UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC  20549

FORM 10-Q

x     QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended December 27, 2013

o        TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from:                  to                  

Commission File Number 001-31560

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

38/39 Fitzwilliam Square

Dublin 2, Ireland

(Address of principal executive offices)

Telephone:  (353) (1) 234-3136

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.  Yes x  No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).  Yes x  No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).  Yes o No x

As of January 24, 2014, 328,755,155 shares of the registrant’s ordinary shares, par value $0.00001 per share, were issued and outstanding.

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SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC

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PART I

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In millions)

(Unaudited)

The information as of June 28, 2013 was derived from the Company’s audited Consolidated Balance Sheet as of June 28, 2013.

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In millions, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

(In millions)

(Unaudited)

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In millions)

(Unaudited)

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

For the Six Months Ended December 27, 2013

(In millions)

(Unaudited)

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1.              Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Organization

The Company is a leading provider of data storage products. Its principal products are hard disk drives, commonly referred to as disk drives, hard drives or HDDs. Hard disk drives are devices that store digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating disks with magnetic surfaces. Disk drives are used as the primary medium for storing electronic data.

The Company produces a broad range of electronic data storage products including HDDs, solid state hybrid drives (SSHD) and solid state drives (SSD), which address enterprise applications, where its products are designed for enterprise servers, mainframes and workstations; client compute applications, where its products are designed primarily for desktop and notebook computers; and client non-compute applications, where its products are designed for a wide variety of end user devices such as digital video recorders (DVRs), personal data backup systems, portable external storage systems and digital media systems. In addition to manufacturing and selling data storage products, the Company provides data storage services for small to medium-sized businesses, including online backup, data protection and recovery solutions.

Basis of Presentation and Consolidation

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and all its wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries, after elimination of intercompany transactions and balances. The preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States also requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. The methods, estimates and judgments the Company uses in applying its most critical accounting policies have a significant impact on the results the Company reports in its condensed consolidated financial statements. The condensed consolidated financial statements reflect, in the opinion of management, all material adjustments necessary to present fairly the condensed consolidated financial position, results of operations, comprehensive income, cash flows and shareholders’ equity for the periods presented. Such adjustments are of a normal and recurring nature. The Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended June 28, 2013, are included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 7, 2013. The Company believes that the disclosures included in the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, when read in conjunction with its Consolidated Financial Statements as of June 28, 2013, and the notes thereto, are adequate to make the information presented not misleading.

The results of operations for the three and six months ended December 27, 2013, are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations to be expected for any subsequent interim period in the Company’s fiscal year ending June 27, 2014. The Company operates and reports financial results on a fiscal year of 52 or 53 weeks ending on the Friday closest to June 30. The three months ended December 27, 2013 and December 28, 2012 each consisted of 13 weeks.  Fiscal year 2014 will be comprised of 52 weeks and will end on June 27, 2014.

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Other than the revised presentation of accumulated other comprehensive income described below, there have been no  significant changes in our significant accounting policies. Please refer to Note 1 of “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” contained in Part II, Item 8 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 28, 2013, as filed with the SEC on August 7, 2013 for a discussion of the Company’s other significant accounting policies.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In February 2013, the FASB issued ASU No. 2013-02, Comprehensive Income (ASC Topic 220) — Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income. The ASU requires an entity to report information, either on the face of the statement where net income is presented or in the notes, about the amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income by component and to report significant amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income by the respective line items of net income.  The ASU has been adopted by the Company effective for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014.  Other than requiring additional disclosures, the adoption of this new guidance did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In July, 2013, the FASB issued ASU No. 2013-11, Income Taxes (ASC Topic 740) - Presentation of an Unrecognized Tax Benefit When a Net Operating Loss Carryforward, a Similar Tax Loss, or a Tax Credit Carryforward Exists. The amendments in this ASU provide explicit guidance that an unrecognized tax benefit, or a portion of an unrecognized tax benefit, should be presented in the financial statements as a reduction to a deferred tax asset for a net operating loss carryforward, a similar tax

