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Pure Storage Earnings Highlights: Double-Digit Growth and AI Opportunities

by Team Lumida
August 29, 2024
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Pure Storage Earnings Highlights: Double-Digit Growth and AI Opportunities
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Pure Storage delivered strong Q2 FY2025 results with 11% year-over-year revenue growth, outpacing industry averages and demonstrating continued market share gains.

Summary

Pure Storage reported Q2 revenue of $764 million, up 11% year-over-year, exceeding guidance and maintaining double-digit growth. CEO Charlie Giancarlo emphasized the company’s market share gains and innovation leadership:

“Pure continues to pick up market share, and outpace the industry, both in innovation and in growth.”

Main Themes

  • Guidance: Reaffirmed FY2025 revenue target of $3.1 billion (10.5% growth) and operating profit of $532 million
  • Competition: Intensifying efforts from competitors, with Pure seen as the “alpha competitor”
  • AI Opportunities: Three key areas identified – training environments, enterprise inference, and data accessibility
  • New Product Announcements: Next-generation Fusion storage cloud architecture and AI storage-as-a-service for GPU clouds
  • Economic Outlook: No significant change in overall macro environment or customer buying intentions

Insights

Pure Storage is strategically targeting cost-sensitive workloads with its all-flash solutions, particularly the FlashArray//E and FlashBlade//E offerings. This approach is driving strong sales growth but is expected to result in a modest, strategic decline in product gross margins during the second half of the fiscal year.

The company’s Direct Flash technology continues to provide a significant competitive advantage, offering 5-10x reduction in space, power, and cooling requirements compared to hard disks. This efficiency is particularly appealing in the current environment of rising energy costs and power constraints.

Market Opportunity

Pure Storage is expanding its addressable market by targeting hyperscaler infrastructure opportunities. The company is in advanced discussions with a lead hyperscaler prospect and expects to secure its first design win by year-end. The potential market is substantial, with the top ten hyperscalers projected to buy almost 70% of all disk drives (over 600 exabytes) this year alone.

Market Commentary

The storage market is showing resilience in the current IT economy, but Pure Storage has not yet observed a positive inflection point. Customers are increasingly focused on managing escalating costs from software, cloud, and SaaS services, which is creating opportunities for Pure’s more efficient storage solutions.

Customer Behaviors

Customers are re-evaluating their IT spending priorities, particularly in light of AI advancements. While there is strong interest in AI capabilities, many organizations are still in the investigation phase, studying potential use cases and infrastructure requirements. Pure Storage is seeing increased demand for high-performance storage solutions to support machine learning and training environments.

Capex

  • Capital expenditures for Q2: $60 million
  • Significant investments in engineering for new test equipment supporting key strategic growth initiatives, including hyperscaler infrastructure opportunities

Economy Insights

“We have not seen a significant change in the overall macro environment or our customers’ intentions to buy. We have, however, seen customers look to manage increasing costs in cloud, software and SaaS.” – Charlie Giancarlo, CEO

Industry Insights

The focus on AI is driving a re-evaluation of enterprise storage architectures. Current data stores are often siloed and lack the performance and connectivity needed to serve data directly for AI engines and analytics. This challenge presents an opportunity for storage providers to offer solutions that eliminate data silos and improve data accessibility for AI workloads.

Key Metrics

Financial Metrics

  • Q2 Revenue: $764 million (11% YoY growth)
  • Operating Profit: $139 million
  • Total Gross Margin: 72.8%
  • Subscription Services ARR: $1.5 billion (24% YoY growth)
  • Total RPO: $2.3 billion (24% YoY growth)

KPIs

  • New customer acquisition: 261 customers added in Q2
  • Now serving 62% of the Fortune 500
  • TCV sales for storage-as-a-service offerings in Q2: $101 million

“Our Evergreen//One as-a-service business is strong, demonstrating robust pipeline growth and consistent success in converting opportunities valued at $5 million or less.” – Kevan Krysler, CFO

Competitive Differentiators

  1. DirectFlash technology offering superior energy efficiency and density
  2. Fusion storage cloud architecture for unified data management
  3. AI-specific storage solutions, including storage-as-a-service for GPU clouds
  4. Strong position in QLC-based arrays, particularly with the E-family products
  5. Expertise in multi-vendor, multi-process flash management

Key Risks

  1. Extended closing timelines for larger Evergreen//One opportunities
  2. Potential impact of rising NAND prices on gross margins
  3. Intensifying competition in the storage market
  4. Uncertainty around the timing and scale of AI-driven storage demand
  5. Execution risks associated with hyperscaler infrastructure opportunities

Analyst Q&A Focus Areas

  • Evergreen//One TCV target reduction and its impact on revenue guidance
  • Progress and challenges in securing hyperscaler design wins
  • Competitive dynamics, particularly around QLC-based arrays
  • AI-related revenue and order book composition
  • Gross margin trends and expectations

Pure Storage Summary:

Pure Storage continues to demonstrate strong growth and market share gains in a competitive storage landscape. The company’s focus on AI-driven opportunities, hyperscaler infrastructure, and efficient all-flash solutions positions it well for future growth. However, investors should monitor the progress of large Evergreen//One deals, the success of the hyperscaler strategy, and the impact of strategic pricing decisions on gross margins. The company’s ability to capitalize on the growing demand for AI-ready storage infrastructure will be crucial for maintaining its growth trajectory in the coming quarters.

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