products may contain defects and bugs when they are introduced, or as new versions are released. We have focused, and intend to focus in the future, on
getting our new products to market quickly. Due to our rapid product introductions, defects and bugs that may be contained in our products may not yet have
manifested. We have in the past experienced, and may in the future experience, defects and bugs. If any of our products contain material defects or bugs, or has
reliability, quality or compatibility problems, we may not be able to promptly or successfully correct these problems. The existence of defects or bugs in our
products may damage our reputation and disrupt our sales. If any of these problems are not found until after we have commenced commercial production and
distribution of a new product, we may be required to incur additional development costs, repair or replacement costs, and other costs relating to regulatory
proceedings, product recalls and litigation, which could harm our reputation and operating results. Undetected defects or bugs may lead to negative online Internet
reviews of our products, which are increasingly becoming a significant factor in the success of our new product launches, especially for our consumer products. If
we are unable to quickly respond to negative reviews, including end user reviews posted on various prominent online retailers, our ability to sell these products will
be harmed. Moreover, we may offer stock rotation rights to our distributors. If we experience greater returns from retailers or end customers, or greater warranty
claims, in excess of our reserves, our business, revenue and operating results could be harmed.
Security vulnerabilities in our products, services and systems could lead to reduced revenues and claims against us.
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The quality and performance of some of our products and services may depend upon their ability to withstand cyber attacks. Third parties may develop and deploy
viruses, worms and other malicious software programs, some of which may be designed to attack our products, systems, or networks. Some of our products and
services also involve the storage and transmission of users' and customers' proprietary information which may be the target of cyber attacks. Hardware and
software that we produce or procure from third parties also may contain defects in manufacture or design, including bugs and other problems, which could
compromise their ability to withstand cyber attacks.
We may have experienced cyber attacks in the past, and may experience cyber attacks in the future. As a result, unauthorized parties may have obtained, and may
in the future obtain, access to our systems, data or our users' or customers' data. Our security measures may also be breached due to employee error, malfeasance,
or otherwise. Third parties may also attempt to induce employees, users, or customers to disclose sensitive information in order to gain access to our data or our
users' or customers' data. Any such breach or unauthorized access could result in significant legal and financial exposure, damage to our reputation, and a loss of
confidence in the security of our products and services. Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems
change frequently, and often are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate
preventative measures.
The costs to us to eliminate or alleviate security vulnerabilities can be significant, and our efforts to address these problems may not be successful and could result
in interruptions, delays, cessation of service and loss of existing or potential customers that may impede our sales, manufacturing, distribution or other critical
functions, as well as potential liability to the company. The risk that these types of events could seriously harm our business is likely to increase as we expand the
web-based products and services that we offer.
We may be unable to anticipate or fail to adequately mitigate against increasingly sophisticated methods to engage in illegal or fraudulent activities against us.
Despite any defensive measures we take to manage threats to our business, our risk and exposure to these matters remain heightened because of, among other
things, the evolving nature of such threats in light of advances in computer capabilities, new discoveries in the field of cryptography, new and sophisticated
methods used by criminals including phishing, social engineering or other illicit acts, or other events or developments that we may be unable to anticipate or fail to
adequately mitigate. In June 2015, we determined that we were the victim of criminal fraud known to law enforcement authorities as business e-mail compromise
fraud which involved employee impersonation and fraudulent requests targeting our finance department. The fraud resulted in transfers of funds aggregating $46.7
million held by a Company subsidiary incorporated in Hong Kong to other overseas accounts held by third parties. To date the Company has recovered $16.7
million. The Company recovered $8.1 million in fiscal 2015, resulting in a charge of $39.1 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, including additional
expenses consisting of professional service fees associated with the fraud loss. In fiscal 2016, the Company recorded a net recovery of an additional $8.3 million,
comprised of an $8.6 million recovery less $0.3 million of professional service fees associated with the recovery. No additional recoveries were made during fiscal
year 2017.
The Company is continuing to pursue the recovery of the remaining $30.0 million and is cooperating with U.S. federal and numerous overseas law enforcement
authorities who are actively pursuing a multi-agency criminal investigation. However, any additional recoveries are likely remote and therefore cannot be assured.
The Company may not be successful in obtaining any insurance coverage for this loss. While we do not expect the fraud to have a material impact on our business,
we have borne, and will continue to bear additional expenses in connection with the remediation and investigation of the fraud.
Our business and prospects depend on the strength of our brand.
Maintaining and enhancing our brand is critical to expanding our base of distributors and end customers. Maintaining and enhancing our brand will depend largely
on our ability to continue to develop and provide products and solutions that address the price-performance characteristics sought by end customers and the users
of our products and services, particularly in developing markets which comprise a significant part of our business. If we fail to promote, maintain and protect our
brand successfully, our ability to sustain and expand our business and enter new markets will suffer.
We rely on the Ubiquiti Community to provide our engineers with valuable feedback that is important in our research and development processes.
We rely on the Ubiquiti Community to provide rapid and substantive feedback on the functionality and effectiveness of our products. The insights, problems and
suggestions raised by the Ubiquiti Community enable our engineers to quickly resolve issues with our existing products and improve functionality in subsequent
product releases. If the members of the Ubiquiti Community were to become less engaged or otherwise ceased providing valuable, timely feedback, our internal
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development costs and our time to market could increase, which could cause us to incur additional expenses or make our products less attractive to customers.
We rely on the Ubiquiti Community to generate awareness of, and demand for, our products.
We believe a significant portion of our growth to date has been driven by the diverse and actively engaged Ubiquiti Community, and our business model is
predicated on the assumption that the Ubiquiti Community will continue to provide these benefits. We do not have a direct sales force and we engage in limited
marketing expenditures. Although the Ubiquiti Community is central to the success of our business, the interactions within the Ubiquiti Community, and
participation levels, are largely outside of our control. Any negative information about us or our products in the Ubiquiti Community, whether or not justified,
could quickly and materially decrease the demand for our products.
We rely on the Ubiquiti Community to provide network operators and service providers with support to install, operate and maintain our products.
We rely on the Ubiquiti Community to provide assistance and other information to network operators and service providers for the installation, operation and
maintenance of our products. Because we do not generate or control all of the information provided through the Ubiquiti Community, inaccurate information
regarding the installation, operation and maintenance of our products could be promulgated through forum postings by members of the Ubiquiti Community.
Although we moderate and review many forum postings to learn of reported problems and assess the accuracy of advice provided by the Ubiquiti Community, we
may not devote sufficient time or resources to adequately monitor the quality of Ubiquiti Community information.
Inaccurate information in the Ubiquiti Community could lead to poor customer experiences or dissatisfaction with our products, which could negatively impact our
reputation and diminish our sales.
We may fail to effectively manage the challenges associated with our growth.
Over the past several years we have expanded, and continue to expand, our product offerings, the number of customers we sell to, our transaction volumes, the
number of our facilities, and the number of contract manufacturers that we utilize to produce our products. Failure to effectively manage the increased complexity
associated with this expansion, particularly in light of our lean management structure, would make it difficult to conduct our business, fulfill customer orders, and
pursue our strategies. We may also need to increase costs to add personnel, upgrade or replace our existing reporting systems, as well as improve our business
processes and controls as a result of these changes. If we fail to effectively manage any of these challenges we could suffer inefficiencies, errors and disruptions in
our business, which in turn would adversely affect our operating results.
We rely on a limited number of contract manufacturers to produce our products. Supply chain issues or a shortage of adequate component supply or
manufacturing capacity could increase our costs or delay our ability to fulfill future orders and could have an adverse impact on our business and operating
results.
We retain contract manufacturers, located primarily in China, to manufacture our products. Any significant change in our relationship with these manufacturers
could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. Our reliance on contract manufacturers for manufacturing our
products can present significant risks to us because, among other things, we do not have direct control over their activities. If we fail to manage our relationship
with our manufacturers effectively, or if they experience operational difficulties, our ability to ship products to our retailers and distributors could be impaired and
our competitive position and reputation could be harmed.
We significantly depend upon our contract manufacturers to:
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ensure adequate supplies of components and materials;
deliver finished products at agreed upon prices and schedules; and
safeguard materials and finished goods.
The ability and willingness of our contract manufacturers to perform is largely outside our control. In the event that we receive shipments of products that fail to
comply with our technical specifications or that fail to conform to our quality control standards, and we are not able to obtain replacement products in a timely
manner, we risk revenue losses from the inability to sell those products, increased administrative and shipping costs, and lower profitability. Additionally, if
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discovered until after distributors and/or end users purchase our products, they could lose confidence in the technical attributes of our products and our business
and operating results could be harmed.
We do not control our contract manufacturers or suppliers, including their labor, environmental or other practices. Environmental regulations or changes in the
supply, demand or available sources of natural resources may affect the availability and cost of goods and services necessary to run our business. Non-compliance
or deliberate violations of labor, environmental or other laws by our contract manufacturer or suppliers, or a failure of these parties to follow ethical business
practices, could lead to negative publicity and harm our reputation or brand.
We believe that our orders may not represent a material portion of our contract manufacturers’ total orders and, as a result, fulfilling our orders may not be a
priority in the event our contract manufacturers are constrained in their capacity. If any of our contract manufacturers experiences problems in its manufacturing
operations, or if we have to change or add additional contract manufacturers, our ability to ship products to our customers would be impaired.
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Additionally, any or all of the following could either limit supply or increase costs, directly or indirectly, to us or our contract manufacturers:
labor strikes or shortages;
financial problems of either contract manufacturers or component suppliers;
reservation of manufacturing capacity at our contract manufactures by other companies, inside or outside of our industry; and
industry consolidation occurring within one or more component supplier markets, such as the semiconductor market.
We rely upon a limited number of suppliers, and it can be costly and time consuming to use components from other suppliers.
We purchase components, directly or through our contract manufacturers, from third parties that are necessary for the manufacture of our products. Shortages in
the supply of components or other supply disruptions may not be predicted in time to design-in different components or qualify other suppliers. Shortages or
supply disruptions may also increase the prices of components due to market conditions. While many components are generally available from a variety of sources,
we and our contract manufacturers currently depend on a single or limited number of suppliers for several components for our products. For example, we currently
rely upon Qualcomm Atheros as a single-source supplier of certain components for some of our products, and a disruption in the supply of those components
would significantly disrupt our business.
We and our contract manufacturers generally rely on short-term purchase orders rather than long-term contracts with the suppliers of components for our products.
As a result, even if components are available, we and our contract manufacturers may not be able to procure sufficient components at reasonable prices to build our
products in a timely manner. Further, in order to minimize their inventory risk, our manufacturers might not order components from third-party suppliers with
adequate lead time, thereby impacting our ability to meet our demand forecast. We may, therefore, be unable to meet customer demand for our products, which
would have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
Our products, especially new products, sometimes utilize custom components available from only one or limited number of sources. When a component or product
uses new technologies, capacity constraints may exist until the suppliers’ yields have matured or manufacturing capacity has increased. Many factors may affect
the continued availability of these components at acceptable prices, including if those suppliers decide to concentrate on the production of common components
instead of components customized to meet our requirements. There is no assurance that the supply of such components will not be delayed or constrained.
Not paying cash dividends to our stockholders, or repurchasing shares of our common stock pursuant to our previously announced stock repurchase program,
could cause the market price for our common stock to decline.
Our payment of cash dividends will be subject to, among other things, our financial position and results of operations, available cash and cash flow, capital
requirements, and other factors. These and other factors may also affect the continuation of, or activity under, our previously announced stock repurchase program.
Failure to pay cash dividends could cause the market price of our common stock to decline. The discontinuance of, or lack of activity under, our previously
announced stock repurchase program could also result in a lower market price of our common stock.
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A general global economic downturn may negatively affect our customers and their ability to purchase our products. A downturn may decrease our revenues
and increase our costs and may increase credit risk with our customers and impact o u r ability to collect account receivable and recognize revenue.
Since the middle of 2008, there has been global economic uncertainty, including, from time to time, reduced economic growth, reduced confidence in financial
markets, bank failure and credit availability concerns.
The global macroeconomic environment has been challenging and inconsistent caused by instability in the global credit markets, the impact of uncertainty
regarding global central bank monetary policy, the instability in the geopolitical environment in many parts of the world, including the June 2016 referendum by
the United Kingdom in which voters approved an exit from the European Union, commonly referred to as “Brexit”. As a result of the referendum, it is expected
that the United Kingdom government will negotiate the terms of the United Kingdom’s future relationship with the European Union. Although it is unknown what
those terms will be, the Brexit could create global economic uncertainty and cause disruptions in the markets that we serve.
Disruptions in the financial markets have had and may continue to have an adverse effect on the U.S. and world economies, which could adversely and materially
impact business spending patterns. Tightening of credit in financial markets could adversely affect the ability of our customers and suppliers to obtain financing for
significant purchases and operations and could result in a decrease in or cancellation of orders for our products.
Economic downturns may exacerbate some of the other risks that affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. A tighter credit market for
consumer, business, and service provider spending may have several adverse effects, including reduced demand for our products, increased price competition or
deferment of purchases and orders by our customers. Additional effects may include increased demand for customer finance, difficulties in collection of accounts
receivable, higher overhead costs as a percentage of revenue and higher interest expense, risk of supply constraints, risk of excess and obsolete inventories, risk of
excess facilities and manufacturing capacity and increased risk of counterparty failures.
An economic downturn or economic uncertainty in our key U.S. and international markets, as well as fluctuations in currency exchange rates, may adversely affect
consumer discretionary spending and demand for our consumer products. Factors affecting the level of consumer spending include general market conditions,
macroeconomic conditions, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, and other factors such as consumer confidence, the availability and cost of
consumer credit, levels of unemployment and tax rates. If global economic conditions are volatile or if economic conditions deteriorate, consumers may delay or
reduce purchases of our consumer products resulting in consumer demand for our products that may not reach our sales targets. For example, the Brexit caused
significant short term volatility in global stock markets as well as currency exchange rate fluctuations, resulting in further strengthening of the U.S. dollar. Our
sensitivity to economic cycles and any related fluctuation in consumer demand could adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.
We have been investing and expect to continue to invest in growth areas as well as maintaining leadership in our enterprise and service provider technologies,
and if the return on these investments is lower or develops more slowly than we expect, our operating results may be harmed
We have and we may continue to invest and dedicate resources into new growth areas, such as consumer products, while also focusing on maintaining leadership
in our enterprise and service provider technologies. However, the return on our investments may be lower, or may develop more slowly, than we expect. If we do
not achieve the benefits anticipated from these investments (including if our selection of areas for investment does not play out as we expect), or if the achievement
of these benefits is delayed, our operating results may be adversely affected. Additionally, as we invest and dedicate resources into new growth areas, there is no
assurance that we may succeed at maintaining leadership in our enterprise and service provider technologies.
To remain competitive and stimulate customer demand, we must effectively manage product introductions, product transitions and marketing.
We believe that we must continually develop and introduce new products, enhance our existing products, effectively stimulate customer demand for new and
upgraded products, and successfully manage the transition to these new and upgraded products to maintain or increase our revenue. The success of new product
introductions depends on a number of factors including, but not limited to, timely and successful research and development, pricing, market and consumer
acceptance, the effective forecasting and management of product demand, purchase commitments and inventory levels, the availability of products in appropriate
quantities to meet anticipated demand, the management of manufacturing and supply costs, the management of
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risks associated with new product production ramp-up issues, and the risk that new products may have quality issues or other defects or bugs in the early stages of
introduction. Therefore, we could not determine in advance the ultimate effect of new product introductions and transitions.
In addition, the introduction or announcement of new products or product enhancements may shorten the life cycle of our existing products or reduce demand for
our current products, thereby offsetting any benefits of successful product introductions and potentially lead to challenges in managing inventory of existing
products. Failure to complete product transitions effectively or in a timely manner could harm our brand and lead to, among other things, lower revenue, excess
prior generation product inventory, or a deficit of new product inventory and reduced profitability.
In connection with introduction of new products, and our consumer products, in particular, we may spend significant amount on advertising and other marketing
campaigns, such as television, print advertising, social media and others, as well as increased promotional activities, to build brand awareness and acquire new
users. While we seek to structure our advertising campaigns in the manner that we believe is most likely to encourage people to use our products and services, we
may fail to identify advertising opportunities that satisfy our anticipated return on advertising spend, accurately predict customer acquisition, or fully understand or
estimate the conditions and behaviors that drive customer behavior. If for any reason any of our advertising campaigns prove less successful than anticipated in
attracting new customer, we may not be able to recover our advertising spend, and our rate of user acquisition may fail to meet our expectations, either of which
could have an adverse effect on our business. There can be no assurance that our advertising and other marketing efforts will result in increased sales of our
consumer products.
If we are unable to anticipate consumer preferences and successfully develop desirable consumer products and solutions, we might not be able to maintain or
increase revenue and profitability.
Our success in the consumer product market depends on our ability to identify and originate product trends as well as to anticipate, gauge and react to changing
consumer demands in a timely manner. All of our consumer products are subject to changing consumer preferences that cannot be predicted with certainty and lead
times for our products may make it more difficult for us to respond rapidly to new or changing product or consumer preferences. If we are unable to introduce
appealing new consumer products or novel technologies in a timely manner, or our new consumer products or technologies are not accepted or adopted by
consumers, our competitors may increase their market share, which could hurt our competitive position in the consumer product market. It is also possible that
competitors could introduce new products and services that negatively impact consumer preference in the type of consumers products that we supply, which could
result in decreased sales of our product and a loss in market share.
We may not be able to achieve an acceptable return, if any, on our research and development efforts, and our business may be adversely effected. As we
continually seek to enhance our consumer products, we will incur additional costs to incorporate new or revised features. We might not be able to, or determine
that it is not in our interests to, raise prices to compensate for any additional costs.
Our strategy for our consumer products depends upon effectively maintaining and further developing our sales channels, including developing and supporting
our retail sales channel and distributors.
We depend upon effective sales channels to reach the consumers who are the ultimate purchasers of our consumer products. In the United States, we primarily sell
our consumer products through a mix of retail channels, including, e-commerce, big box, mid-market and specialty retailers, and we reach certain U.S. markets
through distributors. In international markets, we primarily sell through distributors who in turn sell to local retailers.
With some of our consumer products, we depend on retailers to provide adequate and attractive space for our products in their stores. We further depend on our
retailers to employ, educate and motivate their sales personnel to effectively sell our consumer products. If our retailers do not adequately display our products,
choose to reduce the space for our products in their stores or locate them in less than premium positioning, or choose not to carry some or all of our consumer
products or promote competitors’ products over ours or do not effectively explain to customers the advantages of our consumer products, our sales could decrease
and our business could be harmed. Similarly, our business could be adversely affected if any of our large retail customers were to experience financial difficulties,
or change the focus of their businesses in a way that deemphasized the sale of our products.
Our distributors generally offer products from several different manufacturers. Accordingly, we are at risk that these distributors may give higher priority to selling
other companies’ products. We have limited number of distributors in certain regions, and if we were to lose the services of a distributor, we might need to find
another distributor in that area and there can be no assurance of our ability to do so in a timely manner or on favorable terms. Further, our distributors build
inventory in anticipation of future sales, and if such sales do not occur as rapidly as they anticipate, our distributors will decrease the size of their future product
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could impede their effectiveness and also expose us to financial risk if they are unable to pay for the products they purchase from us. Additionally, our international
distributors buy from us in U.S. dollars and generally sell to retailers in local currency so significant currency fluctuations could impact their profitability, and in
turn, affect their ability to buy future products from us. For example, the Brexit, caused significant short term volatility in global stock markets as well as currency
exchange rate fluctuations, resulting in further strengthening of the U.S. dollar.
Any reduction in sales by our current distributors, loss of key distributors or decrease in revenue from our distributors could adversely affect our revenue, operating
results and financial condition.
Our business is susceptible to risks associated with operations outside of the United States.
Risks Related to Our International Operations
We have operations in China, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Ukraine, Canada, India, Taiwan, United States and elsewhere. We also sell to distributors in numerous
countries throughout the world. Our operations outside of the United States subject us to risks that we generally do not face in the United States. These include:
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fluctuations in currency exchange rates;
increasing labor costs, especially in China;
difficulties in managing the geographically remote personnel;
the complexities of foreign tax systems and changes in their tax rates and rules;
stringent consumer protection and product compliance regulations that are costly to comply with and may vary from country to country;
limited protection and enforcement regimes for intellectual property rights in some countries;
increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexity; and
political, social and economic instability in some jurisdictions.
If any of these risks were to come to fruition, it could negatively affect our business outside the United States and, consequently, our operating results.
Additionally, operating in markets outside the United States requires significant management attention and financial resources. We cannot be certain that the
investment and additional resources required to establish, acquire or integrate operations in other countries will produce desired levels of revenues or profitability.
Our third party logistics and warehousing providers in China and elsewhere may fail to safeguard and accurately manage and report our inventory.
We use third party logistics and warehousing providers located in China to fulfill the majority of our worldwide sales. We also rely on our third party logistics and
warehousing providers to safeguard, and manage and report on the status of our products at their warehouse and in transit. These service providers may fail to
safeguard our products, fail to accurately segregate and report our inventory, or fail to manage and track the delivery of our products, which could have a material
adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition.
To the extent that we develop some of our own manufacturing capacity, we will be subject to various risks associated with such activities.
We invested in developing our own manufacturing capacity to support our product development and prototyping. To the extent that we may invest in and expand
or relocate these manufacturing capabilities, and increasingly rely upon such activities, we will face increased risks associated with:
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directly procuring components and materials;
regulatory and other compliance requirements;
exposure to casualty loss and other disruptions;
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Since these activities would be conducted in China, some of these risks may be more significant due to the less predictable legal and political environment.
Our business may be negatively affected by political events and foreign policy responses.
Geopolitical uncertainties and events could cause damage or disruption to international commerce and the global economy, and thus could have a material adverse
effect on us, our suppliers, logistics providers, manufacturing vendors and customers, including our channel partners. Changes in commodity prices may also cause
political uncertainty, and increase currency volatility that can affect economic activity. Policies and statements by the current White House administration, as well
as the Republican Party maintaining control of both the House of Representatives and Senate of the U.S. in the congressional election, has created uncertainty with
how trade might be affected between the U.S. and the rest of the world, and China, in particular. Changes in U.S. social, political, regulatory and economic
conditions or in laws and policies governing foreign trade, manufacturing, development and investment in the territories and countries where we currently develop
and sell products, and any negative sentiments towards the U.S. as a result of such changes, could adversely affect our business. For example, if the U.S.
government withdraws or materially modifies existing or proposed trade agreements, places greater restriction on free trade generally or imposes increases on
tariffs on goods imported into the U.S., particularly from China, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected. In addition,
negative sentiments towards the U.S. among non-U.S. customers and among non-U.S. employees or prospective employees could adversely affect sales or hiring
and retention, respectively.
The foreign policies of governments may be volatile, and may result in rapid changes to import and export requirements, customs classifications, tariffs, trade
sanctions and embargoes that may prevent us from offering products or providing services to particular entities or markets or may create delays and inefficiencies
in our supply chain. For example, political unrests and uncertainties in Eastern Europe and Middle East may lead to disruptions in commerce in those regions,
which would in turn impact our sales to those regions. Furthermore, if the U.S. government imposes new sanctions against certain countries or entities, such
sanctions could sufficiently restrict our ability to market and sell our products and may materially adversely affect our results of operations.
In addition, reports of certain intelligence gathering methods of the U.S. government could affect customers’ perception of the products of companies based in the
United States. Trust and confidence in us as an equipment supplier is critical to the development and growth of our markets. Impairment of that trust, or foreign
regulatory actions taken in response to reports of certain intelligence gathering methods of the U.S. government, could affect the demand for our products from
customers outside of the United States and could have an adverse effect on our operating results.
Our ability to introduce new products and support our existing products depends on our ability to manage geographically dispersed research and development
teams.
Significant parts of our research and development operations are conducted in geographically dispersed localities. Our success depends on the effectiveness of our
research and development activities. We must successfully manage these geographically dispersed teams in order to meet our objectives for new product
introduction, product quality and product support. It can be difficult to effectively manage geographically dispersed research and development teams. If we fail to
do so, we could incur unexpected costs or delays in product development.
Our contract manufacturers, logistics centers and certain administrative and research and development operations are located in areas likely to be subject to
natural disasters.
