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Re:Atlassian files for IPO by jamesfzhang on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:05PM (#10534187)
Revenue:

$148.5m (FY2013)

$215.1m (FY2014)

$319.5m (FY2015)

Net income:

$10.8m (FY2013)

$19.0m (FY2014)

$6.8m (FY2015)

Re:Atlassian files for IPO by guiomie on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:24PM (#10534343)
why is it down for FY2015 net income? And Aren't those margins kinda thin?
Re:Atlassian files for IPO by nkohari on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:28PM (#10535578)
They've been reinvesting potential profit into the company in order to grow R&D. (Spend has increased from $57M in FY13 to $141M in FY15.)

Their gross margins are probably what you want to look at instead, since their cost of revenue won't include R&D ($ in 1,000s):

                 FY13     FY14     FY15
  Gross revenue  148,512  215,109  319,521
  Gross profit   115,481  117,123  266,589
  Gross margin   77.7%    54.4%    83.4%
These are very healthy for a software company. They nearly doubled their spend on sales and marketing between FY13 and FY14, which explains the temporary dip in gross margin in FY14.
Re:Atlassian files for IPO by nemo44x on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:29PM (#10534378)
Not at all. They are investing their profits into scaling and growing the business.
Re:Atlassian files for IPO by mbesto on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:36PM (#10534429)
This. And no, software margins are not categorically thin (see SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, etc).
Re:Atlassian files for IPO by colinbartlett on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:41PM (#10534451)
I don't believe those margins are thin by public company standards. Perhaps we are spoiled by Apple who operates at insane margins?
Re:Atlassian files for IPO by Nicholas_C on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:42PM (#10534454)
Huge increases in R&D and marketing expenses, mostly.
Re:Atlassian files for IPO by andrewcamel on Monday November 09, 2015 @01:27PM (#10534782)
Doesn't the R&D ramp look a bit unusual? 57 -> 79 -> 141? Totally destroys their margins, right in the year when they must know they're going public?
Re:Atlassian files for IPO by Nicholas_C on Monday November 09, 2015 @02:02PM (#10535033)
As a percent of revenue the R&D increase doesn't look as crazy.

R&D as % of Revenue by year:

2013 39%

2014 37%

2015 44%

The marketing and sales expense goes from 13% to 21% of revenue in 2015

The growth in these line items really compress their margins in 2015.

Re:Atlassian files for IPO by tkinom on Monday November 09, 2015 @04:24PM (#10535939)
A few year back, I read about their sells process are 100% user self direct into their websites.

I wonder if they stay with that model or do more of the "enterprise sells" now.