"We saw solid demand for our cloud platform in our first quarter, with bookings that were slightly ahead of our expectations, ARR growth of 18% year-over-year, another healthy quarter of new logo additions, and solid free cash flow performance," said Rajiv Ramaswami, President and CEO of Nutanix. "We also continued to make progress with our partners, including announcing expansions to our partnerships with Dell and Microsoft, for our cloud platform to support their PowerStore and Azure Virtual Desktop, respectively."
"Bookings in our first quarter were slightly higher than expected. However, late in the quarter, we saw some revenue shift from Q1 into future periods. We expect that the revenue over time remains unchanged," said Rukmini Sivaraman, CFO of Nutanix. "We expect this dynamic to continue and have factored it in our Q2 and updated full-year revenue guidance. We are also pleased to raise our free cash flow guidance for the full year. Underlying demand and our view of business fundamentals for Nutanix remain unchanged."
First Quarter Fiscal 2026 Financial Summary
Q1 FY'26
Q1 FY'25
Y/Y Change
Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)1
$2.28 billion
$1.94 billion
18%
Average Contract Duration2
3.1 years
3.1 years
0.0 year
Revenue
$670.6 million
$591.0 million
13%
GAAP Gross Margin
87.0%
86.0%
100 bps
Non-GAAP Gross Margin
88.0%
87.5%
50 bps
GAAP Operating Expenses
$533.8 million
$481.0 million
11%
Non-GAAP Operating Expenses
$458.0 million
$398.9 million
15%
GAAP Operating Income
$49.3 million
$27.3 million
$22.0 million
Non-GAAP Operating Income
$131.8 million
$118.2 million
$13.6 million
GAAP Operating Margin
7.4%
4.6%
280 bps
Non-GAAP Operating Margin
19.7%
20.0%
(30) bps
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities
$196.8 million
$161.8 million
$35.0 million
Free Cash Flow
$174.5 million
$151.9 million
$22.6 million
Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures and key performance measures, to the extent available, are provided in the tables of this press release.
Recent Company Highlights
Nutanix is Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure: Nutanix announced its recognition as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
Nutanix Announces Support for Dell PowerStore: Nutanix announced that its Nutanix Cloud Platform solution will soon support Dell PowerStore, with general availability coming in summer 2026.
Nutanix Expands Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Flexibility Across Hybrid Cloud: Nutanix announced that its Nutanix Cloud Platform solution will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environments, enabling organizations to run Azure Virtual Desktop on premises on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, and offering a new level of flexibility in how virtual desktops are deployed and managed. The Nutanix Cloud Platform's support for Azure Virtual Desktop is currently under development.
Nutanix Welcomes Greg Lavender to Board of Directors: Nutanix announced that it added Greg Lavender, industry veteran and former CTO at Intel, to its board of directors, effective September 17, 2025.
Second Quarter Fiscal 2026 Outlook
Revenue
$705 - $715 million
Non-GAAP Operating Margin
20.5% to 21.5%
Weighted Average Shares Outstanding (Diluted)3
Approximately 296 million
Fiscal 2026 Outlook
Revenue
$2.82 - $2.86 billion
Non-GAAP Operating Margin
21% to 22%
Free Cash Flow
$800 - $840 million
Supplementary materials to this press release, including our first quarter fiscal 2026 earnings presentation, can be found at https://ir.nutanix.com/financial/quarterly-results.
Webcast and Conference Call Information
Nutanix executives will discuss the Company's first quarter fiscal 2026 financial results on a conference call today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time / 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Interested parties may access the conference call by registering at this link to receive dial in details and a unique PIN number. The conference call will also be webcast live on the Nutanix Investor Relations website at ir.nutanix.com. An archived replay of the webcast will be available on the Nutanix Investor Relations website at ir.nutanix.com shortly after the call.
Footnotes
1Annual Recurring Revenue, or ARR, is defined as the sum of ACV for all subscription contracts from all customers in effect as of the end of a specific period, assuming any subscription contract that expires is renewed on its existing terms. ARR excludes the value of professional services, non-portable software and support contracts and hardware sales. For the purposes of this calculation, we generally assume that the contract term begins on the date when the software is made available to the customer. ACV is defined as the total annualized value of a contract. The total annualized value for a contract is calculated by dividing the total value of the contract by the number of years in the term of such contract. Beginning with the first quarter of fiscal 2026, our methodology for calculating ARR was updated to align more closely with the timing of when licenses are made available to customers. For comparability purposes, ARR for all prior periods have been adjusted to conform to the updated methodology.
