Dynatrace Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2026 Financial Results

Business Wire 13-May-2026 6:30 AM

Surpasses $2 billion in ARR and reports double digit net new ARR growth

Delivers fourth consecutive quarter of 16% ARR growth on a constant currency basis

Achieves FY26 GAAP Operating Margin of 12% and Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 29%

Increases Q4 share repurchases sequentially by 40% to $224 million

Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2026.

"Dynatrace delivered a strong finish to FY26, surpassing $2 billion in ARR and achieving our fourth consecutive quarter of 16% constant currency ARR growth," said Rick McConnell, CEO of Dynatrace. "In an AI-first world, observability has become mission critical to a vastly higher percentage of workloads. Customers are choosing Dynatrace for our end-to-end platform, which serves as both the intelligence engine for deterministic AI and contextual analytics, as well as the control plane to coordinate agentic action. By enabling system resilience and AI reliability, Dynatrace is helping customers drive more autonomous operations and optimal business outcomes. As we look ahead, our objective is to accelerate ARR growth while delivering balanced growth and profitability."

"We significantly increased the pace of our share buyback in the fourth quarter, repurchasing $224 million of Dynatrace stock," said Jim Benson, Chief Financial Officer. "This uptick reflects our conviction in Dynatrace's operational momentum, long term growth and cash flow trajectory, and the underlying value of our shares. Through our disciplined capital allocation approach and strong balance sheet, we will continue investing in innovation and growth while delivering value to shareholders."

All growth rates are compared to the fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2025 ended March 31, 2025 unless otherwise noted.

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2026 Financial Highlights:

• Total ARR of $2,054 million, an increase of 18%, or 16% on a constant currency basis
• Total revenue of $532 million, an increase of 19%, or 16% on a constant currency basis
• Subscription revenue of $506 million, an increase of 19%, or 16% on a constant currency basis
• GAAP income from operations of $37 million and non-GAAP income from operations of $143 million
• GAAP net income per share of $0.06 and non-GAAP net income per share of $0.41, on a dilutive basis

Full Year Fiscal 2026 Financial Highlights:

• Total revenue of $2,018 million, an increase of 19%, or 17% on a constant currency basis
• Subscription revenue of $1,930 million, an increase of 19%, or 17% on a constant currency basis
• GAAP income from operations of $245 million and non-GAAP income from operations of $592 million
• GAAP net income per share of $0.54 and non-GAAP net income per share of $1.70, on a dilutive basis
• GAAP operating cash flow of $562 million and free cash flow of $529 million

Business Highlights:

• Ongoing traction in go-to-market strategy resulted in an increase in average deal size. Dynatrace closed a record 22 deals greater than $1 million in annual contract value (ACV) in the fourth quarter, nine of which were new logos.
• Log management remained the fastest growing major product category, with Q4 consumption continuing to grow more than 100% year-over-year.
• Enhanced the company's offerings through two acquisitions:
  • DevCycle, a feature management platform on the OpenFeature standard that helps developers, site reliability engineers, and platform teams bring progressive delivery for AI-native applications directly into the Dynatrace platform.
  • Bindplane, a company whose open-standards-based telemetry pipeline capabilities combined with AI-powered observability gives customers greater access, flexibility, and control of their logs, metrics, and application data.
• Surpassed $1 billion in AWS Marketplace sales, a key indicator of hyperscaler engagement.
• Expanded the Dynatrace Model Context Protocol (MCP) server as a connector for Anthropic's Claude Code, Cowork, and Chat to bring observability and security context into every Claude session. And extended integration with GitHub Advanced Security to share the runtime context of monitored Kubernetes environments with developers and security teams.
• Recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Observability Platforms report.¹

Share Repurchase Program

• During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, Dynatrace spent $224 million to repurchase 5.9 million shares at an average price of $37.71. Dynatrace completed its initial $500 million share repurchase program, and $151 million of purchases in the fourth quarter were under its new $1 billion program announced in February 2026.

Financial Outlook

Based on information available as of May 13, 2026, Dynatrace is issuing guidance for the first quarter and full year fiscal 2027 in the table below. Based on foreign exchange rates as of April 30, 2026, the foreign exchange tailwind relative to constant currency is expected to be approximately $10 million on ARR and $15 million on revenue for fiscal 2027. This guidance also excludes the impact of any share repurchases during fiscal 2027.

Growth rates for ARR, Total revenue, and Subscription revenue are presented in constant currency to provide better visibility into the underlying growth of the business.

Conference Call and Webcast Information

Dynatrace will host a conference call and live webcast to discuss its results and business outlook at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time today, May 13, 2026. To access the conference call from the U.S. and Canada, dial (866) 405-1247, or internationally, dial (201) 689-8045 with event confirmation #: 13760309. The call will also be available live via webcast on the company's website, ir.dynatrace.com.

An audio replay of the call will also be available until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on August 13, 2026 by dialing (877) 660-6853 from the U.S. or Canada, or for international callers by dialing (201) 612-7415 and entering event confirmation #: 13760309. In addition, an archived webcast will be available at ir.dynatrace.com.

