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Elastic — Q3 2025 Earnings Presentation

44 slides from Elastic's earnings presentation, Feb 27, 2025

  1. Slide 1: Corporate Overview and Q3FY25 Financial Results

    Corporate Overview and Q3FY25 Financial Results February 27, 2025

  2. Slide 2: Forward Looking Statements; Use of Non-GAAP Measures

    This presentation and the accompanying oral presentation contain forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties, which include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our expected financial results for the fiscal quarter and the fiscal year ending April 30, 2025, o

  3. Slide 3: Elastic, the Search AI Company

    Elastic, the Search AI Company, combines the precision of search with the intelligence of AI to help everyone find answers that matter from all data. In real time. At scale. 3

  4. Slide 4: Today's Business Priorities all Connect to Data

    Todayʼs Business Priorities all Connect to Data Elevating Customer Experiences Improving Operational Resilience Mitigating Security Risk 4

  5. Slide 5: But the mountain of data is enormous

    But the mountain of data is enormous People canʼt find what theyʼre looking for 480EB 1 EB  1000 PB  1,000,000 TB Data produced daily by 2025 *Source: IDC Global DataSphere and StorageSphere Forecasts 5

  6. Slide 6: Generative AI is disrupting every business

    Generative AI is disrupting every business n 72% 300M 10 ORGANIZATIONS JOBS AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGY SHIFTS have adopted AI in 1 or more Forecasted impact of Personalization, business functions* Generative AI automation & productivity Mainframes Databases Microprocessor Modern OS WWW Cloud Mobile GAI 1

  7. Slide 7: Search is critical for Generative AI

    Relevance & natural language understanding Search is at the forefront of latest advancements Optimized to scale large data volumes Search is critical Search delivers results with speed and for Generative AI at a lower cost Foundational framework for AI apps Search is an investment in harvesting data

  8. Slide 8: One Search AI Platform

    One Search AI Platform Two Out-of-the-Box Solutions The Freedom to Build Anything Build Your Own Out-of-the-Box Solutions Elasticsearch Observability Security Search AI Platform Ingest Process Storage & Search AI & ML Visualization Workflow Replication Analysis Automation Search AI Lake 8

  9. Slide 9: A Comprehensive and Open Platform that Delivers Relevant Results in Real-time

    A Comprehensive and Open Platform that Delivers Relevant Results in Real-time Any Data, Business Outcomes Any Source for Everyone Build Your Own Out-of-the-Box Solutions Databases Elasticsearch Observability Security Legacy 69% Systems Improvement in customer and employee Public Cloud Search AI Plat

  10. Slide 10: Featuring the Industry's Only Search AI Lake

    Featuring the Industryʼs Only Search AI Lake Build Your Own Out-of-the-Box Solutions Elasticsearch Observability Security Search AI Platform Ingest Process Storage & Search AI & ML Visualization Workflow Replication Analysis Automation Search AI Lake 10

  11. Slide 11: Search AI Lake: A Whole New Architecture for the Gen AI Era

    Search AI Lake: A Whole New Architecture for the Gen AI Era Data Warehouse Data Lake Lakehouse Search AI Lake Response Time: Response Time: Response Time: Response Time: Minutes 10s of Seconds Seconds Milliseconds Elasticʼs Search AI Lake is a stateless, AI-optimized data repository for both structu

  12. Slide 12: Adopting Search AI Has Never Been Easier

    Adopting Search AI Has Never Been Easier + + Elastic Self-Managed Elastic Cloud Hosted Elastic Cloud Serverless Spin up Elastic Self-Managed AutoOps on Elastic Cloud Hosted Deploy and use Elastic via Elastic with one simple command. provides easy cluster management, Cloud Serverless without managing

  13. Slide 13: The Speed, Scale, and Flexibility of the Search AI Platform

    The Speed, Scale, and Flexibility of the Search AI Platform WHY CUSTOMERS CHOOSE THE SEARCH AI PLATFORM + One of the world's leading digital travel Build Your Own Out-of-the-Box Solutions companies, ingesting 100 terabytes of data per day to support customers Elasticsearch Observability Security + C

  14. Slide 14: The Flexibility to Build Your Own Search Experiences

    The Flexibility to Build Your Own Search Experiences WHY CUSTOMERS CHOOSE ELASTICSEARCH + Customers worldwide searching across millions of unique permutations of car configurations + Chose Elastic for the ability to deliver a centralized, searchable repository, tailored to different sales channels,

