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Earnings Call: Q4 2019

Mar 29, 2019

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the BlackBerry fiscal year 2019 fourth quarter results conference call. My name is Michelle, and I will be your conference moderator for today's call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a brief question and answer session towards the end of the conference. Should you need assistance during the call, please signal a conference specialist by pressing star one. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the presentation over to our host for today's call, Christopher Lee, Vice President, Finance. Please go ahead.

Christopher Lee
VP, Finance, BlackBerry

Thank you, Michelle. Welcome to the BlackBerry fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results conference call. With me on the call today are Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, John Chen, and Chief Financial Officer, Steve Capelli. After I read our cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements, John will provide a business update, Steve will then review the financial results. We will open the call for a brief Q&A session. This call is available to the general public via call-in numbers and via webcast in the investor information section at blackberry.com. A replay will also be available on the blackberry.com website. Some of the statements we'll be making today constitute forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of applicable U.S. and Canadian securities laws. We'll indicate forward-looking statements by using words such as expect, will, should, model, intend, believe, and similar expressions.

Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by the company in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions, and expected future developments, as well as other factors that the company believes are relevant. Many factors could cause the company's actual results or performance to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including the risk factors that are discussed in the company's annual information form, which is included in our annual report on Form 40-F and in our MD&A. You should not place undue reliance on the company's forward-looking statements. The company has no intention and undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, except as required by law. As is customary during the call, John and Steve will reference non-GAAP numbers in their summary of our quarterly and annual results.

For a reconciliation between our GAAP and non-GAAP numbers, please see the earnings press release and supplement published earlier today. I will now turn the call over to John.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Thank you, Chris. Good morning, everybody. As Chris has stated earlier, I will only reference non-GAAP numbers in my summaries. BlackBerry had a very, very positive quarter and as well as the fiscal 2019. Let me start with the fiscal 2019 results. For fiscal 2019, we deliver upon all our financial outlooks, including 10% total software and services revenue growth, double-digit percentage total software and services billing growth. We reported $0.24 in earnings per share versus $0.14 last fiscal year, and we generated $83 million in reported free cash flow. In the quarter Q4, we achieved 8% year-over-year total company revenue growth. This was the first time in many years, driven by four consecutive years of software and services growth that overcame the quarter-to-quarter decline in handset revenue and service access fees.

This is where the violins come in. We believe total company revenue growth is a significant milestone to both the company and its shareholder. This profitable growth is a clear indication that we have successfully pivot to become an enterprise software company. This quarter results are due to the achievement of record high in total software and services revenue, enabling BlackBerry to exceed the consensus expectation in both revenue and earnings per share for the quarter. Finally, we completed our acquisition of Cylance. Cylance is a next-generation endpoint security technology, which participates in a fast-growing market, and they provide technologies that is shaping the future direction of cybersecurity. The AI and machine learning capabilities we added are synergistic with our long-term vision for BlackBerry Spark, our integrated secure communication platform for the IoT. Let me provide some highlights for the fourth fiscal quarter.

Total company revenue came in as $257 million. Total software and services revenue was $248 million. As I mentioned before, this is a new record quarterly high. Total software and services billing grew a solid double-digit percentage year-over-year for both the fiscal quarter as well for the fiscal year. Gross margin came in at 82%. Operating income was $58 million, positive for the 12th consecutive quarter. Sorry, excuse me. Operating margin was 23%, an increase of nine percentage points from last quarter. This is the highest operating margin reported by the company since fiscal 2011. EPS came in at $0.11. Total ending cash and investment after the closing of the acquisition of Cylance came in as $1 billion. I will cover some significant highlights by business.

Fourth quarter enterprise software and services revenue declined 20% year-over-year, primarily due to the impact of the ASC 606 accounting. You may recall that in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, we reported approximately $30 million of perpetual license that were recognized upfront prior to the 606. It is worth noting that this is the last quarter of year-over-year comparative impact related to the implementation of the ASC 606. As we look at billings and other operational metrics in the quarter, we expect to see growth in enterprise software and services in fiscal 2020. Billings grew strongly on a sequential basis. The strength in the quarter came mainly from financial services and government vertical. In the financial services vertical, we received over 400 orders from banking customer from all around the world, which includes Barclays PLC and Bank of Oman.

