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Intuit Put US$6.755bn Into Loans. Its Retained Balance Rose Just US$65m
Intuit’s loan business moved far more capital than its year-end balance suggests. During fiscal 2026, the company used US$6.755 billion to originate or buy notes intended for investment, collected US$4.253 billion of principal and received US$2.210 billion from loan sales. The…
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Zoom Put US$198.8m of Common Room's US$266.8m Price Into Goodwill
Zoom bought a map of prospective buyers, the data that reveals their intent and agents meant to turn those signals into sales work. The first public receipt, however, is an accounting map. Of the US$266.8 million cash price for Common Room, Zoom provisionally placed US$198.8…
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ServiceNow's 650bp Margin Drop Has a US$405m Cost Trail
ServiceNow's subscription engine grew quickly in the second quarter of 2026, but the cost of running it grew faster. Revenue rose 24.5% to US$3.877 billion while GAAP subscription gross margin fell from 80.0% to 73.5%. The filing identifies US$394 million across four cost-driver…
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Workday's Backlog Moved Nearer, but US$11.4bn Still Sits Beyond Two Years
Workday's US$27.403 billion subscription backlog contains two very different market signals. The rolling 12-month slice grew 14.2%, faster than the 8.0% expansion of the total, so the disclosed mix moved toward nearer recognition. Yet the 24-month schedule leaves approximately…
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Semtech's US$62m Module Sale Opens a 560-Basis-Point Margin Gap
Semtech is selling its cellular-module business to Compal Electronics for US$62 million. The cheque is almost identical to the disposal group's disclosed net carrying assets, but the more consequential disclosure is a pair of margins: management's fiscal-Q3 midpoint is 58.3% with…
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TD Synnex's Share of Autodesk Revenue Fell to 8%—but the Channel Did Not Vanish
Autodesk added US$283 million of quarterly revenue while the portion attributed to TD Synnex, calculated from rounded disclosures, fell by roughly US$118 million. That is not evidence that customers stopped using partners. It is evidence that the identity on the invoice changed…
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GitLab Recast Its Opening CRR from Nearly US$20m to Closer to US$15m
GitLab had barely introduced paid Consumption Run Rate before the ruler changed. A Q1 observation discussed as “nearly US$20 million” became “closer to US$15 million” after certain one-time credit incentives were excluded. By 30 June the measure was above US$20 million again, but…
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Bentley Reports US$1.536bn ARR. 51% Is a Three-Month Usage Run Rate
Bentley Systems places one number at the centre of its recurring-software story: US$1.536 billion of annualized recurring revenue. But the number is built with two clocks. One annualizes the recurring contracts in force at quarter-end. The other takes only the latest three months…
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Box's RPO Rose 15%. Broader Content Use Could Still Lower Margins
Box sold more contracted revenue faster than it grew current revenue, while preserving a 79.1% GAAP gross margin. Yet its own filing identifies a second commercial clock: customers that place more of their content in Box can consume more infrastructure before the public accounts…
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Veeva's Salesforce CRM Has a 150% Per-Customer Cap and 2030 Exit
The legacy platform is neither open for ordinary growth nor scheduled to disappear tomorrow. Veeva's agreement with Salesforce has turned the old CRM into a bounded migration corridor: existing customers can still operate and expand within a fixed ceiling, while new customers and…
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Okta Is Moving a Service Line With a -53.4% Non-GAAP Margin to Partners
Okta expects its accelerated hand-off of professional services to reduce fiscal-year revenue growth by about one percentage point. The work being moved was already loss-making inside Okta. The strategic question is whether partners make deployment cheaper and faster for the whole…
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Zoom's US$1.54bn Quarterly Profit Included a US$1.61bn Anthropic Gain
Zoom's most conspicuous quarterly number did not come from meetings, contact centres or AI agents. A private financing round at Anthropic allowed Zoom to increase the carrying value of its preferred shares, producing an unrealized gain larger than the company's operating income…
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Zscaler Had No 10% Revenue Customer. One Partner Held 12% of Receivables
Zscaler’s latest filing draws two concentration maps over the same quarter. On the revenue map, no customer reached the 10% reporting line. On the collection map, one anonymous channel partner held 12% of net accounts receivable. Neither number is alarming on its own. Together…
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Third-Party Hosting Supplied Half of Workday's US$66m Subscription-Cost Rise
Workday added US$302 million of quarterly subscription revenue and US$236 million of derived subscription gross profit. The delivery bill still deserves its own reading: third-party hosted infrastructure alone supplied US$33 million of a US$66 million increase in subscription…
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Cellebrite's 21% ARR Growth Came With a Smaller Contract Ledger
Cellebrite ended June with $507.8 million of annual recurring revenue, 21% more than a year earlier. Yet the value of contracted work still waiting to be recognised had fallen by $35.2 million since December, and management cut its destination for the year. The apparent…
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Snowflake Put Annual Floors Inside a US$6bn Cloud Commitment
Snowflake's new AWS commitment is usually presented as one large five-year number. The contract is tighter than that headline. It combines a US$6 billion cumulative minimum with a minimum for every contract year, while allowing some shortfall payments to fund qualifying use later…
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Cloudflare's AI Content Market Still Has Two Ledgers: Access and Use
Cloudflare can see a signed crawler reach an edge, quote a price and record a successful delivery. The harder commercial event happens later, when an answer engine cites, ranks, trains on or otherwise extracts value from what crossed that edge. Cloudflare's newest controls narrow…
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NetApp Added US$75m of Public Cloud Gross Profit on US$23m of Revenue Growth
NetApp's Public Cloud segment did not need a large revenue acceleration to change its economics. In fiscal 2026, a US$23 million increase in reported revenue coincided with a US$52 million fall in cost of revenue, producing US$75 million more segment gross profit. The bridge is…
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An AWS Savings Plan Discounts Compute. It Does Not Reserve Capacity
Cloud buyers often use “reservation” as shorthand for any promise that lowers a future bill. AWS divides that promise into separate products. A Savings Plan fixes a pricing commitment across eligible usage; an On-Demand Capacity Reservation holds matched EC2 capacity in one…
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SoftwareOne's CHF100m Synergy Run Rate Has CHF37m in the Ledger
SoftwareOne says the Crayon combination has reached a CHF100 million annualised cost-synergy rate. Its half-year report also says about CHF37 million of realised savings contributed over the latest twelve months. Both can be true. The market test is whether an exit-rate becomes…