Dynatrace Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) today announced financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025 ended September 30, 2024.

"Our continued out-performance across all of our key metrics is a result of the strength of our platform and ability to execute effectively in a dynamic market," said Rick McConnell, Chief Executive Officer of Dynatrace. "The world relies on software, and the largest and most complex global enterprises come to Dynatrace to make their businesses more reliable and resilient. By leveraging our AI-powered observability platform, these organizations gain deep insights, automate operations, and optimize performance at scale."

Second Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial and Other Recent Business Highlights:

All growth rates are compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2024, unless otherwise noted.

Financial Highlights:

• ARR of $1,617 million, an increase of 20%, or 19% on a constant currency basis
• Total Revenue of $418 million, an increase of 19% on both an as reported and constant currency basis
• Subscription Revenue of $400 million, an increase of 20% on both an as reported and constant currency basis
• GAAP Income from Operations of $47 million and Non-GAAP Income from Operations of $131 million
• GAAP EPS of $0.15 and Non-GAAP EPS of $0.37, both on a dilutive basis

Business Highlights:

• Industry recognition: Dynatrace received the following recognitions by third-party industry analysts:
  • Positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision and highest in Ability to Execute in the 2024 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. This is the 14th consecutive time that Gartner has named Dynatrace a Leader in this report.¹
  • Ranked #1 across 3 of 5 use cases in the 2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms Report.²
  • Named a Leader in the Inaugural 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.³
  • Recognized in the 2024 Constellation Research ShortLists™ for Observability, AIOPs, and Digital Performance Management.⁴
• Product advancements: Dynatrace announced improved user experience, advanced log management and analytics, and extended cloud-native capabilities that enable customers to gain deeper visibility, boost operational efficiency, and drive productivity across their business.
• Go-to-market engagement: Dynatrace increased customer engagement with several events in the quarter, including more than 2,000 customers and partners attending the company's global Innovate sessions and more than 400 partners at the company's inaugural PowerUp program. In addition, Dynatrace hosted its most successful streaming event to date, "Power of Possible," showcasing how the company is extending customer value to more use cases and teams.

Share Repurchase Program

• During the second quarter, Dynatrace spent $40 million to repurchase 835,000 shares at an average price of $47.90 under its $500 million share repurchase program. From the inception of the program in May 2024 through September 30, 2024, Dynatrace has repurchased 1.9 million shares for $90 million at an average price of $46.71.

Financial Outlook

Based on information available as of November 7, 2024, Dynatrace is issuing guidance for the third quarter and increasing its previous guidance for full year fiscal 2025 in the table below.

This guidance reflects foreign exchange rates as of October 31, 2024. We now expect foreign exchange to be a headwind of approximately $11 million on ARR and approximately $7 million on revenue for fiscal 2025 compared to ARR and revenue at constant currency. This guidance also excludes the impact of any share repurchases during the third and fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.

Growth rates for ARR, Total revenue, and Subscription revenue are presented in constant currency to provide better visibility into the underlying growth of the business.

All growth rates below are compared to the third quarter and full year of fiscal 2024.

Conference Call and Webcast Information

Dynatrace will host a conference call and live webcast to discuss its results and business outlook for investors and analysts at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time today, November 7, 2024. To access the conference call from the U.S. and Canada, dial (866) 405-1247, or internationally, dial (201) 689-8045 with conference ID# 13749514. The call will also be available live via webcast on the company’s website, ir.dynatrace.com.

An audio replay of the call will also be available until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on February 5, 2025, by dialing (877) 660-6853 from the U.S. and Canada, or for international callers by dialing (201) 612-7415 and entering conference ID# 13749514. In addition, an archived webcast will be available at ir.dynatrace.com.

We announce material financial information to our investors using our Investor Relations website, press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts. We also use these channels to disclose information about the company, our planned financial and other announcements, attendance at upcoming investor and industry conferences, and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to disclosing financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, this press release and the accompanying tables contain certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined by Regulation G, including non-GAAP income from operations, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income per diluted share, and free cash flow. We also use or discuss non-GAAP financial measures in conference calls, slide presentations and webcasts.

We use these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision-making purposes, and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons and liquidity. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about our operating results, enhance the overall understanding of past financial performance and allow for greater transparency with respect to metrics used by our management in its financial and operational decision-making.

