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Cognyte Software Ltd.
3/25/2026
Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Cognite fourth quarter fiscal year 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you'll need to press star 1-1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please be advised today's conference may be recorded. I will now hand the conference over to speaker host, Dean Ridland, head of investor relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you, Operator. Hello, everyone. I'm Dean Ridlawn, Cognite's Head of Investor Relations. Thank you for joining us today. I'm here with Elad Sharon, Cognite's CEO, and David Abadi, Cognite's CFO. Before getting started, I would like to mention that accompanying our call today is a presentation. If you'd like to view these slides in real time during the call, please visit the Investor section of our website at cognite.com, click on Upcoming Events, then the webcast link for today's conference call. I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that certain matters discussed on this call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other provisions of the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this call, and, except as required by law, Cognite assumes no obligation to update or revise them. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. For a more detailed discussion of how these and other risks and uncertainties could cause Cognite's actual results to differ materially from those indicated in these forward-looking statements, please see our annual report on Form 20F for the fiscal year ended January 31st, 2026, being filed today, and other filings we make with the SEC. The financial measures discussed today include non-GAAP measures. We believe investors focus on non-GAAP financial measures in comparing results between periods and among our peer companies that publish similar non-GAAP measures. Please see today's presentation slides our earnings release, and the investor section of our website at cognite.com for reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP measures. Non-GAAP financial information should not be considered in isolation from, as a substitute for, or superior to GAAP financial information, but is included because management believes it provides meaningful information about the financial performance of our business and is useful to investors for informational, and comparative purposes. The non-GAAP financial measures that the company uses have limitations and may differ from those used by other companies. Now, I would like to turn the call over to Allat.
Thank you, Dean. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Before we begin, I want to acknowledge and thank our employees, customers, partners, and investors for their continued support over the past month. Cognite's mission is to help make the world a safer place. That mission is constant and our teams continue to execute. We delivered strong results in the fourth quarter and closed fiscal 26 with another year of consistent execution. Revenue grew by double digits with strong gross margin, profitability improved significantly, and we continue to generate solid cash flow. Fiscal 26 played out largely as we expected, with strong repeat business from our install base, continued new customer momentum, and strengthening profitability. We expect this growth to continue into Fiscal 27, and today provided revenue guidance of $448 million at the midpoint of the revenue range, and we are on track to achieving our targets for the fiscal year ending January 2028. We'll share more details later in this call. We operate in a market environment where the underlying drivers continue to strengthen, threats are becoming more complex, adversary is more sophisticated, and the volume of data continues to grow exponentially. At the same time, decisions need to be made faster than ever. This is driving sustained demand for mission-critical intelligence technology, exactly where Cognite is positioned. Our solutions operate in extremely demanding environments, across national security, military intelligence, and law enforcement. In these environments, performance is not optional. Our customers are not experimenting. They are deploying systems that must work consistently in real operational conditions. Over time, our value becomes deeply embedded in our customers' workflows and operational systems. This creates durable relationships, high switching costs, and a strong competitive position. Over the past year, we executed against our three primary growth pillars. First, install-based expansion. Customers continue to expand deployments, operate functionality, and are also expanding into new use cases and operational domains. For example, border intelligence. Repeat business continue to represent a significant portion of our revenue, reflecting the trust our customers place in us and the operational value we consistently deliver. Second, new logos. We added 61 new customers this year as our solutions continue to prove themselves globally and deliver real operational value. This important new business is driven by our proven track record and customer references and is aligned with our land and expense strategy. We increased our footprint within military intelligence agencies, including in NATO countries. And third, North America. This is a key market for us. Recently strengthened our North American leadership, bringing in a seasoned sales executive with deep experience and track record in the federal market. We also added a new channel partner, Kerasoft, who will provide access to federal, state, and local procurement channels and will support broader deployments of our solutions. Together, these steps reinforce our commitment to scaling our