Doximity, Inc.

Well, good day, everyone, and welcome to the Doximity Fiscal 2Q25 Earnings Call. At this time, I would like to have the call over to Mr. Perry Gold. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, operator. Hello, and welcome to Doximity's Fiscal 2025 Second Quarter Earnings Call. With me on the call today are Jeff Tangney, co-founder and CEO of Doximity, Dr. Nate Gross, co-founder and CSO, and Anna Bryson, CFO. A complete disclosure of our results can be found on press release issued earlier today, as well as in our related form 8K, along with a copy of our prepared remarks, all available on our website at investors.doximity.com. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded, and a replay will be available on our website. As part of our comments today, we will be making forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's current views, expectations, and assumptions, and are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially, and we disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements or outlook. Please refer to the risk factors in our annual report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs, and our other reports and filings with the SEC that may be filed from time to time, including our upcoming filing on Form 10-Q. Our forward-looking statements are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of today's date, November 7th, 2024. Of note, it is Doximity's policy to neither reiterate nor adjust the financial guidance provided on today's call unless it's also done through a public disclosure such as a press release or through the filing of a Form 8-K. Today, we will discuss certain non-GAAP metrics that we believe aid in the understanding of our financial results. A historical reconciliation to comparable GAAP metrics can be found in today's earnings release. Finally, during the call, we may offer incremental metrics to provide greater insights into the dynamics of our business. These details may be one time in nature, and we may or may not provide updates on those metrics in the future. I would now like to turn the call over to our CEO and co-founder, Jeff Tanguy.

Jeff? Thanks, Ferry, and thank you, everyone, for joining our second quarter earnings call. We have three updates today, our financials, network growth, and client portal. First, our top line. We delivered $137 million in revenue for the second quarter of our fiscal 2025, which represents 20% year-on-year growth and a 7% beat from the high end of our guidance range. Of note, our top 20 clients once again grew the fastest for us, up 24% on a trailing 12-month basis. These clients are the largest, most sophisticated pharma companies who employ entire teams of analysts to measure their marketing effectiveness. We believe our continued growth with them is proof of our value to the broader marketplace. Our bottom line was also strong in Q2 with a record adjusted EBITDA margin of 56% or $76 million, which was 41% year on year growth and 20% above the high end of our guidance. In short, We had a better than expected first half of our fiscal year with 19% top line growth and 54% margins. Our CFO, Anno, will provide details and guidance in a minute. Okay, turning now to our network growth and engagement. Q2 was another record engagement quarter for us. Our unique active users on a quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily basis were all up double digit percentages year over year. Drilling down to our biggest revenue driver, our newsfeed did particularly well in Q2, setting a new record for articles read. We're proud to put our 12 years of proprietary data to use to personalize each newsfeed for each of our more than 2 million members. Our workflow tools also set new records in Q2 with over 600,000 unique active prescribers. As a reminder, our workflow tools include our telehealth, fax, scheduling, and AI assistance. Our AI tools grew the fastest with over 1 million Doximity GPT prompts in Q2, but our telehealth tools grew nicely as well. In this age of increasing burnout, we're proud to help doctors save time, be more mobile, and provide the best care for their patients. While we're still in the early innings of monetizing these workflow tools, our point of care and formulary products continue to gain traction. Indeed, 20% of our pharma sales in Q2 came from our workflow-related modules. As healthcare shifts to be more digital, more mobile, and more AI-powered, we're proud to be leading the way. Okay, turning now to our new client portal. In September, we hosted our annual Pharma Client Showcase in New York City where we were joined by over 150 marketing leaders from our largest brand and agency partners. The hit of the day was our panel of top digital doctors describing how our AI and point of care tools are already transforming their practices and lives for the better. Our clients were excited to hear how we allow doctors to focus more on patients and less on paperwork. Excitement was also high for our new client portal, which is now open to more than 40% of our pharma brand clients, among whom our sales growth has been the strongest. In part, that's because upsells are easier in our portal. Our best-selling add-on to date has been nurse practitioner or NP audience extensions. The portal identifies NPs who work for our client's top positions and then can add them at a modest cost to existing programs. NPs conducted over 1 billion patient visits in the U.S. last year, and pharma knows they are an important high-growth audience to reach. Thankfully, they're also heavy Doximity users. Over the last quarter, we've also seen that ad agencies can be key portal allies for us. They help existing clients use the portal and introduce us to new SMB clients as well. So we've created an agency partners program to offer them more training. We've signed a handful of agencies so far, and they've already referred us to new six-figure clients. Based on this positive feedback and sales growth, we plan to roll out our client portal to all of our pharma clients starting early next year. Of note, we are now prioritizing agency partnerships over SMB self-service as we see better sales leverage there. That said, our client portal remains a multi-year initiative, and we'll continue to learn and adapt as we onboard more clients and partners. Okay, I'd like to end by thanking my Doximity teammates who continue to work incredibly hard to realize their mission to better healthcare. I personally have never been more excited or more proud about what we're building together. And with that, I'll hand it over to our CFO, Anna Bryson, to discuss our financials and guidance. Anna?