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loss, or a tax credit carryforward, with limited exceptions. The amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2013 and do not require new recurring disclosures. The adoption of this new guidance will not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

2.              Balance Sheet Information

Investments

The following table summarizes, by major type, the fair value and amortized cost of the Company’s investments as of December 27, 2013:

As of  December 27, 2013, the Company’s Restricted cash and investments consisted of  $4 million in cash and investments held as collateral at banks for various performance obligations.   As of June 28, 2013, the Company’s Restricted cash and investments consisted of $79 million in cash equivalents and investments held in trust for payment of its non-qualified deferred compensation plan liabilities and $22 million in cash and investments held as collateral at banks for various performance obligations. The Restricted cash and investment balance decreased as restrictions on the cash and investments were removed during the quarter.

The Company’s available-for-sale securities include investments in auction rate securities. Beginning in fiscal year 2008, the Company’s auction rate securities failed to settle at auction and have continued to fail through December 27, 2013. Since the Company continues to earn interest on its auction rate securities at the maximum contractual rate, there have been no payment defaults with respect to such securities, and they are all collateralized, the Company expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of these auction rate securities. The Company does not intend to sell these securities and has concluded it is not more likely than not that the Company will be required to sell the securities before the recovery of their amortized cost basis. As such, the Company believes the impairments totaling $2 million are not other-than-temporary and therefore have been recorded in Accumulated other comprehensive loss. Given the uncertainty as to when the liquidity issues associated with these securities will improve, these securities are classified within Other assets, net in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

As of December 27, 2013, with the exception of the Company’s auction rate securities, the Company had no available-for-sale securities that had been in a continuous unrealized loss position for a period greater than 12 months. The Company determined no available-for-sale securities were other-than-temporarily impaired as of December 27, 2013.

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The fair value and amortized cost of the Company’s investments classified as available-for-sale at December 27, 2013, by remaining contractual maturity were as follows:

Equity securities which do not have a contractual maturity date are not included in the above table.

The following table summarizes, by major type, the fair value and amortized cost of the Company’s investments as of June 28, 2013:

As of June 28, 2013, with the exception of the Company’s auction rate securities, the Company had no material available-for-sale securities that had been in a continuous unrealized loss position for a period greater than 12 months. The Company determined no available-for-sale securities were other-than-temporarily impaired as of June 28, 2013.

Inventories

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Other Current Assets

Other current assets include non-trade receivables from certain manufacturing vendors resulting from the sale of components to these vendors who manufacture completed sub-assemblies or finished goods for the Company. The Company does not reflect the sale of these components in revenue and does not recognize any profits on these sales. The costs of the completed sub-assemblies are included in inventory upon purchase from the vendors.

Property, Equipment and Leasehold Improvements, net

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) (“AOCI”)

The components of AOCI, net of tax, were as follows:

(a)           The cost of a security sold or the amount reclassified out of AOCI into earnings was determined using specific identification.

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3.              Debt

Short-Term Borrowings

On January 18, 2011, the Company and its subsidiary, Seagate HDD Cayman (“the Borrower”), entered into a Credit Agreement which provided a $350 million senior secured revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”). On April 30, 2013, the Company and Seagate HDD Cayman entered into the Second Amendment to the Credit Agreement which increased the commitments available under the Revolving Credit Facility from $350 million to $500 million. The Company and certain of its material subsidiaries fully and unconditionally guarantee the Revolving Credit Facility. The Revolving Credit Facility matures in April 2018, and is available for cash borrowings and for the issuance of letters of credit up to a sub-limit of $75 million. As of December 27, 2013, no borrowings had been drawn under the Revolving Credit Facility, and $2 million had been utilized for letters of credit.

