C3 AI Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2024 Financial Results
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Insights
The reported revenue growth of 18% year-over-year and the increase in customer engagement by 80% for C3.ai, Inc. indicate a positive market reception and an expanding customer base. This growth trajectory is particularly noteworthy given that it has exceeded the company's own revenue guidance, which can be a strong signal to investors about the company's performance and potential future growth. The emphasis on subscription revenue, which constitutes 90% of the total revenue and has seen a 23% increase, underscores a stable and recurring revenue stream that can be attractive to investors seeking long-term growth and stability.
The company's diversification across various industries, with significant bookings in state and local government, federal, defense and aerospace and manufacturing, suggests resilience against industry-specific downturns. Such diversification can also be a hedge against market volatility, which might be of interest to investors looking to mitigate risk.
From a financial perspective, the gross margin figures reported by C3.ai, both GAAP (58%) and non-GAAP (70%), are robust indicators of the company's cost efficiency and its ability to translate sales into profits. The non-GAAP figures, in particular, are of interest as they provide a view of the company's profitability excluding non-cash expenses such as stock-based compensation. However, it's essential to note the reported GAAP net loss per share of $(0.60), which indicates that despite strong revenue growth, the company is still incurring substantial net losses. This metric, alongside the non-GAAP net loss per share of $(0.13), warrants close examination by stakeholders to assess the company's path to profitability.
The cash reserves of $723.3 million provide the company with a solid liquidity position to support ongoing operations and strategic initiatives. Investors typically view substantial cash reserves as a positive sign, as they can enable a company to weather economic downturns, invest in growth opportunities, or return value to shareholders.
C3.ai's focus on Enterprise AI and Generative AI applications positions the company at the forefront of two rapidly growing sectors within the technology industry. The reported increase in the qualified opportunity pipeline for C3 Generative AI by 73% year-over-year indicates strong market demand and the potential for significant revenue growth in this area. The company's partnerships with major technology firms like AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft enhance its capability to deliver AI solutions and could potentially drive further adoption and market penetration.
The company's advancements in Generative AI, with features such as deterministic responses, full traceability and minimal hallucination, are particularly relevant given the recent surge in interest in AI-driven technologies. These features could provide C3.ai with a competitive edge and make its offerings more attractive to organizations requiring high-accuracy, reliable AI applications.
Revenue Tops Guidance. Growth Accelerates.
Revenue Target Raised
“We had a great quarter. Total revenue of
Fiscal Third Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights
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Revenue: Total revenue for the quarter was
$78.4 million 18% compared to$66.7 million -
Subscription Revenue: Subscription revenue for the quarter was
$70.4 million 90% of total revenue, an increase of23% compared to$57.0 million -
Gross Profit: GAAP gross profit for the quarter was
$45.3 million 58% gross margin. Non-GAAP gross profit for the quarter was$54.7 million 70% non-GAAP gross margin. -
Net Loss per Share: GAAP net loss per share was
$(0.60) $(0.13) -
Cash Reserves:
$723.3 million -
Customer Engagement: Customer Engagement for the quarter was 445, an increase of
80% compared to 247 one year ago. 1
Business Highlights
C3 AI is leveraging its first-to-market advantage in Enterprise AI and powerful market demand trends to drive strong business results.
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In Q3, the Company closed 50 agreements (an increase of
85% year-over-year) including 29 new pilots (an increase of71% year-over-year). -
The Company entered into new agreements with Boston Scientific, Pantaleon, Booz Allen, Southwire, Carpenter Technology Corporation, Florida Crystals, Santa Ana Agriculture, Cerveceria Guatemala, AbbVie, T-Mobile, the
U.S. Department of Defense, Bloom Energy, Ball Corporation, DLA Piper, Carlisle Companies, and Holcim, among others. -
The C3 AI State & Local Government Suite of applications generated record bookings, leading all industries. In Q3, the Company signed agreements with
San Mateo County ,Daly City , andRiverside County inCalifornia . These bellwether deals pave the way for significant market opportunities in counties, cities, and municipalities throughout theU.S. -
C3 AI’s partner ecosystem continues to be productive. Partner-supported bookings grew
337% year-over-year and62% quarter-over-quarter. In Q3, the Company closed 27 agreements through its partner network, including AWS, Baker Hughes, Booz Allen, Google Cloud, and Microsoft. -
The qualified opportunity pipeline increased by
73% year-over-year, with C3 Generative AI opportunities exceeding opportunities for any other product.
