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Elastic — Q2 FY2026 Earnings Presentation

42 slides from Elastic's earnings presentation, Nov 20, 2025

  1. Slide 1: Corporate Overview and Q2FY26 Financial Results

    Corporate Overview and Q2FY26 Financial Results November 20, 2025

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

    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

  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.

  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

  5. Slide 5: We face an unprecedented explosion of unstructured data

    We face an unprecedented explosion of unstructured data 175 ZB Of data will be generated in 2025 Unstructured data 90% Of enterprise data is unstructured Structured data Mainframe Era PC / Client Era Internet Era Virtual Era AI Era Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2024 2028 AI Everywhere,

  6. Slide 6: AI is reshaping the software stack

    LLMs are the new operating system AI is reshaping the Data of all shapes and types are the fuel software stack Relevance is the key to production-ready AI

  7. Slide 7: Elasticsearch was built for this moment

    Elasticsearch was built for this moment Build Your Own Search & AI Observability Security Elasticsearch Platform Any data AI experiences Ingestion Processing Storage Search AI & ML Visualization AI Agents & Workflows

  8. Slide 8: The Elasticsearch Platform provides everything developers need to do context engineering right

    The Elasticsearch Platform provides everything developers need to do context engineering right Hybrid Search Inference Embedding LLM VectorDB MCP Tools Agents Engine Service Models Observability Elasticsearch Platform Ingestion Processing Storage Search AI & ML Visualization AI Agents & Workflows

  9. Slide 9: One platform, with the freedom to build anything

    One platform, with the freedom to build anything Build Your Own Search & AI Observability Security Elasticsearch Platform Ingestion Processing Storage Search AI & ML Visualization AI Agents & Workflows

  10. Slide 10: A comprehensive and open platform that delivers relevant results in real-time

    A comprehensive and open platform that delivers relevant results in real-time Databases Build Your Own Search & AI Observability Security Legacy Systems 69% Improvement in customer Elasticsearch Platform and employee satisfaction Applications Public Cloud 60% Reduction in risk SaaS Apps Storage Sear

  11. Slide 11: Adopting Elasticsearch has never been easier

    Adopting Elasticsearch has never been easier Self-Managed Elastic Cloud Hosted Elastic Cloud Serverless Spin up Elastic Self-Managed Run Elastic in a cloud-hosted manner Deploy and use Elastic via Elastic with one simple command. with full control over your Elasticsearch Cloud Serverless without man

  12. Slide 12: The flexibility to build your own search experiences

    The flexibility to build your own search experiences Build Your Own Elasticsearch Search & AI Observability Security + Customers worldwide searching across millions of unique Elasticsearch Platform permutations of car configurations + Chose Elastic for the ability to Processing Ingestion Processing

  13. Slide 13: A comprehensive, AI-driven observability solution

    A comprehensive, AI-driven observability solution Build Your Own Elasticsearch Search & AI Observability Security + Ingests 400 terabytes of telemetry data per day with Elasticsearch Platform Elastic Observability + Provides a single view across infrastructure, monitoring Processing Ingestion Proces

  14. Slide 14: A comprehensive, AI-driven security solution

    A comprehensive, AI-driven security solution Build Your Own Elasticsearch Search & AI Observability Security + Over 1,000 pieces of internal network equipment and multiple Elasticsearch Platform security data silos + Chose Elastic for the ability to ingest all their security data, Processing Ingesti

  15. Slide 15: Elastic has built a strong foundation for AI, 15 years in the making

    Elastic has built a strong foundation for AI, 15 years in the making Agentic AI Advanced parallelism CPU, I/O, storage) Sparse indexing optimizations AI Workloads ACORN DISK BBQ and other Founded Elasticsearch performance optimizations Lexical Search Memory breakthroughs (up to 32x reduction) Elast

  16. Slide 16: Elastic provides everything you need to build GenAI applications

    Elastic provides everything you need to build GenAI applications Data Prep & Inference Retrieval Agentic AI ● Sparse & dense vector ● Vector search ● Tool building encoding models ● Lexical search ● Agentic workflows ● Multi-lingual embedding ● Tool selection ● Hybrid search models ● Memory systems

  17. Slide 17: GenAI applications lead to better outcomes

    GenAI applications lead to better outcomes Delivers the most Maintains security Reduces costs Complete platform relevant content and confidentiality for AI apps By providing the Before GenAI composes a Recognizes and information most relevant End to end platform to response, Elasticsearch implements

  18. Slide 18: Recognized leadership in search, log analytics, and security analytics

    Recognized leadership in search, log analytics, and security analytics Elasticsearch Observability Security Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Leader in the Gartner® Magic Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cognitive Search, Oct. 2025 Quadrant™ for Observability Security Analytics Platforms, Jul. Platforms,

  19. Slide 19: Trusted by organizations around the world

    Trusted by organizations around the world AUTOMOTIVE / FINANCE TECHNOLOGY TELCO / MEDIA CONSUMER HEALTHCARE PUBLIC SECTOR RETAIL TRANSPORTATION

  20. Slide 20: Why Elastic Wins

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

  21. Slide 21: Massive adoption world wide

    Massive adoption world wide Community 17% 19% Millions of all professional developers of all AI developers use of developers world wide use Elasticsearch 1 Elasticsearch 1 use Elasticsearch 1 Open Source 5.5B #1 120K Total Downloads Search Engine & Vector Total GitHub Stars 3 Dlds. per Sec. / 15 Y

