CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Tuesday after the cybersecurity company said new subscriptions came in below expectations amid macro headwinds.
CrowdStrike CRWD, -1.04% shares plummeted more than 17% after hours, following a 1% decline in the regular session to close at $ 138.
The company reported a fiscal third-quarter loss of $ 55 million, or 24 cents a share, compared with a loss of $ 50.5 million, or 22 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted net income, which excludes stock-based compensation and other items, was 40 cents a share, compared with 17 cents a share in the year-ago period.
Revenue rose to $ 580.9 million from $ 380.1 million in the year-ago quarter. Annual recurring revenue, or ARR, a software-as-a-service metric that shows how much revenue the company can expect based on subscriptions, grew 54% to $ 2.34 billion from the year-ago quarter, while the Street expected $ 2.35 billion.
Analysts expected CrowdStrike to report earnings of 28 cents a share on revenue of $ 516 million, based on the company’s outlook of 30 cents to 32 cents a share on revenue of $ 569.1 million to $ 575.9 million.
“However, total net new ARR was below our expectations as increased macroeconomic headwinds elongated sales cycles with smaller customers and caused some larger customers to pursue multi-phase subscription start dates, which delays ARR recognition until future quarters,” said George Kurtz, CrowdStrike’s co-founder and chief executive, in a statement.
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The company expects adjusted fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of 42 cents to 45 cents a share on revenue of $ 619.1 million to $ 628.2 million, while analysts surveyed by FactSet forecast earnings of 34 cents a share on revenue of $ 633.9 million, according to analysts.
CrowdStrike expects full year earnings of $ 1.49 to $ 1.52 a share on revenue of $ 2.22 billion to $ 2.23 billion. Wall Street expects $ 1.33 a share on revenue of $ 2.23 billion.
So far, in November, cloud software stocks have been getting trashed. While the S&P 500 SPX, -0.16% has gained 2%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.59% is flat, the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF IGV, -0.78% has fallen more than 2%, the Global X Cloud Computing ETF CLOU, -1.12% has declined more than 4%, the First Trust Cloud Computing ETF SKYY, -0.74% has fallen more than 6%, and the WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund WCLD, -1.05% has dropped more than 11%.