Business Diversification
The Company continues to diversify across industries. In Q3, our bookings distribution by industry was:
State and Local Government |
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Federal, Defense and Aerospace |
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Manufacturing |
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Agriculture |
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Chemicals |
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Professional Services |
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Energy and Utilities |
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Food Processing and Consumer Packaged Goods |
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Oil and Gas |
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Customer Success
C3 AI remains the leader in AI-powered predictive maintenance solutions, continuing to deliver significant economic value across industries, with heavy adoption in the industrial sector.
- Holcim, a European leader in sustainable building solutions, embarked on a production pilot with C3 AI in May 2023 to configure and deploy the C3 AI Reliability Suite. Following a successful six-month pilot, Holcim entered into a four-year agreement with C3 AI to scale C3 AI Reliability across its 100+ cement plants. Holcim’s predictive maintenance program monitors a large number of assets and will generate significant yearly economic value in maintenance cost reduction and production increases. Further, Holcim is implementing C3 Generative AI to enrich C3 AI Reliability and to assist with complex equipment troubleshooting.
C3 Generative AI continues to gain traction with organizations that rely on technology solutions to produce accurate information and process highly sensitive data.
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DLA Piper, a global law firm pioneering technology innovation in the legal sector, worked with C3 AI to create a first-of-its-kind generative AI application to streamline the analysis of complex legal agreements. In three months, DLA Piper has used C3 Generative AI to reduce the attorney time it takes to create 200+ point due diligence analyses of limited partner agreements by
80% . As a result of this application, DLA Piper is realizing new operational efficiencies and freeing up attorneys to focus on delivering increased client value.
State and local government agencies continue to realize benefits with C3 AI such as improved transparency, productivity, and service levels made possible by the C3 AI Platform.
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Law Enforcement Departments in
San Mateo County have unanimously elected to adopt C3 AI Law Enforcement to integrate investigative data and enhance collaboration between agencies. To support California’s efforts to reduce organized retail, cargo, and automotive theft, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office andDaly City Police Department both signed multi-agency expansion agreements. Funded through theCalifornia Board of State and Community Corrections Organized Retail Theft grant, this agreement and the resulting work will unite participating police departments’ databases, with a combined 15 local police departments and 16 agencies deploying the application includingBurlingame ,Daly City , theCity of San Mateo ,San Bruno ,Atherton ,Redwood City ,South San Francisco ,Menlo Park ,Foster City ,Belmont ,Pacifica ,East Palo Alto ,Colma , Broadmoor,Brisbane , and others.
Federal Momentum
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C3 AI’s Federal business continues to show significant strength, with Federal revenue up over
100% year-over-year and bookings up85% year-over-year. -
The Company entered into new and expansion agreements with the
U.S. Department of Defense, theU.S. Intelligence Community, the Missile Defense Agency, and theU.S. Air Force. These agreements included seven C3 Generative AI agreements. - C3 AI entered into an enhanced partnership agreement with Paradyme to increase capacity for deploying appropriately cleared data scientists and application engineers into our classified government installations. Since 2021, C3 AI and Paradyme have partnered to provide AI-powered applications that deliver predictive insights to Federal agencies. Under the new agreement, Paradyme will significantly grow its number of dedicated C3 AI–trained staff to accelerate joint selling and delivery efforts. In addition to the C3 AI Defense and Intelligence Suite, Paradyme will jointly market C3 Generative AI for Defense and C3 AI Law Enforcement.
C3 Generative AI
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The Company closed 17 C3 Generative AI pilots across a broad range of industries, including: Federal, Defense and Aerospace; Agriculture and Forestry; Food Processing; Manufacturing; State and Local Government; Chemicals; Life Sciences; and others. C3 Generative AI pilots spanned the
North America , EMEA, andLatin America geographies. -
The Company converted C3 Generative AI pilots to production with Indorama, Pantaleon,
Riverside County inCalifornia , and Groupe Atlantic, among others. -
C3 Generative AI is unique in the market, offering:
- Deterministic responses generate accurate, consistent results by utilizing a retrieval-augmented generative architecture that separates the enterprise knowledge base from the large language model.
- Full traceability to ground truth with the ability to trace back to source documents and data for every insight that is generated.
