10-20-2025: Snowflake Inc. Cl A (SNOW): Understanding What They Do Is Difficult
Description of Company
Snowflake Inc. provides software solutions. The company develops database architecture, data warehouses, query optimization and parallelization solutions. Snowflake, Inc. is based in California. Warren Buffet is quoted as saying he selected stocks to buy and hold based upon (among other things) his ability to understand the product of the company and familiarity with it. Looking at the company's website, it demonstrates a rather impressive list of clients, but people who do not know us well, told us we demonstrate an impressive list of clients simply by having corporate names appear in our data. We are not totally convinced this is a good criterion, as Snowflake appears to have demonstrated five straight years of losses but appears to be at a turning point toward profitability.
Recent Charts
Our (technical) predictive charts think SNOW stock has entered into a tight trading range. The point of control chart (above) where institutions provide support is right at about where we are now at 240.00. The trend based upon the last 3 days suggests the stock may be heeling over into a downtrend for a bit. This stock is definitely playhing in the artificial intelligence group based upon its attempts to merge efforts with A.I. companies making it somewhat immune to standard financial strength indicators. Anything in the A.I. mix is going to be attracting speculative investors. Despite all the historical losses showing, we would have to bite the bullet and conclude the stock is a very weak buy at this stage, but the entry point could be safer around 220.00.
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Overview
We believe that a cloud computing platform that puts data and artificial intelligence (AI) at its core will offer great benefits to organizations by allowing them to realize the value of the data that powers their businesses. By offering rich primitives for data and applications, we believe that we can create a data connected world where organizations have seamless access to explore, share, and unlock the value of data. To realize this vision, we deliver the AI Data Cloud, a network where Snowflake customers, partners, developers, data providers, and data consumers can break down data silos and derive value from a growing number of data sets in secure, governed, and compliant ways.
Our platform is the innovative technology that powers the AI Data Cloud, enabling customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful insights, apply AI to solve business problems, build data applications, and share data and data products. We provide our platform through a customer-centric, consumption-based business model, only charging customers for the resources they use.
Our cloud-native architecture includes three independently scalable but logically integrated layers across compute, storage, and cloud services. The compute layer provides dedicated resources to enable users to simultaneously access common data sets for many use cases with minimal latency. The storage layer ingests massive amounts and varieties of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to create a unified data record. The cloud services layer intelligently optimizes each use case’s performance requirements with no administration. This architecture is built on three major public clouds across 47 regional deployments around the world. These deployments are generally interconnected to deliver the AI Data Cloud, enabling a consistent, global user experience.
We generate the substantial majority of our revenue from fees charged to our customers based on the compute, storage, and data transfer resources consumed on our platform. Customers are allowed to select compute, storage, and data transfer resources separately, at their discretion. For compute resources, consumption is based on the type of compute resource used and the duration of use or, for some features, the volume of data processed. For storage resources, consumption for a given customer is based on the average terabytes per month of all of such customer’s data stored in our platform. For data transfer resources, consumption is based on terabytes of data transferred, the public cloud provider used, and the region to and from which the transfer is executed.
Our customers typically enter into capacity arrangements with a term of one to four years, or consume our platform under on-demand arrangements in which we charge for use of our platform monthly in arrears. Consumption for most customers accelerates from the beginning of their usage to the end of their contract terms and often exceeds their initial capacity commitment amounts. When this occurs, our customers have the option to amend their existing agreement with us to purchase additional capacity or request early renewals. When a customer’s consumption during the contract term does not exceed its capacity commitment amount, it may have the option to roll over any unused capacity to future periods, generally upon the purchase of additional capacity. For these reasons, we believe our deferred revenue is not a meaningful indicator of future revenue that will be recognized in any given time period.
Our go-to-market strategy is focused on acquiring new customers and driving increased use of our platform for existing customers. We primarily focus our selling efforts on large organizations and primarily sell our platform through a direct sales force, which targets technical and business leaders who are adopting a cloud strategy and leveraging data to improve their business performance. Our sales force is comprised of sales development, inside sales, and field sales personnel and is segmented by the industry, size, and region of prospective customers. Once our platform has been adopted, we focus on increasing the migration of additional customer workloads to our platform to drive increased consumption, as evidenced by our net revenue retention rate of 126% and 131% as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. See the section titled “Key Business Metrics” for a definition of net revenue retention rate.
Our platform is used globally by organizations of all sizes across a broad range of industries. As of January 31, 2025, we had 11,159 total customers, increasing from 9,384 customers as of January 31, 2024. Our customer count is subject to adjustments for acquisitions, consolidations, spin-offs, and other market activity, and we present our total customer count for historical periods reflecting these adjustments. Our platform has been adopted by many of the world’s largest organizations that view Snowflake as a key strategic partner in their cloud and data transformation initiatives. As of January 31, 2025, our customers included 745 of the Forbes Global 2000, based on the 2024 Forbes Global 2000 list, and those customers contributed approximately 42% of our revenue for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025. Our Forbes Global 2000 customer count is subject to adjustments for annual updates to the Global 2000 list by Forbes, as well as acquisitions, consolidations, spin-offs, and other market activity with respect to such customers, and we present our Forbes Global 2000 customer count for historical periods reflecting these adjustments.
Fiscal Year
Our fiscal year ends on January 31. For example, references to fiscal 2025 refer to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025.
Convertible Senior Notes
In September 2024, we completed a private offering of $1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of 0% convertible senior notes due 2027 (2027 Notes) and $1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of 0% convertible senior notes due 2029 (2029 Notes, and together with the 2027 Notes, the Notes). The total proceeds from the issuance of the Notes were approximately $2.27 billion, net of $31.2 million of debt issuance costs.
We used a portion of the net proceeds from the offering to (i) pay the $195.5 million cost of the privately negotiated capped call transactions relating to each series of the Notes (Capped Calls) and (ii) repurchase $399.6 million of our common stock from purchasers of the Notes in the offering in privately negotiated transactions entered into in connection with the Notes offering at a purchase price of $112.50 per share.
Stock Repurchase Program
In February 2023, our board of directors authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $2.0 billion of our outstanding common stock. In August 2024, our board of directors authorized the repurchase of an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock and extended the expiration date of the stock repurchase program from March 2025 to March 2027. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, we repurchased 14.8 million shares of our outstanding common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $1.9 billion, excluding transaction costs associated with the repurchases, at a weighted-average price of $130.87 per share. All repurchases were made in open market transactions, except for the 3.6 million shares of our outstanding common stock that were repurchased for $399.6 million from purchasers of the Notes in the offering in privately negotiated transactions entered into in connection with the Notes offering at a purchase price of $112.50 per share. As of January 31, 2025, $2.0 billion remained available for future repurchases under the stock repurchase program (exclusive of transaction costs associated with repurchases).
The timing and amount of any repurchases will be determined by management based on an evaluation of market conditions and other factors. The program does not obligate us to acquire any particular amount of common stock, and the repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time at our discretion.
Business Combination
On November 25, 2024, we acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Datavolo, Inc. (Datavolo), a privately-held company that built a dataflow infrastructure to support the creation, management, and observability of multimodal data pipelines for enterprise AI. The acquisition date fair value of the preliminary purchase consideration was $106.8 million, which was comprised of 0.5 million shares of our common stock valued at $87.7 million as of the acquisition date and $19.1 million in cash. In addition, we issued to certain of Datavolo’s employees a total of 0.4 million shares of our common stock in exchange for a portion of their Datavolo stock. These shares are subject to vesting agreements pursuant to which the shares will vest over four years, subject to each of these employees’ continued employment with us or our affiliates. The $64.6 million fair value of these shares is accounted for as post-combination stock-based compensation over the requisite service period of four years.
