Dynatrace Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results

Exceeds high end of guidance across all Q3 metrics

Delivers ARR growth of 21% year-over-year on a constant currency basis

Achieves GAAP Operating Margin of 10% and Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 29%

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leader in unified observability and security, today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2024 ended December 31, 2023.

"Our Q3 results of balanced growth, profitability, and free cash flow reflect our continued ability to execute successfully in a dynamic market,” said Rick McConnell, Chief Executive Officer. “As customers look to address the business challenges of modern cloud environments, they are coming to Dynatrace for a more comprehensive observability architecture that enables them to drive innovation, optimize costs, and mitigate risk. Our contextual analytics, hypermodal AI, and automation differentiate the Dynatrace platform in the market and provide us with a powerful advantage to capture the opportunity ahead of us.”

Third Quarter Fiscal 2024 and Other Recent Business Highlights:

All growth rates are compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2023, unless otherwise noted.

Financial Highlights:

• Total ARR of $1,425 million, an increase of 23%, or 21% on a constant currency basis
• Total Revenue of $365 million, an increase of 23%, or 21% on a constant currency basis
• Subscription Revenue of $348 million, an increase of 25%, or 23% on a constant currency basis
• GAAP Income from Operations of $36 million, and Non-GAAP Income from Operations of $105 million
• GAAP EPS of $0.14, and Non-GAAP EPS of $0.32, both on a dilutive basis

Business Highlights:

• Platform innovation: Dynatrace recently hosted over 2,000 in-person attendees and over 4,000 virtual attendees for Perform 2024, the company's annual customer conference. As part of showcasing the value and innovation of the Dynatrace^® platform, the company announced the following current and planned enhancements:
  • Dynatrace AI Observability provides insights into all layers of AI-powered applications, including large language models (LLMs) and generative AI solutions, to manage cost, experience, reliability, and security.
  • Dynatrace OpenPipeline empowers customers with full visibility of data at the point of ingest into the Dynatrace platform and evaluates data streams five to ten times faster than legacy technologies, based on our testing.
  • Dynatrace Data Observability helps ensure data collected via external sources, such as OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace APIs, is reliable and accurate.
• Runecast acquisition: On January 29, 2024, we announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Runecast, an AI-powered security and compliance solution provider. This planned addition to the Dynatrace platform will enable customers to proactively prevent cloud misconfigurations and compliance issues with automated, AI-driven, real-time vulnerability assessments.
• Extended partnerships: Dynatrace achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency, reflecting our deep technical expertise in helping customers proactively remediate vulnerabilities and defend against threats across their AWS environments. The AWS Security Competency helps customers select validated AWS Partner Network members who provide technology that helps organizations adopt, develop, and deploy security solutions on AWS.
• Industry and customer recognition: Dynatrace was named a Leader in both the Cloud-Native Observability and Security quadrants in the 2023 ISG Provider Lens, Multi-Public Cloud Solutions Report, highlighting Dynatrace’s innovation and go-to-market success in the converging spaces of observability and security. Also, Dynatrace was recognized as a Gartner^® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice in the 2023 Voice of the Customer for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability report for the fifth consecutive year.¹ In addition, Dynatrace won the 2023 Silverlinings Innovation Award for Best Cloud AI Solution, for the platform’s Davis^® AI and its proven ability to boost the performance and security of software environments.
• Workplace recognition: We were named one of the Best Places to Work in Boston, San Francisco, and Colorado by BuiltIn; a Great Place to Work^® in 13 of the countries where we operate; one of the Top 10 Best Workplaces in Tech in Austria by 2024 Great Place to Work^®; and a Top Company in Austria by Kununu.

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* Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In our earnings press releases, conference calls, slide presentations, and webcasts, we may use or discuss non-GAAP financial measures, as defined by Regulation G. The GAAP financial measure most directly comparable to each non-GAAP financial measure used or discussed, and a reconciliation of the differences between each non-GAAP financial measure and the comparable GAAP financial measure, are included in this press release after the consolidated financial statements. Our earnings press releases containing such non-GAAP reconciliations can be found in the Investor Relations section of our website at ir.dynatrace.com.

