Atlassian Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Results

Quarterly revenue of $978 million, up 21% year-over-year

Quarterly subscription revenue of $852 million, up 31% year-over-year

Quarterly GAAP operating margin of (2)% and non-GAAP operating margin of 23%

Quarterly cash flow from operations of $167 million and free cash flow of $163 million

Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, today announced financial results for its first quarter ended September 30, 2023 and released a shareholder letter available on Atlassian’s Work Life blog at http://atlassian.com/blog/announcements/shareholder-letter-q1fy24. The shareholder letter was also posted to the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at https://investors.atlassian.com.

“Our R&D engine continues to deliver incredible innovation and value to customers. We launched Compass, our new developer experience platform that helps increase developer productivity, and AI-powered virtual agent capabilities in Jira Service Management to help support teams provide lightning-fast service at scale, along with a host of other features powered by Atlassian Intelligence,” said Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s co-founder and co-CEO. “We are also extremely excited for Loom, a leading asynchronous video messaging platform, to join the Atlassian team. By integrating Loom into the Atlassian Platform, distributed teams will be able to collaborate in deeply human ways across our entire suite of products.”

“We started off the year with solid execution delivering quarterly revenue of $978 million, up 21% year-over-year, driven by subscription revenue growth of 31% year-over-year,” said Scott Farquhar, Atlassian’s co-founder and co-CEO. “Atlassians are the cornerstone of our success, and we continue to attract amazing talent across the company, including senior leaders, putting us in a great position to build an enduring 100-year company.”

First Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Highlights:

On a GAAP basis, Atlassian reported:

• Revenue: Total revenue was $977.8 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, up 21% from $807.4 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023.
• Operating Loss and Operating Margin: Operating loss was $18.9 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared with operating loss of $34.0 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. Operating margin was (2)% for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared with (4)% for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023.
• Net Loss and Net Loss Per Diluted Share: Net loss was $31.9 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared with net loss of $13.7 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. Net loss per diluted share was $0.12 for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared with net loss per diluted share of $0.05 for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023.
• Balance Sheet: Cash and cash equivalents plus marketable securities at the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 totaled $2.2 billion.

On a non-GAAP basis, Atlassian reported:

• Operating Income and Operating Margin: Operating income was $224.9 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared with operating income of $147.9 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. Operating margin was 23% for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared with 18% for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023.
• Net Income and Net Income Per Diluted Share: Net income was $169.0 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared with net income of $92.5 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. Net income per diluted share was $0.65 for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared with net income per diluted share of $0.36 for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023.
• Free Cash Flow: Cash flow from operations was $167.0 million and free cash flow was $163.3 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024. Free cash flow margin for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 was 17%.

A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures has been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release. An explanation of these measures is also included below, under the heading “About Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

Recent Business Highlights:

• Loom Acquisition: Atlassian entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Loom, a video messaging platform with over 25 million users that will elevate the collaboration experience and accelerate Atlassian’s mission to unleash the potential of every team. The rise of distributed work has fueled a need for new ways for teams to collaborate and Loom’s leadership in asynchronous video combined with Atlassian’s deep understanding of team collaboration will bring innovative ways of working to the market and empower teams to collaborate in richer, more human ways.
• AirTrack Acquisition: Atlassian announced the acquisition of AirTrack, a leading IT data quality management technology provider. The acquisition builds upon Atlassian’s previous investments to help customers take a comprehensive approach to asset and configuration management. With AirTrack, Jira Service Management will enable enterprises to better account for and track all critical assets within their organization, minimizing operational risks, costs, and attack surfaces.
• AI for Jira Service Management: Atlassian announced the general availability of virtual agent capabilities in Jira Service Management, and the debut of expanded AI capabilities for ITSM. Virtual agent technology in Jira Service Management enables support teams to deliver exceptional service to employees and customers even faster, and at scale. Teams are now able to automate support interactions and deliver rapid, always-on, conversational support via their preferred collaboration tools. Atlassian also announced a host of other Atlassian Intelligence-powered features available for early access customers including issue summary, response generation, and intelligent assignment and routing.
• Compass: Atlassian announced the general availability of Compass, its new developer experience platform to empower engineering organizations to bring all of their teams and technology together to promote a healthy engineering culture, improve risk management and reliability, and increase developer velocity. Compass provides a single interface for software teams to work across all their distributed components and helps improve how they build, collaborate, and operate them over time.
• Sustainability Report and ESG Forum: Atlassian released its Fiscal Year 2023 Sustainability Report, featuring notable milestones including its first virtual power purchase agreement which aims to offset both in-office electricity and work-from-home energy use in the United States. The report includes updates on Atlassian’s strategy and progress related to Climate, Human Rights, DEI, and the Atlassian Foundation, as well as a Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) index and third-party assurance on its Scope 1-2 emissions data.
  