Thanks, Jeff, and thanks to everyone on the call today. Second quarter revenue grew to $136.8 million, up 20% year over year, and exceeding the high end of our guidance range. Similar to prior quarters, our existing customers continued to lead our growth. We finished the quarter with a net revenue retention rate of 116% on a trailing 12-month basis, up from 114% in Q2 of last year. Our top 20 customers remained our fastest growing, with a net revenue retention rate of 124%, up from 119% in Q2 of last year. We ended the quarter with 103 customers contributing at least $500,000 each in subscription-based revenue on a trailing 12-month basis. This is a 12% increase from the 92 customers we had in this cohort a year ago, and these customers accounted for 83% of our total revenue. Turning to our profitability, non-GAAP gross margin in the second quarter was 92%, versus 91% in the prior year period. Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter was $76.1 million, and adjusted EBITDA margin was 56%, compared to $54.2 million and a 48% margin in the prior year period. This represents adjusted EBITDA growth of 41% year-over-year as we continue to run a very profitable business with high incremental margins. Now turning to our balance sheet, cash flow, and an update on our share repurchase program. We generated free cash flow in the second quarter of 66.8 million compared to 11.6 million in the prior year period, an increase of 475% year over year, primarily driven by higher profits and the timing of quarterly tax payments. Consistent with last year, we expect to pay roughly 20 to 25% in cash taxes annually. And given those payments may vary quarter to quarter, we believe annual free cash flow growth is the best measure of performance. We ended the quarter with $806 million of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. During the second quarter, we repurchased $22.1 million worth of shares at an average price of $29.85. We believe repurchasing our shares is a valuable use of the incremental cash we generate above what's needed to reinvest in the business. These share repurchase efforts have decreased our fully diluted shares outstanding by roughly 4% since Q2 of last year. As of September 30th, we had $470 million remaining in our existing repurchase program. Now moving on to our outlook. For the third fiscal quarter of 2025, we expect revenue in the range of $152 to $153 million, representing 13% growth at the midpoint. And we expect adjusted EBITDA in the range of $83 to $84 million, representing a 55% adjusted EBITDA margin. For the full fiscal year, we now expect revenue in the range of 535 to 540 million, representing 13% growth at the midpoint. This is an increase of roughly 4%, or 19 million, at the midpoint after outperforming our Q2 guidance by roughly 10 million. We now expect adjusted EBITDA in the range of 274 to 279 million, representing a 51% adjusted EBITDA margin. This is an increase of roughly 9% or $24 million at the midpoint after outperforming our Q2 guidance by roughly $13 million. Our increased outlook is due to all businesses performing better than expected this past quarter, as well as the continued momentum we are seeing into Q3. Specific to our pharma customers, our upsell season has shown strong growth, driven by a combination of new product traction, client portal insights, and market stabilization. In Q2, sales for our new point of care and formulary products were each up more than 100% year over year. These products are becoming essential modules for our clients, and we are excited by the potential to see additional growth here during our upfront season. We also continue to see success with the cohort of brands tapping into our client portal to track and enhance their program performance. From real-time insights to program expansion recommendations, our clients are leaning into new opportunities to scale their programs on Doximity. We're pleased that this upsell momentum has also continued into Q3. As you consider our implied Q4 revenue guidance, please keep in mind two factors. First, as we've mentioned before, our customers are getting more disciplined about completing their annual programs and upsells by calendar year end. Second, as we go to launch next year's programs, we anticipate we may see longer launch timelines due to the traction of our new workflow products. Given the evolution in how our customers deploy their annual budgets, we continue to believe our annual growth rate is the best metric to measure the performance of our business. Looking ahead, we believe we are entering the upfront season in a strong competitive position, and we look forward to continuing to deliver value for both our customers and members. With that, I will turn it over to the operator for questions.

