PTC Reports Fiscal 2000 Second Quarter Results

Company Announces New Business Units to Improve Performance

WALTHAM, Mass., April 18, 2000 - PTC (NASDAQ:PMTC) today reported revenue totaling $227.1 million for the second quarter ended April 1, 2000, compared to $263.2 million for the same period last year. Pro forma net income for the quarter, which excludes both the impact of nonrecurring charges and the amortization of intangible assets related to acquisitions, was $0.5 million, or $0.00 per share, compared to $45.9 million, or $0.17 per share, for the year-ago period. The company reported a net loss for the second quarter of $5.8 million, or ($0.02) per share, compared to net income of $10.5 million, or $0.04 per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 1999.

C. Richard Harrison, president and chief executive officer, commented: "As noted in our announcement of preliminary Q2 results on April 3rd, we are clearly disappointed with our revenue performance. This is due in large part to the difficulty we've experienced in balancing our efforts between our traditional MCAD (mechanical computer-aided design) business and our newer, faster growing business in Internet-based collaborative product commerce (CPC). As a result, we are taking immediate actions designed specifically to provide more discrete product line focus and accountability."

Harrison announced the creation of three business units that will have overall responsibility for the company's major product line initiatives. They are:

All three business units will report to Harrison, who noted: "This new organizational model will allow us to better leverage the respective strengths of our primary product lines. We have tremendous assets in our CPC and flexible engineering solutions. We have significant resources behind these product lines in terms of R&D investments and our global support services. We also have large market opportunities for our products, and we expect this organizational structure to maximize the full potential of our assets and resources."

In association with the creation of the company's new business units, Harrison also noted that plans call for PTC to reduce its existing cost structure to improve profitability. This will result in a restructuring charge to be taken during PTC's third fiscal quarter.

Regarding results for the second quarter specifically, Harrison said total Windchill revenue, at $39.4 million, more than tripled from the same quarter last year. "Our Windchill business in Q2 fell short of our own expectations of about $55 million due to our inability to close some large deals by quarter end. Nonetheless, we remain very encouraged by the continued acceptance of Windchill in the marketplace and believe that the overall CPC market represents a large opportunity."

Harrison added that total Windchill revenue over the past four quarters exceeded $140 million. In Q2 specifically, PTC received significant orders for Windchill products from SKF Group (Sweden), Tatung Co. (Taiwan), CargoLifter Development (Germany), NEC Yonezawa (Japan) and the United States Army.

Harrison noted that total MCAD revenue for Q2, at $187.7 million, fell significantly short of the company's expectations. He added that the shortfall was concentrated in North America. "Improving our focus in MCAD should enhance our revenue opportunities going forward. We continue to make significant investments in the product line, and we have tremendous assets in both our technology breadth and depth, and in our installed base of nearly 29,000 customers. During the quarter we introduced Pro/ENGINEER 2000iČ, a major release of software featuring more than 440 enhancements focused on ease-of-use, Windows 2000 certification, distributed computing, and multi-system integration."

In Q2, PTC received several significant orders for MCAD software and services. Among them were purchases by Mitsubishi Electric Engineering (Japan), Izumi Products Co. (Japan), KUHN (France), Fiat (Italy), YASDA (Japan), BAE SYSTEMS Marine Ltd. (United Kingdom), Lamborghini (Italy) and SCP Global Technologies (USA).

Harrison concluded: "As previously noted, the actions we are taking internally are designed to improve our revenues. While we believe such measures will result in improved performance over time, we obviously can't gauge with certainty how quickly these actions will have an impact. Therefore, we remain cautious in our outlook for the near term.

"Nonetheless, the plans I've highlighted indicate our enthusiasm for the opportunities we continue to see because we possess an outstanding set of products, people and customers. They are tremendous assets to PTC, and it's up to us to make the best use of them."

The unaudited consolidated statement of income and condensed consolidated balance sheet for the second quarter and first six months of fiscal 2000 are attached.

PTC's conference call to discuss the second quarter results will be webcast live on April 18th at 10 a.m. Eastern on the company's website, located at http://www.ptc.com. The call will also be webcast live via Nasdaq (www.nasdaq.com), Streetevents (www.streetevents.com), Vcall (www.vcall.com) and Bestcalls (www.bestcalls.com). An archived version of the conference call will be available for replay on all these sites until April 28th.