Long-Term Debt

$800 million Aggregate Principal Amount of 3.75% Senior Notes due November 2018 (the “Notes”).  On November 5, 2013, Seagate HDD Cayman, issued $800 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.75% Senior Notes, which mature on November 15, 2018, in a private placement. The interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually on May 15 and November 15 of each year. The Notes are redeemable at the option of Seagate HDD Cayman in whole or in part, on not less than 30, nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a “make-whole” premium redemption price. The “make-whole” premium redemption price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the notes being redeemed, or (2) the sum of the present values of the remaining schedule payments of principal and interest on the Notes being redeemed, discounted at the redemption date on a semi-annual basis at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury rate plus 50 basis points basis points. Accrued and unpaid interest, if any will be paid to, but excluding, the redemption date. The Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Company on a senior unsecured basis. Seagate HDD Cayman and the Company are required to exchange the Notes for notes registered under the under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, by January 30, 2015 if the Notes have not otherwise become freely transferable by that time.

$600 million Aggregate Principal Amount of 6.8% Senior Notes due October 2016 (the “2016 Notes”). The interest on the 2016 Notes is payable semi-annually on April 1 and October 1 of each year. The issuer under the 2016 Notes is Seagate HDD Cayman, and the obligations under the 2016 Notes are unconditionally guaranteed by certain of the Company’s significant subsidiaries.

$750 million Aggregate Principal Amount of 7.75% Senior Notes due December 2018 (the “2018 Notes”). The interest on the 2018 Notes is payable semi-annually on June 15 and December 15 of each year. The issuer under the 2018 Notes is Seagate HDD Cayman and the obligations under the 2018 Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior unsecured basis, by the Company.

$600 million Aggregate Principal Amount of 6.875% Senior Notes due May 2020 (the “2020 Notes”). The interest on the 2020 Notes is payable semi-annually on May 1 and November 1 of each year. The issuer under the 2020 Notes is Seagate HDD Cayman, and the obligations under the 2020 Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior unsecured basis, by the Company.

$600 million Aggregate Principal Amount of 7.00% Senior Notes due November 2021 (the “2021 Notes”). The interest on the 2021 Notes is payable semi-annually on January 1 and July 1 of each year. The issuer under the 2021 Notes is Seagate HDD Cayman and the obligations under the 2021 Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior unsecured basis, by certain of the Company’s significant subsidiaries.

$1 billion Aggregate Principal Amount of 4.75% Senior Notes due June 1, 2023 (the “2023 Notes”). The interest on the 2023 Notes is payable semi-annually on June 1 and December 1 of each year. The issuer under the 2023 Notes is Seagate HDD Cayman and the obligations under the 2023 Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior unsecured basis, by the Company.

Other As part of our acquisition of LaCie S.A., $6 million of long-term debt was assumed. The outstanding balance was fully paid off during the three months ended December 27, 2013.  The outstanding balance at June 28, 2013 was $3 million and was classified as Current portion of long-term debt.

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At December 27, 2013, future principal payments on long-term debt were as follows (in millions):

4.              Income Taxes

The Company recorded an income tax provision of $14 million and $27 million in the three and six months ended December 27, 2013, respectively. The income tax provision recorded for the three and six months ended December 27, 2013 included approximately $4 million and $6 million, respectively, of net discrete tax expense primarily related to increases in income tax reserves recorded for non-U.S. income positions taken in prior fiscal years offset by the tax benefits from the reversal of a portion of the U.S. valuation allowance recorded in prior periods and tax benefits associated with the release of tax reserves associated with the expiration of certain statutes of limitation.

The Company’s income tax provision recorded for the three and six months ended December 27, 2013 differed from the provision for income taxes that would be derived by applying the Irish statutory rate of 25% to income before income taxes, primarily due to the net effect of (i) tax benefits related to non-U.S. earnings generated in jurisdictions that are subject to tax holidays or tax incentive programs and are considered indefinitely reinvested outside of Ireland and (ii) a decrease in valuation allowance for certain U.S. deferred tax assets.

