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UiPath Inc. (PATH)

Q3 2025 Earnings Call· Thu, Dec 5, 2024

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Operator

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the UiPath Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] We ask that you please ask one question and one follow-up then return to the queue. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to Monica Gould, Investor Relations for Uipath. Please go ahead, Monica.

Monica Gould

Analyst

Thank you. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today to review UiPath's Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial Results, which we announced in our earnings press release issued after the close of the market today. On the call with me are Daniel Dines, UiPath's Founder and Chief Executive Officer; and Ashim Gupta, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, to deliver our prepared comments and answer questions. Our earnings press release and financial supplemental materials are posted on the UiPath Investor Relations website at ir.uipath.com. These materials include GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations. We will be discussing non-GAAP metrics on today's call. This afternoon's call includes forward-looking statements, including regarding our financial guidance for the fourth quarter fiscal 2025 and our ability to drive and accelerate future growth and operational efficiency and grow our platform, product offerings, and market opportunity. Actual results may differ materially from these -- those expressed in the forward-looking statements due to many factors and therefore, investors should not place undue reliance on these statements. For a discussion of the material risks and uncertainties that could affect our actual results, please refer to our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2024, and our subsequent reports filed with the SEC, including our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended October 31, 2024, to be filed with the SEC. Forward-looking statements made on this call reflect our views as of today, and we undertake no obligation to update them. I would like to highlight that this webcast is being accompanied by slides. We will post the slides and a copy of our prepared comments to our Investor Relations website immediately following the conclusion of this call. In addition, please note that all comparisons are year-over-year unless otherwise indicated. Now I would like to hand the call over to Daniel.

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Thank you, Monica. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I want to take a moment to thank our team for their improved execution and our customers and partners for everything they do to make UiPath successful. Our third-quarter results exceeded the high end of our guidance across all key financial metrics, a testament to our improving execution and the compelling value that our AI-powered automation platform delivers to our customers. We ended the quarter with ARR of $1.607 billion, an increase of 17%, driven by net new ARR of $56 million. Third-quarter revenue was $355 million and we delivered non-GAAP operating income of $50 million. As many of you have seen, we unveiled our vision and roadmap for agentic automation at our FORWARD user conference in October. In the coming months, the entire UiPath community will be able to build, maintain, and deploy agents, significantly expanding the surface area of automation with their companies. This will mark our most consequential product launch in years. AI agents will be first-class citizens on our platform. They will use Uipath robots to securely access corporate systems and databases to harvest information for agents to act on. Our customers are already embracing the revolutionary potential of Uipath agents with enthusiasm. I'll quote a large global airline customer who recently told us that this shift towards agentic automation is not just an upgrade, it's a paradigm shift in how we perceive the potential of our operations. Customers are excited about the agility and creativity that our agents bring and are comforted by the security, governance, compliance, and accuracy afforded by our robots and our overall platform. We are excited that Agent Builder has begun accepting registrations for our private preview, which will begin later this month. We've had the fastest pace and the largest…

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Thank you, Daniel, and good afternoon, everyone. Unless otherwise indicated, I'll be discussing results on a non-GAAP basis and all growth rates are year-over-year. I also want to note that since we price and sell in local currency, fluctuations in FX rates impact results. Turning to the third quarter, ARR totaled $1.607 billion, an increase of 17%, driven by net new ARR of $56 million. We ended the quarter with approximately 10,790 customers and are pleased with our focus on the quality of new logos we are acquiring, such as Amplitude, Aqua Dermatology, the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Ventura Foods. Moving to customer -- moving on to customer metrics. Customers with $100,000 or more in ARR increased to 2,235, while customers with $1 million or more in ARR totaled 302. Dollar-based gross retention of 97% continues to be best-in-class and our dollar-based net retention rate for the third quarter was 113%. Our platform's ability to help customers obtain meaningful value with AI-powered automation continues to drive expansion opportunities. A great example is Allianz Technology, a customer since 2017. They recently implemented communications mining and document understanding to automate their policy renewal and new business request processes. And after a successful implementation, they will be now moving to the cloud to expand their usage and automate these processes enterprise-wide. Additionally, the UiPath platform will now be standardized across all Allianz business units as their strategic AI and automation vendor with expected productivity gains of 50% and cost reductions of 40% where AI-powered automation is implemented. Another example of customers expanding to our end-to-end platform capabilities is a national fund for health insurance in Europe. They started working with us in 2022 to automate health insurance control processes and now with the support from their CIO, we'll be expanding to the…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question is coming from Mark Murphy from J.P. Morgan. Your line is now live.

