Splunk
SPLK
reported first-quarter fiscal 2022 non-GAAP loss of 91 cents per share, which missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 26.4% and widened from 56 cents in the year-ago quarter.
Revenues increased 15.7% year over year to $502.1 million and beat the consensus mark by 1.9%.
Quarter in Details
License revenues (28.5% of revenues) were $143.3 million, down 3.4% year over year. Cloud services revenues (38.6% of revenues) surged 72.9% year over year to $194 million. Maintenance & service revenues (32.8% of revenues) fell 5% to $164.8 million.
Notably, Cloud represented 56% of total software bookings in the reported quarter, higher than 51% in the previous quarter and 44% in the year-ago quarter. Splunk has been benefiting from partnerships with
Alphabet
GOOGL
and
Amazon
’s
AMZN
cloud offerings, namely Google Cloud and AWS.
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Splunk ended the quarter with total annual recurring revenues (“ARR”) of $2.47 billion, up 39% year over year. Cloud ARR soared 82.7% year over year to $877 million.
The company ended fiscal first quarter with 537 customers generating ARR greater than $1 million, up 46% year over year. Moreover, Splunk had 203 customers with Cloud ARR greater than $1 million, up 99% year over year.
Notable clients in the reported quarter included Bank of New Zealand, Chipotle,
CVS Health
CVS
, CyberCX (Australia), Deloitte Canada, E-Halsomyndigheten (Sweden), Fastweb (Italy), Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, PRISMA Health, SCI Shared Resources, Sharp Healthcare, UVM Medical, TDC Net and ISTAT (Italy).
Remaining performance obligation (“RPO”) was $2.47 billion, up 7.9% year over year. The company expects to recognize $1.21 billion (indicating a 21.2% year-over-year increase) of this RPO as revenues over the next 12 months.
Operating Details
Non-GAAP gross margin contracted 440 basis points (bps) from the year-ago quarter to 71.5% due to greater proportion of cloud revenue contribution. Splunk’s non-GAAP cloud gross margin expanded 140 bps from the year-ago quarter to 60.3%
Non-GAAP operating expenses, as a percentage of revenues, increased to 106.9% from 101.6% in the year-ago quarter. Research & development and sales & marketing expenses expanded 520 bps and 50 bps year over year, respectively. General and administrative expenses declined 40 bps.
Non-GAAP operating loss was $177.6 million compared with loss of $111.1 million in the year-ago quarter.
Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
As of Apr 30, 2021, cash & cash equivalents, including investments, were $1.86 billion compared with $1.87 billion as of Jan 31, 2021.
Net cash flow from operating activities was $70.7 million compared with the year-ago quarter’s net cash flow from operating activities of $46 million and the sequential quarter’s net cash used in operating activities of $23.8 million.
This Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company’s free cash flow was $69.8 million at the end of the first quarter compared with the year-ago quarter’s free cash flow of $31.3 million and the previous quarter’s outflow of $32.6 million. You can see
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Guidance
For second-quarter fiscal 2022, Splunk expects revenues in the range of $550 million to $570 million. Non-GAAP operating margin is likely to be -25%.
Moreover, total ARR is expected between $2.59 billion and $2.61 billion. Cloud ARR is expected to be between $950 million and $960 million.
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