Dropbox, Inc. (NASDAQ: DBX), today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. “We delivered solid results in 2024 and made a lot of progress bringin...
Fourth Quarter Revenue of $643.6 Million, up 1.4% year-over-year; on a constant currency basis, up 1.1% year-over-year
GAAP Operating Margin of 13.7% and Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 36.9%
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities of $213.8 Million and Free Cash Flow of $210.5 Million
Fiscal 2024 Revenue of $2.548 Billion, up 1.9% year-over-year; on a constant currency basis, up 1.7% year-over-year
GAAP Operating Margin of 19.1% and Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 36.4%
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities of $894.1 Million and Free Cash Flow of $871.6 Million
SAN FRANCISCO: Dropbox, Inc. (NASDAQ: DBX), today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
“We delivered solid results in 2024 and made a lot of progress bringing our AI-powered product, Dash for Business, to market and restructuring our core business to be even more efficient,” said Dropbox Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston. “Looking ahead to 2025, we’ll continue with our strategy of scaling Dash, simplifying and strengthening our profitable core business, and integrating Dash and FSS to deliver even greater value to our customers. While still early, the positive feedback from our Dash users has been encouraging, validating the need for practical AI-powered tools that solve real customer pain-points in finding and securing all their content.”
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2024 Results
Share Repurchase Authorization
Full Year Fiscal 2024 Results
(1) | We calculate constant currency revenue growth rates by applying the prior period weighted average exchange rates to current period results. |
(2) | We calculate total annual recurring revenue ("Total ARR") as the number of users who have active paid licenses for access to our platform as of the end of the period, multiplied by their annualized subscription price to our platform. We adjust our exchange rates used to calculate Total ARR on an annual basis, at the beginning of each fiscal year. We calculate constant currency Total ARR growth rates by applying the current period exchange rate to prior period results. |
(3) | The impact from the change in our estimate was calculated based on assets that existed as of the effective date of the change and applying the revised estimated useful lives prospectively. |
(4) | GAAP and Non-GAAP diluted net income per share attributable to common stockholders is calculated based upon 306.8 million and 343.9 million diluted weighted-average shares of common stock for the three months ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. |
(5) | GAAP and Non-GAAP diluted net income per share attributable to common stockholders is calculated based upon 323.4 million and 345.6 million diluted weighted-average shares of common stock for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. |
Financial Outlook
Dropbox will provide forward-looking guidance in connection with this quarterly earnings announcement on its conference call, webcast, and on its investor relations website at http://investors.dropbox.com.
Conference Call Information
Dropbox plans to host a conference call today to review its fourth quarter financial results and to discuss its financial outlook. This call is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET and can be accessed by using the web link at http://investors.dropbox.com.
About Dropbox
Dropbox is the one place to keep life organized and keep work moving. With more than 700 million registered users across approximately 180 countries, we're on a mission to design a more enlightened way of working. Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and has employees around the world. For more information on our mission and products, visit http://dropbox.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial results as determined in accordance with GAAP are included at the end of this press release following the accompanying financial data. For a description of these non-GAAP financial measures, including the reasons management uses each measure, please see the section of the tables titled "About Non-GAAP Financial Measures."
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including, among other things, our expectations regarding distributed work and artificial intelligence and machine learning trends, related market opportunities and our ability to capitalize on those opportunities, as well as our ability to improve shareholder returns. Words such as "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "plans," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions including, but not limited to: (i) our ability to retain and upgrade paying users, and increase our recurring revenue; (ii) our ability to attract new users or convert registered users to paying users; (iii) our expectations regarding general economic, political, and market trends and their respective impacts on our business; (iv) impacts to our financial results and business operations as a result of pricing and packaging changes to our subscription plans; (v) our future financial performance, including trends in revenue, costs of revenue, gross profit or gross margin, operating expenses, paying users, and free cash flow; (vi) our ability to achieve or maintain profitability; (vii) our liability or other potential legal, regulatory, or reputational consequences of any unauthorized access to our data or our users’ content, including through privacy and data security breaches; (viii) significant disruption of service on our platform or loss of content; (ix) any decline in demand for our platform or for content collaboration solutions in general; (x) changes in the interoperability of our platform across devices, operating systems, and third-party applications that we do not control; (xi) competition in our markets; (xii) our ability to respond to rapid technological changes, extend our platform, develop new features or products, or gain market acceptance for such new features or products; (xiii) our ability to improve quality and ease of adoption of our new and enhanced product experiences, features, and capabilities; (xiv) our ability to manage our growth or plan for future growth; (xv) our various acquisitions of businesses and the potential of such acquisitions to require significant management attention, disrupt our business, or dilute stockholder value; (xvi) our ability to attract, retain, integrate, and manage key and other highly qualified personnel, including as a result of our reduction in workforce announced in October 2024 or our Virtual First model with an increasingly distributed workforce; (xvii) our ability to realize the intended benefits of our workforce reduction announced in October 2024, (xviii) our capital allocation plans with respect to our stock repurchase program and other investments; and (xix) the dual class structure of our common stock and its effect of concentrating voting control with certain stockholders who held our capital stock prior to the completion of our initial public offering. Further information on risks that could affect Dropbox’s results is included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. Additional information will be made available in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and other reports that we may file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. If the risks materialize or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. Dropbox assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.
