CrowdStrike Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results

• Ending ARR grows 34% year-over-year to reach $3.44 billion
• Net new ARR growth accelerates to 27% year-over-year and reaches a record $282 million
• Achieves fourth consecutive quarter of both record GAAP and non-GAAP net income
• Delivers record operating and free cash flow

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader that provides cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024, ended January 31, 2024.

“CrowdStrike delivered an exceptionally strong and record fourth quarter with net new ARR growth accelerating to 27% year-over-year, reaching a new high of $282 million and ending ARR growing 34% year-over-year to reach $3.44 billion,” said George Kurtz, CrowdStrike’s president, chief executive officer and co-founder. “Customers favor our single platform approach, standardizing on CrowdStrike for cloud security, identity protection, and LogScale next-gen SIEM solutions, together representing more than $850 million of ending ARR. CrowdStrike is cybersecurity’s consolidator of choice, innovator of choice, and platform of choice to stop breaches.”

Commenting on the company’s financial results, Burt Podbere, CrowdStrike’s chief financial officer, added, “Highlights of the fiscal year included, ending ARR growing 34%, four consecutive quarters of GAAP net income, 104% non-GAAP net income growth and free cash flow margin of 31%, exceeding our target for the year. Our achievements in fiscal 2024 represent another high-water mark for CrowdStrike and we remain relentlessly focused on profitably scaling the business to $10 billion ARR and beyond.”

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2024 Financial Highlights

• Revenue: Total revenue was $845.3 million, a 33% increase, compared to $637.4 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. Subscription revenue was $795.9 million, a 33% increase, compared to $598.3 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.
• Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) increased 34% year-over-year and grew to $3.44 billion as of January 31, 2024, of which $281.9 million was net new ARR added in the quarter.
• Subscription Gross Margin: GAAP subscription gross margin was 78%, compared to 75% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. Non-GAAP subscription gross margin was 80%, compared to 77% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.
• Income/Loss from Operations: GAAP income from operations was $29.7 million, compared to a loss of $61.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. Non-GAAP income from operations was $213.1 million, compared to $95.6 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.
• Net Income/Loss Attributable to CrowdStrike: GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike was $53.7 million, compared to a loss of $47.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. GAAP net income per share attributable to CrowdStrike, diluted was $0.22, compared to a loss of $0.20 in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. Non-GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike was $236.2 million, compared to $111.6 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. Non-GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike per share, diluted, was $0.95, compared to $0.47 in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.
• Cash Flow: Net cash generated from operations was $347.0 million, compared to $273.3 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. Free cash flow was $283.0 million, compared to $209.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.
• Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments was $3.47 billion as of January 31, 2024.

Full Year Fiscal 2024 Financial Highlights

• Revenue: Total revenue was $3.06 billion, a 36% increase, compared to $2.24 billion in fiscal 2023. Subscription revenue was $2.87 billion, a 36% increase, compared to $2.11 billion in fiscal 2023.
• Subscription Gross Margin: GAAP subscription gross margin was 78% in fiscal 2024, compared to 76% in fiscal 2023. Non-GAAP subscription gross margin was 80%, compared to 78% in fiscal 2023.
• Income/Loss from Operations: GAAP loss from operations was $2.0 million, compared to a loss of $190.1 million in fiscal 2023. Non-GAAP income from operations was $660.3 million, compared to $355.6 million in fiscal 2023.
• Net Income/Loss Attributable to CrowdStrike: GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike was $89.3 million, compared to a loss of $183.2 million in fiscal 2023. GAAP net income per share attributable to CrowdStrike, diluted, was $0.37, compared to a loss of $0.79 in fiscal 2023. Non-GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike was $751.8 million, compared to $368.4 million in fiscal 2023. Non-GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike per share, diluted, was $3.09, compared to $1.54 in fiscal 2023.
• Cash Flow: Net cash generated from operations was $1,166.2 million, compared to $941.0 million in fiscal 2023. Free cash flow was $938.2 million, compared to $676.8 million in fiscal 2023.

Recent Highlights

• CrowdStrike’s module adoption rates were 64%, 43% and 27% for five or more, six or more, and seven or more modules, respectively, as of January 31, 2024¹.
• Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms, positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision for the fourth consecutive time and highest for Ability to Execute among 15 vendors evaluated in the report².
• Recognized as Overall Customers’ Choice in 2024 Gartner Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Vulnerability Assessment Report³.
• Received the highest score of all vendors in the Strategy category and highest scores possible in the Vision and Innovation criteria in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2024 report⁴ and named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe, Q4 2023 report⁴.
• Agreed to acquire Flow Security, the industry’s first and only cloud data runtime security solution.
• Expanded strategic partnership to deliver Dell’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services with the industry-leading AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® XDR platform.
• Announced the general availability of CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection, Charlotte AI and Falcon for IT.
• Released the 2024 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, which highlighted a surge in adversaries leveraging stolen identity credentials.
• Completed the IRAP and TISAX assessments, the latest in a series of certifications of governments and industry associations around the world that expand access and accelerate the adoption of the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
• Announced that Optiv, the cyber advisory and solutions leader, surpassed the $1 billion milestone in sales of CrowdStrike’s AI-native Falcon platform.
• Ranked #3 in 2023 Fortune Future 50 List.

About CrowdStrike Holdings

• CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a global cybersecurity leader that provides cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data.
• Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and advanced artificial intelligence, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform delivers better outcomes to customers through rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
• CrowdStrike Falcon leverages a single lightweight-agent architecture with integrated cloud modules spanning multiple security markets, including corporate workload security, managed security services, security and vulnerability management, IT operations management, threat intelligence services, identity protection and log management.
• For more information, please visit: ir.crowdstrike.com
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