The IRS and Treasury Department on September 13, 2013, released final regulations under Sections 162(a) and 263(a) on the deduction and capitalization of expenditures related to tangible personal property (the final repair regulations).  The entirety of the final repair regulations apply to the Company’s first quarter of fiscal year 2015.  Application of these regulations is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

During the six months ended December 27, 2013, the Company’s unrecognized tax benefits excluding interest and penalties increased by $16 million to $173 million. The unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized, would impact the effective tax rate was $173 million at December 27, 2013, subject to certain future valuation allowance reversals. During the 12 months beginning December 28, 2013, the Company expects to reduce its unrecognized tax benefits by approximately zero to $30 million primarily as a result of the completion of various audit cycles and the expiration of certain statutes of limitation.

The income tax provision of $7 million recorded for the three months ended December 28, 2012 included approximately$6 million of discrete tax benefits primarily from the release of tax reserves associated with the expiration of certain statutes of limitation. The income tax provision of $25 million recorded for the six months ended December 28, 2012 included approximately $1 million of net discrete tax expense primarily associated with the reversal of prior period tax benefits offset by the release of tax reserves associated with the expiration of certain statutes of limitation.

The Company’s income tax provision recorded for the three and six months ended December 28, 2012 differed from the provision for income taxes that would be derived by applying the Irish statutory rate of 25% to income before income taxes, primarily due to the net effect of (i) tax benefits related to non-U.S. earnings generated in jurisdictions that are subject to tax holidays or tax incentive programs and are considered indefinitely reinvested outside of Ireland and (ii) a decrease in valuation allowance for certain U.S. deferred tax assets.

5.              Acquisitions

LaCie S.A.

On August 3, 2012 the Company acquired 23,382,904 (or approximately 64.5%) of the outstanding shares of LaCie S.A. (“LaCie”) for a price of €4.05 per share with a price supplement of €0.12 per share, which would have been payable if the Company had successfully acquired at least 95% of the outstanding shares of LaCie within 6 months of the acquisition. Of the amount paid at the acquisition date, €9 million is treated as compensation cost to one of the selling shareholders, who is now an

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employee of the Company, to be recognized over a period of 36 months from the acquisition date, and may be refunded to the Company if the selling shareholder is no longer employed at the end of that period. The transaction and related agreements are expected to accelerate the Company’s growth strategy in the expanding consumer storage market, particularly in Europe, Japan and in premium distribution channels.

The acquisition-date fair value of the consideration transferred for the business combination totaled $111 million, including cash paid of $107 million, and contingent consideration of $4 million.

The following table summarizes the estimated fair values of the assets acquired, liabilities assumed, and noncontrolling interest at the acquisition date (in millions):

The following table shows the fair value of the separately identifiable intangible assets at the time of acquisition and the period over which each intangible asset will be amortized:

Since the acquisition date, the Company recorded adjustments to the fair value of certain assets acquired and liabilities assumed with LaCie S.A. that resulted in a net increase of $1 million to Goodwill, and a corresponding decrease in Intangible assets.

The goodwill recognized is attributable primarily to the benefits the Company expects to derive from LaCie’s brand recognition and the acquired workforce, and is not deductible for income tax purposes. The acquisition date fair value of the noncontrolling interest is based on the market price of their publicly traded shares as of the first trading date subsequent to the acquisition, as the shares did not trade on the acquisition date.

The €0.12 supplement was not paid as 95% of the LaCie business was not  acquired within six months of the acquisition date, resulting in a reversal of the contingent consideration liability which was recorded as a reduction of Marketing and administrative expenses of $4 million.

The amounts of revenue and earnings of LaCie included in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations from the acquisition date are not significant.

The Company deposited $72 million into an escrow account with the intention of acquiring the remaining publicly held shares of LaCie through public and private transactions. As of December 27, 2013, the Company had completed the acquisition

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of all outstanding shares. The use of this deposit is treated as a non-cash financing activity and excluded from the Statement of Cash Flows.

6.              Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the three months ended December 27, 2013, are as follows:

The carrying value of other intangible assets subject to amortization as of December 27, 2013, is set forth in the following table:

(a)           During the December 2013 quarter, the in-process research and development was completed, and the related asset was accounted for as a finite-lived intangible asset.

The carrying value of other intangible assets subject to amortization as of June 28, 2013 is set forth in the following table: