SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Shareholders with Losses on their Investment in Nutanix, Inc. of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadline - NTNX

NEW YORK, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Nutanix, Inc. ("Nutanix" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NTNX), and certain officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and docketed under 23-cv-01827, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Nutanix securities between September 21, 2021 and March 6, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.

If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Nutanix securities during the Class Period, you have until June 13, 2023 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at [email protected] or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased. 

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Nutanix purports to provide a leading enterprise cloud platform, the Nutanix Cloud Platform, that consists of software solutions and cloud services that power its customers' enterprise infrastructure. 

In operating its cloud platform, Nutanix often utilizes software supplied by third-party providers. Indeed, the Company has stated that one if its "principal competitive factors" is "product interoperability with third-party applications, infrastructure software, infrastructure systems and platforms and public clouds." Accordingly, Nutanix will pay software vendors a reduced cost to provide the Company with "evaluation software," which Nutanix will use only for internal evaluation purposes in order to determine whether it will ultimately purchase the software for business use. If the Company elects to purchase the software, the vendor will charge Nutanix the full cost to implement the product in standard business usage, as opposed to merely a reduced evaluation cost.

The complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company maintained deficient internal controls relating to its use of licensed software and expense management; (ii) as a result of these deficiencies, the Company improperly used third-party evaluation software for business purposes over a multi-year period; (iii) investigation and remediation of the foregoing—i.e., by paying vendors the full cost to use their software for business purposes—would cause the Company to incur significant expenses; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

On March 6, 2023, Nutanix issued a press release reporting selected preliminary second quarter fiscal 2023 financial results. Among other items, Nutanix reported that "Company management discovered that certain evaluation software from one of its third-party providers was instead used for interoperability testing, validation and customer proofs of concept over a multi-year period[,]" and that "it is likely that additional costs would be incurred to address the additional use of the software." Furthermore, due to an ongoing Audit Committee investigation into the matter, Nutanix stated that "it does not expect to be able to [timely] file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2023[.]"

That same day, Nutanix hosted an earnings call with investors and analysts to discuss the Company's fiscal Q2 2023 results (the "Q2 2023 Earnings Call"). During the Q&A portion of the Q2 2023 Earnings Call, when asked to clarify why using evaluation software for interoperability testing, validation, and customer proofs of concept would incur additional expenses, Nutanix's Chief Executive Officer Rajiv Ramaswami explained that the Company would be required to pay the cost of using the software beyond the scope of its intended evaluation usage.

On this news, Nutanix's stock price fell $2.27 per share, or 7.89%, to close at $26.50 per share on March 7, 2023.

Then, on March 16, 2023, Nutanix issued a press release announcing that, on March 15, 2023, "the Company received a standard notification letter from Nasdaq stating that, because the Company has not yet filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2023, the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires timely filing of all required periodic financial reports with the [Securities and Exchange Commission]."

Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered billions of dollars in damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.

CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
[email protected]
888-476-6529 ext. 7980

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