Cognyte shows double-digit revenue growth, faster-rising software and recurring mix, and reaffirms its Fiscal 2027 outlook while maintaining a debt-free balance sheet.
The Company reiterates its FYE27 outlook and remains on track to achieve its FYE28 targets
Financial Summary for Three Months Ended July 31, 2026
- Q2 FYE27 revenue was , up approximately$109.2 million12.0%compared with the same period last year, reflecting consistent demand for the Company’s software.
- Q2 FYE27 total software revenue, which is the combination of software and software services revenue, increased 20.9%toand represented more than$100.8 million92%of total revenue, compared with approximately86%in the same period last year. The increase was driven by healthy demand for our software solutions.
- Q2 FYE27 recurring revenue(1) increased by 18.4%toand represented$56.2 million51.4%of total revenue. The growth was primarily driven by the adoption of the Company’s subscription offerings and provides enhanced visibility into future revenue streams.
- Q2 FYE27 non-GAAP operating income was , an increase of$12.2 millionor$4.2 million52.5%fromin the same period last year, significantly outpacing revenue growth.$8.0 million
- Q2 FYE27 adjusted EBITDA was , compared to$14.9 millionin the same period last year, up$11.0 million35.7%and growing significantly faster than revenue.
- Q2 FYE27 diluted non-GAAP EPS nearly doubled to per share compared with$0.15per share in the same period last year.$0.08
- Q2 FYE27 GAAP operating income was , an increase of$4.7 millionor$1.9 million69.7%from operating income ofin the same period last year.$2.7 million
- Q2 FYE27 GAAP net income attributable to Cognyte was , compared with$4.1 millionin the same period last year.$1.5 million
- Q2 FYE27 diluted GAAP EPS tripled to per share, compared with$0.06the same period last year.$0.02
- Q2 FYE27 net cash provided by operating activities was , compared with net cash used in operating activities of$1.1 millionin the same period last year. This improvement reflects stronger collections, improved profitability and disciplined working-capital management. The quarter also included annual incentive payments and other seasonal working-capital uses.$6.3 million
Financial Summary for Six Months Ended July 31, 2026
- H1 FYE27 revenue was , up approximately$214.7 million11.2%compared to the same period last year.
- H1 FYE27 total software revenue, which is the combination of software and software services revenue, was , up approximately$198.1 million19.8%compared to the same period last year.
- H1 FYE27 recurring revenue(1) was , up$108.1 million14.2%compared to the same period last year.
- H1 FYE27 non-GAAP operating income was , an increase of$22.9 millionor$7.3 million47.2%from operating income ofin the same period last year. We achieved these results despite approximately$15.6 millionof net unfavorable foreign exchange impact on operating profitability in the first half of the year.$7 million
- H1 FYE27 adjusted EBITDA was , compared to$28.5 millionin the same period last year, up$21.3 million33.7%and growing significantly faster than revenue.
- H1 FYE27 diluted non-GAAP EPS increased to per share compared with$0.19per share in the same period last year.$0.15
- H1 FYE27 GAAP operating income was , up$9.1 million85.1%from operating income ofin the same period last year.$4.9 million
- H1 FYE27 GAAP net income attributable to Cognyte was , compared to$1.1 millionin the same period last year.$0.5 million
- During the first half of FYE27, the Company added 40 new customers, compared with 31 in the same period last year.
- The Company ended the second quarter with in cash and no debt, providing significant flexibility.$102.2 million
- During H1 FYE27, the company repurchased approximately 1.5 million ordinary shares for an aggregate purchase price of approximately under the share repurchase program approved by the board of directors in July 2025.$13.5 million
- Since launching its first repurchase program in November 2024, the Company has repurchased approximately of shares through the end of Q2 FYE27, out of the$40.2 millionauthorized across the Company’s repurchase programs.$60 million
- The Company’s capital allocation priorities remain unchanged: investing organically to support growth, evaluating strategic M&A opportunities with the potential to create returns significantly in excess of the Company’s cost of capital, and using share repurchases opportunistically when they represent a compelling use of capital.
