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  • Operator

  • Good day and welcome to the Yext First Quarter Fiscal 2020 Earnings Conference Call.

  • (Operator Instructions) Please note this event is being recorded.

  • I would now like to turn the conference over to Conrad Grodd, Vice President of Investor Relations.

  • Please go ahead.

  • Conrad Grodd - VP of IR

  • Thank you, Sean, and good afternoon, everyone.

  • Welcome to our first quarter fiscal 2020 conference call.

  • With me today are Howard Lerman, CEO of Yext; Steve Cakebread, CFO; and Jim Steele, President and Chief Revenue Officer.

  • Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that this call may contain forward-looking statements, including statements about revenue and non-GAAP net income guidance, margin, cash flow, market opportunities, capital expenditures, geographic expansion, business performances, financial outlook and other nonhistorical statements as further described in our press release.

  • These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those related to Yext's growth, evolution of our industry, product development and success, market opportunities, adoption of accounting principles and general economic and business conditions.

  • These statements reflect the company's current expectations based on its beliefs, assumptions and information currently available to it.

  • Although we believe these expectations are reasonable, we undertake no obligations to revise any statements to reflect changes that occur after this call.

  • Descriptions of these and other risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements are discussed in our reports filed with the SEC including our most recent report on Form 10-K and our press release that was issued this afternoon.

  • During the call, we also refer to non-GAAP financial measures.

  • Reconciliations with the most comparable GAAP measures are also available in the press release, which is available at investors.yext.com.

  • With that, we'll begin by turning the call over to Howard.

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • Well, hello, everyone, and welcome to our earnings call, and I'd like to especially thank Conrad.

  • We are excited to have you on board for the next major revolution of Yext, and we thank you all for being here.

  • We're pleased to report yet another record quarter for Yext.

  • We're on track to achieving another record year.

  • With these great results, there are a ton of highlights this quarter.

  • Revenue grew 35% over the first quarter of last year, it exceeded the high end of our guidance.

  • GAAP loss margins improved by nearly 600 basis points from the year ago quarter, and non-GAAP loss margins improved by more than 900 basis points.

  • And for the third time in the last 5 quarters, we generated positive operating cash flow.

  • Recently, we unveiled The Yext Building.

  • Our global headquarters is new, located in the tech-centric heart of New York City alongside Google and Apple stores.

  • This state-of-the-art facility provides us with space for about 1,000 employees, and we expect to move in during 2020.

  • The Yext Building also includes a world-class customer briefing center.

  • We're going to help customers from around the globe understand how to build a single source of truth online for their consumers.

  • And during the quarter, we signed contracts of leading brands like Daimler, famous brands Rogers Communication, Jiffy Lube, Sephora, WH Smith, and we signed expansions and renewals with Choice Hotels, Jaguar Land Rover, Allstate Insurance and Adidas and in German, that's Adidas.

  • These brands recognize there is a massive paradigm shift happening in the world of search from keywords to questions.

  • This shift has retrained consumers to simply ask for what they want.

  • No longer do they got to browse through websites to get answers to their most important questions.

  • The consumer has moved from browsing to asking.

  • And when they ask questions, they expect specific relevant answers about companies and products, professionals, locations, services.

  • The fact is today's customer journey starts with a question, and consumers expect answers.

  • But what happens to the customer journey when they get the wrong answer or chaotic results or missing info?

  • Reputation is at stake and brands risk losing their business.

  • To succeed in this new world and answer customer demand, brands must become what we call answers ready.

  • Let's take a step back.

  • The Holy Grail in consumer marketing has always been to reach the right customer at the right time with the right information to incite an action that converts to a sale.

  • For decades, companies have been learning more about our customers, their customers, starting with their demographics.

  • We knew where they live, their age and their gender but not a lot.

  • Then as technology progressed, we began to track specific purchases against specific customers, and we gained insight to their buying patterns, their product usage, even their personalities.

  • And then we started to understand consumer behavior as they use keywords to search the web.

