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During the year earlier, adjusted earnings were $198.9 million, or 33 cents a share.
The San Jose, Calif.-based provider of business and mobile software and services posted net income of $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, compared with $183.2 million, or 30 cents a share, last year.
Total revenue for the three months ended Nov. 30 came in at $911.2 million, ahead of the consensus estimate of $887.3 million. A year ago, revenue was $682.2 million.
"Driving our Q4 results were continued adoption of our Creative Suite 3 family of products, record revenue for Acrobat and strong momentum in our enterprise business," said Adobe Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen in a statement. "As we enter fiscal 2008, we are performing exceptionally well and the Company is positioned to achieve a sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth."
Adobe said it's targeting first-quarter per-share earnings of 34 cents to 36 cents, or 44 cents to 46 cents on an adjusted basis, on revenue of $855 million to $885 million.
For fiscal 2008, the company said it still expects annual revenue growth of about 13%.
Separately, Adobe said it has approved the buyback of an additional 30 million shares.
The company's stock closed out the regular session down $1.21, or about 2.9%, at $40.90. Katherine Hunt kh/gm
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