Dynatrace Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results

Exceeds high end of guidance across all Q2 metrics; raises FY'24 guidance

Delivers ARR growth of 24% year-over-year on a constant currency basis

Achieves GAAP Operating Margin of 10% and Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 30%

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leader in unified observability and security, today announced financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2024 ended September 30, 2023.

“Dynatrace’s second quarter results exceeded the high end of guidance across all of our key metrics, demonstrating strong top and bottom-line performance," said Rick McConnell, Chief Executive Officer. “These results are a testament to the ongoing durability of demand for observability and application security. Our unified platform, AI leadership, and automation differentiate us from our competitors and position us well for continued growth and success. Given the strength of these results, and our visibility into the second half of the year, we are raising fiscal 2024 guidance across the board."

Second Quarter Fiscal 2024 and Other Recent Business Highlights:

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

Financial Highlights:

• Total ARR of $1,344 million, up 24% on a constant currency basis
• Total Revenue of $352 million, up 24% on a constant currency basis
• Subscription Revenue of $334 million, up 26% on a constant currency basis
• GAAP Income from Operations of $35 million and Non-GAAP Income from Operations of $106 million
• GAAP EPS of $0.12 and Non-GAAP EPS of $0.31, both on a dilutive basis

Business Highlights:

• Platform innovation: We added Dynatrace^® Security Analytics to our existing application security capabilities, enabling customers to identify cyber-attacks, assess their impact, find the indicators of compromise (IOCs) and automatically trigger a response. We also closed the acquisition of Rookout and are working to integrate their live debugging technology into the Dynatrace platform to enable development teams to improve the quality and security of their releases.

• GSI partnerships evolution: We continue to build momentum with key strategic global system integrators (GSIs). We signed a global strategic alliance agreement with Kyndryl to enhance our joint capabilities for cloud, application modernization, and AIOps offerings. We have also entered into a strategic partnership with Accenture bringing together Dynatrace’s unified platform with advanced AIOps and intelligent automation with Accenture’s global professional services capabilities and cloud modernization delivery experience.

• Hyperscalers expansion: We continue to expand our footprint with the hyperscalers, adding regions in São Paulo, Sydney, and Zurich, for a total of 13 regions globally. We also announced the availability of the latest Dynatrace innovations, including the Grail™ data lakehouse, AppEngine, and AutomationEngine, for customers running the platform on Microsoft Azure.

• Go-to-market momentum: We hosted our annual Innovate event series in LATAM, APAC, and EMEA, with more than 1,200 customers, prospects, and partners attending in person and more than 1,300 attending virtually. These events complement our annual Perform customer conference being held in Las Vegas in January, and they aim to build pipeline as well as customer success as we head into the second half of fiscal 2024.

• ESG progress: We published our inaugural Global Impact Report, which underscores the company’s commitment to understanding, measuring, and communicating progress on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics that are important to Dynatrace stakeholders. The report details progress related to Dynatrace’s three ESG pillars - sustaining the environment; people, culture, and community; and governance and ethics. As part of the report, we disclosed our baseline greenhouse gas emissions data for the first time and provided an expanded scope of data on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB).

* 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 November 2, 2023, Dynatrace is issuing guidance for the third quarter and updating guidance for full year fiscal 2024 in the table below.

This guidance reflects foreign exchange rates as of September 30, 2023. We now expect foreign exchange to be a headwind of approximately $5 million on ARR and a tailwind of approximately $7 million on revenue for fiscal 2024. Given recent strengthening in the U.S. dollar, this represents an incremental headwind of approximately $16 million to ARR and $8 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 third 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, November 2, 2023. To access the conference call from the U.S. and Canada, dial (866) 405-1247, or internationally, dial (201) 689-8045 with conference ID# 13741555. 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 November 16, 2023, by dialing (877) 660-6853 from the U.S. or Canada, or for international callers by dialing (201) 612-7415 and entering conference ID# 13741555. 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" 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 regarding the ongoing durability of demand for observability and application security, the company's positioning for growth and success, the integration of Rookout's technology, and statements regarding management’s expectations related to partnerships, strategic alliances, the impact of go-to-market events, and business outlook, including our financial guidance for the third 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 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 November 2, 2023 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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