Smartsheet Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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September 5, 2024

There are 15 speakers on the call.

Operator

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Smartsheet Inc. 2nd Quarter Fiscal 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Please note that this call is being recorded. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session.

Operator

I will now turn the call over to Mr. Aaron Turner, Head of Investor Relations. You may begin your conference.

Speaker 1

Great. Thank you. Good afternoon, and welcome everyone to Smartsheet's Q2 of fiscal year 2025 earnings call. We will be discussing the results announced in our press release issued after the market closed today. With me today are Smartsheet's CEO, Mark Mader and our CFO, Pete Godbold.

Speaker 1

Today's call is being webcast and will also be available for replay on our Investor Relations website at investors. Smartsheet.com. There's a slide presentation that accompanies Speed's prepared remarks, which can be viewed in the Events section of our Investor Relations website. During this call, we will make forward looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. We have based these forward looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends.

Speaker 1

These forward looking statements are subject to a number of risks and other factors, including, but not limited to, those described in our SEC filings available on our Investor Relations website and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward looking statements are reasonable, All forward looking statements made during this call are based on information available to us as of today, and we do not assume any obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events except as required by law. In addition to the US GAAP financials, we will discuss certain non GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation to the most directly comparable US GAAP measures is available in the presentation that accompanies this call, which can be found on our Investor Relations website. With that, let me turn the call over to Mark.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Erinn, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our Q2 earnings call for fiscal year 2025. Q2 was a strong quarter that further demonstrated our momentum in the enterprise. 75 customers expanded their Smartsheet ARR by more than $100,000 and we had 3 transactions over $1,000,000 one of which was over $4,000,000 We now have 77 customers with ARR over $1,000,000 up 50% from Q2 last year. And of those 77 customers, 5 of them are government agencies.

Speaker 2

We ended the quarter with annualized recurring revenue of $1,093,000,000 and more than 15,300,000 Smartsheet users. In Q2, we expanded with customers, including Intuit, Skechers and City National Bank, among others. In June, we launched our new pricing and packaging model. To date, we've seen thousands of new customers transact on the model, which is leading to high engagement and the addition of many provisional members across these plans. While only a small number of our customers have reached their first true up period, we are

Speaker 3

encouraged by

Speaker 2

the positive early results. Building on the success with Global System Integrators mentioned on our last call, in Q2, we signed a large expansion with another big four consulting firm where Smartsheet is being used to streamline client engagement. Smartsheet enabled them to automate their processes through a standardized project delivery framework, which improved the quality of their work and led to significant savings. This customer was an early adopter of our new pricing model,

Speaker 3

and

Speaker 2

they estimate that deploying Smartsheet at scale saved the team 39,000 working hours in the last year, reducing their project delivery costs by nearly 12%. Demand for Smartsheet is growing across their organization, with users at the company increasing by 120% year over year. They are now expanding their Smartsheet project delivery solution to support customers in the EU and U. S. Federal Government.

Speaker 2

They are also building new solutions to streamline other aspects of their client engagement life cycle. We also had a 7 figure expansion with 1 of our largest enterprise customers during their annual renewal. With a total Smartsheet user population of over 150,000 users, our success in this account has been driven in part by our differentiated feature set and our enterprise grade security and administration. Smartsheet has corporate level IT and security approval, enabling any team across the company to adopt Smartsheet. As a result of increased self discovery, we have seen a boost in demand of our premium capabilities and growth in this account.

Speaker 2

This has resulted in data shuttle workflows increasing nearly 200% and dynamic view configurations growing by 4 50% over the past year. Also in Q2, we closed a competitive deal with a prominent financial services company following an RFP process that included other CWM vendors. This new customer onboards thousands of clients a year and they're executing increasingly complex projects. In order to scale with their customers, they needed to replace their in house solution with a more robust work management platform, and they chose Smartsheet because of our enterprise readiness and scale. We're partnering with them to develop an integrated project delivery solution that will streamline their processes, improve collaboration with clients and establish unified reporting.

