FatPipe (FATN) 2027會計年度第二季財報電話會議：營收成長 22%，經常性帳單金額成長 55%

重點摘要

• 2027 會計年度第二季營收年增 22% 至約 480 萬美元；淨利達 120 萬美元，調整後 EBITDA 成長 60% 至 116 萬美元。
• 毛利率維持在 90%，每股盈餘由去年同期的持平升至 0.09 美元。
• 在新增業務、續約及更大規模部署的推動下，經常性帳單金額年增 55%，並由上一季的 240 萬美元增至 290 萬美元。
• 上半年度營收成長 25% 至 990 萬美元；淨利成長 250% 至 243 萬美元，調整後 EBITDA 成長 34% 至 245 萬美元。
• FatPipe 推出網路監控平台 Constellation，可作為獨立產品或整合於其更廣泛的產品方案中。管理層表示已開始接單，且客戶採用速度比其網路安全產品更快。
• 管理層表示，FatPipe 於 10 月達到損益兩平，預計在追求正向現金流的同時，於 3 月底前將業務團隊規模從 30 人擴充至 36 人。

關鍵財務數據

上半年度數據涵蓋截至 2026 年 9 月 30 日止的六個月。管理層表示，第二季大部分營收由新訂單推動。

業務與營運表現

Constellation 為本季的主要產品開發成果。該平台可監控廣域網路與區域網路，包括個別裝置、交換器連接埠、光纖連線、軟體資產清單、續約日期與軟體漏洞，並能即時產生警示、告警與報告。

客戶可單獨購買 Constellation 或作為 FatPipe 整體解決方案的一部分，並支援地端或雲端部署。計價方式依據受監控的裝置或 IP 位址數量計算。管理層表示該產品已開始接單，且由於通常無需客戶更換現有系統，因此更容易導入。

FatPipe 表示，網路安全產品的採用可能耗費更長時間，因為客戶通常與多家廠商簽有為期三至五年的合約。相較之下，Constellation 在既有客戶中的接受度更高且更快，包括田納西州的一個市府與一家銀行。

經常性帳單金額受惠於分層客戶部署、續約與大型合約。其中一筆 700 萬美元的教育機構訂單已開始挹注經常性帳單。管理層指出，全面部署後每月約可產生 11.8 萬美元，或每季約 35 萬美元。

FatPipe 亦公布了透過 TD SYNNEX 與 Carasoft 取得的進展。管理層表示，政府相關的得標提案與合作夥伴案源正持續增長。該公司近期為一家合作夥伴培訓了 72 名業務人員，並持續提供現場培訓、定價支援與銷售資源。

FatPipe 於 10 月動用內部資源收購了一家小型軟體科技公司。被收購的業務將為提供軟體與技術服務的 FatPipe Technologies 提供支援。

管理層財務指引

管理層重申內部最低目標為 18% 成長率與 18% 的 EBITDA 利潤率，同時也坦言 12 月季度可能受到假期相關的季節性因素影響。

FatPipe 計劃在 3 月會計年度結束前將業務團隊從 30 人擴編至 36 人。公司下一年度的目標是達到 48 名業務人員。管理層表示，新聘業務人員通常需要三至六個月才能達到損益兩平或開始獲利，而專注於大型專案的業務代表則可能需要六至九個月。

公司表示已於 10 月達到損益兩平，並預期在持續為客戶部署採購硬體及擴張銷售營運的同時，朝向持續的正向現金流邁進。

FatPipe 亦為一筆 SBA 貸款辦理再融資，將利率降低約 1.85 個百分點，並取得當地銀行 150 萬美元的信用額度。

風險與關注焦點

• 網路安全產品的交叉銷售進展可能較為緩慢，因為許多潛在客戶仍受限於為期三至五年的現有廠商合約。
• SATBoost 的採用進度較管理層最初預期緩慢，因為許多客戶將衛星連線作為備援用途，而非用於提升連線速度。
• 業務團隊擴編需要三至九個月的適應與培訓期，具體取決於訂單規模與業務人員的生產力。
• 剩餘履約義務季增表現大致持平，主因是新增經常性訂單的成長，被既有客戶從一次性定期授權轉為經常性計費的過渡期所抵銷。
• 儘管管理層以正向現金流為目標，但為了客戶部署而持續採購硬體，仍可能消耗現金。