About PTC
PTC (Parametric Technology Corporation), founded in 1985 and headquartered in Waltham, Mass., USA, develops, markets, and supports collaborative product commerce (CPC) solutions that help manufacturing companies shape innovation and achieve sustainable competitive advantage in the Internet age. These B2B e-commerce solutions employ powerful Web-based collaboration and flexible engineering technologies to streamline product development and delivery processes. PTC's software solutions are complemented by the strength and experience of PTC Global Services, which provides training, consulting, support and e-commerce services to customers worldwide. With PTC's CPC solutions, manufacturers can take advantage of the Internet to improve product quality, reduce costs and shorten time-to-market cycles. In its fiscal year ended September 30, 1999, the company achieved more than $1 billion in revenue. PTC can be reached at 781-398-5000, or via the Web at http://www.ptc.com.



                   PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
              UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
                 (in thousands, except per share data)



                              Three Months Ended    Six Months Ended
                               April 3, April 1,    April 3,  April 1,
                                 1999     2000        1999      2000

Revenue:
 License                      $ 141,125 $ 87,890   $ 277,205 $ 192,764
 Service                        122,123  139,215     236,160   273,378
Total revenue                   263,248  227,105     513,365   466,142

Costs and expenses:
  Cost of license revenue         2,997    4,604       7,136     8,732
  Cost of service revenue        47,567   59,799      89,283   115,826
  Sales and marketing           103,161  105,384     199,273   210,324
  Research and development       30,310   37,611      59,483    71,678
  General and administrative     15,248   18,331      31,812    34,802
  Amortization of goodwill
   and other intangible assets    3,607    9,777       6,094    19,205
  Acquisition and
   nonrecurring charges          39,518        -      53,347         -
Total costs and expenses        242,408  235,506     446,428   460,567

Operating income (loss)          20,840   (8,401)     66,937     5,575
 Other income
  (expense), net                    728      393       2,672     1,036
Income (loss) before
 income taxes                    21,568   (8,008)     69,609     6,611
Provision for (benefit from)
 income taxes                    11,019   (2,162)     29,069     2,076
Net income (loss)              $ 10,549 $ (5,846)   $ 40,540   $ 4,535

Earnings (loss) per share:
Basic                            $ 0.04  $ (0.02)     $ 0.15    $ 0.02
Diluted                          $ 0.04  $ (0.02)     $ 0.15    $ 0.02
    Weighted average shares
     and dilutive equivalent
     shares outstanding         275,487  275,107     274,891   288,389


                   PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
                         PRO FORMA RESULTS (1)
                 (in thousands, except per share data)

Operating income               $ 63,965  $ 1,376   $ 126,378  $ 24,780
Net income                     $ 45,904    $ 518    $ 90,754  $ 18,073
Net income
 per share - diluted             $ 0.17   $ 0.00      $ 0.33    $ 0.06
    Weighted average shares
     and dilutive equivalent
     shares outstanding         275,487  290,038     274,891   288,389

    (1) The pro forma results exclude the amortization of intangible
assets and acquisition and nonrecurring charges.

                   PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
            UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
                            (in thousands)

                                            September 30,   April 1,
                                                 1999         2000

ASSETS

Cash and investments                         $  353,895   $  401,453
Accounts receivable, net                        221,889      179,487
Other assets                                    440,836      421,916

Total assets                                 $1,016,620   $1,002,856

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

Total liabilities                            $  495,516   $  402,809
Stockholders' equity                            521,104      600,047

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity   $1,016,620   $1,002,856


Except for the historical information contained herein, matters discussed in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These include: the success of our new organizational model in improving our distribution efforts; our ability to realize revenue from the larger, strategic business opportunities we are pursuing; market acceptance of the Windchill family of products, which have a longer sales cycle than our other products; our ability to successfully transform to a solutions-oriented, multi-product business model; our ability to compete successfully in the MCAD industry; our ability to differentiate our MCAD products and invigorate our MCAD business via emphasis on collaborative product commerce opportunities; the success of our third-party distributor's sales to smaller customers; as well as other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in reports filed by PTC with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company's most recent reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q.

Parametric Technology Corporation, Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill are registered trademarks and all names in the PTC product family as well as the PTC logo are trademarks of Parametric Technology Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other companies and products referenced herein have trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.