  • We knew what they were doing in realtime, but we didn't know when they were going to do it or why they were going to do it.

  • We've never been able to track true consumer intent, but now we can.

  • As consumers continue to just ask for what they want, now they're displaying more and more intent.

  • And as a result, marketers aren't just optimizing for keywords anymore, there are now new ways to optimize marketing around this new intent because consumers are asking questions.

  • This change in consumer behavior is leading to a change in how marketers do their job.

  • Now we can market our customers based not on who they are or what we can guess about their psychology, but on literally what they just ask for.

  • So we find ourselves at the dawn of a new age, intent marketing, where we can meet the customer at that exact moment of intent.

  • Marketers who meet the customer at the moment of intent with accurate information sell more stuff.

  • This leads to better brand reputation and increased revenue.

  • And our friends at Conductor ran a study that proves this.

  • They ran a study that showed a search that's multi-word.

  • It's a multi-word question, which by the way is a strong indicator of intent, converts at 2.5x that of a single-keyword search.

  • So intent marketing means opportunity, and opportunity leads to revenue, and that's where Yext comes in.

  • Yext makes it possible to provide verified answers for consumers seeking the truth about brands.

  • Our technology enables companies to take advantage of intent marketing by enabling them to implement brand-verified answers everywhere consumers search.

  • So they can meet the customer at the moment of intent.

  • Yext puts brands in the line of search with brand-verified answers, and leading brands around the world are implementing brand-verified answers to become answers ready.

  • Now being answers ready has 3 parts.

  • First, they need to build a complete knowledge graph.

  • This is a brain-like database that stores all the data about a business.

  • Second, they need to be able to answer questions themselves on their own websites with intent pages and answer pages and a great site search.

  • And third, they need to be able to answer questions everywhere -- Google, Alexa, WeChat, anywhere people are asking in any language around the world.

  • Our founding principle is that the ultimate authority on a business should be the business itself is more relevant than ever, and our continuing innovations in new technology are now enabling consumers to get brand-verified answers whenever they search with a questions.

  • Yext provides a single source of truth for companies online.

  • Our customers have put more than 200 million authoritative facts into our platform.

  • With our mission of perfect answers everywhere, Yext is leading brands into the future of search.

  • We've been doing this for more than a decade.

  • We always have and we always will.

  • And speaking of that, I'd love to now turn the call over to our President and Chief Revenue Officer, Jim Steele.

  • James Steele - President & Chief Revenue Officer

  • Thanks, Howard.

  • We are really excited about the great start we've had to the year, especially after our strong performance in Q4, and we continue to see signs of momentum across the geographies and the vertical markets.

  • This is true in both enterprise and in mid-markets.

  • In enterprise, we signed more than 50 new logos this quarter, including leading brands in travel and hospitality, food, health care, financial services and retail.

  • And with all these new customers, we are seeing the level of our executive sponsor increasingly beat the CMO and the CEO level.

  • I'm also really excited that Patrick Blair has joined us as Executive Vice President of our Global Commercial business.

  • Patrick is an accomplished cloud software veteran with more than 20 years of experience developing and leading go-to-market teams.

  • We worked together at Salesforce for 10 years.

  • Patrick was instrumental in building the commercial business unit there to over $2 billion.

  • At Yext, he'll be responsible for mid-enterprise and mid-market sales and services around the world.

  • It's an honor to work with alongside Patrick again.

  • I'm really excited about that.

  • Now I'll turn the call over to Steve Cakebread to walk you through the quarter in more detail.

  • Steve?

  • Steven M. Cakebread - CFO

  • Okay.

  • Thank you, Jim.

  • It was a strong Q1.

  • We're pleased with our start to the year even though the first quarter is when we typically see lower volume to new business.

  • A quick note before I get into the numbers.

  • Just want to remind you that we adopted ASC 606 last quarter and this quarter 842 for our lease accounting.

  • Our first quarter revenue grew 35% to $68.7 million, above the high end of our guidance, and we continue to see growth from both new and existing accounts.

