image
Technology - Software - Infrastructure - NASDAQ - US
$ 357.0
-1.76 %
$ 87.9 B
Market Cap
700.0
P/E
EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT
EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT 2025 - Q3
image
Operator

Hello, and welcome to CrowdStrike's Fiscal Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Please be advised that today's conference call is being recorded.

I would now like to hand the call over to Maria Riley, Vice President of Investor Relations. Maria, please go ahead..

Maria Riley Vice President of Investor Relations

Good afternoon, and thank you for your participation today. With me on the call are George Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of CrowdStrike; and Burt Podbere, Chief Financial Officer.

Before we get started, I would like to note that certain statements made during this conference call that are not historical facts, including those regarding our future plans, objectives, growth, including projections and expected performance, including our outlook for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 and any assumptions for the fiscal periods beyond that are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

These forward-looking statements represent our outlook only as of the date of this call. While we believe any forward-looking statements we make are reasonable, actual results could differ materially because the statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties.

We do not undertake and expressly disclaim any obligation to update or alter our forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Further information on these and other factors that could affect the company's financial results is included in the filings we make with the SEC from time-to-time, including the section titled Risk Factors in the company's quarterly and annual reports.

Additionally, unless otherwise stated, excluding revenue, all financial measures disclosed on this call will be non-GAAP.

A discussion of why we use non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation schedule showing GAAP versus non-GAAP results is currently available in our earnings press release, which may be found on our Investor Relations website at ir.crowdstrike.com or on our Form 8-K filed with the SEC today. With that, I will now turn the call over to George..

George Kurtz Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director

One, the Gartner Magic Quadrant for endpoint protection. Even after the summer, CrowdStrike was placed highest for ability to execute and furthest provision in the whole Magic Quadrant ahead of all competitors in every dimension.

Two, in Gartner's critical capabilities, CrowdStrike earned the highest scores ahead of all vendors evaluated in both core endpoint protection and managed security services for the second year in a row.

Three, Falcon Cloud Security was recognized as a Frost Radar leader in cloud workload protection platforms for the second consecutive year, ahead of CSPM start-ups and industry peers.

Four, Attack Surface Management was positioned as a leader in the Q3 2024 Forrester Wave, showcasing our emergence in a new market category with significant TAM opportunity. And five, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM was named a major player in the latest SIEM IDC MarketScape, underscoring our success displacing legacy SIEMs.

In closing, customer and partners remain firmly committed to CrowdStrike as their cybersecurity platform of record. Our Flex licensing model delivers accelerated platform adoption and Falcon innovation isn't stopping. These themes set up a Q4 of continued progress in an upcoming year of back-half net new ARR acceleration growth. Our future is bright.

A vivid example that struck me this past quarter is the scale and consistency at which we're doing substantial transactions. We set a new record of $1 million-plus transactions, closing more than 260 this quarter, equating to an average of four or more $1 million-plus deals every business day.

Results like these demonstrate the customer conviction, partner commitment and market sentiment for CrowdStrike as cybersecurity's innovation leader and security platform of record.

Before turning the call over to Burt, I would like to thank all CrowdStrikers for their dedication to our mission of stopping breaches, our partners for helping us win and continuing to build large businesses with us, and of course, our customers for their commitment and unwavering trust in CrowdStrike.

I'll now turn the call over to our CFO, Burt Podbere..

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, George, and good afternoon, everyone. As a quick reminder, unless otherwise noted, all numbers except revenue mentioned during my remarks today are non-GAAP. We delivered third quarter results above our stated expectations across all guided metrics.

Our third quarter results reflect our focused execution and relentless customer-first mindset, which drove a strong finish and quarter-over-quarter increase in pipeline despite continued headwinds and a pause in pipeline generation at the start of the quarter following July 19.

In Q3, ending ARR surpassed the $4 billion milestone, growing 27% year-over-year to reach $4.02 billion, of which $153 million was net new added in the quarter.

As expected, the July 19th incident resulted in near-term headwinds to net new ARR, as we experienced extended sales cycles with both existing and prospective customers and one-time incentives offered through our customer commitment packages, which resulted in increased contraction and muted upsell rates.

Sales cycles increased by approximately 15% year-over-year within enterprise accounts. As of last Friday, we closed more than half of the push deals that had remained open at the time of our Q2 call.