- Minimal hallucination provides accurate answers with embedded relevance scoring and a solution that answers “I don’t know” when the relevance threshold is not met.
- Omni-modal data support enables users to access, retrieve, and reason on data beyond text, including images, sensor data, structured tabular data, and application data.
- Image and table parsing gives users the ability to reason on tables or images within documents and handle complex document sections for high-accuracy results.
- Ability to execute complex, multi-step workflows that include reasoning.
- Multi-lingual support so users can engage through the language of their choice.
- Built-in advanced mathematical tool that is automatically invoked by C3 Generative AI.
- LLM agnostic architecture to future proof investments and leverage the latest advancements in generative AI and deep learning with an LLM-agnostic solution architecture.
C3 Transform 2024
C3 AI will be holding our fifth annual international user group conference, C3 Transform, in
[1] Refer to FY23-Q4 Investor Supplemental for more details on Customer Engagement methodology. |
Financial Outlook:
The Company’s guidance includes GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures.
The following table summarizes C3 AI’s guidance for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024 and full-year fiscal 2024:
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Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2024
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Full Year Fiscal 2024
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Total revenue |
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Non-GAAP loss from operations |
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A reconciliation of non-GAAP guidance measures to corresponding GAAP measures is not available on a forward-looking basis without unreasonable effort due to the uncertainty regarding, and the potential variability of, expenses that may be incurred in the future. Stock-based compensation expense-related charges, including employer payroll tax-related items on employee stock transactions, are impacted by the timing of employee stock transactions, the future fair market value of our common stock, and our future hiring and retention needs, all of which are difficult to predict and subject to constant change. We have provided a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures in the financial statement tables for our historical non-GAAP results included in this press release. Our fiscal year ends April 30, and numbers are rounded for presentation purposes.
Conference Call Details
What: |
C3 AI Third Quarter Fiscal 2024 Financial Results Conference Call |
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When: |
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 |
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Time: |
2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET |
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Participant Registration: |
https://register.vevent.com/register/BI043fc55bffbb4cfa8dff21f890170f73 (live call) |
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Webcast: |
https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/4qy3odyu/ (live and replay) |
Investor Presentation Details
An investor presentation providing additional information and analysis can be found at our investor relations page at ir.c3.ai.
Statement Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company reports the following non-GAAP financial measures, which have not been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in
- Non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP loss from operations, and non-GAAP net loss per share. Our non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP loss from operations, and non-GAAP net loss per share exclude the effect of stock-based compensation expense-related charges and employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock-based compensation. We believe the presentation of operating results that exclude these non-cash items provides useful supplemental information to investors and facilitates the analysis of our operating results and comparison of operating results across reporting periods.
We use these non-GAAP financial measures internally for financial and operational decision-making purposes and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. Non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP financial measures and should be read only in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Our presentation of non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similar measures used by other companies. We encourage investors to carefully consider our results under GAAP, as well as our supplemental non-GAAP information and the reconciliation between these presentations, to more fully understand our business. Please see the tables included at the end of this release for the reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
Use of Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release other than statements of historical facts, including our market leadership position, anticipated benefits from our partnerships and investments, financial outlook, our sales and customer opportunity pipeline, the expected benefits of our offerings (including the potential benefits of our C3 Generative AI offerings), our business strategies, plans, and objectives for future operations, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “will” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy, short-term and long-term business operations and objectives, and financial needs. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including difficulties in evaluating our prospects and future results of operations given our operating history, our dependence on a limited number of existing customers that account for a substantial portion of our revenue, our ability to attract new customers and retain existing customers, market awareness and acceptance of enterprise AI solutions in general and our products in particular, and our history of operating losses. Some of these risks are described in greater detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2023, October 31, 2023 and, when available, January 31, 2024, although new and unanticipated risks may arise. The future events and trends discussed in this press release may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance, achievements, or events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will occur. Except to the extent required by law, we do not undertake to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform these statements to actual results or revised expectations.
About C3.ai, Inc.
C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) is the Enterprise AI application software company. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 AI Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that enable the digital transformation of organizations globally, and C3 Generative AI, a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the enterprise.
