Okta Q4 FY2026 Earnings Call - New products and AI agent security drive momentum, new products made up ~30% of Q4 bookings
Summary
Okta closed FY26 with momentum: new products, including AI offerings, accounted for roughly 30% of Q4 bookings and deals that include new products carried about a 40% average contract uplift. Management is framing identity as the foundational layer for the coming agentic AI economy, and it is already monetizing that thesis with two early products, Auth0 for AI Agents and Okta for AI Agents. Okta also reported a record Q4 total contract value near $1.3 billion, surpassed $3 billion in annual contract value, and finished the year with a healthy balance sheet of more than $2.5 billion in cash and short-term investments.
The tone was bullish but measured. Leadership positioned agentic identity as a multi-year growth lever that is currently small versus a $3 billion revenue base but could be a meaningful upside beyond the conservative FY27 guide. Management highlighted go-to-market specialization, deeper GSI and channel partnerships, and suite-based pricing as the levers to accelerate large deals. The company expects FY27 total revenue growth of about 9%, with margin targets that preserve profitability while funding expansion into AI identity and partner-led deployment models.
Key Takeaways
- New products (Identity Governance, Privileged Access, ISPM, Identity Threat Protection, Device Access, Fine Grained Authorization, plus Auth0/Okta for AI Agents) represented approximately 30% of Q4 bookings.
- When new products are included in a deal, average contract uplift is roughly 40%, showing material monetization of add-on modules.
- Okta Identity Governance (OIG) now has over 2,000 customers, underlining fast adoption of cloud-native IGA within the platform.
- Okta launched two AI agent products, Auth0 for AI Agents and Okta for AI Agents; both are early but saw strong initial traction in Q4 and a growing FY27 pipeline.
- Management frames AI agent security as identity security, arguing agentic systems are a new identity type that must be discovered, governed, vaulted, and controlled.
- Q4 total contract value was a record near $1.3 billion, and annual contract value surpassed $3 billion.
- Channel and partners are pivotal: 18 of the top 20 Q4 deals involved partners, AWS Marketplace TC V grew over 45% in FY26 to approximately $750 million.
- Balance sheet and capital actions: cash and short-term investments above $2.5 billion, announced $1 billion buyback program and repurchased 875,000 shares for $79 million so far.
- FY27 guidance is conservative and disciplined: full-year revenue growth about 9%, Q1 revenue growth 9% with current RPO growth of 10%, non-GAAP operating margin 25%-26% for FY27, and free cash flow margin guide 27%-28% for FY27.
- Guidance contains known adjustments: roughly a 1-point FY27 revenue headwind from shifting professional services to GSIs, and about a 1-point FCF margin headwind from lower interest income and capital actions.
- Pricing for agentic products is still being shaped; early models include a multiplier on human identities or pricing based on number of agent connections, with details to be refined as customers scale.
- Go-to-market specialization is sticking, with added quota-carrying reps and low attrition; management expects better productivity without a large 'cost of change' drag this year.
- Net retention (DBNRR) has been flat despite product additions, driven by stable gross retention but slower upsell; management expects added sales capacity and larger deals to drive upsell over time.
- Standards work matters: Okta is pushing Cross App Access and other standards to enable cross-platform agent governance, but adoption will be evolutionary and require vendor buy-in.
- Suite-based pricing is resonating, helping close larger transactions faster, though it is still early to be a major component of the run rate.
Full Transcript
Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Okta: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Okta’s fourth quarter fiscal 2026 earnings webcast. I’m Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations at Okta. Presenting in today’s meeting will be Todd McKinnon, our Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, and Brett Tighe, our Chief Financial Officer. Eric Kelleher, our President and Chief Operating Officer, will join the Q&A portion of the meeting. At around the same time that the earnings press release hit the wire, we posted supplemental commentary to the IR website. Today’s meeting will include forward-looking statements pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to, statements regarding our financial outlook and market positioning. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements represent our management’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the day made. Information on factors that could affect our financial results is included in our filings with the SEC from time to time, including the section titled Risk Factors in our previously filed Form 10-Q. In addition, during today’s meeting, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. Though we may not state it explicitly during the meeting, all references to profitability are non-GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures are in addition to and not a substitute for or superior to measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures and a discussion of the limitations of using non-GAAP measures versus their closest GAAP equivalents are available in our earnings release.
You can also find more detailed information in our supplemental financial materials, which include trended financial statements and key metrics posted on our investor relations website. In today’s meeting, we will quote a number of numeric or growth changes as we discuss our financial performance, and unless otherwise noted, each such reference represents a year-over-year comparison. Now I’d like to turn the meeting over to Todd McKinnon. Todd?
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Thanks, Dave. Thank you everyone for joining us this afternoon. We’re pleased with the strong finish to FY 26, which was highlighted by continued strength with large enterprises, partner engagement, and contribution from our newer products. Identity is fast becoming the most important aspect of security, with AI acting as a catalyst. In today’s call, I’ll cover the success we’re having with our new products, how Okta secures AI, including some early success we’re having in that new market, and close with our top priorities for FY 27. We continue to see strong performance from our portfolio of new products. This group consists of Okta Identity Governance, Okta Privileged Access, Identity Security Posture Management, Identity Threat Protection, Okta Device Access, and Fine Grained Authorization. New to this group are our products Auth0 for AI Agents and Okta for AI Agents.
The value of a unified identity system with a single control plane is resonating with customers. In aggregate, these new products represented approximately 30% of Q4 bookings, which is a meaningful increase from prior quarters. When these new products are included in a deal, the average contract uplift is approximately 40%. Okta Identity Governance continues to be the biggest of these new products and is building on its early success. OIG now has over 2,000 customers. That’s remarkable progress in just over three years, and it underscores the market demand for a modern governance solution. Customers are choosing OIG because it’s a full IGA cloud-native solution built into our unified platform, not a siloed point solution. I mentioned that our portfolio of new products now includes our AI products, Auth0 for AI Agents and Okta for AI Agents.
It’s still early for this developing market, but as the leading modern identity solution for workforce and customer identity, Okta is uniquely positioned to help organizations combat the growing security threat that AI agents represent. The reality is that the AI revolution has moved faster than today’s security frameworks. According to Okta’s AI at Work report, 91% of surveyed organizations are already using AI agents, but only 10% have a governance strategy in place. In meetings that I’ve had with customers and prospects over the past six months, the vast majority of the conversations revolve around their AI initiatives and how Okta can help them build and manage agents securely. As AI becomes embedded in more workflows and automations, the growing number of exploitable entry points from non-human identities to unsecured integrations expand the attack service for threat actors.
