Earnings Sentiment

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Earnings Call Transcript Word Cloud

     

Bullish Statements during Earnings call

Statement
I'm proud of the consistent execution of FY'24
In closing, I'm pleased with our business momentum driven by our market-leading platform approach and commitment to capturing our large market opportunity
One is we're seeing strong expansion within the existing customer base
So we're really bullish in competing because we have the broadest platform and because that enables us to do more with AI
We believe that our continued focus on responsible growth will yield further improvements in our unit economics
It's even better than rates that we saw six quarters ago
Overall, we're pleased with the results of the price increase
We had a number of first in first order expansion, Ultimate hyperscaler contribution and really happy with the 100,000 customer adds as well as a greater than 1 million customer adds, which was up 52% year-over-year
I did mention very happy with the bookings this quarter
We had a strong fourth quarter with 33% revenue growth
Super happy with the quarter overall
We saw improved operating leverage this quarter largely driven by realizing greater efficiencies as we continue to scale the business
We're super excited that Chris is doing so well
We have been able to maintain a best-in-class non-GAAP gross margins despite the higher cost of SaaS delivery
This is our second quarter of non-GAAP operating income positive
Super happy with the operating leverage that we've been able to get in the model
And we're super excited about the things you mentioned, all the extra things that we now have that we can start selling
So Duo is resonating in the market and we were really pleased with the Omdia report that we had more AI features than any other platform
Having the broadest DevSecOps platform allows us to add more AI features and deliver more value to our customers
And finally, we continue to see strong growth in Ultimate, our top tier
Churn and contraction during Q4 also improved for the fourth consecutive quarter and is even better than levels we saw six quarters ago
We had a record quarter for $100,000 ARR and $1 million ARR customer net adds
Very happy with the bookings this quarter
Our fourth quarter revenue grew 33% year-over-year, and we delivered over 1,900 basis points of non-GAAP operating margin expansion
We are thrilled to have achieved these milestones
As I stated earlier, it's even better than rates that we saw six quarters ago
And so overall, we had a really strong quarter and happy with the performance in the quarter from a bookings perspective
In closing, we're well positioned to win in the estimated $40 billion market opportunity in front of us
And so super happy that the dollar based net retention rate went up this quarter to 130%
Our customers have reported efficiency improvements upwards of 50%
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

Statement
And we have seen some unevenness out there
Q4 non-GAAP operating profit was $13.2 million or 8% of revenue compared to a loss of $13.8 million or negative 11% of revenue in the fourth quarter of last year
And I've also mentioned that we saw churn and contraction back to what we've seen six quarters ago
Things came more back in, in the quarter than expected
I expect our guidance philosophy to be less conservative this year than in the first two years
And then being a -- entering our third year as a public company, that's when we -- we said our guidance was to be less conservative than the prior two years
Free cash flow was $24.5 million in the fourth quarter of FY'24 compared to negative $12.8 million in the same quarter of last year
This includes an operating loss of $2.1 million for JiHu
We expect a non-GAAP operating loss of $13 million and $12 million
There's still some layoffs happening in high tech
Maybe for Brian, to your comment that you're electing to take a less conservative posture on the guidance, maybe a two-parter
Brian, just trying to square, I guess, with everybody else the guidance with the less conservative posture comment
Going into our third year as a public company and also seeing the normalization of buying behavior, we'll just be less conservative in the guidance that we're giving out
With most point solutions, code isn't scanned at the time it's written that causes friction for developers and increases the time required to find and fix vulnerabilities
So I think in prior quarters, you noted that sales cycles for the SMB mid-market had been elongated
As we stated earlier, billings and RPO is not a great indicator
I guess in the context of this, it looks like your guidance of 25% to 26% revenue growth for fiscal '25 would be conservative
It will just take a little while for them to impact the top line
The loss includes an approximately $15 million expense related to our in-person company-wide Summit
But more code isn't better if it's not secure and high quality
   

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