Similarweb Ltd (SMWB) 2025 Q3 法說會逐字稿

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Q3 fiscal 2025 earnings call.

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Thank you operator. Welcome everyone to our 3rd quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Joining me today are our CEO and co-founder or author, and our Chief Business Officer Maoz Laskowski. Yesterday after market close, we released our results for the 3rd quarter and published a discussion of our results in a letter to shareholders, as well as an investor presentation with a strategic overview of the business on our investor relations website at ir.silverweb.com.

Certain statements made on the call today constitute forward-looking statements which reflect management's best judgment based on the currently available information. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from our expectations. Please refer to our earnings release and our most recent annual report filed on 20F.

For more information on the risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements. Additionally, certain non-GAAP financial measures will be discussed on the call today. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are available in the earnings releases and the earnings presentation. We will begin with A's highlights of the quarter, and then I will provide an overview of the financials. Then we will open up the call to questions from cell cloud analysts. With that, I'll turn the call over to all.

Or, please go ahead.

Mr. President and welcome everyone joining the call today. I am super proud of the 3rd quarter financial results that we reported yesterday. Revenue increased by 11% year over year to EUR72 million in line with our expectations. Our customer base grew 15% year over year to more than ALL6,000 customers at quarter end. We reported an eighth quarter of positive free cash flow.

We are reiterating guidance for 2025 revenues and raising our profit guidance for the year.

Customer interest in our GAI data and solution is amazing, and revenues from our GAI data and new solutions continue to expand and are one of our fastest growing revenue streams.

We remain focused on free high impact opportunities where a similar web is highly positioned to lead.

The first one is the Gen AI intelligence. Our Gen AI intelligence suite has been well received by our customers. In October, we launched the Web Intelligence 4.0 that integrates our GN AI capabilities into our web intelligence solution, providing an even more comprehensive view of the digital world.

ALL from GAI intelligent products is growing rapidly and to more than 1 million since the launch in April, a great milestone for this product.

The second 1 is our data selling for LLM.

We are supplying our unique and fresh digital data to companies that are building their own LLM and generative AI applications and the 3rd 1 is our AI agent. We continue to roll out AI agents to help our customers maximize the value and automate their workflow, enabling them to extract insight from our data in the shortest time possible.

Utilization of our AI agents continues to grow. For example, 27% of our sales intelligent customers use our AI meeting prep, and our new AI outreach agent, with adoption and utilization is growing quarter over quarter.

In September, we launched our new similar web MCP Server that can deliver trusted digital market intelligence data directly into AI agent and workflows.

This new products empower our customers with the tools to integrate our digital data insight at scale via LLMs and automation tools, including Cloud, CoPilot, OpenAI Agent Builder and more.

The MCP is an exciting milestone in our deployment of data-driven AI products and services.

I'm super proud of the strong adoption of the similar web app intelligence that we launched in Milch. At the end of Q3, more than 580 of our customers were using our app Intelligent, and AR has increased rapidly to above $10 million.

Similar web digital app data today cover over 4 million iOS and Android apps across 58 countries, providing our clients with comprehensive coverage of data that includes ranking, download, usage, engagement, retention, and audience demographics.

The investment in gold to market that we started in the fourth quarter of 2024 is ramping as planned, and we are starting to see good results. At the end of Q3, we had 30% more sellers than in the third quarter last year, and we are seeing encouraging improvement in yield.

I'm super proud that we continue to operate efficiently and reported our eighth quarter of positive free cash flow in Q3, generating $43 million of free cash flow in the past eight quarters.

We remain focused on delivering profitable growth over time as achieving our long-term profit and free cash flow targets.

I am super excited that Iran Vered, our new CFO, will join in December. Iran has over 20 years of finance experience and a proven track record of driving growth, efficiency and strategic transformation. He has worked as a CFO at 3 companies, 2 US traded public companies, and recently in a South Enterprise data company.

I would like to thank Jason Schwartz for 10 years of service at Similar Web and wish him good luck and success, and, as I like to say, we are just getting started.

Thank you everyone for the call and for your continued support, and with that, I will turn the call back to Rami.