The results of operations of this business combination have been included in our consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition. See Note 7, “Business Combinations,” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for details regarding this business combination.
Key Factors Affecting Our Performance
Adoption of our Platform and Expansion of the AI Data Cloud
Our future success depends in large part on the market adoption of our platform, including new product functionality, such as, Snowpark and our artificial intelligence and machine learning technology (AI Technology), such as Snowflake Cortex AI. While we see growing demand for our platform, particularly from large enterprises, many of these organizations have invested substantial technical, financial, and personnel resources in their existing database products or big data offerings. In addition, customers’ use of our AI Technology is often dependent on their ability to meet evolving regulatory standards, successfully complete internal compliance reviews, and enter into mutually acceptable contractual terms. While this makes it difficult to predict customer adoption rates and future demand, we believe that the benefits of our platform put us in a strong position to capture the significant market opportunity ahead.
Our platform powers the AI Data Cloud, a network of data providers, data consumers, and data application developers that enables our customers to securely share, monetize, and acquire live data sets and data products. The AI Data Cloud includes access to the Snowflake Marketplace, through which customers can access or acquire third-party data sets, data applications, and other data products. Our future growth is increasingly dependent on our ability to increase consumption of our platform by building and expanding the AI Data Cloud.
Expanding Within our Existing Customer Base
Our large base of customers represents a significant opportunity for further consumption of our platform. While we have seen an increase in the number of customers that have contributed more than $1 million in product revenue in the trailing 12 months, we believe that there is a substantial opportunity to continue growing these customers further, as well as continuing to expand the usage of our platform within our other existing customers. We plan to continue investing to encourage increased consumption and adoption of new use cases among our existing customers, particularly large enterprises.
Once deployed, our customers often expand their use of our platform more broadly within the enterprise and across their ecosystem of customers and partners as they migrate more data to the public cloud, identify new use cases, and realize the benefits of our platform and the AI Data Cloud. However, because we generally recognize product revenue on consumption and not ratably over the term of the contract, we do not have visibility into the timing of revenue recognition from any particular customer. In addition, many customers are attempting to rationalize budgets, prioritize cash flow management, and optimize consumption amidst macroeconomic uncertainty. In any given period, there is a risk that customer consumption of our platform will be slower than we expect, which may cause fluctuations in our revenue and results of operations.
New software releases or hardware improvements, like better storage compression, cloud infrastructure processor improvements, and compute optimization, may make our platform more efficient, enabling customers to consume fewer compute, storage, and data transfer resources to accomplish the same workloads. In addition, new product features allow customers to use our platform for compute services without requiring storage. To the extent these improvements do not result in an offsetting increase in new workloads, we may experience lower revenue. Our ability to increase usage of our platform by, and sell additional contracted capacity to, existing customers, and, in particular, large enterprise customers, will depend on a number of factors, including our customers’ satisfaction with our platform, competition, pricing, macroeconomic conditions, overall changes in our customers’ spending levels, customers’ attempts to optimize their consumption, our customers’ confidence in the security of our platform, our ability to maintain our reputation as a trustworthy vendor, the effectiveness of our and our partners’ efforts to help our customers realize the benefits of our platform, and the extent to which customers migrate new workloads to our platform over time, including data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning workloads.
Acquiring New Customers
We believe there is a substantial opportunity to further grow our customer base by continuing to make significant investments in sales and marketing and brand awareness. Our ability to attract new customers will depend on a number of factors, including the productivity of our sales organization, competitive dynamics in our target markets, changes in our customers’ spending and platform consumption in response to market uncertainty, our ability to mitigate reputational damage following cybersecurity threat activity directed at our customers, and our ability to build and maintain partner relationships, including with global system integrators, resellers, technology partners, and third-party providers of native applications on the Snowflake Marketplace. While our platform is built for organizations of all sizes, we focus our selling efforts on large enterprise customers, customers with vast amounts of data, and customers requiring industry-specific solutions. We may not achieve anticipated revenue growth if we are unable to attract, hire, develop, integrate, and retain talented and effective sales personnel; if our sales personnel are unable to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time and maintain productivity; or if our sales and marketing programs are not effective.
Investing in Growth and Scaling our Business
We are focused on our long-term revenue potential and believe our market opportunity is large. We will continue to invest significantly in research and development to improve our platform, including in the areas of data science and AI Technology. In addition, we are focused on expanding our business both domestically and internationally. As part of these efforts, we are investing in meeting the needs of organizations in geographies and government and regulated industries that have heightened requirements, including with respect to data localization, privacy, and security. We intend to continue to invest heavily to grow our business to take advantage of our expansive market opportunity, while also focusing on cash flow and long-term profitability.
Product Revenue
Product revenue is a key metric for us because we recognize revenue based on platform consumption, which is inherently variable at our customers’ discretion, and not based on the amount and duration of contract terms. Product revenue is primarily derived from the consumption of compute, storage, and data transfer resources by customers on our platform. Customers have the flexibility to consume more than their contracted capacity during the contract term and may have the ability to roll over unused capacity to future periods, generally upon the purchase of additional capacity at renewal. Our consumption-based business model distinguishes us from subscription-based software companies that generally recognize revenue ratably over the contract term and may not permit rollover. Because customers have flexibility in the timing of their consumption, which can exceed their contracted capacity or extend beyond the original contract term in many cases, the amount of product revenue recognized in a given period is an important indicator of customer satisfaction and the value derived from our platform. While customer use of our platform in any period is not necessarily indicative of future use, we estimate future revenue using predictive models based on customers’ historical usage to plan and determine financial forecasts. Product revenue excludes our professional services and other revenue, which has been less than 10% of revenue for each of the periods presented.
Net Revenue Retention Rate
We believe the growth in use of our platform by our existing customers is an important measure of the health of our business and our future growth prospects. We monitor our dollar-based net revenue retention rate to measure this growth. To calculate this metric, we first specify a measurement period consisting of the trailing two years from our current period end. Next, we define as our measurement cohort the population of customers under capacity contracts that used our platform at any point in the first month of the first year of the measurement period. The cohorts used to calculate net revenue retention rate include end-customers under a reseller arrangement. We then calculate our net revenue retention rate as the quotient obtained by dividing our product revenue from this cohort in the second year of the measurement period by our product revenue from this cohort in the first year of the measurement period. Any customer in the cohort that did not use our platform in the second year remains in the calculation and contributes zero product revenue in the second year. Our net revenue retention rate is subject to adjustments for acquisitions, consolidations, spin-offs, and other market activity, and we present our net revenue retention rate for historical periods reflecting these adjustments. Since we will continue to attribute the historical product revenue to the consolidated contract, consolidation of capacity contracts within a customer’s organization typically will not impact our net revenue retention rate unless one of those customers was not a customer at any point in the first month of the first year of the measurement period. We expect our net revenue retention rate to decrease over the long-term as customers that have consumed our platform for an extended period of time become a larger portion of both our overall customer base and our product revenue that we use to calculate net revenue retention rate, and as their consumption growth primarily relates to existing use cases rather than new use cases. In addition, we have seen, and may continue to see, impacts on customer consumption patterns due to holidays and certain of our customers increasing their consumption of our platform at a slower pace than expected, which may negatively impact our net revenue retention rate in future periods.
