Rimini Street Q1 2026 Earnings Call - Agentic AI Modernization Drives Booking Surge and Return to Growth

Operator: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Rimini Street Q1 2026 earnings conference call. This call is being recorded on Thursday, April 30, 2026. I’ll now turn the call over to Dean Pohl, Vice President, Treasurer, and Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Dean Pohl, Vice President, Treasurer, and Head of Investor Relations, Rimini Street: Thank you, operator. I’d like to welcome everyone to Rimini Street’s fiscal first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. On the call with me today is Seth Ravin, our CEO and President, and Michael Perica, our CFO. Today, we issued our earnings press release for the first quarter ending March 31st, 2026. A copy of which can be found on our website under the Investor Relations section. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures has been provided in the tables following the financial statements in the press release. An explanation of these measures and why we believe they are meaningful is also included in the press release and our website under the heading About Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Certain Key Metrics. As a reminder, today’s discussion will include forward-looking statements about our operations that reflect our current outlook.

These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ materially from statements made today. We encourage you to review our most recent SEC filings, including our Form 10-Q filed today for a discussion of risks that may affect our future results or stock price. Before taking questions, we will begin with prepared remarks. With that, I’d like to turn the call over to Seth.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Thank you, Dean Pohl, and thank you, everyone, for joining us. First quarter results. Our first quarter results reflect continued growth and accelerating momentum. A growing number of organizations are leveraging Rimini Support and our proven Rimini Smart Path to execute their global ERP and operational transaction processes faster, better, and cheaper, with more agility and speed to value, all within existing budgets. Rimini Street can help just about any organization lower its total operating costs and improve competitive advantage or improve return for government constituents using technology. We delivered strong growth in adjusted calculated billings and adjusted ARR and expanded remaining performance obligations year-over-year, adjusted for the Oracle PeopleSoft support and services wind down and which includes new logo and renewal subscription sales.

We also continued to make additional strategic investments in our next-generation Rimini Agentic AI ERP solutions that can be quickly deployed over existing ERP software without the cost or risk of unnecessary upgrades, migrations, or replatforming. During the quarter, we closed 11 new client transactions with over $1 million in TCV and totaling $33 million, compared to 5 transactions totaling $5.6 million during the same period last year. We added 50 new logos that included household global and regional brand wins. The combined strength of the second half of 2025 and first quarter 2026 results give us continued confidence in delivering growth in fiscal 2026. Positioning the company for increased growth and profitability.

We are continuing our evolution beyond our position as the premier third-party enterprise software support provider to a leader in also helping clients modernize their existing business transaction systems in the AI era. We are now the software support and Rimini Agentic AI ERP company. Today, more than 1,900 Rimini Street employees in 22 countries are helping organizations avoid unnecessary, costly, and risky ERP and other enterprise software upgrades, migrations, and replatformings that often deliver low ROI and offer little competitive advantage. Instead, organizations can invest in modernization of their existing systems, leveraging next-generation Rimini Agentic AI ERP solutions that can be quickly and economically deployed over their current ERP and other enterprise software and deliver real competitive advantage. We believe we can help organizations achieve significant IT operating cost savings, improve profitability, enhance competitive advantage, and accelerate growth.

Our clients have already realized over $10 billion in operational savings. Rimini Street leads in Agentic AI ERP. We are helping clients set a new vision, technical, and functional path forward from their current vendor ERP software release. A path that does not require any return to the vendor for a future upgrade or migration to their current ERP software release in order to achieve innovation and modernization. The client can innovate and modernize their existing ERP software and other enterprise software using Agentic AI ERP solutions deployed easily, economically, right over the top of their existing software releases. The Rimini Smart Path is our proprietary, proven three-step methodology that clients can use to self-fund and accelerate innovation, especially AI and automation, without undergoing costly, risky, or unnecessary ERP upgrades or rip-and-replace migrations by leveraging and modernizing existing IT environments, all without operational disruption.

Rimini Agentic UX is our AI-driven experience and automation layer that is deployed right over existing client ERP software and turns their ERP software from a static system of record into an autonomous system of action, delivering innovation and modernization in weeks, not years, and at a fraction of the cost of a major upgrade, migration, or replatforming project. Client success stories. Rimini Street is helping clients across many industries, geographies, and software protect and optimize their core ERP systems while funding innovation and modernization, including fixing broken processes, automating workflows and functions, and using AI to solve specific business challenges without disruptive, costly, or risky ERP software upgrade migrations or replatforming. Here are a few examples of our Rimini Street solutions for SAP, Oracle, and VMware software enabling innovation, transforming, and improved competitive advantage for clients.