While we normally recognize ARR contraction in the quarter a transaction is subject to renew, in Q3 FY 2025, we excluded approximately $26 million from ARR after a distributor in the federal space provided notice of its intention to exercise transferability rights with respect to a transaction and we concluded that the transaction would not recur.

In compliance with US GAAP revenue recognition rules, this transaction remains in revenue. In total, our Q3 dollar-based gross retention rate of over 97% held resilient with less than 0.5 percentage point decrease from Q2 strong performance.

And given the July 19th incident, we are also pleased with our Q3 dollar-based net retention rate of 115% as customers embraced our customer commitment packages and more of the Falcon platform. We estimate that customer commitment packages impacted net new ARR by approximately $25 million in Q3 within our expectations.

The majority of deal value that closed in the quarter with customer commitment packages included additional product or Flex dollars rather than extended time and professional services. That, coupled with the timing and linearity of in-quarter Q3 revenue, limited the impact to Q3 revenue and contributed to the strong revenue beat in the quarter.

Our customer commitment packages are helping fuel an increase in platform and module adoption. Subscription customers with five, six and seven or more modules grew to 66%, 47% and 31% of subscription customers, respectively.

Notably, we reached a new milestone for module adoption in the quarter as customers with eight or more modules grew to 20% of subscription customers.

This momentum in increased module adoption and our Falcon Flex program gives us confidence in our customer commitment strategy and ability to reaccelerate net new ARR growth starting in the back-half of fiscal year 2026.

Moving to the P&L, total revenue grew 29% over Q3 of last year to reach $1.01 billion, ahead of our expectations and our first quarter exceeding the $1 billion milestone. Subscription revenue grew 31% over Q3 of last year to reach $962.7 million and professional services revenue was $47.4 million.

Total gross margin of 78% was flat year-over-year, and subscription gross margin remained strong at 80% of revenue. Total non-GAAP operating expenses in the third quarter were $591.7 million compared to $436.1 million in the prior year.

As outlined in our last earnings call, we continued to invest in our FY 2025 plan and bolstered our R&D, quality assurance and customer support programs. In the third quarter, non-GAAP operating income grew 11% year-over-year to $194.9 million and operating margin was 19%.

GAAP net loss attributable to CrowdStrike was $16.8 million, primarily due to $33.9 million in expenses related to the July 19th incident. Non-GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike grew 18% to $234.3 million or $0.93 on a diluted per share basis. Cash and cash equivalents grew to $4.26 billion.

Free cash flow was $230.6 million or 23% of revenue, and was impacted by the July 19th incident as well as planned investments in data center and workload optimization, R&D and sales and marketing. Additionally, the $49 million in deals financed through CrowdStrike Financial Services had a de-minimis impact to Q3 free cash flow as expected.

Turning to our outlook, we are encouraged by our continued high dollar-based gross retention rate. Success of our customer commitment packages with customers opting for more product or Flex dollars, the continued strong adoption of the Falcon platform and growing module adoption rates and quarter-over-quarter growth in pipeline.

All of these positive indicators give us confidence in our ability to reaccelerate net new ARR growth starting in the back-half of FY 2026.

However, in the near term, visibility remains limited given the headwinds related to the July 19th incident that we outlined last quarter, including the delay of the vast majority of outbound pipeline generation activities for a few weeks following the July 19th incident, extended sales cycles for both new and existing customers and continued deployment of customer commitment packages, resulting in muted upsell rates and potentially higher than typical levels of contraction.

While in Q3, customers strongly embraced the additional modules and Flex options associated with our customer commitment packages rather than additional time, it is still too early to determine if that trend will remain the same in Q4.

Recognizing our continued reduced visibility, we are maintaining our estimated impact of approximately $30 million to both net new ARR and subscription revenue in Q4 from our customer commitment packages. As we discussed last quarter, the aforementioned headwinds are additive to the expected quantified impact.

While we do not typically comment on analyst estimates, we wanted to note that the vast majority of analysts are modeling Q3 to Q4 net new ARR seasonality well above historical levels. We request that you keep historical sequential seasonality in mind when updating your models.

Additionally, as we discussed last quarter, the modeling of ARR and subscription revenue should be decoupled in the short-term given the customer commitment packages. Our Fal.Con 2024 investor presentation has additional details on this dynamic.

Moving beyond the top-line, we expect to incur additional GAAP tax expense in Q4 of approximately $58 million due to previous acquisitions. Additionally, we closed our acquisition of Adaptive Shield last week, which is expected to have a $0.01 to $0.02 impact to non-GAAP EPS, as reflected in our Q4 guidance.

