Atlassian Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Quarterly revenue of $689 million, up 37% year-over-year

Quarterly subscription revenue of $509 million, up 64% year-over-year

Quarterly IFRS operating margin of (10)% and non-IFRS operating margin of 26%

Quarterly cash flow from operations of $222 million and free cash flow of $197 million

TEAM, Anywhere/SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, today announced financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2022 ended December 31, 2021 and released a shareholder letter available on Atlassian’s Work Life blog at http://atlassian.com/blog/announcements/shareholder-letter-q2fy22. The shareholder letter was also posted to the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at https://investors.atlassian.com.

“Q2 was another strong quarter for Atlassian with over 10,000 net new customers this quarter, 98% of which were in the Cloud,” said Scott Farquhar, Atlassian’s co-founder and co-CEO. “We also saw subscription revenue grow 64% year-over-year, which reflects our continued investment in our Cloud platform and the strong focus and effort we have put in to helping our customers seamlessly move to Cloud.”

“The Atlassian Marketplace continues to go from strength to strength surpassing $2 billion in sales and shows no signs of slowing down,” said Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s co-founder and co-CEO. “We recognise that the opportunities for Atlassian, our customers and our partners have never been greater as companies accelerate their future of work transformations, and we’re incredibly proud of this partner ecosystem which is fuelling innovation and helping to deliver on our mission to unleash the potential of every team.”

Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Highlights:

On an IFRS basis, Atlassian reported:

• Revenue: Total revenue was $688.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, up 37% from $501.4 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021.

• Operating Income (Loss) and Operating Margin: Operating loss was $66.7 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared with an operating income of $27.7 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021. Operating margin was (10)% for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared with 6% for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021.

• Net Loss and Net Loss Per Diluted Share: Net loss was $77.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared with a net loss of $621.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021. Net loss per diluted share was $0.31 for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared with a net loss per diluted share of $2.49 for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021.

• Balance Sheet: Cash and cash equivalents plus short-term investments at the end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2022 totaled $986.0 million.

During the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, Atlassian drew $350.0 million from its term loan facility, used $1.2 billion in cash to settle the remaining portion of its outstanding exchangeable senior notes and received $104.5 million in cash from the unwinding of the related capped calls. The net impact resulted in cash outflows of $779.9 million, which is reflected in net cash used in financing activities on our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

On a non-IFRS basis, Atlassian reported:

• Operating Income and Operating Margin: Operating income was $178.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared with operating income of $143.2 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021. Operating margin was 26% for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared with 29% for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021.

• Net Income and Net Income Per Diluted Share: Net income was $127.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared with $95.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021. Net income per diluted share was $0.50 for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared with $0.37 for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021.

• Free Cash Flow: Cash flow from operations was $221.7 million and free cash flow was $197.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022. Free cash flow margin for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022 was 29%.

A reconciliation of IFRS to non-IFRS financial measures has been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release. An explanation of these measures is also included below, under the heading “About Non-IFRS Financial Measures.”

Recent Business Highlights:

• Atlassian Marketplace Surpasses $2 Billion in Lifetime Sales: During the second quarter of fiscal 2022, the Atlassian Marketplace surpassed $2 billion in lifetime sales since its inception in 2012. Atlassian’s 1,250+ Marketplace Partners help deliver additional value to the tens of thousands of customers that utilize a Marketplace app.

• Leader in Forrester Wave for Enterprise Service Management: Atlassian was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2021. In addition, Atlassian’s strategy for enterprise service management (ESM) received the highest score of all vendors in this report. Over 35,000 customers trust Jira Service Management to deliver exceptional service experiences for internal and external customers.

• Strategic Investments in Miro and Clockwise: Atlassian deepened its partnership with Miro, a visual collaboration company, by participating in their Series C funding round earlier this month. Miro’s virtual whiteboarding product integrates with Jira and Confluence to drive customer innovation. Atlassian also invested in Clockwise, a scheduling optimization app provider. Clockwise’s focus on team productivity aligns with Atlassian’s mission to unleash the potential of every team. These investments showcase Atlassian Ventures’ focus on driving customer value and expanding the economy around Atlassian.