2Average Contract Duration represents the dollar-weighted term, calculated on a billings basis, across all subscription contracts, as well as our limited number of life-of-device contracts, using an assumed term of five years for life-of-device licenses, executed in the period.
3Weighted average share count used in computing diluted non-GAAP net income per share.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Key Performance Measures
To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, this press release includes the following non-GAAP financial and other key performance measures: non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, free cash flow, Annual Recurring Revenue (or ARR), and Average Contract Duration. In computing non-GAAP financial measures, we exclude certain items such as stock-based compensation and the related income tax impact, costs associated with our acquisitions (such as amortization of acquired intangible assets, income tax-related impact, and other acquisition-related costs), litigation settlement accruals and legal fees related to certain litigation matters, the amortization and conversion of the debt discount and issuance costs related to debt, interest expense related to debt, inducement expense related to the repurchase of convertible senior notes, and other non-recurring transactions and the related tax impact. Non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, and non-GAAP operating margin are financial measures which we believe provide useful information to investors because they provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures such as stock-based compensation expense that may not be indicative of our ongoing core business operating results. Free cash flow is a performance measure that we believe provides useful information to our management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after capital expenditures, and we define free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment. ARR is a performance measure that we believe provides useful information to our management and investors as it allows us to better track the top-line growth of our subscription business (including our ability to acquire subscriptions with new customers and to retain and expand with existing customers), while normalizing for differences in contract durations. Our calculation of ARR is not adjusted for the impact of any known or projected future events (such as customer cancellations, expansion or contraction of existing customers relationships or price increases or decreases) that may cause any subscription contract not to be renewed on its existing terms. ARR is a performance measure that should be viewed independently of revenue and does not represent our revenue under GAAP on an annualized basis or a forecast of GAAP revenue. Investors should not place undue reliance on ARR as an indicator of our future or expected results. ARR does not have any standardized meaning and is therefore unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled performance measures presented by other companies. We use these non-GAAP financial and key performance measures for financial and operational decision-making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. However, these non-GAAP financial and key performance measures have limitations as analytical tools and you should not consider them in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, and free cash flow are not substitutes for gross margin, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, and net cash provided by operating activities, respectively. There is no GAAP measure that is comparable to ARR or Average Contract Duration, so we have not reconciled the ARR or Average Contract Duration data included in this press release to any GAAP measure. In addition, other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate non-GAAP financial measures and key performance measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of our non-GAAP financial measures and key performance measures as tools for comparison. We urge you to review the reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures and key performance measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures included below in the tables captioned "Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Profit Measures" and "Reconciliation of GAAP Net Cash Provided By Operating Activities to Non-GAAP Free Cash Flow," and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business. This press release also includes the following forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures as part of our second quarter fiscal 2026 outlook and/or our fiscal 2026 outlook: non-GAAP operating margin and free cash flow. We are unable to reconcile these forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures without unreasonable efforts, as we are currently unable to predict with a reasonable degree of certainty the type and extent of certain items that would be expected to impact the GAAP financial measures for these periods but would not impact the non-GAAP financial measures.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains express and implied forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding: our business momentum and prospects, including our continued progress with our partners; the impact of the revenue shift from Q1 into future periods, including the expected revenue recognition over time; underlying demand and business fundamentals for Nutanix; our second quarter fiscal 2026 outlook; and our fiscal 2026 outlook.