  • Our net revenue retention, both overall as well as in enterprise and mid-market, remain consistent with last quarter's levels.

  • Unearned revenue, which we formally reported as deferred revenue prior to adoption of 606 increased 53% from the year ago period to $125.4 million.

  • And as of April 30, we had $256 million in remaining performance obligations or RPOs.

  • That's down from the fourth quarter balance because typically seasonality of first quarter business flow.

  • Our total backlog, which includes another $36 million of revenue that's under contract but subject to accounting exclusions, on that basis, we have $292 million in estimated future revenue under contract.

  • When we look at profitability, gross margins were 76% this quarter, an increase of 110 basis points over the first quarter last year, and gross margins this quarter benefited from the timing of certain publisher fees.

  • That being said, we remain comfortable with gross margins remaining in the mid-70% range.

  • Operating expenses this quarter increased at a rate less than our rate of revenue growth.

  • This highlights how we continue to realize efficiencies and economies of scale.

  • Total OpEx increased from $55.1 million last year to $71.5 million this quarter.

  • As a percentage of revenue, we saw improvements in all 3 lines of OpEx, sales and marketing, R&D and G&A compared to the first quarter last year.

  • When looking at our net loss, first quarter net losses increased from $17 million a year ago to $19 million this quarter.

  • But on the basis of 106.5 million weighted average basic shares outstanding, net loss per share of $0.18 this quarter compares to $0.18 loss a year ago.

  • Non-GAAP net loss, excluding stock-based compensation, improved 37% from $9.1 million a year ago to $5.7 million this quarter.

  • And non-GAAP loss margin of 8% in the current quarter was a substantial improvement from the 18% of revenue in the year ago quarter.

  • Our GAAP loss margin was 28% in the current quarter and improving nearly 600 basis points from the 33% of revenue last year.

  • Our non-GAAP net loss of $0.05 per share this quarter compares to $0.10 in the year ago quarter and was $0.04 favorable to the high end of our guidance.

  • Keep in mind approximately $0.01 of this relates to the higher share count from our recent equity offering in March where we issued 7 million shares.

  • The offering had not been reflected in the guidance we gave you on last quarter's call so our share count is a bit higher than the guidance.

  • Please refer to the press release we issued this afternoon for a reconciliation of GAAP to our non-GAAP results.

  • When you look at the balance sheet and cash flow, cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaled $284 million.

  • This was an improvement of approximately $160 million from the year ago balance and is due to a combination of the proceeds from the offering but as well positive operating cash flow.

  • Net cash from operations was breakeven this quarter as we were last year at this time.

  • We have achieved this even as we continue to expand our workforce and invest in new facilities across the globe.

  • This further demonstrates how our business model is capable of generating healthy cash flow.

  • Over the remainder of the year, we expect we'll continue to invest in people and facilities.

  • For example, earlier this May, the lease of our new global headquarters in New York commenced.

  • We need to do some work to get to the space ready for our move-in next year and expect to see some of those cash impacts over the next few quarters.

  • We continue to expect to increase our CapEx spend over the next 2 years for new and existing facilities around the world.

  • Let's take a look at our expectations for next quarter and the rest of the year.

  • In the second quarter, we expect revenue of between $70.8 million and $71.8 million.

  • And in the same period, we anticipate non-GAAP loss per share of between $0.12 to $0.14, which reflects the investment that we need to make in facilities and people.

  • This assumes a weighted average basic share count of approximately 111.8 million shares.

  • Turning to the full year.

  • We are raising the revenue midpoint up by $1 million to an expected range now of $297 million to $300 million in revenue.

  • And we're maintaining our existing non-GAAP net loss per share range of between $0.40 and $0.44.

  • This is based on an assumed basic weighted average share count of approximately 111.9 million shares.

  • I'd like to take a moment to thank James Hart for the great Investor Relations foundations he worked hard to lay over the last 2 years from Yext IPO to today.

  • We owe a great deal of gratitude for him and all he's done for Yext and fully support him on his next adventure.

  • At the same time, I want to welcome Conrad Grodd.

