Atlassian Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Results

Quarterly revenue of $569 million, up 38% year-over-year

Quarterly subscription revenue of $350 million, up 43% year-over-year

Quarterly IFRS operating margin of 12% and non-IFRS operating margin of 31%

Quarterly cash flow from operations of $377 million and free cash flow of $360 million

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, today announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2021 ended March 31, 2021 and released a shareholder letter available on Atlassian�s Work Life blog at http://atlassian.com/blog/announcements/shareholder-letter-q3fy21. The shareholder letter was also posted to the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at https://investors.atlassian.com.

“The Atlassian cloud platform allows us to innovate faster than ever for teams and organizations of all sizes, highlighted by our announcement of Point A,” said Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s co-founder and co-CEO. “The Point A program fast-tracks our most promising ideas and vets early versions with our users, so customers can get value out of early products from day 1. Our new products are able to rapidly evolve thanks to our incredible R&D teams building on top of our multi-year cloud platform investment.”

“We continue to deliver innovation in the cloud in order to unleash the potential of every team,” said Scott Farquhar, Atlassian’s co-founder and co-CEO. “In Q3, we drove strong revenue growth and financial results, but we are most proud of how we continue to create lasting value for teams and customers in the cloud through initiatives like Open DevOps and the recent acquisitions of ThinkTilt and Chartio.”

Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Highlights:

On an IFRS basis, Atlassian reported:

• Revenue: Total revenue was $568.7 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, up 38% from $411.6 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.
• Operating Income (Loss) and Operating Margin: Operating income was $69.5 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, compared with an operating loss of $19.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. Operating margin was 12% for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, compared with (5)% for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.
• Net Income (Loss) and Net Income (Loss) Per Diluted Share: Net income was $159.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, compared with a net loss of $158.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. Net income per diluted share was $0.63 for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, compared with a net loss per diluted share of $0.65 for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.

  Net income for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 included a gain of $150.7 million recorded in “other non-operating income (expense), net,” compared with a charge of $141.8 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 relating to Atlassian’s exchangeable senior notes and related capped calls. Of this amount, a gain of $161.3 million is related to marking to fair value the exchange feature of the notes and related capped calls that remain outstanding as of quarter end. In addition, a net loss of $10.6 million is related to the net impact of repurchasing a portion of the notes and unwinding of the related capped calls during this quarter.

• Balance Sheet: Cash and cash equivalents, and short-term investments at the end of the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 totaled $1.6 billion.

  During the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, Atlassian used $591.6 million in cash to repurchase a portion of the notes in privately negotiated transactions and received $63.3 million in cash from the unwinding of the related capped calls. The net impact resulted in cash outflows of $528.2 million, which is reflected in cash used in financing activities on our statements of cash flows.

On a non-IFRS basis, Atlassian reported:

• Operating Income and Operating Margin: Operating income was $175.7 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, compared with operating income of $77.2 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. Operating margin was 31% for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, compared with 19% for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.
• Net Income and Net Income Per Diluted Share: Net income was $123.3 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, compared with net income of $61.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. Net income per diluted share was $0.48 for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, compared with $0.25 for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.
• Free Cash Flow: Cash flow from operations was $377.0 million and free cash flow was $360.4 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021. Free cash flow margin for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 was 63%.

A reconciliation of IFRS to non-IFRS financial measures has been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release. An explanation of these measures is also included below, under the heading “About Non-IFRS Financial Measures.”