C3.AI, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (In thousands, except per share data) (Unaudited) |
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Three Months Ended January 31, |
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Nine Months Ended January 31, |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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Revenue |
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Subscription(1) |
$ |
70,400 |
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$ |
57,043 |
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$ |
198,201 |
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$ |
173,577 |
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Professional services(2) |
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8,001 |
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9,626 |
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25,791 |
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20,808 |
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Total revenue |
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78,401 |
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66,669 |
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223,992 |
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194,385 |
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Cost of revenue |
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Subscription |
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32,273 |
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21,294 |
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93,644 |
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54,551 |
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Professional services |
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841 |
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977 |
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3,399 |
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6,878 |
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Total cost of revenue |
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33,114 |
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22,271 |
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97,043 |
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61,429 |
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Gross profit |
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45,287 |
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44,398 |
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126,949 |
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132,956 |
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Operating expenses |
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Sales and marketing(3) |
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57,140 |
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43,497 |
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150,920 |
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131,420 |
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Research and development |
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49,480 |
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55,051 |
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150,747 |
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160,979 |
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General and administrative |
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21,213 |
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17,888 |
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61,317 |
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57,770 |
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Total operating expenses |
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127,833 |
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116,436 |
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362,984 |
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350,169 |
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Loss from operations |
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(82,546 |
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(72,038 |
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(236,035 |
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(217,213 |
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Interest income |
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9,995 |
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6,987 |
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30,597 |
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13,749 |
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Other income (expense), net |
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409 |
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2,032 |
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(468 |
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66 |
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Loss before provision for income taxes |
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(72,142 |
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(63,019 |
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(205,906 |
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(203,398 |
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Provision for income taxes |
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489 |
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143 |
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863 |
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485 |
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Net loss |
$ |
(72,631 |
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$ |
(63,162 |
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$ |
(206,769 |
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$ |
(203,883 |
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Net loss per share attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders, basic and diluted |
$ |
(0.60 |
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$ |
(0.57 |
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$ |
(1.75 |
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$ |
(1.87 |
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Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders, basic and diluted |
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120,486 |
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110,735 |
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118,259 |
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108,869 |
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Including related party revenue of |
(2) |
Including related party revenue of |
(3) |
Including related party sales and marketing expense of |
C3.AI, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In thousands, except for share and per share data) (Unaudited) |
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January 31, 2024 |
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April 30, 2023 |
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Assets |
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Current assets |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
$ |
114,561 |
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$ |
284,829 |
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Marketable securities |
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608,761 |
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446,155 |
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Accounts receivable, net of allowance of |
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173,478 |
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134,586 |
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Prepaid expenses and other current assets(2) |
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29,227 |
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23,309 |
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Total current assets |
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926,027 |
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888,879 |
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Property and equipment, net |
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91,003 |
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84,578 |
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Goodwill |