Thank you. And everyone, if you would like to ask a question today, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Once again, that is star one to ask a question. We'll go first to Glenn Santangelo, Jefferies.

Thanks for taking my question. You know, Jeff, obviously the results were great. I think what everyone's trying to really basically figure out is, you know, how much of the upside is coming from, you know, maybe the market stabilizing or the market getting better, maybe as Anna you know, you just suggested versus maybe, you know, some of these new product revenues really starting to contribute versus maybe share gain. So that's kind of the first question. And the second question maybe is on that implied Q4 exit rate, Anna, that you were just talking about. Because, you know, if you look at 4Q, now you're sort of forecasting 3% revenue growth and 42% margins is sort of what we calculate. And you're kind of making the case that customers are getting more discipline to complete their programs by year end and customers are signing longer programs. But I guess I'm not clear as to why that would be impacting fiscal 4Q as much as it seemingly is, or maybe it's just a lot of conservatism built in there. Not sure. And I'll stop there. Thanks.

Hey, Glenn. This is Jeff. I appreciate your question. I'll hand to Anna for the Q4 question. But to your first question, yes, we're pleased with our results. And we did see, as Anna said in her prepared remarks, over 100% growth from our new products, which was terrific. We have seen the market stabilize as well. And of course, we think we are gaining share in our core product suites as well. So the short answer is really all of the above. Candidly, We don't know yet, I think, how much of it really is market stabilization, but we can tell you we feel really strong about how we're doing, again, relative to our competition and in terms of our user growth, which, again, at record levels on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly basis. Anna?

Yeah, hey, Glenn, and thanks for the question. So with regards to Q4 specifically, I'll just reiterate the two dynamics I mentioned in my prepared remarks. So first, digital HCP has become a bigger line item for our customers. They have set up more guardrails around how annual budgets can be deployed. And what they're wanting to do is limit budget dollars from crossing between calendar years. So what that means is that we're seeing less revenue dollars from calendar 2024 programs flow into our fiscal Q4. And then the second dynamic is that while we are excited by the potential for another strong annual buying cycle, it is just too soon for us to know what the mix is going to look like of new brands and new products and what those launch timelines for next calendar year might look like. Especially given the way new products are resonating with clients, it's likely we could see a stronger mix of sales come from those products, and those products typically do have longer launch timelines. So I'll just close it all together here and reiterate that this is a good example of how evolving industry dynamics or the product mix can lead to quarterly variations in revenue growth and changes in the shape of the year. And that's why we think it's critical to focus on our annual growth rate as the best metric to measure the success for our business. And we've seen strong momentum there over the past six months that we're really encouraged by.

Thank you very much.

The next question is from Brian Peterson, Raymond James.

Hi, thank you. This is Jonathan McCary on for Brian. Congrats on the quarter. So first on the self-serve portal, it's nice to hear about the continued progress there. I think you've sort of spoken to it in three waves before referencing a recommendations and pricing phase and then a content creation phase that was in beta in the past. Can you just explain what you expect to go live with all clients next year? Is that all of that functionality or can you just remind us on the roadmap and how you're monetizing that?

Yeah, thanks, Jonathan. This is Jeff. So I'm really pleased with our content portal, our client portal, and how that's been growing. As we mentioned in our prepared remarks, we're seeing really stronger growth from clients who are on that. We are over 40% clients on it today. And early next year, we plan to roll it out to all of our clients. So obviously, we are pleased with how it's doing. We want all of our clients to have it. The key thing I think we've learned is that these recommendations, these easy packages that clients can just go see, like an NP extension package, can be a great growth driver for us and, again, really drove a good upsell season for us this past summer. We do have the content creation capabilities coming online, and they're going well. But as we alluded in our prepared remarks, we're really seeing more growth opportunity in working with agency partners in the short term, as opposed to going direct to small clients with a full end-to-end self-serve option. And so we're going to prioritize working with those agency partners first, in part because it matches the land and expand go-to-market motion that's worked so well for us for the last decade, which, just to remind you, we would work with a top 20 pharma company work with one of their brands and then expand to you know 15 or 20 of their brands so that land and expand and then the way we would get small clients in the past was really the lateral movement of a lot of our brand manager clients from big pharma going to small pharma we see a similar land and expand motion however with these agencies who do tend to work with dozens of different brands and again we can use the same sort of proof and trust of roi when an agency works with us on brand A to then also go work with them on brand B and C. So we're gonna lean a little bit more into that motion, but overall, our product roadmap for this, I've been really excited by the growth and the team has been doing a great job on it. Our clients really do just prefer the ability to have this in-flight dashboard, we call it, but in-flight, the idea they're flying their plane on their program and seeing the results every day, which has built trust in our data, in our ROI. And again, our clients are just more engaged. We're more top of mind with them every day. So moving ahead, we're not going to give all sorts of product roadmap details, but suffice it to say, again, starting early next year, we'll have all of our clients on our client pool.

