Stephen Vintz
Analyst · JPMorgan
Thank you, Amit. I will discuss our Q4 and full year guidance momentarily, but we'll start with a review of our Q3 results. I'll begin by reminding you that except for revenue, all financial results we will discuss today are non-GAAP financial measures, unless stated otherwise. As Andrea mentioned at the start of this call, GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations may be found in our earnings release issued earlier today and posted on our website. Now onto the results for the third quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $91.9 million, representing 32% growth over the same quarter last year. Revenue in the quarter exceeded the midpoint of our guided range by $3.4 million, aided by strong execution globally and approximately, $1 million of revenue from nonrecurring sources. Worth noting that approximately 92% of our revenue recognized in the quarter was recurring, which is the benefit of our subscription model. Calculated current billings, defined as the change in current deferred revenue plus total revenue recognized in the quarter, grew 28% year-over-year to $110.6 million. We are pleased with our growth in the quarter, which is up from 27% in Q2 and 25% growth in Q1. One of the highlights in the quarter is our continued strength in the enterprise, and our ability to transact larger deals, both in terms of lands and expands. We added 51 new six figure customers in Q3, bringing the total number of customers, spending in excess of $100,000 annually, to 589. Our continued success here is a result of our investments in nailing the account reps and the ability of our products to scale and serve some of the largest and most sophisticated organizations in the world across a merry of industries, including retail, consumer, telecom, financial services and public sector, to name a few. While our steals aside, we added a record 387 new platform customers this quarter, which is a testament to the growing global presence of our sales force and the value of our channel network and alliance partners. I'll now turn to expense and profitability. Gross margin was 84%, which is flat from Q3 last year and down from 85% in Q2 of 2019. Our gross margin continues to be better than expected as the investments that we're making in public cloud infrastructure with the delivery of our Tenable.io platform are scaling more efficiently than anticipated. This is notable, given our increasing Nessus for our cloud based products. Overall, Tenable continues to enjoy attractive gross margins on increasing demand and adoption for our cloud platform, despite adding new functionality and additional points of presence globally. Now turning to operating expenses. We are focused on improving operating leverage in our business over the long term and continue to see some natural leverage in the business in Q3. Sales and marketing expense was $53.2 million compared to $41.8 million in the third quarter last year. This represents 58% of revenue for the quarter, which is an improvement from 60% in Q3 of 2018 and 61% in Q2 of 2019. We are very pleased with the leverage we have demonstrated to-date, which we attribute to healthy productivity levels and a maturing sales force and expect to see continued leverage in business in future periods. R&D expense was $18.6 million compared to $18.1 million in the third quarter last year. As a percent of revenue, R&D was 20% this quarter versus 26% in the same period last year and 23% in Q2 this year. Innovation remains a top priority for us across all of our products, but especially around risk-based VM, including data science, analytics, foul security and coverage of modern assets. I will discuss guidance momentarily, but with the release of Lumin in Q3, R&D expense is expected to increase sequentially in Q4 as we will no longer capitalizable development cost for Lumin. G&A expense was $13.3 million compared to $10.3 million in the third quarter last year. As a percent of revenue, G&A was 14% this quarter, which is down from 15% in the same period last year and the same as Q2 this year. The year-over-year increase largely reflects higher professional fees, including incremental cost associated with being a public company such as the adoption of SOCKS as well as the commencement of double rent related to the construction of our new headquarters, which we expect to occupy in the first half of next year. Our non-GAAP loss from operations was $7.7 million compared to a loss of $12.2 million in Q3 last year. Non-GAAP operating margin was negative 8% compared to negative 18% in the third quarter last year, and negative 13% in Q2 of this year. Overall, we're very pleased with the significant operating leverage we have demonstrated to date. Non-GAAP operating losses have improved quarterly in 2019, from $13.2 million in Q1 to $10.7 million in Q2 and down to $7.7 million this quarter. All of this has translated to a significant upside in PS. Our pro forma non-GAAP net loss per share for the third quarter was $0.07, which is $0.04 above our guided range of a loss of $0.12 per share to $0.11 per share. Now let's turn to the balance sheet. We finished the third quarter with $296.6 million in cash and cash equivalents in short-term investments. Free cash flow burn was $9.6 million in the quarter, this includes $3.7 million reduction from the employee stock purchase plan activity and also approximately $2.4 million related in the construction of our new headquarters, which we have discussed previously. And as a reminder, we are expecting another $5 million to $7 million in additional Capex in Q4 with some incremental cost in the first half of next year in connection with the project, which again we expect to complete in the first half of next year. This one-time expenditure is above and beyond our noble quarterly Capex. Now let's turn to guidance. For the fourth quarter of 2019, we currently expect revenue to be in the range of $93.5 million to $94.5 million. Non-GAAP loss from operations to be in the range of $12 million to $11 million. Non-GAAP loss in the range of $11.5 million to $10.5 million and pro forma non-GAAP net loss per share in the range of $0.12 to $0.11 assuming a weighted average common shares outstanding of $97.7 million. For the full year of 2019, we currently expect revenue of $351 million to $352 million. Calculated current billings, $407 million to $417 million, non-GAAP loss from operations in the range of $43.6 million to $42.6 million and non-GAAP net loss in the range of $40.8 million to $39.8 million. And finally, pro forma non-GAAP net loss per share in the range of $0.42 to $0.41, assuming weighted average common shares outstanding of $96.1 million. In summary, we're very pleased with our Q3 results and believe we are well positioned for continued success. And now, I'll turn the call back to Amit for some closing comments.