Jamf Holding Corp.

Thank you for standing by and welcome to JAM's fourth quarter 2024 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during this session, you'll need to press star 1-1 on your telephone. If your question has been answered and you'd like to remove yourself from the queue, simply press star 1-1 again. As a reminder, today's program is being recorded. And now I'd like to introduce your host for today's program, Jennifer Gaman, Vice President of Investor Relations.

Good afternoon and thank you for joining today's call to discuss JAM's fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial results. Joining me on today's call are John Strosel, CEO, and David Rudeau, CFO. Before we begin, a reminder that shortly after the market closed today, we issued a press release announcing our fourth quarter and full year financial results. We also published our Q4 investor and earnings presentation along with an Excel file containing quarterly financial statements to assist with modeling. You may access this information on the investor relations section of jamf.com. Today's discussion includes forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and trends to differ materially from our forecast. For more details, please refer to the risk factors and other information discussed in our most recent SEC reports, including our most recent annual report on Form 10K. Jamf assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date they are made. We will also reference some non-GAAP measures related to JAM's performance. Reconciliation to the nearest comparable GAAP measures are available in our earnings release. To facilitate a full Q&A, please limit yourself to one initial question and one follow-up. Now I'll turn it over to John.

Thanks, Jen. Jamf achieved strong results in Q4, with -over-year revenue growth of 8% and non-GAAP operating income margin of 18%, exceeding the high end of our outlook for each metric. This resulted in full-year revenue growth of 12% and non-GAAP operating income margin of 16%. I'm pleased that we met our objective of exceeding our financial targets for all four quarters of 2024. I'm especially proud of our team for delivering strong bookings growth in Q4. This performance was driven by contributions across products, regions, and size of business, reflecting broader stabilization than we have seen in over the past two years. ARR grew 10% -over-year to $646 million. We continue to successfully target customers impacted by recent consolidation of unified endpoint management vendors. Our win rates for these customers spanning all industries and business sizes have remained elevated since late 2023. Additionally, we continue to see strength in our core Mac business, especially in the tech space. I'd like to share some of our successes we saw in Q4 across our four key growth vectors – security, mobile, international, and channel. In security, we continue to see demand for JAMF's Apple First Security Platform, with 17% -over-year growth in security ARR to $156 million, or 24% of JAMF's total ARR. Customers increasingly choose JAMF to meet both their management and security needs, with Q4 representing another record quarter for ARR added for JAMF's business plan. This includes five financial services firms across North America and Europe and representing over $400 billion in market cap. One of the largest banks in the UK has grown their Mac and JAMF footprint over the last year with JAMF Pro and Select Divisions. In Q4, the bank expanded to JAMF's business plan as part of its Mac Choice program rollout across the entire organization. Key to winning this five-year renewal was JAMF's ability to meet the UK's stringent regulatory requirements. JAMF's platform solution is seamlessly integrated across management and security, ensuring that only authorized users on enrolled devices can safely access sensitive data. In mobile, we continue to demonstrate our ability to support organizations in any business setting, whether desk-bound or not. In the tech space, one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers recently renewed and grew with JAMF Pro for mobile, with plans to deploy over 60,000 mobile devices over three years. In the transportation space, we saw three global airlines expand with JAMF in Q4, as airlines increasingly seek out solutions for mobile devices both in the air and on the ground. JAMF meets the varying needs of airlines with an integrated solution that can be used by pilots and in-flight crews, ramp agents, baggage handlers, and maintenance personnel. One of these airlines, based in Asia, became a customer in Q4 of 2023 with JAMF Pro for pilot iOS devices. In just one year, the airline expanded with JAMF, adding our new mobile security solution. This solution, which was launched in Q3, combines mobile threat defense and data policy with zero trust network access. Given the pilot iOS devices are mission critical during flights and are often used across the globe on various networks, JAMF ability to both manage and protect these devices anywhere was key to this win. We believe deskless opportunities will continue to grow as companies look to manage and secure all devices in their fleet, regardless of location. Turning to international, in 2024, revenue from geographies outside the US grew 17% to just over a third of our total revenue. We expect international revenues continue to increase as a percentage of our total revenue over time as we invest in strategic geographies outside the US. We've utilized success with lighthouse customers in certain geographies like Asia, where our involvement in Japan's Giga project, which started back in 2020, has provided additional education opportunities across Asia. The Giga School project is a government-funded initiative to provide at least one device to every student in Japan. In Q4, JAMF was selected by the Ministry of Education in Singapore for all student iPads due to our ability to meet the ministry's requirements for data encryption, threat detection, and access control with JAMF School and JAMF Safe Internet. We're excited about the multiple opportunities that exist with other ministries of education across Asia as we continue to grow our business outside the US. We're also working to capitalize on the success we've had outside the US in the channel space with the goal of driving more of our business through our partners, increasing the efficiency of our -to-market organization. One key milestone in this journey was the launch of the JAMF Partner Hub and our new Partner Program in Q3. While it's early, we've seen significant uptick in partner-led deal registrations since the program's launch. We're encouraged by the progress we've seen in such a short amount of time and are excited for what this is going to come and bring in the space. 2024 was a year of transformation for JAMF with a number of scalability and efficiency initiatives to drive future growth and margin expansion, including the launch of our new Partner Program and system updates. We're excited to see the continued benefits of these initiatives to our business as we progress toward our goal of achieving the Rule of 40. I'm looking forward to 2025 and what it will bring as we continue to help organizations seed with Apple. Now, I'll turn it over to David to review our Q4 results and provide our 2025 outlook.