In the government vertical, some notable orders received including the Austrian Federal Computing Center, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Police Service of Scotland, Public Services and Procurement Canada, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, just to name a few. After the quarter, we made two major announcements that underscore our continued progress in the government sector. First, we were selected by NATO for our secure voice solution, SecuSUITE for government. Second, we announced the creation of BlackBerry Government Solutions, which is a Washington, D.C.-based subsidiary that will deepen our reach within the United States government and ensure that all our company's solutions and products are FedRAMP authorized. This is a model that we could see deployed with other countries in the future, of course. As we have demonstrated consistently throughout the fiscal year, we were well-positioned to not only compete, but to win in the regulated industry.

Our strongest revenue performer within the enterprise software and services in the quarter was our UEM, the unified endpoint management business, which grew at a high single-digit percentage on a sequential basis. Enterprise software and services deferred revenue also grew in the fourth quarter, since we have largely transitioned to a ratable revenue model. We're still on track to release the first module for the BlackBerry Spark platform this September. As a reminder, BlackBerry Spark is our integrated secure communication platform designed to address the hyper-connected needs in the IoT markets. Let me move to BlackBerry Technology Solutions business. Fourth quarter BTS revenue came in increased 20% year-over-year. Growth in BTS is mainly driven by BlackBerry QNX, the software development license services and royalty revenue.

They all grew year-over-year as we continue to be selected for designs by our customers in both the automotive as well as the general embedded market. In the quarter, we had a total of 22 design wins, of which 14 were in automotive. Three of the wins were for infotainment, and the remaining 11 wins were across ADAS, which is advanced driver assist, digital cockpits, instrument cluster, and other non-infotainment applications. Based on one of our recent wins with a prominent tier 1 supplier, we are seeing an emerging trend in the automotive software architecture where domain controllers are consolidating function that has historically been distributed across many ECU, the electronic control units. This trend is constructive for BlackBerry QNX. Our safety certified operating system and hypervisor are very relevant for this current market demand.

During the quarter, we announced an investment of CAD 310 million over 10 years to develop the next generation of safe and secure embedded software for the future automobile and other enterprise markets and other autonomous platforms. Our investment continues to increase the breadth of our product and that are necessary to serve the active safety and autonomous platform now as well as in the future. I believe this investment is going to help BlackBerry to stay ahead of the competition. That's all we have for the Radar. I'm going to move on to Radar. In a quarter, we added eight new customers, including Fleets Mexico, continuing our international expansion. We also received repeated orders from nine existing customers, including Bimbo Bakeries USA and FlexiVan.

We are actively engaged with a number of very large companies in our pipeline, and we look to continue to ramp our volume. In our business regarding licensing, IP, and other revenue, which in the future, by the way, we're going to refer to as licensing, I guess from now till perpetuity, I suppose. We continue to execute well against the strategy to monetize our IP and technology portfolio. Our licensing business performance in the fourth quarter resulted in an increase in revenue of 71% year-over-year. The performance was driven by the close of the opportunities we have actually highlighted and has been discussing with you earlier in the fiscal year that we were all working on. We expect a steady annual revenue contribution from this business.

Based on our pipeline, we're working towards a goal of around $270 million in licensing revenue in FY 2020. A brief word on BlackBerry Cylance. We completed the acquisition the last week of February. Those of you who attended RSA this month, which is March, are aware of our release of CylancePERSONA, which generated a lot of interest as the first proactive protection solution based on individual behavioral characteristics. At RSA, we also announced that Verizon selected BlackBerry Cylance to be part of the managed security service portfolio. This partnership strengthened our channel, as well as broadened our reach to Verizon Enterprise and the small medium business customer base. BlackBerry Cylance was also recently recognized by multiple cybersecurity industry experts for their innovation and leadership. I guess, i.e., got a lot of the award at RSA.

BlackBerry Cylance is off to a bright start, and we're very pleased with this acquisition, and it's a positive validation on our investment thesis. Before I turn the call over to Steve, let me provide you a couple of key personnel updates. First, I'm pleased to welcome and announce that Bryan Palma recently joined BlackBerry as our President and Chief Operating Officer. Bryan is an excellent addition to our team. Bryan started his career as a forensic specialist for the United States Secret Service. He was also the first CISO for PepsiCo, VP of Cyber and Security Solution for Boeing, and a senior vice president of an $8 billion professional services business from Cisco. The combinations of Bryan's strong go-to-market focus and his cybersecurity background has enabled him to deliver growth at all his prior organizations and engagements.

