The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who not so much). Let’s have a look at how the cloud monitoring stocks have fared in Q4, starting with New Relic (NYSE:NEWR).
Software is eating the world, increasing organizations’ reliance on digital-only solutions. As more workloads and applications move to the cloud, the reliability of the underlying cloud infrastructure becomes ever more critical, and ever more complex. To solve the challenge, companies and their engineering teams have turned to a range of cloud monitoring tools that provide them with visibility to troubleshoot the issues in real time.
The 5 cloud monitoring stocks we track reported a solid Q4; on average, revenues beat analyst consensus estimates by 4.71%, while on average next quarter revenue guidance was 2.47% above consensus. Tech stocks have been under pressure since the end of last year and while some of the cloud monitoring stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 11.3% since earnings, on average.
New Relic (NYSE:NEWR)
With the name being an anagram of its founder, Lew Cirne, New Relic (NYSE:NEWR) makes a monitoring software that collects, scores, and analyses performance data about a client's IT stack.
New Relic reported revenues of $203.5 million, up 22.3% year on year, beating analyst expectations by 1.56%. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a significant improvement in net revenue retention rate but a decline in gross margin.
“In our third quarter we re-accelerated revenue sequentially and year-over-year, surpassing the high end of our guidance,” said New Relic CEO Bill Staples.
New Relic delivered the weakest performance against analyst estimates and slowest revenue growth of the whole group. The company added 53 enterprise customers paying more than $100,000 annually to a total of 1,064. The stock is down 34.4% since the results and currently trades at $71.32.
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Best Q4: Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG)
Named after a database the founders had to painstakingly look after at their previous company, Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) is a software as a service platform that makes it easier to monitor cloud infrastructure and applications.
Datadog reported revenues of $326.1 million, up 83.7% year on year, beating analyst expectations by 11.9%. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analyst estimates and a very optimistic guidance for the next quarter.
Datadog delivered the strongest analyst estimates beat, fastest revenue growth, and highest full year guidance raise among its peers. The company added 210 enterprise customers paying more than $100,000 annually to a total of 2,010. The stock is down 13.5% since the results and currently trades at $134.50.
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Weakest Q4: Dynatrace (NYSE:DT)
Founded in Austria in 2005, Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) provides companies with software that allows them to monitor the performance of their full technology stack, from software applications to the infrastructure they run on.
Dynatrace reported revenues of $240.7 million, up 31.6% year on year, beating analyst expectations by 2.67%. It was an ok quarter for the company, with strong top-line growth and but underwhelming guidance for the next year.
Dynatrace had the weakest full year guidance update in the group. The stock is down 23.4% since the results and currently trades at $43.11.
Read our full analysis of Dynatrace's results here.
PagerDuty (NYSE:PD)
Started by three former Amazon engineers, PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) is a software as a service platform that helps companies respond to IT incidents fast and make sure that any downtime is minimized.
PagerDuty reported revenues of $78.5 million, up 32.4% year on year, beating analyst expectations by 3.19%. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a decline in gross margin but full-year revenue guidance beating analysts' expectations.
The company added 379 customers to a total of 14,865. The stock is up 19.8% since the results and currently trades at $32.25.
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Sumo Logic (NASDAQ:SUMO)
Founded in 2010 by Christian Beegden who went from driving a cab in Germany to landing an internship at Amazon, Sumo Logic (NASDAQ:SUMO) is software as a service data analytics platform that helps companies get insight into what is happening in their servers and applications.
Sumo Logic reported revenues of $67 million, up 23.8% year on year, beating analyst expectations by 4.23%. It was a decent quarter for the company, with top-line results exceeding analysts' expectations and a very strong guidance for the next year.
The stock is down 4.93% since the results and currently trades at $10.21.
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