Thanks, John. We achieved strong results again in Q4 and are pleased with our ability to deliver beat and raise quarters throughout the year. Year of year total revenue growth was 8%, exceeding the high end of our revenue outlook. Recurring revenue grew 9% and represented 98% of total revenues in Q4. This performance resulted in fiscal year revenue growth of 12%. Less strategic sources of revenue, such as services and license, continue to experience year-rear declines as expected. Our net retention rate decreased slightly as expected to 104% in Q4 when compared to Q3. Gross retention rates remained consistent with historical levels. Non-GAAP operating income exceeded the high end of our Q4 outlook at $30 million, or 18% margin, and a 400 basis point improvement over Q4 2023. For the full year, non-GAAP operating income dollars more than doubled to $103 million, resulting in a full year non-GAAP operating income margin of 16%. This margin reflects an 800 basis point improvement from 2023 and an 1100 basis point improvement from 2022. This was driven by our continued commitment to discipline investment while driving top line growth. The majority of non-GAAP operating income margin improvement in 2024 came from two areas where we have focused our efficiency efforts, sales and marketing in general and administrative. Sales and marketing as a percent of total revenue improved 500 basis points in 2024, and G&A improved 200 basis points, both on a non-GAAP basis. Our trailing 12-month unlevered free cash flow margin improved to 12% compared to 10% in the prior year, with unlevered free cash flow dollars growing over 30% compared to the prior year. While we saw improvement in trailing 12-month unlevered free cash flow margin compared to the prior year, the 12% margin was lower than expected due to delayed billings and collections associated with their comprehensive systems update. We expect the payments related to these delayed billings to benefit 2025. Our platform supports approximately 33.2 million devices and 76,500 customers. As we highlighted in Q3, we went live with new systems across sales and back office. This process included some minor data reconfiguration. Due to the timing of this change, validation of accounts and metrics continued through year end and immaterially impacted ARR, customer count, and device count previously reported for Q3. Excluding this reset, Q4 2024 device ads were similar to Q4 last year. Looking ahead, we plan to disclose device and customer count on an annual basis. These metrics do not capture the large opportunity that we have related to cross-seller mobile and security, which has been a key driver of our growth. Additionally, given our very large and diverse install base, these counts are less meaningful and can vary based on the type of devices and size of customers we add on a quarterly basis. We believe that our quarterly ARR disclosure better informs investors of our financial performance. Q3 ARR was impacted by the minor data configuration work that continued through year end by $5 million. The adjustment impacted multiple historical periods and we chose to apply the cumulative impact to Q3 2024. This adjustment included system corrections to ARR contract values, post-contract close, and standardization of ARR calculations for customer billing frequency. As a result, we ended Q4 with ARR of $646 million, representing -over-year growth of 10%. Security ARR grew 17% -over-year to $156 million. Now turning to our outlook for 2025, we remain committed to being a profitable growth company and will build upon the progress we made in 2024, improving efficiencies while strategically investing for growth. I've spent my first four months at JAMP immersing myself in our business to fully understand our strategy, value proposition, and growth opportunities. During this time, I've only become more excited for JAMP's future. Part of my work included analyzing our financial model and historic targets laid out during the analyst day last March. I believe in creating an achievable model that reflects current trends in our business, which is consistent with how guidance has been provided in the past. Given this, our 2025 revenue outlook reflects our growth profile exiting Q4. Changes from what was presented at the analyst day include the annualized impact of our adjustment made to our Q3 2024 ARR base, continued uncertainty in the selling environment due to ongoing layoffs and budget constraints in our end markets, and a higher contribution for mobile, which is at a lower price point than Mac, but represents a large opportunity. As a result, for the first quarter of 2025, we expect total revenues of $165.5 to $167.5 million, representing -over-year growth of 9 to 10%. Non-GAAP operating income of $35.5 million to $37.5 million, representing a non-GAAP operating income margin of 22% at the midpoint. For the full year 2025, we expect total revenue of $675.5 million to $680.5 million, representing -over-year growth of .1% at the midpoint. Non-GAAP operating income of $142.5 million to $146.5 million, representing a non-GAAP operating income margin of 21% at the midpoint, and approximately 500 basis point improvement over fiscal year 2024. Given our strong margin profile, we anticipate unleveraged free cash flow growth of at least 75%. We are committed to driving incremental operating margin improvement regardless of the environment. As you have seen over the last few years, we have significantly improved our non-GAAP operating margin, and we plan to continue this trend in 2025. Our objective is to exit fiscal 2026 at a rule of 40 run rate, as defined as the sum of the -over-year revenue growth plus trailing 12-month unleveraged free cash flow margin. I would also like to thank the entire Global Jam team for all the hard work and efforts over the last year and for welcoming me into my new role. Our team really personifies JAM's values of selflessness and relentless self-improvement. They have made my transition seamless, helping me get up to speed quickly. I look forward to working alongside this great team as we execute our plan in 2025. Now we will take your questions.