Very helpful. All right. Thanks, Jeff.

Stephanie Davis from Barclays is up next.

Hey guys, thank you for taking my question and congrats on an awesome quarter. There were a lot of bright spots, but engagement was an especially bright one. So I wanted to hear a little bit more about what changed. So Jeff, is that tweaks to the platform? Did you tweak the engagement strategy? Or do you think we're just really seeing a change in how folks engage with the DocsMD portal itself?

Well, thanks, Stephanie.

You really was a lot of bright spots in this quarter. I'll speak to the bright spots from a physician-clinician engagement, and then I'll turn to Anna maybe to speak to the client engagement a bit. But on the physician side, there are two things we highlighted. First, that our news feed hit an all-time record high of articles tapped or articles read, which we're just really proud of. We're so proud to help doctors stay up to date on the clinical news that matters most to them, especially in this world that's increasingly noisy. from a media landscape, and we're so proud to keep it clinical, focused on what doctors need to provide better care for their patients. And again, for that to do well in a very heavy news cycle on other things, I think is a sign that doctors are keeping their heads down and treating their patients and doing their best work. So we're proud to help with that. The other record high stat was our number of workflow users, which was helped and aided, so 600,000 in the quarter. the fastest growing piece of which was our AI. So we're really excited to put multiple AI models to work for our doctors. We use perplexity to help them answer questions where they want to cite the sources and know the provenance, know where the guideline came from. We use open AI to help them write the letters or the prior authorization or the patient education. But the net result of all of that was a lot of growth. And we're really excited, I think, about the What AI can do for doctors specifically and for healthcare more broadly, I think the growth and opportunity there has been terrific. Anna?

Yeah, and Steph, I think you're also asking a little bit about client engagement with the portal. And that's definitely something that we see reflected in the numbers. So our brands with access to our portal, once again, grew quite a bit faster than our overall pharma business in Q2. So that co-owner brand has certainly been responsible for helping to increase our revenue outlook. Now, in Q2, I think what we saw with these brands more was they were leaning heavily into the recommendations aspect of the portal. So Jeff mentioned in his prepared remarks that NPs were one of the biggest add-ons that we saw. And these recommendations are helping our clients make easy upsell decisions and focus on maximizing ROI. So we're really pleased with the trajectory and the engagement that we've seen so far in our client portal and how that's already helped our business. And the other thing I'll say on that is I just think we're in the early 80s here, too.

Okay, dovetailing on that question then, so when you think about how that portal maybe can optimize this higher level of engagement, is this a lever you're thinking of pulling where maybe you can try to drive more sustained engagement or higher engagement, or is this kind of still to come?

I assume you're talking, Stephanie, about, you know, our clients' engagement. And I'll just say, you know, prior to this portal that we've worked on so hard in the last year, really the only way clients could work with us was to email or call us. And there's just a lot of friction to all of that. And we've heard it from our agency partners now as well. And so it's just so much easier, better. If I've got an 8 a.m. meeting on Thursday and it's Wednesday afternoon to go pull up our portal, get the latest stats, understand your ROI, see what's working, what's not working. So just they don't want to do another video call, another email, another phone call. And again, we're making that all just a lot simpler and easier for them. And our engagement, that is, you know, the amount of time our clients are spending in the portal has been impressive, higher than we would have expected. So I hope that answers your question.

Thank you much, and thank you for doing my airport background noise.

The next question is from Jared Haas, William Blair.

Yeah, good evening, and thanks for taking the questions. This is Jared. I'm for Ryan Daniels. Maybe I'll just tack on a quick follow-up as it relates to the – user engagement in the quarter. I'm curious, are you seeing any differences in engagement by, I guess, specialty? I think you talked a little bit about the dynamic with NPs, but just sort of beyond that, any differences by specialty or therapeutic area that would be incremental or different than what you experienced in the past?

Yeah, thanks, Jared.