  Atlassian will also hold its first ESG forum on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time (11:30 a.m. Eastern Time). This open forum will offer insight into Atlassian’s sustainability strategy and efforts and will feature a moderated Q&A session with Atlassian’s leaders focused on ESG. Join us for this open forum by registering at https://webinars.atlassian.com/atlassian/Atlassian-ESG-Forum.
• Customers with >$10,000 in Cloud ARR: Atlassian ended its first quarter of fiscal year 2024 with 40,103 customers with greater than $10,000 in Cloud annualized recurring revenue (Cloud ARR), an increase of 18% year-over-year.

Financial Targets:

Atlassian is providing the following financial targets that do not include any impact from the Loom acquisition, which is expected to close in the third quarter of its fiscal year 2024, subject to customary closing conditions and required regulatory approval:

Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2024:

• Total revenue is expected to be in the range of $1,010 million to $1,030 million.
• Cloud revenue growth year-over-year is expected to be in the range of 25.5% to 27.5%.
• Data Center revenue growth year-over-year is expected to be approximately 33%.
• Gross margin is expected to be approximately 81.0% on a GAAP basis and approximately 83.5% on a non-GAAP basis.
• Operating margin is expected to be approximately (7.5%) on a GAAP basis and approximately 21.0% on a non-GAAP basis.

Fiscal Year 2024:

• Cloud revenue growth year-over-year is expected to be in the range of 25% to 30%.
• Data Center revenue growth year-over-year is expected to be approximately 31%.
• Gross margin is expected to be approximately 81.0% on a GAAP basis and approximately 83.5% on a non-GAAP basis.
• Operating margin is expected to be approximately (5.5%) on a GAAP basis and approximately 20.0% on a non-GAAP basis.

For additional commentary regarding financial targets, please see Atlassian’s first quarter fiscal year 2024 shareholder letter dated November 2, 2023.

With respect to Atlassian’s expectations under “Financial Targets” above, a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP gross margin and operating margin has been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release.

Shareholder Letter and Webcast Details:

A detailed shareholder letter is available on Atlassian’s Work Life blog at https://atlassian.com/blog/announcements/shareholder-letter-q1fy24, and the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at https://investors.atlassian.com. Atlassian will host a webcast to answer questions today:

• When: Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time).
• Webcast: A live webcast of the call can be accessed from the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at https://investors.atlassian.com. Following the call, a replay will be available on the same website.

Atlassian has used, and will continue to use, its Investor Relations website at https://investors.atlassian.com as a means of making material information public and for complying with its disclosure obligations.

About Atlassian

Atlassian unleashes the potential of every team. Our agile & DevOps, IT service management and work management software helps teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. The majority of the Fortune 500 and over 265,000 companies of all sizes worldwide - including NASA, Audi, Kiva, Deutsche Bank and Dropbox - rely on our solutions to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time. Learn more about our products, including Jira Software, Confluence and Jira Service Management at https://atlassian.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

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The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, our results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Forward-looking statements represent our management’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date such statements are made.