Operator? Certainly. And our first question for today comes from the line of Jake Roberti from William Blair. Your question, please.

Hey, thanks for taking the questions. John, can you just talk about the recent trends you are seeing in the tech and education sectors? I know those spaces have seen some headwinds over the past few years, but it sounds like you started to see some signs of stability in the quarter. So I would love to just dig in those comments a little deeper and then what exactly you are expecting from those industries in 2025.

Yeah, sure, Jake. Thanks for the question. You know, let's take it in parts. Q4 was a great quarter. We mentioned that in the prepared remarks. We had nice bookings. One quarter doesn't make a trend, but we are encouraged by that. So we are excited about that. In the tech space, we have seen some growth as well, particularly in the Mac, which is always good. Mobile especially, mobile and mobile security are two areas that we have seen a lot of uptake in across retail, across transportation. Airlines is an example. We used that as well in the prepared remarks. Those are very encouraging signs. And we shouldn't forget about education at all. It's one, it's still a material part of our business. And it's something that as we watch and work with these jurisdictions, both in the U.S. and internationally, they spent money in late 2020 and then throughout 2021. Now in 2025, we're starting to see the beginnings of some of those organizations coming back and not only refreshing some devices, but also having some spend. We saw some of that in early in the Giga project example for the version two of the Giga project. We've also announced the Ministry of Education in Singapore has also selected us for their country there. So we're looking at a lot of opportunity on both the education side as well as the tech side as we see buyer confidence return. That's

helpful. And then security growth kicked below 20%. Can you help us understand how much of that growth was impacted by the data reclassification that you went through this quarter? And then could you just talk about how demand and pipeline is trending for that that suite as you as we've gotten into the new year?

