NetApp Reports First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2027 Results

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, which ended on July 31, 2026.

“NetApp delivered a record-setting start to the year, exceeding guidance on every metric and achieving our strongest first quarter ever,” said George Kurian, Chief Executive Officer. “Our momentum reflects not only the trust of existing customers but also our success in winning new ones, as organizations choose the NetApp Platform to power their AI and hybrid multi-cloud initiatives. Through continued innovation and strategic investments, we are enabling customers to address their most critical needs and creating lasting value for all stakeholders.”

Dividend

The next cash dividend of $0.52 per share is to be paid on October 28, 2026, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 9, 2026.

First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2027 Business Highlights

Leading Product Innovation

• NetApp announced the release of StorageGRID 12.1, designed to help customers scale AI and other modern workloads with a federated global namespace, improving how data is accessed, processed, and managed across distributed environments to support AI data pipelines.

• NetApp announced new capabilities to NetApp Trident software 26.06 that helps Kubernetes platform teams scale workloads, while adding smarter volume placement, non-disruptive iSCSI volume rebalancing, expanded cloud support, and deeper integration for OpenShift Virtualization migrations.

• NetApp announced new data management capabilities optimized for Red Hat OpenShift that enable advanced levels of resilience and scale for virtualized environments, on-premises and in the cloud.

• NetApp announced Instaclustr for Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateway, a fully managed gateway service that connects Instaclustr managed data infrastructure to AI applications and agents.

• NetApp announced the general availability of Azure NetApp Files support for large files up to 64 TiB on regular volumes to help remove the friction from large-scale migrations, de-risk VMware estate moves, and allow architects to design cleaner, more cost-effective solutions.

• NetApp announced the general availability of Azure NetApp Files Object REST API to eliminate complex data pipelines and enable direct access to AI capabilities through standardized interfaces.

• NetApp introduced nconnect on Azure VMware Solution, increasing throughput and lowering effective latency under load without adding datastores or hosts.

• NetApp announced the general availability of Azure NetApp Files migration assistant to accelerate and simplify migrations of business-critical applications and data to Azure.

Customer and Partner Momentum

• NetApp announced a collaboration with Cisco to offer new solutions for secure, scalable, and simplified AI, expanding on the success of FlexPod to support AI adoption across organizations.

• NetApp announced an expanded collaboration with Cisco to strengthen defense-in-depth strategies for customers with the new NetApp Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) playbook.

• NetApp announced a deepened global alliance with CGI where NetApp Keystone will power CGI’s block storage solutions within its shared services platform.

• NetApp and SK Telecom announced the completion of a joint proof of concept, using NetApp AFX systems with SK Telecom’s Petasus AI Cloud, demonstrating a solution that enables enterprises to scale AI infrastructure in virtualized environments while maintaining high performance.

• NetApp and Okestro signed a strategic partnership agreement to jointly develop integrated enterprise AI and disaster recovery infrastructure.

• NetApp announced a strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services to better help organizations discover, classify, and govern data across locations, reduce the impact of cyber-attacks, speed up recovery times, and provide insights on sensitive data locations and permissions.

Corporate News and Events

• NetApp announced its acquisition of DataPelago, Inc., to further enable computing where data is created and stored, accelerating demanding workloads while improving infrastructure efficiency at scale.

Personnel

• NetApp appointed Alvaro Celis as Chief Partner and Ecosystem Officer to lead partner ecosystems, modernize incentive programs, improve partner satisfaction, and drive growth.

Awards and Recognition

• NetApp CEO, George Kurian, was named to CRN’s 25 Most Influential Executives of 2026 list, emphasizing his leadership in data storage amid the age of cloud and AI.

• NetApp’s AI Data Engine was named as a finalist in CRN’s 2026 Tech Innovator Awards, noting its ability to transform massive unstructured data estates into always-fresh, AI-ready assets with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and operational efficiency.

• NetApp was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Object Storage Solutions, Q2 2026, showcasing our strong fit for large enterprises managing distributed, regulated object estates that want to balance governance and hybrid consistency against the need for AI-native storage services.

• NetApp was recognized in The Wall Street Journal’s 2026 Best Companies For The Future list, ranking 60 out of 500 organizations.

• NetApp was named as one of the Greatest Workplaces in America, California, and Tech for 2026 by Newsweek, receiving a five-star rating based on a comprehensive worker satisfaction study.

• NetApp was named to Time Magazine’s Best Companies of 2026 list, ranking 271 out of 1,000 organizations.

