Sales intelligence platform ZoomInfo reported results in line with analyst expectations in Q4 FY2022 quarter, with revenue up 35.7% year on year to $301.7 million. However, guidance for the next quarter was less impressive, coming in at $300 million at the midpoint, being 2.05% below analyst estimates. ZoomInfo made a GAAP profit of $23.2 million, down on its profit of $145.2 million, in the same quarter last year.
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ZoomInfo (ZI) Q4 FY2022 Highlights:
- Revenue: $301.7 million vs analyst estimates of $298.9 million (0.93% beat)
- EPS (non-GAAP): $0.26 vs analyst estimates of $0.22 (18.9% beat)
- Revenue guidance for Q1 2023 is $300 million at the midpoint, below analyst estimates of $306.2 million
- Management's revenue guidance for upcoming financial year 2023 is $1.28 billion at the midpoint, missing analyst estimates by 2.7% and predicting 16.5% growth (vs 48.1% in FY2022)
- Customers: 1,926 customers paying more than $100,000 annually
- Gross Margin (GAAP): 87.8%, in line with same quarter last year
Founded in 2007 as DiscoveryOrg and renamed after a merger in 2019, ZoomInfo (NASDAQ:ZI) is a software as a service product that provides sales departments with access to a database of prospective clients.
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Sales Growth
As you can see below, ZoomInfo's revenue growth has been exceptional over the last two years, growing from quarterly revenue of $139.7 million in Q4 FY2020, to $301.7 million.
And unsurprisingly, this was another great quarter for ZoomInfo with revenue up 35.7% year on year. But the growth did slow down compared to last quarter, as the revenue increased by just $14.1 million in Q4, compared to $20.5 million in Q3 2022. We'd like to see revenue increase by a greater amount each quarter, but a one-off fluctuation is usually not concerning.
Guidance for the next quarter indicates ZoomInfo is expecting revenue to grow 24.1% year on year to $300 million, slowing down from the 57.6% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. For the upcoming financial year management expects revenue to be $1.28 billion at the midpoint, growing 16.5% compared to 46.9% increase in FY2022.
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Large Customers Growth
You can see below that at the end of the quarter ZoomInfo reported 1,926 enterprise customers paying more than $100,000 annually, an increase of 78 on last quarter. That's in line with the number of contracts wins in the last quarter but quite a bit below what we have typically seen over the last year, suggesting that the sales slowdown we saw in the last quarter continues.
Key Takeaways from ZoomInfo's Q4 Results
Sporting a market capitalization of $11.7 billion, more than $545.7 million in cash and with positive free cash flow over the last twelve months, we're confident that ZoomInfo has the resources it needs to pursue a high growth business strategy.
We enjoyed seeing ZoomInfo’s impressive revenue growth this quarter. That feature of these results really stood out as a positive. On the other hand, it was unfortunate to see that ZoomInfo's revenue guidance for the full year missed analysts' expectations and the revenue guidance for next year indicates quite a significant slowdown in growth. Overall, this quarter's results could have been better. The company is down 4.76% on the results and currently trades at $27.39 per share.
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