NetApp, Inc.

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

This section and other parts of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contain forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations of future events based on certain assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Forward-looking statements also can be identified by words such as “future,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “can,” “may,” and similar terms. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and the actual results of NetApp, Inc. ("NetApp," “we,” “us,” "our," or the “Company”) may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, those described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 25, 2025 ("2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K"), including under the heading “Risk Factors” and discussed in this Form 10-Q under the heading “Risk Factors,” which are incorporated herein by reference. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements as of and for the fiscal year ended April 25, 2025, and the notes thereto, contained in our 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q. We assume no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason, except as required by law.

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Overview

Our Company

NetApp helps customers make their data infrastructure more seamless, more dynamic, and higher performing. We were incorporated in 1992, are headquartered in San Jose, California, and provide a full range of enterprise-class software, systems and services that customers use to transform their data infrastructures across data types, workloads, and environments to realize business possibilities.

We leverage over thirty years of innovation to make data infrastructure intelligent. Our unified data storage solutions deliver flexible, simplified, and silo-free infrastructure. Our active data management capabilities focus on security, compliance, and sustainability, while our adaptive operations enhance performance, efficiency, and productivity. Our extensive portfolio integrates hybrid and multi-cloud environments, addressing key customer priorities such as modernizing legacy systems, enhancing resilience against ransomware, and developing scalable, high-performance data pipelines for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

NetApp empowers customers to harness their data for accelerated innovation, improved operations, and competitive advantage. Our unified data storage solutions provide the flexibility to consistently and easily store any data type and support any workload. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, we power data across Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Our integrated data services enable active data management, security, protection, governance, and sustainability. Additionally, our operational services support adaptive operations across infrastructure, applications, and teams. Together with our Hybrid Cloud products, these services enable customers to construct a seamless, intelligent data infrastructure across hybrid multi-cloud environments.

Our operations are organized into two segments: Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud.

Hybrid Cloud offers a unified data storage portfolio of storage management and infrastructure solutions that helps customers modernize their data centers. Our Hybrid Cloud portfolio accommodates both structured and unstructured data with unified storage optimized for flash, disk, and cloud storage, capable of handling data-intensive workloads and applications. Hybrid Cloud includes software, hardware, and related support, along with professional and other services.

Public Cloud offers a portfolio of products delivered primarily as-a-service, including related support. This portfolio includes cloud storage, data services, and operational services. These services are generally available on the leading public clouds, including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Stock Repurchase and Dividend Activity

During the first nine months of fiscal 2026, we repurchased 7.0 million shares of our common stock at an average price of $107.26 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $750 million. We also declared aggregate cash dividends of $1.56 per share in that period, for which we paid $310 million.

Restructuring Events

In the first nine months of fiscal 2026, we approved a restructuring plan to redirect resources to highest return activities and reduce costs. Aggregate charges recorded from restructuring plans during the first nine months of fiscal 2026 totaled $22 million.

Results of Operations

Our fiscal year is reported as a 52- or 53-week year that ends on the last Friday in April. Fiscal years 2026 and 2025, ending on April 24, 2026 and April 25, 2025, respectively, are each 52-week years, with 13 weeks in each of their quarters. Unless otherwise stated, references to particular years, quarters, months and periods refer to the Company’s fiscal years ended in April and the associated quarters, months and periods of those fiscal years.

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The following table sets forth certain condensed consolidated statements of income data as a percentage of net revenues for the periods indicated:

Percentages may not add due to rounding

Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations

Net Revenues (in millions, except percentages):

The increase in net revenues for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2026 compared to the corresponding periods of fiscal 2025 was due to an increase in both product and services revenues. Product revenues as a percentage of net revenues remained relatively flat in the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2026, as compared to the corresponding periods of fiscal 2025. Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates favorably impacted net revenues percentage growth by approximately two percentage points in the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2026, compared to the corresponding periods of fiscal 2025.

Product Revenues (in millions, except percentages):

Hybrid Cloud

Product revenues are derived through the sale of our Hybrid Cloud solutions and consist of sales of configured all-flash array systems (including All-Flash FAS A-Series and All-Flash FAS C-Series with capacity flash) and hybrid systems, which are bundled hardware and software products, as well as add-on flash, disk and/or hybrid storage and related OS, StorageGrid, OEM products, and add-on optional software.

Total product revenues increased in the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2026 compared to the corresponding periods of the prior year primarily due to higher sales of all-flash array systems and the favorable impact from foreign exchange rate fluctuations.

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Services Revenues (in millions, except percentages):