Moving to cash, we expect Q4 free cash flow to reflect a significantly more pronounced July 19th impact in comparison to Q3.

This is due to collections impacted by increased flexible payment terms under customer commitment packages for deals closed in Q3, the incremental sales compensation expenses and the timing and size of G&A costs, all relating to July 19th. As a result, we do not expect to see sequential free cash flow margin leverage in Q4.

We continue to expect CrowdStrike Financial Services to have a de-minimis impact to free cash flow in Q4. We remain committed to achieving $10 billion in ending ARR by the end of fiscal year 2031 and achieving our target non-GAAP operating model on an annual basis by fiscal year 2029, which includes a free cash flow margin target between 34% and 38%.

Moving to our guidance. For the fourth quarter of FY 2025, we expect total revenue to be in the range of $1,028.7 million to $1,035.4 million, reflecting a year-over-year growth rate of 22%.

We expect non-GAAP income from operations to be in the range of $184.0 million to $189.0 million, and non-GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike to be in the range of $210.9 million to $215.8 million.

We expect diluted non-GAAP net income per share attributable to CrowdStrike to be approximately $0.84 to $0.86, utilizing a weighted average share count of approximately 252 million shares on a diluted basis.

For the full fiscal year 2025, we currently expect total revenue to be in the range of $3,923.8 million to $3,930.5 million, reflecting a growth rate of 28% to 29% over the prior fiscal year. Non-GAAP income from operations is expected to be between $804.4 million and $809.4 million.

We expect fiscal 2025 non-GAAP net income attributable to CrowdStrike to be between $937.5 million and $942.6 million. Utilizing approximately 251 million weighted average shares on a diluted basis, we expect non-GAAP net income per share attributable to CrowdStrike to be in the range of $3.74 to $3.76. George and I will now take your questions..

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Saket Kalia. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Maria Riley Vice President of Investor Relations

Hello, Saket, are you there? Operator, is he there? If not, please go to the next question..

Operator

Yes..

Maria Riley Vice President of Investor Relations

Okay, great..

Operator

Not a problem. We will move forward with the next question..

Maria Riley Vice President of Investor Relations

No, wait. He is there..

Saket Kalia

Hey guys, can you hear me?.

Maria Riley Vice President of Investor Relations

Yeah. Hi, Saket..

Operator

Apologies..

Saket Kalia

There we go. There we go. Sorry about that. Absolutely. So, George, maybe for you, lots of helpful detail. I wanted to start sort out, just zooming out a little bit. You spend a lot of time with customers.

I guess the question is, what are they telling you about some of the puts and takes to security spending next year? I mean, you've got plenty of tailwinds like lower interest rates and potentially a better macro, but also different policies out of the federal government.

So, how do you think about those factors as you maybe gauge the health of security spending next year?.

George Kurtz Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Sure. Thanks, Saket. I think if you're and everyone probably is following some of the news, you see the security environment is only getting worse. E-crime groups have been prolific, and we continue to see ransomware and extortion where -- be very, very successful for big dollars.

So, from a security environment perspective, customers want the best products, they want the best platform, they want something that's going to stop the breach and be most effective, that hasn't changed. Two, they want to consolidate. This hasn't changed, either.

This complexity normally breeds inconsistencies and seems in protection gaps within multiple technologies.

So, a broad platform approach is something that aids in stopping the breach, and they want to drive down their overall operational cost, and that hasn't changed And I don't think that is going to change based upon my interactions with companies in the coming year.

So, we'll see how it all unfolds, but we're certainly encouraged by the forward-looking environment based upon just what we see and companies, whether it's the threat environment or regulatory pressures, they're going to have to spend money on the best technologies, and we're certainly going to be there to be able to capitalize on it..

Saket Kalia

Very helpful. Thanks, guys..

Operator

Our next question comes from Hamza Fodderwala with Morgan Stanley. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Hamza Fodderwala

Great.

Can you hear me?.

George Kurtz Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Yes..

Hamza Fodderwala

All right. Great. Good evening. Thank you so much for taking my question. Burt, maybe for you just to comment on the ARR or net new ARR seasonality that you spoke about for Q4. If I look at the last few years, last Q4, we had a pretty strong budget flush, pretty strong Q4 overall. The year before that, I think it was a bit more muted.