• Percept.ai Acquisition: Atlassian announced today the acquisition of Percept.ai, an AI-powered virtual agent technology provider which will expand frontline support capabilities in Jira Service Management. The acquisition builds on Atlassian’s previous investments in AI and machine learning, and will help customers efficiently deliver great employee and customer support experiences at high velocity.

• Atlassian Team ’22: Atlassian will hold its flagship customer event in Las Vegas, at the Venetian Convention and Expo Center, from April 5 through April 7, 2022. Virtual attendance and global viewing parties will also be available from April 6 through April 7, 2022. Thousands of customers will discover Atlassian solutions, skills, and ideas to transform how their teams collaborate, power digital transformation, and drive cultural change. General information on Team ’22 can be found at https://events.atlassian.com/team22/home.

• Customer Growth: Atlassian ended its second quarter of fiscal year 2022 with a total customer count, on an active subscription or maintenance agreement basis, of 226,521 customers, adding 10,021 net new customers during the quarter.

CTO transition:

Atlassian announced today that Sri Viswanath will transition his CTO responsibilities at the end of June 2022. Sri joined as CTO in January 2016, shortly after Atlassian’s initial public offering. When Sri joined Atlassian, the company had approximately 800 employees in R&D and 54,000 customers. Sri has been instrumental in transforming the architecture of Atlassian’s platform and products to establish the foundation of its cloud-first business. As of the end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, the company had nearly 4,000 Atlassians under Sri’s leadership, supported more than 226,000 customers, and quarterly Cloud revenue had grown approximately 13x over his time at the company.

“To say Sri has been instrumental in this tremendous growth and scale would be an understatement. Particularly in our shift to cloud and building a world-class cloud platform,” said Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s co-founder and co-CEO. “He is a respected and inspiring leader as well as a natural mentor, nurturing the careers of countless Atlassians during his tenure. While Scott and I are sad to see him go, we are thankful for the huge impact he has had on our customers, our growth, and our culture. We look forward to cheering him on in his next chapter — whatever that may be.”

Financial Targets:

Atlassian is providing its financial targets for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 as follows:

Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2022:

• Total revenue is expected to be in the range of $690 million to $705 million.

• Gross margin is expected to be in the range of 82% to 83% on an IFRS basis and in the range of 84% to 85% on a non-IFRS basis.

• Operating margin is expected to be in the range of (10%) to (9%) on an IFRS basis and in the range of 17% to 18% on a non-IFRS basis.

• Net loss per diluted share is expected to be in the range of ($0.33) to ($0.31) on an IFRS basis, and net income per diluted share is expected to be in the range of $0.29 to $0.31 on a non-IFRS basis.

• Weighted average share count is expected to be in the range of 253 million to 254 million shares when calculating diluted IFRS net loss per share and in the range of 257 million to 258 million shares when calculating diluted non-IFRS net income per share.

For additional commentary regarding financial targets, please see Atlassian’s second quarter fiscal year 2022 shareholder letter dated January 27, 2022.

With respect to Atlassian’s expectations under “Financial Targets” above, a reconciliation of IFRS to non-IFRS gross margin, operating margin, and net income (loss) per diluted share, has been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release.

Shareholder Letter and Webcast Details:

A detailed shareholder letter is available on Atlassian’s Work Life blog at http://atlassian.com/blog/announcements/shareholder-letter-q2fy22, and the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at: https://investors.atlassian.com. Atlassian will host a webcast to answer questions today:

• When: Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time).

• Webcast: A live webcast of the call can be accessed from the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at: https://investors.atlassian.com. Following the call, a replay will be available on the same website.

Atlassian has used, and will continue to use, its Investor Relations website at https://investors.atlassian.com as a means of making material information public and for complying with its disclosure obligations.