Thanks all. I'll provide highlights of our financial performance and then we'll open the call up to questions. We generated $71.8 million of revenue in Q3, an 11% increase relative to Q3 2024. Revenue growth was driven by the 15% growth in overall customers as well as Increased revenues from some of the new products we launched in 2025, including app intelligence and Gen AI intelligence. The quarterly growth rate reflects a strong Q320 for comparison and the early recognition of LLM evaluation revenues in Q2, which we had originally expected in Q3, as we discussed with you last quarter.

We are proud that 58% of our AR is contracted under multi-year contract, up from 45% last year. We believe this demonstrates the durability of our revenues and the importance of our data to our customers. We generated $3 million of normalized free cash flow in the quarter, a 4% free cash flow margin, and an eighth consecutive quarter of positive free cash flow. We plan to continue to generate positive free cash flow on a quarterly basis going forward.

Our remaining performance obligations or RPO total $268 million at the end of Q3, up 26% year over year. We expect to recognize 68% of total RPO as revenue over the next 12 months. In Q3, overall NRR was 98% across all customers and 105% for customers, with over $100,000 for the AR. The decline in NRR reflects a strong expansion activity in 2024, particularly from large contracts booked during the second and 3rd quarter of last year.

We are very encouraged by the improving trends in GR that increased sequentially in Q3 and with our highest in two years. Moving to gardens for the year, we are reiterating our revenue guidance for the full year of 2025 and expect total revenue in the range of $285 million to $288 million representing 15% year over year growth at the midpoint of the range. We are raising our non-GAAP operating profit garden to between $8.5 million and $9.5 million an increase from our previous expectation and significantly higher than the guidance we provided at the beginning of the year. This is due to our focus on disciplined execution. With that, all my Oz and myself are ready to answer your questions.

Thank you sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting a question-and-answer session.

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Thank you. Our first question comes from Surinder ton of Jeffreys. Please go ahead.

Thank you.

Or could you maybe just talk about your gross revenue retention? Looks like things are trending in the right direction, but NR would suggest, even given the tough comps that maybe the upsell process has been a little bit more challenging. Any colour there would be appreciated.

Yeah, of course, and thank you for the question.

And I'm talking about the NFL trend, and so, the NLL we report is the average of the 4 last quarter of the past, like past 12 months. In this past 12 months, a lot of the expansion we're doing is mostly, like big part of the big expansion where Those engagement on the data for LLMs and the way this work is usually start as a one-time test that is significant and then down the road, it's converting into ALL deals.

So because a lot of the extension come from those in the past 12 months, and you don't see it in the NRR because the NRR only reflect in ARR deals. So I hope that there's a lot of those pipelines of big deals we have for selling data for LLMs will convert into ARR deals going forward. This trend will change and go up down the road.

That's helpful and then maybe I guess since you mentioned kind of the LLMs and the training data partnerships in the pipeline, can you maybe talk about how that's evolving at this point? In the past you've announced, a number of kind of these upfront data purchases, that aren't in your ARR, so should we be expecting conversion? Is this something where the clients maybe take 6 months to evaluate whether they want to enter into a longer-term relationship or how should we think about what's coming down the pipeline here.

Yeah, it's an excellent question.

Thank you. So indeed, the answer is yes. It's a long process of a sell and when you usually provide big chunk of historical data that those companies are trying to use and analyse and prove that it will improve their accuracy of the models. So those processes usually take a long time and there's many different data sets, Simla Web is the leading digital company of the world. We have so many different data sets that there's so many assumptions and so many things we see how it's improving. So there's many tests going and there's different companies.

So yeah, I feel very confident that majority of those engagement will convert to ARL and deals going forward because we have already have a few of them that already an ARL with long-term commitment.

So we see the impact it's driving on other players, so we're very confident that we can drive this impact on all the other players.

Thank you.

Right Our next question comes from Ramo Len of Barclays. Please go ahead.

Perfect, thank you.

I have two questions as well.

So first of all, great to see the App Intelligent customer account grow and they are reaching almost 10 million there. Can you help us understand where these customers are coming from? Are they cross sell or net new? Like, can you speak to that please? And then I have one follow-up.

Yeah, of course, we're very excited about the new product that we're launch into the market. So not only the app intelligent that is like super successful or also a Gen AI offering that just passed a million dollars in like in super fast time.