  • Both he and James have worked to make a seamless transition.

  • And Howard, I believe you want to close out with some important reminders...

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • Yes.

  • It wouldn't be an earnings call without me pitching some events here so let's go ahead and do that before we open up for questions.

  • I want to remind you we have 2 big events coming up.

  • The first is actually next week.

  • So if you're in the United Kingdom, we'd love to see you at our iconic -- it's at the iconic London Science Museum on Wednesday, June 5, from voice search and autonomous vehicles to future cities and virtual reality.

  • We're going to take a look at the current state of intelligent services and their effect on businesses today and beyond.

  • You can still join us for a few slots remaining open along with thought leaders from Google, Jaguar Land Rover, Air France and more than 500 customers, partners and prospects.

  • And second, I'd love to remind you all ONWARD19 is taking place this fall on October 29 and 30.

  • Registration also is open where our theme this year is the future of search.

  • This will be our largest conference ever, and we're taking over the Marriott Marquis in New York City to host it.

  • We had it last year at Jazz at Lincoln Center where we put on who killed Jim Steele and unfortunately, they can't hold our size anymore so we're going to the Marriott.

  • More than 1,600 of our customers and partners and investors will hear from world-class speakers who are going to share insights into the way consumers are searching for brand-verified answers.

  • And this year, we had to add more capacity because last year it was standing-room only.

  • ONWARD has sold out every year, and this year ticket sales are running ahead of last year so act now while supplies last.

  • If you're interested in either, please visit events.yext.com or onward19.com to register.

  • We hope to see many of you there.

  • And with that, operator, we'll now open up the call for questions.

  • Operator

  • (Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from Koji Ikeda with Oppenheimer.

  • Koji Ikeda - Director & Senior Analyst

  • Question for Howard or Steve.

  • So brand-verified answers, we've been hearing more about this concept recently so I wanted to ask you a couple of questions on the topic.

  • I guess first part is have organizations out there really realized the importance of accurate information and answers yet?

  • Or is there a lot of evangelism that still needs to be than out there?

  • And then part two is, overall, in your view, could unverified or inaccurate answers through search become a problem that really gets worse before it gets better in the near term?

  • And then finally, why is solving the problem of having accurate brand-verified answers so difficult to do?

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • I'll start with sort of the last one and meander my way -- by the way, this is Howard.

  • Koji, brand-verified answers come from search.

  • Search is the #1 channel for most businesses in the planet.

  • Google has become every business' homepage.

  • When you search for any brand, when you search for any product, any service, Google gives you the answer.

  • And as a result of the paradigm shift from keywords to questions where people don't just type single-query keywords anymore but they ask more and more specific questions, Google is giving answers back, and so it becomes paramount for every brand to do this.

  • There's no question around the world we continue to need to do more evangelization.

  • But at the same time, we're benefiting from a paradigm shift, a paradigm shift from keywords to questions and from search links to answers.

  • Across the world, we see higher-level conversations with CMOs and CEOs who are aware of the fact that their brand is everywhere and that they need to be able to answer questions to be able to meet that consumers' expectation.

  • There's nothing more powerful for a marketer than intent marketing and the ability to reach a customer when they ask a question with a very specific answer with exactly what they want is going to lead answers-ready brands to be able to sell more stuff and drive more revenue, and the ROI is clear and proven from being able to do that.

  • Last, why is it difficult?

  • Well, there's a lot of -- we live in a world with a lot of information, and the information is changing all the time.

  • Anybody with a connection to the Internet can publish anything they want on the Internet, and it's pretty easy to do it.

  • And so you can cloud out information even if you're not the authority on that.

  • Our founding principle at Yext is that the ultimate authority on a business is the business itself.

  • The vehicle for delivering that information has always been a company's website, but websites are structured upside down.

  • Websites start -- were made for the early ops and for 20 years ago where you start on the homepage and navigate down to get your answer, which takes a bunch of clicks.

