BlackBerry reported a $207-million US loss for the second quarter, much better than analysts were expecting, despite a $50-million drop in revenues.
The second-quarter earnings report was released after the company's official launch earlier this week of the Passport, a keyboard smartphone with a 4.5-inch screen aimed at corporate users.
Despite being headquartered in Canada, BlackBerry reports its earnings in U.S. dollars. On a per-share basis, the quarterly loss for the Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker works out to 39 cents per share.
But when certain one-time items related to the company's restructuring process are stripped out, the loss narrows to two cents a share, or $11 million. That's much better than the loss of 16 cents per share that analysts who cover the company were expecting that figure to be.
BlackBerry's $207-million loss is almost 80 per cent less than the loss figure it posted this time last year, a $965-million loss, or $1.84 per share.
Also Friday, the company reported revenues of $916 million, a drop from $966 million in the previous quarter.
The company had about the same amount of cash on hand as it did in the previous quarter, with a slight uptick of $11 million to $3.1 billion.
CEO John Chen, in a BlackBerry release, called it a "solid quarter," and predicted the company would break even on cash flow by the end of this fiscal year, and would be profitable during the following fiscal year.
Investors appeared to agree, with BlackBerry shares gaining seven per cent on the TSX early Friday
But the numbers show that the company's revenues are increasingly coming from services and software products, not smartphone devices themselves.
BlackBerry reported 46 per cent of its revenue came was from hardware, 46 per cent from services and eight per cent from software.
The number of BlackBerry Messenger users is also on the rise. In the second quarter, there were 91 million monthly active users, an increase of 85 million in the previous quarter.
The company's EZ Pass Program issued almost three times as many licences for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 this quarter over the last one, at about 3.4 million. The enterprise system allows corporate users to manage all their devices on the same system — across operating systems including BlackBerry, Android and iOS, as well as across devices from desktop computers to smartphones.
A growing share of the company's revenue is coming from North America: 32.4 per cent this quarter versus 26.3 per cent in the same quarter last year, and the highest in the last five quarters.
The second quarter also saw the creation of the BlackBerry Technology Solutions Unit, focusing on software and the company's Internet of Things strategy — which refers to the new generation of internet-connected devices such as thermostats, televisions, fridges and cameras that can be controlled remotely via mobile devices such as smartphones.
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