分析師問答重點

管理層表示，客戶可立即採購 Constellation，無需等待既有合約到期。該產品在客戶內部網路中運作，並依據受監控的 IP 位址數量計費。

針對經常性帳單金額，管理層將季成長歸功於新客戶、續約以及大型專案部署進度的推進。除其他大型交易外，該筆 700 萬美元的教育合約已開始貢獻營收。

關於公共部門商機，管理層表示，教育合約的執行展現了 FatPipe 處理大規模部署的能力。公司隨後也在全美其他地區取得更多交易。

管理層指出，隨著既有客戶基礎擴大，續約已成為業務中日益重要的一環。FatPipe 的客戶涵蓋市級與郡級政府、警政與緊急救援機構、醫院及大型學區系統。

SATBoost 尚未取得大型訂單，不過管理層提到，近期已有多個在 40 至 50 個或更多站點部署衛星連線的客戶表達高度興趣。FatPipe 亦表示，近期已完成兩至三筆規模較大的 VeloCloud 替代專案，目前還有其他替換方案正在洽談中。

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完整財報電話會議逐字稿

管理層陳述

Vikrant Ragula

Hi, everyone. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining FatPipe's earnings conference call.

Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that today's discussion may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding FatPipe's expected financial performance, business strategy, growth opportunities, customer demand, product deployment, recurring revenue initiatives, market position and future operating results.

These statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements.

For a discussion of important factors that could affect FatPipe's actual results, please refer to the risk factors and other disclosures contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report, quarterly reports, current reports and other SEC filings.

Any forward-looking statements made on today's call speak only as of today's date. Except as required by law, FatPipe undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

And during today's call, we may also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, where applicable, are included in today's earnings release and related materials available through the company's Investor Relations website and SEC filings.

With that, I will turn the call over to management.

Ragula Bhaskar

Good afternoon, everyone. This is Ragula Bhaskar, the CEO of FatPipe Inc. And with me, I have Vikrant and Kanishka.

Vikrant is the one who read the safe harbor announcement. He's our VP for Corp Dev and IR. And then I also have with me our Chief Financial Officer, Kanishka. And Tanishka will join me for this presentation.

I'm excited to have you all on this call. A lot of exciting things are happening. We had a good quarter. And besides that, we also introduced a new product called Constellation.

That is for network monitoring, both on the wide area and on the local area side. And that is an exciting product that is gaining traction. Orders have already started coming in.

We are also working towards positive cash flow. Last quarter, most of our cash went to buy inventory to deliver on the orders we had. And in October, we broke even as a company.

So we hope to continue to be a positive cash flow company, as I promised you at the beginning of the year.

With that, I would like to move to the financial numbers that you have been waiting for. This is for quarter 2 of this year. Kanishka, please take it away.

Kanishka Ragula

Thank you, Dr. Bhaskar. So, as a summary of the financial results from this quarter, for Q2, we had about $4.8 million of revenue, which was a 22% year-over-year growth.

Net income of $1.2 million, which was an increase of $125 million of net income relative to the same quarter last year. Adjusted EBITDA of $1.16 million, which is about a 60% year-over-year increase on the EBITDA side.

Gross margins continue to remain healthy at 90%. And earnings per share were $0.09 a share, which was an increase from flat in last year's same quarter.

Going into the first half results as a whole for Q1 and Q2 combined on the next slide. We had 25% year-over-year growth -- apologies, can this move to the next slide?

Yes. We had $9.9 million of revenue, which is about 25% year-over-year growth for the 6 months ended September 30, '26. relative to the 6 months ended September 30, '25.

Net income grew 250% to $2.43 million. Adjusted EBITDA was up 34% year-over-year to $2.45 million. Gross margin once again remained healthy, 91% blended, and earnings per share was at $0.17 a share, which is up 240% year-over-year.

