Adobe said it expects a charge of about $85 million in the current quarter related to taxes on repatriation of foreign earnings and remeasuring deferred tax assets, and a tax rate of 17 percent compared with its previous target of about 9 percent.

But the company raised its current-quarter adjusted profit forecast, which will exclude the charge, to $1.43 per share from $1.27 per share.

Analysts on average were expecting a profit of $1.27 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

For fiscal year 2018, the company said it expects adjusted earnings of $6.20 per share, up from its prior forecast of $5.50. Analysts on average were expecting $5.57 per share.

Adobe also said Chief Financial Officer Mark Garrett and General Counsel Mike Dillon would retire this year.

The company's shares rose 2.6 percent to $203 in after-hours trading.

(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar and Savio D'Souza)