When you speak on Q4 net new ARR seasonality this year, is that assuming that budget flush that we saw a year ago or something similar to what we saw maybe two years ago? Thank you..

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

Hi, Hamza, thanks for your question. So, when we think about Q4, I talked about some of the things that impact us, and certainly one of them is the limited visibility that we have. It's just too early to tell. We have a lot of things that are going to be in play for Q4, the continued CCP packages that we have.

And with that, it just limits our visibility in terms of how we think about Q4. Generally, it is, of course, our biggest quarter, and we have the most that's subject to renew, but we still need to sell through it..

Operator

Our next question comes from Brian Essex with JPMorgan. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Brian Essex

Hi, good afternoon, and thank you for taking the question. George, great to see the durability of the growth retention rates, particularly in light of the event of July 19th.

Is there anything that you can call out in terms of trends that you're seeing as you're speaking with customers, both on the churn side, like, what tend to be some of the themes of customers that are churning off, and then, also on the better adoption side, what are some of the more durable factors that are leading to better adoption rates on the platform? Thank you..

George Kurtz Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Well, thank you, and good question. As you probably know, I spend a lot of my time with the larger customers and really haven't had a lot of conversations around churn. And the conversations that I have had have been recognition that we do have the best technology in the market and a recognition of how we handled the July 19th outage.

And I think that's an area where we churn the prices into a customer trust-building opportunity. And of course, we're trying to make it right for customers. So from my perspective, I certainly haven't seen a lot in the larger to midsized deals. In fact, our corporate business, as I called out, had the best quarter ever.

So, from a churn perspective, you could see some churn in the very small MSP space. It's an area where it really doesn't matter the vendor.

It's easy to kind of move in and out, but I'm encouraged by the conversation that I'm having with our largest customers and a reflection on the fact that they realize that we have the best tech in the industry and the ability to stop breaches and drive down the overall operational costs from a platform perspective.

Next?.

Operator

Our next question comes from Patrick Colville with Scotiabank. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Patrick Colville

Hey, team. Thank you so much for taking my question. I guess I want to ask George. I mean, 2024 was the year of copilots, including Charlotte AI. In your prepared remarks, George, you talked about Detection Triage. I guess the topic du jour amongst the investment community is agentic AI. You didn't mention that in your prepared remarks.

So, I guess how is CrowdStrike thinking about internal usage of agentic AI or possibly the ability for agentic AI to help CrowdStrike's customers? Thank you..

George Kurtz Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Thanks, Patrick. And I covered that a bit in the prepared remarks in the fact that Charlotte AI was built to be something more than a copilot. We probably built it before we even had a term, which is now fashionable, agentic AI.

And the whole idea with Charlotte AI was not only to take the collective wisdom of CrowdStrike over the last decade, all of our threat indicators, all of the sort of workflows that we've created around triaging events and answer those questions, but go beyond that to actually do work on behalf of a customer.

So, today, and it's the way we built it, it actually will do work on behalf of customers. And that's the entire piece of SOC transformation.

And just to give you an example, we talked about alert triage and some of those things in the prepared remarks, but we had a customer that would take four days to create what's called a sitrep, a situational report, and manually they would create these reports. And now, it takes them one hour.

So, that's the level of efficiency that we're seeing with Charlotte. And you couldn't do that if it was just a chatbot. It's the agentic nature of Charlotte AI, and that's what we're delivering to customers. Internally, we're certainly leveraging a lot of what our great partners put together, whether that's Salesforce or ServiceNow or what have you.

There's many technologies that we leverage, including many of the GenAI technologies, to help us create greater efficiencies..

Operator

Our next question comes from Tal Liani with Bank of America. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Tal Liani

Hello, thank you. So, Burt, I know you're cautious, but your net new ARR was not bad at $150 million, given that we had $250 million before the outage. Some people expected even to be negative. And I hear you now on 4Q cautious again.

And the question is, what are the -- how are the factors changing in 4Q? Meaning, you said that you have a big renewal quarter.

Outside of the renewal -- or can you speak about, for example, what was your experience with renewals this past quarter? I would have thought that 4Q would be better than 3Q, just because we don't have an outage in the middle. So, it eliminates these 10 days or 14 days that people were kind of unclear about what's happening.

So, I want to understand how 4Q changes and why wouldn't 4Q be actually better than 3Q? Thanks..