Further information on these and other factors that could affect our financial results is included in filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) from time to time, including the section titled “Risk Factors” in our most recently filed Forms 10-K and 10-Q. These documents are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Relations section of our website at https://investors.atlassian.com.

About Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to the measures presented in our consolidated financial statements, we regularly review other measures that are not presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), defined as non-GAAP financial measures by the SEC, to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends, prepare financial forecasts and make strategic decisions. The key measures we consider are non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income per diluted share and free cash flow (collectively, the “Non-GAAP Financial Measures”). These Non-GAAP Financial Measures, which may be different from similarly titled non-GAAP measures used by other companies, provide supplemental information regarding our operating performance on a non-GAAP basis that excludes certain gains, losses and charges of a non-cash nature or that occur relatively infrequently and/or that management considers to be unrelated to our core operations. Management believes that tracking and presenting these Non-GAAP Financial Measures provides management, our board of directors, investors and the analyst community with the ability to better evaluate matters such as: our ongoing core operations, including comparisons between periods and against other companies in our industry; our ability to generate cash to service our debt and fund our operations; and the underlying business trends that are affecting our performance.

Our Non-GAAP Financial Measures include:

• Non-GAAP gross profit. Excludes expenses related to stock-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets.
• Non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin. Excludes expenses related to stock-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets.
• Non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per diluted share. Excludes expenses related to stock-based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets, gain on a non-cash sale of a controlling interest of a subsidiary, and the related income tax adjustments.
• Free cash flow. Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, which consists of purchases of property and equipment.

We understand that although these Non-GAAP Financial Measures are frequently used by investors and the analyst community in their evaluation of our financial performance, these measures have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. We compensate for such limitations by reconciling these Non-GAAP Financial Measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures. We encourage you to review the tables in this press release titled “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results” and “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Targets” that present such reconciliations.

Customers with >$10,000 in Cloud ARR

We define the number of customers with Cloud ARR greater than $10,000 at the end of any particular period as the number of organizations with unique domains with an active Cloud subscription and greater than $10,000 in Cloud ARR.

We define Cloud ARR as the annualized recurring revenue run-rate of Cloud subscription agreements at a point in time. We calculate Cloud ARR by taking the Cloud monthly recurring revenue (“Cloud MRR”) run-rate and multiplying it by 12. Cloud MRR for each month is calculated by aggregating monthly recurring revenue from committed contractual amounts at a point in time. Cloud ARR and Cloud MRR should be viewed independently of revenue and do not represent our revenue under GAAP, as they are operational metrics that can be affected by contract start and end dates and renewal rates.

(1) Included in Marketplace and other is premier support revenue. Premier support is a subscription-based arrangement for a higher level of support across different deployment options. Premier support is recognized as subscription revenue on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as the services are delivered over the term of the arrangement.

(1) In the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, we began to utilize a fixed long-term projected non-GAAP tax rate in our computation of the non-GAAP income tax adjustments in order to provide better consistency across interim reporting periods. In projecting this long-term non-GAAP tax rate, we utilized a three-year financial projection that excludes the direct and indirect income tax effects of the other non-GAAP adjustments reflected above. Additionally, we considered our current operating structure and other factors such as our existing tax positions in various jurisdictions and key legislation in major jurisdictions where we operate. For fiscal year 2024, we determined the projected non-GAAP tax rate to be 27%. This fixed long-term projected non-GAAP tax rate eliminates the effects of non-recurring and period specific items which can vary in size and frequency. Examples of the non-recurring and period specific items include but are not limited to changes in the valuation allowance related to deferred tax assets, effects resulting from acquisitions, and unusual or infrequently occurring items. We will periodically re-evaluate this long-term rate, as necessary, for significant events. The rate could be subject to change for a variety of reasons, for example, significant changes in the geographic earnings mix or fundamental tax law changes in major jurisdictions where the company operates.

(2) The effects of these dilutive securities were not included in the GAAP calculation of diluted net loss per share for the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 because the effect would have been anti-dilutive.

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