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625 |
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625 |
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Long-term investments |
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— |
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81,418 |
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Other assets, non-current(3) |
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46,334 |
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47,528 |
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Total assets |
$ |
1,063,989 |
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$ |
1,103,028 |
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Liabilities and stockholders’ equity |
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Current liabilities |
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Accounts payable(4) |
$ |
19,845 |
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$ |
24,610 |
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Accrued compensation and employee benefits |
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37,822 |
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46,513 |
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Deferred revenue, current(5) |
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39,121 |
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47,846 |
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Accrued and other current liabilities(6) |
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12,391 |
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17,070 |
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Total current liabilities |
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109,179 |
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136,039 |
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Deferred revenue, non-current |
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2,183 |
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4 |
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Other long-term liabilities |
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54,632 |
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37,320 |
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Total liabilities |
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165,994 |
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173,363 |
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Commitments and contingencies |
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Stockholders’ equity |
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Class A common stock |
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118 |
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110 |
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Class B common stock |
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3 |
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3 |
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Additional paid-in capital |
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1,914,450 |
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1,740,174 |
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Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) |
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430 |
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(385 |
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Accumulated deficit |
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(1,017,006 |
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(810,237 |
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Total stockholders’ equity |
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897,995 |
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929,665 |
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Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity |
$ |
1,063,989 |
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$ |
1,103,028 |
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(1) |
Including amounts from a related party of |
(2) |
Including amounts from a related party of |
(3) |
Including amounts from a related party of |
(4) |
Including amounts due to a related party of |
(5) |
Including amounts from a related party of |
(6) |
Including amounts due to a related party of |
C3.AI, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (In thousands) (Unaudited) |
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Nine Months Ended January 31, |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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Cash flows from operating activities: |
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Net loss |
$ |
(206,769 |
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$ |
(203,883 |
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Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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9,469 |
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3,257 |
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Non-cash operating lease cost |
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656 |
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5,820 |
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Stock-based compensation expense |
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159,032 |
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168,474 |
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Accretion of discounts on marketable securities |
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(13,238 |
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(1,990 |
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Other |
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110 |
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211 |
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Changes in operating assets and liabilities |
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Accounts receivable(1) |
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(38,892 |
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(63,609 |
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Prepaid expenses, other current assets and other assets(2) |
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(3,379 |
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(7,745 |
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Accounts payable(3) |
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(4,945 |
) |
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(26,250 |
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Accrued compensation and employee benefits |
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171 |
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1,069 |
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Operating lease liabilities |
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14,330 |
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(3,296 |
) |
Other liabilities(4) |
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6,296 |
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(4,606 |
) |
Deferred revenue(5) |
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(6,546 |
) |
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(10,197 |
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Net cash used in operating activities |
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(83,705 |
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(142,745 |
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Cash flows from investing activities: |
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Purchases of property and equipment |
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(22,718 |
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(59,767 |
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Capitalized software development costs |
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(2,750 |
) |
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(1,000 |
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Purchases of marketable securities |
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(657,431 |
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(497,288 |
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Maturities and sales of marketable securities |
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590,299 |
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674,440 |