Speaker 2

They expect this solution to increase customer satisfaction while saving their employees thousands of hours per year, unlocking the capacity to work on additional projects and ultimately grow revenue. As we move into the second half of FY twenty twenty five, we are making good progress on the comprehensive modernization of the Smartsheet platform, a strategic investment that is ongoing. In just a few weeks, we'll be hosting our annual customer conference, Engage Seattle. During this year's conference, we'll be showcasing the new Smartsheet, a new experience that is more beautiful, powerful and more integrated than ever before. It will empower our customers to manage their projects, programs and processes at even larger scale and sophistication.

Speaker 2

The new Smartsheet experience simplifies and streamlines getting started for users. It will be easier to create solutions and quickly initiate projects and processes with all the necessary tools for configuration and management, all accessible right from a highly visual AI driven home experience. We are also introducing significant enhancements in how users create, organize and share, whether they're building assets for a marketing campaign or managing documentation for a service delivery program. 1 of the key improvements simplifies collaboration with stakeholders, making it easier to collect feedback and drive reviews on digital files such as images, videos and PDFs. Over the past few months, I've personally seen the benefits of more accurate, actionable feedback and the substantial time savings for our teams.

Speaker 2

I believe our customers are going to love this new collaboration experience. The new and improved Smartsheet features along with our new user subscription model and self-service access to premium capabilities enables more customers to solve their most common as well as their more complex work management needs. Generative AI is proving to be a helpful differentiator for Smartsheet. Our AI powered tools like formula generation and tech summaries are designed to simplify complex tasks, saving time and reducing errors. We're committed to expanding these capabilities to help our customers work more efficiently.

Speaker 2

In Q2, we saw nearly 50% sequential growth in the number of users utilizing our AI tools. Adoption is already showing significant benefits to our customers with approximately 47,000 users having already saved an estimated 1,000,000 hours from AI automations and performance improvements. We also saw positive early results suggesting that AI generated formulas and conversational support are effectively acting as our first point of contact for customer support, reducing friction with the platform and lowering our customer support costs. We expect to see the customer impact of AI tools grow meaningfully as we expand them to support cross sheet formulas, provide portfolio insights and co build solutions with users. Starting mid September, in a push to enable customers to feel the impact of AI and to experience one benefit of our enterprise plan, Smartsheet will grant limited time access to our AI tools to all users through December 31, 2024.

Speaker 2

In closing, nearly 2 quarters since the hiring of Max Long and the appointment of Prair Guard to their respective roles, investments in our go to market and deployment of our next gen product experiences are well underway. Through a combination of a use case oriented value framework, a simplified licensing model, new user experiences and class leading scale, FY 2025 will be a transformative year for our customers, our company and the Smartsheet platform. We are laying the foundation for the years ahead. Now let me turn the call over to Pete.

Speaker 4

Thank you, Mark. As Mark mentioned, we continue to see considerable strength in our enterprise segment highlighted by large deals, our largest quarterly expansion in our company's history and an enterprise NDRR that remains at 120%. Additionally, in Q2, we launched our share buyback program and repurchased 918,000 shares for a total of $40,000,000 in the quarter. We have $110,000,000 remaining on our existing share buyback authorization as of July 31. I will now go through our financial results for the Q2.

Speaker 4

Unless otherwise stated, all references to our expenses and operating results are on a non GAAP basis and are reconciled to our GAAP results in the earnings release and presentation that was posted before the call. Turning now to our quarterly results. 2nd quarter revenue came in at $276,400,000 up 17% year over year. Subscription revenue was $263,500,000 representing year over year growth of 19%. Services revenue was $12,900,000 Revenue from capabilities made up 35% of subscription revenue.

Speaker 4

Annualized recurring revenue or ARR grew 17% year over year in the Q2 to $1,093,000,000 Moving on to our reported metrics. The number of customers with ARR over $50,000 grew 17% year over year to 4,140 and the number of customers with ARR over $100,000 grew 23% year over year to 2,056. These customer segments now represent 69% 55% respectively of total ARR. The percentage of our ARR coming from customers with ARR over $5,000 is at 92%. Next, our domain average ARR grew 16% year over year to $10,291 We ended the quarter with a dollar based net retention rate inclusive of all our customers of 113%.