So regarding the customer, I think the majority of the customers is cross-sale. We think that we have more than 6,000 customers that we engage in buying our digital data to increase the market share.

All across the digital world, so the Intelligent is like spot on for them. Like they all usually have websites and apps, so it's an easy sell. They love us, they trust us fast. So we see a very big success and the more we're increasing the coverage of countries we provide and the metrics, it's going to be very successful. So we're very happy we're seeing good success that the product that we innovate and build and launch are adopting by our customers.

Yeah, okay, perfect.

And then if you look at the last question you talked a little bit about, the days in the quarter as well, but the, if I look at the sequential ad this quarter was kind of more on the lower side of what we've seen historically, can you speak a little bit to what the other factors or was it just what you mentioned to the first question?

Thank you.

Yeah, I think that we think that we, the execution was good, so I know it's very hard to land exactly where you planned, but we felt that the execution was good. We feel good for the year, so.

Some of the deals are big, so it's how to forecast them, and, but overall I think that like we're really able to land spot on what we like maybe Rami, if you have anything to think about that.

Hi, Raymo. Yes, just to add to that, as you remember, we had some contracts that came in earlier than expected, some of those evaluation contracts in Q2, and so the phasing isn't linear, and so we booked revenues in Q2 earlier than Q3. If we would have booked those revenues in Q3, then the sequential improvement would have been more gradual.

Yeah, okay, that makes sense. Perfect.

Thank you.

The next question comes from Ken Wong of Oppenheimer and Co. Please go ahead.

Great, thank you for taking my question. This one might build on, the response you just gave, Ray, but just wanted to get thoughts on kind of why the RPU declined slightly even with the focus on upmarket customers, how are we thinking about the trend on APU going forward?

So I think that output is impacted by the number of customers that we added and just for the larger customers on the AR we added some mainly in the large end some one-time customers wouldn't add, we saw an increase in revenues, whereas a lot of the customers that are crossing the trend are coming through below average, but we'd expect this to fluctuate over time. What most matters to us is the increase in customer count because that ultimately means that we have a big range of customers that we can then sell and upsell to.

And move them from single product into multi-year product, we can move them from single geographies to multi geographies, as we mentioned in the shareholder letter, we have customers that have increased 6x over time or 10x over time, and so once they're in the pipeline, then we can work on them and land and expand and implement the playbook. So a quarterly fluctuation or decline or increase, it's very small and doesn't really have a big impact on the way we think about the business.

Okay, perfect, and then a broader theme we just wanted to kind of pick your brain on, with SEO traffic coming down, I know you guys have some AI tools that are helping customers, kind of focus on other channels, but any impact you're seeing in terms of demand for web intelligence and some of your core products with some customers maybe deemphasizing web traffic?

Hey, and so I think we see a little bit the opposite. I think that, a lot of those digital companies that have a website and now getting less traffic from SCO now they need to close those gaps from other channels and then they come to us. We are the leading digital company to give this ability to the market, so. They want to understand how they position if the decrease they see is worse or better than the competition and what action we need to do to drive more traffic. So for us, those market changes and dynamic only increasing the need and the demand for the solution we provide.

You models maybe very helpful.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think I would just say that, first we are following and seeing where the users are, and we are making sure that we are able to track and have compelling offer and we are investing a lot in the GEO EEO offer and it's also important to mention that we launch, web intelligence 4.0. So, a new pricing schema, about a month and a half ago, and we're seeing initial good signs of monetization of our core products. We are optimistic about it and think that our monetization strategy will, make sure that we keep growing our core offering.

Okay, does that conclude your questions?

Yeah, yes, it does.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Our next question comes from Arjon Battier of William Blair and Company. Please go ahead.

Hi team, I'm Willow Miller. I'm for Arjan Bhatia. Thanks for taking our question. So curious to hear more about the sales rep ramp that were added a few quarters ago. Now that we're through the 3rd quarter and into the 4th quarter, in the past, you mentioned you were looking forward to the newer sales resources closing more deals in the back half of the year. Is that playing out?

Yeah, so we're seeing an improvement in the go to market, quarter of a quarter, and, I think last quarter we said we have a record high of salespeople closing deals, and I think even this quarter we saw even higher numbers of people, of salespeople that are participating in generating revenues and of course as a CEO you always want better and bigger, so it's always, optimizing that they go to market will be much more stronger and better.