It’s clear that in order to get AI right, you have to get identity right. Okta was built to meet this challenge. Identity isn’t just a feature for us, it’s our foundation. AI agents are simply a new identity type, and protecting them is a natural extension of what we do best. Okta’s neutral and independent identity solution is uniquely positioned to secure and govern the entire agentic life cycle and gives customers the freedom to deploy on any agent platform without ecosystem lock-in, all while strengthening their security posture. Our two-pronged solution with Auth0 and Okta for AI Agents treats AI agents with the same importance as humans and gives customers everything they need to secure this powerful new technology.
We’re still in the early stages. We believe that in a few years, agents and agentic systems won’t be the exception to how enterprise software is built and operated. They’ll be the rule. We believe that AI agents represent nothing less than the future of software. That’s why AI security is identity security. I’d like to highlight a couple of AI deals we closed in Q4 that illustrate how we’re addressing the AI market. An existing Auth0 customer is building AI agents as part of their leading financial services platform. These agents will help the firm’s advisors make better and faster decisions. To do so, the agents need access to sensitive customer information, which must be least privileged. They need to work with existing systems and third-party services inside the financial institution.
The customer picked Auth0 for AI Agents as it met their stringent requirements for a secure, extensible platform to build and deploy agentic systems. They needed a solution that offered enterprise-grade identity for humans and agents while providing secure access to third-party MCP servers, all while acting as a single source of truth. Another notable deal that included Okta for AI Agents, which became available in early access in January, was with a top global business and technology services provider. They chose Okta for AI Agents to help them discover, control, and govern identities for their growing sprawl of agents. Rolling out AI Agents across multiple agent platforms is key to their ongoing transformation. Centralizing agentic identities in an independent agent agnostic platform like Okta will strengthen their cybersecurity posture. This is the very beginning of the AI opportunity.
Building and protecting AI agents is inherent to Okta’s position as the world’s system of record for identity management. With our solutions, developers, administrators, and IT teams can ensure that the entire lifecycle of an AI agent from initial design through active deployment is observable, governable, and secure. For more information on how Okta secures AI, be sure to register and join our showcase event on March 16th. In this live-streamed event, you’ll hear from myself as well as our AI product leaders as we unveil our latest innovations for AI agents. Finally, I always like to take time on the Q4 call to share our priorities for the new fiscal year. It shouldn’t be surprising that all of these priorities are focused on driving growth. The first priority is Okta secures AI, which is all about how we win, grow, and become the standard for securing agentic AI.
By building on our early success with Okta and Auth0 for AI Agents, we will further our vision of freeing everyone to safely use any technology. The second priority is increasing our focus on landing bigger and growing faster with large customers. We want these organizations to think of Okta first when it comes to identity security and securing AI. This is a global effort across both the Okta and Auth0 platforms. Our third priority is becoming the default identity security solution for the U.S. federal vertical and highly regulated industries. The public sector has been one of our fastest-growing verticals over the past couple of years, but we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the overall opportunity. To wrap things up, we’re pleased with the strong finish to FY 26.
We’re excited about the momentum we’ve built for the year ahead as we look to surpass $3 billion in revenue on our way to $5 billion and then $10 billion. Identity is security, we’re building on our position as the leading modern identity solution to win the emerging market for securing AI. It’s an exciting opportunity, and we’re going after it aggressively. I want to thank the entire Okta team for their tireless effort and also thank our loyal customers and partners who put their trust in us every day. Now here’s Brett to cover the financial commentary.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: Thanks, Todd. Thank you everyone for joining us today. We’re pleased to close out another fiscal year achieving Rule of 40, which we’ve done every year since going public. It’s also satisfying to see our investments to drive growth paying off. These focus areas include new product innovation, go-to-market specialization, large customers, and our partner network. My commentary will provide insights into our Q4 performance and then move into our outlook for Q1 and FY 2027. The increased go-to-market specialization that we implemented at the beginning of the fiscal year continues to make progress. Strong execution has led to positive go-to-market KPI improvements, including sales productivity. Our focus on large customers and large deals continues to drive our financial results. In Q4, we closed a record amount of total contract value of nearly $1.3 billion.
We also surpassed a major milestone of $3 billion in annual contract value. Another key aspect of our go-to-market motion is our channel partners. When our partners are involved, the average deal size is bigger, and the close rates improve. Channel partners were engaged in 18 of our top 20 deals in Q4. Total contract value generated through our strategic go-to-market channel, AWS Marketplace, grew over 45% in FY26 to approximately $750 million. Moving on to our balance sheet and capital allocation. We had another strong quarter of cash flow in Q4 and ended the quarter with a very healthy balance sheet consisting of over $2.5 billion in cash equivalents, and short-term investments. We continue to regularly evaluate Okta’s capital allocation priorities to ensure we’re well-positioned to deliver sustainable long-term value to shareholders.
Consistent with this focus, we announced a $1 billion share repurchase program in early January, taking advantage of what we believe to be an undervalued share price. Over the course of the remainder of January, we repurchased and retired over 875,000 shares for a total cost of $79 million. We’re proud to return value to our shareholders and are focused on capturing the clear opportunity in front of us. The investments Okta has been making to derive growth acceleration span all areas of our business. These disciplined areas remain: investing in our go-to-market teams, relentless product innovation, further leveraging our channel partners, and keeping Okta one of the most secure companies in the world.
Our improved go-to-market execution, coupled with a healthy demand environment, led us to begin adding quota-carrying sales capacity starting in Q2, and we continue to do so through the fourth quarter and now into the current Q1. Let’s turn to our business outlook.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Our guidance philosophy is unchanged as we continue to take a prudent approach to forward guidance that factors in current market conditions. For the first quarter of FY27, we expect total revenue growth of 9%, current RPO growth of 10%, non-GAAP operating margin of 23%-24%, and free cash flow margin of 33%-35%. For the full year FY27, we expect total revenue growth of 9%, non-GAAP operating margin of 25%-26%, and a free cash flow margin of 27%-28%. I want to call out three important points pertaining to this guidance. First, reflected in the 9% FY27 revenue guidance is about a one-point impact related to a decision we made to shift more of our professional services business to our partners, specifically Global System Integrators.