Speaker 4

The full churn rate increased slightly due to elevated churn rates in our smaller customer segments and is now around 4.5%. Now turning back to the financials. Our total gross margin was 84%. Our Q2 subscription gross margin was 87%. Overall, operating income in the quarter was $45,300,000 or 16% of revenue.

Speaker 4

Free cash flow in the quarter was $57,200,000 On guidance, we are maintaining our previous FY 'twenty five revenue guidance of 16% to 17%. While we beat our Q2 revenue guidance, we have lowered our assumption for services revenue for the full year due to a higher percentage of services delivered by partners. We now expect services revenue to be 4.5% of total revenue, down from 5% for FY 'twenty five. Absent the shift, our full year revenue guidance would have increased. Our Q3 revenue guidance also takes into account this change.

Speaker 4

For the Q3 of FY 'twenty five, we expect revenue to be in the range of $282,000,000 to $285,000,000 and non GAAP operating income to be in the range of $42,000,000 to $44,000,000 We expect non GAAP net income per share to be $0.29 to $0.31 based on diluted weighted average shares outstanding of 142,500,000. For the full fiscal year 'twenty five, we expect revenue of $1,116,000,000 to $1,121,000,000 representing growth of 16% to 17%. We expect services revenue to be around 4.5% of total revenue. We are raising our non GAAP operating income to be in the range of $177,000,000 to $182,000,000 representing an operating margin of 16% and raising our non GAAP net income per share to be $1.36 to $1.39 for the year based on 141,900,000 diluted weighted average shares outstanding. We are updating our FY 'twenty five ARR guidance to be between $1,177,000,000 to $1,180,000,000 representing growth between 14.2% to 14.5%.

Speaker 4

Regarding seasonality, we expect our Q3 ARR growth rate to be between our Q2 ARR growth rate and our full year ARR growth rate guidance. We are raising our FY 'twenty five free cash flow to be $240,000,000 representing a free cash flow margin of 21%. To conclude, Q2 was highlighted by continuation of our strong performance in the enterprise and progress on our key initiatives. We launched our new pricing and packaging model to new customers in June and are on track to migrate our existing customers over to the new model starting in January. We are looking forward to unveiling a comprehensive transformation of our platform at our upcoming Engage conference in October.

Speaker 4

We remain well positioned to drive durable and profitable growth this year and beyond. Now let me turn the call over to the operator. Operator?

Operator

Thank you. We will now open the line for questions. Our first question comes from Terry Tillman with Truist Securities.

Speaker 5

Yes. Hey, Mark, Pete and Aaron. It's good to see the ongoing progress on the enterprise side of the business. My first question just relates to I know that it's FY 'twenty six when this is going to be instituted in terms of the new pricing and packaging for existing customers, but you've got a lot of new innovation, you've got a lot that you're going to announce that Engage, new experience, etcetera. Have you thought about potentially some

Speaker 3

of these existing enterprise customers

Speaker 5

going ahead and starting to leverage existing enterprise customers going ahead and starting to leverage the

Speaker 3

new pricing ahead of time, just given you have a

Speaker 5

lot of reasons to be talking to them about capabilities and could that drive upside to ARR? And then the second question and less long winded than the first one is, with this kind of new provisioning model for the administrators, do you potentially see some sales leverage as they can really kind of turn this on themselves? Thank you.

Speaker 4

So, Gary, in terms of your first question, we do see expect some interest from our existing customers and that could translate into potential dollars for us this fiscal year. And as we've rolled it out to a larger majority of our customers, we expect that number could increase in terms of customers expressing an interest in moving early and that contributing to increased bookings to that extent. So that's the first part of it. The second part of your question was around self directed capabilities and improving the motion and efficiency of the sales model. Clearly, as people discover those capabilities, there will be efficiency in the model because there isn't as much selling to be done and that will be a part of our process as we think about FY 'twenty six going forward.

Operator

Our next question comes from Josh Bair with Morgan Stanley.