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Tal. So, although true that we are a little further from the sun, we're still fighting through the incident, but I'll give you some additional color in terms of the things that I went through when I thought about Q4. And I talked a little bit about limited visibility with Hamza.

So, one is, when we think about what happened shortly after the incident, the delay of the vast majority of our outbound pipeline-generating activities, for the first few weeks following the incident, that certainly has an impact for Q4. So, that's one. I think we're still going to see extended sales cycles for both new and existing customers.

I think customers have additional scrutiny, additional layers of approvals, all that sort of thing. And I think we're going to continue to deploy customer commitment packages. This is going to result in muted upsell rates and potentially higher than typical levels of contraction.

You factor all those things together, I still want to be mindful of those things taking place and the activities that the sales team has to do to sell through all that. Well, I'll add a couple of other things.

So, while in Q3, customers strongly embraced the additional modules and Flex options associated with the CCPs, rather than additional time, it is still too early to determine if that trend will remain the same for Q4. I want to give caution in terms of what customers are going to choose with respect to CCP. We don't know yet. We had one quarter.

And so, that really impacts our ability to really understand what's going to happen in the dynamics in Q4. And then finally, I do want to talk about the fact that we are maintaining our estimated impact of approximately $30 million to both net new ARR and subscription revenue in Q4 from our customer commitment packages.

And remember, the two of those, you have to decouple both of them. And we talked about that last quarter, and we talked about it in our Fal.Con 2024 investor presentation, and it has the details on that dynamic..

Operator

Our next question comes from Joel Fishbein with Truist. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Joel Fishbein

Thanks for taking the question. I guess, so, one for Burt. Burt on the Falcon Flex, obviously, it sounded like it was ahead of your guys' expectations in terms of adoption. The one thing that I didn't get, which I would love from you, is the average deal term or duration of those deals. That'd be really helpful. Really appreciate it..

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

Hey, Joel. Thanks for the question. We didn't give a specific number, but we did see deals being slightly longer. And so that excited us for sure..

Operator

Our next question comes from Gabriela Borges with Goldman Sachs. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Gabriela Borges

Hi, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. Burt, I wanted to connect the dots here on what you're saying about Falcon Flex and the potential for reacceleration next year.

Is there anything you're seeing in the Falcon Flex cohorts post-July 19th versus those before July 19th in terms of average ARR increases, average deal sizes, et cetera, that would lead you to think that the conversion rates or the upsell rates on today's Falcon Flex deals could look different a year from now versus the baseline that you already have?.

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

Hi, Gabriela. So, I talked a little bit about the fact that we've seen deals being slightly larger, which is great. Still too early to tell what's going to happen as these renewals come due.

But certainly it goes back to how we already thought about this and how we talked about it last quarter with respect to seeding the future and having the ability to do upsells on the renewal and getting customers to enjoy us more and wanting to use more. We had over 150 Falcon Flex deals, and that's a great number.

And then, I think that we had accounts -- at the end of the day, the accounts that have adopted the Falcon Flex model now represent more than $1.3 billion of total deal value. And in there with an average Falcon Flex subscription being multiples larger than our typical contract value. So, those are important takeaways.

Flex customers on average have adopted more than nine modules. So, if you factor all those things together, we get encouraged again by reacceleration in the back half of next year..

Operator

Our next question comes from Matt Hedberg with RBC. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Matt Hedberg

Thanks, guys.

Can you hear me, okay?.

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

Yeah..

Matt Hedberg

Okay, great. George, a question for you. You talked about Next-Gen SIEM in the prepared remarks. It's really good to hear the growth that you're seeing there. I guess I'm wondering what are you seeing really from a competitive perspective. I think we all are thinking that there's a good opportunity there, but just wondering about that.

And then, what are pushing some customers to change, I guess, is ultimately the question..

George Kurtz Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Yeah. I think when you look at the Next-Gen SIEM market and one of the things that we really, again, helped, I would say, create and pioneer, it's greater efficiencies, speed and scalability, which is just not available in legacy products.

The fact that we can basically give immediate outcomes because it's all built into our system, right, this is a concept of first-party data, which comes from CrowdStrike and third-party data.

Well, we've created an incredible ecosystem and opened up the platform now where these workflows can be done within the Falcon platform and then aided by Charlotte AI.

So, customers are putting more and more data into the technologies, and they're seeing the performance and the speed, and maybe even more importantly, the cost differences between some of the legacy providers that are out there. And we go into a POV, and we go through all of the stats, and people scratch their heads sometimes and go, okay, prove it.