So, you know, as we've shared in the past, telehealth has also been a great growth factor and driver for us, and that was also at record highs this quarter. There, in terms of specialties, the one thing we've highlighted is endocrinologists, who are the core specialty for GLP-1s, so an important, I think, commercial audience for us. They are among the heaviest users of telehealth, and we have a high percentage of endocrinologists in the country who use us every week, every month to communicate and see their patients. It just really fits very well with that model of seeing folks, titrating their meds, But, again, doing that in a nice face-to-face visit that they can do from home. The other thing I'd highlight is going back to the MPs for a moment. As we said, MPs have been really popular in our portal, and we've been prioritizing them more in our growth strategies. They are one of the fastest-growing professions in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. over a billion visits this past year. So one of the new products that we're coming out with here is what we call NP Navigator, which is helping them find the right school to go to to become an NP and to further their training as an NP, which is sort of complex. There's over 500 different programs out there. They have to get preceptorships with doctors in order to get the right training. So we have thousands of reviews now that we've gathered up from NPs themselves about their programs. I'm pleased to announce that the number one online school is Duke University. The number one in-person school is University of Miami. And again, we're providing a simple place like we've done with our residency navigator for medical school students, new graduates. And that product has gotten to 90% of graduating medical school students who use us. So our hope is with NP Navigator, we will have similar sort of ongoing evergreen use. as they are finding the best training and sharing within their profession the best places to be trained.

Okay, that's great to hear, and I appreciate all that color. And then, Anna, maybe for you, I just had one on the guidance, and maybe just to put a fine point on sort of the assumptions for the second half here, because it looks like there's the implied sort of step up in OPEX relative to, I think it was flat in the first and second quarter here. So just anything you'd share in terms of, I guess, investment areas, it sounds like You know, obviously with the rollout of the portal, maybe there's some incremental investment there or things are on AI. Just anything you'd call out in terms of the second half investment priorities?

Yeah, definitely. Thanks for the question. So a couple of things. First and foremost, since Q3 and Q4 are typically our highest sales quarters, they are also our highest commission quarters. And given the way we're pacing for the year, we're expecting strong commission payouts. So that is a natural step up that we see into Q3 and Q4 every year. As far as some of the newer investment areas, as we mentioned last quarter, as of September 1st, we're now buying weekly prescription data instead of monthly to provide even stronger real-time insights for our clients. So that's certainly a factor in the back half expense growth. And then we're also focusing on hiring commercial R&D, sales reps, sales leadership to continue to build on our client portal and enhance all of our other offerings. So It's very standard for us to see this back half step up, and the other thing I'll note is that we are now guiding to a 49% EBITDA margin in the back half of the year, and so we think very consistent with our overall margin trajectory.

Perfect. Yes, that makes sense, and congrats on all the momentum.

Your next question comes from Elizabeth Anderson, Evercore ISI.

Hi guys, congrats on the quarter. Very nice to see and thank you for the question. I had a question about agency partnerships. I mean, that's such a that's such an interesting opportunity in a way to further leverage not only your own sales efforts, but sort of the the strip cam and the reach in there. see, at least from the early learnings, the impact of that and where have you sort of seen it both from the biggest impact from an efficiency internally perspective and then the types of customers that that really has allowed you leverage into?

Yeah, thanks, Elizabeth. This is Jeff. I'll speak to that. Yeah, the agencies we've always worked with, at least in some degree, we contract directly with with end clients who work directly with end brands, but, you know, agencies are involved in most of our work and business. But with the portal, I think we've really opened up a new place for them to really engage and, you know, look smart in front of their clients and have better reports on ROI and what sort of content is resonating and not resonating and insights. So we really think it's a big win-win here for us with agencies, and we have worked on you know, better agency alignment in our business. So part of that will be, as part of this agency partner programming, letting them author the content. We will still approve it, but having them author it within the portal, which should be a small lift to our overall margins, since it would be work that we're not doing that they can do. But interestingly, when we let them do that, we see that they actually get content approved faster. They understand the internal legal processes of these top 20 pharma better. And that's good news for us. That gets programs launched faster. And actually, their ROI is slightly higher as well, which means that they're finding the right tone and the right resonance, I think, with their content. So we think it's a real win-win for us to work with agencies. And as we said in our prepared remarks, we've already had multiple client referrals, new clients they've brought us that we've never worked with before. that are six-figure clients. So we're excited to do that, more of that. We just got an email from one of them yesterday, one of our new program partners. They just signed their contract this week, and they sent an email that they are chomping at the bit to get access to the portal, which I think speaks to the excitement they have, I think, to have some of this analytics be done for them in a more seamless way. Because a lot of what agencies do is is putting together a lot of spreadsheets, and that takes a lot of time. And you'd be surprised how manual a lot of that process is today. So having that pulled together all in one place, like you'd expect to do with a Google or with other major portals, I think it's really exciting for them.