Yeah, Jake, this is David. I'll take that first part of the question. Yeah, the air adjustment did impact the security business. That was that takes about 2% of growth off of the number. So it would have been 19% versus 17%. And I think John might have mentioned this as well. But on the mobile side, we did see a very nice quarter of mobile as well, which does result in half the cost about from a jam pro. And then what was the second question? The second

question was just around how just demand for that solution and pipeline is trending in the new year.

For the security solution. Yeah, I mean, that's that. And like I mentioned before, you know, we're seeing a lot of interest in that even even companies or organizations that have started with the management side of it. They've really seen the benefit of the of the Apple specific security side of it as well. And last year we announced I think it was Q3. We got an award for the best mobile security solution. And that is really picking up in across both commercial as well as education. As we look, some of these jurisdictions are required to have security products on their on their educational devices. And we benefited from from both of those. So we're seeing again, we're seeing some encouraging signs a bit early to call it to call it a trend. Every every comeback I've seen has been a bit choppy. And so we're making sure that we're we're looking at that and managing it according to what our customers need.

Very helpful. Thanks for taking the questions.

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Koji Akita from Bank of America. Your question, please.

Yeah. Hey, guys, thanks. Thanks so much for taking the question. I just have one. And so when I look at the commentary, I'm sorry, the guidance, it does imply you're going to reach somewhere around a rule of 30 for 2025 with revenue growth and unlever free cash on margins somewhere around there with the back of the envelope math. But but I think I just heard David, I think you said in your prepared remarks that you're trying to get to a rule of 40 in 2026. And so that does imply some sort of either revenue, Excel or unlevered free, more unlevered free cash will unlock. And so I know you're not guided in 2026. But how do we think about the kind of the levers to get to that rule of 40 in 2026?

Yeah, no. Thanks for the question, Koji. Yeah, I think in the prepared remarks, our goal is to exit 2026 at a rule of 40 run rate. And so that will come from the revenue growth and our continued focus on margin expansion. If you look, you know, the last two years, we've increased margins by 1100 basis points. And based on the guidance for this year, we expect to increase margins by another 500 basis points. Got

it. Thank you. That's super helpful. Actually, maybe if I could squeeze in one here. So security, you know, maybe a follow up to the prior question about the slowdown in security growth and fully understand the reclass of the AR. But what is your confidence today of security being one of the stronger growth drivers of ARPU growth in 2025 and beyond?

I'm Koji. This is John. I'm very confident. We've actually won management deals because of our security component. In fact, we even announced when we won the Ministry of Education for Taiwan. The only reason we got that is because we had security alongside our management piece of it. And there's no other company that does Apple specific management and security at scale other than us. And as we see, but they don't do it all at once. They'll start with a department. Then other departments will start to use that or they'll start with management and then they've expanded into the security spot of it. So I really see that as a bright spot. I see I wouldn't imagine us not having a security component at this point. So I'm encouraged.

Thanks, guys. Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Matt Hedberg from RBC. Your question, please.

Great. Thanks for taking my questions, John. You know, I think at the top of the call, you mentioned some share shift, presumably VMware, Broadcom. I'm wondering if you could maybe double click on a little bit of that. Is that is that actually improved now? I mean, we've heard of some pretty significant price increases in the channel, maybe just a little bit more commentary on some of the competitive dynamics you're seeing there.

Yeah, I'm a man. This is John. From a competitive standpoint, it's been pretty consistent with what we've seen over the past. You know, I'd say year, year and a half. You know, we haven't really seen any any much ebbs and flows there. We continue to have a replacement market. That's not all going to happen at once because, you know, a lot of those customers have longer multi-year contracts, you know, as they come up. But we are seeing them come over. There's concern about innovating at the pace of Apple without the funding and investment in R&D to do that. Of course, that's what we do every day all day. So we're winning customers because of it. And, you know, we're going to continue to do so. But helpful. And David,

for you on the guide for this year, I know you don't guide the error. Should we think you should error grow roughly in line? I think revenue was guided if I if I looked at it was about 8% growth. But if I looked at that right, should we think about error kind of going in line with revenue and maybe just some of the underlying conservatism that you embedded in kind of your full year outlook from a revenue perspective would be helpful.