Customers with Trailing 12-Month Product Revenue Greater than $1 Million
Large customer relationships lead to scale and operating leverage in our business model. Compared with smaller customers, large customers present a greater opportunity for us to sell additional capacity because they have larger budgets, a wider range of potential use cases, and greater potential for migrating new workloads to our platform over time. As a measure of our ability to scale with our customers and attract large enterprises to our platform, we count the number of customers under capacity arrangements that contributed more than $1 million in product revenue in the trailing 12 months. For purposes of determining our customer count, we treat each customer account, including accounts for end-customers under a reseller arrangement, that has at least one corresponding capacity contract as a unique customer, and a single organization with multiple divisions, segments, or subsidiaries may be counted as multiple customers. We do not include customers that consume our platform only under on-demand arrangements for purposes of determining our customer count. Our customer count is subject to adjustments for acquisitions, consolidations, spin-offs, and other market activity, and we present our customer count for historical periods reflecting these adjustments.
Free Cash Flow
We define free cash flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities reduced by purchases of property and equipment and capitalized internal-use software development costs. Cash outflows for employee payroll tax items related to the net share settlement of equity awards are included in cash flow for financing activities and, as a result, do not have an effect on the calculation of free cash flow. We believe information regarding free cash flow provides useful supplemental information to investors because it is an indicator of the strength and performance of our core business operations.
Remaining Performance Obligations
Remaining performance obligations (RPO) represent the amount of contracted future revenue that has not yet been recognized, including (i) deferred revenue and (ii) non-cancelable contracted amounts that will be invoiced and recognized as revenue in future periods. RPO excludes performance obligations from on-demand arrangements and certain time and materials contracts that are billed in arrears. Portions of RPO that are not yet invoiced and are denominated in foreign currencies are revalued into U.S. dollars each period based on the applicable period-end exchange rates. RPO is not necessarily indicative of future product revenue growth because it does not account for the timing of customers’ consumption or their consumption of more than their contracted capacity. Moreover, RPO is influenced by a number of factors, including the timing and size of renewals, the timing and size of purchases of additional capacity, average contract terms, seasonality, changes in foreign currency exchange rates, and the extent to which customers are permitted to roll over unused capacity to future periods, generally upon the purchase of additional capacity at renewal. Due to these factors, it is important to review RPO in conjunction with product revenue and other financial metrics disclosed elsewhere herein.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenue
We deliver our platform over the internet as a service. Customers choose to consume our platform under either capacity arrangements, in which they commit to a certain amount of consumption at specified prices, or under on-demand arrangements, in which we charge for use of our platform monthly in arrears. Under capacity arrangements, from which a majority of our revenue is derived, we typically bill our customers annually in advance of their consumption. However, in future periods, we expect to see an increase in capacity contracts providing for quarterly upfront billings and monthly in arrears billings as our customers increasingly want to align consumption and timing of payments. Revenue from on-demand arrangements typically relates to customers with lower usage levels or overage consumption beyond a customer’s contracted usage amount under a capacity contract or following the expiration of a customer’s capacity contract. Revenue from on-demand arrangements represented approximately 2%, 3%, and 2% of our revenue for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
We recognize revenue as customers consume compute, storage, and data transfer resources under either of these arrangements. In limited instances, customers pay an annual deployment fee to gain access to a dedicated instance of a virtual private deployment. We recognize the deployment fee ratably over the contract term. Such deployment revenue represented less than 1% of our revenue for all periods presented.
Our customer contracts for capacity typically have a term of one to four years. The weighted-average term of capacity contracts entered into during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 is approximately 2.9 years. To the extent our customers enter into such contracts and either consume our platform in excess of their capacity commitments or continue to use our platform after expiration of the contract term, they are charged for their incremental consumption. In many cases, our customer contracts permit customers to roll over any unused capacity to a subsequent order, generally upon the purchase of additional capacity. For those customers who do not have a capacity arrangement, our on-demand arrangements generally have a monthly stated contract term and can be terminated at any time by either the customer or us.
We generate the substantial majority of our revenue from fees charged to our customers based on the compute, storage, and data transfer resources consumed on our platform. Customers are allowed to select compute, storage, and data transfer resources separately, at their discretion. For compute resources, consumption is based on the type of compute resource used and the duration of use or, for some features, the volume of data processed. For storage resources, consumption for a given customer is based on the average terabytes per month of all of such customer’s data stored in our platform. For data transfer resources, consumption is based on terabytes of data transferred, the public cloud provider used, and the region to and from which the transfer is executed.
Because customers have flexibility in their consumption, and we generally recognize revenue on consumption and not ratably over the term of the contract, we do not have the visibility into the timing of revenue recognition from any particular customer contract that typical subscription-based software companies may have. As our customer base grows, we expect our ability to forecast customer consumption in the aggregate to improve. However, in any given period, there is a risk that customers will consume our platform more slowly than we expect, including in response to adverse macroeconomic conditions, which may cause fluctuations in our revenue and results of operations.
Our revenue also includes professional services and other revenue, which consists primarily of consulting, technical solution services, and training related to our platform. Our professional services revenue is recognized over time based on input measures, including time and materials costs incurred relative to total costs, with consideration given to output measures, such as contract deliverables, when applicable. Other revenue consists primarily of fees from customer training delivered on-site or through publicly available classes.
Allocation of Overhead Costs
Overhead costs that are not substantially dedicated for use by a specific functional group are allocated based on headcount. Such costs include costs associated with office facilities, depreciation of property and equipment, information technology (IT) and general recruiting related expenses and other expenses, such as software and subscription services.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of revenue consists of cost of product revenue and cost of professional services and other revenue. Cost of revenue also includes allocated overhead costs.
Cost of product revenue. Cost of product revenue consists primarily of (i) third-party cloud infrastructure expenses, including those related to graphics processing units (GPUs), incurred in connection with our customers’ use of our platform and the deployment and maintenance of our platform on public clouds, including different regional deployments, and (ii) personnel-related costs associated with customer support and maintaining service availability and security of our platform, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. We periodically receive credits from third-party cloud providers that are recorded as a reduction to the third-party cloud infrastructure expenses. Cost of product revenue also includes amortization of capitalized internal-use software development costs, amortization of acquired intangible assets, and expenses associated with software and subscription services dedicated for use by our customer support team and our engineering team responsible for maintaining our platform.
Cost of professional services and other revenue. Cost of professional services and other revenue consists primarily of personnel-related costs associated with our professional services and training departments, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation, amortization of an acquired intangible asset, and costs of contracted third-party partners and software tools.
We intend to continue to invest additional resources in our platform infrastructure and our customer support and professional services organizations to support the growth of our business. Some of these investments, including certain support costs and costs of expanding our business internationally, are incurred in advance of generating revenue, and either the failure to generate anticipated revenue or fluctuations in the timing of revenue could affect our gross margin from period to period.
Operating Expenses
Our operating expenses consist of sales and marketing, research and development, and general and administrative expenses. Personnel costs are the most significant component of operating expenses and consist of salaries, benefits, bonuses, stock-based compensation, and sales commissions. Operating expenses also include allocated overhead costs.