This change will result in lower professional services revenue. We believe this will lead to greater long-term benefits to fuel top-line growth by deepening the relationship with these important partners and increasing our business with large enterprises. The second point is that the FY27 free cash flow margin guidance reflects about a one-point headwind related to lower interest income relative to the combined impact from the stock repurchase program, our intent to settle the remainder of the 2026 notes in cash, and the interest rate environment. Finally, we’ve updated our non-GAAP tax rate assumption for Q1 and FY27 to 21% from 26% based on the recent changes to the federal tax laws. To wrap things up, we’re pleased with what we accomplished in FY26 and are enthusiastic about the trends we’re seeing in our business.
The investments we’re making are paying off in position Okta to extend its leadership and identity security. We’ve demonstrated exceptional leverage in our model and are positioned to deliver profitable growth for years to come. With that, I’ll turn it back to Dave for Q&A. Dave?
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: Thanks, Brett. I see there are already quite a few hands raised, and I’ll take them in the order from the top of the hour. Through the top of the hour, and in the interest of time, please limit yourself to one question. With that, we’re gonna go to Joseph Gallo at Jefferies.
Joseph Gallo, Analyst, Jefferies: Thanks, Dave, and thanks guys for the question. It was great to see the AI agent customer wins. Can you just talk more about pricing there? I wasn’t sure if the 40% was referring to agentic. Just any sense of when agentic will become meaningful to growth. You know, Brett, I know you’re really pragmatic, you know. How should we think about what’s reflected from agentic in your top-line guide? Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Yeah, the agentic products are really, really important to us. I’m not breaking any news there. Everyone knows this. In the Q4, it was really a story of all of our new products. The 30% of our new bookings were from new products. That’s a very important strategic bucket of products we’ve been investing in for a long time. The agentic products are the newest bit of that, and they had an absolutely incredible quarter considering Okta for AI Agents is not even generally available yet, and Auth0 for AI Agents was generally available at the beginning of the quarter. It’s off to a huge start.
Now, the relative number is small compared to our $3 billion revenue run rate. Looking forward to next year, we’re very, very excited about the potential of these products. What’s happening is that every company is figuring out how they’re gonna absorb all this AI innovation, how they’re gonna build things themselves, how they’re gonna adopt SaaS innovation with agentic built in, how they’re gonna adopt all this change. What you’re seeing is the identity is becoming a critical infrastructural foundation for that. They have to have a system that can basically keep track of where all the agents are and who has agents and what can the agents do and what can they connect to. That’s what they’re looking toward our products to do.
It’s incredibly exciting, but it’s also the success of governance over 2,000 customers and our other new products set us up for a lot of, I think, success ahead. In terms of guidance, I’ll let Brett talk about the specifics, but because the agentic products are so new, it’s tough to pour too much into our assumptions about growth in terms of guidance. I think those things could be a huge source of upside over and above the guidance in the years ahead.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: Yeah, Joe. I mean, Todd nailed it right there, which is it’s still fairly small at this point, but we are excited given the amount of demand that we’re seeing. It’s not just the amount of bookings that we did in Q4. It was it’s also the pipeline we see that is out there for FY27. Like Todd said, you know, look, it’s a $3 billion business. Takes a lot to move the needle in there. We’re not thinking about this as an opportunity just for FY27. This is an opportunity to be accretive to growth for FY28, FY29. And we’ll see the results, as you guys know, in current RPO first before we see it in revenue.
We are excited about it and think it’s a big opportunity for us, and you’ll probably hear our bullish tone about it over the course of this call because of what we’re seeing inside the business at this point.
Joseph Gallo, Analyst, Jefferies: Looking forward to it. Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: Next up, we’ll go to Adam Borg at Stifel.
Speaker 0: Awesome. Thanks so much for taking the question. Todd, maybe talk a little bit more about the go-to-market changes you’re doing this year, what you’re seeing there, and also on the international front, what the opportunity to drive growth higher there that still lags domestically. Thanks so much.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Yeah. I think the headline about go-to-market changes in Q4 and coming into Q1 is they’re very limited. We have our go-to-market structure in place. We’re very confident and comfortable with it. We’re seeing productivity ramping. We’re seeing attrition low. We’re adding capacity. If you just look at the plan for this year, we don’t have the usual assumption about cost of change in the early quarters of this year, which is very exciting. We have a team that’s psyched up and ready to go, and they’re armed with these new products, and they’re organized by specialist domains across Auth0 and Okta and Hunter and Farmer, and they’re ready to roll. They’re coming off a huge Q4, and they’re excited.
This part is more qualitative, which is that what we can provide to the market and to customers is this infrastructural foundation for this agentic enterprise. That’s when a Group of salespeople or salesperson goes out there and has that conversation with a customer. The customer clearly reflects back to them that this is a pressing, urgent problem that they need help with, and they see Okta as the entitled company to actually deliver that value. That’s powerful. It’s got everyone super excited. Now we just have to go out and deliver on it. You know, you don’t get any points for conversations. You gotta put wins on the board. That’s what we’re focused on doing.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: Yeah. I think the transition coming into Q1 in this year. We had our annual sales kickoff last year, our real focus is we delivered a strong year last year. We feel very strong about the results from Q4. We talked all throughout last year about how we were building specialization as the new lever. As Todd McKinnon mentioned, our productivity has increased. Our repetition has decreased. Coming into this year, we are committed to that model, and we’re not injecting significant change. With one area in particular, I do wanna note, in addition to Todd McKinnon’s commentary, which is the note Brett Tighe shared about our investment specifically in our channel and specifically in our relationships with Global System Integrators.
The one significant change we have there is we’ve very consciously chosen to better leverage our relationships with the Global System Integrators because our customers need them more than ever for the change management associated with the transition to agentic, for the increase in cyber and the importance of securing identity for human, non-human and agentic. We’re embracing that partnership. Those partnerships have been very successful for us with some of our largest customers, and we’re excited to be leaning into that this year as well. You see that reflected in the guide.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: This is really exciting, I’ll just take a minute here to comment on this. What’s happening in the market, there’s some market forces going on, which is, you know, every customer obviously is interested in AI and agentic AI, and they’re going to these GSIs and asking them about how to invest in the foundational elements and the security. Just like customers are coming to us, they’re going to these GSIs, and the GSIs see that we are the answer. We can help customers power this agentic enterprise and be the source of truth for identity and connections between agents and systems. The GSIs look at the identity market, and they see us as the clear, independent, and neutral leader. No one else has the scale.