Next slide. Going to our recurring billings. Our recurring billings continued to be strong year-over-year. Relative to the same quarter last year, our recurring billings grew 55% year-over-year.

As a reminder, recurring billings are those billings that are billed regularly either on a monthly or annual basis. This represents those billings that were collected in the quarter for the 3 months ended September 30, 2026.

And with that, that's the summary of the financial results. I'll pass it back to Dr. Bhaskar to go over product and customer.

Ragula Bhaskar

Thank you, Kanishka. Ladies and gentlemen, when you go to the next slide, Vikrant, I would like to talk to you about the company.

As we always wanted to be, and we'll continue to strive to be, we always want to be the #1 product in our business and also provide the #1 support to our customers so that we have happy customers.

And the entire emphasis here is to make this customer experience the best that can be in the networking business. So with that goal in mind, we have always continued to do well in that arena.

And the customer feedback -- this is one of the charts from a company called InfoTech. I believe it's a $4 billion marketing company. As you can see, we are way ahead of Cisco, Meraki, VMware, and everybody else in the game. And that is because we actually focus on the customer.

If you look at Gartner survey, another company, if you look at independent surveys of customers, we are always rated #1 over all the other majors in every single category. And that will continue to be our goal.

In terms of what we plan to do for the next few quarters, keep up the same production, work on creating more sales. At the beginning of the year, our plan was to have 36 salespeople by the end of the year.

We are midway there. We are at 30 salespeople net, and we plan to add 6 more by the end of March, which is our fiscal year. And in terms of product, as I mentioned, Constellation was a very good product that we brought out.

To give you an idea of what Constellation does, we can monitor every single aspect of your network, every single device in your network, down to every single port in your switch and your fiber connection.

The advantage of that is, from a customer perspective, they don't have to go to multiple vendors. In a single stack, we are able to provide you with cybersecurity, FatPipe, of course, our base product, and complete network analysis.

Now, as a customer, what is the advantage? You have all the data you need, networking data, cybersecurity data and the entire company devices, inventory, in fact, including all the software you have, when the software are coming up for renewals, which software is vulnerable.

We can give you a list of software that has not been updated. So essentially, it's one stop, one call, that's all. And that's our goal: to achieve network singularity, and we are headed there.

That's our biggest achievement in terms of new product last quarter. At the beginning of this, in October, we acquired a small software technology company, and we'll continue to look for more companies to add.

We did not raise any money to buy that company. We are doing it with our internal resources. And again, we had to acquire quite a bit of equipment and hardware to meet our sales obligations.

We are doing that. And in October, we broke even, and we expect to continue to break even and make positive cash flow going forward as we continue to hire people and expand our sales motions.

I don't have any other things to share with you. Vikrant, are there any questions that I can answer? If anyone wants to ask questions, please do raise your hand and ask questions.

And Vikrant, could you transcribe for me.

Vikrant Ragula

Yes. So we have some questions from our equity analysts. So I will start off by pulling in Lisa Thompson to share her question.

I enabled her microphone and camera.

分析師問答

Lisa Thompson

Thank you. So just to go back to Constellation, can you tell us a little bit more about how people are charged for that?

Do you have to have already bought cybersecurity? Or is this something you can buy without having all the other pieces? How does this work?

Ragula Bhaskar

Thank you, Lisa, for joining us on this call. Constellation can be bought as part of our FatPipe offering and can also be bought as an independent product.

So we are giving customers that option. And so which way if they want it on-prem or if they want it in the cloud, we are happy to do it either way.

Lisa Thompson

And can you buy it right away? Do you have to wait until your contract ends?

Ragula Bhaskar

Yes. You can buy it right away. It sits quietly in the network, and it monitors the network, generates alerts, generates alarms, and generates reports for you. It's all in real time. And the way we charge is by monitored devices.

So if you have 100 IPs, we will monitor them. We'll charge you for those 100 monitored IPs.

Lisa Thompson

Can you tell me about this little software company you bought? What does that add to you?

