SentinelOne Stock Looks To Secure A Bottom

 | Jun 28, 2022 03:08AM ET

Cybersecurity provider SentinelOne Inc (NYSE:S) has fallen 44% year-to-date in the technology bear market despite its triple digit growth.

The raised its forward guidance.

Despite the economic slowdown amidst rising interest rates, scalability of its solutions and high margins. Prudent investors looking for growth in the cybersecurity segment can watch for opportunistic pullbacks in shares of SentinelOne.

h2 Q1 Fiscal 2023 Earnings Release /h2

On June 1, 2022, SentinelOne released its fiscal first-quarter 2023 earnings report for the quarter ending in April 2022. The Company saw an earnings-per-share (EPS) loss of (-$0.21), excluding non-recurring items, beating consensus analyst estimates for a loss of (-$0.24) by $0.03. Revenues rose 109.4% year-over-year (YoY) to $78.3 million, beating analyst estimates for $74.64 million. Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) rose 110% to $339 million. SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten commented:

“Our Q1 results demonstrate the combination of a robust demand environment for our leading cybersecurity platform and impressive execution across the board. We once again sustained triple-digit growth with significant margin expansion, added a record number of new customers, and exited the quarter with an extremely strong pipeline. We’re raising our revenue guidance to nearly triple-digit growth again this fiscal year, which now includes our acquisition of Attivo Networks.”

h2 Upside Revenue Guidance/h2

SentinelOne raised guidance for fiscal Q2 2023 for revenues to come in between $95 million to $96 million compared to $84.83 million consensus analyst estimates. The Company sees fiscal full-year 2022 revenues to come in between $403 million to $407 million versus $371.03 million consensus analyst estimates.

h2 Conference Call Takeaways /h2

CEO Weingarten (NYSE:WRI) mentioned some highlights of the quarter including Q1 2023 as its fifth consecutive quarter of triple-digit ARR growth, which it expects to repeat next quarter. Cybersecurity outlook looks bright prompting the Company to raise its guidance. He emphasized the success of its land and expand strategy as evidenced by the record number of new clients growing even more than the seasonally strong fourth quarter. He hinted at some of the notable wins which included a one of the country’s largest telecoms, a major U.S. agency, and a global media conglomerate. It’s net retention rate rose toa record 131%.

They also closed on its Attivo acquisition, making its footprint in the identity security segment. Cloud security continued to be its fast growing segment. Demand for mission-critical cybersecurity has never been stronger and is a top IT spending priority. The patented technology core Singularity XDR platform is the largest operation implementation of AI in the world as its delivers autonomous protection. CEO Weingarten summed it up:

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“Our XDR platform addresses the major attack surfaces that enterprises need. In addition to endpoint, these emerging capabilities like cloud, Ranger, data, and vigilance are delivering growth. Cloud grew to nearly 10% of our Q1 ACV.”