No one else has the capabilities. The other big identity companies are also trying to sell you a platform or to sell you a development kit or sell you other cyber tools. They’re seeing we’re the winner, so they’re coming to us, and you’re seeing a product suite that is more capable than ever that needs GSIs to help install it correctly and scale it out at customers. The GSIs can couple with the leader. They can help customers transition into this agentic future. It’s a win-win all around. What’s left for us to do is really double down our investment by saying, "Hey, we’re gonna give up the professional services dollar as an investment to make this whole ecosystem bigger and power our long-term subscription growth." It’s very exciting.
I feel like we’ve been working on years and years to get here, and we’re here, and it’s incredibly exciting to me and the entire team.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: We’re really fired up, just as one more indicator of the strength of that channel, I mentioned we had our sales kickoff last week. We had our GSIs in attendance at our sales kickoff for the first time. Our partners are really becoming part of our go-to-market engine, their engagement was really high off the charts. We’re very excited about how this helps us reach more customers faster with the broader Okta platform solution.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta3: Awesome. Thanks again.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: Okay, we’ll go to John DiFucci at Guggenheim.
John DiFucci, Analyst, Guggenheim: Thanks, Dave. I think this question’s for Todd and Eric. Again, listen, identity remains a high priority no matter who we speak to, right? IT purchasers, partners, so much so that others seem to be encroaching in the market, even as Microsoft seems to have faded a little bit in conversations when you talk to people in the field. You have names not usually associated with identity, like CrowdStrike and Rubrik talking about it, or even names like 1Password taking a different approach. I guess those, these names might not necessarily be competing with you directly. Is it causing confusion in the market, or are more traditional names like Ping having a greater effect? Listen, you guys beat numbers, and it’s always good to see that, but it wasn’t quite what we thought it would be.
CRPO aside, the guide was a bit below where we thought you’d start and obviously where the street thought. Thanks.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: I think it is. I mean, the identity is at the center of traditionally in legacy technology, it was always at the center. In this agentic world going forward, John, it’s becoming clear to everyone it’s even a bigger deal than it was before. Being at the center, there is some confusion about who’s doing what. I think the biggest confusion people have is the distinction between identity infrastructure and identity security. They hear the word identity, and they think if you’re sitting on top of identity and detecting threats and blocking threats, you’re also identity infrastructure. That’s one of the big confusions. When you look at the agentic market, they’re both really important. It’s the identity security, making sure the agents are monitored and checked that they can’t go out of bounds.
Just the infrastructure, just the ability for the agents to connect and for tracking and visibility, that’s an infrastructure play, and we’re the only company that really does both. It’s at the security layer and the infrastructure layer. I think that is a, maybe a little bit of a confusion and something that we’re working hard to make sure everyone understands the advantage of that position as well.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: I would add, I think the examples you just described, they point to the fact that the world is understanding that identity security, in particular agentic identity security, is fundamental to the future. People are looking at how to invest there. From a, from an Okta standpoint, we’re not seeing any material change in the competitive behavior in our transactions yet. Of course, we’re keeping our eye on the landscape. Also, remember, we’ve been in this business for a really long time, and we have over 20,000 customers that count on us to protect their identity and over 7,000 integrations off the shelf. We believe that neutrality and ability to integrate with everything is what our customers need. That’s what we hear from our customers as well.
We think that positions us very well for the future. The other, the other note is agentic identity for us isn’t a new product. It’s an extension of the products we already have. We’ve already had human identities and non-human identities, and now we are simply expanding to also include agentic identities into our product stack. For us, we think we’re very well-positioned in this. We manage today over 45 billion authentication events a month and over, we block over 8 billion threats a month as well. Those statistics are really meaningful to our customers who know that we’re the leader in the space.
Brian Essex, Analyst, J.P. Morgan0: Thanks.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: One other comment for you, John. We’re, you know, we’ll try to keep them shorter on the next questions. I just wanna make sure we’re all on the same page around the mechanics of the revenue guide, which is it is a 10-point subscription revenue guide and a 9-point total revenue guide. Effectively, we’re taking, you know, another way to think about it is, you know, professional services in FY 2026 is roughly about 2% of total revenue, and FY 2027’s gonna be about 1 point of revenue. Just keep that in mind because the subscription revenue is growing faster and we talked about the investment and why we’re doing that earlier.
I just wanna make sure we’re all crystal clear that subs revenue is growing faster than total revenue, as a result of the good results we had in FY 2026 and what we expect to produce in 2027. We don’t wanna disappoint anyone. We’re gonna make sure we work hard to exceed or meet or exceed the guidance. That’s our, that’s our mantra.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: Thanks, guys. That’s all very helpful. Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Okay. Next, we’ll go to Josh Tilton at Wolfe.
Josh Tilton, Analyst, Wolfe Research: Thank you. Brett, you kinda stole my question right from me. It was gonna be on that subscription guide. Maybe can you just... You know, I know you gave some of the puts and takes on the conservatism in the guide, but maybe just help us think about how conservative this guidance is versus the guidance you gave last year. The reason I’m asking is ’cause some quick math kinda suggests that this could be the year that subscription revenue growth accelerates. Maybe just, you know, walk us through some of the puts and takes there. Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Yeah. I mean, it’s real simple this year. We’re not going to get into the, you know, details of this, that, or the other. It’s just we’re taking into account market conditions, what we think we can produce. Guidance philosophy remains the same as what we’ve done the last few quarters. It’s real simple. Nothing too complicated.
Josh Tilton, Analyst, Wolfe Research: Makes sense. Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: No problem. Next, we’ll go to Roger Boyd at UBS.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta6: Great. Thanks, Dave, and thanks for the question. I wanted to come back to agentic and great to see the continued early traction there. I know it’s early, but wondering if you could provide any updated thoughts on how you’re thinking about pricing in those products. I think in the past you’ve talked about a per agent pricing model. How is that resonating with some of these early customers who are buying these offerings, considering the potentially open-ended and rapid growth they could potentially see with agents? Thanks.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: It’s That topic comes up all the time, one of our advantages is, was we have these conversations with our 20,000 customers. We get really rapid feedback on how we can capture value, what would be most valuable for them, easy for them to consume. It’s really a strategic advantage. We have this feedback loop, we’ve actually structured the go-to-market team for AI agents to capture that feedback rapidly and feed it right back into the product teams. What we’re seeing is that there’s really two ways that they, that we charge for agents. One is, as a, like, a multiplier on a person.