As you have seen, we added some strong talent over the last several months with Bryan as well as Stuart and the Cylance team. We plan to add others to our team. All of them will be key for BlackBerry to execute against our strategy for profitable growth. For FY 2020, the company is now organized in three business units whose leadership will report to me. Bryan will lead the new BlackBerry IoT business, which will include our enterprise software and services, as well as the BlackBerry technology solution team. Stuart, the co-founder and CEO of Cylance, will lead the BlackBerry Cylance business. Steve Capelli will lead licensing in conjunction with his CFO role. I will now turn the call over to Steve to provide more details about our financial performance.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Thank you, John. Before I comment on the fiscal quarter, I'd like to comment on fiscal 2019. As John previously mentioned, I am pleased that we did what we said we would do regarding our fiscal 2019 financial outlook. More importantly, we ended the year on a high note, with total company revenue growth, gross margins over 80%, positive free cash flow generation, and $1 billion in cash after closing the Cylance acquisition. Now on to the fiscal quarter. Note, my comments on our financial performance for the fiscal quarter will be in non-GAAP terms, unless specified otherwise. We delivered fourth quarter non-GAAP total company revenue of $257 million and GAAP total company revenue of $255 million. I will now break down revenue shortly. Fourth quarter total company gross margin was 82%, primarily due to the higher mix of licensing revenue.

Our non-GAAP gross margin includes software deferred revenue acquired but not recognized of $2 million, and excludes stock compensation expense of $1 million and restructuring costs of $1 million. Operating expenses of $152 million were up 8% sequentially, due primarily to the inclusion of Cylance in our numbers for about a week of our fiscal quarter. Our non-GAAP operating expenses exclude $18 million in amortization of acquired intangibles, $13 million in stock comp expense, $8 million in acquisition and integration costs, $2 million in restructuring charges, and a one-time benefit of $9 million from a settlement with Panasonic. A benefit of $6 million related to the fair value adjustment on the debentures. Non-GAAP operating income was $58 million, and non-GAAP net income was $60 million. Non-GAAP EPS was $0.11 in the quarter. Our adjusted EBITDA was $73 million this quarter, excluding the non-GAAP adjustments previously mentioned.

This equates to an adjusted EBITDA margin of 28%. I will now provide a breakdown of our revenue in the quarter. Total software and services revenue was $248 million, representing 96% of total revenue and up from 91% a year ago. Total SAF revenue was $9 million, and total handset device revenue was 0. I will now provide a further breakdown of our software and services revenue in the quarter. Please refer to the supplemental table in the press release for the GAAP and non-GAAP details. Enterprise software accounted for 37%, BlackBerry Technology Solutions accounted for 22%, licensing accounted for 40%, and Cylance accounted for 1%. Recurring software and services revenue was 93% in the quarter, consistent with the definition we used last quarter, which was to include perpetual licenses recognized ratably. Now moving on to our balance sheet and cash flow performance.

Total cash equivalents, and investments were $1 billion, which decreased by $1.4 billion from November 30th, 2018, due to the closing of the Cylance acquisition. Our net cash position was $400 million at the end of the quarter. Free cash flow, before considering the impact of acquisition and integration expenses, restructuring costs, and legal proceedings, was a positive $20 million. Cash generated in operations was $21 million, and capital expenditures were $3 million. That concludes my comments. I'll now turn the call back to John to provide further outlook.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Thank you, Steve. Before I provide a fiscal year 2020 outlook, let me summarize our strategic priorities for the fiscal year. I will break it down by business unit. For BlackBerry IoT, our goal is to drive profitable revenue growth, increase our market share in the industry vertical that we have been strong in, starting to expand the vertical that we have been underweighted. For BlackBerry Cylance, our goal is to increase market share, of course, while improving its profitability and reducing the cash burn. For licensing, we look to close opportunity that result in a higher amount of recurring revenue. We are investing for growth, including expanding our channel reach and our innovation. We have begun to integrate AI and machine learning capabilities onto both our UEM product as well as the QNX product line.

