Company delivers "Rule of 50” Performance in 2024 with 25% ARR growth and 25% adjusted EBITDA margin
Fourth-quarter 2024 revenue of $109.0 million grew 17% primarily due to
21% growth in subscription revenue
ARR grew 25% to $395.9 million
Fourth-quarter 2024 adjusted EBITDA of $28.8 million, 26.4% adjusted EBITDA margin
TYSONS CORNER, Va. and PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cellebrite (NASDAQ: CLBT), a global leader in premier Digital Investigative solutions for the public and private sectors, today announced financial results for the three and twelve months ending December 31, 2024.
"Cellebrite delivered a solid fourth-quarter performance to cap an excellent 2024 in which we exceeded our original revenue and adjusted EBITDA targets and delivered at the higher end of our ARR expectations,” stated Thomas E. Hogan, Cellebrite's interim chief executive officer. "We enjoyed continued success in expanding our share-of-wallet across our global installed base and converting that top-line growth into meaningful year-over improvement in our profitability and free cash flow. As a result, we produced a Rule of 50 performance in 2024 with 25% ARR growth and 25% adjusted EBITDA margins. With multiple macro tailwinds that we believe show no signs of dissipating, we move into 2025 with plans to advance our market and technology leadership, sustain our top-line expansion and continue generating attractive profit margins and robust free cash flow.”
Fourth-Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights
- Revenue of $109.0 million, up 17% year-over-year
- Subscription revenue was $95.1 million, up 21% year-over-year
- Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) of $395.9 million, up 25% year-over-year
- Recurring revenue dollar-based net retention rate of 124%
- GAAP gross profit and gross margin of $91.4 million and 83.8%, respectively; Non-GAAP gross profit and gross profit margin of $92.0 million and 84.4%, respectively
- GAAP net income of $19.3 million; Non-GAAP net income of $26.1 million
- GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.08; Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.10
- Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin of $28.8 million and 26.4%, respectively
- Revenue of $401.2 million, up 23% year-over-year
- Subscription revenue was $353.0 million, a 26% year-over-year increase
- GAAP gross profit and gross margin of $338.6 million and 84.4%, respectively; Non-GAAP gross profit and gross profit margin of $340.8 million and 85.0%, respectively
- GAAP net loss of $283.0 million; Non-GAAP net income of $97.8 million
- GAAP diluted loss per share of $1.35; Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.42
- Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin of $99.4 million and 24.8%, respectively
Board Governance
- On January 6, 2025, Cellebrite announced a series of Board updates to support the Company's continued growth into 2025 and beyond:
- Thomas E. Hogan, previously Cellebrite's executive chairman, was appointed interim chief executive officer and will remain on the Company's Board of Directors.
- Adam H. Clammer, Managing Partner of True Wind Capital Management and Cellebrite's current lead independent director, succeeded Hogan as board chairman. It is expected that Hogan will revert to board chairman upon the eventual appointment of a new CEO.
- Michael D. Capellas, a distinguished executive with extensive leadership experience across a range of CIO, CEO and board chairman and director positions at a number of the world's most successful software and technology companies, has been appointed to Cellebrite's Board of Directors as a Class II director and will serve as the Board's lead independent director.
- On February 11, 2025, Cellebrite published its sixth annual 2025 Industry Trends Survey, highlighting how public safety professionals use and apply powerful digital investigative solutions to uncover digital evidence in criminal investigations and revealing widespread appetite for artificial intelligence and cloud solutions.
- On February 12, 2025, Cellebrite announced that its Cellebrite Government Cloud platform has achieved FedRAMP High Ready designation by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). This milestone, which marks the initial stage in the compliance process, reinforces Cellebrite's commitment to equipping and empowering its U.S. federal customers with industry-leading cloud security when utilizing the Company's Software-as-a-Service-based digital investigative solutions.
- On February 6, 2025, Cellebrite announced the general availability of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) capabilities within Guardian, Cellebrite's SaaS-based evidence management solution.
- On November 20, 2024, as part of an exclusive technology and go-to-market partnership with Relativity, Cellebrite announced that it had integrated its mobile collection solutions, Endpoint Inspector and Endpoint Mobile Now, into the RelativityOne platform.
Financial Outlook
"Cellebrite's 2024 financial results reflect a balanced mix of top-line growth and strong profitability,” stated Dana Gerner, Cellebrite's Chief Financial Officer. "Redeeming our warrants and hitting various stock price triggers in 2024 enabled us to optimize our capital structure, support healthy trading liquidity and simplify our 2025 financial reporting. As we look ahead, our outlook for 2025 is aligned with our long-term objective of consistently delivering a Rule of X performance between 45 and 50.”
