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Acme Packet Inc.(APKT)

 
123Jump Rating: - Short-Term Growth   Underwriters: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
      Credit Suisse First Boston
Status: Priced   J. P. Morgan & Co.
 
Address: 71 3rd Ave.
FiledDate: 06/02/2006
  Burlington,
   
  MA 01803
Filed Price Range ($): $6.50-7.50
       
Telephone: 781-328-4400 Filed Offer Amount ($ Million): $85.00
       
Fax: 781-425-5077 Shares Offered (Millions): 11.47
       
Websites: www.acmepacket.com Shares Outstanding (Millions): 56.70
       
Management: Andrew (Andy) Ory, Pres./CEO/Dir.
IPO Date: 10/13/2006
  Keith Seidman, CFO
   
  Patrick J. MeLampy, CTO/Dir.
Final Offer Price ($): $9.00
       
Industry: Telecommunications Final Offer Size (Millions of Shares): 11.00
       
Employees: 189 Final Offer Amount ($ Million): $99.00
       
Competitors: Cisco System
S-1 Forms:
  Ditech
   
  Juniper Networks
 
       
     
     
     
       
 
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Major Stock Holders   (Prior To Offering)

Name

Class A
Menlo Ventures IX, L.P. and related entities 28.78%
Sonja L. Hoel 28.78%

Major Stock Holders  (After Offering)

Name

Common Stock Class A Class B Class C Class L ADS
Menlo Ventures IX, L.P. and related entities 0% 23.48% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Sonja L. Hoel 0% 23.48% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Business Environment

Since the advent of the Internet, service providers have delivered voice and data services separately over the Public Switched Telephone Network, or PSTN, and the Internet. The PSTN, also known as the voice or traditional telephone network, was created decades ago to provide seamless, reliable and secure global voice communications services. Users are accustomed to the high reliability and security of the PSTN, and have high confidence in utilizing it to share personal information and engage in activities such as banking and commerce. The PSTN is limited, however, in its ability to support high bandwidth video and other interactive multimedia services.

In recent years, service providers have experienced a significant decrease in wireline voice revenue due to the competition from VoIP and mobile voice services. This phenomenon has challenged service providers\\\\\\\' business models, causing a decline in profitability and a significant reduction in capital expenditure budgets. Service providers are focusing their efforts on introducing new revenue-generating opportunities, while rationalizing capital and network operations costs.

IP networks can be designed and operated more cost-effectively than the PSTN. In addition, IP networks are capable of delivering converged voice, video and data service packages to businesses and consumers. Service providers are seeking to provide these next-generation services to enhance their profitability by generating incremental revenue and by reducing subscriber turnover. However, managing two distinct networks—the PSTN and an IP network—is not a viable economic alternative. As a result, service providers are beginning to migrate to a single IP network architecture to serve as the foundation for their next-generation service offerings. In order to successfully transition to a single IP network, however, service providers must maintain the same reliability and security that have for decades exemplified their delivery of voice services.

Company Strategy
The Company is the leading provider of session border controllers, or SBCs, that enable service providers to deliver secure and high quality interactive communications—voice, video and other real-time multimedia sessions—across Internet Protocol, or IP, network borders.

Product/Services Portfolio
The Company’s Net-Net family of products consists of the Net-Net OS, 4000, 4000 PAC, 9000 and EMS. The brand name \\\\\\\"Net-Net\\\\\\\" reflects the role of these products in interconnecting IP networks for voice, video and multimedia services. The Company’s Net-Net products serve as a central element in unifying the separate IP networks that comprise wireline, wireless and cable networks. The Company’s products include its hardware platforms and proprietary software. They deliver high quality session border control functionality, performance, capacity, scalability, availability and manageability, while allowing service providers to create a premium service tier of next-generation real-time, interactive communications.

The Net-Net OS is the Company’s software platform. It operates on all of the Net-Net 4000 and 9000 series SBC hardware platforms. It offers rich border control functionality in terms of architectural flexibility, signaling protocol breadth, control feature depth, and carrier-class availability and manageability.

The Net-Net 4000, 4000 PAC and 9000 hardware platforms address a broad range of service provider requirements for performance, capacity and bandwidth. Each of these hardware platforms may be configured to support either an integrated or a decomposed SBC. Configurations supporting subscriber access in each case are available with and without IMS signaling control functionality to complement the IMS products offered by the Company’s distribution partners.

The Net-Net Element Management System, or Net-Net EMS, is a network element management application for the Company’s Net-Net family of SBCs. Net-Net EMS is designed to enable service providers to rapidly deploy and easily manage single or multiple Net-Net SBCs. As a standalone management system, Net-Net EMS is designed to support all required configuration, fault, performance and security management functions through an easy-to-use, browser-based graphical user interface. Net-Net EMS can efficiently integrate into existing and next-generation operational support systems, through industry-standard interfaces.

The Company’s SBCs support next-generation, converged fixed-mobile service architectures including 3GPP IMS, ETSI TISPAN, ATIS, the Multi-Service Forum, PacketCable and the DSL Forum. They support both subscriber access and network interconnect border requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks.

Investment Analysis
Total revenue was $18.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006 and $8.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005, an increase of $9.6 million, or 126%.

Cost of revenue was $4.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006 and $2.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005, an increase of $2.0 million, or 85%.

Gross profit was $14.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006 and $6.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005, an increase of $8.5 million, or 140%.

Total operating expenses were $8.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006 and $5.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005, an increase of $2.8 million, or 48%.

Income from operations was $6.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006 and $267,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2005, an increase of $5.7 million, or 1,153%.

Income Data (Thousand $ Except EPS)
Year Revenues Costs Oper Income Taxes Net Income EPS
2003 3,336 0.00 -7,497 0.00 -7,464 -0.52
2004 15,993 0.00 -7,101 0.00 -6,957 -0.46
2005 36,120 0.00 -383 0.00 -35 0.00
2006 38,079 0.00 11,069 0.00 11,250 0.23
*As of period ended June 30, 2006

Balance Sheet Data (Thousand $)

Year

Cash Acct Recv. Inventory Total Cur Assets Total Cur Liability PPE Total Assets LT Debt SH Equity
2004 16,748 4,195 1,979 23,193 8,059 2,277 25,902 0.00 17,634
2005 15,369 6,959 3,281 26,169 12,386 3,926 30,399 0.00 17,723
2006 33,097 7,707 3,328 44,807 21,878 5,773 51,407 0.00 29,249
*As of period ended June 30, 2006

Cash Flow Summary (Thousand $)

Year

Net Cash-Ops Net Cash-Inv Net Cash-Fin Net Change
2003 -6,766 -980 10,487 2,741
2004 -4,657 -2,261 14,106 7,188
2005 2,326 -3,619 -86 -1,379
2006 21,403 -3,805 130 17,728
*As of period ended June 30, 2006
 

 

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