“Cognyte delivered a strong quarter, with broad global momentum and continued progress across our strategic growth pillars,” said Elad Sharon, Cognyte’s Chief Executive Officer. “The market is moving directly toward what we have built for: mission-critical intelligence in complex, high-stakes environments, powered by trusted AI and sovereign control, and grounded in deep innovation and domain expertise. Our strategy is working, our execution is strong, and the quality of our business continues to improve. We are moving forward with confidence and ambition.”
“Our second quarter results demonstrate the continued strength of our financial model,” said David Abadi, Cognyte’s Chief Financial Officer. “Total software revenue grew
The company narrowed its FYE27 revenue range around an unchanged midpoint and reaffirmed its profitability outlook for the year ending January 31, 2027 (“FYE27” and “Fiscal 2027”), as follows:
- Revenue: , with a range of +/-$448 million2%, which represents approximately12%year-over-year growth at the midpoint of the range.
- Adjusted EBITDA: Approximately at the midpoint of our revenue range, representing approximately$68 million40%year-over-year growth.
- Non-GAAP Diluted EPS: at the midpoint of our revenue range.$0.47
Additional Financial and Operational Data for the Second Quarter and Six Months Ended July 31, 2026
- Q2 FYE27 and H1 FYE27 total software revenue, which is the combination of software and software services revenue, increased by , and$17.5 million, up$32.8 million20.9%and19.8%, respectively, compared to the same period last year.
- Q2 FYE27 and H1 FYE27 software revenue increased by and$12.6 million, up$22.5 million34.5%and30.5%, respectively, compared to the same period last year.
- Q2 FYE27 and H1 FYE27 software services revenue increased by and$4.8 million, up$10.2 million10.3%and11.2%, respectively, compared to the same period last year.
- Q2 FYE27 and H1 FYE27 professional services and other revenue decreased by and$5.7 million, respectively, compared with the same period last year. Professional services represented less than$11.1 million8%of total revenue during the second quarter, compared with approximately15%in the comparable period last year, reflecting the increasing software content of the business. This mix shift supports higher-quality revenue, stronger margins and greater scalability.
- Q2 FYE27 non-GAAP gross profit and margin were and$80.5 million73.7%, respectively, a significant increase ofand 154 bps improvement compared to the same period last year. The increase is primarily driven by revenue mix, scale, and operational efficiencies.$10.1 million
- Q2 FYE27 billings(2) were compared to$76.3 millionin the same period last year. Billings may vary between quarters based on contract timing. On a trailing twelve-month basis, billings were approximately$93.0 million95%of revenue, which we believe reflects the underlying strength of the business.
For information about the non-GAAP financial measure or key metric, please see “Supplemental Information About Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Key Metrics” at the end of this release.
(1) Recurring Revenue – Recurring revenue is comprised primarily of revenue from support contracts as well as revenue from subscription offerings.
(2) Billings – Revenue plus the change in contract liabilities, contract assets and unbilled balances.
We will conduct a conference call today at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss our results for the three months ended July 31, 2026. A real-time webcast of the conference call with presentation slides will be available in the Investor Relations section of Cognyte’s website. Those interested in participating in the question-and-answer session need to register at: https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BI3b38c70743424364b7cd51bda5573f0f to receive the dial-in numbers and unique PIN to access the call seamlessly. It is recommended that you join 10 minutes prior to the event start (although you may register and dial in at any time during the call). An archived webcast of the conference call will also be available in the “Investors” section of the company’s website.
Cognyte is a global leader in AI-powered investigative analytics solutions that empower customers with Actionable Intelligence for a Safer World®. Cognyte’s solutions enable law enforcement, national security and military intelligence agencies, as well as other organizations, to navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape. With offerings that leverage advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics, Cognyte helps customers make sense of growing volumes of fragmented multi-source data to help identify, assess and mitigate risks across dynamic environments, supporting informed, mission-critical investigations and operations. Hundreds of customers worldwide rely on Cognyte’s intelligence platform to uncover insights and reveal what matters, enabling confident decision-making in high-stakes environments. Learn more at www.cognyte.com.
About Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Key Metrics
This press release and the accompanying tables include non-GAAP financial measures and other key metrics. For a description of these non-GAAP financial measures and other key metrics, including the reasons management uses each measure and metric, and reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures presented for completed periods to the most directly comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, please see the tables below as well as "Supplemental Information About Non-GAAP Financial Measures" at the end of this press release.
Our non-GAAP outlook for FYE27 excludes the following GAAP measures for which we are able to provide a range of probable significance:
- Stock-based compensation is expected to be between approximately and$23.5, assuming market prices for our ordinary shares are generally consistent with current levels.$25.5 million
- Amortization expense of other acquired intangible assets is expected to be approximately .$0.6 million
For additional information about our expectations for FYE27, please refer to the Q2 FYE27 conference call we will conduct on September 9, 2026.
Our non-GAAP outlook, unless otherwise specified, reflects foreign currency exchange rates approximately consistent with current rates, and does not include the potential impact of any business acquisitions that may close after the date hereof.
We are unable, without unreasonable effort, to provide a reconciliation for other GAAP measures which are excluded from our non-GAAP outlook, including the impact of future business acquisitions or future acquisition expenses, future restructuring expenses, and non-GAAP income tax adjustments due to the level of unpredictability and uncertainty associated with these items. For these same reasons, we are unable to assess the probable significance of these excluded items. While historical results may not be indicative of future results, actual amounts for the three and six months ended July 31, 2026, and 2025, respectively, for the GAAP measures excluded from our non-GAAP outlook appear in Table 4 of this press release.
Caution About Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding expectations, predictions, views, opportunities, plans, strategies, beliefs, and statements of similar effect relating to Cognyte. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements do not guarantee any future performance and are based solely on management's expectations that involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, any of which could cause our actual results or conditions to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that could cause our actual results or conditions to differ materially from current expectations include, among others: uncertainties regarding the impact of changes in macroeconomic and/or global conditions; risks related to geopolitical changes and investor visibility constraints; risks related to new tariffs and retaliatory measures that may adversely affect the economy and reduce government spending; risks related to the impact of inflation and related volatility on our financial performance; risks relating to adverse changes to the regulatory constraints to which we are subject; risks related to the impact of disruptions to the global supply chain; risks related to conditions in
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Cognyte Software Ltd. and Subsidiaries
Supplemental Information About Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Key Metrics
The press release includes reconciliations of certain financial measures not prepared in accordance with GAAP, consisting of non-GAAP operating income and operating margins, non-GAAP net income attributable to Cognyte, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin, non-GAAP diluted net income per share attributable to Cognyte and non-GAAP diluted weighted-average shares used in computing such measure. The tables above include a reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure for completed periods presented in this press release to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.
We believe these non-GAAP financial measures, used in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures, provide investors with useful supplemental information about the financial performance of our business by:
- facilitating the comparison of our financial results and business trends between periods, by excluding certain items that either can vary significantly in amount and frequency, are based upon subjective assumptions, or in certain cases are unplanned for or difficult to forecast,
- facilitating the comparison of our financial results and business trends with other software companies who publish similar non-GAAP measures, and
- allowing investors to see and understand key supplementary metrics used by our management to run our business, including for budgeting and forecasting, resource allocation, and compensation matters.
We also make these non-GAAP financial measures available because our management believes they provide meaningful information about the financial performance of our business and are useful to investors for informational and comparative purposes.
Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation as substitutes for, or superior to, comparable GAAP financial measures. The non-GAAP financial measures we present have limitations in that they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with our results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP, and these non-GAAP financial measures should only be used to evaluate our results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures do not represent discretionary cash available to us to invest in the growth of our business, and we may in the future incur expenses similar to or in addition to the adjustments made in these non-GAAP financial measures. Other companies may calculate similar non-GAAP financial measures differently than we do, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.