Cubic Corporation, a U.S. defense and transportation technology company, said that partnering with Rimini Street allowed them to gain full control of their SAP roadmap, avoid a costly SAP S/4HANA upgrade, and reallocate savings and internal capacity towards automation, AI, and broader modernization initiatives. Flextech, a French automotive products company, said that they chose Rimini Support to help reduce risk and operational disruption in its SAP environment, strengthening cybersecurity posture and accelerating compliance readiness while enabling the reallocation of savings towards R&D and modernization programs. KleanNara, a South Korean paper and hygiene products company, said they were able to cut SAP and Oracle vendor maintenance costs by approximately 50% with Rimini Street, stabilizing their core ERP environment and freeing budget and talent to accelerate AI, analytics, cloud expansion, and IoT-driven operational improvements.

WEG, a Brazilian industrial company, said that unifying support across VMware and SAP with Rimini Street created the opportunity to increase operational stability and security while redirecting budget internal resources from maintenance to sustainability and growth initiatives. Partners, alliances, and channels. We continued strengthening and maturing our indirect sales ecosystem, including adding new partner managers for strategic technology, services, and channel relationships. During the quarter, we closed accretive sales transactions globally that we do not believe we would have otherwise closed without partners. These partnerships extend our reach, bring complementary expertise, and help clients execute modernization strategies that combine Rimini Street Support with world-class platforms, cloud services, and AI tooling. The ecosystem is becoming a strategic multiplier for us, accelerating adoption, expanding influence, and enabling shared go-to-market opportunities. Summary. We are focused on accelerating growth, improving profitability, and delivering shareholder return.

We plan to leverage Rimini Street’s proprietary, unique, and proven Smart Path methodology, service portfolio, and capabilities to help a growing list of clients take back control of their technology roadmap and spending and successfully navigate business and technical complexity in the age of AI. Now, over to you, Michael.

Michael Perica, Chief Financial Officer, Rimini Street: Thank you, Seth, and thank you for joining us, everyone. Q1 results. Our first quarter results reflect solid execution and continued sign of momentum, highlighted by remaining performance obligations, RPO, and billings growth along with a return to top-line growth despite the headwinds from the wind-down of support and services for Oracle’s PeopleSoft software. Our strong operating cash flow and cash position enabled us to comfortably make $10 million of additional voluntary principal prepayments that reduced our debt balance to $58.4 million and increased our net cash position to $73.8 million at the end of the quarter. Revenue for the first quarter was $105.5 million, a year-over-year increase of 1.2%. Excluding support services for PeopleSoft products, revenue increased by 5.2% year-over-year. FX movements impacted first quarter revenue negatively by 0.5%.

Annualized recurring revenue was $400.8 million for the first quarter, a year-over-year increase of 1.2%. Our revenue retention rate for service subscriptions, which makes up 95% of our revenue, was 88%, with approximately 81% of subscription revenue non-cancelable for at least 12 months. Billings for the first quarter were $95.3 million, an increase of 19.9% year-over-year. When excluding billings associated with support services for PeopleSoft products, the year-over-year increase was 22.9%. Gross margin was 59.0% of revenue for the first quarter, compared to 61.0% of revenue for the prior year first quarter.

On a non-GAAP basis, which excludes stock-based compensation expense, gross margin was 59.5% of revenue for the first quarter, compared to 61.5% of revenue for the prior year first quarter. Our gross margin in the period was negatively impacted by investments pulled forward in the year to take advantage of market opportunities and select non-subscription engagements that had large front-loaded start-up costs. As noted during our Investor Day presentations last December, our use of innovation and other analytics deployed on top of our existing systems of record provides us with confidence in our ability to build from this current gross margin level and achieve the targets we outlined. Operating expenses. Reorganization charges associated with optimization costs for the first quarter were $407,000.

We have carved out our R&D expenditures of $571,000 in the quarter in a separate line item that reflects our ongoing and increasing research and development activity for our proprietary historical offerings, as well as our burgeoning Agentic AI ERP and UX solutions. Sales and marketing expense as a percentage of revenue was 36.6% for the first quarter, compared to 32.9% of revenue for the prior year first quarter. On a non-GAAP basis, which excludes stock-based compensation expense, sales and marketing expense as a percentage of revenue was 35.8% for the first quarter, compared to 32% of revenue for the prior year first quarter. Our sales and marketing costs in the period was negatively impacted by investments pulled forward in the year to take advantage of market opportunities.