We anticipate at least the beginning of the releases in 12 months, probably started with UEM first. We are also investing to accelerate the development of the Spark for our internal growth. With that as a context, our outlook for first fiscal year 2020 is as follows. We believe the total revenue growth will come in between 23%-27%, driven by a double-digit percentage increase in billings. Revenue growth is broken down as follows. IoT business unit growth of between 12%-16%. We expect the BTS to grow faster than the enterprise UEM business. We are sharing this detail with you only on this call, I guess should be only once on this call, to help you align your historical model with our going-forward financial reporting.

License, we expect to decrease 5% year-over-year, as we focus on closing opportunity that build upon our recurring licensing revenue base. In summary, the combination of IoT and licensing business unit should deliver organic growth somewhere between 8%-10%. We expected BlackBerry Cylance grow somewhere between 25%-30% from a base of around $170 million for the 12 months ending February 28, 2019. Service Access Fee, SAF, to be around somewhere between $10 million-$20 million. As stated earlier, we are investing for current and future growth. Though we are investing, we still anticipate being profitable on a full-year basis, even with a diluted impact of the Cylance acquisition. As previously noted on the November announcement call, we anticipated the acquisition to be accretive in the second fiscal year and thereafter. BlackBerry standalone annual growth and operating margin profile is largely unchanged.

We are adding about $300 million of costs related to Cylance. This will break down to about $75 million in cost of goods sold and $220 million operating expense. The total company intends to improve operating leverage throughout the fiscal 2020. We anticipate our fiscal 2020 financial results will be consistent with the seasonality we have exhibit last fiscal year. We anticipate minimum change to the tax expense and capital expenditure that we have reported last year. With all that, you should be able to come up with the final answers with a definitive number. Operator Michelle, I would like to open the call for question and answer, please. Michelle?

Operator

At this time, we will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please make sure your mute function is turned off to allow your signal to reach our equipment. Again, press star one to ask a question. We will pause for just a moment to allow everyone an opportunity to signal for questions. We request that you limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Our first question will come from Steven Fox from Cross Research. Your line is open.

Steven Fox
Analyst, Cross Research

Hi. Good morning.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Good morning, Steve.

Steven Fox
Analyst, Cross Research

Two questions from me, please. First of all, John, given all the organizational changes, I was curious if you could sort of outline what it does to free up your time and maybe how your emphasis in terms of your own management is going to change going forward. Secondly, when we think about Cylance, and obviously everything you've said is fairly consistent with when you announced the acquisition. Can you give us a little color on maybe how their business plays out seasonally, quarter to quarter, roughly, and also how the direction we should think about the cash burn declining as the year goes on? Thanks.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Okay, good. I will leave the cash burn answer to Steve. The first question is, I'm buying all the maps about beaches and golf courses and No, Steve. I think I will be immensely busy. Part of the reason is to make sure that we have the synergy both in the financial side and more important, the technology, and build out our internal communication platform for the IoT. There are some really big projects that I need to focus on. Also making sure that Cylance, being a very high growth company, continue that growth. Being integrated into BlackBerry as one company. I have to kind of balance that culture on both cultures. I think we'll work very well. Initially, we work exceedingly well right now. People at Cylance were excited to join us, and we're excited to have them.

Anyway, there's going to be a lot of work, hoping that I could spend more time in getting the company more focused on the strategy going forward. That's that. Because of their growth, there isn't really much of a seasonality, obviously, because they're growing every quarter, basically. If you look at it full quarter over four quarters type thing, you basically see Q1 being lower and Q4 being higher. I mean, the same kind of mathematics. A little bit more profound on our enterprise side business, less profound on theirs. Okay?

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Okay.

Steven Fox
Analyst, Cross Research

Yeah, that's helpful.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Steven, first of all, we will submit a Business Acquisition Report, where you have to submit by 75 days. On May 7th would be that deadline. We hope to have that done before our analyst day, which is late April. In about 30 days, I think you'll have a better view. John mentioned, because of the high amount of recurring revenue, how the revenue flow would come through. On a cash flow basis, we did say there would be accretive next year for us. As we look to this year, we're really looking at decreasing losses on cash. Do expect to have that throughout the full year. Obviously, more heavily weighted in Q1, and gradually moving out to more profitability or cash flow generation in Q4.