Our non-GAAP financial measures are calculated by making the following adjustments to our GAAP financial measures:
Stock-based compensation expenses. We exclude stock-based compensation expenses related to restricted stock awards, stock bonus programs, bonus share programs, and other stock-based awards from our non-GAAP financial measures. We evaluate our performance both with and without these measures because stock-based compensation is typically a non-cash expense and can vary significantly over time based on the timing, size and nature of awards granted, and is influenced in part by certain factors which are generally beyond our control, such as the volatility of the price of our ordinary shares. In addition, measurement of stock-based compensation is subject to varying valuation methodologies and subjective assumptions, and therefore we believe that excluding stock-based compensation from our non-GAAP financial measures allows for meaningful comparisons of our current operating results to our historical operating results and to other companies in our industry.
Restructuring expenses. We exclude restructuring expenses from our non-GAAP financial measures, which include employee termination costs, facility exit costs, certain professional fees, asset impairment charges, and other costs directly associated with resource realignments incurred in reaction to changing strategies or business conditions. All of these costs can vary significantly in amount and frequency based on the nature of the actions as well as the changing needs of our business and we believe that excluding them provides easier comparability of pre- and post-restructuring operating results.
Other adjustments. We exclude from our non-GAAP financial measures fair value adjustments related to revenue acquired in a business acquisition, amortization of acquired technology and other acquired intangible assets, acquisition expenses (benefit), separation expenses, business divestiture gain/losses, provision for legal claim, rent expense for redundant facilities, gains/losses on change in fair value of noncontrolling minority investment, gains or losses on sales of property and certain professional fees unrelated to our ongoing operations.
Non-GAAP income tax adjustments. We exclude our GAAP provision (benefit) for income taxes from our non-GAAP measures of net income attributable to Cognyte Software Ltd., and instead include a non-GAAP provision for income taxes. Cognyte uses a full-year non-GAAP tax rate to compute the non-GAAP tax provision. This full-year non-GAAP tax rate is based on Cognyte’s annual GAAP income, adjusted to exclude non-GAAP items, as well as the effects of significant non-recurring and period-specific tax items which vary in size and frequency. This annual non-GAAP tax rate is based on an evaluation of our historical and projected profit before tax, taking into account the impact of non-GAAP adjustments, tax law changes, as well as other factors such as our current tax structure, existing tax positions and expected recurring tax incentives. Our GAAP effective income tax rate can vary significantly from year to year as a result of tax law changes, settlements with tax authorities, changes in the geographic mix of earnings including acquisition activity, changes in the projected realizability of deferred tax assets, and other unusual or period-specific events, all of which can vary in size and frequency. We believe that our non-GAAP effective income tax rate removes much of this variability and facilitates meaningful comparisons of operating results across periods. We evaluate our non-GAAP effective income tax rate on an ongoing basis, and it can change from time to time. Our non-GAAP income tax rate can differ materially from our GAAP effective income tax rate.
Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure defined as net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest before interest expense, interest income, income taxes, depreciation expense, amortization expense, revenue adjustments, restructuring expenses, acquisition expenses, and other expenses excluded from our non-GAAP financial measures as described above. We believe that adjusted EBITDA is also commonly used by investors to evaluate operating performance between companies because it helps reduce variability caused by differences in capital structures, income taxes, stock-based compensation accounting policies, and depreciation and amortization policies.
Recurring revenue. Cognyte calculates recurring revenue for a period by combining revenue from initial and renewal support, subscription software licenses, and cloud-based SaaS in certain transactions. Recurring revenue is the portion of our revenue that we believe is likely to be renewed in the future. The recurrence of these revenue streams in future periods depends on a number of factors including contractual periods and customers' renewal decisions. Cognyte believes that recurring revenue provides investors more visibility into our recurring business in the upcoming years and helpful measurement of Cognyte’s potential revenue. Cognyte does not consider recurring revenue to be a non-GAAP financial measure because it is calculated using GAAP revenue.
Billings. Cognyte calculates billings for a period by adding changes in contract liabilities, contract assets and unbilled balances in that period to revenue. Cognyte believes that billings help investors better understand sales activity and ongoing business for a particular period, which is not necessarily reflected in revenue. Billings fluctuate from quarter to quarter. Cognyte does not consider billings to be a non-GAAP financial measure because it is calculated using exclusively revenue, contract liabilities, contract assets and unbilled balances, all of which are financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.
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