  • But when now people search for questions in Google or whatever service they're using, the way that these websites need to be constructed to answer these questions is flipped upside down from today's current paradigm.

  • Koji Ikeda - Director & Senior Analyst

  • Got it.

  • That's super helpful.

  • And then just one follow-up from me.

  • Question for Steve.

  • Okay.

  • So you beat the top end of your fiscal 1Q revenue guide by about $1.7 million but only raised the bottom end of the full year guide by $2 million.

  • So I wanted to dig into that a little bit more.

  • Is that just conservatism there?

  • Or is there something else going on in there that we should be aware of?

  • Any sort of color that would be helpful, and thank you for taking my questions.

  • Steven M. Cakebread - CFO

  • Yes.

  • Koji, thank you.

  • Yes, I think what we are is at the beginning of our year, we're pretty thoughtful about having big quarters in the second half of the year.

  • The business is doing great.

  • I mean we had a great Q1 even despite the seasonality.

  • We have a really strong and growing pipeline so no hidden agendas here.

  • It's just how we approach giving guidance.

  • Operator

  • Our next question comes from Brent Bracelin with KeyBanc Capital Markets.

  • Brent Alan Bracelin - Senior Research Analyst

  • Two questions if I could.

  • Howard, I'll start with you.

  • My question is on the Adobe integration.

  • I think you announced that back in March?

  • What type of customer feedback are you hearing so far on Adobe integrations?

  • And perhaps talk a little bit about the opportunity with Adobe longer term.

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • Well, look, we want to partner with all different kinds of companies in our Application Directory or App Directory.

  • And clearly, many companies use Adobe to manage their content, and the ability for a company to be able to pump content from -- that unstructured into a structured way and then serve pages from Adobe or serve pages from Yext is a use case that many of our customers wanted and many of our customers had also asked to have the analytics which are very rich coming back from Yext appearing alongside the Adobe analytics.

  • So the ability to do that is 2 core use cases that we've seen, and tons of big brand use this.

  • But it's a side-by-side type of thing, and we see a future where every company has their sort of CMS to manage all their unstructured content and then uses a company like Yext to build their knowledge graph.

  • Brent Alan Bracelin - Senior Research Analyst

  • Got it.

  • I assume it's appealing more towards the larger customers then?

  • James Steele - President & Chief Revenue Officer

  • Brent, this is Jim Steele.

  • We -- about 1.5 months ago, we attended the Adobe Summit out in Las Vegas, and we were a platinum sponsor.

  • It was the first year we've done that and what we realized is that all of Adobe's customers and all of our customers are Adobe customers as well, and we have a complementary solution.

  • Adobe is one of the best companies in the world at helping companies build their website, and we're the best company in the world to make help make sure all that rich content on the website gets pushed out to all the different digital endpoints out there in the digital ecosystem so that -- we are really complementary and had such an exciting event out there.

  • So they're a great partner, and we expect to do a lot more with them.

  • Brent Alan Bracelin - Senior Research Analyst

  • Great.

  • Very helpful.

  • And then my follow-up here just maybe for you Jim or Steve is really around net new customer adds.

  • I think you talked about 50 enterprise logo adds this quarter.

  • If I look back over the last year, that's a little bit below the quarterly cadence we saw last year, but you still put a pretty big number.

  • So how should we think about just that 50 count, a little bit below the quarterly cadence we saw last year?

  • Is this business being driven out by greater expense?

  • Or we're just having kind of a little bit of a slow start to the year relative to new logo adds?

  • Walk us through that trend line there and what it means to the business.

  • Steven M. Cakebread - CFO

  • Yes.

  • Thanks for that question, and you're right.

  • The 50 compared to last year is what you're referring to.

  • First of all, the enterprise business, we're dealing with very large kind of Global 2000 companies, and we've got a great install base now of these companies so a lot of our business is now coming from upsells to existing accounts.

  • And of course, we want to do both.

  • We want to do the new logos and the upsells, and some quarters we're skewed towards upsells, and some quarters we're skewed towards new logos.

  • And I think you'll see that kind of vary quarter by quarter.