Recent Business Highlights:

• Atlassian Team ’21: Atlassian is currently holding its premier virtual customer event from April 28th through April 30th. With approximately 30,000 registered attendees, Team ’21 is the ultimate digital experience for developers, creators, and innovators of every industry. Live and recorded sessions for Team ’21 can be found at https://events.atlassian.com/team21.
• Point A: Atlassian introduced its Point A program focused on fast tracking its next generation of new products to drive the future of teamwork. Atlassian announced five Point A products, all built on its cloud platform, that it is developing in collaboration with customers:
  • Jira Work Management enables business teams to move forward by being the one place where they track, coordinate, and manage their work with structure and consistency.
  • Compass gives software development teams a bird’s eye view of the digital services across their organization, connecting engineering output with the teams that support it in a single, trusted place.
  • Halp is a modern ticketing help desk that seamlessly integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams, making request management conversational and delightful for everyone throughout your organization.
  • Jira Product Discovery helps product managers build what matters by rallying teams around priorities, from discovery all the way through delivery.
  • Team Central serves as an organization’s connective tissue, helping any team connect and communicate progress as frequently and frictionlessly as modern work demands, and allowing any team the ability to track progress and provide real-time updates to anyone across an organization.
• Continuous Investment in Leading-Edge Innovation: During the quarter, Trello launched several new tools to visualize work – dashboard, timeline, table, and map views, as well as enhanced smart cards. Also, at Team ‘21, Atlassian announced updates for both Jira Software and Jira Service Management. For Jira Software, Atlassian introduced Open DevOps, a pre-configured development toolchain of Atlassian and partner products.
• ThinkTilt and Chartio Acquisitions: Atlassian recently announced the acquisition of ThinkTilt, maker of ProForma, a no-code/low-code form builder for Jira. Based in Brisbane, Australia and used by over 700 companies, ThinkTilt helps IT empower any team in an organization to quickly deliver great service and support to employees. During the quarter, Atlassian also announced the acquisition of Chartio, a cloud-based visualization and analytics solution. Chartio will become the analytics and data visualization engine for Atlassian’s cloud platform, starting with the Jira family.
• Customer Growth: Atlassian ended its third quarter of fiscal year 2021 with a total customer count, on an active subscription or maintenance agreement basis, of 212,807 customers, adding 18,473 net new customers during the quarter. It is important to note that 5,658 of these net new customers were single-user Trello accounts. Atlassian saw strong Trello customer growth during the quarter driven by both the rollout of new product features and recent funnel optimization initiatives.

Financial Targets:

Atlassian is providing its financial targets for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021 as follows:

Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2021:

• Total revenue is expected to be in the range of $513 million to $528 million.
• Gross margin is expected to be in the range of 82% to 83% on an IFRS basis and in the range of 84% to 85% on a non-IFRS basis.
• Operating margin is expected to be approximately (6%) on an IFRS basis and approximately 13% on a non-IFRS basis.
• Net loss per diluted share is expected to be approximately ($0.08) on an IFRS basis, and net income per diluted share is expected to be approximately $0.17 on a non-IFRS basis.
• Weighted average share count is expected to be in the range of 250 million to 252 million shares when calculating diluted IFRS net loss per share and in the range of 255 million to 257 million shares when calculating diluted non-IFRS net income per share.

For additional commentary regarding financial targets, please see Atlassian’s third quarter fiscal year 2021 shareholder letter dated April 29, 2021.

With respect to Atlassian’s expectations under “Financial Targets” above, a reconciliation of IFRS to non-IFRS gross margin, operating margin, and net income (loss) per diluted share, has been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release.

Shareholder Letter and Webcast Details:

A detailed shareholder letter is available on Atlassian’s Work Life blog at http://atlassian.com/blog/announcements/shareholder-letter-q3fy21, and the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at: https://investors.atlassian.com. Atlassian will host a webcast to answer questions today:

• When: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time).
• Webcast: A live webcast of the call can be accessed from the Investor Relations section of Atlassian’s website at: https://investors.atlassian.com. Following the call, a replay will be available on the same website.
• Audio replay: An audio replay of the call will be available via telephone for seven days, beginning two hours after the call. To listen to the replay in North America, please dial 1-800-585-8367 (access code 6576384). International callers, please dial 1-416-621-4642 (access code 6576384).

Atlassian has used, and will continue to use, its Investor Relations website at https://investors.atlassian.com as a means of making material information public and for complying with its disclosure obligations.