No, that sounds good. Thanks, man. Yeah. So an error, we do not guide to error. I think the error numbers that we post .8% growth. I mean, that's what we're entering into 2025 with. And that was the starting point of our growth for the year that we were looking at on the revenue side. I think to give a little more color on the guidance in terms of sequentials, we expect it to be down sequentially seasonally as it was last year in Q2. And then continue to improve sequentially throughout the year. And then the margin side, we think operating margins will be down sequentially as well. We do have merit increases and some additional cost cloud costs that are coming in. We have Azure now as as a partner in a marketplace. And then the operating margin should increase throughout the year as well. Thanks a lot, guys.

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of DJ Heinz from Kenakor Genuity. Your question, please.

Hey, good evening, guys. Maybe I could pick up on the thread that David just mentioned, which is the Azure channel now live. Look, you have experience of already adding AWS as a channel partner and seeing how that's progressed, realizing it's still super early with Azure. But how has that looked relative to what you saw in the early days of the AWS relationship? And I guess more interestingly, like any learnings from working with that first type of scale or relationship that you can apply to what you're doing with Microsoft?

Yeah, DJ, this is John. It's encouraging. Again, we we had great success and we continue to have great success with with Amazon and being on that marketplace. And that's one of the reasons why we lead really hard into the Azure marketplace, because we saw such good success there. We had customers buy because of it, because they could use AWS dollars and now Azure dollars as well as spend toward and to buy our product, because we use cycles for that cloud product. You know, we like you said, it's early days. We've done a lot of go to market and sales enablement for the Microsoft team as well as our own team. We've had their executives in here talking to our sales people, getting them up to speed. And we've got great traction. And so, again, I'm encouraged by the early days and watching this move forward. I'm encouraged also by the partnership with Microsoft. They've leaned into it heavily, which I was pleasantly, you know, pleasantly surprised, I guess, by that. But, you know, we continue to work together and I'm looking for great things from this on the Azure side, just just like we saw and continue to see on the Amazon side.

Yeah, good. OK. And then, John, look, I know you guys went through a period of kind of down sell pressures, but I'm curious. Like how much shelf where are unused license capacity do you think is still out there in the base? And the reason I ask, like if we start to see an improvement in hiring at some point, does jam immediately start to benefit from that? Or is there unused capacity that still needs to be soaked up first? Just help me think through those dynamics.

Yeah, we monitor that pretty closely because, you know, cloud product, we know what what devices have been enrolled and what's being used at that point in time. So there's not, you know, we're not afraid of that or worried about that at this point. We do see, you know, when companies continue to expand both our Apple footprint and then also adding management onto the security or security onto the management piece of it. So we've got that expansion there as well. You know, we we when hiring does return and, you know, we saw some uptick of that in Q4 in some areas, but not across the board yet and something we can count on going forward. So we're looking at that very closely. But I don't see like we have to take a big pause when hiring returns before we can start generating again. I think that that is commensurate with with hiring as well. But again, that's not our only way to grow revenues

through

device expansion, but certainly is one of them.

Yeah, very clear. OK, thank you guys. Appreciate it.

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Ramo Linschel from Barclays. Your question,

please. Perfect. Thank you. Going back, like you saw this quarter, like strength on mobile and obviously that's coming at a lower price point, as you said, but it's kind of a bigger market. Do you think that's the beginning of a trend? What's driving that? Like, you know, can you kind of talk to that a little bit more? Because, you know, obviously the opportunity there would be exciting.