• NetApp was named as one of the Best Companies to Work For by U.S. News, highlighting its top work environment.

Webcast and Conference Call Information

NetApp will host a conference call to discuss these results today at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. To access the live webcast of this event, go to the NetApp Investor Relations website at investors.netapp.com. In addition, this press release and other information related to the call will be posted on the Investor Relations website. An audio replay will be available on the website after 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time today. NetApp uses its website as a tool to disclose important information about NetApp and comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation Fair Disclosure.

“Safe Harbor” Statement Under U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, all of the statements made in the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Outlook section and the Full Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Outlook section, and statements about our business, economic and market outlook, financial guidance, our overall future prospects, expected benefits from our acquisitions and partnerships, demand for our AI solutions and other offerings, our ability to provide our customers secure, high-performance access to their data, our ability to maintain our operating margins, our ability to sustain growth, our platform and offerings, and our ability to capitalize on opportunities and deliver increasing results and value for our stakeholders. Actual results may differ materially from these statements for a variety of reasons, including, without limitation, our ability to keep pace with the rapid industry, technological and market trends and changes in the markets in which we operate; our ability to execute our evolved cloud strategy and introduce and gain market acceptance for our products and services; our ability to maintain our customer, partner, supplier and contract manufacturer relationships on favorable terms and conditions; global political, macroeconomic and market conditions, including inflation, fluctuating interest rates, tariffs, changes in trade policy, regulations, monetary policy shifts, recession risks, and foreign exchange volatility and the resulting impact on demand for our products; the impact of new or ongoing geopolitical conflicts and sanctions; adoption or changes to laws, regulations, standards, or policies affecting our operations, products, services, the storage industry, or AI usage; material cybersecurity and other security breaches; the impact of supply chain disruptions on our business operations, financial performance and results of operations; changes and related uncertainty in U.S. government spending or policy, including due to prolonged federal government shutdowns; changes in overall technology spending by our customers; revenue seasonality; changes in laws or regulations, including those relating to privacy, data protection and information security; the timing of orders and their fulfillment; and our ability to manage our gross profit margins, including managing component costs. These and other equally important factors are described in reports and documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the factors described under the sections titled “Risk Factors” in our most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q. All statements made in this release are made only as of the date set forth at the beginning of this release. We disclaim any obligation to update information contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

NetApp Usage of Non-GAAP Financial Information

To supplement NetApp’s condensed consolidated financial statement information presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP), NetApp provides investors with certain non-GAAP measures, including, but not limited to, historical non-GAAP gross margins, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margins, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP effective tax rate, free cash flow, billings, and historical and projected non-GAAP earnings per share.

NetApp believes that the presentation of its non-GAAP measures, when shown in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures, provides useful information to investors and management regarding financial and business trends relating to its financial condition and results of operations. Non-GAAP financial measures are used to: (1) measure company performance against historical results, (2) facilitate comparisons to our competitors’ operating results, and (3) allow greater transparency with respect to information used by management in financial and operational decision making.

NetApp believes that the presentation of non-GAAP gross margins, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margins, non-GAAP effective tax rate, non-GAAP net income, and non-GAAP earnings per share data provides investors with supplemental metrics that assist in understanding current results and future prospects, earnings and profitability that are complementary to GAAP metrics. Each of these non-GAAP metrics is defined as the applicable GAAP metric adjusted to exclude the items defined in A through I below, as applicable, while our non-GAAP effective tax rate and non-GAAP net income also reflect a non-GAAP tax provision, as described in item J below, instead of our GAAP tax provision. GAAP earnings per share and non-GAAP earnings per share are calculated using the net income divided by the diluted number of shares for the applicable period.

NetApp believes that the presentation of free cash flow, which it defines as the net cash provided by operating activities less cash used to acquire property and equipment, to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to investors and management because it reflects cash that can be used to, among other things, invest in its business, make strategic acquisitions, repurchase common stock, and pay dividends on its common stock. As free cash flow is not a measure of liquidity calculated in accordance with GAAP, free cash flow should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, the analysis provided in the statement of cash flows.

NetApp approximates billings by adding net revenues as reported on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the period to the change in total deferred revenue as reported on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the same period. Billings is a performance measure that NetApp believes provides useful information to investors and management because it approximates the amounts under purchase orders received by us during a given period that have been billed.