In the model where a human identity uses a number of agents to augment their work, there’s a multiplier on that agent or on that, what they pay for a person toward the, what they pay for agents. If the agent is not coupled to a person, we sell it based on the number of connections the agent makes because that’s really the value. They wanna secure those connections and filter on fine-grain access to all the backend systems and the SaaS applications and the custom applications, then data warehouses the agent connects to. The agent is more valuable as it has more fine-grain access to different things, and it’s more secure. There’s a multiple based on that.
The pricing we’re working with these customers on is pretty early. You know, it’s a nice step up. I mentioned earlier, by the way, we mentioned earlier, the 40% uplift. That was the uplift, that specific number was the uplift on a specific deal that has new products in it. It wasn’t broken out specifically for agents. We’ll talk more about the actual specifics of agentic pricing in the quarters ahead, we’re not announcing that and talking about specific uplift or multiplier on human identities just as of yet. We want to settle down and get a little more consistent before we go broad and communicate that.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta6: Makes sense. Thanks, Todd.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Okay. Next up, Matthew Hedberg at RBC.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta2: Thanks, Dave. Hey, Todd, a question for you. I think we’ve all seen the highlights on, you know, competition from LLM vendors or vibe coding. You know, I think a lot of us on this call agree that, like, it’s easier said than done. I guess from your perspective, when you look at what you’ve built over the years and the data that you’re sitting on, can you talk about sort of the structural advantages that you see over maybe some upstarts or some vibe coding alternatives?
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: For sure, yeah. Something we the whole industry is thinking about. I can think about it hypothetically, and then I can tell you what customers talk about in my hundreds of conversations with customers. I’ll just start with the hypothetical. I think if you wanna build what any SaaS company has done or what Okta has done, it’s years and years of hardening and making sure there’s no vulnerabilities and making sure it scales, and it’s reliable. It’s, you know, if you I don’t know what the inference cost to build that would be, but it would be pretty significant inference cost. If you flip it around, you just think about you know, what’s the price of getting it wrong?
If getting it wrong, it’s hard to validate, it’s hard to prove you have it right. If it’s wrong, you have a major security breach, or you’re down, and none of your agents or none of your people can access systems. The cost of getting it wrong hypothetically, and actually just the cost to do it theoretically if it was even possible theoretically with a, with an LLM or a tool is, would be pretty high. That, and that cost could change over time. We don’t know. When I talk to customers, that’s the hypothetical model. When you talk to customers, and you, and you hear their challenges and their opportunities, they. A lot of the same things are echoed. They want, they wanna identify key infrastructure pillars, and they wanna standardize on them.
They see that as the unlock to hundreds of other decisions and hundreds of other build versus buy decisions they have to make. They’re putting foundational security, foundational identity in this bucket of things that they want to partner with a leader and trust it and go on top of that and figure everything else out. That’s what they’re telling me, and it kinda matches up with what I would think about hypothetically. Now that all being said, we are paranoid, and we’re making sure that we are using all the latest technologies, LLMs, coding tools to make sure we have not only something that’s resilient and secure but has the best features and the best capabilities and has. So we’re making sure that we build things internally as fast as anyone could build them because we.
Make no mistakes, the prize here that the whole industry is going after, which is this agentic future where digital labor is part of the TAM, is a massive prize. Everyone is at some level, big picture, is gonna be going after this prize. It’s exciting because it’s greatly expanded the TAM of what Okta could be. Think about identity and what it’s been in the past. It’s roughly $20 billion TAM right now in terms of what people spend on the vendor data. You know, we talk about an $80 billion TAM. I mean, this could be bigger than this could be the biggest part of cyber in a few years, for sure. It could be even bigger than that if you really think about the infrastructure that stitches together the entire agentic enterprise and is the plumbing that makes it run.
We’re investing, and we’re paranoid, and we’re working hard to make sure we capture that because the benefit to our customers and the benefit to our shareholders and the benefit to everyone involved is massive, and that’s what’s firing us up. We’re working harder, and we’re more excited than ever because that’s what’s at stake.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: Great answer. Thanks.
Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Okta: Next up is Todd Weller at Stephens.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta9: Thanks, Dave, thanks for the question. A question on Auth0. It looks like growth decelerated a bit from 2Q when that was last disclosed. The question is, how do we think about the durable growth profile of that business relative to workforce? It would seem that AI could be a significant catalyst to accelerate that shift from the homegrown solutions to out-of-the-box like Auth0. Any thoughts there would be great.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: I think that we’re very excited about Auth0. I think the deceleration a little bit is a tough compare. There’s also we changed the go-to-market mix last year, as you know, to focus more on that, there’s probably some cost of change in that number as well. Those are maybe a little bit of puts and takes on it. I think we’re bullish on it. I think the big-picture thing is what’s happening in the CIAM market. CIAM market is transitioning to be not just a platform for logging in and doing authentication authorization, but it’s a platform for customers building agentic interfaces to their customers and to agents coming into their systems. Auth0 for AI Agents, that’s what it is. It’s a token vault. It helps agentic login.
It helps customers hook other AI tools up to their customer login. I think over time, that market is evolving into something that’s hugely impactful and value delivering for our customers. I mentioned in my prepared remarks on the financial services firm that’s using Auth0 for AI Agents really to help deliver agents to their customers. You’ll see those tools being used to deliver agent interfaces. Yeah, ’cause like I think we talk about agentic, and I talked about agentic a lot of times on this call, but everything is gonna be agentic.
The capability of software to do more things autonomously and seek goals and to do more unsupervised tasks is gonna pervade into every layer of software, whether it’s customer-facing, whether it’s employee-facing, whether it’s what an existing SaaS app does, whether it’s the next generation of applications. It’s all gonna be agentic, and it all needs identity, and we’re positioned to play in all of that, which is why it’s so exciting.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: One thing to add on, around the tough compare that Todd was talking about. If you remember Q4 of last year, Auth0 had a record quarter, and you guys know, you know, it was a really great quarter just in general, but that’s what’s creating the tough compare is that Auth0 just had a fantastic Q4 last Q4.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta9: Thanks, Brett. Appreciate it.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: No problem.
Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Okta: Next up, we’ll go to Brian Essex at J.P. Morgan.
Brian Essex, Analyst, J.P. Morgan: Great. Thanks for taking the question. Maybe to follow up on that topic, just, you know, you’ve got Auth0, Todd, for AI agents and Okta for AI agents, and it seems like, you know, you’ve got a real competitive advantage on the Auth0 side. Could you maybe compare and contrast initial takes for sales cycles, competitive dynamics, and velocity of each? I know it’s still early stages, but, you know, is Okta for AI agents in a more competitive market or, you know? Would love to just get your take on, you know, what kind of velocity you’re seeing in each of those, each of those product segments.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Yeah, I think it’s, I think it’s the, it’s maybe flipped. I think Okta for AI Agents is more unique and more differentiated than maybe we would’ve expected. I think Auth0 for AI Agents is unique and differentiated as well. I think maybe the sentiment you’re expressing is it’s different than what we’re seeing. Customers need a solution that’s pre-integrated to all these agentic systems. I mean, there’s no good way for customers to even understand what all these vendors are doing in agentic. There’s no catalog of systems that says, "Salesforce is doing this. ServiceNow is doing this. AgentCore is this. Google is doing this. Microsoft is doing this." That’s what Okta for AI Agents does. On top of that, it models connections and has policy for connections.
It connects users to different agents and agents to systems, so it’s the reception of it is very positive. Now we have to turn that into continued momentum that we saw in Q4.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: Yeah, my customer conversations, I’m hearing urgency on both, but I would agree with Todd’s comment that there we feel maybe slightly more urgency on the Okta for AI Agents side. If you think about that, the Okta for AI Agents platform is the platform that helps customers find where they have rogue agents deployed. That is often the top of mind for a corporate buyer, for a CIO or a CISO is they know that employees are activating agents, and they need a way to discover those agents and then to secure them, to manage them, to govern them, to vault their credentials. The Okta for AI Agents platform solves that problem first.
Really, in parallel, we’re talked to a number of customers who are building agents and know that they need to build agents that can be discovered, that can be integrated, that can be authorized, and the Auth0 for AI Agents platform is what allows them to do that. We’ve said, we said in the prior call and today as well, we are having a huge interest in both of these platforms across our customer base and with our prospective customers as well.
Brian Essex, Analyst, J.P. Morgan: Very helpful color. Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Go to Eric Heath at KeyBank.
Eric Heath, Analyst, KeyBank: Awesome. Thanks, Dave, thanks for taking the question. Maybe just extending on Brian’s question and one follow-up question, clarification if I may. On these AI agent deals that you are closing at this point, are customers evaluating alternatives at this point, or are they solely just looking at Okta and choosing Okta? And then just a clarifying question for you, Brett. The uplift of 40% for the entirety of the emerging product portfolio, I believe previously we were talking about OIG and OPA each being about a 33% uplift. Just a little surprised that the entirety of the portfolio on the emerging side is 40%, any clarifying comments you could have there is great. Thanks.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Yeah. Before we break down the 40%, on your first question, These are early adopters, but these are people that are thinking about For Okta for AI Agents specifically, these are people that have seen the future of agentic, and they’re thinking about how they can get their foundational house in order. They’re early adopters, so they look at everything. They, you know, they’ve scoured every startup, every big platform, and they’re seeing a couple things. One is that the vision of what we’re delivering, the vision what we have delivered so far, even though it’s an early access product, and our vision of where it could be is very compelling. Two, they’re seeing that they don’t wanna be...
They’re reticent to trust a startup with this critical piece of foundation because they know there’s gonna be M&A, and they know there’s gonna be startups going away. There’s so many startups playing in this space that there’s bound to be a lot of failure, and they don’t wanna build their whole foundation around something and have it be pulled out from under them. The other factor is in their minds is that they don’t wanna be locked in. Think about if what’s happening in agentic and what’s happening in this world, these foundational models are moving incredibly fast. It’s Anthropic’s foundational model that has the leap ahead, and then it’s OpenAI, and then it’s an open source model, and then it’s...
That’s gonna continue for many years, and they don’t wanna be locked into a certain stack and a certain set of tools, so they’re reticent to trust their foundational security with one provider, one platform. They want flexibility. Back to the startups, they know that a bunch of these startups are gonna get bought by the big players, so they’re thinking, "Even if I go with a startup now, it’s gonna get sold, and then we’d be locked into Microsoft," and they don’t really want that. Yeah, it’s. Our positioning is very compelling and the exciting thing about Q4, I talked about last call, I said, you know, we had Oktane, and everyone was super interested, and I’ve never seen interest in my life, in my career in a new product like this.
The great thing about Q4 is it actually translated into real $ and real bookings. It’s still small relative to our overall run rate, and it’s up to us to continue that momentum through this year and so it can really start driving the number on the top line and growth, et cetera. We’re on track, and it’s, like I said many times on this call, incredibly energizing.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: Yeah. I would just add one thing to your comment, Todd, which is the deal size for these deals have been good-sized deals. They’ve been, you know, which is really nice to see because it has been more tilted toward larger companies. I think that’s a general theme that we’ve seen at least in Q4, and we’re seeing a little bit in the pipeline going forward. Going to your question, Eric, around the 50, you know, the 40% versus the 33, I just wanna be very clear. Previously, we said there was a 50% uplift on governance-
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Of a workforce contract alone, the 40% is over the entire contract. Yeah, the number was higher for 50, but it was only a part of the business, the 59% of the business. If you take all 100%, it’s a 40% uplift on the entire thing, which really shows that these new products are adding a tremendous amount of value to the top line for us, and that’s why we’re so excited about it.
Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Okta: Okay. Next, we’ll go to Shrenik Kothari at Baird.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta7: Great. So staying on topic of agentic and Todd, you mentioned non-human identities could ultimately rival today you mentioned can exceed. Just from pricing standpoint, I agree it’s still early to size, but incidents like the Salesloft Drift breach or those compromised OAuth tokens enable lateral access across SaaS. Can you tell us a little bit about, like, does this expand the non-human identity TAM beyond your early estimates and just overall strengthens your strategic positioning to lead this agentic category next?