General and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue was 16.9% of revenue for the first quarter, compared to 16.8% of revenue for the prior year first quarter. On a non-GAAP basis, which excludes stock-based compensation expense, G&A was 15.7% of revenue for the first quarter, compared to 15.6% of revenue for the prior year first quarter. As we stated in our most recent earnings call, we do not expect litigation expenses to be material on a going-forward basis and are now including any residual legal costs in the G&A line item in our income statement. Net income attributable to shareholders for the first quarter was $1.4 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to the prior year first quarter of $0.04 per diluted share.

On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the first quarter was $4 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, compared to the first quarter of the prior year of $0.10 per diluted share. Adjusted EBITDA, as defined in our earnings release and now excludes unrealized FX translation adjustments, was $8.9 million for the first quarter, or 8.4% of revenue, compared to the prior year’s first quarter of $15.7 million, or 15.1% of revenue. Balance sheet. We ended the first quarter of 2026 with a cash balance of $132.2 million, compared to $122.6 million of cash for the prior year first quarter.

On a cash flow basis, first quarter operating cash flow increased $24.5 million, compared to the prior year’s first quarter increase of $33.7 million. Deferred revenue as of March 31, 2026 was $277.3 million, compared to deferred revenue of $256.4 million for the prior year first quarter. Remaining performance obligations, RPO, which includes the sum of billed deferred revenue, contract assets, and non-cancelable future revenue, was $643.6 million as of March 31, 2026, compared to $553.1 million for the prior year first quarter, an increase of 16.4%.

When excluding RPO relating to support services for PeopleSoft products, the year-end balance increased 18.2%, reflecting our building momentum with both new bookings growth and longer duration commitments. PeopleSoft support wind down update. Our July 2025 settlement agreement with Oracle provides, amongst other obligation in terms between the parties, that the company will complete its previously announced wind down of its support and services for Oracle’s PeopleSoft software no later than July 31, 2028. We have made progress in reducing both the number of PeopleSoft’s software support clients and related revenues since announcing the wind down.

Revenue from PeopleSoft software support services was 3% of revenue for the first quarter, compared to approximately 7% for the previous year first quarter, and down from 8% of revenue when we began the wind down process during the second half of 2024. Business outlook. The company is providing second quarter 2026 revenue guidance to be in the range of $106 million to $108 million, and reiterating the full year 2026 guidance provided at our investor day in December 2025 of revenue growth in the 4%-6% range and adjusted EBITDA margins in the 12.5%-15.5% range, combined to achieve rule of twenty.

For additional information, please see the disclosures in our Form 10-Q filed today, April 30, 2026, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This concludes our prepared remarks. Operator, we’ll now take questions.

Operator: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Should you have a question, please press star followed by the number 1 on your touch tone phone. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to decline from the polling process, please press star followed by the number 2. If you’re using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. Our first question comes from the line of Brian Kinstlinger from Alliance Global Partners. Please go ahead.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Great. Thanks so much for taking my question. You talked about stronger bookings trends that have started since the second half of 2025. Can you provide any quantifiable context, maybe year-over-year comparisons, either booking totals you can provide or a book-to-bill? Lastly, maybe from a qualitative standpoint, discuss domestic versus international.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Sure, Brian. Seth here. As we said, starting mid last year, we started to see an uptick, and we’ve shown it, of course, in the billings and bookings numbers. The comparables I think have already been in each of the releases, so the team will be happy to get you those, you know, at a later date. I think we’re seeing continued growing demands. We’re seeing continued growing pipelines, and those are now converting, as you’re seeing, into larger contracts. We’re seeing longer term contracts. Just look at the number of deals with the TCV over $1 million. Even in North America, where we had zero of those deals in Q1 of last year, 60% of those deals were in North America this year.