  15. Slide 15: A Comprehensive, AI Driven Observability Solution

    A Comprehensive, AI Driven Observability Solution WHY CUSTOMERS CHOOSE ELASTIC OBSERVABILITY + Ingests 400 terabytes of telemetry data per day with Elastic Observability + Provides a single view across infrastructure, monitoring changes including more than 50,000 software builds a day + “Elastic pro

  16. Slide 16: A Comprehensive, AI Driven Security Solution

    A Comprehensive, AI Driven Security Solution WHY CUSTOMERS CHOOSE ELASTIC SECURITY + Over 1,000 pieces of internal network equipment and multiple security data silos + Chose Elastic for the ability to ingest all their security data, standardize it, and automatically detect threats + Now they can con

  17. Slide 17: Years of Search and AI Expertise to Search AI

    Years of Search and AI Expertise ⟶ Search AI Foundational 2018 2021 2022 2023 2024 technical building Support for Bring your own Native support Support for Most downloaded blocks within the supervised and transformer for vector search domain- specific Vector DB Elastic Stack unsupervised models (e.

  18. Slide 18: Elastic provides ALL the capabilities you need to power GenAI

    Elastic provides ALL the capabilities you need to power GenAI Most Vector Databases Hybrid Search (text + vector) Store & Search Vector Some Vector Databases Embeddings Choice & Flexibility of embedding models Inference Filtering & Faceting Service Elasticsearch Create Vector Embeddings Aggregations

  19. Slide 19: A safer, more cost effective approach to GenAI

    Delivers the most relevant content Before GenAI composes a response, Elasticsearch delivers the most relevant content to best answer the query Maintains security and confidentiality Recognizes and implements the A safer, more cost appropriate access to the user and data, effective approach removes p

  20. Slide 20: Search AI Expertise Built into Each Elastic Solution

    Search AI Expertise Built into Each Elastic Solution From Search to Observability to Security Elasticsearch Observability Security Semantic Search Anomaly Detection Threat Intelligence Image Search AIOps Automated Alerting Sentiment Analysis Automatic Import AI Assistant Recommendations Interactive

  21. Slide 21: Recognized Leadership in Search, Log Analytics, and Security Analytics

    Recognized Leadership in Search, Log Analytics, and Security Analytics Elasticsearch Observability Security Leader in the IDC Marketscape: Leader in the Gartner® Magic Leader in IDC Marketscape for SIEM Knowledge Discovery for Quadrant™ for Observability 2024 External-Facing Use Cases 2024 Platforms

  22. Slide 22: Trusted by Organizations Around the World

    Trusted by Organizations Around the World AUTOMOTIVE / TECHNOLOGY FINANCE TELCO CONSUMER HEALTHCARE PUBLIC SECTOR RETAIL TRANSPORTATION 22

  23. Slide 23: Why Elastic Wins

    Why Elastic Wins Power of the Platform Power of the Community ● Solving problems from a search and AI lens: ● Millions of developers with billions of speed, scale, relevance downloads ● Strong foundation in AI/ML, with support for AI ● Facilitates bottom up adoption within across solutions enterpris

  24. Slide 24: Elastic's Growth Vectors

    Elasticʼs Growth Vectors New customers Customer data Customers adopt adopt Elastic volume grows more use cases Customers adopt Customers adopt Customers adopt higher more solutions the cloud subscription tiers 24

  25. Slide 25: Distribution and Monetization Model

    Distribution and Monetization Model Elastic Cloud Paid Hosted Standard Gold Platinum Enterprise Serverless Search Observability Security Free & Open Paid Self-managed No Support Platinum Enterprise ● Resource-based pricing model ↔ Consumption-based subscriptions on Elastic Cloud ● Subscriptions gene

  26. Slide 26: Low-friction Go-to-Market Model

    Low-friction Go-to-Market Model Customer Segment Coverage Model Enterprise Direct Sales Services Partner Ecosystem Cloud, OEM/MSP, GSI, Resellers) Commercial SMB High automation, self-serve product-led motion 26

  27. Slide 27: Scaling with Hyperscaler Cloud Partners

    ● Multi-year strategic agreements with co-investments Scaling with ● Powerful technology integrations to Hyperscaler Cloud accelerate Elastic Cloud adoption Partners ● Preferential access and relationships under ISV programs ● Joint sales pursuits with sales incentives for hyperscaler sales teams 27

  28. Slide 28: Elastic is Wherever Your Data Lives

    Elastic is Wherever Your Data Lives Public Cloud Hybrid On-Premises Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Microsoft Azure 55 Cloud Regions Globally 28