Ragula Bhaskar

We have a division called FatPipe Technologies, which provides software services and technology services. And this company is in the same area.

So we thought it would be good to add to that market and that segment.

Lisa Thompson

And how is this quarter looking? Is there seasonality in the business? Or what should we think about the December quarter?

Ragula Bhaskar

Yes. Good question. Our goal is always to do 18% growth rate and 18% EBITDA. So we will work very hard to achieve that minimum base.

The seasonality can be when the holidays kick in sometimes. But this time Christmas, I believe, is on Friday or Thursday, which means the next week after that would be a clean week for us to continue to close deals.

Lisa Thompson

I guess my last question is a big picture thing. So recently, Fortinet had controversies going on about their quarter.

Can you compare and contrast how you're not them?

Ragula Bhaskar

Fortinet is a massive company. So they are affected. They have a lot more wins in different parts of their business in the world.

We are focused on our market, and we are not, hopefully, going to see any of the issues that Fortinet has. And we are also constantly developing new products. As you can see, we introduced cybersecurity last year.

We are introducing Constellation this year. Our goal is to be, like I said, the best product company out there and have a good name in the market, have a good name with customers.

You can't say that about some of the other big companies.

Vikrant Ragula

I will now enable James Kisner to be able to participate as well.

James Kisner

So just a couple of quick ones. I guess talk about the sales force ramp and what you expect there. How long is it going to take, you think, for those folks to be productive?

Like, what does the ramp of a new salesperson look like in your company, do you think?

Ragula Bhaskar

Typically, a salesperson should become break-even to profitable in about 3 to 6 months. Some of them who are in the larger deals business will take about 6 to 9 months. That's typical.

But if they have a great pipeline, we'll work with them. If they're not able to create a pipeline, then we cut loose. Unfortunately, we have to do that.

Yes. And we are hiring senior salespeople who have experience, who have a Rolodex. So we expect them to come with a partner base. So if they're not able to develop that, convert that partner relationship into sales, then we are not the right company for them.

James Kisner

So I think you have a product that can hunt pretty well, too. So that should help. I think a $7 million education contract that you were expecting to land. Just maybe you can kind of update on that. And just in general, is that contract eventually open up other public sector opportunities?

Ragula Bhaskar

It does. It has, and it is. We are very fortunate to land a big contract, and we are executing on that.

So that does get the word out that we can be trusted with a large contract, and we have the resources, the means, and the expertise to execute. So we did land a couple more deals in different parts of the country, and we are looking forward to this coming year to do the same.

Vikrant Ragula

And now I'll let Derek Greenberg ask his questions.

Unknown Analyst

I wanted to start off just by asking about how we can think of revenue this quarter in terms of new customers versus renewals. If you had anything you could share on that?

Ragula Bhaskar

New customers: we are adding new customers. The quarter is still young. We have 60 more days to go, and the pipeline is looking good. We are continuing to build on the pipeline.

In terms of renewals, we have a good renewal clip rate. As the company base of customers increases, the renewal will be a significant and it is already, but it will be a significant portion of our business.

And our goal is, like I said, to keep the customers happy. If I can keep you happy and you're happy with the product and you're happy with the service, there is no reason for you to walk away from us.

Remember that every single customer of ours is a mission-critical customer. We run cities, counties, police, emergency services, hospitals- you name it, big school systems. I mean, school systems with 50,000 and 100,000 students.

That requires expertise, and we have been developing that expertise over the last 25 years. So we know how to take care of those customers. And if the network has an issue, we are on it immediately, and we try to solve it.

We have deep expertise in getting into a customer's network and figuring it out really fast.

Unknown Analyst

And then I was curious what you're seeing at renewal in terms of attach rates for your cybersecurity offerings, if you're seeing good uptake there, if there's anything you can share?

Ragula Bhaskar

We are seeing faster reception to our constellation network management and land management product. And I think part of that is because many customers, as I said in the earlier presentation, have this group of 4 or 5 different cybersecurity products from 4 or 5 different vendors with 3- to 5-year cycles.

