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Atlassian Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Results and CEO Transition

April 25, 2024 4:05 PM

Quarterly revenue of $1,189 million, up 30% year-over-year

Quarterly subscription revenue of $1,071 million, up 41% year-over-year

Quarterly GAAP operating margin of 1% and non-GAAP operating margin of 27%

Quarterly cash flow from operations of $565 million and free cash flow of $555 million

Team Anywhere/SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, today announced financial results for its third quarter ended March 31, 2024. Atlassian also announced co-founder Scott Farquhar will step down as co-CEO effective August 31, 2024, with co-founder Mike Cannon Brookes continuing to lead Atlassian as CEO. A shareholder letter was posted on Atlassian’s Work Life blog at http://atlassian.com/blog/announcements/shareholder-letter-q3fy24 and in the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at https://investors.atlassian.com.

Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Earnings Results

“It’s been a milestone quarter for Atlassian,” said Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and co-CEO.

“We’ve delivered $1.2 billion in revenue in Q3, up 30% year-over-year, driven by subscription revenue growth of 41% year-over-year. We drove record free cash flow of $555 million, up 59% year-over-year.

“Today, Atlassian is a cloud-majority company. We have over 300,000 customers using our Cloud products and have seen a 3x increase in paid seats in Cloud since we announced end-of-support for Server three and a half years ago. We have a significant opportunity to drive durable, long-term growth as we continue to execute against our cloud roadmap and deliver innovation across our cloud platform. We’re excited to share more at our flagship customer event next week, Team ’24,” concluded Cannon-Brookes.

CEO Transition

After an incredible 23 years, Scott Farquhar has made the decision to step down as co-CEO to spend more time with his young family, improve the world via philanthropy, and help further the technology industry globally.

“While it's a difficult decision to step away, I do so knowing Atlassian is exceptionally positioned to take hold of the massive opportunities at its feet. We have a strong leadership team, and great momentum around cloud, enterprise, and now, AI,” said Farquhar.

Cannon-Brookes added, “The contribution Scott has made at Atlassian is impossible to quantify. Starting with just the two of us in 2001, to a global company of over 11,000 employees and over USD $4 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian would not be the company it is today without Scott. I am truly grateful to have had him by my side every day for the last 23 years.”

Scott’s last day as co-CEO will be August 31, 2024. He will continue as an active Board member and assume a special advisor role.

Mike will continue to lead as CEO as Atlassian pursues its mission to unleash the potential of every team and capitalize on its strengths in the AI era. To read Scott’s blog post, visit: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/scott-farquhar-ceo-transition.

Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Highlights:

On a GAAP basis, Atlassian reported:

On a non-GAAP basis, Atlassian reported:

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:

Financial Targets:

Atlassian is providing its financial targets as follows:

Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2024:

For additional commentary regarding financial targets, please see Atlassian’s third quarter fiscal year 2024 shareholder letter dated April 25, 2024.

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-q3fy24, and the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at https://investors.atlassian.com. Atlassian will host a webcast to answer questions today:

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 300,000 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

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “could,” “should,” “estimate,” or “continue,” and similar expressions or variations, but these words are not the exclusive means for identifying such statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward looking, including risks and uncertainties related to statements about our products, product features, including AI capabilities, customers, cloud migrations, macroeconomic environment, anticipated growth, outlook, potential benefits and synergies from Loom and other acquisitions, technology, and other key strategic areas, and our financial targets such as total revenue, Cloud and Data Center revenue, and GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures including gross margin and operating margin.

We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.

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 condensed 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 and non-GAAP gross margin, 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:

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 for two or more seats 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.

Atlassian Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(U.S. $ and shares in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended March 31,

Nine Months Ended March 31,

2024

2023

2024

2023

Revenues:

Subscription

$

1,071,355

$

760,680

$

2,855,518

$

2,122,863

Maintenance

29,530

94,225

177,230

313,813

Other

88,243

60,548

194,265

158,873

Total revenues

1,189,128

915,453

3,227,013

2,595,549

Cost of revenues (1) (2)

213,425

168,652

585,990

463,989

Gross profit

975,703

746,801

2,641,023

2,131,560

Operating expenses:

Research and development (1) (2)

576,490

522,344

1,595,007

1,395,026

Marketing and sales (1) (2)

223,814

220,921

637,894

567,240

General and administrative (1)

157,595

165,103

458,249

464,127

Total operating expenses

957,899

908,368

2,691,150

2,426,393

Operating income (loss)

17,804

(161,567

)

(50,127

)

(294,833

)

Other income (expense), net

(10,990

)

(943

)

(23,964

)

21,597

Interest income

21,414

15,047

69,233

29,153

Interest expense

(8,453

)

(7,978

)

(26,430

)

(21,607

)

Income (loss) before provision for income taxes

19,775

(155,441

)

(31,288

)

(265,690

)

Provision for income taxes

(7,023

)

(53,596

)

(72,312

)

(162,119

)

Net income (loss)

$

12,752

$

(209,037

)

$

(103,600

)

