Database software company MongoDB (MDB) reported Q1 CY2024 results beating Wall Street analysts' expectations, with revenue up 22.3% year on year to $450.6 million. On the other hand, next quarter's revenue guidance of $462 million was less impressive, coming in 2% below analysts' estimates. It made a non-GAAP profit of $0.51 per share, down from its profit of $0.58 per share in the same quarter last year.
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MongoDB (MDB) Q1 CY2024 Highlights:
- Revenue: $450.6 million vs analyst estimates of $439.9 million (2.4% beat)
- EPS (non-GAAP): $0.51 vs analyst estimates of $0.37 (36.5% beat)
- Revenue Guidance for Q2 CY2024 is $462 million at the midpoint, below analyst estimates of $471.5 million
- The company dropped its revenue guidance for the full year from $1.92 billion to $1.89 billion at the midpoint, a 1.3% decrease
- Gross Margin (GAAP): 72.8%, down from 73.5% in the same quarter last year
- Free Cash Flow of $60.98 million, up 20.8% from the previous quarter
- Customers: 49,200, up from 47,800 in the previous quarter
- Billings: $413.1 million at quarter end, up 28.8% year on year
- Market Capitalization: $24.5 billion
"MongoDB's delivered solid first quarter results, highlighted by 32% Atlas revenue growth. At the same time, we had a slower than expected start to the year for both Atlas consumption growth and new workload wins, which will have a downstream impact for the remainder of fiscal 2025," said Dev Ittycheria, President and Chief Executive Officer of MongoDB.
Started in 2007 by the team behind Google’s ad platform, DoubleClick, MongoDB offers database-as-a-service that helps companies store large volumes of semi-structured data.
Data Storage
Data is the lifeblood of the internet and software in general, and the amount of data created is accelerating. As a result, the importance of storing the data in scalable and efficient formats continues to rise, especially as its diversity and associated use cases expand from analyzing simple, structured datasets to high-scale processing of unstructured data such as images, audio, and video.
Sales Growth
As you can see below, MongoDB's revenue growth has been impressive over the last three years, growing from $181.6 million in Q1 2022 to $450.6 million this quarter.
This quarter, MongoDB's quarterly revenue was once again up a very solid 22.3% year on year. However, the company's revenue actually decreased by $7.44 million in Q1 compared to the $25.06 million increase in Q4 CY2023. While we'd like to see revenue increase each quarter, management is guiding for growth to rebound in the next quarter and a one-off fluctuation is usually not concerning.
Next quarter's guidance suggests that MongoDB is expecting revenue to grow 9% year on year to $462 million, slowing down from the 39.6% year-on-year increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Looking ahead, analysts covering the company were expecting sales to grow 14.5% over the next 12 months before the earnings results announcement.
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Customer Growth
MongoDB reported 49,200 customers at the end of the quarter, an increase of 1,400 from the previous quarter. That's in line with the customer growth we observed last quarter but a bit below what we've typically seen over the last year, suggesting that sales momentum may be slowing a little.
Key Takeaways from MongoDB's Q1 Results
It was good to see MongoDB beat analysts' revenue expectations this quarter. On the other hand, its full-year revenue guidance was dropped and came in below expectations. Its revenue guidance for next quarter also missed Wall Street's estimates. Overall, this was a bad quarter for MongoDB. The company is down 23.4% on the results and currently trades at $237.40 per share.
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