We’re seeing all different indicators of continued growing demand, and our ability to execute continues to get better and better. We’re pleased with what we saw happening in Q1 and how it sets us up even for the full year.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: To follow up on that, you mentioned in your prepared remarks and just now as well about the longer duration. I think traditionally you’ve had one-year contracts, correct me if I’m wrong, whereas they’re renewable for every year. What’s happening now? What are you seeing in terms of duration? Or maybe dig a little deeper into what you’re describing as longer duration.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Well, I think, you know, our average contract length before used to be something short of 3 years, about 2.5, 2.6 years for a new contract. We’re seeing longer term contracts being signed. I think the indication of that is we’re watching customers think about a much longer term for this next phase of technology transition. They’re looking at their existing systems. They’re looking at the amount of change that’s coming their way or being pushed their way, realizing a lot of it isn’t going to generate the kind of return on investment or the competitive advantage they need. They’re looking to us for longer term solutions. I think that’s what you’re seeing play out in the contracts.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Okay. My last question is, last quarter you highlighted 26 customers that were testing your agentic AI solutions. Maybe you can update us on that number, share what feedback you’re getting from them and timelines to production. Lastly, how would you wanna be measured over the next 18 months on your progress of that new solution? Is it improving organic growth rates? Are you gonna discuss the revenue contribution? Just how should investors think about that?

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Well, I think, how they should think about it is exactly based on the guidance. It’s about growth. The fact that we’re returning to growth against the headwinds of the PeopleSoft wind down is certainly a nice indicator. I think the fact that we would return to growth with a mid-single-digit this year. As we said, a rule of 20 is what we’re aiming for between a top line and a bottom line. We want to give ourselves a little range and flexibility between the top line and bottom line. Then look to us to get to that rule of 40 that we want to get to, which of course, requires us to see a double-digit growth on the top line and a double-digit return on the bottom. I think those are very key.

The other part is, obviously, we have investors who wanna see shareholder return. We believe that we sit on surplus cash. We believe that that should be returned to shareholders in one way or another, whether that’s through stock buybacks, whether that’s through paying down debt. Increasing shareholder value is a key component. I think those are the measures that we’re looking at in terms of growing the business. Now, when it comes to the world of agentic AI and Rimini Agentic AI ERP, there’s 2 things you need to remember. There’s 1, there’s the fact that we create a path and we create a vision that customers can follow that doesn’t require any future return to the vendor. That’s very, very key.

That is a big change from prior years, where customers often thought of us as more of a temporary detour for some number of years, and then a return to the vendor to get their next level of innovation. That’s no longer the case, and that’s why you’re watching us win bigger and bigger contracts because customers are liking what we put on the table as a path and a strategy that does not lead them back to the software vendor in a future year. That is changing the game dramatically for us on the ground.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Great. Thanks so much.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Thank you. There’s a lot going on in that, in that part of the world. There’s also significant amount of work for us to do with PE firms. We’ve got our first Vice President of PE sales on board, because today we service accounts that have over 20 different major PE firms represented, and we’re gonna go in and try and work with these firms to work on their bigger portfolios in general. That, again, is another expansion area for us to build on. Those investments were being made. We also, of course, are investing in our Agentic AI ERP solutions. You saw the first time we have an R&D line item because we’re making some investments at the product level. Those are also taking place. We also expanded our sales team. We’re over 80 sellers now.

We’ve moved our numbers back up from the mid-70s% when we last had our last call for end of year. We’re continuing to expand and invest in sales and marketing as well. You saw temporarily the expenses went up as a % of revenue, but we expect those will normalize throughout the year.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Just to follow on to that, given all of those incremental revenue opportunities and in light of the revenue outperformance in the quarter relative to the guides, you didn’t flow it through to the annual guide. Just help me understand what was in play there.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Well, I think we want to just take it very carefully. As you know, we didn’t grow for a while there, and we’re back and feeling very positive and very confident in our growth for the year and hence the mid-single digit growth targets that we set out there. We wanna just get another quarter under the belt and think about that before we talk about any kind of raise in the guidance.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Okay, maybe just last, Seth, on, customer retention. I know it’s a focus and, the Agentic UX and some other things probably have some opportunities to help there. How should we think about churn over the next several quarters? This retention number’s been at 88 here for at least a few quarters. Just any big churn events coming up here, and how do you think about retention next several quarters?

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Well, the 88%, remember, is a TTM rear view view of the total number. We feel very good. As I noted in the prepared remarks, We beat our internal numbers on the retention number. It’s just gonna take a while to show up in the TTM number. I think when you look at the RPO, some of those are even related to renewals. We’re seeing good, strong renewals out of the 1st quarter and feeling good about where we’re looking to the year. Our goal is, of course, to see that TTM return to over a 90% number. We feel that we should start to see it show up in the metrics, starting in the next quarter or so.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Okay, great. I’ll leave it there.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Thank you.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Alex Fuhrman from Lucid Capital Markets. Your line is now open.

