Elastic N.V. · ESTC · FY2027 Q1 · Calendar Q3 2026
Elastic raises guidance as AI adoption expands across its platform
Elastic’s quarter supports the case that resilient demand and expanding AI use can sustain growth: revenue exceeded guidance, AI adoption broadened, and full-year guidance was raised. The counterpoint is that retention effects, cloud mix, customer-cohort durability, and competition still require evidence.
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What changed
Compared with the prior quarter, management reported a stronger Q1 FY2027 outcome, raised full-year guidance, and added new AI and SRE capabilities through Vector DB, Columnar mode, Agent Builder enhancements, and the Deductive AI acquisition. FedRAMP High authorization also strengthened the federal opportunity.
Guidance delta
Management raised full-year revenue and subscription guidance, while targeting operating margin around 19%.
Key takeaways
- Q1 revenue was $478 million, up 15% year over year, and non-GAAP operating margin was 16.2%, both above guidance.
- AI usage reached 37% of the $100K+ ACV customer cohort, with management citing higher expansion rates.
- Vector DB, Columnar mode, Agent Builder, and security automation support the platform’s AI, observability, and security push.
- A Deductive AI acquisition and FedRAMP High authorization broaden the product and federal-market opportunity.
Management priorities
- Expand AI capabilities across search, observability, and security.
- Grow high-value customers through multi-product cross-sell and land-and-expand execution.
- Develop Agent Builder, AI agent observability, and security automation.
- Pursue federal and regulated-industry growth while maintaining disciplined capex and free-cash-flow focus.
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Snapshot as of publicationElastic N.V., a company specializing in search technologies, furnishes advanced solutions engineered to operate across public, private, and multi-cloud environments. Its flagship offering is the Elastic Stack, a comprehensive software suite designed to acquire, store, search, analyze, and visually present data from a multitude of sources and formats. The Elastic Stack incorporates several core components: Elasticsearch: A powerful, distributed engine for real-time search and analytics, which also functions as a flexible data store for various types of information, including text, numerical values, geospatial coordinates, and both structured and unstructured datasets. Kibana: Serving as the intuitive user interface, management console, and configuration hub for the entire Elastic Stack.…
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| ADBE Adobe Inc. | FY2026 Q3 · Calendar Q3 2026 | +0.8% | +1.4% | Adobe raises FY26 outlook as AI strategy broadens |
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- Earnings call transcript and parsed analysis · 2026-08-28T13:15:17.154841+00:00
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