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses associated with our sales and marketing staff, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. Sales and marketing expenses also include sales commissions and draws paid to our sales force and certain referral fees paid to third parties, including amortization of deferred commissions. A portion of the sales commissions paid to the sales force is earned based on the level of the customers’ consumption of our platform, and a portion of the commissions paid to the sales force is earned upon the origination, expansion, or renewal of customer contracts. Sales commissions tied to customers’ consumption are expensed in the same period as they are earned. Sales commissions and referral fees earned upon the origination or expansion of customer contracts that are not commensurate with those earned upon the renewal of contracts are capitalized and then amortized over a period of benefit that we determined to be five years. Sales commissions earned upon the renewal of customer contracts, as well as sales commissions earned upon the origination or expansion of customer contracts that are commensurate with those for renewal contracts, are capitalized and then amortized over the respective weighted-average contractual term of the related contracts. Sales and marketing expenses also include advertising costs and other expenses associated with our sales, marketing and business development programs, including our user conferences, offset by proceeds from such conferences and programs. In addition, sales and marketing expenses are comprised of travel-related expenses, software and subscription services dedicated for use by our sales and marketing organizations, amortization of acquired intangible assets, and outside services contracted for sales and marketing purposes. We expect that our sales and marketing expenses will increase in absolute dollars and continue to be our largest operating expense for the foreseeable future as we grow our business. However, we expect that our sales and marketing expenses will decrease as a percentage of our revenue over time, although the percentage may fluctuate from period to period depending on the timing and the extent of these expenses.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses associated with our research and development staff, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. Research and development expenses also include contractor or professional services fees, third-party cloud infrastructure expenses incurred primarily in developing our platform (including with respect to GPUs to develop AI Technology), amortization of acquired intangible assets, and software and subscription services dedicated for use by our research and development organization. We expect that our research and development expenses will increase in absolute dollars as our business grows, particularly as we incur additional costs related to continued investments in our platform. However, we expect that our research and development expenses will decrease as a percentage of our revenue over time, although the percentage may fluctuate from period to period depending on the timing and the extent of these expenses. In addition, research and development expenses that qualify as internal-use software development costs are capitalized.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses for our finance, legal, human resources, facilities, and administrative personnel, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expenses also include external legal, accounting, and other professional services fees, software and subscription services dedicated for use by our general and administrative functions, insurance, unallocated lease costs associated with unused office facilities to accommodate planned headcount growth, and other corporate expenses. We expect that our general and administrative expenses will increase in absolute dollars as our business grows but will decrease as a percentage of our revenue over time, although the percentage may fluctuate from period to period depending on the timing and the extent of these expenses. In addition, we expect our general and administrative expenses to increase during fiscal 2026 due to anticipated asset impairment charges upon the cease-use of our San Mateo office facility.
Interest Income
Interest income consists primarily of interest income earned on our cash and cash equivalents and short-term and long-term investments, including amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts related to our available-for-sale marketable debt securities, net of associated fees.
Product revenue increased $795.6 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily due to increased consumption of our platform by existing customers, as evidenced by our net revenue retention rate of 126% as of January 31, 2025.
We had 580 customers with product revenue of greater than $1 million for the trailing 12 months ended January 31, 2025, an increase from 455 customers as of January 31, 2024. Such customers represented approximately 67% and 65% of our product revenue for the trailing 12 months ended January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Within these customers, we had 110 and 39 customers with product revenue of greater than $5 million and $10 million, respectively, for the trailing 12 months ended January 31, 2025. The substantial majority of our revenue was derived from existing customers under capacity arrangements, which represented approximately 97% of our revenue for each of the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024. The remainder was derived from on-demand arrangements and new customers under capacity arrangements. The preceding historical metrics reflect any adjustments for acquisitions, consolidations, spin-offs, and other market activity. For purposes of determining revenue derived from (i) customers with trailing 12-month product revenue greater than $1 million, (ii) new customers, and (iii) existing customers, we treat each customer account, including accounts for end-customers under a reseller arrangement, that has at least one corresponding capacity contract as a unique customer, and a single organization with multiple divisions, segments, or subsidiaries may be counted as multiple customers.
Professional services and other revenue increased $24.3 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, as we continued to expand our professional services organization to help our customers further realize the benefits of our platform.
Cost of Revenue, Gross Profit (Loss), and Gross Margin
Cost of product revenue increased $290.9 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year. The increase was primarily due to an increase of $176.8 million in third-party cloud infrastructure expenses (including those related to GPUs), mainly as a result of increased customer consumption of our platform. Personnel-related costs and allocated overhead costs also increased $45.3 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, as a result of increased headcount and overall costs to support the growth in our business, and increased stock-based compensation primarily related to additional equity awards granted to existing and new employees. Additionally, amortization of capitalized internal-use software development costs and acquired developed technology intangible assets also increased $37.5 million and $11.1 million, respectively, for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year. The remaining increase in cost of product revenue was primarily attributable to $7.7 million in costs incurred by us during fiscal 2025 in connection with a restructuring plan for a majority-owned subsidiary.
Our product gross margin was 71% for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to 74% for the prior fiscal year. This decline is primarily attributable to newly launched product capabilities and features that have not yet reached economies of scale. We expect our product gross margin to fluctuate from period to period due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to: (i) fluctuations in the mix and timing of customers’ consumption, which is inherently variable at our customers’ discretion, (ii) our pricing model and discounting practices, (iii) the extent of our investments in new product capabilities, features, and operations, such as investments in AI Technology and performance improvements that may make our platform or the underlying cloud infrastructure more efficient, and (iv) stock-based compensation.
Cost of professional services and other revenue increased $25.2 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily due to an increase of $12.9 million in personnel-related costs and allocated overhead costs as a result of increased headcount. The remaining increase in cost of professional services and other revenue was primarily driven by an increase of $10.9 million in costs of contracted third-party partners and software tools to support the growth in our business.
Professional services and other gross margin was (36%) and (41%) for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We do not believe the year-over-year changes in professional services and other gross margins are meaningful given that our professional services and other revenue represents a small percentage of our revenue.
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expenses increased $280.3 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily due to an increase of $131.7 million in personnel-related costs (excluding commission expenses) and allocated overhead costs, as a result of increased headcount, stock-based compensation, and overall costs to support the growth in our business. The increase in personnel-related costs included a $32.1 million increase in stock-based compensation for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily related to additional equity awards granted to existing and new employees, partially offset by the effects of equity awards that became forfeited or fully vested.
Expenses associated with sales commissions and draws paid to our sales force and certain referral fees paid to third parties, including amortization of deferred commissions, also increased $86.0 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily attributable to sales commissions tied to customers’ consumption. In addition, advertising costs and other expenses associated with our sales, marketing and business development programs increased $26.0 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year. The remaining increase in sales and marketing expenses for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 was primarily attributable to a $16.1 million increase in travel-related expenses.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses increased $495.4 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily due to an increase of $389.2 million in personnel-related costs and allocated overhead costs, as a result of increased stock-based compensation, headcount, and overall costs to support the growth in our business. The increase in personnel-related costs included a $207.1 million increase in stock-based compensation, primarily related to additional equity awards granted to existing and new employees, partially offset by the effects of equity awards that became forfeited or fully vested.
Third-party cloud infrastructure expenses, incurred primarily in developing our platform (including with respect to GPUs to develop AI Technology), also increased $92.7 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year. The remaining increase in research and development expenses for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 was primarily attributable to $11.0 million in costs incurred by us during fiscal 2025 in connection with a restructuring plan for a majority-owned subsidiary.
The overall increase in research and development expenses for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 was partially offset by impairment charges of $7.1 million recognized during fiscal 2024. These impairment charges were related to our capitalized internal-use software development costs previously included in construction in progress that were no longer probable of being completed.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses increased $89.3 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily due to an increase in personnel-related costs and allocated overhead costs, as a result of increased stock-based compensation, headcount, and overall costs to support the growth in our business.