Nice. Thank you.

The next question comes from Alan Lutz, Bank of America.

Good afternoon, and thanks for taking the questions. Jeff, you mentioned that workflow tools drove 20% of the pharma revenue in the quarter. I think you called out telehealth back, scheduling, AI assistance. Can you talk about how the growth of those products has been over the past year? What was the contribution maybe a year ago? And then you also mentioned you're in early innings, monetizing these workflows, trying to understand how much larger can they get? Is it about penetrating more of your customers or growing share or wallet? Really trying to understand how big these specific pieces of the business can be.

Yeah, thanks for the question, Alan. So what Jeff referenced in his prepared remarks is that we saw 20% of our sales in Q2 come from these new workflow products, such as Formular and Point of Care. Now, if we look back over the last 12 months, Obviously, it's going to be a lower percentage of that, but it is growing faster than our overall business. We think that we're still in the early innings here of the opportunity. Between the engagement we see in our workflow channels and the unmonetized white space, we believe our workflow modules could be on par with our newsfeed over the next three to five years. Once again, we're still in the very early innings. But these modules are certainly helping to lead our growth. And we do think that over the next three to five years, they'll continue to become a higher percentage of our overall business.

Got it. That's really helpful, Anna. Thank you. And then one for you on the EBITDA margins, 56% in the quarter, really, really strong. How should we think about the incremental cost in the model? I mean, over the past year, you've invested in a lot of new products, point of care, peer-to-peer, the client portal. And obviously, you're managing OpEx growth incredibly well. I think it was about maybe a year and a half ago, you talked about 45% plus EBITDA margins. Is there any update to that specific target? Just trying to understand how you think about the incremental cost in the model. Thanks.

Yeah, thanks for the question, Alan. So as far as EBITDA expansion, I'd say kind of two things here. So one, we're still in the early stages stages of learning how AI could make our business more efficient. And we're also still in the early stages of learning how our client portal could impact incremental margins. At the same time, we're in the early stages of investments in these two areas. So it's just too soon for us to know exactly what medium to long term margins could look like for us. You know, there's no reason for us to believe that we will see margins decrease materially by any means with these investments, because we do think we have a lot of upside through AI and through the incremental margins that our client portal could drive. But we just want to get a better understanding on those two aspects of the business before we do give an updated long-term outlook.

Thanks, Anna.

Up next, we'll take a question from Michael Tierney, Lee Rankin.

Great, thank you. This is Dan Clark on for Mike. Just curious when you look at the quarterly, you know, performance you had rather than 2Q, if there were any like common themes, you know, between, you know, what drove the outperformance, if there are like specific, you know, drug classes that you saw particular strength in marketing campaigns or anything like that. I would appreciate it.

Thank you. Mike, thanks for the question.

So, yeah, back to Some of the things we said earlier, so it wasn't all businesses performed better than expected in Q2. Our pharma business as well as our health system business. I would say most of the growth was led by pharma as we had a really strong upsell season, but the strength was broad-based. There wasn't anything specific class of drugs or therapeutic area that was unique that led the growth. I would say kind of the two factors that we've pointed to are the client portal helping to provide real-time insights and recommendations, and then also new product traction. But that, once again, has been broad-based across many of our pharma brands and clients. Thank you.

Your next question is from Scott Schoenhaus, KeyBank.

Hi, team. Thanks for taking my question. So I kind of want to follow up on Jeff's question at the beginning of the Q&A session here. You know, if you look back at last year, before you had the portal up and running, I think you maybe potentially lost some market share to competitors that had the portal. Now, as you're successfully launching it, you're seeing some market share gains back. And then ultimately into next year, when we have all of your clients on the portal, we should be really unlocking a lot of upselling opportunities here through the portal. Just kind of wanted to understand where you think market conditions will be overall for next year and how much more market share gains you can potentially do next year versus prior years with your portal. Thanks.

Yeah, thanks, Scott. This is Jeff. So I'll begin, and then maybe Anna can speak a little more to the longer term. You know, if we look back on it, yes, I think we had the best product, but we weren't the easiest to buy a year and a half ago. And now the portal has helped us really fix that problem. And beyond just being easier to buy, I think we're also providing them additional insights that really are, I think, putting us, again, at that strategy table with our clients, where we've always been, but now even with, I think, a greater level of influence and insight. So I think that's been terrific. So I'll let Anna speak to the market growth.