Therefore, moving away from those contracts takes a little longer. On the other hand, constellation is easier to install. We are not replacing any system in almost all cases, or the contracts are coming up on an annual basis, so we are able to make presentations.

We have, for instance, a city in Tennessee. We have a customer who is a bank. So we are finding that it's a lot easier to sell. And I also believe that that product is a very exciting product. It has a lot of exciting features.

It's like Raghu peg sauce, if you will. It's in there. The features are in there. And so any time you have a question about Can I monitor this, my answer is yes, we can. And that people like that they can look at every look and training of that network.

So that, I believe, is also going to help us with our revenues going forward. And we are pushing it to our current customers. Our current customers trust us, and it's a lot easier to explain to them the value of another feature in the same product, which they buy separately, but it's a lot easier than saying I'm a new guy in.

Unknown Analyst

One more for me, and then I'll pass it along. I was wondering if you could just talk about how some of your newer distribution and reseller partnerships are progressing, particularly TD SYNNEX and Carasoft.

Ragula Bhaskar

Actually, the best person to answer that is Vikrant. Vikram has been working with TD SYNNEX and Carasoft, and Howard with our sales teams.

So, Vikrant, I don't need to put you on the spot, but if you can answer those questions since you're closer to the actuals that you travel to all these partners.

Vikrant Ragula

Yes. So as Dr. Bastar mentioned, we've been seeing good success with our partners, including with TD SYNNEX and Carasoft.

As with our partnership, it takes a little bit of time to grow it. But in the recent quarter, we have seen more wins coming in with these partners on different proposals to government customers that are looking to purchase solutions.

So we're seeing good traction and continued wins, and the pipeline from these partners is growing. So we are very excited about the partnerships and continue to invest more resources to further grow the revenue and opportunities to work with these partners.

Ragula Bhaskar

And I think this week, you trained like 72 salespeople at one of the partners.

And last month, one of you traveled to the partners and made on-site presentations. And then we also have another partner called Jenny in Ohio, and our sales manager there has been visiting them and training them.

And what is nice is we get very good reception. We are in a business where we have a good product, and our service quality is well known. And therefore, the salespeople are looking for products that can help them sell.

The most important thing is how you can help your partners' salespeople sell and achieve their quota. And a lot of that involves training and providing them the resources and the pricing they need to win the business.

Vikrant Ragula

And then I will bring on Nehal from Northland to also ask his questions.

Nehal Chokshi

Can you go back to the Billings slide? So yes, it looks like your recurring billings ticked up pretty significantly Q-o-Q here from $2.4 million to $2.9 million.

Can you talk about the driver of that big Q-o-Q uptick?

Ragula Bhaskar

Primarily, as we get more new business and circuit products, we have been billing. And then the current customer billing is a layered approach.

You have multiple layers of customers every quarter. And as the billings on each of those customers start, we are seeing growth in the billings. And for the bigger deals, we have been deploying bigger and bigger deals or installations.

And therefore, the monthly billing on those is significantly higher in terms of dollar value. So those are the reasons.

Nehal Chokshi

So the driver of this big Q-over-Q uptick has been a ramp in some large customers?

Ragula Bhaskar

Yes. Also recurring revenue streams from renewals that are also happening. Both.

Actually, if I were to think through it, recurring and renewals will continue to add to the baseline of the previous quarter. So a lot of that is new business. Yes.

Nehal Chokshi

And so that $7 million order, how much is it contributing to that $0.5 million Q-o-Q increase in recurring billings?

Ragula Bhaskar

It has started contributing. I think about 3 months ago, it started happening. Yes.

Nehal Chokshi

It will add about $300,000 a quarter.

Ragula Bhaskar

$300,000 a quarter; it should start contributing. And then we had other additional deals; we got bigger deals. So they are also contributing.

Nehal Chokshi

Okay. And is that $300,000 a quarter the full run rate of that $7 million order? Or is there more still to be deployed?

Ragula Bhaskar

At full run rate, it will be about $1.18 million, approximately $118,000 a month. So that will be about $350,000 a quarter.