The Company's first-quarter and full-year expectations for 2025 are as follows:
| First-Quarter 2025 Expectations
(as of 2/13/25) | Full-Year 2025 Expectations (as of 2/13/25) | |||
| ARR | $406 million - $411 million | $480 million - $495 million | ||
| Annual growth | 22% - 24% | 21% - 25% | ||
| Revenue | $107 million - $112 million | $480 million - $490 million | ||
| Annual growth | 19% - 25% | 20% - 22% | ||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $22 million - $24 million | $113 million - $123 million | ||
| Adjusted EBITDA margin | ~21% | 24% - 25% |
Conference Call Information
Cellebrite will host a live conference call and webcast later this morning to review the Company's financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024 and discuss its outlook for 2025. Pertinent details include:
| Date: | Thursday, February 13, 2025 | |
| Time: | 8:30 a.m. ET | |
| Call-In Number: | 203-518-9783 / 800-267-6316 | |
| Conference ID: | CLBTQ424 | |
| Event URL: | https://investors.cellebrite.com/events/event-details/cellebrite-q4-2024-fy-2024-financial-results-investor-call-webcast | |
| Webcast URL: | https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/2oayuote |
In conjunction with the conference call and webcast, historical financial tables and supplemental data will be available on the quarterly results section of Company's investor relations website at https://investors.cellebrite.com/financial-information/quarterly-results.
Non-GAAP Financial Information and Key Performance Indicators
This press release includes non-GAAP financial measures. Cellebrite believes that the use of non-GAAP cost of revenue, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP EPS and Adjusted EBITDA is helpful to investors. These measures, which the Company refers to as its non-GAAP financial measures, are not prepared in accordance with GAAP.
The Company believes that the non-GAAP financial measures provide a more meaningful comparison of its operational performance from period to period, and offer investors and management greater visibility into the underlying performance of its business. Mainly:
- Share-based compensation expenses utilize varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and a variety of equity instruments that can impact a company's non-cash expenses;
- Acquired intangible assets are valued at the time of acquisition and are amortized over an estimated useful life after the acquisition, and acquisition-related expenses are unrelated to current operations and neither are comparable to the prior period nor predictive of future results;
- To the extent that the above adjustments have an effect on tax (income) expense, such an effect is excluded in the non-GAAP adjustment to net income;
- Tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense vary for many reasons that are often unrelated to the Company's underlying performance and make period-to-period comparisons more challenging; and
- Financial instruments are remeasured according to GAAP and vary for many reasons that are often unrelated to the Company's current operations and affect financial income.
A reconciliation of each of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most comparable GAAP measure is set forth in a table included at the end of this press release, which is also available on our website at https://investors.cellebrite.com.
In regard to forward-looking non-GAAP guidance, we are not able to reconcile the forward-looking Adjusted EBITDA measure to the closest corresponding GAAP measure without unreasonable efforts because we are unable to predict the ultimate outcome of certain significant items including, but not limited to, fair value movements, share-based payments for future awards, tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense, and certain financing and tax items.
This press release also includes key performance indicators, including annual recurring revenue and dollar-based retention rate.
Annual recurring revenue ("ARR”) is defined as the annualized value of active term-based subscription license contracts and maintenance contracts related to perpetual licenses in effect at the end of that period. Subscription license contracts and maintenance contracts for perpetual licenses are annualized by multiplying the revenue of the last month of the period by 12. The annualized value of contracts is a legal and contractual determination made by assessing the contractual terms with our customers. The annualized value of maintenance contracts is not determined by reference to historical revenue, deferred revenue or any other GAAP financial measure over any period. ARR is not a forecast of future revenues, which can be impacted by contract start and end dates and renewal rates.
Dollar-based net retention rate ("NRR”) is calculated by dividing customer recurring revenue by base revenue. We define base revenue as recurring revenue we recognized from all customers with a valid license at the last quarter of the previous year period, during the four quarters ended one year prior to the date of measurement. We define our customer revenue as the recurring revenue we recognized during the four quarters ended on the date of measurement from the same customer base included in our measure of base revenue, including recurring revenue resulting from additional sales to those customers.