Mark Murphy

Analyst

Good, thank you very much. And my congratulations on the successful execution this quarter. Daniel, I wanted to ask you, as we look around and see the agentic models that are being rolled out by Salesforce, Microsoft, HubSpot and several other companies, can you comment on whether any of that activity might drive some UiPath usage because I'm just wondering, as the third-party agents begin to -- want to take some action and they want -- they might want to command and control other applications, do you think that's going to be API-based where they can handle it? Or do you think that there could be some involvement with -- there might be a UI-based process and it might get -- it might call on UiPath. Then I have a quick follow-up.

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Hi, Mark. This is a great question. And I think it goes into our strength as we are -- as we said in the script, we aim to be a Switzerland of agents. So that means that we would like to orchestrate our own agents, but also agents built by other companies. And also we said agents will be actually as good as the tools that they will have access to. And we want to actually collaborate with other companies building agents to offer them our tools to improve the quality of the actions that the agents can take. So I think in short, we want to -- we focus on creating this agentic orchestration layer that can call our agents, other companies agents, our robots and bring humans in the loop for increased security and governance.

Mark Murphy

Analyst

Okay. I think I understand that. It sounds like a very broad vision. I wanted to ask you Ashim, I'm looking at the growth rate of your largest revenue stream, which is the maintenance and support revenue. And I noticed it accelerated both sequentially and year-over-year and it seems to be holding on to a mid-20s type of trajectory. So I wonder if I could just ask you mechanically, what is it that's enabling that. That line item is really showing a lot of resiliency and stronger growth actually than the ARR line. And just in case the answer is a little bit of duration impacting the license line, can you maybe help us separate out any of that? I'm just wondering if you can just help us a little bit with some of the mechanics.

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Yes. The 606 line, obviously, 606 revenue recognition impacts the license line mark. What you see on the maintenance line is also the benefit of just cumulative net-new ARR building and the recovery of duration from earlier this year that does help that as you go through it. Our largest customers are growing and they're continuing to extend the contracts and that really helps really helps the maintenance and support stream as well.

Mark Murphy

Analyst

Okay. And that -- are you able to comment on how the duration might have changed in this most recent quarter? And how much it has recovered since earlier in the year?

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

It's recovered back to somewhat normal from earlier this year, Mark, where we talked about some of the execution misses in the first quarter. We feel really good about the progress as we change the incentive compensation plans and you refocus the sales team.

Mark Murphy

Analyst

Understood. Thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question today is coming from Raimo Lenschow from Barclays. Your line is now live.

Raimo Lenschow

Analyst

Perfect. Thank you. I actually wanted to go back to that agent model. Like how should we think about that? Like there's going to be the big vendors that have like the domain data like the Salesforce or Workday or an SAP? And they're going to be very broad-based in here in terms of their orchestration. So do you see yourself like working with those, but actually the real kind of push for you guys will be like on kind of more specific domain knowledge where you're playing already at the moment with insurance companies, banks, et cetera? Is that kind of the right way to think about it? Or I'm just -- there's a lot of confusion out there. So if you could help us there, that would be helpful. And I have one follow-up for Ashim.

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Yes. Hi, Raimo. I think the right way to think about our approach to agentic is that companies like Salesforce, for instance, they will build more in-application agents. They will build agents that will have intimate access to Salesforce and processes that are within the Salesforce ecosystem. But if you have an agent that has to touch both Salesforce and EPIC and this is a real discussion that I was having recently with the CIO of one of our top healthcare providers in the US, are you going to take the EPIC data and you put it into your Salesforce? They say no way. So, I think our sweet spot is when an agent will have to interact with multiple systems and this is where actually our robotic automation was shining. We are known to automate moderate to complex processes that span multiple systems, modern and legacy. I think our sweet spot for building agents will be similarly for those agents that require data and interaction with multiple system, both modern and legacy.

Raimo Lenschow

Analyst

Okay, perfect. Thank you. And Ashim, like I get the message on the net new ARR stabilizing next year on the growth rate side. Like what gives you the confidence for that? Like maybe just give us -- help us a little bit with some handholding here? Thank you.

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Yes. So I think when we look at the business, we're really pleased with the progress we've made on the execution front. The momentum that we have leaving forward on agentic as we've commented with some of the Fortune 50 customers in addition to just company-wide, Raimo, that feels very good. We're executing honestly, is improving around all aspects from just the rigor that we have with our sales pipeline management and the visibility that we see. So we feel confident making that statement just as the business continues to progress.