And then when we get through it, they're like, we've never seen anything this fast or performant or get the outcome that we're looking for. So, we're really excited about it. We keep broadening the ecosystem there. And I think it represents a tremendous opportunity for us in the short, medium, and long term.

It's a huge business, Next-Gen SIEM, and we're going to be front and center in it..

Operator

Our next call comes from -- our next question comes from Andy Nowinski with Wells Fargo. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Andy Nowinski

Okay, good evening. Thanks for taking the question. And first off, congrats on getting through what was likely your most challenging quarter you've probably had in company history. So, I wanted to ask you a question again on Falcon Flex.

I know you booked $1.3 billion in deals, and you talked about how it's supercharging the adoption of your platform, but if I'm thinking about it correctly, I would think it's also supercharging your customer retention rates because as customers deploy more modules, like you said, it seems like it makes it increasingly difficult to leave the platform.

So, I guess first, am I thinking about that correctly in terms of customer retention, and are you factoring in any improvement to ARR due to Falcon Flex going forward?.

George Kurtz Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director

I'll take the first part and then, Burt, you can feel free to chime in. It absolutely makes the platform stickier. The more modules -- we know this as a fact, the more modules customers use, the stickier the platform becomes. And you're talking nine, 10. We talked about, I think, one of 14.

That's incredibly sticky because a lot of processes are built around that. So, from our perspective, it is a great opportunity for customers and for us, makes it stickier, they get a better value.

And again, what we're seeing is, in general, we're seeing customers adopt more and faster, right, which if they adopt more and faster, that gives us the opportunity to go back in and top up those Falcon Flex pools. So, we are excited about the licensing mechanism; customers are. We talked about Adaptive Shield.

The day we announced that, we were at Fal.Con Europe and customers said, "Okay, if I'm a Falcon Flex customer, can I use it day one when it closes?" And we're like, "Yeah, as soon as we close the deal, and we get it SKU'd up, you'll be able to use it," which again, removes a lot of friction and aids in the adoption.

So, anything to add, Burt?.

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

Yeah. I think all the things that George said gives us more confidence in our ability to reaccelerate in the back half of next year..

Operator

Our next question comes from Gregg Moskowitz from Mizuho. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

Gregg Moskowitz

A, how the cRPO performance was? And B, how we should generally be thinking about what these strong bookings might mean for revenue recognition and ARR when we look down the road? Thanks..

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Gregg. So, I think ultimately when we think about RPO and we think about the increase, it does talk to just longer deals, longer duration. I think all the things that we've talked about, whether it's CCP, whether it's CrowdStrike Financial Services, they all add in terms of helping customers do more with us for longer periods of time.

And that's reflected in our RPO number..

Operator

Our next call comes from John DiFucci with Guggenheim. Please unmute your line and ask your question..

John DiFucci

Thanks for taking my question. Burt, listen, you've always been really clear, which is, I think, been great for investors and great for the stock too. And ARR has always -- and revenue have always had a great connection over time.

Can you -- and I know there's some small print, but I don't -- can you explain to us what's making this coupling diverge? And I don't know, hopefully it's not a long explanation.

It's probably why you haven't said it, but can you do that? Can you give us like, even if it's temporary here? Because I don't want to see -- my model works great for you and you're the first ones to do this. And it's really clear, and you put it right out there for everybody to see.

But why is that going to diverge? Why could it diverge in the short term?.

Burt Podbere Chief Financial Officer

So thanks, John. So, number one, for all your comments, appreciate all your comments that you made. So, first, big picture, it's temporary. The divergence is temporary.

And I think it just talks to when you have a CCP and out of the gate, there's, for example, extended time that's offered, there's going to be a more immediate hit on ARR than revenue, it's going to lag. And so that's how we think about it. And that's how I've tried to be clear on explaining it. Hopefully that helps, John..

Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the call back over to George Kurtz for closing remarks..

George Kurtz Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Okay. Thank you, operator. So, thank you all for your time today. We appreciate your continued support and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming investor events..

ALL TRANSCRIPTS
2025 Q-3 Q-2 Q-1
2024 Q-4 Q-3 Q-2 Q-1
2023 Q-4 Q-3 Q-2 Q-1
2022 Q-4 Q-3 Q-2 Q-1
2021 Q-4 Q-3 Q-2 Q-1
2020 Q-4 Q-3 Q-2 Q-1