U.S. presence and aligning with long-term federal modernization programs. Our growth is driven by a balanced approach, install-based expansion, new customer acquisition, and U.S. market scaling. In Q4, we secured several significant deals across geographies and customer segments. One example is with a longstanding national security customer in EMEA, where we amended the perpetual agreement into a five-year subscription at a new annual value of $6 million. This reflects both a significant expansion in scope and a shift in commercial model. The transition to subscription was driven by the customer's need for continuous access to new capabilities, AI-driven functionality, and faster up the cycle. While most agencies still prefer perpetual deployments, we are seeing a gradual increase in the adoption of subscription models. We also signed several multimillion dollar deals across multiple regions, including new solution deployments, expansions, and support contracts. In addition, this morning, we announced an about $5 million deal with one of the largest state law enforcement agencies in the United States. This is a new customer win replacing an incumbent provider. The deployment will support mission-critical field operations, including fugitive apprehension, missing children cases, criminal investigations, and search and rescue. It represents an important step in expanding the footprint in the U.S. Security and intelligence agencies globally are accelerating efforts to address increasingly complex threat environments. Today's challenges extend beyond traditional crime and national security. Agencies must respond to hybrid threats, cross-border activity, cyber-enabled and organized crime, all of which increase the volume and complexity of data they must analyze. This is driving sustained demand for platforms that can fuse, correlate, and analyze data to deliver actionable intelligence for real-time decision-making. Across regions, we see a consistent shift toward more integrated, proactive intelligence models with greater emphasis on cross-unit collaboration and faster time to decision. Our platform is purpose-built to support exactly this type of complex operational environment. As agencies continue to modernize and scale, our positioning is directly aligned with their immediate and long-term priorities. Today, we are seeing growing adoption and reliance on artificial intelligence. AI is embedded in our platform, shaped by real-world investigative use cases and years of operational experience. AI also plays a part in our customers' growing challenges. It increases the scale and the sophistication of the threat to our customers' address. In our market, access to AI models and Gen AI is not the main constraint. operationalizing them is. Having access to advanced AI is not enough for an analyst to process sensitive communication data correlated with financial and behavioral signals or generate outputs that meet legal and evidence standards. The challenge is everything required to make AI usable in real investigative environments. That includes integrating fragmented and sensitive data, applying domain-specific intelligence methodologies, operating in strict security and compliance frameworks, and embedding AI into investigative workflows that produce actionable, auditable outcomes. As AI capabilities continue to advance, this infrastructure becomes more, not less, critical. Customers are not buying AI features. They are buying operational outcomes powered by AI. This is what makes our advanced AI operationally useful, and it's not easy to replicate. We believe AI is a structural tailwind for our business. Earlier this month, we hosted our Intelligence Summit, bringing together senior intelligence and law enforcement leaders from across the globe. The level of participation and engagement reinforced Cognite's strong leadership position within the investigation and intelligence communities. The conversations were direct and forward-looking. Leaders are not discussing theory. They are executing modernization programs now. They are confronting real operational challenges and sharing practical approaches between them and with us. Across panels and closed-door discussions, agencies emphasized three priorities. Connecting fragmented data into a unified intelligence picture. reducing time from data to decision in live investigations, enabling collaboration across units, agencies, and even countries. We were honored to host Juergen Stock, former Secretary General of Interpol and former Vice President of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office as our keynote speaker. He spoke about the importance of sharing fragmented intelligence across domains and the need to partner with the private sector, specifically in technology, to accelerate innovation and operational effectiveness. The summit once again confirmed why customers choose to partner with Cognite. Access to advanced proven technology and methodologies, solutions that translate directly into real-time operational outcomes, and the quality, support, and long-term trust they can rely on. In summary, we delivered strong results We operate in the growing high barrier mission critical market. We're expanding with both new and existing customers. AI is a structural tailwind. We remain focused on execution and long-term value creation and are well positioned for continued growth. We operate where the hardest problems live. This is not a coincidence. It reflects 30 plus years of connecting advanced technology to operational realities. Ultimately, we help eliminate the unknown so our customers can act with clarity, speed, and confidence. With that, I'll turn the call over to David for a deeper review of our results. David?
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