The presentation of the non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. Our non-GAAP financial measures may not provide information that is directly comparable to similarly titled metrics provided by other companies.

Non-GAAP financial measures are defined in this press release and the tables included in this press release include reconciliations of historical non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures.

We also include non-GAAP financial measures in our financial outlook included in this press release. Reconciliations of forward-looking non-GAAP income from operations, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income per diluted share, and free cash flow guidance to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are not available without unreasonable efforts due to the high variability, complexity, and low visibility with respect to the charges excluded from these non-GAAP measures; in particular, the measures and effects of share-based compensation expense, employer taxes and tax deductions specific to equity compensation awards that are directly impacted by future hiring, turnover and retention needs, as well as unpredictable fluctuations in our stock price. We expect the variability of the above charges to have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future GAAP financial results.

Definitions - Non-GAAP and Other Metrics

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is defined as the daily revenue of all subscription agreements that are actively generating revenue as of the last day of the reporting period multiplied by 365. We exclude from our calculation of ARR any revenues derived from month-to-month agreements and/or product usage overage billings.

Constant Currency amounts for ARR, Total Revenue and Subscription Revenue are presented to provide a framework for assessing how our underlying businesses performed excluding the effect of foreign exchange rate fluctuations. To present this information, current and comparative prior period results for entities reporting in currencies other than United States dollars are converted into United States dollars using the average exchange rates from the comparative period rather than the actual exchange rates in effect during the respective periods. All growth comparisons relate to the corresponding period in the last fiscal year.

Non-GAAP Income from Operations is defined as GAAP income from operations adjusted for the following items: share-based compensation; employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions; amortization of intangibles; transaction, restructuring and other non-recurring or unusual items that may arise from time to time. The related margin is non-GAAP income from operations expressed as a percentage of total revenue.

Non-GAAP Net Income is defined as GAAP net income adjusted for the following items: income tax expense/benefit; non-GAAP effective cash taxes; net interest expense and income; net cash received from and paid for interest; share-based compensation; employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions, amortization of intangibles; gains and losses on currency translation; and transaction, restructuring and other non-recurring or unusual items that may arise from time to time. Non-GAAP net income per diluted share is calculated as non-GAAP net income divided by the diluted weighted average shares outstanding used to compute GAAP net income per diluted share.

Free Cash Flow is defined as the net cash provided by or used in operating activities less capital expenditures, reflected as purchase of property and equipment and capitalized software additions in our financial statements. The related margin is free cash flow expressed as a percentage of total revenue.

About Dynatrace

Dynatrace exists to make the world's software work perfectly. Our end-to-end platform combines broad and deep observability and continuous runtime application security with Davis^® hypermodal AI to provide answers and intelligent automation from data at an enormous scale. This enables innovators to modernize and automate cloud operations, deliver software faster and more securely, and ensure flawless digital experiences. That's why the world's largest organizations trust the Dynatrace^® platform to accelerate digital transformation.

Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements related to benefits that we believe organizations receive from using Dynatrace and our financial and business outlook, including our financial guidance for the third quarter and full year of fiscal 2025. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts and statements identified by words such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates” or words of similar meaning. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions we have made. Although we believe that our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects as reflected in or suggested by those forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that the plans, intentions, expectations or strategies will be attained or achieved. Furthermore, actual results may differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements and will be affected by a variety of risks and factors that are beyond our control including, without limitation, our ability to maintain our revenue growth rates in future periods; market adoption of our product offerings; continued demand for, and spending on, our solutions; our ability to innovate and develop solutions that meet customer needs, including through Davis AI; the ability of our platform and solutions to effectively interoperate with customers’ IT infrastructures; our ability to acquire new customers and retain and expand our relationships with existing customers; our ability to expand our sales and marketing capabilities; our ability to compete; our ability to maintain successful relationships with partners; security breaches, other security incidents and any real or perceived errors, failures, defects or vulnerabilities in our solutions; our ability to protect our intellectual property; our ability to hire and retain necessary qualified employees to grow our business and expand our operations; our ability to successfully complete acquisitions and to integrate newly acquired businesses and offerings; the effect on our business of the macroeconomic environment, associated global economic conditions and geopolitical disruption; and other risks set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and our other SEC filings. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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