Alex Fuhrman, Analyst, Lucid Capital Markets: Hey, guys. Thanks very much for taking my question. Congratulations on the return to growth here in Q1. Looks like here in the first quarter, you added about 30 active clients relative to where you ended 2025. The last three years, you know, give or take, Q1’s been about flat in terms of customer acquisition. You know, is this just, you know, more of the same what we’ve been kind of talking about, you know, increased demand for your AI solutions? Are we maybe starting to see more of a year-round sales and adoption process as your clients are starting to implement more AI?

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Sure, thanks. We absolutely are seeing improvement in everything from the number of leads coming in to lead conversion to opportunity to closes. Higher quality pipeline, higher quality execution. The demand environment is absolutely growing as well. There is no doubt that the world of AI has changed the dynamics from a technological standpoint. You’re also watching, as Rimini Street had predicted many years ago, the breakup of these big ERP monolithic systems into smaller pieces, we call it composable ERP. Those pieces are breaking down further. What this means is that businesses and government organizations are now able to buy pieces à la carte, let’s say, versus having to buy them all in one big package. We’re well-positioned, maybe the best position, to help customers through all these technological transitions, including the thoughtful implementation of AI where it’s appropriate.

Because our number 1 objective is driving down the total cost of operations and improving profitability or improving share return for government organizations, we think we are well-positioned to help customers for the long term, and we’re talking 5, 10, 15, 20 years through this next phase of transition. I think all of that coming together is what we’re watching and showing up in the numbers.

Alex Fuhrman, Analyst, Lucid Capital Markets: Okay. That’s, that’s really helpful. Thanks for all of that color. Then I see you have a new line item here, research and development. Sounds like that’s gonna be more of a focus for the company going forward. How much should we expect to see there, you know, going forward there this year and in the future?

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Well, I think this is a-

Michael Perica, Chief Financial Officer, Rimini Street: Alex-

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Oh, I’m sorry.

Michael Perica, Chief Financial Officer, Rimini Street: No, go ahead, Seth. Go ahead.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: I was just going to say that, you know, we expect to continue to make investments in this space because we’ve been a services company. We’ve always had products, but the opportunity for us to develop more in the product and the licensing arena for subscription licenses has increased. We’re going to make those investments. Keep in mind, we’re staying within our guidance limits. We’re not talking about changing guidance even with the R&D line item. I’m sorry, Michael, you wanted to add there?

Michael Perica, Chief Financial Officer, Rimini Street: Yeah. Just wanna augment in the point that Seth made, Alex, at the end, that this was incorporated overall in our guidance. We do expect it to creep up throughout the year and can exit the year about 1% or so. That’s how we’re looking at it to augment these key technological investments, both of what we have existing and these new offerings that we’re talking about.

Alex Fuhrman, Analyst, Lucid Capital Markets: Okay. That’s really helpful. Thank you, guys, very much.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Thank you.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Brian Kinstlinger from Alliance Global Partners. Please go ahead.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Yeah, great. Thanks. I just wanted to confirm that today, the revenue from the Agentic AI solution is quite modest, but that we’ll begin to see that contribution pick up maybe in the second half of the year into next year. My second part of my question is: Will there eventually be a report or some kind of metric that helps investors frame how much revenue is coming from that new solution?

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Sure, Brian. Of course, it’s not a, it’s not what we’d call a material amount yet from the Agentic AI ERP solutions themselves. Two ways to think about this. There is the actual revenue that’s accretive that comes from solutions and sales and licensing and subscriptions in the Agentic bucket. That’s a new set of products and services. There’s a second more important one, which is already at work here, and that is the fact that we have created a vision, and we have a path, and we have a solution going forward for customers that leads them away from having to do vendor upgrades and migrations in the future and allows them to drive their existing systems with modernization on that platform. That alone is what’s driving, we believe, underneath a lot of the extra demand we’re seeing.

That is creating new demand that we did not have before, and it’s bringing customers back to the table who have now come back to us to join Rimini Street, who before had turned us down. Proposals that they didn’t move forward with, we’re now able to show them a path forward with an Agentic capability that says, "Okay, we’ll go ahead and move forward at this time." Don’t underestimate the very fact that we have this path and this vision and technology. That alone is driving increased sales.

Brian Kinstlinger, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Okay. Thank you.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Sure.

Operator: There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call over to our CEO, Seth Ravin. Please continue.

Seth Ravin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Rimini Street: Great. Well, thank you very much, and thanks everyone for joining us, and we will see you on the next earnings call. Have a great day.

Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.