These forward-looking statements are not historical facts and instead are based on our current expectations, estimates, opinions, and beliefs. Consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements. The accuracy of these forward-looking statements depends upon future events and involves risks, uncertainties, and other factors, including factors that may be beyond our control, that may cause these statements to be inaccurate and cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by such statements, including, among others: the inherent uncertainty or assumptions and estimates underlying our projections and guidance, which are necessarily speculative in nature; any failure to successfully implement or realize the full benefits of, or unexpected difficulties or delays in successfully implementing or realizing the full benefits of, our business plans, strategies, initiatives, vision, objectives, momentum, prospects and outlook; our ability to achieve, sustain and/or manage future growth effectively; the rapid evolution of the markets in which we compete, including the introduction, or acceleration of adoption of, competing solutions, including public cloud infrastructure; failure to timely and successfully meet our customer needs; delays in or lack of customer or market acceptance of our new solutions, products, services, product features or technology; macroeconomic or geopolitical uncertainty; our ability to attract, recruit, train, retain, and, where applicable, ramp to full productivity, qualified employees and key personnel; factors that could result in the significant fluctuation of our future quarterly operating results (including anticipated changes to our revenue and product mix, the timing and magnitude of orders, shipments and acceptance of our solutions in any given quarter, our ability to attract new and retain existing end-customers, changes in the pricing and availability of certain components of our solutions, and fluctuations in demand and competitive pricing pressures for our solutions); our ability to form new or maintain and strengthen existing strategic alliances and partnerships, as well as our ability to manage any changes thereto; our ability to make share repurchases; and other risks detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2025 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, on September 24, 2025. Additional information will be set forth in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2025, which should be read in conjunction with this press release and the financial results included herein. Our SEC filings are available on the Investor Relations section of our website at ir.nutanix.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and, except as required by law, we assume no obligation, and expressly disclaim any obligation, to update, alter or otherwise revise any of these forward-looking statements to reflect actual results or subsequent events or circumstances.
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud computing leader, offering organizations a unified software platform for running applications and AI and managing data anywhere. With Nutanix, organizations can simplify operations for traditional and modern applications, freeing them to focus on business goals. Trusted by more than 29,000 customers worldwide, Nutanix helps empower organizations to transform digitally and power hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and cost-effectively. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on social media.
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NUTANIX, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (Unaudited)
As of
July 31,2025
October 31,2025
(in thousands)
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
$
769,502
$
780,421
Short-term investments
1,223,234
1,281,775
Accounts receivable, net
337,967
335,945
Deferred commissions—current
153,072
142,307
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
105,391
98,513
Total current assets
2,589,166
2,638,961
Property and equipment, net
142,814
138,309
Operating lease right-of-use assets
134,526
131,159
Deferred commissions—non-current
189,221
184,590
Intangible assets, net
2,615
2,421
Goodwill
185,235
185,235
Other assets—non-current
39,617
43,317
Total assets
$
3,283,194
$
3,323,992
Liabilities and Stockholders' Deficit
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable
$
81,599
$
87,987
Accrued compensation and benefits
230,498
181,826
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
24,187
25,072
Deferred revenue—current
1,054,023
1,080,854
Operating lease liabilities—current
23,234
24,094
Total current liabilities
1,413,541
1,399,833
Deferred revenue—non-current
1,058,731
1,090,140
Operating lease liabilities—non-current
115,754
111,417
Convertible senior notes, net
1,343,818
1,345,038
Other liabilities—non-current
45,870
46,192
Total liabilities
3,977,714
3,992,620
Stockholders' deficit:
Common stock
7
7
Additional paid-in capital
4,200,466
4,200,897
Accumulated other comprehensive income
700
3,605
Accumulated deficit
(4,895,693
)
(4,873,137
)
Total stockholders' deficit
(694,520
)
(668,628
)
Total liabilities and stockholders' deficit
$
3,283,194
$
3,323,992
NUTANIX, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (Unaudited)
Three Months EndedOctober 31,
2024
2025
(in thousands, except per share data)
Revenue:
Product
$
301,919
$
349,003
Support, maintenance and other services
289,037
321,573
Total revenue
590,956
670,576
Cost of revenue:
Product(1)(2)
8,370
4,292
Support, maintenance and other services(1)
74,300
83,178
Total cost of revenue
82,670
87,470
Gross profit
508,286
583,106
Operating expenses:
Sales and marketing(1)(2)
253,401
285,233
Research and development(1)
173,959
187,482
General and administrative(1)
53,676
61,056
Total operating expenses
481,036
533,771
Income from operations
27,250
49,335
Other income, net
9,573
16,239
Income before provision for income taxes
36,823
65,574
Provision for income taxes
6,897
3,478
Net income
$
29,926
$
62,096
Net income per share attributable to ClassA common stockholders, basic
$
0.11
$
0.23
Net income per share attributable to ClassA common stockholders, diluted
$
0.10
