Pure Storage Invests in LandingAI to Boost Vision AI

Pure Storage, Inc. PSTG is making a strategic investment in visual AI tech company, LandingAI. The investment is aimed at boosting the advancement of AI vision models.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, LandingAI was founded by Andrew Ng. It is guided by a data-centric AI approach to aid business organizations with limited data sets to comprehend the business value of AI and transfer AI projects from proof-of-concept to full-scale production.

LandingAI's key product is LandingLens, a computer vision cloud platform. This product aids users to easily create, repeat and deploy computer vision solutions swiftly.

LandingAI highlighted that business enterprises would need advanced solutions to apply generative AI to their data, which increasingly comprises image and video data alongside text data. Through collaboration with Pure Storage, it expects to address this particular requirement of customers.

Pure Storage, Inc. Price and Consensus

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Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Pure Storage provides software-defined all-flash solutions that are uniquely fast and cloud-capable for customers. The company's data storage platform for AI offers its users multi-modal performance for all the AI processes.

Pure Storage's primary offerings are FlashArray and FlashBlade products, which include FlashArray//C, FlashArray//XL, FlashArray File Services, FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E.

The company offers its products and services on a subscription basis through Evergreen//One and Cloud Data Services. Its software offering includes Pure1, Pure Fusion and Portworx.

PSTG recently reported solid first-quarter fiscal 2025 results. Non-GAAP earnings per share of 32 cents in the first quarter of fiscal 2025 beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 45.5%. The company reported non-GAAP EPS of 8 cents in the prior-year quarter. Total revenues surged 18% from the year-ago quarter to $693.5 million and beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.8%.

The top-line performance was driven by higher sales to new and existing enterprise customers across the data storage platform. Robust demand for FlashBlade solutions, including FlashBlade//E and subscription-based offerings, acted as a catalyst amid macroeconomic weakness.

Management reiterated guidance for fiscal 2025. PSTG continues to expect fiscal 2025 revenues at $3.1 billion, indicating a rise of 10.5% from the year-earlier levels. The company expects strengthening demand trends to drive performance but remains wary of the volatile macroeconomic conditions.

The non-GAAP operating margin is projected at 17%. Total contract value sales for Evergreen//One & Evergreen//Flex subscription service offerings are expected to be $600 million, implying 50% growth from the year-ago actuals.

Pure Storage currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).

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