Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

Statement
Adjusted gross profit margin, excluding depreciation and amortization improved to 79%, a 110 basis points higher than the prior year, while elevating our client experience
And then they sell on a go-forward basis to new and so we've been really pleased with the cross-selling ability of our partners to sell new on a go-forward basis outside of the existing base
HCM demand is healthy
Our deal pipeline is up significantly year-over-year, and our win rates remain strong
So as we anniversary these large, what we would call headcount classes, year-over-year, we're going to see improved productivity
Our results demonstrate our consistent execution against our two primary growth drivers, increasing the number of employees on our platform and expanding the amount we charge per employee per month for PEPM
And so that's kind of exceeded our expectations
Demand remains healthy with plenty of runway for sustainable growth, and we remain focused on executing our strategy to capture market share
We are also experiencing great traction with our embedded HCM solution, the indirect go-to-market channel we announced in August
So, it's been really successful and we still have a lot of opportunity in that channel
In Q2, we had robust new sales among existing partners and expanded our pipeline of interested partners
Second, we continue to enhance our award-winning HCM suite with new capabilities that increase the value to our customers and our future PEPM opportunity
And so we feel good, both at point of sale that we're delivering a bigger bundle but also our cross-selling team continues to really hit the ball out of the park
And so the team that we have driving these programs for us has done a phenomenal job, and we're really proud of the results
And -- but I think we're making good progress
And our execution has gotten significantly better this year
And in fact, that's why we see the continued -- feel good about the continued guide and raise for the full year on both the recurring and overall
Terrell Tillman Solid execution here in the quarter
But overall, demand has been strong across all three segments that we serve
The low end of SMB, the mid-market and the enterprise market, we've seen really strong top of the funnel demand
And so, we're excited that we're seeing our average tenure grow year-over-year
We had another strong quarter with revenue growth of 20% year-over-year
Combining these functions will enable greater synergies and strengthen our capabilities to seamlessly power people and performance for our clients
But ultimately, it's helping us -- our #1 priority, is to deliver a better user experience
We continue to strategically incorporate AI to add value to customers within our HCM suite, elevate our customer experience and improve our efficiency
I mean, we are really excited about the margin opportunity here
I mean, we have a pretty strong pipeline right now for new deals as well as with the existing partners, just the number of deals that they're booking has been really strong and beat our expectations early
Year-over-year, we improved execution, truly making it the most efficient and best year-end experience for our customers
Paycor delivered another strong quarter with total revenues of $160 million, an increase of 20% year-over-year
Recurring revenue grew 18% year-over-year, an acceleration of 2 percentage points sequentially driven by continued success of market and strong year in form filings
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

Statement
I think, first, there's been some noise with some of your peers in the payroll space
Can you maybe just dive into the assumptions that are embedded in terms of the numbers? It seems like there's a little bit of a deceleration in 3Q that might be just a tougher comp with forms
Of course, so that dynamic is going to slow down slightly in Q3
We've seen, what I would say, year-over-year modest performance in manufacturing
Employees grew 10% over the prior year primarily from new logos and to a lesser extent, organic labor market growth, which has continued to slow
So, just a slightly slower growth rate in Q3 with the form filings, which are outsized in Q3
Over just the gross margin side of the house, but that's primarily driven by the really low sales and marketing costs
It seems like there's a little bit more conservative here
The labor market remains tight and our guidance assumes flat organic employee growth among existing customers for the rest of the fiscal year
And so we just -- we aren't going to see upside to the full year for that which we think makes sense just given some of the performance
   

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