We announce material financial information to our investors using our Investor Relations website, press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts. We also use these channels to disclose information about the company, our planned financial and other announcements, attendance at upcoming investor and industry conferences, and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to disclosing financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, this press release and the accompanying tables contain certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined by Regulation G, including non-GAAP income from operations, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income per diluted share, free cash flow, and free cash flow margin. We also use or discuss non-GAAP financial measures in conference calls, slide presentations and webcasts.

We use these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision-making purposes, and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons and liquidity. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about our operating results, enhance the overall understanding of past financial performance and allow for greater transparency with respect to metrics used by our management in its financial and operational decision-making.

The presentation of the non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. Our non-GAAP financial measures may not provide information that is directly comparable to similarly titled metrics provided by other companies.

Non-GAAP financial measures are defined in this press release and the tables included in this press release include reconciliations of historical non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures.

We also include non-GAAP financial measures in our financial outlook included in this press release. Reconciliations of forward-looking non-GAAP income from operations, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income per diluted share, and free cash flow guidance to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are not available without unreasonable efforts due to the high variability, complexity, and low visibility with respect to the charges excluded from these non-GAAP measures; in particular, the measures and effects of share-based compensation expense, employer taxes and tax deductions specific to equity compensation awards that are directly impacted by future hiring, turnover and retention needs, as well as unpredictable fluctuations in our stock price. We expect the variability of the above charges to have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future GAAP financial results.

Definitions - Non-GAAP and Other Metrics

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is defined as the daily revenue of all subscription agreements that are actively generating revenue as of the last day of the reporting period multiplied by 365. We exclude from our calculation of ARR any revenues derived from month-to-month agreements and/or product usage overage billings.

Constant Currency amounts for ARR, Total revenue, and Subscription revenue are presented to provide a framework for assessing how our underlying businesses performed excluding the effect of foreign exchange rate fluctuations. To present this information, current and comparative prior period results for entities reporting in currencies other than United States dollars are converted into United States dollars using the average exchange rates from the comparative period rather than the actual exchange rates in effect during the respective periods. All growth comparisons relate to the corresponding period in the last fiscal year.

Non-GAAP Income from Operations is defined as GAAP income from operations adjusted for the following items: share-based compensation; employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions; amortization of intangibles; transaction, restructuring and other non-recurring or unusual items that may arise from time to time. The related Non-GAAP Operating Margin is non-GAAP income from operations expressed as a percentage of total revenue.

Non-GAAP Net Income is defined as GAAP net income adjusted for the following items: income tax expense/benefit; non-GAAP effective cash taxes; net interest expense and income; net cash received from and paid for interest; share-based compensation; employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions, amortization of intangibles; gains and losses on currency translation; and transaction, restructuring and other non-recurring or unusual items that may arise from time to time. Non-GAAP net income per diluted share is calculated as non-GAAP net income divided by the diluted weighted average shares outstanding used to compute GAAP net income per diluted share.

Free Cash Flow is defined as the net cash provided by or used in operating activities less capital expenditures, reflected as purchase of property and equipment and capitalized software additions in our financial statements. The related margin is free cash flow expressed as a percentage of total revenue.

About Dynatrace

Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) is advancing observability for today's digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. To learn more about Dynatrace, visit www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog and follow us on LinkedIn and X @dynatrace.

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace logo are trademarks of the Dynatrace, Inc. group of companies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2026 Dynatrace LLC.

Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the company's objective to accelerate ARR growth while delivering balanced growth and profitability, the company's plans to invest in innovation and growth while delivering value to shareholders, the expected and current benefits that we believe organizations receive from using the Dynatrace platform and offerings of our partners and other companies with which we collaborate and integrate, and our financial and business outlook, including our financial guidance for the first quarter and full year of fiscal 2027. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts and statements identified by words such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates" or words of similar meaning. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions we have made. Although we believe that our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects as reflected in or suggested by those forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that the plans, intentions, expectations or strategies will be attained or achieved. Furthermore, actual results may differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements and will be affected by a variety of risks and factors that are beyond our control including, without limitation, our ability to maintain our revenue growth rates in future periods; market adoption of our product offerings; continued demand for, and spending on, our solutions; our ability to innovate and develop solutions that meet customer needs as cloud and AI workloads grow rapidly; the ability of our platform and solutions to effectively interoperate with customers' IT infrastructures; our ability to acquire new customers and retain and expand our relationships with existing customers; our ability to expand our sales and marketing capabilities; our ability to compete; our ability to maintain successful relationships with partners; security breaches, other security incidents and any real or perceived errors, failures, defects or vulnerabilities in our solutions; our ability to protect our intellectual property; our ability to hire and retain necessary qualified employees to grow our business and expand our operations; our ability to successfully complete acquisitions and to integrate newly acquired businesses and offerings; the effect on our business of the macroeconomic environment, associated global economic conditions and geopolitical disruption; and other risks set forth under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and our other SEC filings. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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