Varonis Stock based comp

Help me out, I’m not sure I’m doing this correctly because I don’t always understand the titles of certain lines on financial reports.

The way I read it VRNS posted (in 1,000s):
Non-GAAP operating income (loss) $11,697

Then, reconciling GAAP to non-GAAP they posted:
Stock-based compensation expense $5,390

So stock based comp was about 42% of the non-GAAP income, yes?

GAAP income was posted as:
GAAP operating income (loss) $6,023

So it appears to me that the non-GAAP income is very much inflated by the stock based compensation.

OK, I know, it’s not like stock based comp is money out the door, but this looks kind of extreme to me. IMO the stock based comp badly distorts the non-GAAP income.

Does anyone else see it that way? Is this level of stock based comp unusual? I’ve not read enough reports to know.

Is this level of stock based comp unusual? I’ve not read enough reports to know.

5.4M SBC

73.2M Revenue

SBC at 7% of revenue is not at all unusual.

Just today:

HUBS: 12% of revenue
TWLO: 12% of revenue

Bear

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