Yeah, listen, it's still early. We're in our upfront season right now. We're having discussions with our clients. As of right now, we have no reason to believe that we're going to see much of a change in pharma budget growth, at least for this next year. We'll know a lot more in December. We'll obviously give you a more robust update in February. I'll just, you know, remind you that if we think about our industry, it's evolved a lot over the past five years, right? So pre-pandemic, pharma was spending just about 17% of their budget digitally. During the pandemic, we saw massive acceleration to digital, with budget growth of roughly 30% to 40% a year. And then post-pandemic, we've seen a little bit of a digital detox, if you will. And we're seeing budget growth now in the mid-single digits. So as we look ahead, we believe pharma is still very under-indexed digitally, and we don't believe long-term that mid-single digit is that long-term industry growth rate. But as far as we see in the near term, there's nothing that suggests that that's going to change at least in the next year or so. But over the medium to longer term, we do think we'll see a higher growth rate for our overall pharma budgets.

Great. Thanks, Ann. And I guess I would follow up with you. I think, you know, a couple of quarters ago, you outlined about, you know, no growth from the healthcare end markets baked into your guidance for this year. Has that changed recently? Thanks.

Yeah, we've definitely seen stability in our health system business over the past six months. And so if we look at our expectations today versus our expectations six months ago, we've definitely seen marginal improvement there. But I'll continue to reiterate that the majority of our performance has been led by our pharma business.

Thanks so much.

The next question is Scott Berg from Neidemann Company.

Hi, everyone. Super nice quarter here. I guess just one question for me. You're kind of through the first season using the portal, and I know not all your clients are on it yet, but You know, any commentary in terms of, you know, what you're seeing for pricing there? Would it hold up the same as if a client's working with you directly and not on the portal? And then as you look back at, you know, the first several months on your customers using it, is there any lessons in terms of things you might tweak going forward that might be interesting to note as you get into next year?

Yeah, Scott, Jeff here. It's probably too soon to be doing too many analyses around the pricing and the recommendations. But suffice it to say, I think we've given ourselves more granularity, more levers. And again, we made it easier for them to have these add-on packages. In terms of things we would do different, I mean, of course, there's always things we learn as we go through this. I guess I hesitate to get into too many specifics. But I will say, I think the agency angle that we've found in the last quarter has been going really, really well. And again, I think folks On Wall Street, I've told for a while that we need more agency alignment, and now I feel happy that I think we're finally finding it. We're making them look smart. We're looking smart. We're not just taking money out of their pocket, right, which is what we've done historically, and it feels nice to be working together with them.

Got it. Helpful. Thank you.

Jalendra Singh from Truist has the next question.

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. I have a quick question on just your larger sun customers as they become more and more robust in your growth performance. I don't think there are case by case, but when one of your companies or brands are involved in M&A and given the potential for rate cuts coming on, when one of your customers are acquired, does DOCS typically lose their revenue? What happens? Can you walk us through what typically happens in M&A? in their digital marketing approach when the brand is being acquired?

Hey, thanks for the question. I'll take the first part about our largest customers, and I'll let Nate chime in on the second part. So, yeah, we've definitely seen our largest customers continue to lead our growth. So specific to our top 20, we actually saw a net revenue retention rate of 124% over the past 12 months. comparing that to 119% in Q2 of last year. So we've seen pretty strong acceleration there in top 20. We're continuing to find ways for these customers to expand their programs, such as adding point of care modules or adding MPs through a client portal recommendation. So we believe we're really entrenched there in top 20 and doing very well and very excited about where we can take the long tail of some of these agency partnerships and the client portals.

Hey, this is Nate. I'll just chime in and add, certainly M&A is something that's quite common in the industry. A lot of the top 20 clients have pretty robust pipeline strategies that involve M&A. And while we don't often name our clients or call out case studies on these calls, we have done a few in the past. A good example here might be Biohaven. That was a company where we had great relationships both with the brand, but also with the C-suite of the company. Oftentimes with these smaller clients, we're able to have a relationship with both because it's a tighter cohort of people. And because they were smaller, I think they were able to be a little more more nimble when it came to adopting digital first or digital forward strategies that began with tactics like Doximity rather than beginning with, say, reps or some of the more historical marketing methodologies that pharma has used over the decades. And so when M&A occurs, that often becomes a great sort of cultural Trojan horse in many ways that can help us have new hotspots of digital-first strategies within these larger top 20 customers.

