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| This quarter, the London School of Economics, a leading business school globally, was looking to significantly and measurably improve its security posture |
| It’s not actually represented in the TAMs [ph] of all these other cloud security vendors that are out there, and that we’re uniquely positioned to actually capitalize on that |
| And to be honest, that’s one of the things that gets us most excited, because the flywheel of the sales process continues to accelerate |
| And in the fourth quarter, it continued to pay off, resulting in another great growth quarter |
| Demand for our Identity Security Platform accelerated in 2023, and we’d end the year having solidified our leadership position in the market |
| We delivered a record-breaking fourth quarter, beating our guidance across all metrics |
| And so between the mission-critical nature of our solutions and the phenomenal execution of our teams, we’ve been able to navigate a tough macros throughout the year, but do it much more effectively |
| And it is something that we’re particularly both proud of and excited about |
| We were thrilled to add record sequential net new subscription and total ARR, and we exceeded our guidance range across revenue, operating income, and EPS |
| Total revenue growth accelerated to 32%, reaching $223 million |
| We also consistently outperformed throughout the year and delivered total revenue of $752 million with growth accelerating to 27%, non-GAAP operating income of approximately $33 million, or a 4% operating margin, well above the breakeven we guided for at the beginning of 2023 |
| So that gives us the strong confidence that we’re on track to hitting our medium goals there |
| We feel really strongly, as I kind of outlined that our approach to workforce security is differentiated, that is actually unique in the market |
| As a recurring revenue company and the leader in identity security, CyberArk is well positioned to drive leverage in our model across all areas and deliver the expanded profitability and cash flow levels in 2024 I just discussed |
| We improved the alignment between sales and marketing, generating record high-quality pipeline across all our solutions |
| So to sum up, we are thrilled to deliver another stellar quarter and amazing full year results showing continued demand for our platform, the execution of our land-and-expand motion, and durable tailwinds that have made identity security a must-have |
| In addition to strong execution, we’re benefiting from durable demand trends driven by the proliferation of new identities, new environments, and new attack methods |
| And we remain confident about the long-term target that we outlined at Investor Day |
| Revenue came in at $752 million with growth accelerating now to 27% and we returned to meaningful profitability, delivering non-GAAP operating income of $33.5 million, or about 4% operating margin for the full year and we continue to March towards rule of 40 |
| That’s $0.81 per diluted share, also significantly outperforming our guidance |
| Our operating leverage was driven by disciplined investments and our revenue outperformance |
| Our operating income of $34.7 million significantly exceeded the top end of our guidance |
| The expansion of our gross margin is due to revenue outperformance and tight management of our cloud costs |
| Diversification has always been a foundation of our strategy and it is great to see the strength across all of our geographies in the fourth quarter |
| That’s growing 31% year-on-year and the Americas had a record with SaaS reaching over 70% of bookings in the quarter |
| Recurring revenue growth accelerated to 41% year-on-year, showing the momentum in our SaaS portfolio continues to gain steam [ph] |
| We continued as well to build a strong new pipeline to support our future growth |
| Close rates remained strong, productivity improved and deals progressed nicely as we converted our pipeline, including several seven-figure ACV deals |
| Our strong execution is also demonstrated by the 30% increase in customers with more than $100,000 in annual recurring revenue to over 1,700 at the end of the fourth quarter |
| We continue to see strong renewal rates and like-for-like conversion activities still only represents a single-digit percent of our year-on-year ARR growth |
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| And that leads to a world of over entitlement and frankly lack of control |
| The maintenance portion of annual recurring revenue declined slightly to $192 million at December 31, which was in line with our expectations |
| And throughout the whole year, you’ve heard us kind of talk about that, which is – listen, it is a tough macro |
| And healthcare certainly is a vertical that we see exploding for us in the coming years |
| And I think we still see fundamentally that the siloed nature of PAM access and IGA is at the detriment of customers and their security posture |
| But ultimately, like the on-prem world, security comes back to control |
| And I think – the first thing I would say is, independent of the competitive environment and some of the things that are happening there |
| In a lot of cases, its legacy and its things that are outdated and not ready for the modern stack |
| We believe, fundamentally, and as you can hear, I get excited when I talk about it, that moving into this control area of the cloud is an underrepresented piece of the market |
| It satisfies the CISO’s requirements, while never impeding the developers’ workflows, machine identities are exploding and our ability to bring together human and machine elevates the conversations with our customers |
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