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Caution Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This document includes "forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the "safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "forecast,” "intend,” "seek,” "target,” "anticipate,” "will,” "appear,” "approximate,” "foresee,” "might,” "possible,” "potential,” "believe,” "could,” "predict,” "should,” "could,” "continue,” "expect,” "estimate,” "may,” "plan,” "outlook,” "future” and "project” and other similar expressions that predict, project or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, estimated financial information for the first quarter of 2025 and for fiscal year 2025 and certain statements such as, multiple macro tailwinds that the Company believes show no signs of dissipating; the Company moves into 2025 with plans to advance its market and technology leadership, sustain its top-line expansion and continue generating attractive profit margins and robust free cash flow; and the Company's outlook for 2025 being aligned with its long-term objective of consistently delivering a Rule of X performance between 45 and 50. Such forward-looking statements including those with respect to 2025 revenue and annual recurring revenue, profitability and earnings as well as commentary associated with future performance, strategies, prospects, and other aspects of Cellebrite's business are based on current expectations that are subject to risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to: Cellebrite's ability to keep pace with technological advances and evolving industry standards; Cellebrite's material dependence on the purchase, acceptance and use of its solutions by law enforcement and government agencies; real or perceived errors, failures, defects or bugs in Cellebrite's DI solutions; Cellebrite's failure to maintain the productivity of sales and marketing personnel, including relating to hiring, integrating and retaining personnel; intense competition in all of Cellebrite's markets; the inadvertent or deliberate misuse of Cellebrite's solutions; failure to manage its growth effectively; Cellebrite's ability to introduce new solutions and add-ons; Cellebrite's dependency on its customers renewing their subscriptions and purchasing new subscriptions; the low volume of business Cellebrite conducts via e-commerce; risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence; the risk of requiring additional capital to support the growth of its business; risks associated with Cellebrite's dependency on third parties for supplying components or services and with higher costs or unavailability of materials used to create its hardware product components; lengthy sales cycle for some of Cellebrite's solutions; near term declines in new or renewed agreements; risks associated with inability to recruit, train and retain qualified personnel and senior management; the security of Cellebrite's operations and the integrity of its software solutions against cyber-attacks, information technology system breaches or disruptions; risks associated with the negative publicity related to Cellebrite's business and use of its products; risks related to Cellebrite's intellectual property; the regulatory constraints to which Cellebrite is subject; risks associated with Cellebrite's operations in Israel, including the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the increased tension between Israel and Iran and its proxies, including the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, and the risk of a greater regional conflict; risks associated with different corporate governance requirements applicable to Israeli companies and risks associated with being a foreign private issuer and an emerging growth company; market volatility in the price of Cellebrite's shares; changing tax laws and regulations; risks associated with joint, ventures, partnerships and strategic initiatives; risks associated with Cellebrite's significant international operations, including due to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, rising global inflation and exposure to regions subject to political or economic instability; risks associated with Cellebrite's failure to comply with anti-corruption, trade compliance, anti-money-laundering and economic sanctions laws and regulations; risks relating to the adequacy of Cellebrite's existing systems, processes, policies, procedures, internal controls and personnel for Cellebrite's current and future operations and reporting needs; and other factors, risks and uncertainties set forth in the section titled "Risk Factors” in Cellebrite's annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024 and as amended on April 12, 2024, and in other documents filed by Cellebrite with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC”), which are available free of charge at www.sec.gov. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made, in this communication or elsewhere. Cellebrite undertakes no obligation to update its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, should circumstances change, except as otherwise required by securities and other applicable laws.
About Cellebrite
Cellebrite's (Nasdaq: CLBT) mission is to enable its global customers to protect and save lives by enhancing digital intelligence and accelerating justice in communities around the world. Cellebrite's AI-powered Case-to-Closure (C2C) platform enables customers to lawfully access, collect, analyze and share digital evidence in legally sanctioned investigations while preserving data privacy. Thousands of public safety organizations, intelligence agencies and businesses rely on the Company's cloud-ready digital forensic and investigative solutions to close cases faster and safeguard communities. To learn more, visit us at www.cellebrite.com, https://investors.cellebrite.com and find us on social media @Cellebrite.
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| Cellebrite DI Ltd. Fourth-Quarter 2024 Results Summary (U.S Dollars in thousands) | |||||||||||
| For the three months ended | For the year ended | ||||||||||
| December 31, | December 31, | ||||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||
| Revenue | 109,049 | 93,013 | 401,203 | 325,110 | |||||||
| Gross profit | 91,425 | 78,097 | 338,610 | 271,879 | |||||||
| Gross margin | 83.8 | % | 84.0 | % | 84.4 | % | 83.6 | % | |||
| Operating income | 15,727 | 14,999 | 56,906 | 33,237 | |||||||
| Operating margin | 14.4 | % | 16.1 | % | 14.2 | % | 10.2 | % | |||
| Net income (loss) | 19,269 | (14,647 | ) | (283,007 | ) | (81,100 | ) | ||||
| Cash flow from operating activities | 65,967 | 43,828 | 132,171 | 102,058 | |||||||
| Non-GAAP Financial Data: | |||||||||||
| Operating income | 26,928 | 20,982 | 92,119 | 55,282 | |||||||
| Operating margin | 24.7 | % | 22.6 | % | 23.0 | % | 17.0 | % | |||
| Net income | 26,123 | 21,999 | 97,761 | 60,926 | |||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | 28,793 | 22,726 | 99,377 | 61,946 | |||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA margin | 26.4 | % | 24.4 | % | 24.8 | % | 19.1 | % | |||
| Cellebrite DI Ltd. Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (U.S. Dollars in thousands) | ||||||||
| December 31, | December 31, | |||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Current assets | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 191,659 | $ | 189,517 | ||||
| Short-term deposits | 153,746 | 74,713 | ||||||
| Marketable securities | 101,818 | 38,693 | ||||||
| Trade receivables (net of allowance for credit losses of $594 and $1,583 as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively) | 82,358 | 77,269 | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 23,246 | 26,400 | ||||||
| Contract acquisition costs | 5,827 | 5,550 | ||||||
| Inventories | 8,939 | 9,940 | ||||||
| Total current assets | 567,593 | 422,082 | ||||||
| Non-current assets | ||||||||
| Other non-current assets | 7,682 | 7,341 | ||||||
| Marketable securities | 36,601 | 28,859 | ||||||
| Deferred tax assets, net | 11,072 | 7,024 |
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