Steven Fox
Analyst, Cross Research

Great. That's helpful, and feel free to send some of those beach brochures over to me when you get a chance.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Okay.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Okay. Will do.

Operator

Your next question will come from Gus Papageorgiou from Macquarie. Your line is open.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Hi, Gus.

Gus Papageorgiou
Analyst, Macquarie

Hi. How are you, guys? Thanks. Congrats on a great quarter.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Thank you.

Gus Papageorgiou
Analyst, Macquarie

Just a couple questions. On the licensing, I think Steve, you said $270 million annually. Is that?

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

No, for next year.

Gus Papageorgiou
Analyst, Macquarie

Yes, for next year. For next year. Yeah. Is there any seasonality in that, or is that pretty consistent across quarters? Then also on the gross margin, very strong gross margin this quarter. I know Cylance was only there for a week. If you think about the gross margin profile for the year, where should we be keeping it flat at where it is, or turning up or down?

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Great question.

Gus Papageorgiou
Analyst, Macquarie

Yeah.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

On the licensing component, I would expect an uptick through the year, Q1 to Q4. Q2 and Q3 be flat and probably a stronger Q4 as we did this year on the licensing model. Secondarily, on the gross margins, when we combine the two companies, Cylance has a greater proportion of professional services. As we look at our company, when I combine the two, I would say mid-70s, if you say 75% going forward would be a good number to work from.

Gus Papageorgiou
Analyst, Macquarie

Great. Thanks a lot.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Yeah.

Operator

Your next question comes from Daniel Chan from TD Securities. Your line is open.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Hi.

Daniel Chan
Analyst, TD Securities

Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. Can you put the expected growth of Cylance of 25%-30% in context of last year's growth, where they stated they were doing about 90%? What are the factors that are kind of changing your assumptions here?

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

90% is a abnormality because of a virus. I don't remember it was NotPetya or.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

WannaCry or something like that.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

WannaCry. It's because of that. Also the math of small number versus bigger numbers. One other point, I'm glad you mentioned this. Our apple-to-apple comparison, although I'm allergic to apple-to-apple comparison is actually 5% off the growth because we mapped their fiscal year into ours. Mathematically, Chris and Steve could show you that if you're interested. You really need to look at the 25%-30% growth from their historical way. It's actually 5% higher than that.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

They lose the impact of a strong quarter end because of the way we do the modeling on that. Dan, your reference point of the 100%, I think when the BAR is released, you'll kind of see, I think the 100% is actually even dated to our prior year.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Two years ago, yeah.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

You'll see it. Not to mention that the competition in this marketplace is growing significantly less than that.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

If you map our number, we will be literally doubling the growth of a competition that are public.

Daniel Chan
Analyst, TD Securities

Okay, great. Thanks. That's very helpful. Wonder if we could switch gears to the enterprise segment. That segment dropped sequentially. Can we get some more color there, especially considering that most of it is now being recorded as recurring if you include the perpetual licenses? If it's mostly recurring and you're gaining customers, wouldn't you expect that segment to increase? I know you said the UEM grew sequentially.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Yeah.

Gus Papageorgiou
Analyst, Macquarie

Where did the sequential decline come from?

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Sure. The quarter-over-quarter, it's really the product mix. As you pointed out, there are certain products lines that are recurring in nature and others that are not. The fact remains is billings grew quarter-over-quarter. That was substantial, and as well as the fact that due to the mix, you can look back and you see that John spoke about 93% recurring this quarter. Last quarter was 88%. We have more recurring, less immediate revenue, and that's really the mix.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

The high percentage of business was actually UEM that came in.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Right.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

They are all unratable.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Yep.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

That pushes our number up by 5%, the recurring number, or the ratable number, sorry, by 5% up, then so it drops, thus, the revenue number.

Daniel Chan
Analyst, TD Securities

If I could just squeeze one more in. What was that recurring revenue number, if you exclude the perpetual licenses?

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

What was the recurring revenue? Well, we said 93% as total company, and that's how we report.