Speaker 6

Thanks. Wanted to stick on this topic of the new pricing model. Just hoping you could provide a little bit more context on the initial customer behavior around the new model. Any rule of thumb for how much of what you typically expect would just be the free users, are now monetized? Any update on the assumptions around the benefit from pricing changes both this year or longer term from some of these initial usage here?

Speaker 6

And just wondering how the price per paid seat is evolving under this new model?

Speaker 2

Thanks. Yes, Josh. Last week was our 1st week where we saw those first of the thousands of customers who are on the new model hit their true up period. And we were all waiting with bated breath to see what would happen. We're really pleased to see confirming data come out of that.

Speaker 2

So high level more users, more value being realized by a greater number of people, these clients and more ARR. So that approach of lower P with a conforming Q or a higher Q, that is playing out to our expectations. And again, we have a whopping 1 week of data. So 1 week of data does not a durable trend make, but really pleased to see that first card out of the shoe look good.

Speaker 7

Got it. Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from Jackson Ader with KeyBanc Capital Markets.

Speaker 8

Great. Thanks for taking our questions,

Speaker 9

guys. So some reports out about the company possibly being in play for an acquisition. I'm just curious if we can get your thoughts on those reports first. Thanks.

Speaker 2

Yes. We're not going to comment on that today, but happy to take any other questions on the quarter or outlook.

Speaker 9

Yes. That's fair. I have to ask. Okay. So I guess follow-up question.

Speaker 9

Are is that the share repurchase program, does the company still in the market acquire repurchasing shares in the I guess this is now the 3rd fiscal quarter?

Speaker 4

We have our the share repurchase program continues and it continues all the way through the year. That's where the program has been set up for us to repurchase.

Speaker 9

All righty. And then I'm sorry if I can just squeeze one more in. On the AI capabilities like giving people access for the next couple of months, will there be any like gross margin impact to that where you're providing these capabilities? I assume that's going to draw on some compute resources, but not really recognizing any uplift in revenue?

Speaker 2

No, we don't really expect that to be a major topic. Huge kudos to our product and engineering teams. They actually have moved a lot of that workload over to a new model, which is significantly more efficient. So we feel very confident in our ability to serve a much larger population with really de minimis impact on the cost change side.

Speaker 9

All right. Thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from Alex Zukin with Wolfe Research.

Speaker 9

Hey guys, thanks for taking the question and congrats on a solid quarter here. Maybe just the 2 for me. I wanted to ask about just bookings linearity trends in the quarter and how it progressed, how it kind of ended up and how that compares to the prior quarter?

Speaker 5

And then just any thoughts about NRR

Speaker 9

trends through the second half, and any comments about you made a couple of competition comments, winning some bake offs against other work management vendors. Curious if you can dive a little deeper there as well.

Speaker 4

Yes. So the your first question was on implied bookings, Alex. So the implied bookings and sort of how they came out for the quarter, very similar between quarters. There was not a big difference in how this quarter looked versus the previous quarter. That was your first question.

Speaker 4

Your second question, can you repeat what your second question was?

Speaker 9

Just retention NRR trends for the second half. Do you expect it to be stable or further decline expanding?

Speaker 4

So the what we said before has been that we expect NRR to track down consistent with our overall ARR guidance. So that will follow in suit, if you will. There's no change in how we think about that in that respect.

Speaker 3

Okay. And

Speaker 4

then just a competition.

Speaker 9

Yes, just a competition question. Double clicking on that a little bit. What you saw in the quarter both in the higher end of the market and then the lower end?

Speaker 2

Yes, we really haven't seen any meaningful change, Alex. I mean, we continue to crank along in terms of new opportunities that we're winning. We had our largest ever expansion at one of our $1,000,000 plus accounts. So that continues to go. I think what I'm really looking forward to as we hit the second half is as our experiences changeimprove and with compared with our new pricing model, I think that's going to resonate quite well with the people who are starting out.

Speaker 2

So I should see I should expect a little bit better conversion at that entry point. But again, at the high end of the enterprise, we continue to the team continues to perform really nicely.