Financial Outlook

Based on information available as of February 8, 2024, Dynatrace is issuing guidance for the fourth quarter and updating guidance for full year fiscal 2024 in the table below.

This guidance reflects foreign exchange rates as of January 31, 2024. We now expect foreign exchange to be a tailwind of approximately $10 million on ARR and approximately $13 million on revenue for fiscal 2024. Given recent weakening in the U.S. dollar, this represents an incremental tailwind of approximately $15 million to ARR and $6 million to revenue for the full year when compared to our prior guidance.

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 fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2023.

Reconciliations of 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 on a forward-looking basis 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.

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, February 8, 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# 13743643. 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 22, 2024, by dialing (877) 660-6853 from the U.S. or Canada, or for international callers by dialing (201) 612-7415 and entering conference ID# 13743643. 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 & Key Metrics

In addition to disclosing financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, this press release and the accompanying tables contain certain non-GAAP financial measures.

Non-GAAP financial measures do not have any standardized meaning and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. Dynatrace considers these non-GAAP financial measures to be important because they provide useful indicators of its performance and liquidity measures. These are key measures used by our management and board of directors to understand and evaluate our core operating performance and trends, to prepare and approve our annual budget and to develop short and long-term operational plans. In addition, investors often use similar measures to evaluate the performance of a company. Non-GAAP financial measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only for understanding the company’s operating performance. The non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures presented by other companies. The GAAP financial measure most directly comparable to each non-GAAP financial measure used or discussed, and a reconciliation of the differences between each non-GAAP financial measure and the comparable GAAP financial measure, are included in this press release after the consolidated financial statements.

Dynatrace presents constant currency amounts for Revenue and Annual Recurring Revenue to provide a framework for assessing how our underlying businesses performed excluding the effect of foreign currency rate fluctuations. Dynatrace provides this non-GAAP financial information to aid investors in better understanding our performance.

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 Total 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.

Dollar-Based Gross Retention Rate is defined as the ARR from all customers as of one year prior, less contraction and customer churn, divided by the total ARR from one year prior. This metric reflects the percentage of ARR from all customers as of the year prior that has been retained.

Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate (NRR) is defined as the Dynatrace ARR at the end of a reporting period for the cohort of Dynatrace accounts as of one year prior to the date of calculation, divided by the Dynatrace ARR one year prior to the date of calculation for that same cohort. Our dollar-based net retention rate reflects customer renewals, expansion, contraction and churn, and excludes the benefit of Dynatrace ARR resulting from the conversion of Classic products to the Dynatrace platform. Effective the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, we began to exclude the headwind associated with the Dynatrace perpetual license ARR given diminishing impact of perpetual license ARR. We believe that eliminating the perpetual license headwind results in a dollar-based net retention rate metric that better reflects Dynatrace’s ability to expand existing customer relationships. Dollar-based net retention rate is presented on a constant currency basis.

Dynatrace Customers are defined as accounts, as identified by a unique account identifier, that generate at least $10,000 of Dynatrace ARR as of the reporting date. In infrequent cases, a single large organization may comprise multiple customer accounts when there are distinct divisions, departments or subsidiaries that operate and make purchasing decisions independently from the parent organization. In cases where multiple customer accounts exist under a single organization, each customer account is counted separately based on a mutually exclusive accounting of ARR.

Free Cash Flow is defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less capital expenditures (reflected as "purchase of property and equipment" and "capitalized software additions" in our financial statements).

About Dynatrace

Dynatrace exists to make the world's software work perfectly. Our unified platform combines broad and deep observability and continuous runtime application security with the most advanced AIOps 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 regarding management’s expectations related to platform innovation, the Runecast acquisition (which is subject to customary closing conditions and expected to close later in Dynatrace's fourth quarter which ends on March 31, 2024), partnerships, and business outlook, including our financial guidance for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2024. 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 Form 10-Q filed on February 8, 2024 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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