Raimo Lenschow

Analyst

Okay, perfect. Thank you.

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Welcome.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question is coming from Jake Roberge from William Blair. Your line is now live.

Jake Roberge

Analyst

Hey, thanks for taking the questions. It sounds like execution has been improving recently. Can you just talk about the go-to-market changes that you've been able to make thus far? And then what do you feel is left within the go-to-market in order to get things back to kind of steady execution that we used to see?

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Yes. Hi, Jake. Look, we are pleased with how the improvements that we were driving in the go-to-market are evolving. As we said in the last calls, we focused a lot into simplifications, into our go-to-market model and into eliminating silos, bringing more functions into the regions closer to the customers. We have created recently a customer-centricity office that held our top executives being closer to the customers. So look, it's -- we are still into -- we have a lot of things to continue to do, but I am pleased of how the things are evolving for now.

Jake Roberge

Analyst

Okay, very helpful. And then can you talk about just the feedback that you've gotten from customers coming out of your FORWARD Conference and maybe the pipeline that you were able to generate there and what you're hearing from customers just around the agentic use cases that they might be building on their platform, just given that you had so many customers and partners there at FORWARD recently?

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Yes. Let me start on the sentiment and I'll let Ashim comment more on the pipe generation. Look, it's been a very transformational forward for us. It's -- I think it was the most consequential FORWARD since FORWARD 3 when we have announced our platform offering. It's -- there is an extreme interest on our agentic offering and it's from customers across the world. Actually, prior to FORWARD, I was traveling almost six weeks across the world. And I basically tested what we are doing when our messaging about agentic with various customers in big banks in Japan and the Middle East, healthcare companies in US and Europe. And frankly, it's a -- they listen and they are very interested. Like we said in the script, even like you know, such a huge healthcare customer of us, it's hearing the pitch, they start -- they said next Monday, we want to start the POC with you guys. So -- and this new messaging, I think it's refigurating our discussions with customers. We -- it's easier to get the attention of the C-level executives with this messaging. We are seeing a clear way to expand into the use cases that we are capable of automating so far.

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Yeah. And then in terms of the pipeline, obviously, we don't really comment in terms of quantification. But qualitatively, what Daniel has talked about in terms of the interest from the customers that bolsters the pipeline in our minds in terms of just giving us more conviction on a lot of the opportunities ahead of us. The second piece, if you heard in Daniel's script is just the number of registrants or registrations on our private previews and the excitement that's building on the public preview, those are all very encouraging for us.

Jake Roberge

Analyst

Great. Thanks for taking the questions and congrats on the steady execution.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question is coming from Bryan Bergin from TD Cowen. Your line is now live.

Bryan Bergin

Analyst

Hi, guys. Thank you. A follow-up question first on the changes that you do still want to make internally as you're aiming to return to those entrepreneurial routes. It sounds like you're pleased with the execution thus far. But specifically, what else do you have left to do?

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

I think the majority of the changes actually, Bryan, like on the streamlining are complete. Where we're really focused now is where to really prioritize our dollars where you have the highest return on investment, especially as we're planning for next year. So we continue -- our view is to invest within the field, invest in the functions that are closest to the customers, and continue to find efficiencies in the functions that are further away from the customer and the spend that is further away. That combination for us feels very good. The second piece is just actually on a positive note, enabling the sales team with agentic and the messaging coming out of FORWARD, there's a lot of energy around it and making sure that we have a really good sales enablement function that will drive that messaging and enablement for the sales team is also a priority for us.

Bryan Bergin

Analyst

Okay. Okay. I appreciate that. And then US government is a notable customer for you across many agencies. Just given all the talk about improved government efficiency here in US, how are you thinking about that market opportunity going forward?

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Yes, I think, look, as we said, the opportunity is great in front of us. We are seeing internally such a positive energy that we have not seen in a long term in the company. We -- I am seeing in the product and engineering kind of the fastest pace of innovation that I think we've seen from the beginning of the -- of the inception of our company.

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

And Bryan, on federal specifically, I think they respond very well to the innovation. I think we talked about functions like the IRS, et cetera. We see good momentum there. I think an uncertainty election cycle obviously keeps there, but actually efficiency for us is a positive sign, right, going and driving and making sure there is more automation, there is higher efficiency. We feel like that is an area that we can continue to partner very well with the government and that's so far been the response that we've gotten from our government customers.

Bryan Bergin

Analyst

Okay. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question is coming from Matthew Hedberg from RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now live.