  • But you're right.

  • We were happy with the results and a lot of that business came from upsells in the first quarter.

  • You saw the big number of new logos that we posted in the fourth quarter, and it's just really a function of the kind of the lumpiness of enterprise sales.

  • That's really what we're referring to, but we're not -- we're excited about our install base and lots of opportunity there to continue to grow that as is the opportunity for new logos.

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • Yes, Brent, I'd take a look at unearned revenue growth of 53%.

  • It's a pretty great quarter for us in that.

  • So I think looking forward, Jim said it, we've said it a couple of times, Q1 in the software industry is always a little bit lumpy here, but we feel really good about the results.

  • We put up great numbers, particularly after such a strong Q4.

  • And so I think we've got a great year ahead of us, and we're just going to be thoughtful about how we guide and what we do here, but good strong business ahead of us.

  • Operator

  • Our next question comes from Naved Khan with SunTrust.

  • Naved Ahmad Khan - Analyst

  • A few questions from me.

  • Maybe you can break out the growth in the business ex SMB, how the growth look like in this last quarter.

  • And then also, can you talk a little bit about the growth in international outperforming the domestic?

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • Yes, on the SMB, it's still -- as a percent of our revenue obviously, the revenue that we're getting becomes less and less.

  • It's still roughly in the 40% range as well.

  • So no real substantial changes there other than as a percent of revenue it's going down because the rest of the business is growing.

  • International had good business.

  • I think Japan did well and, Jim, I mean the U.K. had strong business, too.

  • James Steele - President & Chief Revenue Officer

  • Yes.

  • Naved, if you -- Howard mentioned some of the brands.

  • Like a lot of these brands that he mentioned in the enterprise were international brands, famous brands.

  • It's Africa's largest fast service and casual dining restaurant with 2,900 locations in Africa and the U.K. WH Smith, anyone that travels a lot, especially -- well, any airport internationally, you'll see WH Smith.

  • They have 100 or 1,000 locations.

  • It's a big British retailer.

  • Daimler from Germany, obviously, Rogers Communication in Canada.

  • Adidas.

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • After I spoke Chinese on an earnings call a few earnings ago, I was told to never speak foreign languages again on an earnings call.

  • And so that's why I didn't try to attempt German, which I also do speak, but Adidas, (inaudible)...

  • James Steele - President & Chief Revenue Officer

  • Adidas, 19 countries that we have -- we're powering their information, their public information, and they just expanded to China.

  • Jaguar Land Rover, 55 countries.

  • So these are all international brands that's really exciting, and we really just started that international business 2 years ago, right?

  • Naved Ahmad Khan - Analyst

  • Very helpful.

  • So that color definitely helps.

  • A quick follow-up if I can.

  • On the mid-size, congrats on the hiring of Patrick there.

  • Can you just maybe talk a little bit about where you are with respect to maybe your own internal timeline in terms of ramping that up and how the pipeline looks there?

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • Sure.

  • Well, yes, Patrick, we worked together for many years at Salesforce, and he helped drive that whole commercial business unit there, which is a big -- very big part of the Salesforce business.

  • And we really only started that business about 1.5 years, 2 years ago, and Dave Lehman has been running it, and he's done an amazing job.

  • In fact, Dave and Patrick are very close friends both worked together at Salesforce, and Patrick actually hired Dave at Salesforce, and Dave was the main recruiter for getting Patrick into Yext.

  • So it's all coming around from our Salesforce experience.

  • But Dave what we're going to do -- one of the -- two of the top priorities I've got is hiring and building the pipeline dimension.

  • And on the dimension side, Dave Lehman is going to be 100% focused on building that pipeline and driving the demand because it's such an important part.

  • We've got to feed all the hires that we're hiring right now, and Patrick pretty much has launched to hire anybody and everyone he can, of course, with very high quality in the mid...

  • Steven M. Cakebread - CFO

  • If Jim approves, Patrick can hire.

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • Well, Patrick has a pretty good Rolodex out there and has great contacts and people he's worked with.

