MicroStrategy Announces Fourth Quarter 2019 Financial Results

TYSONS CORNER, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$MSTR #MSTR—MicroStrategy^® (Nasdaq: MSTR), a global leader in enterprise analytics software and services, today announced financial results for the three-month period ended December 31, 2019 (the fourth quarter of its 2019 fiscal year).

“Our fourth quarter performance highlights increased customer adoption of our cloud offerings and our breakthrough HyperIntelligence^® product. We’re seeing customers deploy an impressive variety and scale of HyperIntelligence use cases, reflecting the product’s ability to bring intelligence to more users, making them significantly faster and smarter,” said Michael J. Saylor, CEO, MicroStrategy Incorporated.

Mr. Saylor continued, “Optimized for the cloud, our open, comprehensive enterprise analytics platform, combined with our expert services, has been resonating in the market. As we look at the year ahead, we will remain focused on driving new and existing customer adoption of our latest platform – MicroStrategy 2020^™ – leading with our HyperIntelligence and cloud offerings.”

Fourth Quarter 2019 Financial Highlights

• Revenues: Total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2019 were $133.5 million, a 1.2% increase, or a 2.7% increase on a non-GAAP constant currency basis, compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. Product licenses and subscription services revenues for the fourth quarter of 2019 were $37.3 million, a 2.5% decrease, or a 0.4% decrease on a non-GAAP constant currency basis, compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. Product support revenues for the fourth quarter of 2019 were $74.7 million, a 1.4% increase, or a 2.7% increase on a non-GAAP constant currency basis, compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. Other services revenues for the fourth quarter of 2019 were $21.5 million, a 7.5% increase, or an 8.6% increase on a non-GAAP constant currency basis, compared to the fourth quarter of 2018.
• Gross Profit: Gross profit for the fourth quarter of 2019 was $108.9 million, representing an 81.6% gross margin, compared to a gross margin of 80.4% in the fourth quarter of 2018.
• Operating Expenses: Operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2019 were $99.3 million, an 8.2% decrease compared to the fourth quarter of 2018.
• Income (Loss) from Operations: Income from operations for the fourth quarter of 2019 was $9.6 million versus loss from operations of $2.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2018. Non-GAAP income from operations, which excludes share-based compensation expense, was $12.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2019 versus $1.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2018.
• Net Income: Net income for the fourth quarter of 2019 was $12.2 million, or $1.18 per share on a diluted basis, as compared to net income of $3.3 million, or $0.30 per share on a diluted basis, for the fourth quarter of 2018.
• Cash and Short-term Investments: As of December 31, 2019, MicroStrategy had cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $565.6 million, as compared to $576.1 million as of December 31, 2018, a decrease of $10.5 million. During the fourth quarter of 2019, MicroStrategy repurchased 159,695 shares of its class A common stock for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $24.5 million. As of December 31, 2019, MicroStrategy had 8.1 million shares of class A common stock and 2.0 million shares of class B common stock outstanding.

The tables at the end of this press release include a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018. An explanation of non-GAAP financial measures is also included under the heading “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.

MicroStrategy adopted Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), and its subsequent amendments (“ASU 2016-02”), effective January 1, 2019. Comparative prior period consolidated financial statements have not been restated and are not directly comparable to the current period consolidated financial statements.

MicroStrategy uses its Intelligent Enterprise^™ platform across the enterprise and has created an interactive dossier with quarterly financial performance data. Anyone can access the MSTR Financials dossier via a web browser, or by downloading the MicroStrategy Library^™ app on an iOS or Android device. To download the native apps, visit MicroStrategy Library for iPad, MicroStrategy Library for iPhone, or MicroStrategy Library for Android tablet and smartphone.

Recent Business Highlights

The following are some key business highlights from the fourth quarter of 2019:

• A number of Fortune Global 500 companies, as well as numerous leading brands such as The Co-operators, Saint-Gobain, and Swiss Medical, purchased HyperIntelligence and are moving to empower their front-line employees with actionable insights.
• MicroStrategy announced that it will host its 23rd annual user conference, MicroStrategy World^™ 2020, from February 4 to February 6, 2020 in Orlando, Fla. Attendees will get a first look at the newest features and capabilities of MicroStrategy 2020, including new ways to experience HyperIntelligence, try new Dossier^® authoring tools for content creators, learn about the federated analytics connectors to Jupyter and RStudio for data scientists, and more. Attendees will learn how MicroStrategy 2020 together with innovative uses of artificial intelligence (“AI”), mobility, and cloud technologies can be deployed to significantly boost productivity and drive greater analytics adoption across the enterprise.
• MicroStrategy released the results of its “2020 Global State of Enterprise Analytics” report revealing that, despite 94% of organizations believing data and analytics is important to their digital transformation and business growth, most are not enabling a data-driven culture. Among the many findings, the report revealed that for 60% of employees, it takes hours or days to get the information they need, while only 3% can find information in seconds.
• MicroStrategy published its “10 Enterprise Analytics Trends to Watch in 2020” report. In collaboration with leading analysts and influencers from Forrester, IDC, Constellation Research, Ventana Research and others, the annual MicroStrategy compilation highlights trends and insights that range from AI and mobile intelligence, to the explosion of data and data sources, to some very human factors including a predicted shortage of data and analytics talent.
• MicroStrategy launched a new technology partnership with DataRobot, a leader in enterprise AI, designed to make it easier for businesses to integrate AI into their most popular applications and core processes by leveraging HyperIntelligence cards to deliver AI-driven insights and recommendations. HyperIntelligence seamlessly injects trusted and predictive analytics directly into popular business applications on both web and mobile – including Google’s G Suite, Microsoft Office 365, and SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Workday, and Confluence – making it possible to instantly reveal insights to users without interrupting their existing workflows.
• MicroStrategy introduced innovations that aim to significantly boost productivity and drive analytics adoption to 100%. HyperIntelligence for Mobile is designed to provide the speed and agility that users need to make important decisions and take action quickly outside of the office.
• MicroStrategy announced that 94% of survey respondents in The BI Survey 19, the industry’s largest independent global survey of BI users, recommend MicroStrategy. Conducted by the Business Application Research Center, The BI Survey 19 ranked MicroStrategy first in self-service, visual analysis, and location intelligence among the large global enterprise BI platforms peer group. In addition, MicroStrategy was rated a leader in its peer groups for business value, business benefits, mobile BI, innovation, functionality, dashboards, query performance, and distribution of reports.

Conference Call

MicroStrategy will be discussing its fourth quarter 2019 financial results on a conference call today beginning at approximately 5:00 p.m. EST. To access the conference call, dial (844) 824-7425 (domestically) or (716) 220-9429 (internationally) and use conference ID 6574498. A live and archived webcast will be available under the “Events” section on MicroStrategy’s investor relations website at https://ir.microstrategy.com/events-presentations. A replay of the conference call will be available beginning approximately two hours after the call concludes until February 4, 2020 at (855) 859-2056 (domestically) or (404) 537-3406 (internationally) using the passcode 6574498.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

MicroStrategy is providing supplemental financial measures for (i) non-GAAP income (loss) from operations that excludes the impact of share-based compensation arrangements, (ii) non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share that exclude the impact from the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “U.S. tax reform”) in the third quarter of 2018 and the sale of the Voice.com domain name (the “Domain Name Sale”) in the second quarter of 2019, and (iii) non-GAAP constant currency revenues that exclude foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. These supplemental financial measures are not measurements of financial performance under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) and, as a result, these supplemental financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally to help understand, manage, and evaluate business performance and to help make operating decisions.

MicroStrategy believes that these non-GAAP financial measures are also useful to investors and analysts in comparing its performance across reporting periods on a consistent basis. The first supplemental financial measure excludes a significant non-cash expense that MicroStrategy believes is not reflective of its general business performance, and for which the accounting requires management judgment and the resulting share-based compensation expense could vary significantly in comparison to other companies. The second set of supplemental financial measures excludes the impact from the U.S. tax reform, which was a one-time tax charge, and the Domain Name Sale, which is outside of MicroStrategy’s normal business operations. The third set of supplemental financial measures excludes changes resulting from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates so that results may be compared to the same period in the prior year on a non-GAAP “constant currency” basis. MicroStrategy believes the use of these non-GAAP financial measures can also facilitate comparison of MicroStrategy’s operating results to those of its competitors.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a global leader in enterprise analytics software and services. Our vision is to enable Intelligence Everywhere^™. MicroStrategy provides modern analytics on an open, comprehensive enterprise platform used by many of the world’s most admired brands in the Fortune Global 500. Optimized for cloud and on-premises deployments, the platform features HyperIntelligence, a breakthrough technology that overlays actionable enterprise data on popular business applications to help users make smarter, faster decisions. For more information about MicroStrategy, visit www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, HyperIntelligence, MicroStrategy 2020, Intelligent Enterprise, MicroStrategy Library, MicroStrategy World, Dossier, and Intelligence Everywhere are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the extent and timing of market acceptance of MicroStrategy’s new offerings, including MicroStrategy 2020; the Company’s ability to recognize revenue or deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s other products in the marketplace; fluctuations in tax benefits or provisions; the timing of significant orders; delays in or the inability of the Company to develop or ship new products; a substantial customer shift from a product license model to a cloud-based subscription model; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

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(1) Basic and fully diluted earnings per share for class A and class B common stock are the same.

* Derived from audited financial statements.

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