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: I think when I talk about agentic and being the identity foundation for the agentic enterprise, that really is a superset of what people call non-human. Non-human is like service accounts and sometimes they mean tracking machines. What I’m talking about is much bigger. It’s a superset of all that stuff, and it’s gonna be the backbone of the agentic enterprise. It’s incredibly valuable and mission-critical for customers, and it’s a massive TAM. Anytime you’re adding that much value to customers, you’re gonna be able to monetize it some way, whether that’s just unique count of agents or that’s agent connections that, which is kinda how we’re doing it now, or whether that’s that’ll evolve as we go forward.
We’ll figure that out, the value we’re potentially could generate or could provide to customers is, I think, greatly increasing the TAM.
Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Okta: Great. Next, we’ll go to Gray Powell at BTIG.
Gray Powell, Analyst, BTIG: Great. Can you hear me okay?
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Yeah, loud and clear, Gray.
Gray Powell, Analyst, BTIG: All right. Great. Thanks for taking the question, and congratulations on the results.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Yeah. Thanks.
Gray Powell, Analyst, BTIG: I wanted to clarify an earlier question. This is the third consecutive quarter where all the main KPIs have been clean, and then the forward revenue outlook as far as I can tell, it was above the street, not below. I guess if you had to point to one or two things that have been the biggest driver of your consistency, what would that be? And then just-
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: Large deals, large customers.
Gray Powell, Analyst, BTIG: Okay. The follow-up would just be, like, how do you feel about your visibility on demand today versus 6-12 months ago?
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: The answer, like I said, large deals, large customers, people buying more of the products, more of the platform, and I feel more confident in it than I was a year ago. I was pretty confident a year ago, but I’ve, you know, we had a lot of change and specialization, and I think there was some cost of change there, and we had that in our guidance, and now that’s not there anymore. I’m more confident now.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: Yeah. I would add just, look, we’ve been focusing on a few things for a while now, which is becoming one of the world’s most secure companies, doing good job there. New product introduction, you’ve seen the results there. Partners, you’ve heard us talk about it today and also in the remarks earlier. Specialization, and all those things have been in this effort to continue to deliver consistent results and ultimately with the goal of growing faster than what we’re doing today. That’s our goal. I think we’ve stated, you know, many, many times that we are not pleased with the growth levels at this level.
We wanna be able to grow faster. That’s why we’re doing all these things and why we’re excited, you know, about the opportunity because we see all of the fruits of our labor starting to pile up and produce solid results. We think that’s just gonna parlay into better results going forward.
Gray Powell, Analyst, BTIG: Understood. Thank you very much.
Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Okta: Okay. Next up is Kingsley Crane at Canaccord.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta1: Thanks for taking the question. On agentic again, I don’t think it’s controversial to say that OAuth and OIDC weren’t originally designed for agentic. Cross App Access is a huge step.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: You know what they were designed for, right? You know what they were designed for, right? It was like, you know, sharing your, you know, X feed, getting a third-party X client access to your X.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta1: Right. Yeah, I mean, people-centric, but so I mean, it seems like you’re fighting a standards war as much as you are fighting a product war. Do you think that’s fair? How critical is it for you to win that war, or is the market sufficiently large where that doesn’t matter?
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: I think standards are very important. I’m not sure that our standard has to win. I think what we there really is nothing like Cross App Access out there. In terms of like the ability for one agent to, instead of asking a person to manually connect other services to that agent, to delegate that to an enterprise IdP and let the IdP ahead of time set up that thing as per enterprise policy, there’s nothing else like it. It’s like very universally accepted as a positive goal. I think the gate on how fast that will be adopted is every SaaS company and every technology vendor, they have. Believe me, they’re reading the headlines.
They understand that they need to innovate in their products, and they’re thinking about Supporting Cross App Access is on their roadmap of priorities. That’s, you know, they’re all trying to do a ton of things and make their services more agentic and more compelling and security and the ability to have them be more enterprise-ready is on their list, but we have to convince them to get it higher on their list. It’s not like a competing standard as like a prioritization thing. Remember, we wanna provide this identity infrastructure and make sure that we give people this solid foundation to build upon, and that’s gonna require standardization just because it’s not gonna...
You can’t use a standard piece of foundation if everyone’s doing their own things in a different way, which is why we’re working with standards bodies in general. It’s not just Cross App Access, but it’s an important part of the equation. I wouldn’t say, like, the whole war rests on one specific standards body or standards battle. I think it’ll be a evolutionary thing over the next several years.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta3: Thank you.
Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Okta: Great. Next up is Mike Sikosa, Needham.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta3: Great. Thanks, guys. Congrats on the strong finish and consistent execution here. On the Okta and Auth0 for AI Agents, if I could just turn it on its head for a second, do you receive pushback from organizations or what are some of the friction points you hear to adopt? Then secondly, I know you guys are obviously focused on this and investing aggressively, but what are current gating factors to driving faster success from an Okta operations standpoint? Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: I think it’s specifically on agentic. I think there, it’s really how fast companies are gonna adopt AI, how fast they’re gonna. I mean, most people are, you know, have chatbots now and copilots or things like that. I think the next wave is actually the autonomous goal-seeking agents, and there’s some of those in the packaged applications. Agentforce and ServiceNow has some of them. Many companies are building their own internal platform to build these themselves. Some of them are using Google’s builder platform, Microsoft’s, or AgentCore from Amazon.
I think the pace of adoption here, particularly on the foundational layer we’re building, is how fast they adopt agentic and then specifically how much that means putting the cross-platform plumbing in that is required when you wanna take an agent from one platform and have it work across platforms. I think it’s, you know, they have a lot coming at them. They’re trying to absorb innovation in different products. They’re trying to figure out what they build. They’re trying to figure out what they buy, and I think our job is to make sure that they understand the foundational elements of what we do and how well it integrates and how seamless it is and how it gives them choice and flexibility.
The success we’ve had has followed that playbook, that’s really a something we’ll keep doing so we catalyze a lot more momentum going forward.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta3: Very helpful. Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: There’s no, there’s no, like, I’m sorry, I’m being a little rambly in my answer. There’s no, we still don’t have the reference architecture. There’s no. You know, a million years ago it was like you had a database, relational database, and you had client server, and then it went to there’s a reference architecture. You had cloud infrastructure, and you had web middleware. There’s that still hasn’t been established for the agentic enterprise, but it will happen quickly. It’s like you use this flexible LLM model, you use this identity layer, you use this, you know, maybe workflow layer. Once that happens, everyone will kind of agree on that, and then you’ll see it really start to crank.
