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| If we turn the page to fiscal year '25, our innovations across multiple growth areas are positioning us for long-term success |
| SentinelOne delivers the best protection in the market |
| In summary, our Q4 performance was a strong end to a strong fiscal 2024, with a full year growth of 47% and margin improvement of more than 30 percentage points compared to the prior year |
| At the same time, we accelerated our current profitability by demonstrating financial discipline and consistently outperforming our margin expectations |
| This provides durability and flexibility to optimize top line growth and margin improvement |
| To us, this is just a continuation of the same strategy, so a lot of what you're seeing right now out of us has already improved execution |
| I'm pleased to say that we expect to deliver over 30% revenue growth as well as achieve positive free cash flow and operating income by year end |
| Our pace of innovation and technology leadership remains strong |
| But all-in-all, we're very pleased with the progression with our go-to-market motion across endpoint, across data, across cloud security |
| So it really is an incredibly strategic growth vector for us in the years to come |
| It's constant improvement and we should get better over time |
| On today's call, I'll cover three key topics: first details of our strong quarterly performance; second, the broader demand environment and the state of cyber security; third, our innovations to drive future growth across multiple markets |
| We're encouraged by the growing diversity of our business across both the go-to-market and product adoption |
| Our innovations across security, data and AI are driving strong win rates, healthy new logo momentum, expansion rates and pipeline |
| Our increasing scale and cost discipline have been driving substantial operating margin improvement |
| Net new ARR grew year-over-year to $61 million primarily fueled by new customer acquisitions and strong net expansion rates |
| Our momentum in winning new businesses reflects a strong competitive position and demonstrates that customers select SentinelOne for better security outcomes |
| Q4 marked our 10th consecutive quarter of more than 25 percentage points of year-over-year operating margin expansion |
| In Q4 our gross margin remained in the high 70s and we posted the tenth consecutive quarter of more than 25 percentage point improvement in operating margin |
| Our unified security and data architecture enables us to deliver meaningful value for SentinelOne, as well as our customers |
| Our gross margin progression reflects the benefits of our increasing scale and platform unit economics |
| Our gross margin of 78% remained near a record high, showing a 3% improvement and remains comfortably within our long-term target range of 75% to 80-plus percent |
| Looking beyond top line growth, we're continuing to make outstanding progress towards profitability |
| And it's the larger and longer contracts that we're seeing, which is a good sign |
| But with that said, we definitely see a tremendous opportunity in the data analytics market |
| Our partnerships across the MSSP ecosystem remains strong with significant future growth potential |
| On our momentum in large enterprise, we set a new company record by adding the highest number of million dollar-plus ARR customers in Q4 |
| Overall, customers with ARR of $100,000 or more grew 30% year-over-year and our ARR per customer continued to grow double-digit year-over-year |
| This momentum reflects greater adoption of our unified Singularity platform and increasing success with larger enterprises |
| Our fourth quarter performance signifies our strong competitive position and enterprise demand for SentinelOne's best-in-class cybersecurity |
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| As we all know, global macroeconomic headwinds impacted nearly every business and industry over the past year |
| Cyber attacks are a major risk in today's digital and connected world |
| We're also seeing some shift in strategy that's causing some disruption |
| In parallel, we've also reduced our free cash flow by more than 55% to negative $11 million in Q4 from negative $25 million in the year ago quarter |
| Tomer, outside of one of your competitors giving away some capabilities for free, we have been hearing from partners that security deals in general are becoming more creative given the persistent challenging macro environment |
| We believe this is a failed approach |
| Our free cash flow margin and net income margin, both reached single digits at negative 6% and negative 4% respectively |
| There is a degree of constraint on our growth that just stems from that |
| Security has never been a winner-takes-all market |
| The frequency and intensity of modern-day attacks make it abundantly clear that legacy solutions, siloed products and disjointed platforms are failing |
| The speed, scale and sophistication of cyber attacks are reaching new levels and an aging digital infrastructure is simply not equipped to withstand these modern attacks |
| Both of the competitive vendors failed to stop the breach in real-time, whereas with the same parameters, our AI-powered Singularity platform stopped every single threat in real-time autonomously without any human intervention |
| I guess for one question, Tomer, could you talk about the impact that executive sales hires are making? I know that we're seeing amongst your peers a bit of turnover on the executive sales front and it's causing some choppiness |
| This outlook assumes macroeconomic uncertainties and geopolitical tensions persist for the full year |
| We remain mindful of these dynamics as we enter Q1, our seasonally smallest quarter of the year |
| Consumption remains -- it's a declining piece of the business, as we're getting these consumption customers to commit to longer-term contracts with minimum commitments |
| Considering the systematically critical nature of security, it's not even a winner-takes-most market |
| Disjointed platforms get breached, which is why they must rely on offering deep discounts or bundled licensing agreements to compensate for the technological shortcomings |
| And we're not just improving our margins |
| We've also significantly reduced our operating losses by more than 60% to negative $16 million in Q4 from negative $44 million in the year ago quarter |
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