Jeff Kalowski
Analyst · Cowen & Co. Please go ahead
Thanks, Corey. We are pleased with our strong performance in the first quarter. Total Q1 revenue was $45.2 million, an increase of 30% year-over-year and above the high end of our guidance. Product revenue was $25.9 million, increasing 29% year-over-year, driven by increasing demand across our offerings, with particular strength in IDR and expanding recurring revenue. Maintenance and support revenue was $10.8 million, increasing 29% year-over-year and our professional services revenue was $8.5 million, an increase of 36% year-over-year. We continue to have very high visibility into our revenue forecast with 89% of Q1’s revenue having been on the balance sheet as of the first day of the quarter and 69% of our revenue being subscription-based recurring revenue. We made a change this quarter and how we calculate recurring revenue, and we have updated our history on our website. The main difference is that we now include revenue from term-based licenses. On an apples-to-apples basis, the 69% compares with 67% last year, up 33% in dollars. In Q1 2017, 78% of our product revenue was recurring up from 74% last year. Total deferred revenue grew 27% year-over-year to $167.6 million at the end of Q1. Calculated billings for the first quarter were $43.8 million, or up 21% year-over-year, driven by another strong quarter for IDR, ongoing strength across mid-market and improving momentum in our enterprise segment. Average contract lengths were 23 months this quarter, compared to 22 months in the prior-year period. With the evolution of the Rapid7 Insight Platform and the availability of our two new cloud-based subscription products, InsightVM and InsightAppSec; and as we said in our Q4 call, we continue to expect that more of our billings will come from our new subscription products, which tend to have shorter contract lengths. Therefore, we believe that our average contract duration will begin to shorten as the year progresses. Looking at the business geographically, in Q1 North America revenue was $38 million, an increase of 26% year-over-year and comprised 84% of revenues. Rest of world revenue increased 55% year-over-year and contributed 16% of total revenue in the first quarter compared to 13% in Q1 2016. We are benefiting from the investments we have made to grow our sales and go-to-market presence internationally and we will continue to enhance our infrastructure globally to drive the momentum in this under penetrated market. Our new customer acquisition also exhibited solid growth with customer account increasing by approximately 80% year-over-year, as we ended Q1 with more than 6,300 customers globally. Our renewal rate was 120% and our expiring revenue renewal rate which measures the renewal of the prior year’s revenue run rate was 88% in the first quarter. Turning back to the P&L, non-GAAP total gross margin for Q1 2016 was 74%. Non-GAAP product gross margins were 84%, and as expected we’re down from 89% last year. As more of our revenue comes from products that are SaaS or managed services, we expect to see modest year-over-year declines in our product gross margin in 2017, but they should stay around the current level for the rest of the year. Our non-GAAP maintenance and support gross margin increased to 83% from 81% in the year-ago period and our non-GAAP professional services gross margin increased to 34% in Q1 compared to 30% in the year-ago period due to higher utilization as well as a higher percentage of our services bookings coming from services that are sold on a stand-alone basis. We expect our services gross margin in 2017 to remain healthy and in the mid-30% range. Net-net, we expect our overall gross margin to stay around the Q1 for the rest of 2017. Reviewing our Q1 non-GAAP operating expenses, R&D expenses were $9.9 million or 22% of total revenue, a meaningful improvement from 31% in the prior-year period. In 2016 we are absorbing a large increase in R&D staff from the Logentries acquisition, and we also incurred some earnout expenses in last year’s Q1. Going forward, we expect to have steady hiring in R&D to support our continued product innovation. Non-GAAP sales and marketing expenses were $23.4 million, or 52% of revenue in Q1, an improvement from 57% in the prior-year period. Our sales and marketing expenses in Q1 reflected the timing of sales hiring in the quarter. Early in the quarter, we focused on filling leadership positions and the account executive positions were filled later in the quarter and Q2 will include their full expense run rate. G&A expense in Q1 2017 was $6.1 million, or 13% of revenue in Q1, an improvement compared to 16% of revenue in the year-ago period. As a result, Q1 non-GAAP operating loss was $5.7 million or margin of negative 13%, an improvement compared to non-GAAP operating loss of $9.5 million or margin of negative 27% in Q1 2016. During the first quarter, adjusted EBITDA loss was $4.6 million in the quarter, an improvement compared to a loss of $8.4 million in the first quarter of 2016. We’ve also provided the history of our adjusted EBITDA calculation on our Investor Relations website. Non-GAAP net loss per share was $0.14 in Q1 2017, a meaningful improvement from a non-GAAP net loss per share of $0.23 in Q1 2016 and ahead of our guidance. We ended Q1 with cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments of $79.2 million compared with $71.9 million as of December 31, 2016 and grew our total cash investments to $96 million. Our operating cash flow for Q1 was positive $3.3 million and free cash flow was $2.0 million. Moving to our second quarter and full year guidance. For Q2 2017, we anticipate total revenue to be in the range of $45.4 million to $46.8 million. This equates to a year-over-year growth of 22% to 25%. We anticipate non-GAAP operating loss for Q2 to be in the range of $8.3 million to $7.3 million. We anticipate non-GAAP net loss per share for Q2 2017 to be in the range of $0.20 to $0.18. This is based on an anticipated 42.5 million weighted average shares outstanding. For the full year 2017, we continue to expect calculated billings to be in the range of $224 million to $234 million, representing 14% to 19% year-over-year growth. We are slightly raising our revenue guidance range and now expect revenue to be in the range of the $193 million to $198 million, representing 23% to 26% year-over-year growth. We are also improving our non-GAAP operating loss from the full year 2017, and expected to be in the range of $28 million to $25.5 million. And we anticipate non-GAAP net loss per share for the full year 2017 to be in the range of $0.66 to $0.61. This is based on an anticipated 42.8 million weighted average shares outstanding for the full year 2017. We also continue to estimate the shift in product mix will impact our growth and operating cash flow. And as a result, we expect 2017 operating cash flow to approximate 2016 levels. In summary, we are off to a great start to the year. The business is performing well and the Rapid7 Insight Platform is enabling our ongoing product innovation. We believe we are well positioned to achieve our 2017 and long-term goals. With that, we appreciate your time and support, and we will open the call for any questions. Operator?