why is it down for FY2015 net income? And Aren't those margins kinda thin?
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.Not at all. They are investing their profits into scaling and growing the business.
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
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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
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Huge increases in R&D and marketing expenses, mostly.
Re:Atlassian files for IPO
by andrewcamel on Monday November 09, 2015 @01:27PM
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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
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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.
$148.5m (FY2013)
$215.1m (FY2014)
$319.5m (FY2015)
Net income:
$10.8m (FY2013)
$19.0m (FY2014)
$6.8m (FY2015)