ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL), reported preliminary, unaudited financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended August 31, 2020.

“I’m thrilled with our ability to deliver such strong financial results to close out FY20,” said CEO Mark Mondello. “Over the past several years, we’ve strategically positioned Jabil in attractive end-markets, while building the most desired products and serving the world’s most successful brands. At the same time, we’ve streamlined the organization, creating a more optimized cost structure. These collective efforts allowed us to beat expectations in the fourth quarter, despite the various complexities brought about by the global pandemic,” he added.

Fourth Quarter of Fiscal Year 2020 Highlights:

• Net revenue: $7.3 billion
• Diversified Manufacturing Services (DMS) year-on-year revenue growth: 17 percent
• Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) year-on-year revenue growth: 8 percent
• U.S. GAAP operating income: $197.1 million
• U.S. GAAP diluted earnings per share: $0.44
• Core operating income (Non-GAAP): $255.2 million
• Core diluted earnings per share (Non-GAAP): $0.98

Fiscal Year 2020 Highlights:

• Net revenue: $27.3 billion
• Diversified Manufacturing Services (DMS) year-on-year revenue growth: 8 percent
• Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) year-on-year revenue growth: 8 percent
• U.S. GAAP operating income: $499.8 million
• U.S. GAAP diluted earnings per share: $0.35
• Core operating income (Non-GAAP): $864.1 million
• Core diluted earnings per share (Non-GAAP): $2.90

“As we exit FY20 and look ahead, I am excited with the momentum underway in our business,” said CFO Mike Dastoor. “Several of our key businesses remain especially strong including Mobility, Healthcare and Cloud. At the same time, we’re permanently transitioning certain components we procure in our EMS segment from the current purchase-and-resale model to a consignment service model,” he added.

First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook:

Supplemental Information Regarding Non-GAAP Financial Measures: Jabil provides supplemental, non-GAAP financial measures in this release to facilitate evaluation of Jabil’s core operating performance. These non-GAAP measures exclude certain amounts that are included in the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measures, do not have standard meanings and may vary from the non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. Management believes these “core” financial measures are useful measures that facilitate evaluation of the past and future performance of Jabil’s ongoing operations on a comparable basis.

Jabil reports core operating income, core earnings, core diluted earnings per share and adjusted free cash flows to provide investors an additional method for assessing operating income, earnings, earnings per share and free cash flow from what it believes are its core manufacturing operations. Among other uses, management uses non-GAAP financial measures to make operating decisions, assess business performance and as a factor in determining certain employee performance when determining incentive compensation. The Company determines the tax effect of the items excluded from core earnings and core diluted earnings per share based upon evaluation of the statutory tax treatment and the applicable tax rate of the jurisdiction in which the pre-tax items were incurred, and for which realization of the resulting tax benefit, if any, is expected. In certain jurisdictions where the Company does not expect to realize a tax benefit (due to existing tax incentives or a history of operating losses or other factors resulting in a valuation allowance related to deferred tax assets), a reduced or 0% tax rate is applied. Detailed definitions of certain of the core financial measures are included above under “Definitions” and a reconciliation of the disclosed core financial measures to the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures is included under the heading “Supplemental Data” at the end of this release.

Meeting and Replay Information: Jabil will hold a conference call today at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss its earnings for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended August 31, 2020 and to provide an investor briefing. To access the live audio webcast and view the accompanying slide presentation, visit the Investor Relations section of Jabil's website, located at https://investors.jabil.com. An archived replay of the webcast will also be available after completion of the call.

About Jabil: Jabil (NYSE: JBL) is a manufacturing solutions provider with over 260,000 employees across 100 locations in 30 countries. The world's leading brands rely on Jabil's unmatched breadth and depth of end-market experience, technical and design capabilities, manufacturing know-how, supply chain insights and global product management expertise. Driven by a common purpose, Jabil and its people are committed to making a positive impact on their local community and the environment. Visit www.jabil.com to learn more.