Interest Income
Interest income increased $8.3 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily due to higher yields on our cash equivalents and investments in available-for-sale marketable debt securities. See Note 4, “Cash Equivalents and Investments,” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further details on our cash equivalents and investments.
Other Income (Expense), Net
Other income (expense), net decreased $80.2 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the prior fiscal year, primarily due to changes in net realized and unrealized gains (losses) and impairments on our strategic investments in equity securities. See Note 5, “Fair Value Measurements,” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further details.
Provision for (Benefit from) Income Taxes
Our provision for income taxes was $4.1 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to our benefit from income taxes of $11.2 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, primarily due to partial releases of valuation allowances from the business combinations completed during fiscal 2024.
We maintain a full valuation allowance on our U.S. and U.K. deferred tax assets, and the significant components of our recorded tax expense are current cash taxes in various jurisdictions. The cash tax expenses are impacted by each jurisdiction’s individual tax rates, laws on the timing of recognition of income and deductions, and availability of net operating losses and tax credits. Our effective tax rate might fluctuate significantly and could be adversely affected to the extent earnings are lower than forecasted in countries that have lower statutory rates and higher than forecasted in countries that have higher statutory rates.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of January 31, 2025, our principal sources of liquidity were cash, cash equivalents, and short-term and long-term investments totaling $5.3 billion. Our cash equivalents and investments primarily consist of money market funds, corporate notes and bonds, U.S. government and agency securities, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, and time deposits.
As of January 31, 2025, our RPO was $6.9 billion. Our RPO represents the amount of contracted future revenue that has not yet been recognized, including (i) deferred revenue and (ii) non-cancelable contracted amounts that will be invoiced and recognized as revenue in future periods, but that are not recorded on the balance sheet. Portions of RPO that are not yet invoiced and are denominated in foreign currencies are revalued into U.S. dollars each period based on the applicable period-end exchange rates.
Our primary source of cash is payments received from our customers as well as net proceeds from the issuance of the Notes. Our primary uses of cash include personnel-related expenses, third-party cloud infrastructure expenses (including with respect to GPUs to develop AI Technology), sales and marketing expenses, overhead costs, acquisitions and strategic investments we may make from time to time, and repurchases of our common stock under our authorized stock repurchase program. As of January 31, 2025, our material cash requirements from known contractual obligations and commitments relate primarily to (i) third-party cloud infrastructure agreements, (ii) the Notes, (iii) operating leases for office facilities, and (iv) subscription arrangements used to facilitate our operations at the enterprise level. These agreements are enforceable and legally binding and specify all significant terms, including fixed or minimum services to be used, fixed, minimum or variable price provisions, and the approximate timing of the actions under the contracts. For more information regarding our contractual obligations and commitments (excluding the Notes) as of January 31, 2025, see Note 11, “Commitments and Contingencies,” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our long-term purchase commitments may be satisfied earlier than the payment periods presented as we continue to grow and scale our business.
Convertible Senior Notes
In September 2024, we issued an aggregate principal amount of $2.3 billion of the Notes in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers, comprising of (i) $1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes and (ii) $1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of the 2029 Notes. Each series of Notes was issued pursuant to separate indentures, as supplemented (each an Indenture and together, the Indentures), between us and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee. The Notes are general, senior unsecured obligations. The 2027 Notes will mature on October 1, 2027 and the 2029 Notes will mature on October 1, 2029, in each case unless earlier converted, redeemed, or repurchased. Neither the 2027 Notes nor the 2029 Notes bear regular interest, and the principal amount of the Notes will not accrete. We may elect or be required to pay special interest on the Notes under certain circumstances in accordance with the terms of the applicable Indenture. Special interest, if any, will be payable semiannually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on April 1, 2025. The total proceeds from the issuance of the Notes were approximately $2.27 billion, net of $31.2 million of debt issuance costs.
In connection with the Notes offering, we entered into Capped Calls with certain of the initial purchasers or affiliates thereof and certain other financial institutions for a cost of $195.5 million. The Capped Calls are generally expected to reduce the potential dilution to our common stock upon any conversion of the relevant series of the Notes and/or offset any cash payments we are required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted Notes of such series, as the case may be, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap based on a cap price initially equal to $225.00 per share.
We used a portion of the net proceeds from the Notes offering to (i) pay the $195.5 million cost of the Capped Calls and (ii) repurchase $399.6 million of our common stock from purchasers of the Notes in the offering in privately negotiated transactions entered into in connection with the Notes offering at a purchase price of $112.50 per share. We expect to use the remainder of the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include other repurchases of our common stock from time to time under our existing or any future stock repurchase program, as well as acquisitions or strategic investments in complementary businesses or technologies. See Note 10, “Convertible Senior Notes,” and Note 12, “Equity,” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional details.
Stock Repurchase Program
In February 2023, our board of directors authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $2.0 billion of our outstanding common stock. In August 2024, our board of directors authorized the repurchase of an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock and extended the expiration date of the stock repurchase program from March 2025 to March 2027. Repurchases may be effected, from time to time, either on the open market (including via pre-set trading plans), in privately negotiated transactions, or through other transactions in accordance with applicable securities laws. The timing and amount of any repurchases will be determined by management based on an evaluation of market conditions and other factors. The program does not obligate us to acquire any particular amount of common stock, and the repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time at our discretion.
During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, we repurchased 14.8 million shares of our outstanding common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $1.9 billion, excluding transaction costs associated with the repurchases, at a weighted-average price of $130.87 per share. All repurchases were made in open market transactions, except for the 3.6 million shares of our outstanding common stock that were repurchased for $399.6 million from purchasers of the Notes in the offering in privately negotiated transactions entered into in connection with the Notes offering at a purchase price of $112.50 per share. As of January 31, 2025, $2.0 billion remained available for future repurchases under the stock repurchase program (exclusive of transaction costs associated with repurchases). See Note 10, “Convertible Senior Notes,” and Note 12, “Equity,” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional details.
Subsequent to January 31, 2025, and through March 21, 2025, we repurchased 3.2 million shares of our outstanding common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $490.6 million, excluding transaction costs associated with the repurchases, at a weighted-average price of $152.63 per share. All repurchases were made in open market transactions.
We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents, and short-term and long-term investments, as well as cash flows expected to be generated by our operations, will be sufficient to support our working capital and capital expenditure requirements, convertible senior notes repayment requirements, acquisitions and strategic investments we may make from time to time, and repurchases of our common stock under our existing or any future stock repurchase program, for the next 12 months and beyond. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including our revenue growth rate, expenditures related to our headcount growth, the timing and the amount of cash received from customers, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the timing and extent of spending to support development efforts, the price at which we are able to purchase public cloud capacity, our existing commitments to our third-party cloud providers, expenses associated with our international expansion, the introduction of platform enhancements, the continuing market adoption of our platform, and the volume and timing of our stock repurchases. We may continue to enter into arrangements to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, products, and technologies. We may, as a result of those arrangements or the general expansion of our business, be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that we require additional financing, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital or generate cash flows necessary to expand our operations and invest in continued innovation, we may not be able to compete successfully, which would harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by operating activities mainly consists of our net loss adjusted for certain non-cash items, primarily consisting of (i) stock-based compensation, net of amounts capitalized, (ii) depreciation and amortization of property and equipment and amortization of acquired intangible assets, (iii) amortization of deferred commissions, (iv) amortization of operating lease right-of-use assets, (v) net amortization (accretion) of premiums (discounts) on investments, (vi) net realized and unrealized gains and losses on strategic investments in equity securities, and (vii) deferred income tax benefit or expense, and changes in operating assets and liabilities during each period.