About Atlassian

Atlassian unleashes the potential of every team. Our team collaboration and productivity software helps teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Teams at more than 212,000 customers, across large and small organizations – including Bank of America, Redfin, NASA, Verizon, and Dropbox – use Atlassian’s project tracking, content creation and sharing, and service management products to work better together and deliver quality results on time. Learn more about our products, including Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Trello, Bitbucket, and Jira Align at https://atlassian.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward looking, including risks and uncertainties related to statements about our products, customers, anticipated growth, go-to-market model, acquisitions, outlook, technology and other key strategic areas, and our financial targets such as revenue, share count, and IFRS and non-IFRS financial measures including gross margin, operating margin, and net income (loss) per diluted share.

We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.

The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, our results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Forward-looking statements represent our management’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date such statements are made.

Further information on these and other factors that could affect our financial results is included in filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including the section titled “Risk Factors” in our most recent Forms 20-F and 6-K (reporting our quarterly results). These documents are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Relations section of our website at: https://investors.atlassian.com/.

About Non-IFRS Financial Measures

Our reported results and financial targets include certain non-IFRS financial measures, including non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share, and free cash flow. Management believes that the use of these non-IFRS financial measures provides consistency and comparability with our past financial performance, facilitates period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations, and also facilitates comparisons with peer companies, many of which use similar non-IFRS or non-GAAP financial measures to supplement their IFRS or GAAP results. Non-IFRS results are presented for supplemental informational purposes only to aid in understanding our results of operations. The non-IFRS results should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with IFRS, and may be different from non-IFRS or non-GAAP measures used by other companies.

Our non-IFRS financial measures include:

• Non-IFRS gross profit. Excludes expenses related to share-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets.
• Non-IFRS operating income. Excludes expenses related to share-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets.
• Non-IFRS net income and non-IFRS net income per diluted share. Excludes expenses related to share- based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-coupon impact related to exchangeable senior notes and capped calls, the related income tax effects on these items, and discrete tax impact resulting from a non-recurring transaction.
• Free cash flow. Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, which consists of purchases of property and equipment, and payments of lease obligations.

Our non-IFRS financial measures reflect adjustments based on the items below:

• Share-based compensation.
• Amortization of acquired intangible assets.
• Non-coupon impact related to exchangeable senior notes and capped calls:
  • Amortization of notes discount and issuance costs.
  • Mark to fair value of the exchangeable senior notes exchange feature.
  • Mark to fair value of the related capped call transactions.
  • Net loss on settlements of exchangeable senior notes and capped call transactions.
• The related income tax effects on these items, and discrete tax impact resulting from a non-recurring transaction.
• Purchases of property and equipment and payments of lease obligations.

We exclude expenses related to share-based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-coupon impact related to exchangeable senior notes and capped calls, the related income tax effects on these items, and discrete tax impact resulting from a non-recurring transaction from certain of our non-IFRS financial measures as we believe this helps investors understand our operational performance. In addition, share-based compensation expense can be difficult to predict and varies from period to period and company to company due to differing valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions, and the variety of equity instruments, as well as changes in stock price. Management believes that providing non-IFRS financial measures that exclude share-based compensation expense, amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-coupon impact related to exchangeable senior notes and capped calls, the related income tax effects on these items, and discrete tax impact resulting from a non-recurring transaction allow for more meaningful comparisons between our results of operations from period to period.

Management considers free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by our business that can be used for strategic opportunities, including investing in our business, making strategic acquisitions, and strengthening our statement of financial position.

Management uses non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share, and free cash flow:

• As measures of operating performance, because these financial measures do not include the impact of items not directly resulting from our core operations.
• For planning purposes, including the preparation of our annual operating budget.
• To allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of our business.
• To evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies.
• In communications with our Board of Directors and investors concerning our financial performance.

The tables in this press release titled “Reconciliation of IFRS to Non-IFRS Results” and “Reconciliation of IFRS to Non-IFRS Financial Targets” provide reconciliations of non-IFRS financial measures to the most recent directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with IFRS.