The manufacturing or shipping of our products at one or more facilities may be disrupted because our manufacturing and logistics contractors are all located in
southern China. Our principal executive offices are located in New York, New York. The risks of earthquakes, extreme storms and other natural disasters in these
geographic areas are significant. Any disruption resulting from these events could cause significant delays in product development or shipments of our products
until we are able to shift our development, manufacturing or logistics centers from the affected contractor to another vendor, or shift the affected administrative or
research and development activities to another location.
Risks Related to Intellectual Property
We have limited ability to obtain and enforce intellectual property rights, and may fail to effectively obtain and enforce such rights.
Our success can depend significantly upon our intellectual property rights. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret laws, and
contractual rights to establish, maintain and protect these intellectual property rights, all of which afford only limited protection. Our patent rights, and the
prospective rights sought in our pending patent applications,
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may not be meaningful or provide us with any commercial advantage and they could be opposed, contested, circumvented or designed around by our competitors
or be declared invalid or unenforceable in legal proceedings. In addition, patents may not be issued from any of our current or future patent applications. Any
failure of our patents or other intellectual property rights to adequately protect our technology might make it easier for our competitors to offer similar products or
technologies.
We may fail to apply for patents on important products, services, technologies or designs in a timely fashion, or at all. We may not have sufficient intellectual
property rights in all countries where unauthorized third party copying or use of our proprietary technology occurs and the scope of our intellectual property might
be more limited in certain countries. Our existing and future patents may not be sufficient to protect our products, services, technologies or designs and/or may not
prevent others from developing competing products, services, technologies or designs. We cannot predict the validity and enforceability of our patents and other
intellectual property with certainty.
We have registered, and applied to register, certain of our trademarks in several jurisdictions worldwide. In some of those jurisdictions, third party filings exist for
the same, similar or otherwise related products or services, which could block the registration of our marks. Even if we are able to register our marks, competitors
may adopt or file similar marks to ours, register domain names that mimic or incorporate our marks, or otherwise infringe upon our trademark rights. Although we
police our trademark rights carefully, there can be no assurance that we are aware of all third party uses or that we will prevail in enforcing our rights in all such
instances. Any of these negative outcomes could impact the strength, value and effectiveness of our brand, as well as our ability to market our products. We have
also registered domain names for websites, or URLs, that we use in our business, such as www.ubnt.com. If we are unable to protect our domain names, our brand,
business, and operating results could be adversely affected. Domain names similar to ours have already been registered in the United States and elsewhere, and we
may be unable to prevent third parties from acquiring and using domain names that infringe, are similar to, or otherwise decrease the value of, our brand or our
trademarks. In addition, although we own www.ubnt.com and various other global top level domains, we might not be able to, or may choose not to, acquire or
maintain other country-spec countries in which we currently conduct or intend to conduct business.
Confidentiality agreements with our employees, licensees, independent contractors and others may not effectively prevent disclosure of our trade secrets, and may
not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized use or disclosure of our trade secrets. We may also fail or have failed to obtain such agreements from
such persons due to administrative oversights or other reasons.
Monitoring unauthorized use of our intellectual property is difficult and costly. Unauthorized use of our intellectual property, such as the production of counterfeits
of our products, and unauthorized registration and use of our trademarks by third parties, is a matter of ongoing concern. The steps we have taken may not prevent
unauthorized use of our intellectual property. We may fail to detect infringements of, or take appropriate steps to enforce, our intellectual property rights. Our
competitors might independently develop similar technology without infringing our intellectual property rights. Our inability or failure to effectively protect our
intellectual property could reduce the value of our technology and could impair our ability to compete. Any inability or failure by us to meaningfully protect our
intellectual property could result in competitors offering products that incorporate our most technologically advanced features.
We have initiated and may continue to initiate legal proceedings to enforce our intellectual property rights. Litigation, whether we are a plaintiff or a defendant, can
be expensive and time-consuming, may place our intellectual property at risk of being invalidated or narrowed in scope, and may divert the efforts of our technical
staff and managerial personnel.
Enforcement of our intellectual property rights abroad, particularly in China and South America, is limited.
The intellectual property protection and enforcement regimes in certain countries outside the United States are generally not as comprehensive as in the United
States, and may not adequately protect our intellectual property. The legal regimes relating to the recognition and enforcement of intellectual property rights in
China and South America are particularly limited. Legal proceedings to enforce our intellectual property in these jurisdictions may progress slowly, during which
time infringement may continue largely unimpeded. Countries that have relatively inefficient intellectual property protection and enforcement regimes represent a
significant portion of the demand for our products. These factors may make it more challenging for us to enforce our intellectual property rights against
infringement. The infringement of our intellectual property rights, particularly in these jurisdictions, may materially harm our business in these markets and
elsewhere by reducing our sales, and diluting our brand or reputation.
Our contract manufacturers may not respect our intellectual property, and may produce products that compete with ours.
Our contract manufacturers operate in China, where the prosecution of intellectual property infringement and trade secret theft is more difficult than in the United
States. In the past, our contract manufacturers, their affiliates, their other customers or their suppliers have attempted to participate in efforts to misappropriate our
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our products for themselves or others without our knowledge. Even if the agreements with our contract manufacturers, and applicable laws, prohibit them from
misusing our intellectual property and trade secrets, we may be unsuccessful in monitoring and enforcing our intellectual property rights against them. We have in
the past, and continue to discover, counterfeit goods being sold as our products or as other brands.
We operate in an industry with extensive intellectual property litigation.
Our commercial success depends in part upon us and our component suppliers not infringing intellectual property rights owned by others, and being able to resolve
intellectual property claims without major financial expenditures. Our key component suppliers are often targets of intellectual property claims, and we are subject
to claims as well.
There are numerous patents and patent applications in the United States and other countries relating to communications technologies. It can be difficult or
impossible to conduct meaningful searches for patents relating to our technologies, or to approach third parties to seek a license to their patents. Even extensive
searches for patents that may be relevant to our products may not uncover all relevant patents and patent applications. Because of the existence of a large number
of patents in the networking field, the secrecy of some pending patents, and the rapid rate of issuance of new patents, it is not economically practical or even
possible to determine in advance whether a product or any of its components infringes or will infringe on the patent rights of others. The asserted claims and/or
initiated litigation can include claims against us or our manufacturers, suppliers, or customers, alleging infringement of their proprietary rights with respect to our
existing or future products or components of those products. Regardless of the merit of these claims, they can be time-consuming, result in costly litigation and
diversion of technical and management personnel, or require us to develop a non-infringing technology or enter into license agreements. Where claims are made by
customers, resistance even to unmeritorious claims could damage customer relationships.
We cannot determine with certainty whether any existing or future third party intellectual property rights would require us to alter our technologies, obtain licenses
or cease certain activities. There can be no assurance that licenses will be available on acceptable terms and conditions, if at all, or that our suppliers will indemnify
us, or that any indemnification will be adequate to cover our costs if a claim were brought directly against us or our customers. Furthermore, because of the
potential for high court awards that are not necessarily predictable, it is not unusual to find even arguably unmeritorious claims settled for significant amounts.
We have received, and may in the future receive, claims from third parties, including competitors and non-practicing entities, asserting intellectual property
infringement and other related claims. We expect to continue to receive such intellectual property claims in the future. As our revenues grow and our profile
increases, the frequency and significance of these claims may increase.
Whether or not there is merit to a given claim, it can be time consuming and costly to defend against, and could:
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cause delays or stoppages in the shipment of our products;
cause us to modify or redesign our products;
cause us to rebrand our products or services;
subject us to a temporary or permanent injunction;
divert management’s attention and resources;
subject us to significant damages or settlements;
cause us to give up some of our intellectual property;
require us to enter into costly licensing agreements; or
require us to cease offering certain of our products or services.
Some of our competitors may have substantially greater resources than we do and may be able to sustain the costs of complex intellectual property litigation to a
greater degree and for longer periods of time than we could. In addition, patent holding companies and other third-party non-practicing entities that focus on
extracting royalties and settlements by enforcing patent rights may target our component suppliers, manufacturers, us, our distributors, members of our sales
channels, our network operators and service providers, or other purchasers of our products. These companies typically have little or no product revenues and
therefore our patents may provide little or no deterrence against such companies filing patent infringement lawsuits against our component suppliers,
manufacturers, us, our distributors, members of our sales channels, network operators and service providers, or other purchasers of our products.
In addition to liability for monetary damages against us or, in certain circumstances, our network operators and service providers, we may be prohibited from
developing, commercializing or continuing to provide certain of our products unless we
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obtain licenses from the holders of the patents or other intellectual property rights. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain any such licenses on
commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If we do not obtain licenses, our business, operating results and financial condition could be materially affected and we
could, for example, be required to cease offering our products or be required to materially alter our products, which could involve substantial costs and time to
develop.
The production of counterfeit versions of our products may reduce our sales levels and damage our brand.
We have in the past and continue to discover counterfeit versions of our products. Although we have taken steps to combat counterfeiting, it is difficult or
impossible to detect or prevent all instances of counterfeiting. Particularly if the quality of counterfeit products is poor, damage could be done to our brand.
Combating counterfeiting is difficult and expensive, and may not be successful, especially in countries that have a relatively weak legal regime for the protection of
intellectual property.
We use open source software in our products that may subject source code to public release or require us to re-engineer our products.
We use open source software in certain of our products, and may use more open source software in the future.
There have been claims challenging the ownership of software against companies that use open source software in the development of their products. We could
become subject to claims regarding the ownership of what we believe to be our proprietary software.
Usage of open source software can also lead to greater risks than the use of third party commercial software, since open source licensors generally do not provide
warranties or controls on origin of the software.
Some open source licenses contain requirements that users make available and license the source code for the modifications or derivative works that they create
based upon the open source software. If we combine our proprietary software with open source software we could, in some circumstances, be required to release
our proprietary source code publicly or license such source code on unfavorable terms or at no cost. That could significantly diminish the value of some of our
products and negatively affect our business.
We may lose the services of our founder and Chief Executive Officer, Robert J. Pera, or other key personnel.
Risks Related to Our Management and Structure
Our success and future growth depend on the skills, working relationships and continued services of our management team, and in particular our founder and Chief
Executive Officer, Robert J. Pera. Our future performance may also depend on our ability to retain other key personnel. We do not maintain any significant key
person insurance with regard to any of our personnel.
Our business model relies in part on leanly staffed, independent and efficient research and development teams. Our research and development teams are organized
around small groups or individual contributors for a given platform, and there is little overlap in knowledge and responsibilities. In the event that we are unable to
retain the services of any key contributors, we may be unable to bring our products or product improvements to market in a timely manner, if at all, due to
disruption in our development activities.
Our future success also depends on our ability to attract, retain and motivate skilled personnel. All of our employees work for us on an at will basis. Competition
for personnel is intense in the networking equipment industry, particularly for persons with specialized experience in areas such as antenna design and radio
frequency equipment. If we are unable to attract and retain the necessary personnel our business could be materially adversely affected.
We may fail to manage our growth effectively and develop and implement appropriate control systems.
We have substantially expanded our business and operations in recent periods, including increases in the number of our distributors, contract manufacturers,
headcount locations and facilities. This rapid expansion places a significant strain on our managerial, administrative, and operational resources. Our business model
reflects our decision to operate with streamlined infrastructure, with lower support and administrative headcount. That may increase the risks associated with
managing our growth, and we may not have sufficient internal resources to adapt or respond to unexpected challenges and compliance requirements.
Our profitability may decline as we expand into new product areas.
We receive a substantial majority of our revenues from the sale of outdoor wireless networking equipment and enterprise WLAN. As we expand into other
products and services, such as video surveillance equipment, wireless backhaul, consumer electronics, and machine-to-machine communications, we may not be
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participants and may not be able to realize a positive return on the investment we have made in these products or services. Entering these markets may result in
increased product development costs, and our new products may have extended time to market relative to our current products. If our introduction of a new product
is not successful, or if we are not able to achieve the revenues or margins we expect, our operating results may be harmed and we may not recover our product
development and marketing expenditures.
We may also be required to add a direct sales force and customer support personnel to market and support new or existing products, which would cause us to
experience substantially lower product margins or increase our operating expenses. Adding a direct sales force or customer support personnel could reduce our
operating income and may not be successful.
Our operating expenses are increasing as we make expenditures to enhance and expand our operations.
Over the past several years, we have increased our expenditure on infrastructure to support our anticipated growth and as a result of our being a public company.
We are continuing to make significant investments in information systems, hiring more administrative personnel, using more professional services and expanding
our operations outside the United States. We intend to make additional investments in systems and personnel and continue to expand our operations to support
anticipated growth in our business. As a result, we expect our operating expenses to increase.
In addition, we may need in the future to build a direct sales force to market and sell our products or provide additional resources or cooperative funds to our
distributors. Such changes to our existing sales model would likely result in higher selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of our revenues.
Compliance with conflict mineral disclosure requirements will create additional compliance cost and may create reputational challenges.
Pursuant to Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, United States publicly-traded companies are required to disclose use or potential use of certain minerals and their
derivatives, including tantalum, tin, gold and tungsten, that are mined from the Democratic Republic of Congo and adjoining countries and deemed conflict
minerals.
These requirements necessitate due diligence efforts to assess whether such minerals are used in our products in order to make the relevant required annual
disclosures. There are, and will be, ongoing costs associated with complying with these recent disclosure requirements, including diligence to determine the
sources of those minerals that may be used or necessary to the production of our products. We may face reputational challenges that could impact future sales if we
determine that certain of our products contain minerals not determined to be conflict free or if we are unable to verify with sufficient accuracy the origins of all
conflict minerals used in our products.
We rely on third party software and services to conduct our enterprise resource planning, financial planning and analysis, and financial reporting. We also
rely on third party software and service for our computing, storage, bandwidth, and other services. Any disruption of or interference with these services would
negatively affect our operations and seriously harm our business.
We currently use NetSuite and other software and services to conduct our order management and financial processes. The availability of this service is essential to
the management of our business. As we expand our operations, we expect to utilize additional systems and service providers that may also be essential to managing
our business. Although the systems and services that we require are typically available from a number of providers, it is time consuming and costly to qualify and
implement these relationships.
We rely on third party service providers, such as G-Suite, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, to provide distributed computing infrastructure platforms for
business operations, or what is commonly referred to as a “cloud” computing service. Any transition of the cloud services currently provided by these service
providers to another cloud provider would be difficult to implement and will cause us to incur significant time and expense. If our existing cloud service providers
experiences interruptions in service regularly or for a prolonged basis, or other similar issues, our business would be seriously harmed. Additionally, our existing
cloud service providers have broad discretion to change and interpret its terms of service and other policies with respect to us, and they may take actions beyond
our control that could harm our business.
Our ability to manage our business would suffer if one or more of our providers suffer an interruption in their business, or experience delays, disruptions or quality
control problems in their operations, or we have to change or add additional systems and services. We may not be able to control the quality of the systems and
services we receive from third party service providers, which could impair our financial reporting and may negatively impact our operating results and financial
condition.
Our debt levels could adversely affect our ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations or limit our ability to react to changes in our industry or the
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As of June 30, 2017 , our balance outstanding under our existing Term Facility and Revolving Facility was $76.3 million and $181 million , respectively. In the
future we may need to raise additional capital to fund our growth and operational goals. If additional financing is not available when required or on acceptable
terms, we may not be able to expand our business, develop or enhance our products, take advantage of business opportunities or respond to competitive pressures,
which could result in lower revenues and reduce the competitiveness of our products.
In addition, any potential debt level increases could have important consequences, including:
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our ability to use our cash flows to fund our operations and capital expenditures, and pursue business opportunities;
increasing our vulnerability to general industry and economic conditions;
limiting our ability to make strategic acquisitions or causing us to make non-strategic divestitures;
limiting our ability to obtain additional financing for working capital, capital expenditures, debt service requirements, acquisitions and general corporate or
other purposes; and
limiting our ability to adjust to changing market conditions and placing us at a competitive disadvantage compared to competitors who are less highly
leveraged or have access to more capital.
If we are unable to integrate future acquisitions successfully, our operating results and prospects could be harmed.
We may make acquisitions to improve or expand our product offerings. Our future acquisition strategy will depend on our ability to identify, negotiate, complete
and integrate acquisitions. These transactions involve numerous risks, including:
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difficulties in integrating and managing the operations, technologies and products of the companies we acquire, particularly in light of our lean
organizational structure;
diversion of our management’s attention from normal daily operation of our business;
our inability to maintain the key business relationships and the brand equity of the businesses we acquire;
our inability to retain key personnel of the acquired business, particularly in light of the demands we place on individual contributors;
uncertainty of entry into markets in which we have limited or no prior experience and in which competitors have stronger market positions;
our dependence on unfamiliar affiliates and partners of the companies we acquire;
insufficient revenues to offset our increased expenses associated with acquisitions;
our responsibility for the liabilities of the businesses we acquire, including those which we may not anticipate; and
our inability to maintain internal standards, controls, procedures and policies, particularly in light of our lean organizational structure.
We may be unable to secure the equity or debt funding necessary to finance future acquisitions on terms that are acceptable to us. Completing acquisitions could
consume significant amounts of cash. If we finance acquisitions by issuing equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders will likely experience
dilution, and if we finance future acquisitions with debt funding, we will incur interest expense and may have to comply with covenants and secure that debt
obligation with our assets.
Our Chief Executive Officer owns a majority of our stock.
Robert J. Pera, our founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, is able to exercise voting rights with respect to a majority of the voting power of our
outstanding stock and therefore has the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and
any merger, consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. This concentrated control could delay, defer, or prevent a change of control, merger,
consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets that our other stockholders support, or conversely this concentrated control could result in the
consummation of such a transaction that our other stockholders do not support. This concentrated control could also discourage certain potential investors from
acquiring our common stock and might harm the trading price of our stock. In addition, Mr. Pera has the ability to control the management and major strategic
investments of our company as a result of his position as our Chief Executive Officer and his ability to control the election or replacement of our directors. In the
event of his death, the shares of our stock that Mr. Pera owns will be transferred to his successors. As a board member and officer, Mr. Pera owes a fiduciary duty
to our stockholders and must act in good faith in a manner he reasonably believes to be in the best interests of our stockholders. As a stockholder, even a
controlling stockholder, Mr. Pera is entitled to vote his shares in his own interests, which may not always be in the interests of our stockholders generally. As
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57,278,181 shares of our common stock. These shares are eligible for resale into the public market within the restrictions imposed by Rule 144 under the
Securities Act of 1933. Sales of a significant amount of Mr. Pera’s shares could adversely affect the market price for our common stock. Mr. Pera has informed us
that, depending on market conditions, he intends to sell approximately 1,278,181 shares of our common stock. If Mr. Pera effects such a sale, Mr. Pera will still
retain approximately 56,000,000 shares of our common stock. Mr. Pera has also indicated to us that he may in the future from time to time pledge shares of
common stock as collateral for margin or other loans, enter into derivative transactions based on the value of our common stock, dispose of additional shares of
common stock, otherwise monetize shares of his common stock and/or engage in other transactions relating to shares of our common stock and/or other securities
of the company. Any of these activities by Mr. Pera may adversely affect the price of our common stock. However, Mr. Pera has also indicated that he intends to
continue to own at least a majority of our outstanding shares of common stock.
Risks Related to Regulatory, Legal and Tax Matters
We are subject to export control and economic sanctions laws in the United States and elsewhere which could impair our ability to compete in international
markets and subject us to liability if we do not comply with applicable laws.
A substantial majority of our sales are into countries outside of the United States. Sales of our products into certain countries are restricted or prohibited under U.S.
export control and economic sanctions laws. In addition, certain of our products incorporate encryption components that are subject to export control regulations.
In May 2011, we filed a self-disclosure statement with the U.S. Commerce Department, Bureau of Industry and Security’s (“BIS”) Office of Export Enforcement
(“OEE”) relating a review conducted by us regarding certain export transactions from 2008 through March 2011 in which products may have been later sold into
Iran by third parties. In June 2011, we also filed a self-disclosure statement with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”)
regarding these compliance issues. We resolved the matters described in our self-disclosures with the BIS and OFAC, and have taken significant steps towards
ensuring our compliance with export control regulations and embargoes. It is, however, possible that violations may occur in the future. If violations should occur
in the future, the response of regulators may be more severe in light of prior compliance concerns.
In addition to U.S. export regulations, various other countries regulate the import of certain encryption technology and products, and these laws could limit our
ability to distribute our products or our customers’ ability to implement our products in those countries. Changes in our products or changes in export and import
regulations may create delays in the introduction of our products in other countries, prevent our customers with international operations from deploying our
products or, in some cases, prevent the transfer of our products to certain countries altogether. Any change in export or import regulations or related legislation,
shift in approach to the enforcement or scope of existing regulations, or change in the countries, persons or technologies targeted by such regulations, could
negatively impact our ability to sell our products to existing customers or the ability of our current and potential distributors, network operators and service
providers outside the United States.
Even though we take precautions to prevent our products from being provided to targets of U.S. sanctions, our products, including our firmware updates, could be
provided by our distributors, resellers and/or end users despite such precautions. Any such provision could have negative consequences, including government
investigations, penalties and reputational harm. Our failure to obtain required import or export approval for our products could harm our international and domestic
sales and adversely affect our revenue.
New regulations or changes in existing regulations related to our products may result in unanticipated burdens, costs and liabilities.
Products that involve electromagnetic emissions are subject to regulation in the United States and the other countries in which we do business. In the United States,
various federal agencies including the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Communications
Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and various state agencies have promulgated regulations that concern the use of electromagnetic
emissions standards. Member countries of the EU and other countries have enacted similar standards concerning electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility
and emissions standards. If any of our products becomes subject to new regulations or if any of our products becomes specifically regulated by additional
government entities, compliance with such regulations could become more burdensome, and we may be unable to ship our products or they may cost substantially
more to produce, which would reduce our revenues and increase our cost of revenues.
Our failure to comply with U.S. and foreign laws related to privacy, data security, cybersecurity and data protection,
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such as the E.U. Data Protection Directive and China Cybersecurity Law, could adversely affect our financial condition, o perating results, and our brand.
We are or may become subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the United States and abroad regarding privacy, data security, cybersecurity and data
protection. These laws and regulations are continuously evolving and developing. The scope and interpretation of the laws that are or may be applicable to us are
often uncertain and may be conflicting, particularly with respect to foreign laws.
In particular, there are numerous U.S. federal, state, and local laws and regulations and foreign laws and regulations regarding privacy and the collection, sharing,
use, processing, disclosure, and protection of personal information and other user data. Such laws and regulations often have changes in scope, may be subject to
differing interpretations, and may be inconsistent among different jurisdictions. For example, in April 2016, the E.U. Parliament approved a new data protection
regulation, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which is due to come into force in or around May 2018. The GDPR will include
operational requirements for companies that receive or process personal data of residents of the European Union that are different than those currently in place in
the European Union, and that will include significant penalties for non-compliance. Another example, in November 2016, the Standing Committee of China’s
National People’s Congress passed China’s first Cybersecurity Law (“CSL”), which will take effect in June 2017. The CSL is the first Chinese law that
systematically lays out the regulatory requirements on cybersecurity and data protection, subjecting many previously under-regulated or unregulated activities in
cyberspace to government scrutiny. The costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed by, the GDPR and CSL may limit the use and adoption of our
products and services and could have an adverse impact on our business.
We strive to comply with all applicable laws, policies, legal obligations, and industry codes of conduct relating to privacy, data security, cybersecurity and data
protection. However, given that the scope, interpretation, and application of these laws and regulations are often uncertain and may be conflicting, it is possible that
these obligations may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another and may conflict with other rules or our practices.
Any failure or perceived failure by us or third-party service-providers to comply with our privacy or security policies or privacy-related legal obligations, or any
compromise of security that results in the unauthorized release or transfer of personally identifiable information or other user data, may result in governmental
enforcement actions, litigation, or negative publicity, and could have an adverse effect on our brand and operating results.
Governments are continuing to focus on privacy, cybersecurity, data protection and data security and it is possible that new privacy or data security laws will be
passed or existing laws will be amended in a way that is material to our business. Any significant change to applicable laws, regulations, or industry practices
regarding our employees' and users’ data could require us to modify our business, services and products features, possibly in a material manner, and may limit our
ability to develop new products, services, and features. Although we have made efforts to design our policies, procedures, and systems to comply with the current
requirements of applicable state, federal, and foreign laws, changes to applicable laws and regulations in this area could subject us to additional regulation and
oversight, any of which could significantly increase our operating costs.
