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Mixed quarter, not a mixed signal
UiPath just handed in a classic “depends what you were looking for” quarter. Earnings came in at 15 cents a share, a hair below the 16-cent Street target, while revenue landed at $418.38 million, beating expectations by about 5%. So if you were hoping for a clean victory lap, not quite. If you were hoping for proof the business is still growing, though? That box got checked.
The boring-looking numbers that actually matter
Under the hood, the company’s ARR climbed to $1.901 billion, up 12% year over year. Net new ARR was $49 million, and dollar-based net retention hit 109%, which is basically the company saying existing customers are still hanging around and spending a bit more. Not flashy, but in enterprise software, sticky beats sparkly.
UiPath also said its agentic products are moving from pilot to production, which is management-speak for “the AI pitch is trying to become an actual business model.” That matters because investors have been waiting to see whether automation and enterprise AI can turn into more than a nice demo and a conference-stage espresso machine moment.
Guidance says: steady, not sprinting
For fiscal Q2, UiPath sees revenue of $395 million to $400 million versus the Street’s $396.7 million estimate. It also guided to ARR of $1.929 billion to $1.934 billion and non-GAAP operating income of about $75 million. Translation: no fireworks, but also no ominous crash landing.
The stock was up about 1% in after-hours trading, which is Wall Street’s way of saying, “fine, we’ll keep watching.” With more than 36% of shares sold short ahead of the report, there’s also plenty of fuel for a choppy move if the market decides this is either a real turnaround or just another decent quarter in a crowded software story.
Big picture: UiPath didn’t deliver a blowout, but it did show the core business is still growing and the AI narrative is inching toward real adoption. For investors, that’s enough to keep the name on the radar — at least for another quarter.