Michael Richards

Analyst

Hey guys, this is Mike Richards on for Matt. Thanks for taking the question. It was great to hear about the improved execution, but I was wondering maybe how the demand environment has changed since last quarter and if you've noted any difference in buying patterns post-election? And then maybe also like, do you guys usually see a budget flush year end, and with the new agent vision, could you kind of tap into those GenAI project dollars that maybe you weren't seeing before?

Daniel Dines

Analyst

I might -- I'd say that the demand environment is kind of stable. It's -- and it continues to be -- as we've seen in the past two quarters, we are seeing no sign of degrading or improvement.

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

And then in terms of the budget flush, I think we've provided our guidance the way we see. The teams are always out executing and working to that. We don't look for quick wins, we continue to look for long-term sustainable growth from our customers. But of course, our sales team is well equipped to take advantage of any opportunity that would arise for us.

Michael Richards

Analyst

Thanks guys.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question today is coming from Sanjit Singh from Morgan Stanley. Your line is now live.

Sanjit Singh

Analyst

Thank you for taking the questions. Ashim, thank you so much for providing at least some of that color on fiscal year 2026. I'd love to get a better understanding of what you mean by stabilized, would you think of stabilizing on sort of a dollars-added basis. I think you guys added around $56 million in net new ARR this year. Are you thinking of that from like a year-over-year growth perspective? Just a clarification on that front.

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Yes, I think we were very intentional just as we were looking at how to think about it. We've gotten a lot of questions on two basis. One, we pointed out the seasonality point as we were looking at the modeling, particularly for net new ARR. The second piece though is there has been a lot of questions on the trajectory of the company with the changes that we've made. Sanjit, so we feel very good that if you look at kind of the trend, the stabilization is a very positive signal reflecting just the improved execution and the changes that Daniel and the team are driving in the business.

Sanjit Singh

Analyst

Yes. And to that point on that better execution, it's two quarters in a row now where you've set guide and exceeded those targets and not so much about like necessarily guidance, but with the improved execution, if you got, let's say, a better spending environment or to the extent that the commercial market starts to come back online, how much of that -- how much do you think that would be a tailwind to your ARR growth overall?

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Daniel commented on the macroeconomic environment being stable versus the last couple of quarters and we guide to what's in front of us. So, any positive movements that are out there in the market, we feel like we could take advantage of that, but it's a variable environment. So it has to unbalance and have those tailwinds. What I would also say though, Sanjit, is we are excited about where we're -- how we're positioned on the agentic wave as well. And I think in addition to the market environment, our product innovation and our execution also allows us to have confidence as we move into the following years here.

Sanjit Singh

Analyst

Understood. Very clear. Thank you, Ashim.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question is coming from Terry Tillman from Truist Securities. Your line is now live.

Terry Tillman

Analyst

Yes, good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions. It's one question, it's three parts. So SolEx is not a common thing for ISV. So to capture that just suggests the closeness you have with the company and the opportunity. But I'm curious about SolEx. First, in terms of the timing on how this could kind of go through their ecosystem, because earlier I heard, I think, Ashim, you talked about sales enablement, there's going to be sales enablement around this. And I know you've been working with them. But SolEx in terms of making its way through that very vast distribution channel? Second question I wanted to ask is with Test Suite. This is a multiyear kind of S4HANA upgrade cycle. How impactful is that starting to be and predictable each quarter? And then the third thing, and I can repeat all these if you don't write them down. SolEx deals, I assume though it's a little bit different on Rev Rec as opposed to if it was just on your paper. So anything you could share about how those deals would look? Thank you.

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Yes. Let me take the first one, then I'll let Ashim to comment on Rev Rec. Look, we are excited about the SolEx deal. It's taking a lot of time to put it in place, a lot of product effort. We are now really an integral part of the SAP solution and our reach, it's much bigger. And I think our credibility with enterprise customers, it's even more increasing. But at any partnership, this is at the early innings, but we are seeing improvements in the pipe creation. We mentioned some of the deals that were influenced by this, but we have -- it's just really a new partnership, but I am quite bullish over the years of what it can happen. In terms of the test suite, it's not only for SAP migration, but for other large business application platforms, we were seeing really tremendous momentum at this time. And we are, I think, one of the thought leaders into agentic testing and bringing really more Gen AI into testing, eventually really going as far as to be capable of automating even exploratory testing, which can be a huge step into automating manual testing. So it's really -- I'm seeing really good momentum overall on the testing side.

