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Andrei Zakharov

Algosun Global

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We double down on New Relic stock as we see operational improvement and a clear path to non-GAAP profitability. A strong balance sheet will help to survive an economic downturn.</li>
<li>The company will repay 0.5% senior convertible notes in 2023 and is not interested in diluting existing shareholders. New Relic ended 2QFY23 with $833M in cash and cash equivalents.</li>
<li>American activist investor Jana Partners held ~3.2M New Relic shares as of Nov-22. <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/new-relic-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16283:1" rel="noopener">New Relic Inc (NEWR US)</a>  shares underperformed in 2022, with shares down ~49%</li>
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We double down on New Relic stock as we see operational improvement and a clear path to non-GAAP profitability. A strong balance sheet will help to survive an economic downturn.
The company will repay 0.5% senior convertible notes in 2023 and is not interested in diluting existing shareholders. New Relic ended 2QFY23 with $833M in cash and cash equivalents.
American activist investor Jana Partners held ~3.2M New Relic shares as of Nov-22. New Relic Inc (NEWR US)  shares underperformed in 2022, with shares down ~49%


New Relic: $1B+ Revenue By FY24. Cost Discipline Will Drive Profitability

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<li>We maintain a bullish view on <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sumo-logic-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29265:1" rel="noopener">Sumo Logic Inc (SUMO US)</a>  after the company reported stronger than expected 3QFY23 revenues and management updated its financial guidance for FY23. </li>
<li>We were impressed with subscription revenue growth, strong gross margins, and lower-than-expected operating loss. <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sumo-logic-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29265:1" rel="noopener">Sumo Logic Inc (SUMO US)</a>  increased FY23 revenue guidance to <strong>$298M-$299M</strong>.</li>
<li>Our estimates suggest the company will cross the $300M ARR mark in 2022 and the stock currently trades at a discount to the 20%+ growth peer group.</li>
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We maintain a bullish view on Sumo Logic Inc (SUMO US)  after the company reported stronger than expected 3QFY23 revenues and management updated its financial guidance for FY23. 
We were impressed with subscription revenue growth, strong gross margins, and lower-than-expected operating loss. Sumo Logic Inc (SUMO US)  increased FY23 revenue guidance to $298M-$299M.
Our estimates suggest the company will cross the $300M ARR mark in 2022 and the stock currently trades at a discount to the 20%+ growth peer group.


Sizable Beat: Sumo Logic Reported Better Than Expected 3QFY23 Results

Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

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Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

<ul><li>Elastic NV managed to deliver an all-around beat in the last result as it continues making progress across innovation.</li><li>The company has recently announced innovations over the Elastic Search platform, the prominent data analytics platform for search-powered solutions for transforming the way organizations observe, search, and protect their data.</li><li>This quarter, Elastic expanded business with RDD, the leading supply chain, print, packaging, and marketing solutions provider.</li></ul>

Elastic NV managed to deliver an all-around beat in the last result as it continues making progress across innovation.The company has recently announced innovations over the Elastic Search platform, the prominent data analytics platform for search-powered solutions for transforming the way organizations observe, search, and protect their data.This quarter, Elastic expanded business with RDD, the leading supply chain, print, packaging, and marketing solutions provider.

Elastic NV: Improvements To The Elastic Search Platform & Other Drivers

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst, Obex Capital Research

Aaron Gabin

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research

Obex Capital Research

“Obex” is Latin for Barriers to Entry. Obex Capital Management’s investment philosophy is driven by an intense focus on which business model’s Barriers to Entry are able to withstand the ever increasing competitive disruption in the TMT and Consumer Sectors.

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<li>Snowflake guided below consensus for 4Q2023 revenue growth on a mix of macro conservatism and a quirky point that more vacation travel will reduce the amount of workloads run.</li>
<li>Margins continue to beat to the upside and management is guiding FY2024 FCF marginst to 23%, just 2pts below the LT guidance.</li>
<li>Very conservative management team also guided for a stabilization in revenue growth for FY2024 at 47%, a bit below consensus, but better than feared given the earnings reports recently.</li>
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Snowflake guided below consensus for 4Q2023 revenue growth on a mix of macro conservatism and a quirky point that more vacation travel will reduce the amount of workloads run.
Margins continue to beat to the upside and management is guiding FY2024 FCF marginst to 23%, just 2pts below the LT guidance.
Very conservative management team also guided for a stabilization in revenue growth for FY2024 at 47%, a bit below consensus, but better than feared given the earnings reports recently.


Snowflake FY3Q23 Earnings: Stabilizing Growth in FY2024

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<li>ServiceNow acquired Era Software this week to extend its presence in the observability and log management space.</li>
<li>The deal is most threatening to DT/ESTC (we advocate as longs) and SPLK (short) because of ServiceNow's ability to bundle functionality for larger deals.</li>
<li>That said...the observability space remains one of the hottest in digital transformations, and the deal is on net, more validating than threatening to DT/ESTC.</li>
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ServiceNow acquired Era Software this week to extend its presence in the observability and log management space.
The deal is most threatening to DT/ESTC (we advocate as longs) and SPLK (short) because of ServiceNow's ability to bundle functionality for larger deals.
That said...the observability space remains one of the hottest in digital transformations, and the deal is on net, more validating than threatening to DT/ESTC.


Observability: ServiceNow Acquisition Threatens Dynatrace and Elastic

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Elastic N.V. provides information technology and data analysis services. The Company offers monitoring, security analysis, enterprise search, cloud computing, and open source application performance monitoring solutions. Elastic serves customers in the United States.

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Elastic NV (ESTC US)

New Relic: $1B+ Revenue By FY24. Cost Discipline Will Drive Profitability

We like New Relic’s turnaround story and believe revenue growth will accelerate in the coming years while the company will hit $1B+ revenue this year

Andrei Zakharov

Sizable Beat: Sumo Logic Reported Better Than Expected 3QFY23 Results

Sumo Logic remains our top small-cap pick in US Software. Management provided long-term guidance and disclosed a clear plan to reach profitability...

Andrei Zakharov

Elastic NV: Improvements To The Elastic Search Platform & Other Drivers

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Baptista Research

Snowflake FY3Q23 Earnings: Stabilizing Growth in FY2024

Snowflake produced another impressive quarter and a guidance that was better than feared given the macro concerns other high growth SW companies...

Aaron Gabin

Observability: ServiceNow Acquisition Threatens Dynatrace and Elastic

The log management observability TAM has shown itself to be largely recession resistant based on the last two quarter's results for DT/DDOG...

Aaron Gabin

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