That’s why the stakes are so high to win this identity layer now, which could turn into the biggest market for us ever.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta3: Appreciate it.
Dave Gennarelli, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Okta: All right. Next up we’ll go to Rob Owens at Piper.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta5: Thanks, Dave, good afternoon, everybody. Would love to unpack the growth algorithm a little bit and focus on DBNRR. It’s been flat all year, I guess it’s a little surprising. You know, we think that you’re through the headwinds of COVID, as those have kind of anniversaried on a multi-year cycle. The last couple years have been really strong from a new product standpoint. Now, I realize that retention rates are typically an output, not an input, to a degree, and you’re landing larger, and that’s all great, but as we’ve seen growth continually tick down, we just haven’t seen improvement in this metric. Just curious why that’s the case and when that might change. Thanks.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta8: I can take that one. Eric, if you wanna add a little color. One of the things that has been consistent has been that gross retention. You know, Rob, it’s the most important factor in there. That has been consistent and just been a pillar or a foundation to that number for some time now, actually several years. You know, it’s just the upsell rate that we haven’t seen as much to really keep it higher, right? We think for the balance of FY ’27, we do travel in this range, you know, ± a little bit. What it’s gonna boil down to is how much new business do we do in the year and how much upsell do we do in the year?
We’ve got confidence that pillar of strength, that gross retention will continue to be very healthy. It really boils down to how much upsell versus new business we can generate in FY27, and that’s one of the reasons why we have added this capacity into the system. Regardless if you’re looking at net retention, ultimately what we really care about is that top line revenue growth number or really current RPO growth in front of that.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: In any given year, there’s really only 2 variables that we can play with. One is the productivity per rep, which you’ve heard us talk about over the last several quarters of getting better and better. Actually, we talked about it in FY 25 as well. Good productivity improvement in 25. 26 was a good improvement, enough to say, "Hey, let’s add some more reps into the, into the formula." That’s the second piece of the formula, right? There’s productivity per rep and then how many reps do you have in there? We’ve added a meaningful amount of reps into the system. You can see that in the sales and marketing expense line. I’d invite you to look at the year-over-year growth of Q2, Q3, Q4.
That is going to lead to growth, or at least we expect to lead that to growth in the future. It’s, it’s all part of a bigger plan there, Rob, to be able to accelerate top line growth, not just NRR. I mean, we can talk about NRR, but it’s not as exciting as really that top line current RPO growth that we’re really targeting to go faster. You know, in the medium term. That’s something we’re, we’ve talked to you guys about. We wanna be faster than where we are. Yeah.
The last thing I’ll say on this is for better understanding, Rob, is the RPO is growing faster than the CRPO, which means term lengths are getting longer, which means there’s less to renew every year at an app-app basis, relatively speaking, which is another positive thing that’s gonna drive a potential upsider.
Gray Powell, Analyst, BTIG: Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: Okay. We’ve got about 3 minutes left, so let’s try to get through as many as possible. Next up, we have Peter Levine at Evercore.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: Thanks. Thanks, Dave. I’ll just keep it quick. Most have been answered, my questions have been answered. For Brett, the linearity around professional services, maybe just from a modeling perspective, help us understand how that plays out throughout the year. Is it more of an impact in the second half as partners ramp up on this new program? Just help us understand how we should model that out. Thank you.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: It should be a little bit more impact as the year goes on. That is correct, yes. That’s about right.
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: Thanks.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: Okay. We’ll go to Patrick Colville at Scotiabank.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta4: All right. Thank you for taking my question. I guess my one’s for both Brett and Todd, please. In the prepared remarks, you talked of, you know, fiscal 27, the focus is on prioritizing growth. If I look at the fiscal 27 op margin guide, it’s 25%, you know, which is a great number. It’s the same as the guide provided this time last year. I guess just between the prepared remark comments and that guide, should the read be for, you know, us and investors that staying disciplined on cost, but it’s all about pouring kerosene on the fire and capturing that TAM?
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: It is the latter of the two. We want to be disciplined, and we feel the margins are very healthy at this point. We’ve made tremendous progress over the last 3 years, and we’ve been able to reinvest and do growth-oriented activities. Just take a look at the results in 26, what I just said a couple minutes ago, which is look at the growth in sales and marketing line in Q2, Q3, and Q4 and compare it to some of the other lines like G&A. We’re trying to basically take money from 1 place and put it in another place, so we can grow faster, whether it be in R&D or sales and marketing. That’s ultimately our goal, while still producing very healthy margins, but the goal is to grow faster. We think the opportunity is there.
You’ve heard it from us as a group today, and that’s what we’re gonna continue to do. Also be keeping in mind, we have very healthy margins, and we wanna to take a balanced approach. It’s a structurally more efficient and capable company than it was three years ago. I think you’ll see that going forward, where we can balance things in a very strategic way that accomplishes both those goals. We’re fortunate to have the flexibility to be able to make these. We have a very good business model that something we’re quite proud of, frankly. Okay. We’ll take our last question from Junaid at Truist.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta0: Great. Thanks, Dave. The suite-based pricing that you introduced over the past year, how has the reception been from customers, and is that contributing to these large deal sizes you were alluding to and helping drive broader platform adoption?
Eric Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, Okta: Yeah. Overall, it, the suite-based pricing continues to resonate with customers. It does, in particular, help with larger transactions and larger customers. The other thing it does is it helps us close those deals faster because customers can sign up and then determine where to allocate individual licenses over time. Yeah, it continues to resonate. It’s still a relatively early offer for us, so it’s not yet a significant contributor to the run rate as we talked about earlier. Customers have been very pleased with the offering, and our field has as well, so we expect to continue success there this year.
Brett Tighe, Chief Financial Officer, Okta: All right. Appreciate that, guys. Apologies to those we didn’t get to. Before you go, just wanna let you know that in addition to both on-site and virtual bus tours this quarter, we’ll be attending the Morgan Stanley Conference in San Francisco tomorrow, and also the Wells Fargo Software Symposium in Menlo Park on April ninth. We hope to see you at one of those events. Thanks. Thanks, everyone