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

And I think just one point on the enablement. We've been working with SAP now for a while because the partnership has started and continued to deepen. So I think the sales enablement piece, we feel very good about of just that we've had experience on it. In terms of revenue recognition, it really is going to follow our normal 606 accounting practices. There's nothing unique about it. It's the portion of the software that we sell through SolEx. We'll go through our normal ARR accounting and the normal revenue recognition policies under 606.

Terry Tillman

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question today is coming from Kirk Materne from Evercore ISI. Your line is now live.

Chirag Ved

Analyst

Hey, thank you. This is Chirag on for Kirk. So, when you're thinking through your customer renewals and expansion over the last couple of quarters and looking ahead to next quarter, are there any recurring themes or products that you would highlight, I think greater traction and contributing to a greater part of our net new ARR recently that might be different from before?

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Yes. I wouldn't say it's very different before, but I would say what we see, Chirag, is continued adoption of our growth products like IDP -- of our AI products like IDP, autopilot, et cetera. The largest deal in the quarter had agentic flavors to it and had autopilot for everyone as a piece of it. So, you really see expansions happening where our overall platform is positioned well and that continues to be a priority for the company. The second piece, Daniel talked about testing. We are seeing continued momentum on the attractiveness of our test automation platform and factors into our expansion.

Chirag Ved

Analyst

Got it. And one more on the financials front. You delivered a strong margin beat this past quarter. You called out the restructuring, but what drove the beat? And do you believe these same factors could help drive upside in Q4 given that Q4 has historically been your strongest margin quarter?

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

Yes. Look, Q4, like my guide for Q4 is our guide. We factored everything in. What I -- what we feel very good about is the execution and the discipline that the teams are putting around driving efficiency and the pace at which we're able to streamline the company. And those results showed in third quarter and as we talked about for next year, we also talked about reaccelerating our free cash flow growth rate. So all-in-all, we feel very good about the trajectory of profitability for the company.

Chirag Ved

Analyst

All right. Thank you so much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question today is coming from Kingsley Crane from Canaccord Genuity. Your line is now live.

Kingsley Crane

Analyst

Hey, thanks. So within your cloud business, could you provide a directional comment on the mix of hybrid cloud and pure SaaS?

Ashim Gupta

Analyst

We don't provide that on a routine basis in terms of this, we will follow our normal cloud disclosures that we do and that usually is on every other quarter that we discuss that. That being said, we have been very forthright that the majority of our installations are on a hybrid basis, meaning they use some level of on-prem and some level of on-the-cloud. What's encouraging is our cloud is becoming more and more adopted and attractive to our customers as it matures and as capabilities are launched in a cloud-first way.

Kingsley Crane

Analyst

Great. And so just as a quick follow-up, I guess like how are you thinking about a customer's ability to leverage some of these newer capabilities like agentic AI depending if they're deployed pure-SaaS, hybrid, or on-premise? Thanks.

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Yes, I think that actually our hybrid offering, it's going to contribute to our differentiator -- further differentiator because many of the customers will still have on-prem systems. And they -- it's going to be very helpful to have our robots deployed on the on-prem systems and provide access to those systems to agents. And what I like to stress here is that robots can provide a very secure and precise way to access data. You can give access to an agent exactly to the data they need in order to make an informed decision. And this cannot be achieved really in any other way.

Kingsley Crane

Analyst

Thanks. That's really helpful. Appreciate it.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question is coming from Brian Schwartz from Oppenheimer. Your line is now live.

Brian Schwartz

Analyst

Yeah, hi. Thanks for taking my question. Daniel, I know it's real early in terms of the ASPs that you're getting for these agentic automation deals and maybe it's even hard to parse out, but is it possible to compare the ASPs on these type of deals versus the other products in the suite? And again, I know it's early, but I'm trying to see if they scale -- when they scale, if they could end up being larger deals than the core products in the suite. Thanks.

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Yes. I think that they can drive really larger deals like the one that we mentioned in the script, our largest deal this quarter was an agentic deal delivered via our Autopilot for Everyone. And that it opened up even different pricing models. You can -- with agentic, you can even price per use-case, basically and it can get closer to the value that we can unlock for customers. So, I'm really positive that the ASP can be increased by -- driven by agents.

Brian Schwartz

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We have reached the end of our question-and-answer session. I'll turn the floor back over for any further or closing comments.

Daniel Dines

Analyst

Yes. Thank you so much, guys. We are here for taking further questions in the coming days and weeks.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. That does conclude today's teleconference webcast. You may disconnect your line at this time and have a wonderful day. We thank you for your participation today.