Daniel Chan
Analyst, TD Securities

Well, that's if you include the perpetual licenses recorded as ratably. What if you were to exclude those perpetual licenses that you

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

This quarter, we are very

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

It's-

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Yeah, we are very few perpetual.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Very few perpetual. It would still be mid-80s.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Yeah. It would probably mid and high 80s.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Yep.

Daniel Chan
Analyst, TD Securities

Okay, great. Thank you very much.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Sure.

Operator

Your next question comes from Paul Treiber from RBC Capital Markets. Your line is open.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Hey, Paul.

Paul Treiber
Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Yeah, thanks so much, good morning, guys.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Good morning.

Paul Treiber
Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Just on the theme of recurring revenue, in regards to IP licensing, I think in the past you mentioned sort of like a base level run rate, what's the mix of recurring versus one time in either the quarter or the year, then relative to the CAD 270 million outlook for next year?

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Yeah.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Go ahead, Steve.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Yeah. First of all, we don't include IP revenue as part of our recurring %. I wanted to kind of set that tone first. The second piece of it is we still say that $40 million-$45 million is that baseline of recurring revenue, and the rest is more one time in nature. However, as you've seen, we've been able to kind of deliver a consistent number above that number, and that's due to our pipeline.

Paul Treiber
Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Okay.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Your model, Paul, should be still about $40 million-$45 million a quarter on a baseline basis. You use the word baseline. You use that, the rest will come in more of the one time.

Paul Treiber
Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Okay. In bigger picture, in regards to the IP licensing business, and I think in the past you talked about that there's 10-11 years or so remaining on the patents. Is the opportunity just to monetize the business, and then what happens out 10-11 years, like to the extent are you replacing those patents or can you extend those patents to sustain the durability of that revenue stream?

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Yeah. Well, we currently have over 100 patents in application.

Paul Treiber
Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Okay.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

There are new, and then added to it, a set of patents also from Cylance. We are filling up the pipeline very rapidly. We have a lot of innovation going on in the company. I wouldn't be overly concerned about running out of food.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

That includes patents also from QNX and other areas.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

It's all in there, yeah.

Paul Treiber
Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Okay. Okay, thanks so much.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Sure, thanks.

Operator

Your next question comes from Todd Coupland from CIBC. Your line is open.

Todd Coupland
Analyst, CIBC

Good morning, everyone.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Morning.

Steve Capelli
CFO, BlackBerry

Hi, Todd.

Todd Coupland
Analyst, CIBC

I wanted to see if you could unpack the outlook for QNX and Enterprise Solutions. I know you've bundled it up together here at 12%-16%, but how should we think about those two segments as we look out the next year?

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

QNX actually on the high end of the range and UEM on the lower end of the range.

Todd Coupland
Analyst, CIBC

Okay. You still think that UEM can grow in the high single digits from regulated and governmental demand? That's how you're thinking about that?

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Absolutely. Well, I hope it's a little better than high single digits, but yes, that's correct. We have a lot of projects going on. We have new product in the pipeline. I'm not overly concerned. We saw a good sequential growth from Q3 to Q4.

Todd Coupland
Analyst, CIBC

Okay. On QNX, it's hard for us to see what's going on under the surface because you have professional services before you get the recurring revenue, you have various design wins ramping, and you have the mix of design wins, ADAS versus entertainment, et cetera. What actually is happening overall from a growth perspective in the areas that you like? If I were to look at that 12%-16% QNX, that's just okay relative to where you had been growing that business the last couple of years. Help us bridge what's going on in the business. Thanks.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Yeah. There was also something you have to remember. The ratio of UEM revenue and the QNX revenue is such that I hope QNX is growing faster than 16%. You know we have a design win type of a revenue model. Royalties are quite steady throughout all these years and gradually upticking. Design wins brings in development set, development seat revenue, as well as some professional services. By and large, this is a royalty-based business. I don't know how you want me to unpack it. Now, this last fiscal year we just finished, we're reporting, we grew 25% year-over-year. That's a pretty good year. We shouldn't be drop off at any more than that, or we might even be going into 25% or a little bit higher. It's kind of a little difficult to just pinpoint the exact numbers on.

We model ourselves as growing on the high teens type environment.

Todd Coupland
Analyst, CIBC

Okay. Just last question, if I could, on Cylance. Lots of noise with the peers in the market. Some of them are probably bulking up to have a story to go public, et cetera. Help investors understand sort of competitive differentiation of Cylance to sort of see through some of that.

