SentinelOne Q1 2023 Earning Report

Remember SentinelOne acquired Attivo Networks, Bringing Identity to and extending XDR capabilities while raising their total addressable market by $4B.
They announced that they completed this acquisition on 05/04/2022.
Protection includes:

  • Singularity Identity : End credential misuse…
  • Singularity Ranger® Active Directory Assessor : Uncover vulnerabilities…
  • Singularity Hologram : Lure network and insider threat actors into engaging and revealing themselves…

A month later in April they developed new partnership:

  • Streamlined Security Operations with Arctic Wolf
  • Centralized Data Collection and Automation with LogRhythm
  • Improved Cybersecurity Asset Management with Noetic Cyber

On the Management front they promoted from within:

  • Mark Parrinello has been promoted to Chief Sales Officer, and Eran Ashkenazi has been promoted to Chief Customer Officer
  • Promoted Nicholas Warner from COO to President,
  • and added new talent in Vats Srivatsan Joining as COO… bringing with him 30 years of cloud and growing companies experience as Chief Strategy Officer at Palo Alto Networks.

More recently, today, they announced:
SentinelOne (S) XDR-Okta Integration to Boost Incident Response
June 1, 2022

So now that they built that impressive management team and partnership and product improvement, lets look at this quarter’s report.


SentinelOne Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Results
06/01/2022

For this Q1’2023 quarter Revenue decelerated, increasing 109% year-over-year compared to the past three quarters.

Q4’22 Revenue increased 120% YOY
Q3’22 Revenue increased 128% YoY
Q2’22 Revenue increased 121% YoY

This Q1’2023 Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) also decelerated and was up 110% year-over-year

Q4’22 Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) up 123% YOY
Q3’22 Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) was up 131% YoY
Q2’22 Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) up 127% year-over-year

“Our Q1 results demonstrate the combination of a robust demand environment for our leading cybersecurity platform and impressive execution across the board. We once again sustained triple-digit growth with significant margin expansion, added a record number of new customers, and exited the quarter with an extremely strong pipeline,”

said Tomer Weingarten, CEO of SentinelOne.

“We’re raising our revenue guidance to nearly triple-digit growth again this fiscal year, which now includes our acquisition of Attivo Networks.


They did have record gross margins.

- Fiscal first quarter GAAP gross margin was 65%, up 14 percentage points year-over-year.
Non-GAAP gross margin was 68%, up 15 percentage points year-over-year.
- Fiscal first quarter GAAP operating margin was (115)%, up 50 percentage points year-over-year. Non-GAAP operating margin was (73)%, up 54 percentage points year-over-year.

“Our platform unit economics and highly efficient business model uniquely position us to pair hyper growth with meaningful margin expansion and our first quarter results clearly demonstrate this success,”
said Dave Bernhardt, CFO of SentinelOne.

“I’m most proud of our record gross margins, which expanded double digits year-over-year. This really showcases the strong combination of our expanding product portfolio, data-enabled efficiencies, and operational excellence across SentinelOne.”

https://investors.sentinelone.com/press-releases/news-detail…


First Quarter Fiscal 2023 Highlights

- Total revenue increased 109% to $78.3 million, compared to $37.4 million.
- Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) increased 110% to $339.0 million as of April 30, 2022.

**** Revenue Guidance for this Q1’2023 was $74-75 million and they beat that with this $78.3M.

*****They did add a record number of customers in our this Q1’23 at about 750 customers sequentially.

Total customer count grew over 55% to over 7,450 customers as of April 30, 2022.
Customers with ARR over $100K grew 113% to 591 as of April 30, 2022.
Dollar-based net revenue retention rate was a record 131%.

  • Last quarter, Total customer count grew more than 70% year-over-year to over 6,700 customers as of January 31, 2022.
    Customers with ARR over $100K grew 137% year-over-year to 520 as of January 31, 2022.
    Dollar-based net revenue retention rate was 129% as of January 31, 2022.

  • Customer growth dropped from 70% YOY last quarter to 55% YOY this Q1’23 while

  • Large customer count growth dropped from 137% YOY to 113% YOY this Q1’23.

Dollar-based net revenue retention rate was the stand out growing a record 131% YOY as compared to 129% YOY last quarter.