Government regulations designed to protect personal privacy may make it difficult for us to sell our products.
Our products may transmit and store personal information. The handling of such information is increasingly subject to regulations in numerous jurisdictions around
the world. These regulations are typically intended to protect the privacy and security of personal information that is collected, stored and transmitted in or from
the governing jurisdiction. In addition, because various foreign jurisdictions have different regulations concerning the storage and transmission of personal
information, we may face unknown requirements that pose compliance challenges in new geographic markets that we seek to enter. Our efforts to protect the
privacy of information may also fail if our encryption and security technology is inadequate or fails to operate as expected. The difficulties in complying with
privacy and data protection regulations could subject us to costs, delayed product launches, liabilities or negative publicity that could impair our ability to maintain
or expand our operations into some countries and therefore limit our future growth.
The vast majority of our products rely on the availability of specific unlicensed radio frequency spectrum.
The vast majority of our products operate in unlicensed radio frequency (“RF”) spectrum, which is used by a wide range of devices such as cordless phones, baby
monitors, and microwave ovens, and is becoming increasingly crowded. If such spectrum usage continues to increase through the proliferation of consumer
electronics and products competitive with ours, and others, the resultant higher levels of clutter and interference in the frequency bands used by our products could
decrease the usage by our products. Our business could be further harmed if currently unlicensed RF spectrum becomes subject to licensing in the United States or
elsewhere. Network operators and service providers that use our products may be unable to obtain licenses for RF spectrum at reasonable prices or at all. Even if
the unlicensed spectrum remains unlicensed, existing and new government regulations may require we make changes in our products. For example, to provide
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and service providers who utilize unlicensed RF spectrum, we may be required to limit their ability to use our products in licensed RF spectrum. The operation of
our products by network operators or service providers in the United States or elsewhere in a manner not in compliance with local law could result in fines,
operational disruption, or harm to our reputation. In addition, if new spectrums, either licensed or unlicensed, are made available by government regulatory
agencies for broadband wireless communication that may disrupt the competitive landscape of our industry and impact our business.
We could be adversely affected by unfavorable results in litigation.
We may be involved, from time to time, in a variety of claims, lawsuits, investigations, and proceedings relating to contractual disputes, intellectual property
rights, employment matters, regulatory compliance matters, consumer class-actions and other litigation matters relating to various claims that arise in the normal
course of business and otherwise. It can be difficult or impossible to predict the outcome of legal proceedings with any degree of certainty, particularly given that
laws may be ambiguous and factual findings can often be the result of incomplete evidence, opinions, varying standards or proof, and extraneous factors. If one or
more of the legal proceedings to which we may be or become a party are resolved against us, our results of operations and financial condition could be adversely
affected.
We may become subject to warranty claims, product liability and product recalls.
We have received, and may in the future receive, warranty or product liability claims that may require us to make significant expenditures to defend these claims or
pay damage awards. In the event of a successful warranty claim, we may also incur costs if we compensate the affected network operator or service provider. Such
claims may require a significant amount of time and expense to resolve and defend against, and could also harm our reputation by calling into question the quality
of our products. We also may incur costs and expenses relating to a recall of one or more of our products. The process of identifying recalled products that have
been widely distributed may be lengthy and require significant resources and we may incur significant replacement costs, contract damage claims and harm to our
reputation.
Our customers and the users of our products may expect us to indemnify them against claims for intellectual property infringement, defective products and
other losses.
Our customers, users and other parties may expect us to indemnify them for losses incurred in connection with our products, including as a result of intellectual
property infringement, defective products, and security vulnerabilities, even if our agreements with them do not require us to provide this indemnification. In some
instances we may decide to defend and indemnify them, irrespective of whether we believe that we have an obligation to do so. The expenses associated with
providing indemnification can be substantial. We may also reject demands for indemnification, which may lead to disputes with a customer or other party and may
negatively impact our relationships with them.
If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may not be able to accurately report our financial condition or results of operations or
safeguard our assets.
Effective internal controls over financial reporting are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and, together with other controls and procedures, are
designed to prevent fraud. Any failure to implement required new or improved controls, or difficulties encountered in their implementation, could cause us to fail
to meet our reporting obligations, and prevent us from producing accurate and timely financial statements to manage our business. If we fail to do so, our business
could be negatively affected and our independent registered public accounting firm may be unable to attest to the fair presentation of our Consolidated Financial
Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
(“GAAP”) and the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. If we cannot provide
reliable financial reports and effectively prevent fraud, our reputation and operating results could be harmed. Even effective internal controls have inherent
limitations, including the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, or fraud. Therefore, even effective internal controls can provide
only reasonable assurance with respect to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements. In addition, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness of
internal control over financial reporting in future periods are subject to the risk that the control may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or a
deterioration in the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures.
We have in the past and may in the future fail to maintain adequate internal controls. For example, as reported in the Annual Reports on Form 10-K for the years
ended June 30, 2015 and 2016, management of the Company determined that the Company did not maintain an effective control environment, which contributed to
three material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting. As described in more detail under Item 9A. “Controls and Procedures”, the Company has
completed the remediation efforts of such material weakness, completed testing of the controls to address such material weaknesses and concluded that the
previously reported material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting have been satisfactorily remediated as of June 30, 2017. Any such failure
(including any failure to implement new or improved controls, difficulties in the execution of such implementation or deterioration of our current control practices)
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an inability to prevent fraud, or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations. Any such failures may cause a material adverse effect on our business and
financial results, and investor confidence and the market price of our stock may be adversely affected.
Failure to comply with the FCPA and similar laws could subject us to penalties and other adverse consequences.
We face significant risks if we fail to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) of the United States and other laws (such as the U.K. Bribery Act
of 2010) that prohibit improper payments or offers of payment to foreign governments and their officials and political parties by us and other business entities for
the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. In many foreign countries, particularly in countries with developing economies, which represent our principal
markets, it may be a local custom that businesses operating in such countries engage in business practices that are prohibited by the FCPA or other laws and
regulations. Although we have implemented a company policy requiring our employees and consultants to comply with the FCPA and similar laws, there can be no
assurance that all of our employees, and agents, as well as those companies to which we outsource certain of our business operations, will not take actions in
violation of our policies, for which we may be ultimately held responsible. Any violation of FCPA or similar laws could result in severe criminal or civil sanctions
and suspension or debarment from U.S. government contracting, which could have a material and adverse effect on our reputation, business, operating results and
financial condition.
Our results could be adversely affected by unfavorable tax law changes, an unfavorable government review of our tax returns, or changes in our geographic
earnings mix.
We are subject to periodic audits or other reviews by tax authorities in the jurisdictions in which we conduct our activities. Tax authorities could challenge our
assertions with respect to how we have conducted our business operations as might result in a claim for larger tax payments from us, including, but not limited to,
income and withholding taxes. The expense of defending and resolving such audits may be significant.
In the ordinary course of our business, there are many instances where the determination of tax implications is uncertain. Our calculations of income taxes may be
based on our interpretations of applicable tax laws in the jurisdictions in which we file. The final determination of our income tax liabilities may be materially
different than what is reflected in our income tax provisions and accruals.
The legislative bodies in many jurisdictions regularly consider proposed legislation that, if adopted, could affect our tax rate in such jurisdictions, and the carrying
value of our deferred tax assets or our tax liabilities. Multijurisdictional changes enacted in response to the guidelines provided by the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) to address base erosion and profit shifting ("BEPS"), and potential comprehensive U.S. tax reform that, among other
things, might change certain U.S. tax rules impacting the way U.S. multinationals are taxed, will increase tax uncertainty and may adversely impact our provision
for income taxes.
As a global company, we conduct operations in multiple jurisdictions, and therefore our effective tax rate is influenced by the amounts of income and expense
attributed to each such jurisdiction and the amount and type of presence in each such jurisdiction. If such amounts were to change so as to increase the amounts of
our net income subject to taxation in higher tax jurisdictions, or if we were to increase our operations in jurisdictions assessing relatively higher tax rates, our
effective tax rate could be adversely affected. Additionally, withholding taxes vary by jurisdiction and any changes to our operations in each jurisdiction could
result in greater taxation to the company. A number of factors may affect our future effective tax rates including, but not limited to:
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the interpretation of country-by-country report and outcome of discussions with various tax authorities regarding intercompany transfer pricing arrangements;
changes that involve Ubiquiti’s supply chain outside of the United States;
changes in the composition of earnings in countries or states with differing tax rates;
the resolution of issues arising from tax audits with various tax authorities,
changes of tax regulations around R&D tax credits;
changes in stock-based compensation; and
changes in tax regulations and/or generally accepted accounting principles;
Additionally, the current White House Administration along with the U.S. Congress recently announced proposed changes to U.S. tax laws. These proposals are in
the preliminary stage and there is no detail as to how such changes might be implemented. Changes in tax laws could affect the distribution of our earnings, result
in double taxation and adversely affect our results.
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From time to time the United States, foreign and state governments make substantive changes to tax rules and the application of rules to companies, including
various announcements from the United States government potentially impacting our ability to defer taxes on international earnings. We regularly assess the
likelihood of favorable or unfavorable outcomes resulting from these examinations to determine the adequacy of our provision for income taxes. Although we
believe our tax estimates are reasonable, there can be no assurance that any final determination will not be materially different than the treatment reflected in our
historical income tax provisions and accruals, which could materially and adversely affect our operating results and financial condition.
If we are required to bring cash into the United States to meet our future funding requirements, we may have to pay high tax rates or seek other available
funds.
We hold the substantial majority of our cash and cash equivalents in accounts of our subsidiaries outside of the United States, as our business is largely outside of
the United States. Our expenses in the United States could increase faster than we expect. If our cash held in the United States became insufficient to meet our
future funding requirements in the United States, we may transfer cash into the United States. If we decide to transfer earnings from our non-U.S. subsidiaries to
the United States, that could give rise to the imposition of potentially significant withholding taxes by the jurisdictions in which such amounts were earned, and we
may incur substantial tax liabilities in the United States. In addition, we may not receive the benefit of offsetting tax credits, which also could adversely impact our
effective tax rate.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 2. Properties
Our corporate headquarters are located in New York, NY, which we lease through February, 28, 2021. Below are our material locations as of June 30, 2017.
Location
Taiwan
Suzhou
New York
Utah
Sq Ft
52,000
93,000
6,400
72,000
Lease expiration
Purpose
3/31/2018
R & D and administration
6/16/2018
2/28/2021
2/28/2023
Manufacturing Facility
Corporate Office
Warehouse
In addition, we also lease facilities around the world and within the facilities of certain suppliers for use as research and development facilities, business
development and support offices, warehouses and logistics centers and test facilities. The size and location of these properties change from time to time based on
business requirements. For our research and development and business development and support personnel, we also have leased offices in Taiwan, Lithuania,
Latvia, Poland, India, the Czech Republic, Canada, the Netherlands and various locations within China and the United States of America. We believe that our
existing properties are in good condition and suitable for the conduct of our business.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
Information with respect to this item may be found in Note 8 in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included under Part IV, Item 15 of this report.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market Information
PART II
Our shares of common stock are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “UBNT.” The following table shows, for the periods indicated,
the high and low intra-day sale prices for our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Year Ended June 30, 2017
High
Low
54.73 $
59.43 $
64.62 $
53.27 $
Year Ended June 30, 2016
High
Low
37.10 $
35.96 $
35.00 $
41.21 $
37.06
48.25
46.49
45.71
28.50
28.69
25.75
32.06
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
As of August 22, 2017 , the number of record holders of our common stock was 8. Because most of our shares are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf
of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of beneficial stockholders represented by these record holders.
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return for our common stock from June 30, 2012 to June 30, 2017 , with the comparable
cumulative return of the NASDAQ Composite Index and the NASDAQ Computer Index. The graph assumes that $100 was invested on June 30, 2012 in our
common stock, the NASDAQ Composite Index and the NASDAQ Computer Index and assumes reinvestment of any dividends. The stock price performance on
the following graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance. This performance graph shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or incorporated by reference into any of our filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
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COMPARISON OF CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*
Among Ubiquiti Networks, Inc., the NASDAQ Composite Index, and the NASDAQ Computer Index
*100 invested on 6/30/12 in stock or index, including reinvestments of dividends. Fiscal year ending June 30.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
On May 4, 2016, the Board of Directors of the Company approved a $50 million stock repurchase program. Under the stock repurchase program, the Company
was authorized to repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016, the Company repurchased 1,309,606 shares of its
common stock at an average price per share of $38.18 for an aggregate amount of $50.0 million. This included unpaid stock repurchases of $6.5 million relating to
repurchases executed on or prior to June 30, 2016 for trades that settled in the first quarter of fiscal 2017.
On August 3, 2016, the Board of Directors of the Company approved a $50 million stock repurchase program. Under the stock repurchase program, the Company
may repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock. During the third quarter of fiscal 2017, the Company repurchased 1,014,956 shares of its common stock at
an average price per share of $49.26 for an aggregate amount of $50 million.
On March 3, 2017, the Board of Directors of the Company approved a $50 million stock repurchase program. Under the stock repurchase program, the Company
may repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock. The program expires on March 31, 2018. During the third quarter of fiscal 2017, the Company repurchased
917,455 shares of its common stock at an average price per share of $50.43 for an aggregate amount of $46.3 million. This included unpaid stock repurchases of
$3.0 million relating to repurchases executed on or prior to March 31, 2017 for trades that settled in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017. During the fourth quarter of
fiscal 2017, the Company repurchased 50,000 shares of its common stock at an average price per share of $49.55 for an aggregate amount of $2.5 million. As
of June 30, 2017, the Company had $1.3 million available under the stock repurchase program.
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Common stock repurchase activity under the share repurchase program during the fourth quarter ended June 30, 2017 was as follows (in thousands, except share
and per share amounts):
Period
April 1, 2017 - April 30, 2017
May 1, 2017 - May 31, 2017
June 1, 2017 - June 30, 2017
Total
Dividends
Total Number
of Shares
Purchased
Average Price
Paid per Share
50,000
—
—
50,000
$
$
$
$
49.55
—
—
49.55
Estimated remaining balance
available for share repurchase
1,254
$
$
$
$
1,254
1,254
1,254
We declared an annual dividend of $0.17 per share on September 30, 2014. The aggregate amount of $15.0 million was paid on October 28, 2014 to stockholders
of record on October 17, 2014. The Company currently has no plans to pay a cash dividend at this time or at any time in the foreseeable future.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
Information regarding the securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans can be found under Item 12 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Unregistered Securities Sold During fiscal 2017
We did not sell any unregistered securities during fiscal 2017 .
Item 6. Selected Financial Data
The selected consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income data for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2017 , 2016 and 2015 and the consolidated
balance sheet data as of June 30, 2017 and 2016 are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this report. The selected
consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income data for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013 and the consolidated balance sheet data as
of June 30, 2015 , 2014 and 2013 are derived from our consolidated financial statements which are not included in this report. Historical results are not necessarily
indicative of future results and should be read in conjunction with the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations” and the consolidated financial statements, related notes, and other financial information included in this report.
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In thousands, except per share data
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income Data:
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
Years Ended June 30,
Revenues
Cost of revenues (1) (2) (3)
Gross profit
Operating expenses:
Research and development (1)
Sales, general and administrative (1)
Business e-mail compromise ("BEC") fraud (recovery)/ loss
Total operating expenses
Income from operations
Interest expense and other, net
Income before provision for income taxes
Provision for income taxes
Net income and comprehensive income
Net income per share of common stock:
Basic
Diluted
Weighted average shares used in computing net income per share of common stock:
Basic
Diluted
Cash dividends declared per common share
(1) Includes stock-based compensation as follows
Cost of revenues
Research and development
Sales, general and administrative
Total stock-based compensation
(2) Includes purchase commitment termination fee
(3) Includes a gain on reversal of change for an export compliance matter
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
865,268
$
666,395
$
469,560
395,708
69,094
36,853
—
105,947
289,761
(4,737)
285,024
27,518
341,600
324,795
57,765
33,269
(8,294)
82,740
242,055
(2,115)
239,940
26,324
257,506
$
213,616
$
595,947 $
333,760
262,187
54,565
21,607
39,137
115,309
146,878
(1,130)
145,748
16,085
129,663 $
572,464 $
318,997
253,467
33,962
23,560
—
57,522
195,945
(1,334)
194,611
17,674
176,937 $
3.16
3.09
$
$
2.53
2.49
$
$
1.47 $
1.45 $
2.02 $
1.97
$
81,478
83,252
84,402
85,784
88,008
89,569
87,772
89,715
— $
— $
0.17 $
— $
264
$
448
$
1,861
660
2,785
$
— $
— $
2,296
975
3,719
$
— $
— $
601 $
2,854
1,537
4,992 $
5,500 $
— $
590 $
2,423
1,893
4,906 $
— $
(1,121) $
320,823
185,489
135,334
20,955
21,775
—
42,730
92,604
(851)
91,753
11,263
80,490
0.91
0.89
88,314
90,259
0.18
446
1,433
1,497
3,376
—
—
In thousands
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents
Working capital
Total assets
Debt – short-term
Debt – long-term
Total stockholders’ equity
2017
2016
June 30,
2015
2014
2013
$
604,198
$
551,031
$
853,846
972,711
14,743
241,821
601,764
637,721
747,108
10,993
191,564
440,376
446,401 $
511,212
599,372
9,743
86,557
422,154
347,097 $
413,409
475,315
(172)
71,590
335,264
227,826
224,053
291,881
4,901
70,769
147,436
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Overview
Ubiquiti Networks develops high performance networking technology for service providers, enterprises and consumers globally. Our technology platforms focus
on delivering highly-advanced and easily deployable solutions that appeal to a global customer base in underserved and underpenetrated markets. Our
differentiated business model has enabled us to break down traditional barriers such as high product and network deployment costs and offer solutions with
disruptive price-performance characteristics. Our growth is supported by the Ubiquiti Community, a global, grass-roots community of 4 million entrepreneurial
operators and systems integrators who engage in thousands of on-line forums at http://www.ubnt.com.
The Company maintains an industry leading financial profile by leveraging a unique business model. This differentiated business model, combined with our
innovative proprietary technologies, has resulted in an attractive alternative to traditional high touch, high cost providers, allowing us to advance the market
adoption of our platforms for ubiquitous connectivity. Since
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our founding, more than 70 million devices have been sold worldwide through a network of over 100 distributors and on-line retailers, to customers in more than
200 countries and territories. As a result, our technology has enabled hundreds of millions of people throughout the world to stay connected.
We offer a broad and expanding portfolio of networking products and solutions for service providers and enterprises. Our service provider product platforms
provide carrier-class network infrastructure for fixed wireless broadband, wireless backhaul systems and routing and the related software for entrepreneurs to easily
control, track and bill their customers. Our enterprise product platforms provide wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure, video surveillance products, switching and
routing solutions, security gateways, and other complimentary WLAN products along with a unique software platform, which enables users to control their
network from one simple, easy to use interface. Our consumer products, sold under the Ubiquiti Labs brand name, are targeted to the smart home and highly
connected consumers. We believe that our products are highly differentiated due to our proprietary software protocol innovation, firmware expertise, and hardware
design capabilities. This differentiation allows our portfolio to meet the demanding performance requirements of video, voice and data applications at prices that
are a fraction of those offered by our competitors.
In fiscal 2017, we announced Ubiquiti Labs, a division focusing on research and development of consumer electronics and introduced a new consumer product
platform, called AmpliFi, which is a Wi-Fi system solution designed to serve the demands of the modern connected home. AmpliFi is distributed through a
network of retailers including Sam’s Club, Best Buy and Game Stop, as well as on-line retailers Amazon.com and Bestbuy.com among others. This division is
focused on delivery direct to consumer based solutions in an array of high technology products.
As a core part of our strategy, we have developed a differentiated business model for marketing and selling high volumes of carrier and enterprise-class
communications platforms. Our business model is driven by a large, growing and highly engaged community of service providers, distributors, value added
resellers, systems integrators and corporate IT professionals, which we refer to as the Ubiquiti Community. The Ubiquiti Community is a critical element of our
business strategy as it enables us to drive:
•
•
•
Rapid customer and community driven product development. We have an active, loyal community built from our customers that we believe is a
sustainable competitive advantage. Our solutions benefit from the active engagement between the Ubiquiti Community and our development engineers
throughout the product development cycle, which eliminates long and expensive multistep internal processes and results in rapid introduction and adoption
of our products. This approach significantly reduces our development costs and time to market.
Scalable sales and marketing model. We do not currently have, nor do we plan to hire, a direct sales force, but instead utilize the Ubiquiti Community to
drive market awareness and demand for our products and solutions. This community-propagated viral marketing enables us to reach underserved and
underpenetrated markets far more efficiently and cost-effectively than is possible through traditional sales models. Leveraging the information transparency
of the Internet allows customers to research, evaluate and validate our solutions with the Ubiquiti Community and via third party web sites. This allows us
to operate a scalable sales and marketing model and effectively create awareness of our brand and products. Word of mouth referrals from the Ubiquiti
Community generate high quality leads for our distributors at relatively little cost.
Self-sustaining product support. The engaged members of the Ubiquiti Community have enabled us to foster a large, cost efficient, highly-scalable and,
we believe, self-sustaining mechanism for rapid product support and dissemination of information.
By reducing the cost of development, sales, marketing and support we are able to eliminate traditional business model inefficiencies and offer innovative solutions
with disruptive price performance characteristics to our customers.
Key Components of Our Results of Operations and Financial Condition
Revenues
Our revenues are derived principally from the sale of networking hardware and management tools. In addition, while we do not sell maintenance and support
separately, because we have historically included it free of charge in many of our arrangements, we attribute a portion of our systems revenues to this implied post-
contract customer support (“PCS”).
We classify our revenues into two primary product categories, Service Provider Technology and Enterprise Technology.
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•
Service Provider Technology includes our airMAX, EdgeMAX and airFiber platforms, as well as embedded radio products and other 802.11 standard
products including base stations, radios, backhaul equipment and Customer Premise Equipment (“CPE”). Additionally, Service Provider Technology
includes antennas and other products in the 0.9 to 6.0GHz spectrum and miscellaneous products such as mounting brackets, cables and power over
Ethernet adapters.
Enterprise Technology includes our UniFi and mFi platforms, including UniFi enterprise Wi-Fi products, Unifi Video products, Unifi switching and
routing solutions, and AmpliFi Enterprise Technology also includes revenues that are attributable to PCS.
We sell our products and solutions globally to service providers and enterprises primarily through our extensive network of distributors, and, to a lesser extent,
direct customers. Sales to distributors accounted for 99% of our revenues in the year ended June 30, 2017 . Other channel partners, such as resellers, largely
accounted for the balance of our revenues.
Cost of Revenues
Our cost of revenues is comprised primarily of the costs of procuring finished goods from our contract manufacturers and chipsets that we consign to certain of our
contract manufacturers. In addition, cost of revenues includes tooling, labor and other costs associated with engineering, testing and quality assurance, warranty
costs, stock-based compensation, logistics related fees and excess and obsolete inventory.
In addition to utilizing contract manufacturers, we outsource most of our logistics warehousing and order fulfillment functions, which are located primarily in
China, and to a lesser extent, Taiwan and United States. We also evaluate and utilize other vendors for various portions of our supply chain from time to time. Our
operations organization consists of employees and consultants engaged in the management of our contract manufacturers, new product introduction activities,
logistical support and engineering.
Gross Profit
Our gross profit has been, and may in the future be, influenced by several factors including changes in product mix, target end markets for our products, pricing
due to competitive pressure, production costs and global demand for electronic components. Although we procure and sell our products in U.S. dollars, our
contract manufacturers incur many costs, including labor costs, in other currencies. To the extent that the exchange rates move unfavorably for our contract
manufacturers, they may try to pass these additional costs on to us, which could have a material impact on our future average selling prices and unit costs.
Operating Expenses
We classify our operating expenses as research and development, sales, general and administrative expenses and expense related to the business email compromise
fraud loss.
•
•
•
Research and development expenses consist primarily of salary and benefit expenses, including stock-based compensation, for employees and costs for
contractors engaged in research, design and development activities, as well as costs for prototypes, licensed or purchased intellectual property, facilities and
travel. Over time, we expect our research and development costs to increase as we continue making significant investments in developing new products in
addition to new versions of our existing products.
