Ingram Micro delivered robust revenues and record profits for the year, including double-digit increases in Cloud and Commerce and Lifecycle Services revenues and profitability, as the company benefited from a strategic focus on growing high-value services and solutions.
Worldwide 2019 fiscal year sales were $47.2 billion, a decrease of $3.2 billion, or 6 percent in USD, as the company focused on delivering a better mix of higher margin sales.
The translation of foreign currencies compared to last year had a negative impact of approximately $1.2 billion, or nearly 2.5%, on 2019 fiscal year sales.
The company also said that the adoption of ASC 606, related to changes in the reporting of certain software revenue transactions from a gross to a net basis, had a negative impact to fiscal 2019 annual sales of approximately $1.5 billion, or 3%, when compared to fiscal 2018 annual sales.
2019 fiscal year gross profit increased by $170 million to $3.3 billion, with gross margin growing by 79 basis points to 7.09 percent.
This compares to sales of $50.4 billion, gross profit of $3.2 billion and gross margin of 6.30 percent for the 2018 fiscal year.
2019 fiscal year non-GAAP operating income increased by more than $80 million to $820 million, or 1.73 percent of revenue, a 27 basis-point increase over last year, with non-GAAP net income for the 2019 fiscal year up $70 million to $530 million.
This compares to 2018 fiscal year non-GAAP operating income of $730 million, or 1.46 percent of revenue, and non-GAAP net income of $460 million.
2019 fiscal year GAAP operating income and net income were $700 million, or 1.48 percent of revenue, and $505 million, respectively, including: the pre-tax negative impact of $73 million in amortization expense and $48 million in restructuring, acquisition and transition costs, partially offset by the pre-tax positive impact of the receipt of an LCD flat panel class action settlement of $4 million and the $58 million tax benefit related to a worthless stock deduction.
This compares to 2018 fiscal year GAAP operating income and net income of $550 million, or 1.09 percent of revenue, and $350 million, respectively. ■