$

(427,809

)

Net income (loss) per share attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders:

Basic

$

0.05

$

(0.81

)

$

(0.40

)

$

(1.67

)

Diluted

$

0.05

$

(0.81

)

$

(0.40

)

$

(1.67

)

Weighted-average shares used in computing net income (loss) per share attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders:

Basic

259,717

256,825

258,738

255,949

Diluted

261,778

256,825

258,738

255,949

(1) Amounts include stock-based compensation as follows:

Three Months Ended March 31,

Nine Months Ended March 31,

2024

2023

2024

2023

Cost of revenues

$

17,840

$

17,581

$

53,874

$

46,747

Research and development

190,322

167,994

528,587

447,465

Marketing and sales

33,383

36,571

103,832

97,922

General and administrative

40,974

41,281

121,652

110,709

(2) Amounts include amortization of acquired intangible assets, as follows:

Three Months Ended March 31,

Nine Months Ended March 31,

2024

2023

2024

2023

Cost of revenues

$

12,454

$

5,696

$

25,282

$

17,090

Research and development

94

94

281

281

Marketing and sales

3,646

2,365

8,723

7,376

Atlassian Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(U.S. $ in thousands)

(unaudited)

March 31, 2024

June 30, 2023

Assets

Current assets:

Cash and cash equivalents

$

1,948,978

$

2,102,550

Marketable securities

163,318

10,000

Accounts receivable, net

646,082

477,678

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

155,551

146,136

Total current assets

2,913,929

2,736,364

Non-current assets:

Property and equipment, net

80,961

81,402

Operating lease right-of-use assets

180,967

184,195

Strategic investments

220,125

225,538

Intangible assets, net

312,816

69,072

Goodwill

1,285,745

727,211

Deferred tax assets

2,780

9,945

Other non-current assets

65,942

73,052

Total assets

$

5,063,265

$

4,106,779

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

Current liabilities:

Accounts payable

$

188,241

$

159,293

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

484,896

423,131

Deferred revenue, current portion

1,698,639

1,362,736

Operating lease liabilities, current portion

46,437

44,930

Term loan facility, current portion

50,000

37,500

Total current liabilities

2,468,213

2,027,590

Non-current liabilities:

Deferred revenue, net of current portion

256,926

182,743

Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion

225,208

237,835

Term loan facility, net of current portion

924,724

962,093

Deferred tax liabilities

19,036

10,669

Other non-current liabilities

34,987

31,177

Total liabilities

3,929,094

3,452,107

Stockholders’ equity

Common stock

3

3

Additional paid-in capital

3,938,577

3,130,631

Accumulated other comprehensive income

13,767

34,002

Accumulated deficit

(2,818,176

)

(2,509,964

)

Total stockholders’ equity

1,134,171

654,672

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

$

5,063,265

$

4,106,779

Atlassian Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(U.S. $ in thousands)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended March 31,

Nine Months Ended March 31,

2024

2023

2024

2023

Cash flows from operating activities:

Net income (loss)

$

12,752

$

(209,037

)

$

(103,600

)

$

(427,809

)

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:

Depreciation and amortization

23,464

15,523

55,560

45,619

Stock-based compensation

282,519

263,427

807,945

702,843

Impairment charges for leases and leasehold improvements

61,098

61,098

Deferred income taxes

3,207

1,495

(98

)

6,308

Gain on a non-cash sale of a controlling interest of a subsidiary

(1,378

)

(45,158

)

Net loss (income) on strategic investments

4,060

(1,812

)

11,750

17,264

Net foreign currency loss (gain)

(2,276

)

(177

)

142

(6,005

)

Other

412

1,381

698

1,611

Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of business combinations:

Accounts receivable, net

(119,819

)

8,460

(166,494

)

(38,031

)

Prepaid expenses and other assets

(35,986

)

(15,163

)

(59,528

)

(40,530

)

Accounts payable

28,227

(27,700

)

28,850

22,034

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

67,149

131,238

54,958

81,055

Deferred revenue

301,681

123,636

393,135

215,037

Net cash provided by operating activities

565,390

352,369

1,021,940

595,336

Cash flows from investing activities:

Business combinations, net of cash acquired

(844,727

)

(600

)

Purchases of property and equipment

(10,520

)

(2,691

)

(19,522

)

(23,227

)

Purchases of strategic investments

(4,250

)

(9,000

)

(8,250

)

(18,450

)

Purchases of marketable securities

(74,544

)

(213,690

)

(10,000

)

Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities

63,000

26,250

79,150

73,950

Proceeds from sales of marketable securities and strategic investments

8

61,392

629

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

(26,314

)

14,567

(945,647

)

22,302

Cash flows from financing activities:

Principal payments of term loan facility

(12,500

)

(25,000

)

Repurchases of Class A Common Stock

(35,377

)

(31,748

)

(203,029

)

(31,748

)

Proceeds from other financing arrangements

2

1,398

Net cash used in financing activities

(47,877

)

(31,746

)

(228,029

)

(30,350

)

Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash

(2,769

)