Sales, general and administrative expenses include salary and benefit expenses, including stock-based compensation, for employees and costs for
contractors engaged in sales, marketing and general and administrative activities, as well as the costs of legal expenses, trade shows, marketing programs,
promotional materials, bad debt expense, professional services, facilities, general liability insurance and travel. As our product portfolio and targeted
markets expand, we may need to employ different sales models, such as building a direct sales force. These sales models would likely increase our costs.
Over time, we expect our sales, general and administrative expenses to increase in absolute dollars due to continued growth in headcount, expansion of our
efforts to register and defend trademarks and patents and to support our business and operations.
Business e-mail compromise fraud (recovery)loss - In June 2015, we determined that we were the victim of criminal fraud known to law enforcement
authorities as business e-mail compromise fraud which involved employee impersonation and fraudulent requests targeting our finance department. The
fraud resulted in transfers of funds aggregating $46.7 million held by a Company subsidiary incorporated in Hong Kong to other overseas accounts held by
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third parties, of which we recovered $8.1 million in fiscal 2015. As a result, we recorded a charge of $39.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, including
additional expenses consisting of professional service fees associated with the fraud loss. In fiscal 2016, the Company recorded a net recovery of an
additional $8.3 million, comprised of an $8.6 million recovery less $0.3 million of professional service fees associated with the recovery. The Company is
continuing to pursue the recovery of the remaining $30.0 million and is cooperating with U.S. federal and numerous overseas law enforcement authorities
who are actively pursuing a multi-agency criminal investigation. However, any additional recoveries are likely remote and, therefore, cannot be assured.
Deferred Revenues
We recognize revenues when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the sales price is fixed or determinable and the collectability of
the resulting receivable is reasonably assured. In cases where we lack evidence that all of these criteria have been met, we defer recognition of revenue. Included in
our deferred revenues is a portion related to PCS obligations that we estimate we will perform in the future. As of June 30, 2017 , and 2016 , we had deferred
revenues of $7.9 million and $4.2 million , respectively, related mainly to future PCS obligations.
Critical Accounting Policies
We prepare our consolidated financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). In many
cases, the accounting treatment of a particular transaction is specifically dictated by GAAP and does not require management’s judgment in its application. In other
cases, management’s judgment is required in selecting among available alternative accounting standards that provide for different accounting treatment for similar
transactions. The preparation of consolidated financial statements also requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts we report as assets,
liabilities, revenues, costs and expenses and affect the related disclosures. We base our estimates on historical experience and other assumptions that we believe are
reasonable under the circumstances. In many instances, we could reasonably use different accounting estimates, and in some instances, changes in the accounting
estimates are reasonably likely to occur from period to period. Accordingly, our actual results could differ significantly from the estimates made by our
management. To the extent that there are differences between our estimates and actual results, our future financial statement presentation, financial condition,
results of operations and cash flows will be affected. We believe that the accounting policies discussed below are critical to understanding our historical and future
performance, as these policies relate to the more significant areas involving management’s judgments and estimates.
Recognition of Revenues
Revenues consist primarily of revenues from the sale of hardware and management tools, as well as the related implied PCS. We recognize revenues when
persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the sales price is fixed or determinable and the collectability of the resulting receivable is
reasonably assured. In cases where we lack evidence that collectability of the resulting receivable is reasonably assured, we defer recognition of revenue until the
receipt of cash.
For our sales, evidence of the arrangement consists of an order from a customer. We consider delivery to have occurred once our products have been shipped and
title and risk of loss have been transferred. For our sales, these criteria are met at the time the products are transferred to the customer's shipping agent. Our
arrangements with customers do not include provisions for cancellation, returns, inventory swaps or refunds that materially impact recognized revenues.
We record amounts billed to distributors for shipping and handling costs as revenues. We classify shipping and handling costs incurred by us as cost of revenues.
Deposit payments received from distributors in advance of recognition of revenues are included in current liabilities on our balance sheet and are recognized as
revenues when all the criteria for recognition of revenues are met.
Our multi-element arrangements generally include two deliverables. The first deliverable is the hardware and software essential to the functionality of the hardware
device delivered at the time of sale. The second deliverable is the implied right to PCS included with the purchase of certain products. PCS is the right to receive,
on a when and if available basis, future unspecified software upgrades and features relating to the product’s essential software as well as bug fixes, email and
telephone support.
We use a hierarchy to determine the allocation of revenues to the deliverables. The hierarchy is as follows: (i) vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value
(“VSOE”), (ii) third-party evidence of selling price (“TPE”), and (iii) best estimate of the selling price (“BESP”).
(i) VSOE generally exists only when a company sells the deliverable separately and is the price actually charged by the company for that deliverable.
Generally, we do not sell the deliverables separately and, as such, do not have VSOE.
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(ii) TPE can be substantiated by determining the price that other parties sell similar or substantially similar offerings. We do not believe that there is accessible
TPE evidence for similar deliverables.
(iii) BESP reflects our best estimates of what the selling prices of elements would be if they were sold regularly on a stand-alone basis. We believe that BESP is
the most appropriate methodology for determining the allocation of revenues among the multiple elements.
We have allocated revenues between these two deliverables using the relative selling price method which is based on the BESP for all deliverables. Revenues
allocated to the delivered hardware and the related essential software are recognized at the time of sale provided the other conditions for recognition of revenues
have been met. Revenues allocated to the PCS are deferred and recognized on a straight-line basis over the estimated period for which services will be delivered to
support each of these devices which, currently, is two years. All costs of revenues, including estimated warranty costs, are recognized at the time of sale. Costs for
research and development and sales and marketing are expensed as incurred. If the estimated life of the hardware product should change, the future rate of
amortization of the revenues allocated to PCS would also change.
Our process for determining BESP for deliverables involves multiple factors that may vary depending upon the unique facts and circumstances related to each
deliverable. For PCS, we believe our network operators and service providers would be reluctant to pay for such services separately. This view is primarily based
on the fact that unspecified upgrade rights do not obligate us to provide upgrades at a particular time or at all, and do not specify to network operators and service
providers which upgrades or features will be delivered. We believe that the relatively low prices of our products and our network operators, and service providers’
price sensitivity would add to their reluctance to pay for PCS. Therefore, we have concluded that if we were to sell PCS on a stand-alone basis, the selling price
would be relatively low.
Key factors considered by us in developing the BESP for PCS include reviewing the activities of specific employees engaged in support and software development
to determine the amount of time that is allocated to the development of the undelivered elements, determining the cost of this development effort, and then adding
an appropriate level of gross profit to these costs.
Inventory and Inventory Valuation
Our inventories are primarily finished goods and, to a lesser extent, raw materials. Our inventories are stated at the lower of actual cost (computed on a first-in,
first-out basis), or Net Realizable Value (NRV). NRV is based upon an estimated average selling price reduced by the estimated costs of disposal. The
determination of NRV involves numerous judgments including estimating average selling prices based upon recent sales, industry trends, existing customer orders,
and seasonal factors. Should actual market conditions differ from our estimates, our future results of operations could be materially affected. We reduce the value
of our inventory for estimated obsolescence or lack of marketability by the difference between the cost of the affected inventory and the estimated market value.
Write-downs are not reversed until the related inventory has been subsequently sold or scrapped.
The valuation of inventory also requires us to estimate excess and obsolete inventory. The determination of excess or obsolete inventory is estimated based on a
comparison of the quantity and cost of inventory on hand to our forecast of customer demand. Customer demand is dependent on many factors and requires us to
use significant judgment in our forecasting process. We also make assumptions regarding the rate at which new products will be accepted in the marketplace and at
which customers will transition from older products to newer products. If actual market conditions are less favorable than those projected by management,
additional inventory write-downs may be required, which would have a negative impact on our gross margin. If we ultimately sell inventory that we have
previously written down, our gross margins in future periods will be positively impacted.
Product Warranties
We offer warranties on certain products and record a liability for the estimated future costs associated with potential warranty claims. These warranty costs are
reflected in our consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income within cost of revenues. Our warranties are in effect for 12 months from the date
of purchase. Our estimates of future warranty costs are largely based on historical experience of product failure rates, material usage and service delivery costs
incurred in correcting product failures. Our operating results could be materially and adversely affected if future warranty claims exceed historical experiences and
we are not able to recover costs from our contract manufacturers. In the future, we may introduce certain products with longer warranty periods.
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
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We record an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated probable losses on uncollectible accounts receivable. In estimating the allowance, management
considers, among other factors, the aging of the accounts receivable, our historical write offs, the credit worthiness of each distributor based on payment history
and general economic conditions.
Income Taxes
We account for income taxes by recognizing deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included in our
financial statements or tax returns. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the temporary difference between the financial statement carrying
amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to
taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. We establish valuation allowances when necessary to
reduce deferred tax assets to the amount we expect to realize. The assessment of whether or not a valuation allowance is required often requires significant
judgment including current operating results, the forecast of future taxable income and ongoing prudent and feasible tax planning initiatives.
In addition, our calculation of our tax liabilities involves dealing with uncertainties in the application of complex tax regulations. We may be subject to income tax
audits in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate and, as a result, must also assess exposures to any potential issues arising from current or future audits of
current and prior years’ tax returns. Accordingly, we must assess such potential exposures and, where necessary, provide a reserve to cover any expected loss. To
the extent that we establish a reserve, our provision for income taxes would be increased. We review our potential liabilities periodically and, if necessary, record
an additional charge in our provision for taxes in the period in which we determine that tax liability is greater than our original estimate. If we ultimately determine
that payment of these amounts is unnecessary, we reverse the liability and recognize a tax benefit during the period in which we determine that the liability is no
longer necessary.
Stock-based Compensation
We record stock-based awards at fair value as of the grant date and recognize expense, net of forfeitures, ratably on a straight-line basis over the requisite service
period, which is generally the vesting term of the awards. We estimate the fair value of stock option awards on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option
pricing model. The determination of the fair value of a stock-based award on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model is affected by our
stock price on the date of grant as well as assumptions regarding a number of complex and subjective variables. These variables include our expected stock price
volatility over the expected term of the award, actual and projected employee stock option exercise behaviors, the risk-free interest rate for the expected term of the
award and expected dividends. The Company did not grant any stock options during fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 , or fiscal 2015 . Restricted stock units are valued
based on the fair value of our common stock on the date of grant. Since our initial public offering on October 14, 2011, the fair value of our common stock is
determined using the closing market price of our common stock as of the date of grant.
Results of Operations
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Comparison of Years Ended June 30, 2017 and 2016
Revenues
Cost of revenues (1)
Gross profit
Operating expenses:
Research and development (1)
Sales, general and administrative (1)
Business e-mail compromise ("BEC") fraud (recovery)
Total operating expenses
Income from operations
Interest expense and other, net
Income before provision for income taxes
Provision for income taxes
Net income and comprehensive income
* Less than 1%
(1) Includes stock-based compensation as follows
Cost of revenues
Research and development
Sales, general and administrative
Total stock-based compensation
Revenues
Years Ended June 30,
(In thousands, except percentages)
100 % $
54 %
46 %
8 %
4 %
2017
865,268
469,560
395,708
69,094
36,853
—
— %
105,947
289,761
(4,737)
285,024
27,518
257,506
264
1,861
660
2,785
12 %
33 %
*
33 %
3 %
30 % $
$
$
100 %
51 %
49 %
9 %
5 %
(1)%
13 %
36 %
*
36 %
4 %
32 %
2016
666,395
341,600
324,795
57,765
33,269
(8,294)
82,740
242,055
(2,115)
239,940
26,324
213,616
448
2,296
975
3,719
$
$
$
$
Revenues increased $198.9 million , or 30% , from $666.4 million in fiscal 2016 to $865.3 million in fiscal 2017 . The overall increase in revenues during fiscal
2017 was driven by increased adoption of our Enterprise Technologies products, which represented 47% of our total revenue in fiscal 2017 and increased sales of
new products offered to our Service Provider community, which represented 53% of our total revenue in fiscal 2017 .
There were no material price changes in the Company's products sold during fiscal 2017.
Revenues by Product Type
Service Provider Technology
Enterprise Technology
Total revenues
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
(in thousands, except percentages)
$
$
455,598
409,670
865,268
53% $
47%
100% $
418,346
248,049
666,395
63%
37%
100%
Service Provider Technology revenues increased $37.3 million, or 9%, during fiscal 2017, primarily due to increased revenue for Service Provider Technology
products in all regions except Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Enterprise Technology revenues increased $161.6 million , or 65% , during fiscal 2017 , primarily due to product expansion and further adoption of our UniFi
technology platform across all regions.
Revenues by Geography
We have determined the geographical distribution of our product revenues based on our customers' ship-to destinations. A majority of our sales are to distributors
who in turn sell to resellers or directly to end customers, which may be in different countries than the initial ship-to destination. The following are our revenues by
geography for fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2016 (in thousands, except percentages):
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North America (1)
South America
Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Asia Pacific
Total revenues
Years Ended June 30,
2017
331,435
105,511
334,473
93,849
865,268
38% $
12%
39%
11%
100% $
2016
239,526
85,036
264,404
77,429
666,395
36%
13%
39%
12%
100%
$
$
(1) Revenue for the United States was $315.0 million and $225.6 million in fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2016 , respectively.
North America
Revenues in North America increased $91.9 million , or 38% , from $239.5 million in fiscal 2016 to $331.4 million in fiscal 2017 . The year-over-year increase
was due to increased adoption of both our Service Provider and Enterprise Technology products.
South America
Revenues in South America increased $20.5 million , or 24% , from $85.0 million in fiscal 2016 to $105.5 million in fiscal 2017 . The year-over-year increase was
due to increased adoption of both Service our Provider Technology and Enterprise Technology products.
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa ("EMEA")
Revenues in EMEA increased $70.1 million , or 27% , from $264.4 million in fiscal 2016 to $334.5 million in fiscal 2017 . The year-over-year increase was
primarily due to increased adoption of our Enterprise Technology products, offset, in part, by a decline in service provider products.
Asia Pacific
Revenues in the Asia Pacific region increased $16.4 million , or 21% , from $77.4 million in fiscal 2016 to $93.8 million in fiscal 2017 . The year-over-year
increase was primarily due to increased adoption of our Enterprise Technology products.
Cost of Revenues and Gross Profit
Cost of revenues increased $128.0 million , or 37% , from $341.6 million in fiscal 2016 to $469.6 million in fiscal 2017 . The increase in fiscal 2017 was primarily
due to our overall increase in revenue and to a lesser extent, an increase in cost associated with fulfillment operations, warranty accruals and inventory reserves.
Gross profit margin decreased to 46% in fiscal 2017 compared to 49% in fiscal 2016 , which was primarily due to change in mix of products sold, increased costs
associated with fulfillment operations, increased inventory obsolescence charges and warranty accruals.
Operating Expenses
Research and Development
Research and development expenses increased $11.3 million , or 20% , from $57.8 million in fiscal 2016 to $69.1 million in fiscal 2017 . As a percentage of
revenues, research and development expenses decreased from 9% in fiscal 2016 to 8% in fiscal 2017 . The increase in R&D expense in absolute dollars, was
primarily due to increase in headcount, development activities and higher non-recurring engineering (NRE) payments, which was partially offset by the $2.5
million impairment charge for capitalized software development cost recognized in fiscal 2016. The increase in headcount and development cost reflects the
increased efforts to broaden our research and development activities to introduce new products and new versions of existing products. As a percentage of revenue,
R&D expense decreased primarily due to our overall increase in revenue.
Sales, General and Administrative
Sales, general and administrative expenses increased $ 3.6 million , or 11% , from $33.3 million in fiscal 2016 to $36.9 million in fiscal 2017 . As a percentage of
revenues, sales, general and administrative expenses decreased to 4% in fiscal 2017 , compared to 5% in fiscal 2016 . The increase in sales, general and
administrative expenses in absolute dollars was primarily due to an increase in headcount in the administrative function and business development organization,
and the overall increases in business development initiatives, partially offset by lower cost for interim management and advisory services to remediate
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internal control weaknesses. As a percentage of revenue, sales, general and administrative expenses decreased primarily due to our overall increase in revenue.
Provision for Income Taxes
Our provision for income taxes increased $1.2 million from $26.3 million for fiscal 2016 to $27.5 million for fiscal 2017 . Our effective tax rate decreased to 9.7%
in fiscal 2017 as compared to 11.0% for fiscal 2016 . The effective tax rate decrease in the fiscal 2017 was primarily due to tax benefit recognition as a result of the
adoption of ASU 2016-09 of $7.9 million.
Comparison of Year Ended June 30, 2016 and 2015
Revenues
Cost of revenues (1) (2)
Gross profit
Operating expenses:
Research and development (1)
Sales, general and administrative (1)
Business e-mail compromise ("BEC") fraud (recovery)/ loss
Total operating expenses
Income from operations
Interest expense and other, net
Income before provision for income taxes
Provision for income taxes
Net income and comprehensive income
* Less than 1%
(1) Includes stock-based compensation as follows
Cost of revenues
Research and development
Sales, general and administrative
Total stock-based compensation
(2) Includes purchase commitment termination fee
Revenues
Years Ended June 30,
2016
(In thousands, except percentages)
666,395
341,600
324,795
57,765
33,269
(8,294)
82,740
242,055
(2,115)
239,940
26,324
213,616
100 % $
51 %
49 %
9 %
5 %
(1)%
13 %
36 %
*
36 %
4 %
32 % $
448
2,296
975
3,719
—
$
$
$
100%
56%
44%
9%
4%
6%
19%
25%
*
24%
3%
21%
2015
595,947
333,760
262,187
54,565
21,607
39,137
115,309
146,878
(1,130)
145,748
16,085
129,663
601
2,854
1,537
4,992
5,500
$
$
$
$
$
Revenues increased $70.4 million , or 12% , from $595.9 million in fiscal 2015 to $666.4 million in fiscal 2016 . The increase in revenues during fiscal 2016 was
driven by increased adoption of our Enterprise Technologies products which represented 37% of our total revenue in fiscal 2016 . Service Provider products
revenue were flat year over year and represented 63% of our total revenue in fiscal 2016 .
No distributor or customer represented more than 10% of our revenues in fiscal 2016 or fiscal 2015 .
Revenues by Product Type
Service Provider Technology
Enterprise Technology
Total revenues
Years Ended June 30,
2016
2015
(in thousands, except percentages)
418,346
248,049
666,395
63% $
37%
100% $
418,021
177,926
595,947
70%
30%
100%
$
$
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Service Provider Technology revenues remained flat in fiscal 2016 , as the increase in sales in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa ("EMEA") and
Asia Pacific were largely offset by the decrease in sales in South America.
Enterprise Technology revenues increased $70.1 million , or 39% , during fiscal 2016 , primarily due to product expansion and further adoption of our Enterprise
Technology platform.
Revenues by Geography
We have determined the geographical distribution of our product revenues based on our customers' ship-to destinations. A majority of our sales are to distributors
who in turn sell to resellers or directly to end customers, which may be different countries than the initial ship-to destination. The following are our revenues by
geography for fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 (in thousands, except percentages):
North America (1)
South America
Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Asia Pacific
Total revenues
Years Ended June 30,
2016
239,526
85,036
264,404
77,429
666,395
36% $
13%
39%
12%
100% $
2015
197,693
97,118
234,383
66,753
595,947
33%
16%
40%
11%
100%
$
$
(1) Revenue for the United States was $225.6 million and $187.3 million in fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively.
North America
Revenues in North America increased $41.8 million , or 21% , from $197.7 million in fiscal 2015 to $239.5 million in fiscal 2016 . The increase in revenues in
North America in fiscal 2016 compared to fiscal 2015 was due to increased adoption of our Service Provider and Enterprise Technologies.
South America
Revenues in South America decreased $12.1 million , or 12% , from $97.1 million in fiscal 2015 to $85.0 million in fiscal 2016 . We believe the decrease in
revenues in South America in fiscal 2016 compared to fiscal 2015 was primarily due to decreased demand for our Service Provider Technologies due in part to
economic instability and partially as a result of a strong U.S. Dollar.
EMEA
Revenues in EMEA increased $30.0 million , or 13% , from $234.4 million in fiscal 2015 to $264.4 million in fiscal 2016 . The increase in revenues in EMEA in
fiscal 2016 compared to fiscal 2015 was due to increased adoption of our Service Provider and Enterprise Technologies.
Asia Pacific
Revenues in the Asia Pacific region increased $10.7 million , or 16% , from $66.8 million in fiscal 2015 to $77.4 million in fiscal 2016 . The increase in revenues
in the Asia Pacific region in fiscal 2016 compared to fiscal 2015 was primarily due to increased adoption of our Service Provider and Enterprise Technologies.
Cost of Revenues and Gross Profit
Cost of revenues increased $7.8 million , or 2% , from $333.8 million in fiscal 2015 to $341.6 million in fiscal 2016 . The increase in cost of revenues in fiscal
2016 was primarily due to increased volume and to a lesser extent, changes in product mix. Gross profit as a percentage of revenue increased to 49% in fiscal 2016
compared to 44% in fiscal 2015 .
Operating Expenses
Research and Development
Research and development expenses increased $3.2 million , or 6% , from $54.6 million in fiscal 2015 to $57.8 million in fiscal 2016 . As a percentage of
revenues, research and development expenses remained flat at 9% in both fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 . This increase in absolute dollar expenditures is primarily
driven by a $2.5 million impairment charge for capitalized software and software in development costs recognized in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 due to the
cancellation of the commercial
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launch of certain software in development. Over time, we expect our research and development costs to continue to increase in absolute dollars as we continue
making investments in developing new products in addition to new versions of our existing products.
Sales, General and Administrative
Sales, general and administrative expenses increased $11.7 million , or 54% from $21.6 million in fiscal 2015 to $33.3 million in fiscal 2016 . As a percentage of
revenues, sales, general and administrative expenses increased to 5% in fiscal 2016 , compared to 4% in fiscal 2015 . The increase in sales, general and
administrative expenses in absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenues was due to higher consulting fees incurred to support the finance team and to assist
with material weakness remediation, higher legal costs, and an increase in headcount in the business development organization.
Business e-mail compromise fraud (recovery) loss
In June 2015, we determined that we were the victim of criminal fraud known to law enforcement authorities as business e-mail compromise fraud which involved
employee impersonation and fraudulent requests targeting our finance department. The fraud resulted in transfers of funds aggregating $46.7 million held by a
Company subsidiary incorporated in Hong Kong to other overseas accounts held by third parties. The Company recovered $8.1 million in fiscal 2015 and recorded
a charge of $39.1 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, including additional expenses consisting of professional service fees associated with the fraud loss. In
fiscal 2016, the Company recorded a net recovery of an additional $8.3 million, comprised of an $8.6 million recovery less $0.3 million of professional service fees
associated with the recovery.
The Company is continuing to pursue the recovery of the remaining $30.0 million and is cooperating with U.S. federal and numerous overseas law enforcement
authorities who are actively pursuing a multi-agency criminal investigation. However, any additional recoveries are likely remote and therefore cannot be assured.
Provision for Income Taxes
Our provision for income taxes increased $10.2 million from $16.1 million for fiscal 2015 to $26.3 million for fiscal 2016 . Our effective tax rate remained flat at
11% in both fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 because the Company's ratio of domestic and foreign income remained relatively constant for fiscal 2015 and fiscal 2016
. Overall, the rate benefit is due to income in foreign jurisdictions that have lower tax rates than the U.S.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Sources and Uses of Cash
Since inception, our operations primarily have been funded through cash generated by operations. We had cash and cash equivalents of $604.2 million , $551.0
million and $446.4 million at June 30, 2017 , 2016 and 2015 , respectively.
Consolidated Cash Flow Data
The following table sets forth the major components of our consolidated statements of cash flows data for the periods presented:
Net cash provided by operating activities
Net cash (used in) investing activities
Net cash (used in) financing activities
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
2017
Years Ended June 30,
2016
(In thousands)
112,036 $
197,508 $
(7,232)
(51,637)
(6,248)
(86,630)
53,167 $
104,630 $
$
$
2015
134,547
(12,724)
(22,519)
99,304
Net cash provided by operating activities in fiscal 2017 consisted primarily of net income of $257.5 million partially offset by net changes in operating assets and
liabilities that resulted in net cash outflows of $157.1 million . These changes consisted primarily of a $ 58.2 million increase in accounts receivable due to overall
higher revenues for the period, a $ 22.7 million increase in vendor deposit and $ 87.0 million increase in inventory due to an increase in warehouse stock levels in
order to better support customers, support new product releases and reduce lead times, a $ 3.1 million increase in prepaid expense and
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other assets primarily due to the increase of non-trade accounts receivable, a $ 7.2 million increase in accounts payable and accrued liabilities due to timing of
payments, $ 3.6 million increase in deferred revenue due to additional PCS revenue deferrals during the year and a $ 2.9 million net increase in taxes payable and
prepaid income taxes due to the timing of federal tax payments. Overall, cash inflows from operating activities were driven by our net income, which included non-
cash adjustments due to stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization, increases to our provision for inventory obsolescence, and increases to our
provision for losses on deposits with our vendors. The net of these non-cash adjustments resulted in an increase of our net cash provided by operating activities of
$11.7 million .