We understand that although non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS operating income, non-IFRS net income, non-IFRS net income per diluted share, and free cash flow are frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluation of companies, these measures have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results of operations as reported under IFRS.

Atlassian Corporation Plc Consolidated Statements of Operations (U.S. $ and shares in thousands, except per share data) (unaudited)
	Three Months Ended March 31,								Nine Months Ended March 31,
		2021				2020				2021				2020
Revenues:
Subscription	$	349,915			$	244,155			$	938,554			$	673,934
Maintenance		132,921				119,628				391,891				346,576
Perpetual license		31,308				21,002				75,569				74,797
Other		54,584				26,797				123,579				88,390
Total revenues		568,728				411,582				1,529,593				1,183,697
Cost of revenues (1) (2)		84,888				70,655				238,054				198,695
Gross profit		483,840				340,927				1,291,539				985,002
Operating expenses:
Research and development (1) (2)		244,098				204,148				717,397				552,450
Marketing and sales (1) (2)		92,043				84,485				239,480				221,791
General and administrative (1)		78,184				72,214				225,502				193,395
Total operating expenses		414,325				360,847				1,182,379				967,636
Operating income (loss)		69,515				(19,920	)			109,160				17,366
Other non-operating income (expense), net		150,662				(141,701	)			(421,358	)			44,748
Finance income		1,464				7,199				6,166				24,411
Finance costs		(10,591	)			(12,435	)			(114,614	)			(37,126	)
Income (loss) before income tax benefit (expense)		211,050				(166,857	)			(420,646	)			49,399
Income tax benefit (expense)		(51,210	)			8,032				(62,596	)			(14,830	)
Net income (loss)	$	159,840			$	(158,825	)		$	(483,242	)		$	34,569
Net income (loss) per share attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic	$	0.64			$	(0.65	)		$	(1.94	)		$	0.14
Diluted	$	0.63			$	(0.65	)		$	(1.94	)		$	0.14
Weighted-average shares outstanding used to compute net income (loss) per share attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic		250,279				245,504				249,152				244,161
Diluted		255,128				245,504				249,152				251,255
(1) Amounts include share-based payment expense, as follows:
	Three Months Ended March 31,								Nine Months Ended March 31,
		2021				2020				2021				2020
Cost of revenues	$	6,495			$	5,535			$	18,552			$	14,654
Research and development		63,699				57,071				198,235				151,988
Marketing and sales		11,774				11,397				30,224				32,902
General and administrative		16,296				13,519				44,676				35,712
(2) Amounts include amortization of acquired intangible assets, as follows:
	Three Months Ended March 31,								Nine Months Ended March 31,
		2021				2020				2021				2020
Cost of revenues	$	5,554			$	6,645			$	16,386			$	24,306
Research and development		41				41				124				124
Marketing and sales		2,278				2,900				6,894				10,511

Atlassian Corporation Plc Consolidated Statements of Financial Position (U.S. $ in thousands)
	March 31, 2021				June 30, 2020
	(unaudited)
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	1,151,450			$	1,479,969
Short-term investments	412,872				676,072
Trade receivables	193,155				112,019
Tax receivables	3,161				1,509
Derivative assets	189,776				327,487
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	54,341				46,730
Total current assets	2,004,755				2,643,786
Non-current assets:
Property and equipment, net	100,707				97,648
Deferred tax assets	44,652				35,351
Goodwill	719,160				645,140
Intangible assets, net	128,285				129,690
Right-of-use assets, net	194,476				217,683
Other non-current assets	130,983				124,774
Total non-current assets	1,318,263				1,250,286
Total assets	$	3,323,018			$	3,894,072
Liabilities
Current liabilities:
Trade and other payables	$	233,458			$	202,570
Tax liabilities	54,087				19,583
Provisions	25,041				14,291
Deferred revenue	779,987				573,813
Lease obligations	39,218				34,743
Derivative liabilities	884,883				1,284,596
Exchangeable senior notes, net	542,055				889,183
Total current liabilities	2,558,729				3,018,779
Non-current liabilities:
Deferred tax liabilities	37,049				31,304
Provisions	10,906				9,493
Deferred revenue	93,831				27,192
Lease obligations	205,565				229,825
Other non-current liabilities	4,270				2,173
Total non-current liabilities	351,621				299,987
Total liabilities	2,910,350				3,318,766
Equity
Share capital	25,088				24,744
Share premium	461,012				459,892
Other capital reserves	1,423,220				1,130,918
Other components of equity	102,982				76,144
Accumulated deficit	(1,599,634)				(1,116,392)
Total equity	412,668				575,306
Total liabilities and equity	$	3,323,018			$	3,894,072