Yeah, Ramo, this is John. It is exciting. Some people ask me what excites me about the business. It's the deskless workflow. And that's primarily mobile. We're seeing companies and education use mobile in ways that that they have. We haven't anticipated in the past. And it's just a market that hasn't been there before. And so we saw, like I mentioned in the prepared remarks, we saw a couple of airlines expand tremendously. I mean, it started in the pilot cockpit with the iPads and then it went to the behind, you know, above the wing with with, you know, the iPhones up and down the aisle. And then it extended from that on to below the wing and the maintenance people are using iPads to make sure that they have all of the instructions they need for their maintenance work and tool tracking and all those things, stuff we never thought about. So and all of that's mobile. So that that's really what's encouraging me is the mobile side of it. And then when they do expand to the mobile, they think, oh, there's you know, we need to make sure that these endpoints are secured as well as managed. And that's where we can lean into the security side.

Yeah, OK, perfect. Makes sense. And David, it's kind of like your guidance now. How do you think about your the level of conservatism conservatism you kind of built in here? How does macro play into your guidance outlook? Just kind of talk a little bit about your philosophy here. Thank you.

Yeah, so I believe in an achievable model and I would say the guidance process is very similar. My belief in how to do it is very similar to how Jams has done it over the years. You know, the beaten race model, of course, you know, but at the end of the day, what we looked at is what is the exit run rate for ARR? And then we based our model on that. You know, there's business, as John said, mobile is strong, security is strong, international. If it feels like we are in a very good position entering into 25.

OK, that's clear. Thank you.

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Tasha O'Reilly from Needham and Company. Your question, please.

All right. Thanks for taking my questions. So with the NRR declining two points sequentially, I believe it was spot on with the guidance that you gave for NRR. I believe it was at the beginning of last year. I'm just curious, you know, how did you have such strong visibility into the direction of the NRR throughout the course of the year? And should we expect that maybe this is a bottom or could it decline again sequentially into 2025? Or maybe just how are you thinking about trends around NRR moving throughout the course of this year?

Yeah, thanks, Josh. Yeah, we have a very good modeling team here at Jamf that does a great job on the NRR side. Yet it did decline 105 to 104. And looking forward into our assumptions for the coming year, we do think it will begin to improve during the year, probably in the back half of the year. But we are focused on the upsell and the cross sell. And I think as the macro does improve, I think we're in a really good position to see some traction there as well. But yeah, so 104 for the quarter, and it should improve throughout the year.

Got it. And then, you know, as we're looking at the guidance for the year with the pretty significant ramp and free cash flow, can you just talk to the line of sight that you have right now to that cash flow ramp? And could billings or collections disrupt that potentially? Is that something we should be considering? And how do you consider using excess cash throughout the course of the year, given that there is convertible debt that's due, I believe, in fall of 2026?

Yep. Yeah. So on the cash flow side, you know, DSOs increased 82 days in Q4. And normally it's in the high 60s. So we anticipate that that will improve throughout the year as our collections increase throughout the time period. In terms of the capital allocation strategy, you know, we look at that quarterly. We have a hundred seventy five million, a line of credit that's untapped. We have 225 million on the books at the end of the year. And so we look at that, you know, whether it's look at it and M&A additional organic growth opportunities that we look at. So I think, you know, we're fairly comfortable with our cash flow numbers for the year and where we're sitting right now. You know, I'd also like to to touch on kind of the system upgrade that we did. I think it positioned us really well as we look out towards the future. We upgraded to Oracle. We have Salesforce that we implement as well. And it really puts us in a position to scale the business looking out towards the future. We can now build a local currency. We have the partner channel that we've seen really strong growth from, good traction right out of the gate. And this will take us for the next number of years as we continue to grow. There's probably no limit to how big we can get on this platform.

Great. Thanks, guys.

Thank you. And our next question comes to the line of Patrick Wall-Reverts from CitizenJMP. Your question, please.

Hi, thanks for taking my question. This is Nick on for Pat. John, one for you. So Apple devices typically have an end of life of five years. Is this consistent with what you're seeing with your customers? If not, how has this changed over the past three years?