Net cash provided by operating activities in fiscal 2016 consisted primarily of net income of $213.6 million partially offset by net changes in operating assets
and liabilities that resulted in net cash outflows of $27.1 million . This net change was primarily driven by outflows arising from a $20.0 million increase in
inventory, and a $9.3 million increase in vendor deposits due to our strategic efforts to reduce lead times and maximize order fulfillments, a $16.7 million
increase in accounts receivable due to our overall increase in revenue. These outflows were offset by changes in operating assets and liabilities resulting in cash
inflows, including a $11.0 million increase in accounts payable and accrued liabilities due to the timing of payments with our vendors, a $7.0 million net
increase in taxes payable and decrease in prepaid income taxes due the timing of federal tax payments, a $0.7 million increase in deferred revenue due to
additional PCS revenue deferrals during the year and a $0.2 million decrease in prepaid expenses and other current assets due to timing of deposit payments with
our suppliers. Overall, cash inflows from operating activities were driven by our net income, which included non-cash adjustments due to stock-based
compensation, depreciation and amortization, increases to our provision for inventory obsolescence, decreases to our provision for losses on deposits with our
vendors, decreases in our allowance for doubtful accounts and taxes. The net of these non-cash adjustments resulted in an increase of our net cash provided by
operating activities of $11.0 million .
Net cash provided by operating activities in the fiscal 2015 consisted primarily of net income of $129.7 million partially offset by net changes in operating assets
and liabilities that resulted in net cash outflows of $11.7 million . These changes consisted primarily of a $22.0 million increase in prepaid expenses and other
current assets due to timing of deposit payments with our suppliers, an $11.3 million increase in accounts receivable due to our overall increase in revenue, a $9.1
million increase in accounts payable and accrued liabilities due to the timing of payments with our vendors, a $7.0 million decrease in inventory due to our efforts
to optimize our inventory levels and a $5.8 million net increase in taxes payable and prepaid income taxes due the timing of federal tax payments. Additionally, our
net income included non-cash adjustments due to stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization, increases to our provision for inventory obsolescence,
increases to
our provision for losses on deposits with our vendors, decreases in our allowance for doubtful accounts and taxes. The net of these non-cash adjustments resulted in
an increase of our net cash provided by operating activities of $16.6 million .
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
We used $7.2 million of cash in investing activities during fiscal 2017 . Our investing activities consist of capital expenditures and purchases of intangible assets.
Capital expenditures for fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 were $7.1 million , $5.9 million and $12.7 million , respectively. Additionally, we had cash
outflows related to intangible assets of $0.1 million, $0.3 million and $0.05 million during fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively, consisting
primarily of legal costs associated with trademark applications and acquisition of domain names.
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
We used $51.6 million of cash in financing activities during fiscal 2017 . During fiscal 2017 we paid $105.2 million for repurchase of common stock. We also
made principal repayments of $11.3 million on our outstanding Term Facility and $34 million on our Revolving Facility. These cash outflows were offset by
financing cash inflows of $99.0 million related to draws under our Revolving Facility. Additionally, cash inflows from financing activities included $1.4 million of
cash proceeds received from the exercise of stock options partially offset by tax withholdings related to net share settlements of restricted stock units totaling $1.6
million .
We used $86.6 million of cash in financing activities during fiscal 2016 , primarily driven by repurchasing $193.5 million of our common stock. We also made
repayments of $10.0 million on our outstanding term loan debt and $14.0 million on our outstanding revolving loans under the Amended Credit Agreement
during fiscal 2016. These cash outflows were offset by financing cash inflows, including the draws made under the Revolving Facility totaling $130.0 million .
Additionally, cash inflows from financing activities included $1.1 million of cash proceeds received from the exercise of stock options in addition to $1.0 million
of excess tax benefit from employee stock-based awards, partially offset by tax withholdings related to net share settlements of restricted stock units totaling $1.2
million .
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We had $22.5 million of cash used in financing activities during fiscal 2015 , primarily from cash received from our term loan with Wells Fargo Bank of $100.0
million , offset by repayments of our prior 2014 Credit Agreement with Wells Fargo Bank of $74.8 million . Additionally, during fiscal 2015 we paid $15.0 million
for dividends on our common stock, paid $34.7 million for repurchases of our common stock and had tax withholdings related to net share settlements of restricted
stock units of $1.8 million . Other cash inflows from financing activities included cash received for stock option exercises of $1.7 million and an excess tax benefit
from employee stock-based awards of $2.1 million .
Liquidity
We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents, cash provided by operations and the availability of additional funds, under the Facilities, will be sufficient to
meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs for the next twelve months. However, this estimate is based on a number of assumptions that may prove to
be wrong and we could exhaust our available cash and cash equivalents earlier than presently anticipated. Our future capital requirements may vary materially from
those currently planned and will depend on many factors, including our rate of revenue growth, the timing and extent of spending to support development efforts,
the timing of new product introductions, market acceptance of our products and overall economic conditions. As of June 30, 2017 , we held $546.8 million of our
$604.2 million of cash and cash equivalents in accounts of our subsidiaries outside of the United States and we will incur significant tax liabilities if we decide to
repatriate those amounts.
We believe that the combination of our existing United States cash and cash equivalent balances and future United States operating cash flows are sufficient to
meet our ongoing United States operating expenses and debt repayment obligations for the foreseeable future.
We earn a significant amount of our operating income outside the United States, which is deemed to be indefinitely reinvested in foreign jurisdictions. As a result,
a significant portion of our cash and short-term investments are held by foreign subsidiaries. We currently do not intend nor foresee a need to repatriate these
funds. We expect existing domestic cash and short-term investments and cash flows from operations to continue to be sufficient to fund our domestic operating
activities and cash commitments for investing and financing activities, such as regular quarterly dividends, debt repayment, and capital expenditures, for at least
the next 12 months and thereafter for the foreseeable future.
If we should require more capital in the United States than is generated by our domestic operations, for example to fund significant discretionary activities such as
business acquisitions and share repurchases, we could elect to repatriate future earnings from foreign jurisdictions or raise capital in the United States through debt
or equity issuances. These alternatives could result in higher effective tax rates, increased interest expense, or dilution of our earnings. We could also elect to
borrow funds domestically, which we have done in the past and continue to believe we have the ability to do so at reasonable interest rates.
Contractual Obligations and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
The following table summarizes our contractual obligations as of June 30, 2017 :
Year 1
1-3 Years
3-5 years
Over 5 years
Total
Payments Due by Period
Operating leases
Debt payment obligations
$
6,075 $
15,000
5,554 $
242,250
(In thousands)
7,044
32,884
4,337
10,956
—
—
$
65,340 $
258,760 $
2,426 $
578 $
2,426 $
—
—
—
—
578 $
—
—
—
—
14,633
257,250
18,000
32,884
4,337
327,104
Interest and other payments on debt payment
obligations
Purchase obligations
Other obligations
Total
Operating Leases
The Company leases its headquarters in New York, NY and other locations worldwide under non-cancelable operating leases that expire at various dates through
2023 .
Debt and Interest Payment Obligations
On April 14, 2017, the Company, the Cayman Borrower and certain of its subsidiaries entered in the First Amendment (the “First Amendment”) to the Credit
Agreement (as amended by the First Amendment, the “Amended Credit Agreement”). The
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First Amendment increased the maximum aggregate amount of the Revolving Facility from $200.0 million to $300.0 million, but maintained the $100.0 million
Term Facility under the Credit Agreement and the option to request increases in the amounts of such Facilities by up to an additional $50.0 million in the aggregate
(any such increase to be in each lender’s sole discretion). The Amended Credit Agreement requires the Company to maintain during the term of the Facilities (i) a
maximum leverage ratio of 2.50 to 1.00 and (ii) minimum liquidity of $250.0 million, which can be satisfied with unrestricted cash and cash equivalents and up to
$50.0 million of availability under the Revolving Facility. All other material terms and provisions of the Amended Credit Agreement remain substantially identical
to the terms and provisions in place immediately prior to the effectiveness of the First Amendment, other than the revision or inclusion of certain customary market
provisions. Please see Note 7 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for more information. We have calculated estimated interest payments for our
debt based on the applicable rates and payment dates. Although our interest rates on our debt obligations may vary, we have assumed the most recent available
interest rates for all years presented. Also included are estimated bank fees to be paid for unused portions of our revolving credit facility.
Purchase Obligations
We subcontract with other companies to manufacture our products. During the normal course of business, our contract manufacturers procure components based
upon orders placed by us. If we cancel all or part of the orders, we may still be liable to the contract manufacturers for the cost of the components purchased by the
subcontractors to manufacture our products. We periodically review the potential liability, and to date, no significant liabilities for cancellations have been
recorded. Our consolidated financial position and results of operations could be negatively impacted if we were required to compensate the contract manufacturers
for any unrecorded liabilities incurred. We had inventory purchase obligations for finished goods of $32.9 million as of June 30, 2017 .
Other Obligations
We had other obligations of $4.3 million as of June 30, 2017 , which consisted primarily of commitments related to research and development projects.
Unrecognized Tax Benefits
As of June 30, 2017 , we had $27.4 million and an additional $2.4 million for gross interest classified as non-current liabilities. At this time, we are unable to make
a reasonably reliable estimate of the timing of payments in individual years in connection with these tax liabilities; therefore, such amounts are not included in the
above contractual obligation table.
Warranties and Indemnifications
Our products are generally accompanied by a 12-month warranty, which covers both parts and labor. Generally, the distributor is responsible for the freight costs
associated with warranty returns, and we absorb the freight costs of replacing items under warranty. In accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards
Board’s (“FASB’s”), Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”), 450-20, Loss Contingencies, we record an accrual when we believe it is estimable and probable
based upon historical experience. We record a provision for estimated future warranty work in cost of goods sold upon recognition of revenues and we review the
resulting accrual regularly and periodically adjust it to reflect changes in warranty estimates.
We have entered and may in the future enter into standard indemnification agreements with certain distributors as well as other business partners in the ordinary
course of business. These agreements may include provisions for indemnifying the distributor, OEM or other business partner against any claim brought by a third
party to the extent any such claim alleges that a Ubiquiti product infringes a patent, copyright or trademark or violates any other proprietary rights of that third
party. The maximum amount of potential future indemnification is unlimited. The maximum potential amount of future payments we could be required to make
under these indemnification agreements is not estimable.
We have agreed to indemnify our directors, officers and certain other employees for certain events or occurrences, subject to certain limits, while such persons are
or were serving at our request in such capacity. We may terminate the indemnification agreements with these persons upon the termination of their services with us
but termination will not affect claims for indemnification related to events occurring prior to the effective date of termination. The maximum amount of potential
future indemnification is unlimited. We have a Directors and Officers insurance policy that limits our potential exposure. We believe the fair value of these
indemnification agreements is minimal. We had not recorded any liabilities for these agreements as of June 30, 2017 or 2016 .
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Based upon our historical experience and information known as of the date of this report, we do not believe it is likely that we will have significant liability for the
above indemnities as of June 30, 2017 .
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of June 30, 2017 and 2016 , we had no off-balance sheet arrangements other than those indemnification agreements described above.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
For a discussion of recent accounting pronouncements, refer to Note 2 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
Interest Rate Sensitivity
Our revolving and term loans bear interest, at our option, at either (i) a floating rate per annum equal to the base rate plus a margin of between 0.50% and 1.25%,
depending on our leverage ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter or (ii) a floating per annum rate equal to the applicable LIBOR rate for a specified
period, plus a margin of between 1.50% and 2.25%, depending on our leverage ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter. Swingline loans bear interest at a
floating rate per annum equal to the base rate plus a margin of between 0.50% and 1.25%, depending on our leverage ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal
quarter. Base rate is defined as the greatest of (A) Wells Fargo's prime rate, (B) the federal funds rate plus 0.50% or (C) the applicable LIBOR rate for a period of
one month plus 1.00%. A default interest rate shall apply on all obligations during certain events of default under the Amended Credit Agreement at a rate per
annum equal to 2.00% above the applicable interest rate. The Company will pay to each lender a facility fee on a quarterly basis based on the unused amount of
each lender's commitment to make revolving loans, of between 0.20% and 0.35%, depending on the Company's leverage ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal
quarter. The Company will also pay to the applicable lenders on a quarterly basis certain fees based on the daily amount available to be drawn under each
outstanding letter of credit, including aggregate letter of credit commissions of between 1.50% and 2.25%, depending on the Company's leverage ratio as of the
most recently ended fiscal quarter, and issuance fees of 0.125% per annum. The Company is also obligated to pay Wells Fargo, as agent, fees customary for a
credit facility of this size and type. Based on a sensitivity analysis, as of June 30, 2017 , an instantaneous and sustained 200-basis-point increase in interest rates
affecting our floating rate debt obligations, and assuming that we take no counteractive measures, would result in a charge to our income before income taxes of
approximately $5.1 million over the next 12 months.
We had cash and cash equivalents of $604.2 million and $551.0 million as of June 30, 2017 and 2016 , respectively. These amounts were held primarily in cash
deposit accounts. The fair value of our cash equivalents would not be significantly affected by either a 10% increase or decrease in interest rates due mainly to the
short-term nature of these instruments.
Foreign Currency Risk
Our sales are denominated in U.S. dollars, and therefore, our revenues are not directly subject to foreign currency risk. Certain of our operating expenses are
denominated in the currencies of the countries in which our operations are located, and may be subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange
rates, particularly changes in the Chinese Yuan, Euro, and Taiwan Dollar. A 10% appreciation or depreciation in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the other
currencies in which our expenses are denominated would result in a charge to our income before income taxes of approximately $3.2 million.
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
The response to this Item is submitted as a separate section of this Form 10-K. See Item 15.
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls
and procedures as of June 30, 2017. The term “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”), means
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controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits
under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and
procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files
or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial
officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well
designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of
June 30, 2017, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Accounting Officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-
15(f) and 15d-15(f). A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, its Chief Executive Officer and
Chief Accounting Officer, and effected by such company's board of directors, management and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
includes those policies and procedures that:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of
the company;
provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with
authorizations of management and directors of the company; and
provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s
assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of
effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with
the policies or procedures may deteriorate. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such
that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a company's annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a
timely basis.
Management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, has conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal
control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2017, based on the framework set forth in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of
Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on this assessment, management has concluded that the Company maintained effective
internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2017.
The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2017 has been audited by KPMG LLP, an independent registered public accounting
firm, as stated in their report which appears herein.
Material Weaknesses in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
As reported in its Annual Reports on Form 10-K for the years ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, Management determined that the Company did not maintain an
effective control environment, attributable to a lack of sufficient, competent personnel necessary for effective financial reporting. This resulted in the lack of
comprehensive and up-to-date accounting policies and procedures, skepticism on the part of key accounting personnel, internal control training, leadership and
adequate communication of roles and responsibilities. Growth in the complexity of the business without commensurate growth in the capabilities of the finance and
accounting organization contributed to this deficiency.
The Company’s failure to maintain an effective control environment contributed to a second deficiency in the form of ineffectively designed and maintained
controls required for safeguarding of the Company’s funds and timely detection of improper transactions in the general ledger. Specifically, the Company’s
disbursement authorization policies were not updated timely for changes in personnel and positions, nor were authorization requirements clearly stated, including
those for non-routine transactions.
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The Company’s failure to maintain an effective control environment also contributed to a third deficiency in the form of ineffectively designed and maintained
controls over user access and transaction privileges to modify and post entries to the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers. In particular, the scope of user access
and transaction privileges to the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers is not sufficiently restricted to provide reasonable assurance of effective process and review
controls over postings to the general ledger. Additionally, general ledger changes were completed without due consideration of collateral impacts on segregation of
duties controls.
These control deficiencies could result in misstatements of accounts or disclosures that would each result in a material misstatement of the interim or consolidated
financial statements that would not be prevented or detected and, therefore, management has determined that these control deficiencies constitute material
weaknesses. However, management has determined that the foregoing material weaknesses did not result in a material misstatement in the consolidated financial
statements as of June 30, 2016.
Remediation of Previously Reported Material Weaknesses
During the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we completed the remediation efforts of the material weaknesses described above.
Regarding the lack of sufficient, competent personnel necessary for effective financial reporting, we recruited and transitioned the leadership team within the
finance organization by adding additional qualified and experienced personnel. We have updated our accounting policies and procedures documentation together
with key process level documents. In conjunction with the recruitment efforts, we have clarified roles and responsibilities within the finance organization.
Regarding the ineffectively designed and maintained controls required for safeguarding of the Company’s funds and timely detection of improper transactions in
the general ledger, we have implemented new policies and controls surrounding disbursement authorities and journal entry creation, including training on required
supporting documentation.
Regarding the ineffectively designed and maintained controls over user access and transaction privileges to modify and post entries to the general ledger and
subsidiary ledgers, the Company has reviewed and updated user access and transaction privileges to the general ledger and interfacing subsidiary systems through
the implementation of automated and manual controls. Additionally, we have performed a segregation of duties analysis over general ledger access. Management
has also developed policies to ensure that future system changes consider impacts to the general ledger, including transaction privileges and segregation of duties.
We have completed our testing of the controls discussed above and conclude that our previously reported material weaknesses in our internal controls over
financial reporting have been satisfactorily remediated as of June 30, 2017.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Other than the changes described above, there were no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended June 30,
2017 that materially affected, or that are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Item 9B. Other Information
Not applicable.
Item 10. Directors and Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
PART III
The information required by this Item 10 is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement for the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of our June 30, 2017 fiscal year end) under the headings “Election of Directors – Executive Officers and
Directors,” “Corporate Governance,” and “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance.”
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Item 11. Executive Compensation
The information required by this Item 11 is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement for the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of our June 30, 2017 fiscal year end) under the headings “Executive Compensation,” “Proposal One
Election of Directors—Directors’ Compensation” and “Corporate Governance—Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation.”
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
The information required by this Item 12 with respect to security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management is incorporated by reference to our Proxy
Statement for the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of our June 30, 2017 fiscal year
end) under the headings “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management Related Stockholder Matters.”
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
The information required by this Item 13 is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement for the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of our June 30, 2017 fiscal year end) under the headings “Certain Relationships and Related Party
Transactions” and “Corporate Governance—Committees of the Board of Directors.”
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services
The information required by this Item 14 is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement for the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days of our June 30, 2017 fiscal year end) under the headings “Proposal Two Ratification of the Appointment of
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm—Audit and Non-Audit Fees” and “—Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies.”
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Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
(a) 1. Financial Statements
PART IV
The financial statements filed as part of this report are identified in the Index to Consolidated Financial Statements on page 55 of this Form 10-K.
2. Financial Statement Schedules
See Item 15(c) below.
3. Exhibits
See Item 15(b) below.
(b) Exhibits
The following exhibits are filed herewith or are incorporated by reference to exhibits previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc. (the “Registrant”) shall furnish copies of exhibits for a reasonable fee (covering the expense of furnishing copies) upon request.
Exhibit
Number
Description
Incorporated by
Reference from Form
Incorporated by
Reference from
Exhibit Number
Date Filed
Filed
Herewith
3.1
3.2
4.1
4.2
4.3
10.1
10.2#
10.3#
10.4#
10.5#
10.6
Form of Third Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc.
Specimen Common Stock Certificate of Ubiquiti Networks,
Inc.
Registration Agreement, dated March 2, 2010, between
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and certain holders of Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc.’s capital stock named therein.
Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2010,
between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and certain holders of
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.’s capital stock named therein.
Form of Indemnification Agreement between Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc. and its directors and officers.
Amended and Restated 2005 Equity Incentive Plan and
forms of agreement thereunder.
Amended and Restated 2010 Equity Incentive Plan and
forms of agreement thereunder.
Employment Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2011,
between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Benjamin Moore.
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
3.2
3.4
4.1
4.2
4.3
June 17, 2011
June 17, 2011
October 3, 2011
June 17, 2011
June 17, 2011
10.1
October 3, 2011
10.2
June 17, 2011
10.3
June 17, 2011
10.5
June 17, 2011
Employment Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2016 ,
between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Kevin Radigan.
10-K
10.6
August 22, 2017
Non-Residential Property Lease Agreement, dated as of
May 28, 2009, between UAB “Devint” and Tomas
Grébliúnas, Tomas Skučas, and Vygante Skučiené.
S-1
10.9
June 17, 2011
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Exhibit
Number
Description
Incorporated by
Reference from Form
Incorporated by
Reference from
Exhibit Number
Date Filed
Filed
Herewith
10.7
10.8
10.9†
10.10
10.11
10.12
10.13
10.14
10.15
21.1
23.1
23.2
24.1
Jinyong Ji Investment Taiwan Lease, dated as of March 16,
2010, between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Jinyong Ji
Investment Co., Ltd.
Lease, dated as of July 9, 2010, between Ubiquiti Networks,
Inc. and The Welsh Office Center LLC.
Amended Technology License Agreement, dated as of
September 1, 2010, between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and
Atheros Communications, Inc.
Taiwan Lease, dated as of July 20, 2011, between Jin
Yeoung Ji Co., Ltd. and Ubiquiti Networks International
Limited, Taiwan Branch.
Office Lease, dated as of December 8, 2011 and executed on
December 22, 2011, by and between Ubiquiti Networks,
Inc. and Carr NP Properties, L.L.C.
Credit Agreement, dated as of May 3, 2014, by and among
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Ubiquiti International Holding
Company Limited, as Borrowers, the Lenders referred to
therein, as Lenders and Wells Fargo Bank, National
Associate, as Administration Agent
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of
March 3, 2015, by and among Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and
Ubiquiti International Holding Company Limited, as
Borrowers, the Lenders referred to therein, as Lenders, and
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative
Agent.
First Amendment dates as April 14, 2017, to Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 3, 2015, by
and among Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Ubiquiti
International Holding Company Limited, as borrowers,
certain subsidiaries of the borrowers, as guarantors, the
lenders and other financial institutions party thereto and
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative
agent.
S-1
S-1
S-1
10.10
June 17, 2011
10.11
June 17, 2011
10.12
June 17, 2011
10-Q
10.15
November 14, 2011
10-Q/A
10.16
March 20, 2012
10-Q
10.1
May 9, 2014
8-K
10.1
March 6, 2015
8-K
10.1
April 20, 2017
Aircraft Lease Agreement between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
and RJP Manageco LLP, dated November 13, 2013
10-Q
10.1
February 7, 2014
List of subsidiaries of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Consent of independent registered public accounting firm
Consent of independent registered public accounting firm
Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page to this
Form 10-K)
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X
X
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Exhibit
Number
Description
Incorporated by
Reference from Form
Incorporated by
Reference from
Exhibit Number
Date Filed
Filed
Herewith
31.1
31.2
32.1~
Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required Under
Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required Under
Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal
Financial Officer Required Under Rule 13a-14(b) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and 18
U.S.C. §1350.
101.INS(*)
XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH(*)
XBRL Taxonomy Schema Linkbase Document
101.CAL(*)
XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF(*)
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB(*)
XBRL Taxonomy Labels Linkbase Document
101.PRE(*)
XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
# Management contracts or compensation plans or arrangements in which directors or executive officers are eligible to participate.
†
~
Portions of the exhibit have been omitted pursuant to an order granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for confidential treatment.
In accordance with Item 601(b)(32)(ii) of Regulation S-K and SEC Release No. 33-8238 and 34-47986, Final Rule: Management’s Reports on Internal Control Over
Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports, the certifications furnished in Exhibit 32.1 hereto are deemed to accompany this
Form 10-K and will not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. Such certifications will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into
any filings under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.
(*) XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) information is furnished and not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of Sections 11 or
12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, is deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and is not otherwise
subject to liability under these Sections.
(c) Financial Statement Schedules.