Nehal Chokshi

And can you give us some color on how bookings proceeded during the September quarter?

Ragula Bhaskar

September quarter, Kanishka, do you happen to have those specific numbers?

Kanishka Ragula

Yes. The top-line revenue as reported on a GAAP basis is largely reflective of the new bookings for the quarter.

So that continued to be healthy year-over-year. So it did continue to grow. I can follow up with the exact growth on the bookings, but overall, top-line revenue was up 22% to $4.83 million for the quarter, and the majority of that was driven by new bookings.

Nehal Chokshi

Okay. So product RPO would be flattish Q-o-Q from $2.2 million in the June quarter?

Kanishka Ragula

Yes. So product RPO continued to grow. However, as we mentioned, the remaining performance obligation is slightly different relative to the contract receivables.

Remaining performance obligations and deferred revenue are both partially related to our legacy book of customers in addition to the net new bookings.

So remaining performance obligation remaining flat quarter-over-quarter has the benefit of the net new bookings from our recurring customers, but also, as we shift over the legacy customers from the more one-time term license billing to a more recurring basis, does see a decline from that basis.

So remaining performance obligation overall is relatively flat because of that.

Nehal Chokshi

Well, fantastic acceleration in the buildings here. Congratulations.

Vikrant Ragula

And then I think the last question we have in the chat comes from Rudy regarding 2 parts.

First is, how is SATBoost coming along as far as interest from prospective customers?

And then the second question is, are we still acquiring former VeloCloud customers? So, Dr. Bhaskar, would you like to answer those?

Ragula Bhaskar

Yes. SATBoost, it hasn't taken off as fast as we wanted. We are specking in. We have a lot of interest. We haven't done some big deals in SATBoost, but we do have customers using satellite as a backup solution.

SATBoost is the one where we can triple the bandwidth. I guess most of the customers are using satellites for backup, not speed. So that hasn't taken off as much.

However, in terms of VeloCloud replacements, we are doing well. I think we did 2 or 3 bigger deals recently. And then we have a number of quotations out there for replacements whenever those contracts get over.

So yes, we are replacing a significant number of VeloCloud customers.

Kanishka Ragula

And then, Dr. Bhaskar, if I may add on regarding SATBoost. This is more of a recent development in the past months, but we have a number of customers with 40, 50-plus sites who are deploying satellite in addition to terrestrial transport.

So we have seen more reception for SATBoost recently, especially as SpaceX has continued to deploy their Starlink constellation and customers have begun to use that for their primary transport. And this is happening in the last 2 weeks.

And I think that's it for the time we have on the earnings call. Vikrant, I'll pass it back to you.

Ragula Bhaskar

Somebody raised their hand. Did somebody raise their hand just now?

Kanishka Ragula

I think I see Nehal's hand up.

Vikrant Ragula

Yes. With that, I believe we are at the end of the Q2 FatPipe earnings call. So unless there are any final comments -- or sorry, Dr. Bhaskar?

Ragula Bhaskar

I see Nehal's hand up still.

Nehal Chokshi

No, no, that's an accident. Sorry about that.

Ragula Bhaskar

Okay. In terms of the next several quarters ahead, we will continue to work as hard as we can to keep our sales momentum up, our profitability up, and start putting cash in the bank.

We did refinance one of our SBA loans that we had before the IPO. So that helps us reduce our interest rate by about 1.85%. And then we also got a credit line of $1.5 million from a local bank here.

And so that gives us additional resources if we need to drop on them. We will continue to buy hardware for fulfilling our sales obligations or deployments.

But overall, we'll continue to keep the pace. By the end of March, we should have about 36 salespeople, and the goal for the following year is about 48 salespeople.

Vikrant Ragula

So with that, that should be the end of the FatPipe fiscal year Q2 earnings call. So thank you, everyone, for joining and learning more about the fiscal results of FatPipe and how we've been doing this quarter and going forward.

And we will see you again at the Q3 financial results update.

Ragula Bhaskar

Thank you, everyone. I appreciate you taking the time to join us. Thanks, everyone.