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Cloud monitoring software company Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG (NASDAQ:DDOG)) announced better-than-expected results in Q4 FY2023, with revenue up 25.6% year on year to $589.6 million. The company expects next quarter's revenue to be around $589 million, in line with analysts' estimates. It made a non-GAAP profit of $0.44 per share, improving from its profit of $0.26 per share in the same quarter last year.
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Datadog (DDOG) Q4 FY2023 Highlights:
- Revenue: $589.6 million vs analyst estimates of $568.3 million (3.8% beat)
- EPS (non-GAAP): $0.44 vs analyst estimates of $0.44 (small beat)
- Revenue Guidance for Q1 2024 is $589 million at the midpoint, roughly in line with what analysts were expecting
- Management's revenue guidance for the upcoming financial year 2024 is $2.57 billion at the midpoint, missing analyst estimates by 0.8% and implying 20.5% growth (vs 27.3% in FY2023)
- Management's operating income guidance for the upcoming financial year 2024 is $545 million at the midpoint, missing analyst estimates by 2.1%
- Free Cash Flow of $201.3 million, up 45.7% from the previous quarter
- Customers: 3,190 customers paying more than $100,000 annually
- Gross Margin (GAAP): 82.2%, up from 79.4% in the same quarter last year
- Market Capitalization: $44.31 billion
Named after a database the founders had to painstakingly look after at their previous company, Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) is a software-as-a-service platform that makes it easier to monitor cloud infrastructure and applications.
Cloud MonitoringSoftware is eating the world, increasing organizations’ reliance on digital-only solutions. As more workloads and applications move to the cloud, the reliability of the underlying cloud infrastructure becomes ever more critical and ever more complex. To solve this challenge, companies and their engineering teams have turned to a range of cloud monitoring tools that provide them with the visibility to troubleshoot issues in real-time.
Sales GrowthAs you can see below, Datadog's revenue growth has been impressive over the last two years, growing from $326.2 million in Q4 FY2021 to $589.6 million this quarter.
This quarter, Datadog's quarterly revenue was once again up a very solid 25.6% year on year. On top of that, its revenue increased $42.11 million quarter on quarter, a solid improvement from the $38.08 million increase in Q3 2023. Thankfully, that's a slight re-acceleration of growth.
Next quarter's guidance suggests that Datadog is expecting revenue to grow 22.3% year on year to $589 million, slowing down from the 32.7% year-on-year increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. For the upcoming financial year, management expects revenue to be $2.57 billion at the midpoint, growing 20.5% year on year compared to the 27.1% increase in FY2023.
Large Customers Growth This quarter, Datadog reported 3,190 enterprise customers paying more than $100,000 annually, an increase of 60 from the previous quarter. That's a bit fewer contract wins than last quarter and quite a bit below what we've typically observed over the past four quarters, suggesting that its sales momentum with large customers is slowing.
Key Takeaways from Datadog's Q4 Results We were happy to see that Datadog's revenue and operating income outperformed Wall Street's estimates in the quarter. On the other hand, its new large contract wins slowed. Looking ahead, both full-year revenue guidance and full-year operating income guidance missed Wall Street's estimates. Overall, this was a mixed quarter for Datadog with the outlook weighing on shares. The company is down 14.4% on the results and currently trades at $115.5 per share.