Schedules not listed above have been omitted because they are not applicable or required, or the information required to be set forth therein is included in the
Consolidated Financial Statements or Notes thereto.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: August 25, 2017
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
/s/ Robert J. Pera
Robert J. Pera
Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Kevin Radigan
Kevin Radigan
Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Robert J. Pera and Kevin Radigan and each
of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any
and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to
do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in
the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
/s/ Robert J. Pera
Robert J. Pera
/s/ Kevin Radigan
Kevin Radigan
/s/ Ronald A. Sege
Ronald A. Sege
/s/ Rafael Torres
Rafael Torres
/s/ Michael E. Hurlston
Michael E. Hurlston
Title
Date
Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
Director
Director
Director
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UBIQUITI NETWORKS, INC.
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
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To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of June 30, 2017, and the related
consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2017. We also have audited the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2017, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by
the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial
statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting,
included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
consolidated financial statements and an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we
plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal
control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding
of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of
internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe
that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial
reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the
transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in
accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of
unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of
effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with
the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and
subsidiaries as of June 30, 2017, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2017, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles. Also in our opinion, Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of
June 30, 2017, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the
Treadway Commission (COSO) .
As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has changed its method of accounting for share-based payments effective July 1,
2016 due to the adoption of FASB ASU 2016-09, Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment
Accounting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
New York, New York
August 25, 2017
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To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
In our opinion, the consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2016 and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, of
stockholders’ equity and of cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2016 present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and its subsidiaries as of June 30, 2016, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the two years in the period
ended June 30, 2016, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements are the responsibility
of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these
financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan
and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
San Jose, California
August 22, 2016, except for the change in the manner in which the company accounts for debt issuance costs as discussed in Note 2, as to which the date is
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Assets
Current assets:
UBIQUITI NETWORKS, INC.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In thousands, except share data)
June 30,
2017
2016
Cash and cash equivalents
$
604,198 $
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $440 and $48 at June 30, 2017 and
June 30, 2016 respectively
Inventories
Vendor deposits
Prepaid income taxes
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
Total current assets
Property and equipment, net
Long-term deferred tax assets
Other long–term assets
Total assets
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable
Income taxes payable
Debt - short-term
Other current liabilities
Total current liabilities
Long-term taxes payable
Debt - long-term
Deferred revenues - long-term
Total liabilities
Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock—$0.001 par value; 50,000,000 shares authorized; none issued
Common stock—$0.001 par value; 500,000,000 shares authorized:
80,275,965 and 81,667,129 outstanding at June 30, 2017 and June 30, 2016, respectively
Additional paid–in capital
Retained earnings
Total stockholders’ equity
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
63
140,561
142,048
54,082
2,419
9,026
952,334
12,916
5,133
2,328
972,711 $
49,008 $
1,707
14,743
33,030
98,488
28,023
241,821
2,615
370,947
—
80
525
601,159
601,764
972,711 $
$
$
$
551,031
82,790
57,113
30,255
299
6,896
728,384
12,953
4,195
1,576
747,108
51,510
1,488
10,993
26,672
90,663
23,202
191,564
1,303
306,732
—
82
—
440,294
440,376
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Revenues
Cost of revenues
Gross profit
Operating expenses:
UBIQUITI NETWORKS, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
2015
$
865,268 $
666,395 $
469,560
395,708
341,600
324,795
69,094
36,853
—
105,947
289,761
(4,737)
285,024
27,518
57,765
33,269
(8,294)
82,740
242,055
(2,115)
239,940
26,324
$
$
$
$
257,506 $
213,616 $
3.16 $
3.09 $
2.53 $
2.49 $
81,478
83,252
84,402
85,784
— $
— $
595,947
333,760
262,187
54,565
21,607
39,137
115,309
146,878
(1,130)
145,748
16,085
129,663
1.47
1.45
88,008
89,569
0.17
Research and development
Sales, general and administrative
Business e-mail compromise ("BEC") fraud (recovery)/ loss
Total operating expenses
Income from operations
Interest expense and other, net
Income before provision for income taxes
Provision for income taxes
Net income and comprehensive income
Net income per share of common stock:
Basic
Diluted
Weighted average shares used in computing net income per share of common stock:
Basic
Diluted
Cash dividends declared per common share
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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UBIQUITI NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
In thousands , except share data
Common Stock
Amount
Shares
88,179,448 $
Balances at June 30, 2014
Net income and comprehensive income
Stock options exercised
Restricted stock units issued, net of tax withholdings
Retirement of treasury shares
Payment of common stock cash dividends
Repurchases of Common Stock
Stock-based compensation expense
Tax impact of employee stock transactions
Balances at June 30, 2015
Net income and comprehensive income
Stock options exercised
Restricted stock units issued, net of tax withholdings
Repurchases of Common Stock
Stock-based compensation expense
Tax impact of employee stock transactions
Balances at June 30, 2016
Net income and comprehensive income
Stock options exercised
Restricted stock units issued, net of tax withholdings
Repurchases of Common Stock
Stock-based compensation expense
Balances at June 30, 2017
—
299,034
130,792
—
—
(1,195,497)
—
—
87,413,777
—
171,263
104,436
(6,022,347)
—
—
81,667,129
—
502,350
88,897
(1,982,411)
—
Amount
Treasury Stock
Additional
Paid-In
Capital
Amount
Shares
$ 145,872 (44,238,960) $(123,864)
—
—
—
138,864
—
(15,000)
—
1,686
(1,798)
—
—
—
(138,864) 44,768,739
—
(529,779)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
— $
—
(13,967)
4,992
2,079
—
—
1,106
(1,223)
(4,606)
3,719
1,004
—
—
1,436
(1,594)
(2,102)
2,785
525
— —
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
88
—
—
—
—
—
(1)
—
—
87
—
—
—
(6)
—
—
82
—
—
—
(2)
—
Retained
Earnings
Total
Stockholders'
Equity
Amount
$ 313,168 $
129,663
—
—
—
(15,020)
(5,744)
—
—
422,067
213,616
—
—
(195,388)
—
—
440,294
257,506
—
—
(96,641)
—
$ 601,159 $
Amount
335,264
129,663
1,686
(1,798)
—
(15,020)
(34,712)
4,992
2,079
422,154
213,616
1,106
(1,223)
(200,000)
3,719
1,004
440,376
257,506
1,436
(1,594)
(98,745)
2,785
601,764
80,275,965 $
80
$
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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UBIQUITI NETWORKS, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(In thousands)
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
Net income and comprehensive income
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
Provision for inventory obsolescence
(Recovery)/Provision for loss on vendor deposits
Write-off of software development costs
Deferred taxes
Excess tax benefit from employee stock-based awards
Stock-based compensation
Other, net
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable
Inventories
Vendor Deposits
Deferred cost of revenues
Prepaid income taxes
Prepaid expenses and other assets
Accounts payable
Taxes payable
Deferred revenues
Accrued liabilities and other
Net cash provided by operating activities
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
Purchase of property and equipment and other long-term assets
Net cash (used in) investing activities
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
Issuances of debt
Proceeds from revolver loan
Repayments of term loan
Payments on credit facilities
Repurchases of common stock
Payment of common stock cash dividends
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
Excess tax benefit from employee stock-based awards
Tax withholdings related to net share settlements of restricted stock units
Net cash (used in) financing activities
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year
Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information:
Income taxes paid, net of refunds
Interest paid
Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities:
Unpaid stock repurchases
Unpaid property and equipment and other long-term assets
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
2015
$
257,506
$
213,616 $
129,663
7,359
2,479
(1,096)
—
(938)
—
2,785
1,081
(58,164)
(86,988)
(22,730)
—
(2,120)
(3,061)
(2,554)
5,041
3,649
9,787
112,036
(7,232)
(7,232)
6,294
747
(973)
2,505
(1,145)
(1,004)
3,719
823
(16,685)
(20,012)
(9,285)
—
2,267
190
7,720
4,777
709
3,245
197,508
(6,248)
(6,248)
—
99,000
(11,250)
(34,000)
(105,229)
—
1,436
—
(1,594)
(51,637)
53,167
551,031
604,198
$
—
130,000
(10,000)
(14,000)
(193,517)
—
1,106
1,004
(1,223)
(86,630)
104,630
446,401
551,031 $
4,971
2,288
5,827
—
(911)
(2,079)
4,992
1,526
(11,339)
7,030
—
1,279
690
(21,969)
9,735
5,152
(1,678)
(630)
134,547
(12,724)
(12,724)
100,000
—
(74,754)
—
(34,712)
(15,020)
1,686
2,079
(1,798)
(22,519)
99,304
347,097
446,401
25,743
5,194
$
$
18,531 $
2,351 $
12,797
1,290
— $
$
458
6,483 $
406 $
—
—
$
$
$
$
$
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UBIQUITI NETWORKS, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 1—BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Business — Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively, “Ubiquiti” or the “Company”) develop high performance networking
technology for service providers, enterprises and consumers globally.
The Company operates on a fiscal year ending June 30 . In these notes, Ubiquiti refers to the fiscal years ended June 30 , 2017 , 2016 and 2015 as fiscal 2017 ,
fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively.
Basis of Presentation — The Company’s consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes are prepared in accordance with accounting principles
generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and include the accounts of Ubiquiti and its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Company has wholly
owned subsidiaries in Lithuania, Hong Kong, China, Latvia, Czech Republic, Canada, Ukraine, Poland, India and the Cayman Islands. The Company’s Hong Kong
subsidiary also operates a branch office in Taiwan. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated. The Company has reclassified certain
amounts reported in the previous period to conform to the current period presentation.
NOTE 2—SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Use of Accounting Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets
and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during
the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates these estimates, including those related to allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory valuation,
vendor deposits, warranty costs, stock-based compensation and income taxes, among others. The Company bases estimates on historical experience and on various
other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates.
Segments
Management has determined that it operates as one reportable and operating segment as the Company's Chief Executive Officer, who is the Company's chief
operating decision maker, does not make decisions about resources to be allocated or assess performance on a segment basis. See Note 12.
Recognition of Revenues
Revenues consist primarily of revenues from the sale of hardware and management tools, as well as the related implied post contract customer support (“PCS”).
The Company recognizes revenues when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the sales price is fixed or determinable and the
collectability of the resulting receivable is reasonably assured. In cases where the Company lacks evidence that collectability of the resulting receivable is
reasonably assured, it defers recognition of revenue until the receipt of cash.
For the Company’s sales, evidence of the arrangement consists of an order from a customer. The Company considers delivery to have occurred once its products
have been shipped and title and risk of loss have been transferred. For the Company’s sales, these criteria are met at the time the products are transferred to the
customer. The Company’s arrangements with customers do not, in most cases, include provisions for cancellation, returns, inventory swaps or refunds that would
materially impact recognized revenues.
The Company records amounts billed to distributors for shipping and handling costs as revenues. The Company classifies shipping and handling costs incurred by
it as cost of revenues.
Deposit payments received from distributors in advance of recognition of revenues are included in current liabilities on the Company’s balance sheet and are
recognized as revenues when all the criteria for recognition of revenues are met.
A portion of the Company's revenues related to PCS are deferred. This relates to the Company’s multi-element arrangements, which generally include two
deliverables. The first deliverable is the hardware and software essential to the functionality of the hardware device delivered at the time of sale. The second
deliverable is the implied right to PCS included with the purchase of certain products. PCS is this right to receive, on a when and if available basis, future
unspecified software upgrades and features relating to the product’s essential software as well as bug fixes, email and telephone support.
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The Company uses a hierarchy to determine the allocation of revenues to the deliverables. The hierarchy is as follows: (i) vendor-specific objective evidence of fair
value (“VSOE”), (ii) third-party evidence of selling price (“TPE”), and (iii) best estimate of the selling price (“BESP”).
(i) VSOE generally exists only when a company sells the deliverable separately and is the price actually charged by the company for that deliverable.
Generally, the Company does not sell the deliverables separately and, as such, does not have VSOE.
(ii) TPE can be substantiated by determining the price that other parties sell similar or substantially similar offerings. The Company does not believe that there
is accessible TPE evidence for similar deliverables.
(iii) BESP reflects the Company’s best estimates of what the selling prices of elements would be if they were sold regularly on a stand-alone basis. The
Company believes that BESP is the most appropriate methodology for determining the allocation of revenue among the multiple elements.
The Company allocates revenues between these two deliverables using the relative selling price method which is based on the estimated selling price for all
deliverables. Revenues allocated to the delivered hardware and the related essential software are recognized at the time of sale provided the other conditions for
recognition of revenues have been met. Revenues allocated to the PCS are deferred and recognized on a straight-line basis over the estimated period for which
services will be delivered to support each of these devices which, currently, is two years . If the estimated life of the hardware product should change, the future
rate of amortization of the revenues allocated to PCS would also change. All cost of revenues for the delivered hardware and the related essential software,
including estimated warranty costs, are recognized at the time of sale. Costs for research and development and sales and marketing are expensed as incurred. Costs
for PCS are recognized as they are incurred.
The Company’s process for determining BESP for deliverables involves multiple factors that may vary depending upon the unique facts and circumstances related
to each deliverable. For PCS, the Company believes its network operators and service providers would be reluctant to pay for such services separately. This view is
primarily based on the fact that unspecified upgrade rights do not obligate the Company to provide upgrades at a particular time or at all, and do not specify to
network operators and service providers which upgrades or features will be delivered. The Company believes that the relatively low prices of its products and its
network operators’ and service providers’ price sensitivity would add to their reluctance to pay for PCS. Therefore, the Company has concluded that if it were to
sell PCS on a standalone basis, the selling price would be relatively low.
Key factors considered by the Company in developing the BESP for PCS include reviewing the activities of specific employees engaged in support and software
development to determine the amount of time that is allocated to the development of the undelivered elements, determining the cost of this development effort, and
then adding an appropriate level of gross profit to these costs. As of June 30, 2017 and 2016 , the Company had deferred revenues of $7.9 million and $4.2 million
, respectively, related to these obligations.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company considers investments purchased with a maturity period of three months or less at the date of purchase to be cash equivalents. Cash and cash
equivalents are stated at cost which approximates fair value. The Company deposits cash and cash equivalents with financial institutions that management believes
are of high credit quality. The Company’s cash and cash equivalents consist primarily of cash deposited in U.S. dollar denominated interest-bearing deposit
accounts.
Concentration of Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. The
Company limits its exposure by primarily placing its cash in interest-bearing deposit accounts with high credit quality financial institutions.
The Company derives its accounts receivable from revenues earned from customers located worldwide. The Company bases credit decisions primarily upon a
customer’s past credit history. The Company’s standard credit terms are net 30 to 120 days.
The Company subcontracts with other companies to manufacture most of its products. The Company relies on the ability of these contract manufacturers to
produce the products sold to its distributors. A significant portion of the Company’s products are manufactured by a few contract manufacturers.
Inventory and Inventory Valuation
The Company's inventories are primarily finished goods and, to a lesser extent, raw materials, which have been either consigned to the Company's contract
manufacturers or are held by the Company. Inventories are stated at the lower of actual cost (computed on a first-in, first-out basis), or Net Realizable Value
(NRV). NRV is based upon an estimated average selling
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price reduced by the estimated costs of disposal. The determination of net realizable value involves numerous judgments including estimating average selling
prices based up recent sales, industry trends, existing customer orders, and seasonal factors. Should actual market conditions differ from the Company's estimates,
future results of operations could be materially affected. The Company reduces the value of its inventory for estimated obsolescence or lack of marketability by the
difference between the cost of the affected inventory and the estimated market value. Write-downs are not reversed until the related inventory has been
subsequently sold or scrapped.
The valuation of inventory also requires the Company to estimate excess and obsolete inventory. The determination of excess or obsolete inventory is estimated
based on a comparison of the quantity and cost of inventory on hand to the Company's forecast of customer demand. Customer demand is dependent on many
factors and requires the Company to use significant judgment in our forecasting process. The Company also makes assumptions regarding the rate at which new
products will be accepted in the marketplace and at which customers will transition from older products to newer products. If actual market conditions are less
favorable than those projected by management, additional inventory write-downs may be required, which would have a negative impact on the Company's gross
margin. If the Company ultimately sells inventory that has been previously written down, the Company's gross margins in future periods would be positively
impacted.
In fiscal 2016, the Company began capitalizing manufacturing overhead expenditures as part of inventory costs. Capitalized
costs primarily include management’s best estimate of the direct labor and materials costs related to inventory produced but not
sold during the period. Manufacturing overhead costs are capitalized to inventory and are recognized as cost of revenues in the following quarter, consistent with
the Company's historical inventory turnover.
Product Warranties
The Company offers warranties on certain products, generally for a period of one year , and records a liability for the estimated future costs associated with
potential warranty claims. The warranty costs are reflected in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income within cost of
revenues. The warranties are typically in effect for 12 months from the distributor’s purchase date of the product. The Company’s estimate of future warranty costs
is largely based on historical experience factors including product failure rates, material usage, and service delivery cost incurred in correcting product failures. In
certain circumstances, the Company may have recourse from its contract manufacturers for replacement cost of defective products, which it also factors into its
warranty liability assessment.
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
The Company records an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated probable losses on uncollectible accounts receivable. In estimating the allowance,
management considers, among other factors, (i) the aging of the accounts receivable, (ii) the Company’s historical write offs, (iii) the credit worthiness of each
distributor based on payment history and (iv) general economic conditions. In cases where the Company is aware of circumstances that may impair a specific
distributor’s ability to meet its obligations to the Company, the Company records a specific allowance against amounts due from the distributor, and thereby
reduces the net recognized receivable to the amounts it reasonably believes will be collected.
The allowance for doubtful accounts activity was as follows (in thousands):
Beginning balance
Charged to (released from) expenses
Bad debt write-offs
Ending balance
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
2015
$
$
48 $
392
—
440 $
1,071 $
(1)
(1,022)
48 $
1,395
106
(430)
1,071
Pursuant to the accounting guidance for fair value measurements and its subsequent updates, fair value is defined as the price that would be received from selling
an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. As such, fair value is a market-based
measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. The accounting guidance
establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy that requires the Company to use observable market data, when available, and to minimize the use of unobservable
inputs when determining fair value. The fair value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs into three levels that may be used in measuring fair value as follows:
Level 1 —observable inputs which include quoted prices in active markets for identical assets of liabilities.
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Level 2 —inputs which include observable inputs other than Level 1, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices for identical or similar
assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term
of the asset or liability.
Level 3 —inputs which include unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the underlying asset
or liability. Level 3 assets and liabilities include those whose fair value measurements are determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies or
similar valuation techniques, as well as significant management judgment or estimation.
Long Lived Assets
The Company evaluates its long lived assets including property and equipment for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the
carrying value of these assets may not be recoverable. An impairment loss is recognized when the net book value of such assets exceeds the estimated future
undiscounted cash flows attributable to the assets or asset group. If impairment is indicated, the asset is written down to its estimated fair value. In fiscal 2016, the
Company recorded a $2.5 million impairment charge for capitalized software development costs due to the cancellation of the commercial launch of certain
software in development. The Company did not recognize any significant impairment loss for fiscal 2017 or 2015.
Property and Equipment
Furniture, fixtures and equipment are recorded at cost. The Company also capitalizes certain costs of software developed for internal use, which is included as
property and equipment on the Company's consolidated balance sheets. Capitalized costs primarily include payroll and payroll-related costs and facilities costs.
The Company computes depreciation or amortization using the straight line method over estimated useful lives, as follows:
Testing equipment
Computer and other equipment
Furniture and fixtures
Software
Leasehold improvements
Estimated Useful Life
3 to 5 years
3 to 5 years
3 to 5 years
up to 3 years
shorter of lease term or useful life
Upon retirement or disposition, the asset cost and related accumulated depreciation are removed with any gain or loss recognized in the statement of operations.
Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to operations as incurred.
Intangible Assets
The Company’s intangible assets consist primarily of legal costs associated with application for and registration of the Company’s trademarks. The Company
amortizes all definite-lived intangible assets that are subject to amortization over the estimated useful life based on economic benefit, which is generally 5 years.
All patent filing and defense costs are expensed as incurred, however to date these costs have not been significant.
Leases
The Company leases its facilities under cancelable and noncancelable operating leases. For leases that contain rent escalation or rent concessions provisions, the
Company records the total rent expense during the lease term on a straight line basis over the term of the lease. The Company records the difference between the
rent paid and the straight line rent as a deferred rent liability on the consolidated balance sheets.
Advertising Costs
The Company expenses all advertising costs as incurred.
Income Taxes
The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with accounting guidance which requires recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected
future tax consequences of events that have been included in its financial statements or tax returns. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the
temporary difference between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and
liabilities are measured
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using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The
Company establishes valuation allowances when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount it expects to realize. The assessment of whether or not a
valuation allowance is required often requires significant judgment including current operating results, the forecast of future taxable income and ongoing prudent
and feasible tax planning initiatives. In addition, the Company’s calculation of its tax liabilities involves dealing with uncertainties in the application of complex
tax regulations. The Company may be subject to income tax audits in all of the jurisdictions in which it operates and, as a result, must also assess exposures to any
potential issues arising from current or future audits of current and prior years’ tax returns. Accordingly, the Company must assess such potential exposures and,
where necessary, provide a reserve to cover any expected loss. To the extent that the Company establishes a reserve, its provision for income taxes would be
increased. If the Company ultimately determines that payment of these amounts is unnecessary, it reverses the liability and recognizes a tax benefit during the
period in which it determines that the liability is no longer necessary. The Company records an additional charge in its provision for taxes in the period in which it
determines that tax liability is greater than its original estimate. The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits on the income
tax expense line in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations. Accrued interest and penalties are included on the related tax liability line in the
consolidated balance sheet.
Stock-based Compensation
The Company records stock-based awards at fair value as of the grant date and recognize expense, net of forfeitures, ratably on a straight-line basis over the
requisite service period, which is generally the vesting term of the awards. The Company did not grant any stock options during fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 , or fiscal
2015 . Restricted stock units are valued based on the fair value of the Company's common stock on the date of grant. Since the Company's initial public offering on
October 14, 2011, the fair value of our common stock is determined using the closing market price of the Company's common stock as of the date of grant.
Commitments and Contingencies
The Company periodically evaluates all pending or threatened contingencies and any commitments, if any, that are reasonably likely to have a material adverse
effect on its results of operations, financial position or cash flows. The Company assesses the probability of an adverse outcome and determines if it is remote,
reasonably possible or probable. If information available prior to the issuance of the Company’s financial statements indicates that it is probable that an asset had
been impaired or a liability had been incurred at the date of the Company’s financial statements, and the amount of the loss, or the range of probable loss can be
reasonably estimated, then such loss is accrued and charged to operating expenses. If no accrual is made for a loss contingency because one or both of the
conditions pursuant to the accounting guidance are not met, but the probability of an adverse outcome is at least reasonably possible, the Company discloses the
nature of the contingency and provides an estimate of the possible loss or range of loss, or states that such an estimate cannot be made.
Foreign Currency Remeasurement
The functional currency of the Company and its subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar. For foreign operations, local currency denominated monetary assets and liabilities
are remeasured at the period end exchange rates, and revenues, costs and expenses are remeasured at the average exchange rates during the fiscal year. Foreign
exchange gains and losses have been immaterial to the Company’s results of operations to date.
Research and Development Costs
Research and development expenses are expensed as incurred and consist primarily of payroll and payroll-related costs and facilities costs. Research and
development expenses associated with software development are typically expensed as incurred as our software is usually released to end customers immediately
after technological feasibility has been established. However, the Company capitalizes development costs when material costs are incurred subsequent to
technological feasibility but prior to commercial release.
Earnings Per Share
The Company applies the treasury stock method for calculating and presenting earnings per share (“EPS”). Basic EPS is computed by dividing the net income
available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted EPS available to common
stockholders is computed by dividing the amount of net income available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding,
including potential dilutive common shares assuming the dilutive effect of outstanding stock options and restricted stock units using the treasury stock method.
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Effective July 1, 2016, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2015-03, regarding simplifying the presentation of debt issuance costs. The
guidance requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of
that debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. Previously the Company reported these costs as assets on its balance sheet. The guidance is applied on a
retrospective basis whereby prior-period financial statements must be adjusted to reflect the adoption of the new guidance. The guidance only resulted in a
reclassification on the Company's consolidated balance sheet. The Company has reclassified $0.3 million from "prepaid expenses and other current assets" to "Debt
- short-term", and $0.7 million from "Other long-term assets"
to "Debt - long-term" on the June 30, 2016 consolidated balance sheet.