Speaker 9

Perfect. Thank you, guys. Congrats.

Operator

Our next question comes from John DiFucci with Guggenheim Securities.

Speaker 7

Thank you. I have a question also on the new pricing. And the P times Q math works really nicely. But Mark, I think like we do expect the number of paid users to increase, which is logical. And I think you said they could double.

Speaker 7

First of all, is that true? And then Mark or Pete or both of you, I get that you're moving to industry standards for pricing. But if this math all works out, like at least the simple math in my head, customers would be paying more and I'm not sure why they'd be eager to switch and frankly not maybe even resist it and perhaps even threaten to leave. So it's just sort of a logical question and I just wonder how I should be thinking we should be thinking about this.

Speaker 2

Yes. I still feel very confident, John, in our ability to double our paid user base. I think when prices change and when models change, I think customers' expectation that value has to change too. So if you can clearly demonstrate more value, people are actually open to listening. People do not like it when prices change and value doesn't change.

Speaker 2

And that's part of what as we're working with our clients now and we're enrolling them on who gets to participate, they absolutely have a choice. The good news is we're moving to a model which is conforming to how other software is charged for. So there really aren't a lot of, call them, sanctuary cities that you can go to where you can get the free opportunity. So we're confident that the value we're layering into the platform does resonate with people. The early metrics in these thousands of customers who have signed on, I think, was indicative of how the existing base will respond to.

Speaker 2

And we've had not only example with the people starting out, as we mentioned in our remarks, the largest one of our largest global SIs is on the new model. They're expanding very rapidly. They're doing so with this new backdrop and they're, again, seeing the value being they're experiencing that value being realized. So again, it's very early, but we're really pleased with the indications we're seeing so far.

Speaker 7

And that makes sense, Mark. But what exactly is that value? Are there new features and functionality? Are these things on the come relative to the old pricing? Or I mean, it's not just the pricing model, right?

Speaker 2

Yes. In the old world, John, all you could do as a free collaborator is like comment on something and edit on something. You couldn't use AI, you couldn't construct anything, you couldn't create a dashboard, you couldn't do any reporting. It feels like you're pretty handcuffed. So what we heard from a lot of our customers was they didn't like that friction of the haves and the have nots.

Speaker 2

So this is a huge unlock for these populations, in some cases, 100,000 plus people where they no longer need to navigate this uncomfortable difference. And yes, again, fortunately, the early reaction to this has been net positive.

Speaker 7

Got it. Okay. So the actual level of usage has gone up in a more sophisticated way. Got it. Okay.

Speaker 7

Thank you.

Speaker 10

Yes. You're welcome. Thanks, John.

Operator

Our next question comes from Michael Berg with Wells Fargo Securities.

Speaker 10

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. I just had a quick one on the increase in churn. You mentioned some smaller customers, but want to get some clarity if there's any other dynamics to point to in other segments of the market, whether it's mid market, enterprise or any verticals in particular? Thank you.

Speaker 4

We didn't see anything particular. It's exactly as we said in our smaller segments, we saw some slight tick up in churn. That's what we called out.

Speaker 10

Thank you. And then one quick follow-up. Anything new to point to in terms of paid users on the P times Q math with the new pricing model?

Speaker 2

No further details at this time. Again, we're a week through 1 week past our first group truing up. Pleased to see it, but we're not reporting out on any dip between the old model and the new.

Operator

Our next question comes from Pinjalim Bora with JPMorgan.

Speaker 11

Great. This is Jaden on for Pinjalim. Thanks for the question. Are you giving customers the ability to renew earlier than 2025 to lock in the prior pricing model one last time? One of your partners noted something similar and we were wondering this is a broad based thing or maybe limited to a small subset of customers?

Speaker 11

Thanks.

Speaker 4

Jamie, what we're finding in conversations with customers is we're not giving them an option to renew under the old model, for long durations. The preference is to convert them to the new model early with an ability to sort of experience the value the new model provides. So that's been the trend. We're not on the early renewal of the old model approach.

Speaker 10

Great. Thanks.

Operator

Our next question comes from Michael Funk with Bank of America.