For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, net cash provided by operating activities was $959.8 million, consisting of our net loss of $1.3 billion, adjusted for non-cash charges of $1.8 billion, and net cash inflows of $443.6 million provided by changes in our operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of business combinations. The main drivers of the changes in operating assets and liabilities during fiscal 2025 were (i) a $382.8 million increase in deferred revenue due to invoicing for prepaid capacity agreements outpacing revenue recognition, (ii) a $108.9 million increase in accounts payable due to timing of invoices and payments, (iii) a $70.9 million increase in accrued expenses and other liabilities primarily due to the timing of accruals and payments, and (iv) a $29.9 million decrease in prepaid expenses and other assets primarily driven by a decrease in prepaid third-party cloud infrastructure expenses, partially offset by (a) a $101.6 million increase in deferred commissions earned upon the origination of customer contracts, and (b) a $47.7 million decrease in operating lease liabilities due to payments related to our operating lease obligations.
For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, net cash provided by operating activities was $848.1 million, consisting of our net loss of $838.0 million, adjusted for non-cash charges of $1.3 billion, and net cash inflows of $390.7 million provided by changes in our operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of business combinations.
Net cash provided by operating activities increased $111.6 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, compared to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, primarily due to an increase in cash collected from customers resulting from increased sales. This was partially offset by increased expenditures due to an increase in headcount and growth in our business. We expect to continue to generate positive net cash flows from operating activities for fiscal 2026.
Investing Activities
Net cash provided by investing activities for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 was $190.6 million, primarily driven by proceeds of $297.4 million from net sales, maturities and redemptions of investments. The increase is partially offset by (i) $46.3 million in purchases of property and equipment to support our office facilities, (ii) an aggregate of $30.3 million in cash paid for Datavolo and other business combinations, net of cash and cash equivalents acquired, and (iii) $29.4 million in capitalized internal-use software development costs.
Net cash provided by investing activities for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024 was $832.3 million, primarily driven by proceeds of $1.2 billion from net sales, maturities and redemptions of investments, partially offset by an aggregate of $275.7 million in cash paid for the Neeva, Mountain, LeapYear and other business combinations, net of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash acquired, and, to a lesser extent, purchases of property and equipment to support our office facilities, capitalized internal-use software development costs, and purchases of intangible assets.
Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 was $226.5 million, primarily driven by (i) $1.9 billion in repurchases of our common stock under our authorized stock repurchase program, (ii) $489.1 million in taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards, and (iii) $195.5 million in purchases of the Capped Calls, partially offset by (a) proceeds of approximately $2.27 billion from the issuance of the Notes, net of $31.2 million in cash paid for issuance costs, and (b) proceeds of $121.9 million from the issuance of equity securities under our equity incentive plans.
Net cash used in financing activities for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024 was $854.1 million, primarily as a result of $591.7 million in repurchases of our common stock under our authorized stock repurchase program and $380.8 million in taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards, partially offset by proceeds of $118.4 million from the issuance of equity securities under our equity incentive plans.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Our management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is based on our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, costs and expenses, and related disclosures. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. By their nature, these estimates and assumptions are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty and actual results could differ significantly from the estimates made by management. To the extent that there are differences between our estimates and actual results, our future financial statement presentation, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows will be affected.
The significant accounting policies and methods used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements are discussed in Note 2, “Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We believe that the accounting policy and estimate described below involves a substantial degree of judgment and complexity and therefore is the most critical to aid in fully understanding and evaluating our financial condition and results of operations.
Revenue Recognition
Many of our contracts with customers include multiple performance obligations. Contracts that contain multiple performance obligations require an allocation of the transaction price to each performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price (SSP) basis. We consider our evaluation of SSP to be a critical accounting estimate. An observable SSP is established based on the price at which a service is sold separately. If an SSP is not observable through past transactions, we estimate it by maximizing the use of observable inputs, including the overall pricing strategy, market data, internally approved pricing guidelines related to the performance obligations, and other observable inputs. As our business and offerings evolve over time, modifications to our pricing and discounting methodologies, changes in the scope and nature of our offerings, and/or changes in customer segmentation may result in a lack of consistency, making it difficult to establish and/or maintain SSP. Changes in SSP could result in different and unanticipated allocations of revenue in contracts with multiple performance obligations. These factors, among others, may adversely impact the amount of revenue and gross margin we report in a given period.
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Interest Rate Risk
As of January 31, 2025, we had $5.3 billion of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term and long-term investments in a variety of securities, including money market funds, corporate notes and bonds, U.S. government and agency securities, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, and time deposits. Our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term and long-term investments are held for working capital, capital expenditure, and general corporate purposes, including repurchases of our common stock under our stock repurchase program as well as acquisitions and strategic investments we may make from time to time. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes. A hypothetical 100 basis point increase or decrease in interest rates would have resulted in a decrease or increase of $15.3 million in the market value of our cash equivalents, and short-term and long-term investments as of January 31, 2025.
As of January 31, 2024, we had $4.8 billion of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term and long-term investments, and a hypothetical 100 basis point increase or decrease in interest rates would have resulted in a decrease or increase of $17.6 million in the market value.
In September 2024, we issued an aggregate principal amount of $2.3 billion of the Notes. Neither the 2027 Notes nor the 2029 Notes bear regular interest, and the principal amount of the Notes will not accrete. We may elect or be required to pay special interest on the Notes under certain circumstances in accordance with the terms of the applicable Indenture. Accordingly, we do not have economic interest rate exposure on the Notes. However, the fair value of each series of the Notes fluctuates when interest rates or market prices of our common stock change. We record the Notes at amortized cost on the consolidated balance sheets, and we present the fair value of each series of the Notes for disclosure purpose only. In connection with the Notes offering, we entered into the Capped Calls for a cost of $195.5 million. The Capped Calls are generally expected to reduce the potential dilution to our common stock upon any conversion of the relevant series of the Notes and/or offset any cash payments we are required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted Notes of such series, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap. See Note 10, “Convertible Senior Notes,” to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further details.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
Our reporting currency is the U.S. dollar, and the functional currency of our foreign subsidiaries is primarily the U.S. dollar. The majority of our sales are currently denominated in U.S. dollars, although we also have sales in Euros and, to a lesser extent, in British pounds, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, and Brazilian reals. Therefore our revenue is not currently subject to significant foreign currency risk, but that will likely change in the future as we increase sales in these international currencies and enable sales in additional currencies. Our operating expenses are denominated in the currencies of the countries in which our operations are located, which is primarily in the United States, and to a lesser extent, in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and Canada. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are remeasured to the functional currency at period-end exchange rates. Our consolidated results of operations and cash flows are, therefore, subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates and may be adversely affected in the future due to changes in foreign exchange rates.
In order to manage our exposure to certain foreign currency exchange risks, we utilize foreign currency forward contracts to hedge primarily a portion of our net outstanding monetary assets and liabilities positions and certain intercompany balances denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. From time to time, we may also enter into foreign currency forward contracts, which we designate as cash flow hedges, to manage the volatility in cash flows associated with certain forecasted capital expenditures and a portion of our forecasted operating expenses denominated in certain currencies other than the U.S. dollar. All of our foreign currency forward contracts mature within twelve months. These forward contracts reduced, but did not entirely eliminate, the impact of adverse currency exchange rate movements. We did not enter into these forward contracts for trading or speculative purposes.
A hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in foreign currency exchange rates would have resulted in a theoretical increase or decrease in operating loss of approximately $39 million, $25 million, and $32 million for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. This sensitivity analysis assumes that all foreign currencies move in the same direction at the same time in the absence of hedging activities. In addition, a strengthening of the U.S. dollar makes our platform more expensive for international customers, which may slow down consumption.
Other Market Risk
Our strategic investments consist primarily of (i) non-marketable equity securities recorded at cost minus impairment, if any, and adjusted for observable transactions for the same or similar investments of the same issuer (referred to as the Measurement Alternative), and (ii) marketable equity securities. These strategic investments are subject to a wide variety of market-related risks, including volatility in the public and private markets, that could substantially reduce or increase the carrying value of our investments, causing our financial results to fluctuate. Strategic investments are subject to periodic impairment analyses, which involves an assessment of both qualitative and quantitative factors, including the investee’s financial metrics, market acceptance of the investee’s product or technology, and the rate at which the investee is using its cash.
We plan to continue these types of strategic investments as part of our corporate development program. We anticipate additional volatility to our consolidated statements of operations as a result of changes in market prices, changes resulting from observable transactions for the same or similar investments of the same issuer, and impairments to our strategic investments.
Closed Trades
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Trade Total Gain
Date Sym Company BS Shares Price Aft Cm (-Loss)
250701 ADBE Adobe Systems Inc S 85 388.65 $ 33,035 $ 0
250801 ADBE Adobe Systems Inc B 85 350.93 $ 29,829 $ 3,206
250812 ADBE Adobe Systems Inc B 85 333.34 $ 28,333 $ 0
250825 ADBE Adobe Systems Inc S 85 361.00 $ 30,685 $ 2,352
250701 AVGO Broadcom Ltd B 89 265.29 $ 23,610 $ 0
250731 AVGO Broadcom Ltd S 89 303.88 $ 27,045 $ 3,435
250813 AVGO Broadcom Ltd S 89 314.18 $ 27,962 $ 0
250820 AVGO Broadcom Ltd B 89 284.69 $ 25,337 $ 2,625
250710 AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd S 942 31.19 $ 29,380 $ 0
250801 AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd B 942 27.86 $ 26,244 $ 3,136
250804 AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd B 942 27.92 $ 26,300 $ 0
250822 AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd S 942 31.94 $ 30,087 $ 3,787
250729 BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutio B 256 112.08 $ 28,692 $ 0
250801 BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutio S 256 129.45 $ 33,139 $ 4,447
250804 BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutio S 256 123.90 $ 31,718 $ 0
250806 BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutio B 256 117.89 $ 30,179 $ 1,539
250630 BP BP Plc ADR B 884 30.15 $ 26,652 $ 0
250723 BP BP Plc ADR S 884 32.73 $ 28,933 $ 2,281
250701 CAT Caterpillar Inc B 70 388.09 $ 27,166 $ 0
250731 CAT Caterpillar Inc S 70 436.74 $ 30,571 $ 3,405
250805 CAT Caterpillar Inc S 70 435.34 $ 30,473 $ 0
250818 CAT Caterpillar Inc B 70 409.51 $ 28,665 $ 1,808
250703 CCB Coastal Financial Corp S 273 105.32 $ 28,752 $ 0
250729 CCB Coastal Financial Corp B 273 92.16 $ 25,159 $ 3,593
250804 CCB Coastal Financial Corp B 273 92.46 $ 25,241 $ 0
250826 CCB Coastal Financial Corp S 273 115.32 $ 31,482 $ 6,241
250717 CELH Celsius Holdings Inc B 513 43.48 $ 22,305 $ 0
250729 CELH Celsius Holdings Inc S 513 47.99 $ 24,618 $ 2,313
250701 CENTA Central Garden & Pet B 878 31.35 $ 27,525 $ 0
250724 CENTA Central Garden & Pet S 878 36.98 $ 32,468 $ 4,943
250806 CENTA Central Garden & Pet S 878 35.70 $ 31,344 $ 0
250811 CENTA Central Garden & Pet B 878 30.51 $ 26,787 $ 4,557
250708 CHEF The Chefs Warehouse B 468 60.98 $ 28,538 $ 0
250801 CHEF The Chefs Warehouse S 468 68.25 $ 31,941 $ 3,403
250804 CHEF The Chefs Warehouse S 468 67.49 $ 31,585 $ 0
250820 CHEF The Chefs Warehouse B 468 61.51 $ 28,786 $ 2,799
250711 EPD Enterprise Products Partners L S 947 31.80 $ 30,114 $ 0
250801 EPD Enterprise Products Partners L B 947 30.93 $ 29,290 $ 824
250804 EPD Enterprise Products Partners L B 947 31.05 $ 29,404 $ 0
250829 EPD Enterprise Products Partners L S 947 31.90 $ 30,209 $ 805
250701 FOUR Shift4 Payments Inc B 342 97.32 $ 33,283 $ 0
250721 FOUR Shift4 Payments Inc S 342 107.42 $ 36,737 $ 3,454
250804 FOUR Shift4 Payments Inc S 342 102.27 $ 34,976 $ 0
250808 FOUR Shift4 Payments Inc B 342 81.82 $ 27,982 $ 6,994
250709 HLX Helix Energy Solutions Group S 4724 6.95 $ 32,831 $ 0
250724 HLX Helix Energy Solutions Group B 4724 5.58 $ 26,359 $ 6,472
250814 HLX Helix Energy Solutions Group B 4724 5.64 $ 26,643 $ 0
250829 HLX Helix Energy Solutions Group S 4724 6.59 $ 31,131 $ 4,488
250710 INTC Intel Corp S 1224 23.80 $ 29,131 $ 0
250801 INTC Intel Corp B 1224 19.16 $ 23,451 $ 5,680
250804 INTC Intel Corp B 1224 19.54 $ 23,916 $ 0
250819 INTC Intel Corp S 1224 26.26 $ 32,142 $ 8,226
250730 KEYS Keysight Technologies Inc S 178 167.04 $ 29,733 $ 0
250801 KEYS Keysight Technologies Inc B 178 157.69 $ 28,068 $ 1,665
250701 KKR KKR & Company LP B 221 132.17 $ 29,209 $ 0
250729 KKR KKR & Company LP S 221 152.33 $ 33,664 $ 4,455
250813 KKR KKR & Company LP S 221 147.81 $ 32,666 $ 0
250820 KKR KKR & Company LP B 221 137.37 $ 30,358 $ 2,308
250630 LEU Centrus Energy Corp B 146 164.94 $ 24,081 $ 0
250721 LEU Centrus Energy Corp S 146 248.37 $ 36,262 $ 12,181
250806 LEU Centrus Energy Corp S 146 262.25 $ 38,288 $ 0
250820 LEU Centrus Energy Corp B 146 163.72 $ 23,903 $ 14,385