Effective July 1, 2016, the Company adopted ASU 2015-11, "Inventory (Topic 330)-Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory, ("ASU 2015-11"). The guidance
requires an entity to measure inventory at the lower of cost and net realizable value. Net realizable value is the estimated selling prices in the ordinary course of
business, less reasonably predictable costs of completion, disposal, and transportation. The Company adopted this update prospectively, and it did not have a
material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
Effective July 1, 2016, the Company early adopted ASU 2016-09,"Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718), Improvements to Employee Share-Based
Payment Accounting," ("ASU 2016-09"), regarding the Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting. The Company applied the guidance relating
to accounting for excess tax benefits and the presentation of excess tax benefits in the consolidated statement of cash flows on a prospective basis; accordingly,
prior period amounts have not been adjusted. During fiscal 2017, the Company recognized the excess tax benefits of $7.9 million , within the provision for income
taxes rather than additional paid-in capital. The Company classified the excess tax benefits within cash flows from operating activities for year ended June 30,
2017, rather than within cash flows from financing activities. In regard to the forfeiture policy election, we will continue to estimate the number of awards expected
to be forfeited, rather than electing to account for forfeitures as they occur. No other terms of the adopted guidance resulted in an impact on the Company's
consolidated financial statements.
In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-16, "Income Taxes (Topic 740): Accounting for Income Taxes: Intra-Entity Asset Transfers of Assets Other Than
Inventory," (“ASU 2016-16”). ASU 2016-16 eliminates the exception for all intra-entity sales of assets other than inventory. As a result, a reporting entity would
recognize the tax expense from the sale of the asset in the seller’s tax jurisdiction when the transfer occurs, even though the pre-tax effects of that transaction are
eliminated in consolidation. Any deferred tax asset that arises in the buyer’s jurisdiction would also be recognized at the time of the transfer. ASU 2016-16 is
effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, and early adoption is permitted but can only be adopted in the first interim period of a fiscal year. The
Company is evaluating the impact that adoption of this new standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (TOPIC 326): Measurement of Credit Losses On Financial Instruments”
("ASU 2016-13"). ASU 2016-13 implements a comprehensive change in estimating the allowances for loan losses from the current model of losses inherent in the
loan portfolio to a current expected credit loss model that generally is expected to result in earlier recognition of allowances for losses. Additionally, purchase
accounting rules have been modified as well as credit losses on held-to-maturity debt securities. ASU 2016-13 is effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2019, and early adoption is permitted for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is evaluating the impact that
adoption of this new standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842),” (“ASU 2016-02”). ASU 2016-02 requires lessees to recognize assets and liabilities on the
balance sheet for leases with lease terms greater than twelve months and disclose key information about leasing arrangements. ASU 2016-02 is effective for annual
periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years, with early application permitted. The Company is evaluating the
impact that adoption of this new standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.
In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers , with amendments in 2015 and 2016, which creates new ASC Topic 606
(Topic 606) that will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in GAAP when it becomes effective. Topic 606 requires an entity to recognize the amount
of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The new standard will be effective for the Company’s first
quarter of fiscal year 2019 and early application for the Company's first quarter of fiscal year 2018 is permitted. Topic 606 may be applied retrospectively to each
prior period presented or with the cumulative effect recognized as of the date of initial application. The
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Company is still evaluating the impact of adopting Topic 606 on its consolidated financial statements and related financial statement disclosures and has
determined that it will not early adopt this standard in fiscal 2018, however it has not yet selected a transition method for its adoption of this standard in fiscal
2019.
NOTE 3—FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
For certain of the Company’s financial instruments, including cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other current liabilities, the carrying amounts
approximate fair value due to their short maturities, and are therefore excluded from the fair value tables below. Additionally, as of June 30, 2017 , we held $546.8
million of our $604.2 million of cash and cash equivalents in accounts of our subsidiaries outside of the United States, and we would incur significant tax liabilities
if we were to repatriate those amounts.
As of June 30, 2017 and 2016 , the Company had outstanding debt associated with its Amended Credit Agreement with Wells Fargo Bank (See Note 7). The fair
value of the Company’s debt was estimated based on the current rates offered to the Company for debt with similar terms and remaining maturities and was
classified as Level 2 measurement.
As of June 30, 2017 and 2016 , the fair value hierarchy for the Company’s financial liabilities was as follows (in thousands):
Liabilities:
June 30, 2017
June 30, 2016
Fair
Value
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Fair
Value
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Debt (1)
$
(1) Debt is carried at historical cost on the Company's consolidated balance sheet.
257,250 $
— $
257,250 $
— $
203,500 $
— $
203,500 $
—
NOTE 4—EARNINGS PER SHARE
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share for the periods indicated (in thousands, except per share data):
Numerator:
Net income and comprehensive income
Denominator:
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
2015
$
257,506 $
213,616 $
129,663
Weighted-average shares used in computing basic net income per share
81,478
84,402
Add—dilutive potential common shares:
Stock options
Restricted stock units
Weighted-average shares used in computing diluted net income per share
Net income per share of common stock:
Basic
Diluted
1,670
104
83,252
3.16
3.09
$
$
1,275
107
85,784
2.53 $
2.49 $
$
$
88,008
1,392
169
89,569
1.47
1.45
The Company excludes potentially dilutive securities from its diluted net income per share calculation when their effect would be antidilutive to net income per
share amounts. The following table summarizes the total potential shares of common stock that were excluded from the diluted per share calculation, because to
include them would have been anti-dilutive for the period (in thousands):
Restricted stock units
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2017
2016
2015
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NOTE 5—BALANCE SHEET COMPONENTS
Inventories
Inventories consisted of the following (in thousands):
Finished goods
Raw materials
Provision for inventory obsolescence
Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment, net consisted of the following (in thousands):
Testing equipment
Computer and other equipment
Tooling equipment
Furniture and fixtures
Leasehold improvements
Software (1) (2)
Software in development (1) (2)
Property and Equipment, Gross
Less: Accumulated depreciation (3)
June 30,
2017
2016
141,247 $
10,361
(9,560)
142,048 $
June 30,
2017
2016
7,587 $
5,740
7,828
1,528
6,424
5,601
—
34,708
(21,792)
12,916 $
55,694
8,500
(7,081)
57,113
6,051
4,857
5,801
1,325
5,136
2,488
2,739
28,397
(15,444)
12,953
$
$
$
$
(1) - In the year ended June 30, 2016, the Company recorded a $2.5 million impairment charge in research and development
expense for capitalized software development costs due to the cancellation of the commercial launch of certain software in development. No impairment charges
were recorded for the year ended June 30, 2017.
(2) - We capitalized $0.1 million for software development in fiscal 2017. We capitalized $1.3 million for software development in fiscal 2016 .
(3)- The Company recorded depreciation expense of $6.8 million , $5.7 million and $4.7 million in fiscal 2017 , 2016 and 2015 , respectively.
Other Long-term Assets
Other long-term assets consisted of the following (in thousands):
Intangible assets, net (1)
Other long-term assets
June 30,
2017
2016
$
$
437 $
1,891
2,328 $
616
960
1,576
(1) - Accumulated amortization was $1.2 million and $1.0 million as of June 30, 2017 and June 30, 2016 , respectively.
Other Current Liabilities
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Accrued liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):
Accrued compensation and benefits
Accrued expense
Warranty accrual
Deferred revenue - short term
Customer deposits
Reserve for sales returns
Other payables
NOTE 6—ACCRUED WARRANTY
Warranty obligations, included in other current liabilities, were as follows (in thousands):
Balance at June 30, 2015
Accruals for warranties issued during the period
Settlements made during the period
Balance at June 30, 2016
Accruals for warranties issued during the period
Changes in liability for pre-existing warranties during the period
Settlements made during the period
Balance at June 30, 2017
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$
$
June 30,
2017
2016
2,467 $
9,826
3,601
5,254
1,905
3,600
6,377
33,030 $
$
$
1,589
5,749
2,236
2,917
856
2,820
10,505
26,672
2,750
2,597
(3,111)
2,236
6,911
(92)
(5,454)
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NOTE 7—DEBT
On March 3, 2015, Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Ubiquiti International Holding Company Limited (the “Cayman Borrower”) amended and restated its 2014 Credit
Agreement (as defined below) with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association ("Wells Fargo"), the other financial institutions named as lenders therein, and Wells
Fargo as administrative agent for the lenders (the "Credit Agreement"). The Credit Agreement replaced the Company's $150.0 million senior secured revolving
credit facility under its prior credit agreement dated May 5, 2014 (the "2014 Credit Agreement").
On April 14, 2017, the Company, the Cayman Borrower and certain of its subsidiaries entered in the First Amendment (the “First Amendment”) to the Credit
Agreement (as amended by the First Amendment, the “Amended Credit Agreement”). The First Amendment increased the maximum aggregate amount of the
senior secured credit revolving facility from $200.0 million to $300.0 million ("Revolving Facility"), but maintained the $100.0 million senior secured term facility
("Term Facility", together with the Revolving Facility, the "Facilities") under the Credit Agreement and the option to request increases in the amounts of such
Facilities by up to an additional $50.0 million in the aggregate (any such increase to be in each lender’s sole discretion).
The Amended Credit Agreement matures on March 3, 2020. The $100.0 million term loan facility of the Amended Credit Agreement was fully drawn at closing of
the original Credit Agreement, and $72.3 million was used to repay the outstanding balance under its prior credit agreement. The Facilities are available for
working capital and general corporate purposes that comply with the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement.
During fiscal 2017 , the Company drew $99.0 million against the Revolving Facility. As of June 30, 2017 , $76.3 million was outstanding on the Term Facility and
$181.0 million on the Revolving Facility, leaving $119.0 million available on the Revolving Facility. As of June 30, 2017 , the interest rate on the term loan was
2.65% . The table below shows the respective interest rates as of June 30, 2017 in addition to interest rate reset dates and rates (as available) for each revolver
draw.
Debt Payment Obligations
$69 Million Revolver
$18 Million Revolver
$16 Million Revolver
$48 Million Revolver
$30 Million Revolver
* - Reset rate not available as of filing date.
Interest Rate as of
June 30, 2017
2.65%
2.66%
2.68%
2.70%
2.93%
Rate Reset Date
7/3/2017
7/18/2017
8/15/2017
8/30/2017
09/15/2017
Reset Rate
2.80%
2.80%
2.82%
*
*
The Revolving Facility includes a sub-limit of $10.0 million for letters of credit and a sub-limit of $25.0 million for swingline loans. The Facilities are available for
working capital and general corporate purposes that comply with the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement. Under the Amended Credit Agreement, revolving
loans and swingline loans may be borrowed, repaid and reborrowed until March 3, 2020, at which time all amounts borrowed must be repaid. The term loan was
payable in quarterly installments of 2.50% of the original principal amount of the term loan until March 31, 2017, and thereafter increased to 3.75% of the original
principal amount of the term loan, in each case plus accrued and unpaid interest. Revolving, swingline and term loans may be prepaid at any time without penalty.
Revolving and term loans bear interest, at the Company's option, at either (i) a floating rate per annum equal to the base rate plus a margin of between 0.50% and
1.25% , depending on the Company's leverage ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter or (ii) a floating per annum rate equal to the applicable LIBOR rate
for a specified period, plus a margin of between 1.50% and 2.25% , depending on the Company's leverage ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter.
Swingline loans bear interest at a floating rate per annum equal to the base rate plus a margin of between 0.50% and 1.25% , depending on the Company's leverage
ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter. Base rate is defined as the greatest of (A) Wells Fargo's prime rate, (B) the federal funds rate plus 0.50% or (C)
the applicable LIBOR rate for a period of one month plus 1.00% . A default interest rate shall apply on all obligations during certain events of default under the
Amended Credit Agreement at a rate per annum equal to 2.00% above the applicable interest rate. The Company will pay to each lender a facility fee on a quarterly
basis based on the unused amount of each lender's commitment to make revolving loans, of between 0.20% and 0.35% , depending on the Company's leverage
ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter. The Company will also pay to the applicable lenders on a quarterly basis certain fees based on the daily amount
available to be drawn under each outstanding letter of credit, including aggregate letter of credit commissions of between 1.50% and 2.25% , depending on the
Company's leverage ratio as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter, and issuance fees of
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0.125% per annum. The Company is also obligated to pay Wells Fargo, as agent, fees customary for a credit facility of this size and type.
The Amended Credit Agreement requires the Company to maintain during the term of the Facilities (i) a maximum leverage ratio of 2.50 to 1.00 and (ii) minimum
liquidity of $250.0 million , which can be satisfied with unrestricted cash and cash equivalents and up to $50.0 million of availability under the Revolving Facility.
All other material terms and provisions of the Amended Credit Agreement remain substantially identical to the terms and provisions in place immediately prior to
the effectiveness of the First Amendment, other than the revision or inclusion of certain customary market provisions. In addition, the Amended Credit Agreement
contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, including covenants that limit or restrict the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to, among other
things, grant liens or enter into agreements restricting their ability to grant liens on property, enter into mergers, dispose of assets, change their accounting or
reporting policies, change their business and incur indebtedness, in each case subject to customary exceptions for a credit facility of this size and type. The
Amended Credit Agreement includes customary events of default that include, among other things, non-payment of principal, interest or fees, inaccuracy of
representations and warranties, violation of covenants, cross default to certain other indebtedness, bankruptcy and insolvency events, material judgments, change of
control and certain ERISA events. The occurrence of an event of default could result in the acceleration of the obligations under the Amended Credit Agreement.
The obligations of the Company and certain domestic subsidiaries, if any, under the Amended Credit Agreement are required to be guaranteed by such domestic
subsidiaries (the "Domestic Guarantors") and are collateralized by substantially all assets (excluding intellectual property) of the Company and the Domestic
Guarantors. The obligations of the Cayman Borrower and certain foreign subsidiaries under the Amended Credit Agreement are required to be guaranteed by
certain domestic and material foreign subsidiaries (the "Guarantors") and are collateralized by substantially all assets (excluding intellectual property) of the
Company and the Guarantors.
During fiscal 2017 , the Company made aggregate payments of $13.3 million against the term loan facility balance under the Amended Credit Agreement, of
which $11.3 million was for repayments of principal and $2.0 million was for payments of interest. During fiscal 2017 , the Company made aggregate payments of
$37.2 million against the Revolving Facility under the Amended Credit Agreement, of which $34.0 million was for repayments of principal and $3.2 million was
for payments of interest. As of June 30, 2017 , the Company has classified $14.7 million and $241.8 million of short term and long-term debt, respectively, on its
consolidated balance sheet related to the Amended Credit Agreement.
On September 2, 2015, the Company accessed a letter of credit under its Revolving Facility in the amount of $237 thousand for the benefit of the landlord pursuant
to a new lease of office space. The landlord can draw against the letter of credit in the event of default by the Company. The letter of credit expires on September 2,
2017 , subject to automatic renewal
for additional one-year periods.
The following table summarizes our debt payment obligations as of June 30, 2017 (in thousands):
Fiscal Year
Debt payment obligations (2)
Interest and other payments on debt
payment obligations (1)
Total
$
$
2018
2019
15,000 $
15,000 $
2020
227,250 $
2021
2022
Thereafter
— $
— $
— $
Total
257,250
7,044
6,642
4,314
22,044 $
21,642 $
231,564 $
—
— $
—
— $
—
18,000
— $
275,250
(1) - Interest payments are calculated based on the applicable rates and payment dates as of June 30, 2017 . Furthermore, two to three-month payment intervals on
the revolving debt have been assumed, consistent with the Company's elections to date.
(2)- Debt Payment obligation reported above excludes unamortized Debit Issuance Cost.
NOTE 8—COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Operating Leases
The Company leases its headquarters in New York, New York and other locations worldwide under non-cancelable operating leases that expire at various dates
through 2023 .
At June 30, 2017 , future minimum annual payments under operating leases are as follows (in thousands):
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Fiscal Year
Operating leases
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Thereafter
Total
$
6,075 $
3,223 $
2,331 $
1,484 $
942 $
578 $
14,633
Rent expense under operating leases was $6.7 million , $5.0 million and $3.6 million for fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 , respectively.
Purchase Obligations
The Company primarily subcontracts with other companies to manufacture its products. During the normal course of business, the Company’s contract
manufacturers procure components based upon orders placed by the Company. If the Company cancels all or part of the orders, it may still be liable to the contract
manufacturers for the cost of the components purchased by them to manufacture the Company’s products. The Company periodically reviews the potential liability
and to date no significant accruals have been recorded. The Company had inventory purchase obligations for finished goods of $32.9 million as of June 30, 2017 .
Indemnification Obligations
The Company enters into standard indemnification agreements with many of its business partners in the ordinary course of business. These agreements include
provisions for indemnifying the business partner against any claim brought by a third party to the extent any such claim alleges that a Company product infringes a
patent, copyright or trademark, or violates any other proprietary rights of that third party. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could
be required to make under these indemnification agreements is not estimable and the Company has not incurred any material costs to defend lawsuits or settle
claims related to these indemnification agreements to date.
Legal Matters
The Company may be involved, from time to time, in a variety of claims, lawsuits, investigations, and proceedings relating to contractual disputes, intellectual
property rights, employment matters, regulatory compliance matters and other litigation matters relating to various claims that arise in the normal course of
business. The Company determines whether an estimated loss from a contingency should be accrued by assessing whether a loss is deemed probable and can be
reasonably estimated. The Company assesses its potential liability by analyzing specific litigation and regulatory matters using available information. The
Company develops its views on estimated losses in consultation with inside and outside counsel, which involves a subjective analysis of potential results and
outcomes, assuming various combinations of appropriate litigation and settlement strategies. Taking all of the above factors into account, the Company records an
amount where it is probable that the Company will incur a loss and where that loss can be reasonably estimated. However, the Company’s estimates may be
incorrect and the Company could ultimately incur more or less than the amounts initially recorded. The Company may also incur significant legal fees, which are
expensed as incurred, in defending against these claims. The Company is not currently aware of any pending or threatened litigation that would have a material
adverse effect on the Company's financial statements.
Shareholder Class Action Lawsuits
Beginning on September 7, 2012, two class action lawsuits were filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (the “Court”)
against Ubiquiti Networks, Inc., certain of its officers and directors, and the underwriters of its initial public offering, alleging claims under U.S. securities laws
(collectively, the “Shareholder Lawsuit”). On January 30, 2013, the plaintiffs filed an amended consolidated complaint. On March 26, 2014, the court issued an
order granting a motion to dismiss the complaint with leave to amend. Following the plaintiffs’ decision not to file an amended complaint, on April 16, 2014, the
court ordered the dismissal of the lawsuit with prejudice, and entered judgment in favor of the Company and the other defendants, and against the plaintiffs. On
May 15, 2014, the plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal from the judgment of the court. The Ninth Circuit head oral arguments on August 10, 2015. On October 24,
2016, the Ninth Circuit issued an unpublished memorandum opinion, reaffirming the district court’s dismissal of the alleged violations of Section10(b) and 20(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and reversing the district court’s dismissal of the alleged violations of Section 11 and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933.
On August 4, 2017, the parties to the Shareholder Lawsuit filed with the Court a settlement that they reached to resolve the Shareholder Lawsuit against the
defendants. Pursuant to the settlement stipulation and subject to certain conditions therein, the settlement class will receive $6.8 million , to be funded largely by
the Company’s insurance carriers and placed into escrow within 20 calendar days of the entry of the preliminary approval order approving settlement in
the Shareholder Lawsuit.
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The settlement is subject to the Court’s approval and its terms may change as a result of the settlement approval process. The preliminary settlement approval
hearing is scheduled for September 5, 2017. The final approval hearing date is not yet set. If the Court approves the settlement and enters a judgment substantially
in the form requested by the parties, the settlement will become effective when certain conditions specified in the settlement stipulation are satisfied, including the
expiration of any right to appeal the judgment.
Synopsys
On February 3, 2017, Synopsys, Inc. (“Synopsys”) filed a complaint against the Company, one of our subsidiaries and an employee in the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California, alleging claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). On March 28, 2017, Synopsys filed an
amended complaint alleging (i) additional claims under the DMCA, (ii) claims under the Anti-Counterfeiting Act, and (iii) claims for label trafficking, fraud, civil
RICO and negligent misrepresentation. On April 11, 2017, the Company moved to dismiss all but the initial DMCA claim in the amended complaint and its
subsidiary moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and joined the Company’s motion to dismiss certain claims. On August 15, 2017, the court issued an
order granting the Company’s motion to dismiss the Anti-Counterfeiting Act claim and certain of the predicate acts alleged under the civil RICO claim. The court
denied the motion to dismiss the remaining claims, and denied the subsidiary’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. The Company plans to vigorously defend
itself against these claims; however, there can be no assurance that the Company will prevail in the lawsuit. The Company cannot currently estimate the possible
loss or range of losses, if any, that it may experience in connection with this litigation
Vivato/XR
On April 19, 2017, XR Communications, LLC, d/b/a Vivato Technologies (“Vivato”), filed a complaint against the Company in the United States District Court
for the Central District of California, alleging that at least one of the Company’s products infringes United States Patent Numbers 7,062,296 (the “’296 Patent”),
7,729,728 (the “’728 Patent”), and 6,611,231 (the “’231 Patent and, collectively, the “Patents-in-Suit”). The ‘296 and ‘728 Patents are entitled “Forced Beam
Switching in Wireless Communication Systems Having Smart Antennas.” The ‘231 Patent is entitled “Wireless Packet Switched Communications Systems and
Networks Using Adaptively Steered Antenna Arrays.” Vivato amended its complaint on June 23, 2017 and again on July 6, 2017. According to the complaint, the
products accused of infringing the Patents-in-Suit include Wi-Fi access points and routers supporting MU-MIMO, including without limitation access points and
routers utilizing the IEEE 802.11ac-2013 standard. Vivato has also recently filed nine other lawsuits asserting the same patents against other defendants in the
Central District of California.
The Company plans to vigorously defend itself against these claims; however, there can be no assurance that the Company will prevail in the lawsuit. The
Company cannot currently estimate the possible loss or range of losses, if any, that it may experience in connection with this litigation.
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NOTE 9—COMMON STOCK AND TREASURY STOCK
As of June 30, 2017 and 2016 , the authorized capital of the Company included 500,000,000 shares of common stock. As of June 30, 2017 and 2016 , 80,275,965
and 81,667,129 shares of common stock were outstanding, respectively.
Treasury Stock Retirement
In February 2015, we retired 44,768,739 shares of the Company's treasury stock. These retired shares are now included in the Company’s pool of authorized but
unissued shares. The retired stock had a carrying value of $138.9 million . The Company’s policy upon the formal retirement of treasury stock is to reflect the
excess over par value as a deduction from Additional Paid-in Capital until the balance is reduced to zero, then the Company records any additional excess directly
to retained earnings.
Common Stock Repurchases
On May 4, 2016 , the Board of Directors of the Company approved a $50 million stock repurchase program. Under the stock repurchase program, the Company
was authorized to repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 , the Company repurchased and retired 1,309,606
shares of its common stock at an average price per share of $38.18 for an aggregate amount of $50 million . This included unpaid stock repurchases of $6.5
million relating to repurchases executed on or prior to June 30, 2016 for trades that settled after June 30, 2016 .
On August 3, 2016 , the Board of Directors of the Company approved a $50 million stock repurchase program. Under the stock repurchase program, the Company
may repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock. During the third quarter of fiscal 2017 , the Company repurchased and retired 1,014,956 shares of its
common stock at an average price per share of $49.26 for an aggregate amount of $50 million .
On March 3, 2017 , the Board of Directors of the Company approved a $50 million stock repurchase program. Under the stock repurchase program, the Company
may repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock. The program expires on March 31, 2018. During the third quarter of fiscal 2017 , the Company
repurchased and retired 917,455 shares of its common stock at an average price per share of $50.43 for an aggregate amount of $46.3 million . This included
unpaid stock repurchases of $3.0 million relating to repurchases executed on or prior to March 31, 2017 for trades that settled in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017
. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, the Company repurchased and retired 50,000 shares of its common stock at an average price per share of $49.55 for an
aggregate amount of $2.5 million . As of June 30, 2017, the Company had $1.3 million available under the stock repurchase program.