  29. Slide 29: Sustaining the Cloud Momentum

    Sustaining the Cloud Momentum Track record of Organic Growth Strong Customer Robust growth at scale Acquisition Expansion Strong Sustained, Organic GTM Momentum Thriving Hyperscaler Consumption Mix Shift to Cloud Partnerships Patterns 29

  30. Slide 30: Q3 FY25 Results

    Q3 FY25 Results 30 30

  31. Slide 31: Q3 FY25 Results At a Glance

    Q3 FY25 Results At a Glance 17% 26% 17% Total Revenue Growth Elastic Cloud Revenue Growth Non-GAAP 1,460 year-over-year year-over-year Operating Customers with Margin* ACV  $100K 47% of Total Revenue ACV  Annual contract value 31 See appendix for reconciliation to GAAP operating margin

  32. Slide 32: Revenue Highlights

    Revenue Highlights $ millions Q3 FY25 Y/Y Y/Y CC Total Revenue $382 17% 17% Total Subscription Revenue $358 16% 17% Elastic Cloud Revenue $180 26% 26% Subscription % of Total Revenue 94% Professional Services Revenue $24 18% 18% CC  Constant Currency 32

  33. Slide 33: Strong track record of driving growth

    Strong track record of driving growth 19% 20% 18% 18% 17% 29% 32% 30% 25% 26% 18% 20% 18% 17% 17% 29% 32% 30% 25% 26% As Reported Y/Y Growth % 44% 44% 45% 46% 47% As Reported Y/Y Growth % Constant Currency Y/Y Growth % Constant Currency Y/Y Growth % Cloud Revenue as a % of Total Revenue 33

  34. Slide 34: $100K ACV Customer Trend

    $100K ACV Customer Trend Change from Prior Quarter 60 50 30 30 50 60 40 50 40 34

  35. Slide 35: $10K ACV Customer Trend

    $10K ACV Customer Trend Change from Prior Quarter 100 100 70 60 60 80 60 50 60 35

  36. Slide 36: Healthy Net Expansion Rate

    Healthy Net Expansion Rate Trailing twelve month measure 112% Includes only consumption, not commitments, Q3 FY25 for customers on Cloud consumption contracts 36

  37. Slide 37: Non-GAAP Income Statement Highlights

    Non-GAAP Income Statement Highlights $ millions, except per share amounts Q3 FY25 % of Revenue Total Revenue $382 100% Gross Profit/Margin $293 77% Research & Development Expense $68 18% Sales & Marketing Expense $131 34% General & Administrative Expense $31 8% Operating Income/Margin $64 17% Earnin

  38. Slide 38: Select Financial Measures

    Select Financial Measures $ millions, except employees Q3FY25 Adjusted Free Cash Flow* $99 Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Marketable Securities $1,284 Total Deferred Revenue $707 Remaining Performance Obligations $1,354 Employees 3,403 See appendix for reconciliation to GAAP 38

  39. Slide 39: Q4 and Full Year FY2025 Guidance

    Q4 and Full Year FY2025 Guidance Q4FY25 FY25 Total Revenue $379M - $381M $1.474B - $1.476B Year-over-year growth % 13% 16% Constant currency year-over-year growth % 15% 17% Non-GAAP Operating Margin 13.5% 14.7% Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share $0.36 - $0.37 $1.91 - $1.96 Diluted Weighted Average

  40. Slide 40: Appendix

    Appendix 40

  41. Slide 41: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations

    1% GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations Gross Profit and Gross Margin $ in millions except percentages Q3 FY25 GAAP gross profit $285 Stock-based compensation expense and related employer taxes 7 Amortization of acquired intangibles 2 Non-GAAP gross profit $293 GAAP gross margin % 75 % Stock-based compe

  42. Slide 42: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations

    GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations Operating Expenses $ in millions except percentages Q3 FY25 GAAP sales & marketing expenses $154 Stock-based compensation expense and related employer taxes (23) Amortization of acquired intangibles — Non-GAAP sales & marketing expenses $131 Y/Y 9% GAAP research & de

  43. Slide 43: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations

    GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations Operating Loss / Income, Operating Margin, and Loss / Earnings per Share $ in millions except percentages and per share amounts Q3 FY25 GAAP operating loss $(5) Stock-based compensation expense and related employer taxes 67 Amortization of acquired intangibles 2

  44. Slide 44: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations

    GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations Adjusted Free Cash Flow $ in millions Q3 FY25 Net cash provided by operating activities $88 Less: Purchases of property and equipment $(1) Add: Interest paid on long-term debt $12 Adjusted free cash flow $99 Net cash provided by operating activities (as a percentage

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