  • So we're already hiring aggressively.

  • He's only been in the company, I think, 2 weeks now, maybe a little over 2 weeks.

  • So he's doing great.

  • And we're going to ramp that mid-market and mid-enterprise.

  • And the way we define that is companies up to about 300 entities, which could be defined as locations, professionals, all the different entities that we're now driving.

  • So it's an exciting and high-growth part of our business that we expect to see tremendous growth from.

  • Operator

  • Our next question comes from Alex Zukin with Piper Jaffray.

  • Aleksandr J. Zukin - Former MD & Senior Research Analyst

  • So maybe just 2 for Steve.

  • So I want to just maybe dig in a little bit to the OpEx guide implied for 2Q.

  • I think if I look at my numbers that implies some meaningful increase in sales and marketing in terms of revenue.

  • So maybe just walk through how we should think about that.

  • And then any opportunity for us to get a better sense for the shape of deferred revenue through this year, it should be closer to last year where we saw low single-digit sequential growth in 2Q and then decline in 3Q or more like 2 years ago.

  • And then finally, just any more granularity about how we should be modeling operating and free cash flow for this year given some of the investments you making.

  • Steven M. Cakebread - CFO

  • Yes, a couple of good questions.

  • Well, as you heard and we've said many times, we're still investing in sales and marketing.

  • We're trying to make sure that we don't get too carried away here though, but as we bring you on sellers, they'll start to deliver revenue for us.

  • I'm not sure I would change much there.

  • Keep in mind too we're hiring R&D people as well.

  • So I think what you've seen in the models we have, we feel pretty comfortable about that.

  • And we're hiring in G&A because we've got to support all the offices that we put together.

  • So it's across-the-board hiring, and it's continuing to look at efficiencies like you saw in Q1, but it's also focused on making sure we're set up to continue to grow this business.

  • In terms of the profile of unearned revenue, a couple of things.

  • Keep in mind that although it's not impacted dramatically, 606 does move some of those numbers around.

  • I'm not sure that I will speak to what the profile looks like going forward because I'm not guiding on that nor am I guiding on cash.

  • You do know when we have said that we will use cash for our facilities in our hiring this year.

  • So I wouldn't get too out of my skis in terms of we're going to continue to be driving towards cash flow positivity in certain quarters.

  • And keep in mind, Q3 has ONWARD, as Howard described, and that's typically a very large cash use both for our marketing events but also obviously for starting our facilities.

  • So that's about as far as I want to go with that.

  • We are focused and continue to drive towards breakeven and non-GAAP and breakeven on cash flow, but it's also important when we see these opportunities and you start to hear about the product offerings for the second half that we invest into those marketing opportunities.

  • Operator

  • Our next question comes from Stan Zlotsky with Morgan Stanley.

  • Unidentified Analyst

  • This is [Mark] on for Stan Zlotsky.

  • I just wanted to dig in a little bit more to one of the questions that was asked earlier on the bump in the low end of the guidance range for revenue for the year.

  • I believe Q1 last year also saw a -- actually had a raise in the full year guidance instead of just the lower end of the range.

  • Is there any changes in the way guidance is formed this year?

  • Anything we should be aware of and how that guidance was given?

  • Steven M. Cakebread - CFO

  • Yes.

  • As I said to the previous caller, we feel really good about the year, but we're very thoughtful about this is the start of the year, not the end of the year.

  • And there's a lot of things going on in our -- in the global markets that we have to pay attention to.

  • But for our standpoint, strong pipeline, Jim's hiring people like crazy, and we're getting up to speed so no real issues in our business, but we're going to be thoughtful about a long year ahead of us.

  • Operator

  • Our next question comes from Brett Knoblauch with Berenberg Capital Markets.

  • Brett Anthony Knoblauch - Analyst

  • Really just want to touch on the mid-market, so I guess for Jim or Steve.

  • Just, I guess, talk a little bit about how that's going versus your expectations of them?