About Atlassian

Atlassian unleashes the potential of every team. Our team collaboration and productivity software helps teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Teams at more than 225,000 customers, across large and small organizations - including Bank of America, Redfin, NASA, Verizon, and Dropbox - use Atlassian’s project tracking, content creation and sharing, and service management products to work better together and deliver quality results on time. Learn more about our products, including Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Trello, Bitbucket, and Jira Align at https://atlassian.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward looking, including risks and uncertainties related to statements about our products, customers, anticipated growth, sustainability, Atlassian Marketplace, partnerships, acquisitions, strategic investments, outlook, technology and other key strategic areas, and our financial targets such as revenue, share count, and IFRS and non-IFRS financial measures including gross margin, operating margin, and net income (loss) per diluted share.

We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.

The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, our results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Forward-looking statements represent our management’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date such statements are made.

Further information on these and other factors that could affect our financial results is included in filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including the section titled “Risk Factors” in our most recent Forms 20-F and 6-K (reporting our quarterly results). These documents are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Relations section of our website at: https://investors.atlassian.com/.

About Non-IFRS Financial Measures

Our reported results and financial targets include certain non-IFRS financial measures, including non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share, and free cash flow. Management believes that the use of these non-IFRS financial measures provides consistency and comparability with our past financial performance, facilitates period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations, and also facilitates comparisons with peer companies, many of which use similar non-IFRS or non-GAAP financial measures to supplement their IFRS or GAAP results. Non-IFRS results are presented for supplemental informational purposes only to aid in understanding our results of operations. The non-IFRS results should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with IFRS, and may be different from non-IFRS or non-GAAP measures used by other companies.

Our non-IFRS financial measures include:

• Non-IFRS gross profit. Excludes expenses related to share-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets.

• Non-IFRS operating income. Excludes expenses related to share-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets.

• Non-IFRS net income and non-IFRS net income per diluted share. Excludes expenses related to share- based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-coupon impact related to exchangeable senior notes and capped calls, the related income tax effects on these items, and discrete tax impact resulting from a non-recurring transaction.

• Free cash flow. Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, which consists of purchases of property and equipment, and payments of lease obligations.

Our non-IFRS financial measures reflect adjustments based on the items below:

• Share-based compensation.

• Amortization of acquired intangible assets.

• Non-coupon impact related to exchangeable senior notes and capped calls:
  • Amortization of notes discount and issuance costs.
  • Mark to fair value of the exchangeable senior notes exchange feature.
  • Mark to fair value of the related capped call transactions.
  • Net loss on settlements of exchangeable senior notes and capped call transactions.

• The related income tax effects on these items and discrete tax impact resulting from a non-recurring transaction.

• Purchases of property and equipment and payments of lease obligations.

We exclude expenses related to share-based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-coupon impact related to exchangeable senior notes and capped calls, the related income tax effects on these items, and discrete tax impact resulting from a non-recurring transaction from certain of our non-IFRS financial measures as we believe this helps investors understand our operational performance. In addition, share-based compensation expense can be difficult to predict and varies from period to period and company to company due to differing valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions, and the variety of equity instruments, as well as changes in stock price. Management believes that providing non-IFRS financial measures that exclude share-based compensation expense, amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-coupon impact related to exchangeable senior notes and capped calls, the related income tax effects on these items, and discrete tax impact resulting from a non-recurring transaction allow for more meaningful comparisons between our results of operations from period to period.

Management considers free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by our business that can be used for strategic opportunities, including investing in our business, making strategic acquisitions, and strengthening our statement of financial position.

Management uses non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share, and free cash flow:

• As measures of operating performance, because these financial measures do not include the impact of items not directly resulting from our core operations.

• For planning purposes, including the preparation of our annual operating budget.

• To allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of our business.

• To evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies.

• In communications with our Board of Directors and investors concerning our financial performance.

The tables in this press release titled “Reconciliation of IFRS to Non-IFRS Results” and “Reconciliation of IFRS to Non-IFRS Financial Targets” provide reconciliations of non-IFRS financial measures to the most recent directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with IFRS.

We understand that although non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share, and free cash flow are frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluation of companies, these measures have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results of operations as reported under IFRS.

Investor Relations Contact Martin Lam IR@atlassian.com Media Contact M-C Maple press@atlassian.com