Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
On February 21, 2007, ValueClick, Inc. ("ValueClick" or "the Company") announced its preliminary financial results for the three- and twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and provided guidance for the first quarter of 2007 and for the year ending December 31, 2007. The full text of the press release issued in connection with the announcement is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The information in this Form 8-K and the Exhibit attached hereto shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("the Exchange Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures:
Net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation, amortization, and stock-based compensation ("Adjusted-EBITDA"), a non-GAAP financial measure, is included in the attached press release at Exhibit 99.1. Adjusted-EBITDA, as defined above, may not be similar to Adjusted-EBITDA measures used by other companies and is not a measurement under generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP").
Management believes that Adjusted-EBITDA provides useful information to investors about the Company's performance because it eliminates the effects of period-to-period changes in income from interest on the Company’s cash and marketable securities and the costs associated with income tax expense, capital investments, and stock-based compensation expense which are not directly attributable to the underlying performance of the Company's business operations. Management uses Adjusted-EBITDA in evaluating the overall performance of the Company's business operations.
Though management finds Adjusted-EBITDA useful for evaluating aspects of the Company’s business, our reliance on this measure is limited because excluded items often have a material effect on the Company’s earnings and earnings per common share calculated in accordance with GAAP. Therefore, management always uses Adjusted-EBITDA in conjunction with GAAP earnings and earnings per common share measures. The Company believes that Adjusted-EBITDA provides investors with an additional tool for evaluating the Company’s core performance, which management uses in our own evaluation of the Company's overall performance, and a base-line for assessing the future earnings potential of the Company. While the GAAP results are more complete, the Company prefers to allow investors to have this supplemental metric since, with a reconciliation to GAAP, it may provide greater insight into the Company’s financial results.
The non-GAAP measures included in the press release at Exhibit 99.1 should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, or superior to, other measures of the Company’s results of operations or financial position prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(c) Exhibits.
99.1 Press Release dated February 21, 2007
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| ValueClick, Inc. | ||||
| February 21, 2007 | By: |
/s/ Scott H. Ray
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| Name: Scott H. Ray | ||||
| Title: Chief Financial Officer | ||||
Exhibit Index
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99.1
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Press Release dated February 21, 2007 |