Speaker 5

Yes. Thank you for the questions tonight. I think you mentioned it earlier, but can you reiterate what you're seeing like for like customer spend on the new model versus the previous model?

Speaker 2

We're not giving specifics that I will say that the as we look at the P in the Q, we are seeing higher ARR contributions from people who have reached that first step of that first phase of maturity, that first true up motion. So that the thesis, which was bring down the P, have people connect more people connect to value, resulting in a net benefit, the early indications, 1 week in, are positive and confirmatory.

Speaker 5

Okay. Very helpful. And then the free trial, if you will, of AI through the end of December, what is the plan after that? How do you plan to engage with customers to move them forward with the AI functionality, the monetization plan there?

Speaker 2

Yes. Our engineering team has done a great job of getting more of our capabilities into people's hands in the trial basis. So I do expect a future in which all of our capabilities, including AI, would be discoverable and something that you could trial. We don't have that wired up yet for AI. So we decided to do a full activation for the entire population for these number of months.

Speaker 2

But I would expect that to be part of someone's trial experience in the future.

Speaker 5

Okay, great. Thank you so much. You're welcome.

Operator

Our next question comes from Steve Enders with Citi.

Speaker 8

Hi, thanks for taking the question. This is George on for Steve. First one on the revenue guidance, Pete, you gave some helpful color in the services shifting over to partners about a half a point of revenue change there, which by my quick math is like a $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 headwind. So is it right to think about your revenue guide excluding that would have been up somewhere in that ballpark?

Speaker 4

Our revenue guide would have been up by some part of it for what we've done. So I would describe it as it's probably would have been up for the whole amount, but it would have been up by some amount for what we booked to date. And then the rest of it implies our confidence in the business that we've raised by.

Speaker 8

Okay. That's helpful. And then, you guys continue to find really great leverage in the middle and cash generation. Maybe just a little more color on kind of like where you're finding those efficiencies? Are there any OpEx areas you're pulling back from?

Speaker 8

And how we should think about margin going forward?

Speaker 4

Thank you. Yes. I think our plan has always been to continue to invest in high growth areas, but pair that with absolute focus in driving operational efficiency. And that starts with reducing spans and layers in the organization, scrutinizing headcount additions, leveraging nearshore locations, streamlining processes, all of those are part of it. And the place we found it has been in sort of many functions.

Speaker 4

We found it in not quota carrying roles, but in functions that support sales, the sales support functions. We found it in G and A. We found it in real estate. So we've hit all those areas in finding it. And the last part of your question is, I don't view this as a destination.

Speaker 4

I view this as a journey. So you should think of operational efficiencies continuing as we continue to strive to be more and more efficient. It could be in future years finding ways to do sales and marketing more efficiently by self discovery and those sorts of elements, which are completely different than what we've done today.

Speaker 10

Thanks for taking the questions.

Speaker 4

Our

Operator

next question comes from Scott Berg with Needham and Company.

Speaker 12

Hi, this is Ram Mariani on for Scott Berg. Thanks for taking the question and congrats on the quarter. It feels as though the outlook on the economy has dampened a bit over the past couple of months. Did you notice any sort of change in buying behaviors throughout the quarter where things are pretty linear and stable throughout?

Speaker 4

I think our buying behavior as we went through the quarter, we saw essentially a good progression through the quarter. We saw momentum build up as we went through the 1st month to the second and the third. So we saw that build happen quite nicely for us. That was the only trend we saw in the behavior.

Speaker 12

Got it. Thanks for the color. And then excited to get more updates on the new views and customer experiences at the conference. I believe Board view was released in mid July, so a bit early, but any sort of insight you've gathered from customers, any feedbacks or anecdotes would be helpful. Thanks.

Speaker 2

Yes. Customers are giving overwhelming feedback that they are excited to see the new experiences come in and it's beyond the views. I think a few days ago we just shipped our new home experience. It's much more visual, just easier. And what I love about customers and software is that with every release, there's a fresh batch of new feedback, right?