Yeah

commentary.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Yeah. There are a lot of people who call themselves cybersecurity company. There are basically 3 category. One category is the one that we will call a signature base. In the industry, they refer to the first generation antivirus software. This will be company like Symantec and McAfee of sorts. The second generation are tuned towards more towards AI and machine learning and much more lightweight. The player there are the three Cs, the Carbon Black, Cylance, and CrowdStrike. You have the third category, which are more tied to the IoT endpoints, more in the discovery side of the equation. We are definitely in the newer generation, second generation antivirals and cybersecurity threat detection and prediction technology. In the second generation, there are two major field. One is called the EPP and one is called the EDR.

EPP is more on a predictive protection. EDR is more on the remediations, detection and remediations. Cylance is, at least from the analyst community, the industry analyst community, has been ranked number 1 on EPP. The RSA announcement, the reason I refer to it, and this is obviously is part of our due diligence, is they have the newest set of the EDR products also. They just announced that in March. We're pretty pleased with the technology and how competitive it is. It's definitely in the top handful of names in the market.

Todd Coupland
Analyst, CIBC

Great. Appreciate the color.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Sure.

Operator

Okay, our final question for today will come from Mike Walkley from Canaccord Genuity. Your line is open.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Hi, Mike.

Mike Walkley
Analyst, Canaccord Genuity

Hi. Thanks. Just following up on Cylance, just in the 25%-30% guidance, can you talk about if there are any cross-selling synergies built into there? Is that more longer term? Can you share any initial feedback from your customers now that you've had it closed for a little over a month here? Thanks.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Initial feedback is very, very strong, very interested. A, there are overlap customers. The good news is BlackBerry is all on mobile. Cylance is mostly on PC and laptops. We could now provide end-to-end. In our math, there is no revenue synergy assumed. Now, the reason why we don't have a revenue synergy assumed is because we are integrating the two products from PC to mobile. As I said, the first set of product will come out in 12 months. The next fiscal year will be a growth catalyst from that. I'm quite excited about that fact that we could have a two-wave, or hopefully more than two-wave. After that, we'll integrate Cylance into the QNX offering.

Mike Walkley
Analyst, Canaccord Genuity

Great. Thanks. Just my follow-up question, just on Radar. Any updates there, maybe on a quarterly run rate or total subs you have for Radar after a little over a year of the platform? Thanks.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

Right now, it's not significant enough for us to break it out. When it gets to that, be rest assured we will give you some numbers to follow. The POCs are going on very well. We have very large customers kicking our tires, so to speak. It doesn't mean that we're going to win it all, but we're going to win our share. The repeat buying tell us the customers are happy, and they're rolling out. A couple of new ones is always nice. It's still small as a total business.

Mike Walkley
Analyst, Canaccord Genuity

Great. Okay. Thank you.

John Chen
Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry

All right. Thanks. Okay. Well, thank you. We'll be around to answer any further of your questions, so please do call us. Let me do provide some closing statement. Before I start the closing statement, we do have an Analyst Day, please contact Chris if you would like to come. I know it's filling up very quickly. The Analyst Day is end of April in San Ramon, California. The significance of that is Cylance founder will be there. The chief product officer will be there to talk about everything about Cylance. We have our CTO also going to talk about the integration of Cylance product in onto UEM and QNX. It's pretty exciting from a technology. A lot of these question that's being asked, the next level of details they were able to provide. Anyway, the closing statement.

We, obviously BlackBerry, the thing that pleased us is BlackBerry has evolved from a portfolio of strong assets to an enterprise security software company. We'll talk about the platform, the Spark platform that we're developing ourself with integration of Cylance onto it, which will make it extremely competitive in the market. We expect our security solution to generate more than $1 billion in revenue for FY 2020. There are not too many security company of our size and reach. We have a technology portfolio and significant know-how in data security and privacy that is extremely relevant to the emerging IoT market. This is very encouraging from that. All in all, I hope you could see the optimism of the company, we are executing. Still a lot of work to do, but we feel pretty good about where we are today, okay?

We'll hopefully see you in late April. Thank you very much.

Operator

This concludes today's call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.