Dropbox, Inc. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (In millions, except per share data) (Unaudited) | |||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended December 31, |
| Twelve Months Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||
|
| 2024 |
|
|
| 2023 |
|
|
| 2024 |
|
|
| 2023 |
|
Revenue | $ | 643.6 |
|
| $ | 635.0 |
|
| $ | 2,548.2 |
|
| $ | 2,501.6 |
|
Cost of revenue(1)(2) |
| 120.8 |
|
|
| 122.0 |
|
|
| 445.1 |
|
|
| 478.5 |
|
Gross profit |
| 522.8 |
|
|
| 513.0 |
|
|
| 2,103.1 |
|
|
| 2,023.1 |
|
Operating expenses: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||||
Research and development(1)(2) |
| 243.0 |
|
|
| 222.1 |
|
|
| 914.9 |
|
|
| 936.5 |
|
Sales and marketing(1)(2) |
| 128.9 |
|
|
| 119.6 |
|
|
| 460.7 |
|
|
| 466.0 |
|
General and administrative(1)(2) |
| 62.9 |
|
|
| 61.3 |
|
|
| 241.2 |
|
|
| 237.1 |
|
Net loss (gain) on real estate assets(3) |
| 0.1 |
|
|
| (157.4 | ) |
|
| 0.1 |
|
|
| (155.2 | ) |
Total operating expenses |
| 434.9 |
|
|
| 245.6 |
|
|
| 1,616.9 |
|
|
| 1,484.4 |
|
Income from operations |
| 87.9 |
|
|
| 267.4 |
|
|
| 486.2 |
|
|
| 538.7 |
|
Interest income (expense), net |
| (1.9 | ) |
|
| 6.8 |
|
|
| 13.9 |
|
|
| 19.4 |
|
Other income (expense), net |
| 6.4 |
|
|
| (1.9 | ) |
|
| 9.7 |
|
|
| (3.7 | ) |
Income before income taxes |
| 92.4 |
|
|
| 272.3 |
|
|
| 509.8 |
|
|
| 554.4 |
|
Benefit from (provision for) income taxes |
| 10.4 |
|
|
| (45.0 | ) |
|
| (57.5 | ) |
|
| (100.8 | ) |
Net income | $ | 102.8 |
|
| $ | 227.3 |
|
| $ | 452.3 |
|
| $ | 453.6 |
|
Basic net income per share | $ | 0.34 |
|
| $ | 0.67 |
|
| $ | 1.42 |
|
| $ | 1.33 |
|
Diluted net income per share | $ | 0.34 |
|
| $ | 0.66 |
|
| $ | 1.40 |
|
| $ | 1.31 |
|
Weighted-average shares used in computing net income per share attributable to common stockholders, basic |
| 301.5 |
|
|
| 337.5 |
|
|
| 318.2 |
|
|
| 341.2 |
|
Weighted-average shares used in computing net income per share attributable to common stockholders, diluted |
| 306.8 |
|
|
| 343.9 |
|
|
| 323.4 |
|
|
| 345.6 |
|
(1) | Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows (in millions): |
| Three Months Ended December 31, |
| Twelve Months Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||
|
| 2024 |
|
| 2023 |
|
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