Understood.

Thank you.

Our next question comes from Tyler Radke of City. Please go ahead.

Yeah, good morning.

Thank you for taking the question. So just going back to the results and the guidance, I mean, I think we're used to similar web probably vast majority of your quarters as a public company, beating the midpoint if not the entire guidance range and raising at least on revenue, so I just wanted to make sure I understood. The dynamics certainly can can appreciate the quarterly dynamics in terms of the revenue that sort of got accelerated last quarter, but just relative to your guide, was it simply deal timing, linearity of the quarter when these deals closed? Are you building in more conservatism just given.

The CFO, transition, just help us understand sort of the lack of a beat and raise on revenue.

I think that overall, I think, of course, everything you said is part of that, but I think that also, when we started the year, we were, and even now we, we're very focused on optimizing the margin, the EBITDA margin, and this is where we felt that we can drive good impact and this is, as you can see, we're doing very nice beat and races on that running a very efficient and disciplined execution.

And so I think this is where we put our focus.

Okay, and then on the margin side, you talked about a pretty healthy growth in the number of sales reps, that you had this quarter, but sort of what's driving that incremental, raise?

Like, where are you taking costs out? Is it more sort of not hiring as many sales and marketing people, is it more R&D and GA? Maybe you're seeing some AI efficiencies in the business, would love to just hear specifically what's driving the lower costs, here for the full year.

I think it's a combination of, we decided to become better at that metrics and become more disciplined around it and of course, you have the AI Tailwind that is helping increase productivity, so you can run a very tight engineering without growing the R&D resource.

And of course around the go to market as you go and you optimize, you start at the beginning of the year, hiring.

And many people to execute and the one that were not performing, you let go. So basically you keep with the best ones and they are becoming more productive and I think this was the majority of the cost saving, we look into now.

Okay.

Thank you.

Our next question comes from Patrick Wall Ravens of Citizens Bank. Please go ahead.

Oh great.

This is Kincaid on for Pat. Congratulations on the.

Quarter, guys.

So I was just.

Curious if you could highlight any.

Customer conversations that.

You've had around the Gen AI products.

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What's really driving uptake with these?

They're seeing a lot of love.

Yeah, I think it's very interesting. It's kind of the Gen AI, optimization product that we sell, it's a new channel for all of our customers. It's a channel that up and rising this year.

And there's many questions about, getting visibilities and understand how it could be successful. It's a very interesting dynamic because Maybe it's not driving a lot of traffic, but I think, a lot of the answers coming on the chatbots are kind of defining the customer perceptions on brands and the purchase decision making.

So it's very important to them to understand, how many consumer asking about their brand and what are the answer, what is the sentiment. So, as you work with the customers and basically building and developing the product they need in order to be more successful in this new channel that arise.

Thank you so much.

Kincaid, this is Roy. If I can just jump on and we've had some meetings held with the leadership that are coming back from meetings with a range of customers around the US and around the world, I think there's general excitement in the business about the opportunities. C-suite are very keen to understand how GI is impacting their business on the one hand. On the other hand, all the leading LLMs are very keen to understand how the data we provide them can help them improve their modeling. So I think that, when we combine those two parts of the market, on the one hand, the interest we're getting from all the model generators and creators and from the corporates, their businesses being impacted and disrupted by AI it really gives us a lot of, makes us very excited about the opportunities we have from that part of the market.

Thank you, Ronnie.

Appreciate it.

The next question comes from Luke Horton of Northland Securities. Please go ahead.

Yeah, hey guys, thanks for taking the questions. Just wanted to talk a little bit about the customer side and are you seeing any mixed shift between enterprise versus mid-market customers, especially with kind of the new use cases and product launches that you guys have made over the past year.

Not really. I think the mix between SMB and enterprise, stayed the same. We didn't observe any change in that.

Okay.

Fair enough and then it just kind of piggybacking off of that into, the competitive landscape here, just have you seen an uptick in competition here, especially with, I mean, a couple other companies out there kind of doing similar cadence of new product launches and trying to capture this gen AI demand, just curious your thoughts on the overall competitive landscape.