421

(1,986

)

(996

)

Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

488,430

335,611

(153,722

)

586,292

Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period

1,461,763

1,637,969

2,103,915

1,386,686

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents included in assets held for sale

602

Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period

$

1,950,193

$

1,973,580

$

1,950,193

$

1,973,580

Atlassian Corporation

Revenues by Deployment Options

(U.S. $ in thousands)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended March 31,

Nine Months Ended March 31,

2024

2023

2024

2023

Cloud

$

703,036

$

534,891

$

1,960,893

$

1,522,269

Data Center

364,134

221,551

881,835

587,043

Server

29,720

94,389

177,645

314,370

Marketplace and other (1)

92,238

64,622

206,640

171,867

Total revenues

$

1,189,128

$

915,453

$

3,227,013

$

2,595,549

(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.

Atlassian Corporation

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results

(U.S. $ and shares in thousands, except percentage and per share data)

(unaudited)

Three Months Ended March 31,

Nine Months Ended March 31,

2024

2023

2024

2023

Gross profit

GAAP gross profit

$

975,703

$

746,801

$

2,641,023

$

2,131,560

Plus: Stock-based compensation

17,840

17,293

53,874

46,459

Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets

12,454

5,696

25,282

17,090

Plus: Restructuring charges (1)

9,247

9,247

Non-GAAP gross profit

$

1,005,997

$

779,037

$

2,720,179

$

2,204,356

Gross margin

GAAP gross margin

82

%

82

%

82

%

82

%

Plus: Stock-based compensation

2

2

1

2

Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets

1

1

1

Plus: Restructuring charges (1)

%

1

%

%

%

Non-GAAP gross margin

85

%

85

%

84

%

85

%

Operating income

GAAP operating income (loss)

$

17,804

$

(161,567

)

$

(50,127

)

$

(294,833

)

Plus: Stock-based compensation

282,519

252,678

807,945

692,094

Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets

16,194

8,155

34,286

24,747

Plus: Restructuring charges (1)

97,848

97,848

Non-GAAP operating income

$

316,517

$

197,114

$

792,104

$

519,856

Operating margin

GAAP operating margin

1

%

(18

%)

(2

%)

(11

%)

Plus: Stock-based compensation

25

28

26

26

Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets

1

1

1

1

Plus: Restructuring charges (1)

11

4

Non-GAAP operating margin

27

%

22

%

25

%

20

%

Net income

GAAP net income (loss)

$

12,752

$

(209,037

)

$

(103,600

)

$

(427,809

)

Plus: Stock-based compensation

282,519

252,678

807,945

692,094

Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets

16,194

8,155

34,286

24,747

Plus: Restructuring charges (1)

97,848

97,848

Less: Gain on a non-cash sale of a controlling interest of a subsidiary

(1,378

)

(45,158

)

Less: Income tax adjustments (2)

(78,969

)

(11,689

)

(146,271

)

3,513

Non-GAAP net income

$

232,496

$

137,955

$

590,982

$

345,235

Net income per share

GAAP net income (loss) per share - diluted

$

0.05

$

(0.81

)

$

(0.40

)

$

(1.67

)

Plus: Stock-based compensation

1.08

0.98

3.11

2.70

Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets

0.06

0.03

0.13

0.10

Plus: Restructuring charges (1)

0.39

0.39

Less: Gain on a non-cash sale of a controlling interest of a subsidiary

(0.01

)

(0.18

)

Less: Income tax adjustments (2)

(0.30

)

(0.05

)

(0.56

)

0.01

Non-GAAP net income per share - diluted

$

0.89

$

0.54

$

2.27

$

1.35

Weighted-average diluted shares outstanding

Weighted-average shares used in computing diluted GAAP net income (loss) per share

261,778

256,825

258,738

255,949

Plus: Dilution from dilutive securities (3)

425

1,273

590

Weighted-average shares used in computing diluted non-GAAP net income per share

261,778

257,250

260,011

256,539

Free cash flow

GAAP net cash provided by operating activities

$

565,390

$

352,369

$

1,021,940

$

595,336

Less: Capital expenditures

(10,520

)

(2,691

)

(19,522

)

(23,227

)

Free cash flow

$

554,870

$

349,678

$

1,002,418

$

572,109

(1) Restructuring charges include stock-based compensation expense related to the rebalancing of resources for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2023.

(2) In 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.

(3) The effects of these dilutive securities were not included in the GAAP calculation of diluted net loss per share for the nine months ended March 31, 2024 and three and nine months ended March 31, 2023, respectively, because the effect would have been anti-dilutive.

Atlassian Corporation

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Targets

Three Months Ending

June 30, 2024

GAAP gross margin

81.0

%

Plus: Stock-based compensation

1.5

Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets

1.0

Non-GAAP gross margin

83.5

%

GAAP operating margin

(7.0

%)

Plus: Stock-based compensation

24.0

Plus: Amortization of acquired intangible assets

1.5

Non-GAAP operating margin

18.5

%

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Source: Atlassian Corporation

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