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Work management software maker Asana (NYSE: NYSE:ASAN) beat analysts’ expectations in Q2 CY2024, with revenue up 10.3% year on year to $179.2 million. On the other hand, the company expects next quarter’s revenue to be around $180.5 million, slightly below analysts’ estimates. It made a non-GAAP loss of $0.05 per share, improving from its loss of $0.33 per share in the same quarter last year.
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Asana (ASAN) Q2 CY2024 Highlights:
- Revenue: $179.2 million vs analyst estimates of $177.7 million (small beat)
- Adjusted Operating Income: -$15.66 million vs analyst estimates of -$21.44 million (27% beat)
- EPS (non-GAAP): -$0.05 vs analyst estimates of -$0.08
- The company reconfirmed its revenue guidance for the full year of $720 million at the midpoint
- EPS (non-GAAP) guidance for the full year is -$0.20 at the midpoint, beating analyst estimates by 3.6%
- Gross Margin (GAAP): 88.8%, down from 90% in the same quarter last year
- Free Cash Flow was $12.76 million, up from -$4.28 million in the previous quarter
- Net Revenue Retention Rate: 98%, down from 100% in the previous quarter
- Market Capitalization: $3.21 billion
Founded in 2008 by Facebook’s co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, Asana (NYSE:ASAN) is a cloud-based project management software, where you can plan and assign tasks to employees and monitor and discuss progress of work.
Project Management SoftwareThe future of work requires teams to collaborate across departments and remote offices. Project management software is both driving this change and benefiting from it. While the trend of collaborative work management has been strong for a while, the Covid pandemic has definitively accelerated the demand for tools that allow work to be done remotely.
Sales GrowthAs you can see below, Asana’s 32.9% annualized revenue growth over the last three years has been excellent, and its sales came in at $179.2 million this quarter.
This quarter, Asana’s quarterly revenue was once again up 10.3% year on year. We can see that Asana’s revenue increased by $6.76 million quarter on quarter, which is a solid improvement from the $1.31 million increase in Q1 CY2024. This acceleration of growth was a great sign.
Next quarter’s guidance suggests that Asana is expecting revenue to grow 8.4% year on year to $180.5 million, slowing down from the 17.7% year-on-year increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Looking ahead, analysts covering the company were expecting sales to grow 10.8% over the next 12 months before the earnings results announcement.
Large Customers Growth This quarter, Asana reported 22,948 enterprise customers paying more than $5,000 annually, an increase of 786 from the previous quarter. That’s quite a bit more contract wins than last quarter but also quite a bit below what we’ve typically observed over the last year, suggesting that the company may be reinvigorating growth.
Key Takeaways from Asana’s Q2 Results We struggled to find many strong positives in these results. Although this quarter's revenue and earnings beat, its full-year revenue guidance missed Wall Street’s estimates. Furthermore, its net revenue retention fell below 100%, meaning its customers spent less on its products. Overall, this was a weaker quarter. The stock traded down 12% to $11.68 immediately following the results.