  • Do you guys plan on disclosing in the future a similar way in how you disclose your new wins from your enterprise customers?

  • Steven M. Cakebread - CFO

  • Yes.

  • We'll talk about, obviously, some of the nice wins.

  • The accounts and dollar size are obviously smaller, that's why they're mid-market.

  • I think you have to understand that we're just starting the investment in mid-market.

  • We have to hire a number of sellers.

  • So this isn't like an instant on.

  • It's not going to change your game or your models or your numbers over the next year.

  • It takes a lot to get this started.

  • And the one good thing is, as we've said before, mid-market sellers ramp up quicker and they generate faster deal size -- faster deals, but the deal sizes in the 10,000 to 50,000 range.

  • So just know that we're getting started.

  • Know that, I think, it's a great complement for the enterprise business because, as we've described, enterprise is very lumpy and time-dependent, and we're hoping that as we get going here, mid-market is a huge opportunity for us with the product offering.

  • I'm really excited to be working again with Patrick as he is well worked with the Salesforce when we got started, and I think we're building a great team there, but it takes some time to get the momentum going.

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • I'm particularly excited about mid-market because to Koji's first question around why this is a hard problem to solve, if you're a mid-market customer and you don't have resources to put into an IT department, you pretty much are not going to be answers ready unless you use Yexter, a competitor to Yext.

  • So the opportunity -- if you have a website, you need to be answers ready.

  • Steven M. Cakebread - CFO

  • Yes, I totally agree.

  • So great opportunity for our customers.

  • Operator

  • Our final question comes from Zachary Schwartzman with RBC Capital Markets.

  • Zachary Aaron Schwartzman - Analyst

  • Revenue growth accelerated nicely this quarter on a tougher comp, but longer term, over the next several years, what product catalysts would it take to perhaps further accelerate or maintain this growth?

  • Is it Yext Brain?

  • Or if not products, is it just further traction internationally?

  • I would love to hear some updates on Yext Brain and some of the other products you're working on.

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • Zach, thanks for asking a question about products.

  • I'd love to answer these.

  • Look, we believe, as I just said a second ago, that every -- if you have a website, you need to be answers ready.

  • And the fact is that really until pretty recently Yext has only been able to support the location entity, which is natively built into our platform and synced around the world across our network.

  • But with the rollout of Brain and the ability for a company to build a knowledge graph, we're going to be able to make companies answers ready by: one, letting them build their complete knowledge graph, not just for the location entity but for anything they want whether if you're in the financial industry to be able to put in your credit cards and your mortgage rates.

  • And so as people begin to ask questions about, "Hey, what's the mortgage rate for this exact type of mortgage or what's the APR in this credit card?" The second thing we want to be able to do and this gets to new product is the ability to answer that question.

  • And we believe that there's a big opportunity to offer a company a complete answers-ready solution that lets them answer that question directly on their own website.

  • And we previewed that at ONWARD last year, our ability knowledge search to be able to answer that question with a sort of a site search or finder type of product.

  • And then the third thing is, of course, putting those answers everywhere.

  • And as our company -- as the world of search changes.

  • The world of search changes from people who just type in keywords to asking more detailed questions.

  • More entities are going to flow into Yext so that every company builds a bigger knowledge graph, and I think we said we now have 200 million -- more than 200 million facts in Yext.

  • Companies are putting more and more facts in, which enables us to offer better answers to their questions and, of course, we just got to add and continue to get this to all the logos around the world, which is why we're hiring sellers in markets in our CBU in Japan, in Germany, in Southern Europe and the United Kingdom and Canada so that we can address this huge market to make every business in the world answers-ready.

  • So we're going to go through companies adding more entities into their knowledge graph, which we only recently been able to allow them to do.

  • We're going to grow by having additional products like our site search answers product, and we're going to grow by adding new logos and then helping them implement that with [PruServ] and professional services on top of that.

  • Howard Lerman - Founder, CEO & Director

  • And that concludes today's earnings call.

  • Thank you, everyone, for joining us, and we look forward to seeing you throughout the quarter.