  22. Slide 22: We land and expand with multiple paths to growth

    We land and expand with multiple paths to growth Customers adopt higher subscription tiers We grow awareness We land via self-service cloud SMB Customer usage through open source and sales-led motion (enterprise & grows commercial) Customers add more workloads

  23. Slide 23: 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

  24. Slide 24: Segmentation optimized for performance

    Segmentation optimized for performance Coverage Focus Model Largest opportunities, Direct Sales highest density Services Strategic coverage Partner Ecosystem Cloud, OEM/MSP, GSI, Resellers) Enterprise Expansion and new logo Commercial Expand Expansion Commercial Hunter New logo Commercial General B

  25. Slide 25: 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

  26. Slide 26: 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

  27. Slide 27: Q2 FY26 Results

    Q2 FY26 Results

  28. Slide 28: Q2 FY26 Results At a Glance

    Q2 FY26 Results At a Glance 1,600 16% Total Revenue 18% Sales-led Subscription 16.5% Non-GAAP Customers with Growth year-over-year Revenue Growth Operating Margin* ACV  $100K year-over-year 22% Elastic Cloud Revenue Growth year-over-year ACV  Annual contract value Sales-led subscription revenue i

  29. Slide 29: Revenue Highlights

    Revenue Highlights $ millions Q2 FY26 Y/Y Y/Y CC** Total Revenue $423 16% 15% Total Subscription Revenue $398 17% 16% Monthly Elastic Cloud $49 7% 7% Total Sales-led Subscription Revenue $349 18% 17% Elastic Cloud Revenue $206 22% 22% Subscription % of 94% Total Revenue Sales-led Subscription Revenu

  30. Slide 30: Strong track record of driving growth

    Strong track record of driving growth 18% 17% 16% 20% 16% 17% 17% 16% 18% 15% As Reported Y/Y Growth % Constant Currency Y/Y Growth %

  31. Slide 31: Strong track record of driving growth

    Strong track record of driving growth 23% 19% 18% 22% 18% 25% 26% 23% 24% 22% 23% 19% 19% 20% 17% 25% 26% 23% 24% 22% 81% 81% 81% 82% 82% 46% 47% 47% 47% 49% As Reported Y/Y Growth % As Reported Y/Y Growth % Constant Currency Y/Y Growth % Constant Currency Y/Y Growth % Sales-led Subscription Revenue

  32. Slide 32: $100K ACV Customer Trend

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

  33. Slide 33: Healthy Net Expansion Rate

    Healthy Net Expansion Rate 112% Q2 FY26 Trailing twelve month measure Includes only consumption, not commitments, for customers on Cloud consumption contracts

  34. Slide 34: Non-GAAP Income Statement Highlights

    Non-GAAP Income Statement Highlights $ millions, except per share amounts Q2 FY26 % of Revenue Total Revenue $423 100% Gross Profit/Margin $330 78% Research & Development Expense $80 19% Sales & Marketing Expense $149 35% General & Administrative Expense $31 7% Operating Income/Margin $70 16.5% Earn

  35. Slide 35: Select Financial Measures

    Select Financial Measures $ millions, except employees Q2 FY26 Adjusted Free Cash Flow* $26 Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Marketable Securities $1,396 Total Deferred Revenue $733 Remaining Performance Obligations $1,507 Current Remaining Performance Obligations $971 Employees 3,827 See appendix for r

  36. Slide 36: Q3 and Full Year FY2026 Guidance

    Q3 and Full Year FY2026 Guidance Q3 FY26 FY26 Total Revenue $437M - $439M $1.715B - $1.721B Year-over-year growth % 15% 16% Constant currency year-over-year growth % 13% 15% Sales-led Subscription Revenue $364M - $366M $1.417B - $1.423B Year-over-year growth % 17% 18% Constant currency year-over-yea

  37. Slide 37: Appendix

    Appendix

  38. Slide 38: Supplemental Information

    Supplemental Information $ in millions Q2 FY26 Annual Elastic Cloud $157 Monthly Elastic Cloud 49 Total Elastic Cloud 206 Other subscription 192 Total subscription 398 Total revenue $423 Total sales-led subscription revenue $349 Sales-led subscription revenue is calculated as total subscription reve

  39. Slide 39: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations

    GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations Gross Profit and Gross Margin $ in millions except percentages Q2 FY26 GAAP gross profit $321 Stock-based compensation expense and related employer taxes 6 Amortization of acquired intangibles 2 Non-GAAP gross profit $330 GAAP gross margin % 76% Stock-based compensat

  40. Slide 40: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations

    GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations Operating Expenses $ in millions except percentages Q2 FY26 GAAP sales & marketing expenses $174 Stock-based compensation expense and related employer taxes (24) Amortization of acquired intangibles — Non-GAAP sales & marketing expenses $149 Y/Y 22% GAAP research & d

  41. Slide 41: 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 Q2 FY26 GAAP operating loss $(8) Stock-based compensation expense and related employer taxes 75 Amortization of acquired intangibles 2

  42. Slide 42: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations

    GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations Adjusted Free Cash Flow $ in millions Q2 FY26 Net cash provided by operating activities $27 Less: Purchases of property and equipment (1) Add: Interest paid on long-term debt — Adjusted free cash flow $26 Net cash provided by operating activities (as a percentage of

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