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CLAIM #66048 · Rapid7 Inc (RPD) · 2022Q4 earnings call · Feb 8, 2023 · due Dec 31, 2023

We assume moderate ongoing deterioration in this segment as we entered the year and have accounted for elongated sales cycles and large deal timing uncertainty, particularly as we begin to drive more growth from our platform consolidation offerings.

Corey Thomas · CEO

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We assume moderate ongoing deterioration in this segment as we entered the year and have accounted for elongated sales cycles and large deal timing uncertainty, particularly as we begin to drive more growth from our platform consolidation offerings.
Reported
We saw roughly balanced contributions from new and existing customers throughout the year, with particular strength in cross-selling to our existing base.

In context

Corey Thomas (CEO): Thank you, Sunil, and good afternoon, everyone, on today's call. Thank you for joining us. Rapid7 finished 2022 with $714 million in ARR, consistent with our expectations, or 19% over the prior year. Revenue exceeded our expectations, and we delivered better-than-expected operating profit and free cash flow as we continue to drive operational efficiencies in our business. ASP and ARR per customer continued to rise during Q4 as customers are using more of the Insight platform, reflecting Rapid7's growing value as a platform consolidator. And while it's still early days for our new platform consolidation offerings, the early results are positive. Over 10% of new ARR in the fourth quarter was generated either by threat complete or cloud risk complete consolidation offering. We are pleased with the early traction we're seeing in key areas of our business as we look to improve execution, even as certain economic headwinds escalated during the fourth quarter. Consistent with the range of scenarios embedded in our outlook, we saw greater economic pressure during the fourth quarter in our mid-market segment, which represents roughly half of our total ARR. The net result was that positive traction in key parts of our business was offset by macro dynamics bringing us to the midpoint of our ARR outlook to end the year. A few comments on the current spending environment. Customers continue to face an evolving and complex threat landscape and there remains broad-based executive and board level support for cybersecurity projects. Despite this fundamental demand, the ability to obtain incremental budgets for these projects has gotten more difficult in the current environment. As a result, CISOs are being forced to scrutinize and prioritize budgets, driving longer deal cycles and more uncertainty around deal timing as contracts take longer to push through procurement. This dynamic is exacerbated by the increasing size of our deal opportunities as we gain traction as a platform consolidator. Despite a challenged budget environment, we're seeing certain tailwinds gain traction. Constrained security budgets are accelerating customers' focus on security vendor consolidation with greater value being placed on the efficiency and impact of integrated platform technology in a fragmented IT landscape. We are seeing solid engagement with enterprise customers as they look to consolidate vendors and gain better security outcomes from their budget dollars. Our Insight platform is positioned to benefit from this shift while empowering security teams to more effectively and efficiently manage the expanding scope of their security operations. Rapid7 is resonating with security teams looking to manage and consolidate their vendors. As CISOs and security practitioners evaluate our SecOps stack, Rapid7's platform stands out for a few important reasons. We have built the breadth of critical capabilities on our platform that customers require to run a best-in-class security operations program. These capabilities are deeply integrated to deliver a highly productive automation-centric platform and experience. And our platform is built for security practitioners by security practitioners, further enabling us to offer on-demand security expertise as part of our direct and partner managed offerings to help customers scale their security operations efficiently and effectively. The breadth and value of our Insight platform is illustrated by an $800,000 deal during the fourth quarter with a high-growth software company. This existing customer had a small VM footprint and was going through an RFP to replace their existing detection and response solution with a mandate to gain visibility into their expansive cloud environment. Rapid7 stood out during the technical evaluation as one of a few partners who could address their comprehensive set of use cases. As part of the deal, the customer standardized on Rapid7's SecOps platform by consolidating VM and D&R through our threat complete offering while adding cloud security, automation, and threat intelligence. In addition to offering a compelling platform technology, Rapid7's new threat complete and cloud risk complete consolidation offerings are refining how our sales force goes to market. These solutions lean into vendor consolidation as well as the prioritization of security budgets around critical spending areas that include detection and response and cloud security. As a reminder, our threat complete enables customers to consolidate our best-of-breed expert-driven threat detection and response solution, along with unlimited coverage of our market-leading VM through a single subscription offering. And cloud risk complete is our cloud-centered risk visibility offering, which consolidates unlimited visibility across customers' on-prem, cloud, and external environment at various stages of transition to the cloud. It enables use of cloud and application security with unlimited VM coverage together in one platform subscription. These solutions are part of the realignment of our sales strategy and an important step in advancing our platform selling motion. The strong value proposition of Rapid7's leading platform technology and compelling new go-to-market offering are evident in a multi-year seven-figure deal with a Fortune 500 manufacturing company in the fourth quarter. As an existing vulnerability management customer, we knew their security team was looking for a better way to manage, detect and respond to threats across the organization. After a robust and competitive process, our managed threat complete offering was chosen to replace their existing SIEM solution and managed service provider based on the quality of both our technology and the support that we can offer around it. Their decision was reinforced by the compelling economic value of consolidating multiple features across our platform and speaks to the early traction we're seeing in the market for our new consolidation offers. As we look to build upon this early traction, we're cognizant of the need to balance our execution optimism with the current macroeconomic and budgetary headwinds as we frame our forward outlook for 2023. Tim will discuss these dynamics in greater detail. But at a high level, I will point to three critical areas of focus that I expect will have the largest impact on our performance this year. The first two are under our control and related to the executional challenges we spoke about on the last call. The introduction of our risk and threat complete consolidation offerings and the training enablement of our sales force as they master a platform selling motion. We see positive early traction in these areas exiting 2022 and we believe we remain on track to see improvements to support growth in the second half of 2023. The third key area is the broader macroeconomic environment. Looking ahead, we expect a continuation of the customer budget pressure we saw in the fourth quarter and are incrementally more cautious in the near term on the mid-market customer segment, which slowed as we exited 2022. We assume moderate ongoing deterioration in this segment as we entered the year and have accounted for elongated sales cycles and large deal timing uncertainty, particularly as we begin to drive more growth from our platform consolidation offerings. All in all, we're taking a prudent view of our full year outlook to account for a more uncertain economic backdrop. With that said, we remain confident in the mid to long term sustainable growth profile of our business while acknowledging the timeline for reacceleration will depend on the severity and duration of the macroeconomic pressure we're currently seeing. And lastly, I want to reinforce our commitment to scaling profitably by executing against our margin expansion targets for this year. This is a dedicated focus area for me as we look to drive continued operational efficiency and increased rigor around how we invest for growth. The work we're doing to make our business more efficient will support our commitment to profitability, both in the current environment and as the economy recovers. Our strong focus on cost optimization across the business gives us confidence in meeting a 300 basis point operating margin expansion target while doubling free cash flow this year. With that, thank you for joining us on the call today. I will now turn the call over to our CFO, Tim Adams, to share additional detail on our financial results and outlook. Tim?

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SEC filings for RPD · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2022Q4 earnings call.