Yeah, Nick, this is it's pretty consistent. I mean, we typically factor in four years, but we've seen that elongate a little bit just given some uncertainties in the market. And there were some some budget constraints and things like that from our from our buyers across the board, not just for Jamf, but across the board. And so we've seen companies extend the lifecycle of those products a little bit. You know, remember when everybody had to learn from home and work from home in 2020, there was a lot of devices purchased at that point in time. And so we watched that very closely, talked to our customers on when that's going to come. And those choice programs really work to our benefit, because as we've seen in the studies that have been published, you know, two thirds of the people given a choice of a device will choose an Apple device, even if they had a PC their first time around. And then they will they will choose that. So we tend to are encouraged by that as those devices come to end of life. Got it. Thank you very much.

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Rob Owens from Piper Sandler. Your question, please.

Hi, this is Aidan from Rob Owens. Thank you for taking my question. With recent success in education, can you talk about the partner channel role internationally? And so how are you thinking about a future roadmap for added security capabilities? OK, so

this is John. So just so I understand the question, how do we think about our channel program and how it relates to education and then how security impacts that? Did I get that right? Yes. OK. Well, so on this on the the channel program for education, again, we're encouraged by the signs we've seen in education, both domestically and internationally. We mentioned a couple of those international opportunities that we've had, you know, not just across Europe, but also across Asia and in the US as well. Our resellers, you know, they they, you know, they work and they work very closely with education, especially outside the US. Our product does go through the channel partners outside the US and inside the US for education. The security component really is something that does set us apart. And it's it's a requirement for more and more jurisdictions to include a security component. A component, as I mentioned earlier on the call, that the reason we won the Ministry of Education in Taiwan was specifically because we had a security component. And we're seeing that consistent across other areas and other jurisdictions as well. So we're encouraged by the fact that we do have management and security, not just the on device security, but also the network filtering security piece as well. And then also how that works, how that relates to the channel, because they have to supply both of those solutions and to the extent that they can provide both of them in one product. That's really what's important to them and to their customers.

Does that answer your questions? Yes, thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Simi Chatterjee from JP Morgan. Your question, please.

Hi, Priyanka Thapa on for Samick. I have a couple of questions. First of all, you're seeing you saw some growth in Mac in the tech vertical. Are there any verticals where you're like noticing some sluggishness in the Mac? What's kind of driving that and what can be done? What trends need to happen in order for that to improve, if anything? And I have a follow up.

Hi, Priya. This is John. As far as sluggishness in the Mac, we haven't seen it, really. We've not seen as robust of a growth that we've seen in the past, but we haven't seen it go backwards by any way, shape or form. As I mentioned, when end users are given a choice and more and more companies are providing that choice to their employees, we do see them choose a Mac more often. We just haven't seen as robust growth in the past, just given the hiring trends and buyer confidence. So but we look forward to that continuing. We have seen a nice little uptick in Mac and tech. Tech is one of our largest industries only because a lot of them, again, were immediately remote workers. And they're kind of the first wave of that as those devices get a little older.

All right. Fantastic. And basically, my follow up is along those lines. You know, what are your expectations for hiring trends in like 2025? Do you expect something more like stronger through tech and other verticals or is this going to be like a broad based up list?

You know, it's hard for us. I'm not an economist. I don't know. I read what the same documents that you read. You know, we were encouraged by some nice uptick in Q4, but one quarter does not a trend make. So we're we're we're we're cautiously optimistic, but we're not ready to call that yet, along with the broader market.

All right. Thank you so much.

Thank you. And this does conclude the question and answer session of today's program. I'd like to hand the program back to John Stroussle for any further remarks.

Thanks, Jonathan. And thanks, everyone, for your time today. You know, we finished fiscal year 2024 with great momentum. We look forward to extending our leadership position, and I'm exceptionally proud of the team's agility and adaptability they've shown in the past year. All of us are very energized about the future. If you can't tell both David and I will be will be participating in some conferences next week. And we're looking forward to seeing some of you there. So hopefully you can join us. Thank you again for joining us today and have a great evening.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your participation at today's conference. This does conclude the program. Thank you. You may now disconnect. Good day.