Yes, Mazie, thank you for the question. We, there is a lot of interest and a lot of demand, for, Gen AI products, but we are, confident that we can, be a dominant player in this space. We have a unique data sets, that enable us to be the best solution in this field. We have great client relationships and we get a lot of demand both from new prospects and from existing clients. It's a very horizontal play. Many of our clients, of course, brands, agencies, publishers, they all care about GI visibility. So we are not too concerned. We are focusing. We are building a great product. We have great data sets on this landscape. We are really allowing brands to understand visibility within the engines. So for us, it's more about market growth and market education. It's not really about, this competitor, that competitor at this point.

Okay, fair enough and then just last one here, apologies if this one's already kind of been asked and answered, but just looking at the implied revenue guidance for 4Q, it's sort of a wider band here. Just wondering if that's kind of more so due to uncertainty around the timing of some of these larger deals flowing through or just kind of the puts and takes on the implied 4Q revenue guide.

Yeah, it's basically because we have a very strong pipeline and a very big deals, so we want to keep it in that range to understand, we're very confident we land on the range and we want to see how it materializes.

Got it. Awesome. Well, thanks for taking the questions, yes.

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Our next question comes from Adam Hotchkiss of Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks so much for taking the question. I just wanted to ask on your RPO metric that was strong for a second consecutive quarter here. Maybe just comment a little bit on contract duration and, how we should think about the interplay of revenue growth versus that higher RPO growth rate.

Yeah, thank you, Adam, for the questions and indeed we're seeing a good success with a multi-year commitment. We see more and more of our customers, loving our products and monetize it, getting a great ROI and from that and willing to engage with us for a multi-year, and as they report that we Now have 58% of the revenue, is closed for multi-years that we're very proud with that metrics and it's a very strong indication of the value of the data we give to our customers. So, with that success and every quarter we're getting better and more customers, engage with us, it's also helping to get a better LPO.

Great, that's really helpful, and then just on sales and marketing, I appreciate the comments on the ramping of sales employees. I did notice that, Sales and marketing expense did come in a little light of expectations this quarter and sequentially, which I think was potentially part of the profit outperformance. I know we had talked about, you, taking a real-time approach to sales rep productivity and trying to understand that relative to margin performance, particularly when you gave the guide earlier this year. So maybe comment on. If there are any changes in what you're seeing there and if anything, flowed through the sales and marketing, number in queue 3 that we should be aware of, thanks.

Yeah, so the ramp up of the sales people is on, is on track as you TRY to scale.

Go to market organization, what we did in Q1, we over hire and a lot of those areas that to make sure that we can ramp the people and then we can have the options to double down on the ones that are successful and can show and the indication that they can be successful selling our solution, so the process, you a little bit over higher, you see who is successful, who can be part of our culture and then as you go through, you start optimizing and let go, the one that are less successful and as you're doing that, you, your S&M is getting better and you're able to start getting more yield for, from the salespeople. So I think this is what you're seeing in the novels.

Okay, great, thank you very much.

My next question comes from Patrick or Ravens of Citizens. Please go ahead.

Oh, great, thank you. Can I ask two follow-ups? First of all, what kind of big deals do you have in that pipeline? So, what the very big deals are, obviously not the companies, but just like, if you could characterize them and then secondly, how should we think about next year?

Thank you very much.

So I will TRY to answer what I heard because I think the line was not super clear. I think the first question was around the big deals that we have that, as we said over the past few quarters, we're seeing big success on selling data for LLM companies, for companies that are trying to create the best LLMs for this new AI world and we're saying that our digital data is a critical element in building, training those LLMs and once we're able to engage and show the value of our data after those long process of evaluation, we get in a very good engagement that is very sticky and very long-term and we, and we're becoming a critical part.

Of building and developing those LLMs. This is around a big deal. And the second question that I heard, I think it's about next year, we're going to give guidance to next year in the next quarter, so, that's it.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, so I want to thank you

Ladies

Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, with no further questions in the question queue, we have reached the end of the question-and-answer session. I will hand back over to our offer for closing comments.

And so I would like to thank you all for joining the call and especially our shareholder for the support. We look forward to speaking to you again over the coming weeks.

Thank you all.

Lovely, thank you very much, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes this event.

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