Dividend Distribution
On September 30, 2014, the Company announced that its Board of Directors had approved an annual dividend. The Company declared the dividend of $0.17 per
share on September 30, 2014. The aggregate amount of $15.0 million was paid on October 28, 2014 to stockholders of record on October 17, 2014. The Company
currently has no plans to pay a cash dividend at this time or at any time in the foreseeable future.
NOTE 10—STOCK BASED COMPENSATION
Stock-Based Compensation Plans
2010 Equity Incentive Plan
In March 2010, the Company’s Board of Directors and stockholders approved the 2010 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2010 Plan”). The 2010 Plan replaced the 2005
Equity Incentive Plan (the “2005 Plan”), and no further awards will be granted pursuant to the 2005 Plan. Under the terms of the 2010 Plan, non-statutory stock
options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, and restricted stock units (“RSUs”) may be granted to employees or non-employee service providers. Incentive
stock options may be granted only to employees.
The maximum aggregate number of shares that may be awarded under the 2010 Plan as of June 30, 2017 was 8,000,000 shares, plus any shares subject to stock
options or similar awards granted under the 2005 Plan that expire or otherwise terminate without having been exercised in full and shares issued pursuant to awards
granted under the 2005 Plan that are forfeited to (but not repurchased by) the Company.
The 2010 Plan is administered by the Company's Board of Directors or a committee of the Company’s Board of Directors. Subject to the terms and conditions of
the 2010 Plan, the administrator has the authority to select the persons to whom awards are to be made, to determine the number of shares to be subject to awards
and the terms and conditions of awards, and to make all other determinations and to take all other actions necessary or advisable for the administration of the 2010
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administrator is also authorized to adopt, amend or rescind rules relating to administration of the 2010 Plan. Options and RSUs generally vest over a four year
period from the date of grant and generally expire five to ten years from the date of grant. The terms of the 2010 Plan provide that an option price shall not be less
than 100% of fair market value on the date of grant.
2005 Equity Incentive Plan
With the adoption of the 2010 Plan, no additional awards may be granted under the 2005 Plan. In February 2005, the Company’s Board of Directors and the
stockholders approved the 2005 Plan, which was amended and restated in March 2006. The 2005 Plan provided for the issuance of stock options, restricted stock
and stock bonuses to employees, consultants, advisors, directors and officers of the Company. The terms of the options granted under the 2005 Plan were
determined at the time of grant. The Company made use of different vesting schedules through fiscal 2009, but subsequent new grants generally vested as to 25%
on the first anniversary of the date of grant and monthly thereafter over the next three years and generally have a term of 10 years from the date of grant.
As of June 30, 2017 , the Company had 10,026,282 authorized shares available for future issuance under all of its stock incentive plans.
Stock-based Compensation
The following table shows total stock-based compensation expense included in the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for fiscal
2017 , 2016 and 2015 (in thousands):
Cost of revenues
Research and development
Sales, general and administrative
Stock Options
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
2015
$
$
264 $
1,861
660
2,785
$
448 $
2,296
975
3,719 $
601
2,854
1,537
4,992
The following is a summary of option activity for the Company’s stock incentive plans for fiscal 2017 , 2016 and 2015 :
Balance, June 30, 2014
Exercised
Forfeitures and cancellations
Balance, June 30, 2015
Exercised
Forfeitures and cancellations
Balance, June 30, 2016
Exercised
Forfeitures and cancellations
Balance, June 30, 2017
Vested and expected to vest as of June 30, 2017
Vested and exercisable as of June 30, 2017
Common Stock Options Outstanding
Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (Years)
2.96
5.64
12.14
2.38
6.46
13.82
2.03
2.86
11.72
1.76
1.76
1.76
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(In thousands)
5.11 $
112,215
3.82 $
67,969
2.65 $
77,850
1.55 $
1.55 $
1.55 $
81,413
81,413
81,413
Number
of Shares
2,657,142 $
(299,034) $
(56,964) $
2,301,144 $
(171,263) $
(4,574) $
2,125,307 $
(502,350) $
(1,356) $
1,621,601 $
1,621,601 $
1,621,601 $
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Additional information regarding options outstanding as of June 30, 2017 is as follows:
Range of Exercise Prices
$0.01 - $10.76
$10.77 - $14.99
$15.00 - $16.75
$16.76 - $18.70
$18.71 - $19.99
Options Outstanding & Exercisable
Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (Years)
Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
0.93 $
5.38 $
4.84 $
5.38 $
4.38 $
0.26
10.90
15.02
17.46
19.22
Number of
Options
1,397,128
214,228
4,645
4,350
1,250
1,621,601
During fiscal 2017 , 2016 and 2015 , the aggregate intrinsic value of options exercised under the Company’s stock incentive plans was $24.8 million , $4.9 million
, and $9.2 million , respectively, as determined as of the date of option exercise.
As of June 30, 2017 , the Company had no unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options.
The Company estimates the fair value of employee stock options using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The fair value of employee stock options is being
amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period of the awards. The Company did not grant any stock options during fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 , or
fiscal 2015 .
Forfeiture rate. The Company estimates its forfeiture rate based on an analysis of its actual forfeitures and will continue to evaluate the adequacy of the forfeiture
rate based on actual forfeiture experience, analysis of employee turnover behavior and other factors. The impact from a forfeiture rate adjustment will be
recognized in full in the period of adjustment, and if the actual number of future forfeitures differs from that estimated, the Company may be required to record
adjustments to stock-based compensation expense in future periods.
Cash received from stock option exercises during fiscal 2017 , 2016 and 2015 was $1.4 million , $1.1 million and $1.7 million , respectively.
Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”)
The following table summarizes the activity of the RSUs made by the Company:
Non-vested RSUs, June 30, 2014
RSUs granted
RSUs vested
RSUs canceled
Non-vested RSUs, June 30, 2015
RSUs granted
RSUs vested
RSUs canceled
Non-vested RSUs, June 30, 2016
RSUs granted
RSUs vested
RSUs canceled
Non-vested RSUs, June 30, 2017
Number of Shares
Weighted Average Grant
Date Fair Value
549,702 $
182,865 $
(182,507) $
(149,425) $
400,635 $
132,746 $
(141,159) $
(120,251) $
271,971 $
72,023 $
(120,649) $
(42,972) $
180,373 $
22.65
32.47
21.27
24.84
26.95
31.38
23.54
31.84
28.72
55.33
25.29
33.45
40.51
The intrinsic value of RSUs vested in fiscal 2017 , 2016 and 2015 was $6.2 million , $4.6 million and $6.4 million , respectively. The total intrinsic value of all
outstanding RSUs was $9.4 million as of June 30, 2017 .
As of June 30, 2017 , there was unrecognized compensation costs related to RSUs of $5.3 million which the Company expects to recognize over a weighted
average period of 3.1 years.
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NOTE 11—INCOME TAXES
For financial reporting purposes, the components of income before provision for income taxes were as follows (in thousands):
Domestic
Foreign
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
2015
$
$
81,957 $
203,067
285,024 $
60,073 $
179,867
239,940 $
44,743
101,005
145,748
The components of the Company’s provision for income taxes consisted of the following (in thousands):
Current
Federal
State
Foreign
Current tax expense
Deferred
Federal
State
Foreign
Deferred tax expense
Provision for income taxes
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
2015
$
25,533 $
25,635 $
360
2,563
28,456
(858)
(80)
—
(938)
$
27,518 $
(149)
1,983
27,469
(1,116)
(29)
—
(1,145)
26,324 $
The effective tax rate differs from the applicable U.S. statutory federal income tax rate as follows:
Statutory rate
Tax rate differential, foreign income
State tax expense
Stock-based compensation
Federal research and development credits
Other permanent items
Effective tax rate
Years Ended June 30,
2017
2016
2015
35.0 %
(23.3)
0.3
(2.5)
(0.4)
0.6
35.0 %
(24.4)
(0.1)
0.3
(0.6)
0.8
9.7 %
11.0 %
15,786
299
909
16,994
(856)
(53)
—
(909)
16,085
35.0 %
(23.2)
0.1
0.6
(1.1)
(0.4)
11.0 %
The Company’s effective tax rate decreased 1.3% to 9.7% in fiscal 2017 from 11.0% in fiscal 2016 . This decrease is primarily due to the adoption of Accounting
Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-09 that requires companies to record all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies from stock based compensation as an income tax
benefit or expense in the income statement. The Company’s adoption of the new standard resulted in a benefit for excess tax deductions from stock based
compensation. Overall, the rate benefit is due to income in foreign jurisdictions that have lower tax rates than the U.S.
It is the Company's intention to permanently reinvest the earnings of its foreign subsidiaries. As of June 30, 2017 , the Company has not made a provision for U.S.
or additional foreign withholding taxes on approximately $811.5 million of the excess of the amount for the financial reporting over the tax basis of its investments
in foreign subsidiaries that is indefinitely reinvested outside of U.S. This amount would become subject to U.S. tax upon repatriation. It is not practicable to
estimate the amount of deferred tax liability related to investments in these foreign subsidiaries.
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Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):
Deferred tax assets
Reserves and Allowances
Stock-based compensation
Accrued expenses
Research and development credits
State tax
Other
Total deferred tax assets
Deferred tax liabilities
Basis difference for fixed assets
Total deferred tax liabilities
Valuation allowance
Net deferred tax assets
June 30,
2017
2016
$
2,215 $
712
371
—
1,110
782
5,190
(57)
(57)
—
$
5,133 $
1,539
998
363
146
925
482
4,453
(112)
(112)
(146)
4,195
Prior to fiscal year 2017 , the Company had maintained a valuation allowance against California research credit carryover deferred tax asset as the Company had
concluded that it was not more likely than not to be realizable in the future. However, in the fiscal year 2017 , due to increased profitability, the Company will
utilize the remaining research credit carryover. This resulted in the release of the prior valuation allowance and a tax benefit of approximately $0.3 million .
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of the unrecognized tax benefits during the years ended June 30, 2017 , 2016 and 2015 consists of the
following (in thousands):
Unrecognized benefit—beginning of year
Gross increases—current year tax positions
Gross decreases - prior year tax positions due to statute lapse
Unrecognized benefit—end of year
2017
Years Ended June 30,
2016
(In thousands)
2015
$
$
22,851 $
19,590 $
5,184
(597)
3,879
(618)
27,438 $
22,851 $
14,914
4,960
(284)
19,590
The gross unrecognized tax benefits balance as of June 30, 2017 is $27.4 million which would affect income tax expense if recognized. The Company recognizes
interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits within the income tax expense line in the accompanying Consolidated Statement of Operations and
Comprehensive Income. Accrued interest and penalties are included within the related tax liability line in the Consolidated Balance Sheet. As of June 30, 2017 ,
the Company had $2.4 million accrued interest related to uncertain tax matters. The Company believes that it is reasonably possible that a decrease of up to $3.4
million in unrecognized tax benefits may occur due to settlements with tax authorities or statute lapse. The Company files income tax returns in the United States,
various states and certain foreign jurisdictions. Tax years 2011 through 2017 are subject to examination by the U.S. federal tax authorities and by certain foreign
tax authorities. Tax years 2012 through 2017 are subject to examination by the state tax authorities.
On July 27, 2015, in Altera Corp. vs. Commissioner, the U.S. Tax Court issued an opinion related to the treatment of stock-based compensation expense in an
intercompany cost-sharing arrangement. On June 27, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service appealed the court's decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On
November 10, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service filed its reply brief.
We have reviewed this case and its potential impact on Ubiquiti and concluded that no adjustment to the consolidated financial statements is appropriate at this
time. We will continue to monitor ongoing developments and potential impacts to our consolidated financial statements.
As discussed in Note 2, in fiscal year 2017 the Company early-adopted ASU 2016-09, “Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting” which the
FASB issued in March 2016 . The ASU simplifies several aspects of the accounting for
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employee share-based payment transactions for both public and non-public entities. The amendments related to income taxes include a requirement to recognize all
excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies as income tax benefit or expense in the income statement and classification of excess tax benefits in the statement of cash
flows as an operating activity. The ASU further eliminates the requirement to defer the recognition of an excess tax benefit until such tax benefit is realized
through a reduction to taxes payable.
NOTE 12—SEGMENT INFORMATION, REVENUES BY GEOGRAPHY AND SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS
Management has determined that the Company operates as one reportable and operating segment as the Company's Chief Executive Officer, who is the Company's
chief operating decision maker, does not make decisions about resources to be allocated or assess performance on a segment basis. Furthermore, the Company does
not organize or report its costs on a segment basis.
Revenue
Revenues by product type were as follows (in thousands, except percentages):
Service Provider Technology
Enterprise Technology
Total revenues
Years Ended June 30,
2017
$
$
455,598
409,670
865,268
53% $
47%
100% $
2016
418,346
248,049
666,395
2015
63% $
418,021
37%
177,926
100% $
595,947
Revenues by geography based on customer's ship-to destinations were as follows (in thousands, except percentages):
Years Ended June 30,
North America (1)
South America
Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Asia Pacific
Total revenues
2017
331,435
105,511
334,473
93,849
865,268
$
$
38% $
12%
39%
11%
100% $
2016
239,526
85,036
264,404
77,429
666,395
36% $
13%
39%
12%
2015
197,693
97,118
234,383
66,753
100% $
595,947
100%
70%
30%
100%
33%
16%
40%
11%
(1) Revenue for the United States was $315.0 million , $225.6 million and $187.3 million for fiscal 2017 , 2016 and 2015 , respectively.
Customers with an accounts receivable balance of 10% or greater of total accounts receivable and customers with net revenues of 10% or greater of total revenues
are presented below for the periods indicated:
Customer A
Customer B
Customer C
* denotes less than 10%
Percentage of Revenues
Years Ended June 30,
Percentage of Accounts Receivable
June 30,
2017
2016
2015
2017
2016
*
*
11%
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
12%
18%
11%
13%
18%
NOTE 13—RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS AND CERTAIN OTHER TRANSACTIONS
Aircraft Lease Agreement
On November 13, 2013, the Company entered into an aircraft lease agreement (the "Aircraft Lease Agreement") with RJP Manageco LLC (the "Lessor"), a limited
liability company owned by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Robert J. Pera. Pursuant to the Aircraft Lease Agreement, the Company may lease an aircraft
owned by the Lessor for Company business purposes. Under the Aircraft Lease Agreement, the aircraft may be leased at a rate of $5,000 per flight hour. This
hourly rate
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does not include the cost of flight crew or on-board services, which the Company will purchase from a third-party provider. The Company recognized a total of
approximately $2.12 million , $1.3 million and $0.4 million in expenses pursuant to the Aircraft Lease Agreement during fiscal 2017 , fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 ,
respectively. All expenses pursuant to the Aircraft Lease Agreement have been included in the Company's sales, general and administrative expenses in the
Consolidated Statements of Operations.
NOTE 14—BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE FRAUD LOSS
In June 2015 , the Company determined that it was the victim of criminal fraud known to law enforcement authorities as business e-mail compromise fraud which
involved employee impersonation and fraudulent requests targeting our finance department. The fraud resulted in transfers of funds aggregating $46.7 million held
by a Company subsidiary incorporated in Hong Kong to other overseas accounts held by third parties. As of June 30, 2015 , the Company recovered $8.1 million .
As a result, the Company recorded a charge of $39.1 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 , including additional expenses consisting of professional service
fees associated with the fraud loss. In fiscal 2016 , the Company recorded a net recovery of $8.3 million , comprised of the $8.6 million recovery less $0.3 million
of professional service fees associated with the recovery.
The Company is continuing to pursue the recovery of the remaining $30.0 million and is cooperating with U.S. federal and numerous overseas law enforcement
authorities who are actively pursuing a multi-agency criminal investigation. Any additional recoveries are likely remote and therefore cannot be assured.
NOTE 15—SUPPLEMENTARY DATA (UNAUDITED)
The following table presents the Company’s unaudited consolidated statements of operations data for each of the eight quarters during fiscal 2017 and 2016 . In
management’s opinion, this information has been presented on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements included in a separate section of this
report, and all necessary adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, have been included in the amounts below to state fairly the unaudited
quarterly results when read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes. The operating results for any quarter should not be
relied upon as necessarily indicative of results for any future period.
In thousands, except per share data
Net revenue
Gross profit
Income from operations
Net income and comprehensive income
Net income per share of common stock:
Basic
Diluted
Net revenue
Gross profit
Income from operations
Net income and comprehensive income
Net income per share of common stock:
Basic
Diluted
First
Quarter
Second
Quarter
Third
Quarter
Fourth
Quarter
Fiscal 2017
$
204,757 $
213,536 $
218,359 $
98,304
74,902
71,788
0.88 $
0.86 $
$
$
95,139
69,800
60,608
0.74 $
0.72 $
Fiscal 2016
99,086
73,409
64,432
0.79 $
0.77 $
228,616
103,179
71,650
60,678
0.76
0.74
First
Quarter
Second
Quarter
Third
Quarter
Fourth
Quarter
$
151,415 $
161,871 $
167,433 $
73,504
59,835
53,759
79,041
56,436
49,452
82,493
60,138
52,699
$
$
0.62 $
0.61 $
0.58 $
0.57 $
0.63 $
0.62 $
185,676
89,757
65,646
57,706
0.70
0.69
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Exhibit Index
The following exhibits are filed herewith or are incorporated by reference to exhibits previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc. (the “Registrant”) shall furnish copies of exhibits for a reasonable fee (covering the expense of furnishing copies) upon request.
Exhibit
Number
Description
Incorporated by
Reference from Form
Incorporated by
Reference from
Exhibit Number
Date Filed
Filed
Herewith
3.1
3.2
4.1
4.2
4.3
10.1
10.2#
10.3#
10.4#
10.5#
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9†
Form of Third Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc.
Specimen Common Stock Certificate of Ubiquiti Networks,
Inc.
Registration Agreement, dated March 2, 2010, between
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and certain holders of Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc.’s capital stock named therein.
Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2010,
between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and certain holders of
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.’s capital stock named therein.
Form of Indemnification Agreement between Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc. and its directors and officers.
Amended and Restated 2005 Equity Incentive Plan and
forms of agreement thereunder.
Amended and Restated 2010 Equity Incentive Plan and
forms of agreement thereunder.
Employment Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2011,
between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Benjamin Moore.
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
S-1
Employment Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2016 ,
between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Kevin Radigan.
10-K
Non-Residential Property Lease Agreement, dated as of
May 28, 2009, between UAB “Devint” and Tomas
Grébliúnas, Tomas Skučas, and Vygante Skučiené.
Jinyong Ji Investment Taiwan Lease, dated as of March 16,
2010, between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Jinyong Ji
Investment Co., Ltd.
S-1
S-1
3.2
3.4
4.1
4.2
4.3
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.5
10.6
June 17, 2011
June 17, 2011
October 3, 2011
June 17, 2011
June 17, 2011
October 3, 2011
June 17, 2011
June 17, 2011
June 17, 2011
August 22, 2017
10.9
June 17, 2011
10.1
June 17, 2011
Lease, dated as of July 9, 2010, between Ubiquiti Networks,
Inc. and The Welsh Office Center LLC.
S-1
10.11
June 17, 2011
Amended Technology License Agreement, dated as of
September 1, 2010, between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and
Atheros Communications, Inc.
S-1
10.12
June 17, 2011
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10.10
10.11
10.12
10.13
10.14
10.15
21.1
23.2
23.1
24.1
31.1
31.2
32.1~
Taiwan Lease, dated as of July 20, 2011, between Jin
Yeoung Ji Co., Ltd. and Ubiquiti Networks International
Limited, Taiwan Branch.
Office Lease, dated as of December 8, 2011 and executed on
December 22, 2011, by and between Ubiquiti Networks,
Inc. and Carr NP Properties, L.L.C.
Credit Agreement, dated as of May 3, 2014, by and among
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Ubiquiti International Holding
Company Limited, as Borrowers, the Lenders referred to
therein, as Lenders and Wells Fargo Bank, National
Associate, as Administration Agent
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of
March 3, 2015, by and among Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and
Ubiquiti International Holding Company Limited, as
Borrowers, the Lenders referred to therein, as Lenders, and
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative
Agent.
First Amendment dates as April 14, 2017, to Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 3, 2015, by
and among Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. and Ubiquiti
International Holding Company Limited, as borrowers,
certain subsidiaries of the borrowers, as guarantors, the
lenders and other financial institutions party thereto and
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative
agent.
10-Q
10.15
November 14, 2011
10-Q/A
10.16
March 20, 2012
10-Q
10.1
May 9, 2014
8-K
10.1
March 6, 2015
8-K
10.1
April 20, 2017
Aircraft Lease Agreement between Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
and RJP Manageco LLP, dated November 13, 2013
10-Q
10.1
February 7, 2014
List of subsidiaries of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Consent of independent registered public accounting firm
Consent of independent registered public accounting firm
Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page to this
Form 10-K)
Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required Under
Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required Under
Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal
Financial Officer Required Under Rule 13a-14(b) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and 18
U.S.C. §1350.
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Management contracts or compensation plans or arrangements in which directors or executive officers are eligible to participate.
Portions of the exhibit have been omitted pursuant to an order granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for confidential treatment.
In accordance with Item 601(b)(32)(ii) of Regulation S-K and SEC Release No. 33-8238 and 34-47986, Final Rule: Management’s Reports on Internal
Control Over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports, the certifications furnished in Exhibit 32.1 hereto are
deemed to accompany this Form 10-K and will not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. Such certifications will not be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filings under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the registrant specifically
incorporates it by reference.
XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) information is furnished and not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of
Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, is deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and is not otherwise subject to liability under these Sections.
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Subsidiaries of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.*
Exhibit 21.1
Ubiquiti Networks International Limited
Hong Kong
Ubiquiti International Holding Company Limited
Cayman Islands
*Pursuant to Item 601(b)(21)(ii) of Regulation S-K, the names of other subsidiaries of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. are omitted because, considered in the aggregate,
they would not constitute a significant subsidiary as of the end of the year covered by this report.
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Exhibit 23.1
Th e Board of Directors
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statement on Form S-8 (Nos. 333‑193793, 333-185958 and 333-177310) of Ubiquiti Networks,
Inc. of our report dated August 25, 2017 , with respect to the consolidated balance sheet of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. as of June 30, 2017, and the related
consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2017, and the effectiveness of
internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2017, which report appear in the June 30, 2017 annual report on Form 10‑K of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. Our
report on the consolidated financial statements refers to a change in the method of accounting for share-based payments effective July 1, 2016 due to the
Company's adoption of FASB ASU 2016-09, Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
New York, New York
August 25, 2017
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements on Form S‑8 (Nos. 333-193793, 333-185958 and 333-177310) of Ubiquiti
Networks, Inc. of our report dated August 22, 2016, except for the change in the manner in which the company accounts for debt issuance costs as discussed in
Note 2, as to which the date is August 25, 2017 relating to the consolidated financial statements, which appears in this Form 10‑K.
Exhibit 23.2
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
San Jose, California
August 25, 2017
CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PURSUANT TO
RULE 13A-14(A) AND 15D-14(A) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
Exhibit 31.1
I, Robert J. Pera, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements
made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial
condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a–15(e) and 15d–15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a–15(f) and 15d–15(f)) for the registrant and
have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the
period in which this report is being prepared;
(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the
disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter
(the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal
control over financial reporting; and
5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s
auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial
reporting.
August 25, 2017
/s/ Robert J. Pera
Robert J. Pera
Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER
PURSUANT TO
RULE 13A-14(A) AND 15D-14(A) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
Exhibit 31.2
I, Kevin Radigan, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements
made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial
condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a–15(e) and 15d–15(e)) over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a–15(f) and 15d–15(f)) for the registrant and have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the
period in which this report is being prepared;
(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the
disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter
(the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal
control over financial reporting; and
5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s
auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial
reporting.
August 25, 2017
/s/ Kevin Radigan
Kevin Radigan
Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER
PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
Exhibit 32.1
I, Robert J. Pera, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Annual Report of
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and that information contained in such Annual Report on Form 10-K fairly presents in all material respects the financial
condition and results of operations of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Date: August 25, 2017
By:
Name:
Title:
/s/ Robert J. Pera
Robert J. Pera
Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
I, Kevin Radigan, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Annual Report of
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and that information contained in such Annual Report on Form 10-K fairly presents in all material respects the financial
condition and results of operations of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Date: August 25, 2017
By:
Name:
Title:
/s/ Kevin Radigan
Kevin Radigan
Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)