That's a really helpful call. And then just one quick question on pricing. What are you seeing in conversations when you're pricing in terms of negotiations and such? We're hearing a lot from the similar end markets that there's a really tough pricing environment going on from budget-conscious pharma companies.

Yeah, thanks for the question. So, I'll be brief on it, but, you know, we continue to steadily increase our prices, but, you know, it isn't our primary growth lever today. I'd say if we think about our key growth levers, pricing is on the lower rung.

We'll take our next question from Eric Percher at Nefron.

Thank you.

As you go into the upfront selling season, I'd love to get your take on the competitive environment. And going back to Anna's commentary earlier, does it feel like there was an increase in competition coming out of the pandemic? And you've clearly equalized some of the go-to-market and other elements here with the portal. So how do you feel about external factors of competition and then balance by the internal actions you're taking?

Hey, this is Nate.

We feel good about our ability to gain share and our competitive positioning. I think a lot of that comes from the deep and high trust relationships we have with our clients. We've heard from some of our clients that some of these competitive areas like programmatic, the share may have stabilized or some platforms may be losing a bit of share. But really, our focus is inward and is towards our clients. And You know, our clients have had to go through a lot the past few years. Everyone's still learning, as Anna said, but our ability to have really high-quality product, reach, authentic engagement, and doctor-centricity to these commercial programs remains key. And we think when our clients sit down and take a breath and look at the ROI, we feel real good about our ability to come out on top.

Okay. And Anna, you had a comment about next year's launches and perhaps longer timelines. I think that was going to new workflow products. Can you just go a level deeper on cause and effect there?

Yeah, sure. So, listen, any time we have a client buy a product for the first time, it takes a little bit longer to go live. We have to create the content. It goes through MLR. And we're still in growth phase right now with our workflow products. So when we look at our Q4 guidance, we're just trying to bake in plenty of time to get those programs live. And especially given the traction we've seen with our workflow products here to date, it is very possible that we'll see a higher mix of Q3 sales come from those products. So that's what we're seeing. You're just baking in plenty of time to get these programs live just because they are newer programs for a lot of our clients.

Got it. Thank you.

A reminder, everyone, it is Star 1 if you have a question. Next up is John Park. Morgan Stanley.

Hi, this is John. Stepping in for Craig. Thanks for taking my question. It's been about a year since the company withdrew the five-year revenue growth target as well as the Rule of 65 target. I was wondering if management or the board had any intention to revisit those goals.

Yeah, thanks for the question, John. You know, listen, we're still early in the evolution right now of our client portal and really what the long-term market growth rate is. So I'll kind of go back to my answer from an earlier question that I think that we're in a phase here where we don't know what the long-term pharma digital market growth rate is. We think it's probably a little bit too low right now, but until we get a little bit more stability on that long-term growth rate and then we get a better sense of what our client portal could be long-term and how much growth we could see theoretically from SMB long-term, we're not going to give an update on those targets until then. So I wouldn't expect anything from us in the near term on that.

Got it. And what are some ad agency partners saying about client spending landscape in the post-election world? Just trying to get a sense of a level of optimism or pessimism moving forward. Thank you.

Hey, John. This is Nate. You're right. Agencies do help us keep our finger on the pulse and get a little bit better of a view into the macro. And Jeff has commented a lot on the other benefits that we get from our agency partners. With regards to the election, I'll say it's Still early. We continue to take a more cautious and longer approach to the overall market. And election results can certainly introduce new uncertainty to our partners. But in general, we're a relatively well-insulated platform at the moment. I'm not sure our particular products are uniquely exposed in a positive or negative way to what were some of the leading substantial platform pillars that the candidates have. I will highlight the iShares US Pharma ETF is up around 11% year to date. And if you look at it over the window that the election stabilized and concluded, it's remained pretty stable. So the people who spend all day thinking about this aren't or haven't yet priced in much risk or upside, even in a world with many complex ongoing layers.

Appreciate it. Thank you.

Everyone, at this time, there are no further questions.

I'll hand things back to Jeff for any additional or closing remarks.

Thank you. So, I'd like to end just by thanking our entire DocCity team for their hard work, serving more doctors every day than ever before. Thank you. And thank you, everyone else, for joining. Bye now.

Once again, that does conclude today's conference. Thank you all for your participation. You may now disconnect.