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Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities |
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(92,600 |
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116,385 |
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Cash flows from financing activities: |
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Proceeds from issuance of Class A common stock under employee stock purchase plan |
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5,055 |
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— |
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Proceeds from exercise of Class A common stock options |
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11,379 |
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|
2,364 |
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Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards |
|
(10,397 |
) |
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(4,815 |
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Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities |
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6,037 |
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|
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(2,451 |
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Net decrease in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash |
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(170,268 |
) |
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(28,811 |
) |
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period |
|
297,395 |
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|
|
352,519 |
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Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period |
$ |
127,127 |
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|
$ |
323,708 |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
$ |
114,561 |
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|
$ |
311,142 |
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Restricted cash included in other assets |
|
12,566 |
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|
|
12,566 |
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Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash |
$ |
127,127 |
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|
$ |
323,708 |
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Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information—cash paid for income taxes |
$ |
760 |
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$ |
219 |
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Supplemental disclosures of non-cash investing and financing activities: |
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Purchases of property and equipment included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities |
$ |
2,475 |
|
|
$ |
12,618 |
|
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations (including remeasurement of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities due to changes in the timing of receipt of lease incentives) |
$ |
1,858 |
|
|
$ |
2,033 |
|
Unpaid liabilities related to intangible purchases |
$ |
— |
|
|
$ |
1,500 |
|
Vesting of early exercised stock options |
$ |
406 |
|
|
$ |
842 |
|
(1) |
Including changes in related party balances of |
(2) |
Including changes in related party balances of |
(3) |
Including changes in related party balances of |
(4) |
Including changes in related party balances of |
(5) |
Including changes in related party balances of |
C3.AI, INC. RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (In thousands, except percentages) (Unaudited) |
|||||||||||||||
|
Three Months Ended January 31, |
|
Nine Months Ended January 31, |
||||||||||||
|
|
2024 |
|
|
|
2023 |
|
|
|
2024 |
|
|
|
2023 |
|
Reconciliation of GAAP gross profit to non-GAAP gross profit: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
Gross profit on a GAAP basis |
$ |
45,287 |
|
|
$ |
44,398 |
|
|
$ |
126,949 |
|
|
$ |
132,956 |
|
Stock-based compensation expense (1) |
|
8,983 |
|
|
|
6,357 |
|
|
|
26,492 |
|
|
|
17,665 |
|
Employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock-based compensation (2) |
|
405 |
|
|
|
201 |
|
|
|
1,243 |
|
|
|
773 |
|
Gross profit on a non-GAAP basis |
$ |
54,675 |
|
|
$ |
50,956 |
|
|
$ |
154,684 |
|
|
$ |
151,394 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
Gross margin on a GAAP basis |
|
58 |
% |
|
|
67 |
% |
|
|
57 |
% |
|
|
68 |
% |
Gross margin on a non-GAAP basis |
|
70 |
% |
|
|
76 |
% |
|
|
69 |
% |
|
|
78 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
Reconciliation of GAAP loss from operations to non-GAAP loss from operations: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
Loss from operations on a GAAP basis |
$ |
(82,546 |
) |
|
$ |
(72,038 |
) |
|
$ |
(236,035 |
) |
|
$ |
(217,213 |
) |
Stock-based compensation expense (1) |
|
54,983 |
|
|
|
55,831 |
|
|
|
159,032 |
|
|
|
168,474 |
|
Employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock-based compensation (2) |
|
1,773 |
|
|
|
1,175 |
|
|
|
5,547 |
|
|
|
4,208 |
|
Loss from operations on a non-GAAP basis |
$ |
(25,790 |
) |
|
$ |
(15,032 |
) |
|
$ |
(71,456 |
) |
|
$ |
(44,531 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
Reconciliation of GAAP net loss per share to non-GAAP net loss per share: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
Net loss on a GAAP basis |
$ |
(72,631 |
) |
|
$ |
(63,162 |
) |
|
$ |
(206,769 |
) |
|
$ |
(203,883 |
) |
Stock-based compensation expense (1) |
|
54,983 |
|
|
|
55,831 |
|
|
|
159,032 |
|
|
|
168,474 |
|
Employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock-based compensation (2) |
|
1,773 |
|
|
|
1,175 |
|
|
|
5,547 |
|
|
|
4,208 |
|
Net loss on a non-GAAP basis |
$ |
(15,875 |
) |
|
$ |
(6,156 |
) |
|
$ |
(42,190 |
) |
|
$ |
(31,201 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
GAAP net loss per share attributable to Class A and Class B common shareholders, basic and diluted |
$ |
(0.60 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.57 |
) |
|
$ |
(1.75 |
) |
|
$ |
(1.87 |
) |
Non-GAAP net loss per share attributable to Class A and Class B common shareholders, basic and diluted |
$ |
(0.13 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.06 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.36 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.29 |
) |
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to Class A and Class B common stockholders, basic and diluted |
|
120,486 |
|
|
|
110,735 |
|
|
|
118,259 |
|
|
|
108,869 |
|
(1) |
Stock-based compensation expense for gross profits and gross margin includes costs of subscription and cost of professional services as follows. Stock-based compensation expense for loss from operations includes total stock-based compensation expense as follows: |
|
Three Months Ended January 31, |
Nine Months Ended January 31, |
|||||||||||||
|
|
2024 |
|
2023 |
|
2024 |
|
2023 |
|||||||
Cost of subscription |
$ |
8,674 |
$ |
5,996 |
$ |
25,244 |
$ |
15,754 |
|||||||
Cost of professional services |
|
309 |
|
361 |
|
1,248 |
|
1,911 |
|||||||
Sales and marketing |
|
17,528 |
|
18,316 |
|
52,533 |
|
54,175 |
|||||||
Research and development |
|
18,757 |
|
23,646 |
|
52,475 |
|
72,768 |
|||||||
General and administrative |
|
9,715 |
|
7,512 |
|
27,532 |
|
23,866 |
|||||||
Total stock-based compensation expense |
$ |
54,983 |
$ |
55,831 |
$ |
159,032 |
$ |
168,474 |
|||||||
(2) |
Employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock-based compensation for gross profits and gross margin includes costs of subscription and cost of professional services as follows. Employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock-based compensation for loss from operations includes total employer payroll tax expense related to employee stock-based compensation as follows: |
|
Three Months Ended January 31, |
|
Nine Months Ended January 31, |
||||||||||||
|
|
2024 |
|
|
2023 |
|
|
2024 |
|
|
2023 |
||||
Cost of subscription |
$ |
392 |
|
$ |
190 |
|
$ |
1,183 |
|
$ |
646 |
||||
Cost of professional services |
|
13 |
|
|
11 |
|
|
60 |
|
|
127 |
||||
Sales and marketing |
|
496 |
|
|
277 |
|
|
1,964 |
|
|
1,163 |
||||
Research and development |
|
738 |
|
|
618 |
|
|
1,970 |
|
|
1,947 |
||||
General and administrative |
|
134 |
|
|
79 |
|
|
370 |
|
|
325 |
||||
Total employer payroll tax expense |
$ |
1,773 |
|
$ |
1,175 |
|
$ |
5,547 |
|
$ |
4,208 |
||||
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