Atlassian Corporation Plc Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (U.S. $ in thousands) (unaudited)
	Three Months Ended March 31,										Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021					2020					2021					2020
Operating activities
Income (loss) before income tax benefit (expense)	$	211,050				$	(166,857	)			$	(420,646	)			$	49,399
Adjustments to reconcile income (loss) before income tax expense to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization	13,906					14,738					41,124					49,148
Depreciation of right-of-use assets	9,418					8,945					28,010					26,172
Loss (gain) on sale of investments, disposal of assets and other	836					(591		)			1,135					(855		)
Net unrealized loss on investments	1,250					—					2,000					—
Interest expense	3,316					3,482					10,312					10,581
Net unrealized foreign currency loss (gain)	(266		)			(4,119		)			10,175					(3,173		)
Share-based payment expense	98,264					87,522					291,687					235,256
Net loss (gain) on exchange derivative and capped call transactions	(150,665		)			141,783					415,933					(46,743		)
Amortization of debt discount and issuance cost	7,275					8,955					104,302					26,545
Interest income	(1,464		)			(7,200		)			(6,166		)			(24,411		)
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Trade receivables	(35,420		)			29,902					(80,943		)			(11,211		)
Prepaid expenses and other assets	(3,691		)			(1,224		)			(11,052		)			(7,594		)
Trade and other payables, provisions and other non-current liabilities	47,784					30,961					33,223					25,452
Deferred revenue	186,880					4,958					270,813					113,737
Interest received	3,018					8,146					10,472					24,416
Income tax paid, net	(14,455		)			(3,088		)			(43,416		)			(15,850		)
Net cash provided by operating activities	377,036					156,313					656,963					450,869
Investing activities
Business combinations, net of cash acquired	(41,460		)			—					(83,624		)			(37,983		)
Purchases of property and equipment	(5,365		)			(6,742		)			(22,730		)			(19,865		)
Purchases of investments	(24,254		)			(364,603		)			(93,519		)			(951,481		)
Proceeds from maturities of investments	135,245					232,239					330,549					425,257
Proceeds from sales of investments	1,092					95,680					48,786					237,641
Increase in restricted cash	—					—					(2,162		)			—
Payment of deferred consideration	—					—					(185		)			—
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities	65,258					(43,426		)			177,115					(346,431		)
Financing activities
Proceeds from exercise of share options	11					499					1,158					1,485
Payments of lease obligations	(11,303		)			(9,308		)			(33,538		)			(26,335		)
Payment of issuance costs for credit facility	—					—					(4,445		)			—
Interest paid	(922		)			—					(4,216		)			(3,125		)
Repayment of exchangeable senior notes	(591,550		)			(2		)			(1,263,047		)			(2		)
Proceeds from settlement of capped call transactions	63,305					—					136,081					—
Net cash used in financing activities	(540,459		)			(8,811		)			(1,168,007		)			(27,977		)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents	(2,100		)			(5,608		)			5,410					(6,709		)
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	(100,265		)			98,468					(328,519		)			69,752
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period	1,251,715					1,239,725					1,479,969					1,268,441
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	$	1,151,450				$	1,338,193				$	1,151,450				$	1,338,193

Contacts

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Martin Lam

IR@atlassian.com

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Jake Standish

press@atlassian.com

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