More detail in the Shareholder Letter:
Q1 FY2023 - Letter to Shareholders
June 1, 2022
https://s28.q4cdn.com/399982429/files/doc_financials/2023/q1…


Outlook

  • For Q2’23 they are guiding for revenue between $95-96M, reflecting growth of 107-110% YOY.
  • While for all of 2023, they are guiding for revenue of $403-407M, reflecting growth of between 97-99% YOY.

Plenty to like and not as much to dislike. ;^)

  • Increasing dollar based retention rate is good.
  • Nice to see record customer growth though YOY slowed.
  • Record gross margins look very promising, though as a young and growing companies Stock Based compensation is still high while attracting all the above great talent.
  • Sustainable triple digit growth is also promising.
  • Partnerships are increasing and the Attivo acquisition is complete to become accretive.
  • They beat their own (and others) expectations and raised guidance indicates that may continue.

A good report for a growing company.

Best, kevin c
long of S
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Thanks Kevin - You unpicked the key points. I’m good with the numbers although I would be interested to have transparency on the organic growth rates and know the pro forma growth with/without Attivo. I can’t recall what revenues they had to start with on that side of the business.

Ant

On the call they estimated organic growth rates going forward:

Moving to our guidance for Q2 and fiscal '23. We’re excited to welcome and integrate the Attivo team and portfolio, which is now included in our guidance. Based on the strong demand environment for our business, we’re increasing our organic growth outlook and layering in expectations for Attivo. I’ll provide details around Attivo to help with initial modeling purposes, but we do not intend to break this out specifically going forward.

In Q2, we expect revenue of $95 million to $96 million, reflecting a 109% growth at the midpoint. We expect organic growth in the low to mid-90% range. For the full year, we are significantly raising our outlook to $403 million to $407 million. This reflects 98% growth at the midpoint. As part of our improved guidance, we’ve increased our organic growth expectations to mid-80% growth from 80% previously.

source:
https://app.tikr.com/stock/transcript?cid=243722644&tid=…

Mike

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- Customer growth dropped from 70% YOY last quarter to 55% YOY this Q1’23

Customer growth for S is a red flag. Especially when they are going for smaller customers vs back when CRWD was at similar scale.
If S adds only ~700 customers again next Q, then the total customer growth continues to push lower in the 50% range YoY in the future.

For reference, the last time CRWD grew total customers at a triple digit rate, which was 105% YoY, was in Q1 2021 (April 2020), while pulling in subscription revenue at 162M.
SentinelOne doing 78M revenue (less than HALF of CRWD) and an anemic total customer growth of 55% YoY (nearly HALF that of CRWD’s) today looks terrible in comparison.

Something else to think about: CRWD grew customers at 65% YoY last quarter while taking in 405M in subscription revenue. That’s faster than S at 5x scale!!

Unless S is picking up much larger enterprises moving forward, the revenue growth seems destined to decelerate significantly. This is no time to think about slowing down at such small scale and with deep, deep operating losses.
S is not a SNOW who can justify slower growth at large revenue run rate. S is not in a position to be focusing only on expanding current customer spend.

I have learned many harsh lessons and becoming enamored with topline growth ‘at all costs’ is one of them. I hope S will do well for those holding, but boy am I glad to have sold it and jumped ship to CRWD a while back (oops, saying that probably jinxed CRWD’s report today!)

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Jon this is an excellent point.

And they are not signing larger customers as far as I can see…ARPU went from $9,825 to $10,331 to 11,067 in the last 3 quarters, which can be mostly attributable to their NRR imo, not likely lots of large new customers.

They added fewer net new customers this quarter than in the same quarter a year ago: 750 added this quarter vs 800 a year ago.

Also, >$100k customer growth slowed dramatically, to 14% qoq after being >20% qoq for the previous 5 quarters.

I trimmed before earnings and have been selling since.

-WSM.

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They added fewer net new customers this quarter than in the same quarter a year ago: 750 added this quarter vs 800 a year ago.

I have those numbers as well but wonder if they’ve been adjusted or my source was incorrect. Management repeated several times the 750 added was a record quarter. That doesn’t change the sequential trends you mention though.

Can anyone clear up the 750/800 discrepancy?

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800 includes customers from the Scalyr acquisition. Excluding those additions, it’s a new record. This is explained in the shareholder letter if I recall correctly.

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