250630 LHX L3Harris Technologies Inc B 110 249.47 $ 27,441 $ 0
250724 LHX L3Harris Technologies Inc S 110 277.23 $ 30,495 $ 3,054
250805 LHX L3Harris Technologies Inc S 110 277.71 $ 30,548 $ 0
250811 LHX L3Harris Technologies Inc B 110 269.92 $ 29,691 $ 857
250630 LVS Las Vegas Sands B 558 43.63 $ 24,345 $ 0
250730 LVS Las Vegas Sands S 558 53.04 $ 29,596 $ 5,251
250703 MPAA Motorcar Parts Amer S 2064 12.47 $ 25,738 $ 0
250801 MPAA Motorcar Parts Amer B 2064 9.96 $ 20,557 $ 5,181
250804 MPAA Motorcar Parts Amer B 2064 10.23 $ 21,114 $ 0
250822 MPAA Motorcar Parts Amer S 2064 15.05 $ 31,063 $ 9,949
250707 PCVX Vaxcyte Inc B 908 32.11 $ 29,155 $ 0
250718 PCVX Vaxcyte Inc S 908 37.57 $ 34,113 $ 4,958
250805 PCVX Vaxcyte Inc S 908 34.16 $ 31,017 $ 0
250807 PCVX Vaxcyte Inc B 908 29.37 $ 26,667 $ 4,350
250701 PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc Cl A B 195 129.80 $ 25,311 $ 0
250731 PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc Cl A S 195 159.28 $ 31,059 $ 5,748
250812 PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc Cl A S 195 188.10 $ 36,679 $ 0
250820 PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc Cl A B 195 143.76 $ 28,033 $ 8,646
250731 SNOW Snowflake Inc Cl A S 132 226.98 $ 29,961 $ 0
250801 SNOW Snowflake Inc Cl A B 132 204.90 $ 27,046 $ 2,915
250812 SNOW Snowflake Inc Cl A B 132 189.88 $ 25,064 $ 0
250828 SNOW Snowflake Inc Cl A S 132 247.49 $ 32,668 $ 7,604
250708 TT Trane Technologies Plc B 72 428.29 $ 30,836 $ 0
250728 TT Trane Technologies Plc S 72 471.42 $ 33,942 $ 3,106
250804 TT Trane Technologies Plc S 72 437.45 $ 31,496 $ 0
250829 TT Trane Technologies Plc B 72 417.92 $ 30,090 $ 1,406
250630 VOD Vodafone Grp Plc ADR B 2540 10.63 $ 27,000 $ 0
250724 VOD Vodafone Grp Plc ADR S 2540 11.55 $ 29,337 $ 2,337
250710 VRT Vertiv Holdings Llc. B 241 111.16 $ 26,789 $ 0
250730 VRT Vertiv Holdings Llc. S 241 151.97 $ 36,624 $ 9,835
250812 VRT Vertiv Holdings Llc. S 241 144.14 $ 34,737 $ 0
250820 VRT Vertiv Holdings Llc. B 241 122.62 $ 29,551 $ 5,186
250711 WDFC W D 40 Company S 137 234.96 $ 32,189 $ 0
250731 WDFC W D 40 Company B 137 211.60 $ 28,989 $ 3,200
250804 WDFC W D 40 Company B 137 214.27 $ 29,354 $ 0
250813 WDFC W D 40 Company S 137 223.97 $ 30,683 $ 1,329
250723 ZBH Zimmer Biomet Holdings S 283 96.94 $ 27,434 $ 0
250801 ZBH Zimmer Biomet Holdings B 283 90.21 $ 25,529 $ 1,905
250804 ZBH Zimmer Biomet Holdings B 283 91.01 $ 25,755 $ 0
250826 ZBH Zimmer Biomet Holdings S 283 107.21 $ 30,340 $ 4,585
250703 ZM Zoom Communications Inc S 358 79.02 $ 28,289 $ 0
250801 ZM Zoom Communications Inc B 358 71.42 $ 25,568 $ 2,721
250812 ZM Zoom Communications Inc B 358 69.84 $ 25,002 $ 0
250825 ZM Zoom Communications Inc S 358 83.14 $ 29,764 $ 4,762
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$ 230,692
Open Positions, Only
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Recent Total Gain
Date Sym Company BS Shares Price Aft Cm (-Loss)
250828 SNOW Snowflake Inc Cl A S 132 238.66 $ 31,503 $ 1,177
250820 KEYS Keysight Technologies Inc B 178 163.43 $ 29,090 $ 1,595
250825 ZM Zoom Communications Inc S 358 81.42 $ 29,148 $ 622
250820 AVGO Broadcom Ltd B 89 297.39 $ 26,467 $ 1,119
250829 LVS Las Vegas Sands S 558 57.63 $ 32,157 $ -90
250807 PCVX Vaxcyte Inc B 908 30.79 $ 27,957 $ 1,276
250819 INTC Intel Corp S 1224 24.35 $ 29,804 $ 2,361
250829 BP BP Plc ADR S 884 35.23 $ 31,143 $ -143
250822 AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd S 942 31.26 $ 29,446 $ 647
250811 CENTA Central Garden & Pet B 878 33.03 $ 29,000 $ 2,190
250820 KKR KKR & Company LP B 221 139.49 $ 30,827 $ 464
250829 TT Trane Technologies Plc B 72 415.60 $ 29,923 $ -165
250820 LEU Centrus Energy Corp B 146 201.73 $ 29,452 $ 5,494
250818 CAT Caterpillar Inc B 70 419.04 $ 29,332 $ 660
250825 ADBE Adobe Systems Inc S 85 356.70 $ 30,319 $ 369
250806 BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutio B 256 118.04 $ 30,218 $ 38
250829 CELH Celsius Holdings Inc S 513 62.88 $ 32,257 $ -5
250820 VRT Vertiv Holdings Llc. B 241 127.55 $ 30,739 $ 1,176
250813 WDFC W D 40 Company S 137 216.04 $ 29,597 $ 1,097
250811 LHX L3Harris Technologies Inc B 110 277.62 $ 30,538 $ 839
250820 CHEF The Chefs Warehouse B 468 63.14 $ 29,549 $ 755
250808 FOUR Shift4 Payments Inc B 342 90.43 $ 30,927 $ 2,915
250826 ZBH Zimmer Biomet Holdings S 283 106.10 $ 30,026 $ 317
250829 EPD Enterprise Products Partners L S 947 32.14 $ 30,436 $ -230
250820 PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc Cl A B 195 156.71 $ 30,558 $ 2,500
250826 CCB Coastal Financial Corp S 273 114.50 $ 31,258 $ 226
250829 HLX Helix Energy Solutions Group S 4724 6.59 $ 31,131 $ 0
250822 MPAA Motorcar Parts Amer S 2064 14.90 $ 30,753 $ 313
250827 VOD Vodafone Grp Plc ADR S 2540 11.96 $ 30,378 $ -51
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$ 27,466
Grand Total (non-option trades): $ 258,158
Ticker Name AVPE/CUPE
ZM Zoom Communications 3.941
BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutions 3.269
CELH Celsius Holdings 2.303
ZBH Zimmer Biomet Holdings 2.052
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems 1.971
ADBE Adobe 1.916
HLX Helix Energy Solutions 1.753
WDFC WD-40 1.343
FOUR Shift4 Payments 1.341
CENTA Central Garden & Pet 1.174
CHEF Chefs' Warehouse 0.954
LHX L3Harris Technologies Inc 0.949
VRT Vertiv Holdings 0.821
TMHC Taylor Morrison Home 0.812
TT Trane Technologies 0.800
LVS Las Vegas Sands 0.781
EPD Enterprise Products Partners 0.722
CAT Caterpillar 0.692
AVGO Broadcom 0.599
KEYS Keysight Technologies 0.571
CCB Coastal Financial 0.430
BP BP 0.340
PLTR Palantir Technologies 0.339
LEU Centrus Energy 0.284
KKR KKR 0.217
MPAA Motorcar Parts Of America 0.127
SNOW Snowflake 0.000
PCVX Vaxcyte 0.000
INTC Intel 0.000
VOD Vodafone Group 0.000
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