Just one, Antonio, with respect to APM, in the past you've talked about incumbency being important to winning new deals or winning new business. Solid guidance and strong year-over-year growth. It makes sense. And when you talk about the GEI industries, that's the case, when you talk about mining, when you talk about pulp and paper, even specialty chemicals and other places now. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Jason Celino from KeyBanc. By utilizing AspenTech solutions, our customers were able to adapt quickly to unexpected and challenging circumstances, while continuing to operate our assets safely and efficiently. We hope all of you and your families are staying safe and healthy. 6 Analysten erwarten im Schnitt ein Ergebnis je Aktie von 1,18 USD. We ended the quarter with $287.8 million of cash and cash equivalents, and $431.2 million outstanding under our term loan and revolving credit facility. Positively, we continue to have a strong pipeline across all three of our product suites and significant customer interest in newer solutions like APM, GDOT and Aspen Enterprise Insights.
Your question please.Thanks. And I was wondering, if you had any meaningful deal wins in the quarter where you weren't the incumbent?Look, actually quite a bit. Personal Finance Consistent with our prior practice, we expressly disclaim any obligation to update this information.The structure of today's call will be as follows. At the same time, like you said, fiscal year '20 we're guiding for what I believe and we believe is solid guidance, solid growth in the context of the uncertainty and macro that we're seeing and we'll go from there, so.Great, that's helpful and then just one very quick follow-up. VW-Konzern schafft es bei Verkäufen im Juli fast ins Plus.Handeln Sie für nur 5 Euro Orderprovision* pro Trade aus der Informationswelt von finanzen.net!Oskar ist der einfache und intelligente ETF-Sparplan.
Hybrid modeling will combine AI algorithms and capabilities directly with first-principles domain knowledge and expertise in our current software products to significantly advance accuracy and responsiveness without the need for customers to invest in expensive armies of data scientists.We will also expand our investments in APM to increase market coverage and best position the suite to benefit from the improvement in the macro environment over time.
So, there's a little bit of that playing into it, but then also you've got cash taxes are up considerably next year. Your question please.Hi, how you're doing? As a reminder, the timing of renewal bookings is not an indicator of our growth or health of our company. One of the [indecipherable] talked about this Japanese customer evaluating seven technology providers and selecting AspenTech. And one more for me. As you kind of talked about your APM pipeline, I think you mentioned it was kind of the biggest pipe that you've seen so far.
I hope we've proven that our business has resiliency to it, it's real and furthermore that behind the scenes, over the last four or five years, we've worked to transform our organization, the execution how we lead and I believe what we achieved in Q4 and fiscal year '20 is a reflection of that and fiscal year '21 is ahead of us. Now, when we talk about energy and chemical incumbency from the standpoint that it's a customer of AspenTech, not incumbency in that there is already some APM product in there.So, but certainly, the fact that we have long time existing relationships gives us a leg up against the competition, but we're proving that we can go into other industries and equally show success with the APM suite. Thank you for taking my question. Your question please.Hey guys, thanks for taking my questions. Our fiscal 2021 free cash flow guidance assumes cash tax payments in the range of $60 million to $70 million.To wrap up, our performance in the fourth quarter and our outlook for fiscal 2021 demonstrates AspenTech's ability to generate solid growth and profitability in trying circumstances. Please go ahead, sir.Thank you. I think that's just surprising on the upside given the pressure that we're seeing from refiners and chemical customers. For the full year, total revenue was $590.2 million, GAAP EPS was $3.28 and non-GAAP EPS was $3.72. Your next question comes from the line of Jackson Ader from J.P. Morgan. © 1999-2020 finanzen.net GmbHDie wichtigsten News von finanzen.net auf XING lesen - so einfach geht'sDAX geht schwächer ins Wochenende -- US-Börsen relativ lethargisch -- Aareal Bank verkauft Aareon-Anteil an Advent -- Varta hebt Jahresziele an -- CureVac IPO, EVOTEC, Daimler, Commerzbank im FokusTop-News der Woche: Diese Themen waren diese Woche wichtigApple-Aktie wertvoller denn je: So wirkt sich die Annäherung an die 2-Billionen-Marktkapitalisierung auf Tim Cook aus In our view, annual spend will continue to be the most important metric in assessing the growth of our business and annual free cash flow the most important metric for assessing the overall value our business generates.Annual spend, which represents the accumulated value of all our current invoices for our term license agreement at the end of each period was approximately $593 million at the end of the fourth quarter. But at the same time, Q4, if you look at the earnings results from our customers after -- in the last few weeks, you could see how it was one of the most challenging quarters they've ever faced, financially, and they still -- we still saw the commitment to continue to drive efficiencies in their business.So, while we are cognizant of the macro environment that reigns out there, we also saw good traction with our customers in the implementation of our products. Or any other commentary you can provide?Yeah, I mean, look, we only worry about the competition when we're competing against them head-to-head, otherwise they have to worry about their own business. japan.training@aspentech.com.
Our supply chain solutions can be used to replanned refineries to optimize distribution logistics across multiple plans and for demand and supply.So, this is what we do, and in a way the conversations we've had since this all happened are much more real and we expect they will continue to be with -- for a couple of years, we've said that digitalization is becoming front and center for this industry that we're in the early stages of technology adoption and automation, and we believe those trends will only accelerate going forward.Okay.