NetApp excludes the following items from its non-GAAP measures when applicable:

A. Amortization of intangible assets. NetApp records amortization of intangible assets that were acquired in connection with its business combinations. The amortization of intangible assets varies depending on the level of acquisition activity. Management finds it useful to exclude these charges to assess the appropriate level of various operating expenses to assist in budgeting, planning and forecasting future periods and in measuring operational performance.

B. Stock-based compensation expenses. NetApp excludes stock-based compensation expenses from its non-GAAP measures primarily because the amount can fluctuate based on variables unrelated to the performance of the underlying business. While management views stock-based compensation as a key element of our employee retention and long-term incentives, we do not view it as an expense to be used in evaluating operational performance in any given period.

C. Litigation settlements. NetApp may periodically incur charges or benefits related to litigation settlements. NetApp excludes these charges and benefits, when significant, because it does not believe they are reflective of ongoing business and operating results.

D. Acquisition-related expenses. NetApp excludes acquisition-related expenses, including (a) due diligence, legal and other one-time integration charges and (b) write down of assets acquired that NetApp does not intend to use in its ongoing business, from its non-GAAP measures, primarily because they are not related to our ongoing business or cost base and, therefore, are less useful for future planning and forecasting.

E. Restructuring charges. These charges consist of restructuring charges that are incurred based on the particular facts and circumstances of restructuring decisions, including employment and contractual settlement terms, and other related charges, and can vary in size and frequency. We therefore exclude them in our assessment of operational performance.

F. Asset impairments. These are non-cash charges to write down assets when there is an indication that the asset has become impaired. Management finds it useful to exclude these non-cash charges due to the unpredictability of these events in its assessment of operational performance.

G. Gains/losses on the sale or derecognition of assets. These are gains/losses from the sale of our properties and other transactions in which we transfer and/or lose control of assets to a third party. This is inclusive of third-party advisory, legal and other costs that result directly from and are essential to a sale transaction and that would not have been incurred had the decision to sell not been made. Management believes that these transactions do not reflect the results of our underlying, ongoing business and, therefore, are less useful for future planning and forecasting.

H. Gains/losses on the sale of investments in equity securities. These are gains/losses from the sale of our investment in certain equity securities. Typically, such investments are sold as a result of a change in control of the underlying businesses. Management believes that these transactions do not reflect the results of our underlying, ongoing business and, therefore, are less useful for future planning and forecasting.

I. Debt extinguishment costs. NetApp excludes certain non-recurring expenses incurred as a result of the early extinguishment of debt. Management believes such non-recurring costs do not reflect the results of its underlying, ongoing business and, therefore, are less useful for future planning and forecasting.

J. Income tax effects. NetApp’s non-GAAP tax provision is based upon a projected annual non-GAAP effective tax rate for the first three quarters of the fiscal year and an actual non-GAAP tax provision for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year. The non-GAAP tax provision also excludes, when applicable, (a) tax charges or benefits in the current period that relate to one or more prior fiscal periods that are a result of events such as changes in tax legislation, authoritative guidance, income tax audit settlements, statute lapses and/or court decisions, (b) tax charges or benefits that are attributable to unusual or non-recurring book and/or tax accounting method changes, (c) tax charges or benefits that are a result of a non-routine foreign cash repatriation, (d) tax charges or benefits that are a result of infrequent restructuring of the Company’s tax structure, (e) tax charges or benefits that are a result of a change in valuation allowance, and (f) tax charges or benefits resulting from the integration of intellectual property from acquisitions. Management believes that the use of non-GAAP tax provisions provides a more meaningful measure of the Company’s operational performance.

Non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative for, measures prepared in accordance with GAAP and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. In addition, non-GAAP measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. NetApp believes that non-GAAP measures have limitations in that they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with the Company’s results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP and that these measures should only be used to evaluate the Company’s results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures. NetApp management compensates for these limitations by analyzing current and projected results on a GAAP basis as well as a non-GAAP basis. The presentation of non-GAAP financial information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the directly comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. A detailed reconciliation of our non-GAAP to GAAP results can be found herein. In the press release and accompanying financial statements and reconciliations, the terms “operating income” and “income from operations” are used interchangeably. Similarly, “earnings per share” and “net income per share” are also used interchangeably.

Constant Currency

In periods in which the impacts of foreign currency exchange rate changes are significant, NetApp presents certain constant currency growth rates or quantifies the impact of foreign currency exchange rate changes on year-over-year fluctuations, including for net revenues, billings, and earnings. This constant currency information assumes that the same foreign currency exchange rates that were in effect for the comparable prior-year period were used in translation of the current period results.

About NetApp

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

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