Yahoo Finance Asana's (NYSE:ASAN) Q1 Sales Beat Estimates, Stock Soars
Work management software maker Asana (NYSE: ASAN) announced better-than-expected results in Q1 CY2024, with revenue up 13.1% year on year to $172.4 million. The company expects next quarter's revenue to be around $177.5 million, in line with analysts' estimates. It made a non-GAAP loss of $0.06 per share, improving from its loss of $0.28 per share in the same quarter last year.
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Asana (ASAN) Q1 CY2024 Highlights:
Revenue: $172.4 million vs analyst estimates of $168.8 million (2.2% beat)
EPS (non-GAAP): -$0.06 vs analyst estimates of -$0.08
Revenue Guidance for Q2 CY2024 is $177.5 million at the midpoint, roughly in line with what analysts were expecting
The company reconfirmed its revenue guidance for the full year of $721.5 million at the midpoint
Gross Margin (GAAP): 89.7%, in line with the same quarter last year
Free Cash Flow was -$4.28 million compared to -$16.95 million in the previous quarter
Net Revenue Retention Rate: 100%, in line with the previous quarter
Billings: $198.3 million at quarter end, up 8.5% year on year
Market Capitalization: $3.15 billion
“AI is transforming how we work, and Asana is delivering the ideal platform for this new era where people and AI collaborate to reach new levels of productivity and innovation," said Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder and chief executive officer of Asana.
Founded in 2008 by Facebook’s co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, Asana (NYSE:ASAN) is a cloud-based project management software, where you can plan and assign tasks to employees and monitor and discuss progress of work.
Project Management Software
The future of work requires teams to collaborate across departments and remote offices. Project management software is both driving this change and benefiting from it. While the trend of collaborative work management has been strong for a while, the Covid pandemic has definitively accelerated the demand for tools that allow work to be done remotely.
Sales Growth
As you can see below, Asana's revenue growth has been very strong over the last three years, growing from $76.67 million in Q1 2022 to $172.4 million this quarter.
This quarter, Asana's quarterly revenue was once again up 13.1% year on year. However, its growth did slow down compared to last quarter as the company's revenue increased by just $1.31 million in Q1 compared to $4.63 million in Q4 CY2023. While we'd like to see revenue increase by a greater amount each quarter, a one-off fluctuation is usually not concerning.
Next quarter's guidance suggests that Asana is expecting revenue to grow 9.3% year on year to $177.5 million, slowing down from the 20.4% year-on-year increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Looking ahead, analysts covering the company were expecting sales to grow 10.7% over the next 12 months before the earnings results announcement.
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Large Customers Growth
This quarter, Asana reported 22,162 enterprise customers paying more than $5,000 annually, an increase of 516 from the previous quarter. That's quite a bit more contract wins than last quarter but also quite a bit below what we've typically observed over the last year, suggesting that the company may be reinvigorating growth.
Key Takeaways from Asana's Q1 Results
It was good to see Asana beat analysts' billings expectations this quarter. We were also glad both its revenue and operating profit outperformed Wall Street's estimates. Zooming out, we think this was a decent quarter, showing that the company is staying on target. The stock is up 6.1% after reporting and currently trades at $13.92 per share.
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