Speaker 2

So we made the home experience much more visual, moved away from more of a traditional list oriented view. And people have ideas and we welcome those ideas. And I think as a software company, you never want to shut the door on that. And much like we had with our old interfaces, the new ones are prompting just as much curiosity and feedback. I think people will be very pleased to see what we show at Engage next month, some really neat stuff coming out.

Speaker 12

Awesome. Looking forward to it. Thanks for taking the questions. Yes.

Operator

Our next question comes from Brent Thill with Jefferies.

Speaker 13

Thanks. Mark, there's been a lot of questions about the health of the enterprise spend environment. I'm curious if you could give us your view. I know growth is slowly decelerating. It doesn't look like there's a massive inflection, but what you're seeing between enterprise, SMB, anything notable that you could highlight from a 40,000 foot view?

Speaker 2

I think what's consistent, Brent, is people want to understand what they're getting for their investment. And the difference at the enterprise is the scale is simply much larger. So when you're talking about a multimillion dollar investment, whether you're doing that at a megalith or you're working and serving an SMB customer, everyone wants to know what that return is. So starting years ago, we started talking about that expectation growing. And one of the things that's, I think, really helping us perform well there is this use case oriented framework, where we have a number of really key plays that are really getting dialed in where we can articulate this value.

Speaker 2

And I think the degree to which a company can present its software offerings in that light enables you to transact. I think if you struggle in that articulation, people are less willing to sort of invest on hope. So really pleased with how the team has progressed in that camp. But I think that pressure will continue to remain very high, Brent.

Speaker 13

And did you have any differences between SMB and Enterprise? Was there a difference in growth or adoption? Or what was the sense downstream versus upstream?

Speaker 2

Well, Enterprise continues to be a huge strength of the business. And I think as we offer some of that down at the lower end of the market, I think there's more probably more performance coming out of packaging and interfaces and experience. So while when you do engage if a customer whose SMB does engage, I think you need to articulate value. But I think there's a higher number of deals that get done at the low end that are not grounded in that. And I think that's where the product and the packaging can be more of a lead suitor.

Speaker 2

So takeaway there is almost every deal at the high end involves this. And as you go down, I would say it's not 100%.

Speaker 9

Great. Thanks.

Operator

Our next question comes from Keith Bachman with BMO Capital Markets.

Speaker 14

Hi, thank you. Mark, in the introductory remarks, you commented that you thought next year would be a transformative year, and I'm really focusing on the word transformative. Maybe you want to talk a little bit about about what you mean there? And we as shareholders, how do you think we'll note it?

Speaker 2

Well, we've been on a really, I think, good progression over the last couple of years around becoming a company with margin expansion, while still growing. And I think what when you have these transformative opportunities is when you have a number of things converge, I see maturity in our model, I see maturity in our go to market motion, I see maturity in our product offerings. And you just don't get that many opportunities in your career or your company's life where those things converge. A lot of that work is being laid this year. It's never perfect in the conversions, but I think it's really good as it's approaching next year.

Speaker 2

So I think it will manifest itself in growth, in profitability, in cash flow, customer sat, and we'll do our best to report out on those different dimensions.

Speaker 14

Right, right, right. Interesting. Okay. My follow-up question, one of the previous questions was asking about a press release, you know, rumors in the market, and I understand you can't answer that question. What I want to pose is more a philosophical question.

Speaker 14

You're a member, you are on the Board and you use the word transformative next year. But how would you sort of as a Board member depict the pros and cons or the friction, if you will, on selling the company at this juncture?

Speaker 12

Keith, I think that's

Speaker 2

a yes, I think that question is a close cousin to the first one that was asked, and we're not in a position to comment on that today.

Speaker 11

Okay. I will cede the floor.

Speaker 14

I'm looking forward to engage

Speaker 11

in a month or so. Thank you.

Speaker 2

Thank you.

Operator

There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back over to Aaron Turner for closing remarks.

Speaker 1

Great. Thank you all for joining us today and we'll speak with you again soon.

Operator

This concludes today's conference call. Thank you all for your participation. You may now disconnect.

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Earnings Conference Call
Smartsheet Q2 2025
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