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Analyst
Brad Reback
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters; questions recorded in 6).
- Questions
- 22on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 14%3 of 22 questions
- Companies
- 6questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 6with questions
These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.
How to read these numbers
Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.
Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.
No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.
Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.
Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.
Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.
Questions asked
Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.
Showing 22 of 22 questions from 6 companies
ROPRoper Technologies7 questions · 4 reporting periods · 1 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
this is the second quarter in a row you've missed expectations. And you're guiding to a back-half acceleration in '26
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Neil reconciled 2025 miss to three factors: Deltek GovCon, Neptune, ProCare. For 2026, assuming no Deltek improvement, no DAT acceleration, modest Neptune decline. Back-half acceleration is mostly mechanical from CentralReach and SubSplash turning organic plus easing nonrecurring comps, not go-get.
Can you give us what it was in 4Q?
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Jason disclosed Q4 bookings up high single digits despite Deltek down low double digits (SaaS strong but perpetual meaningfully down). Vertafore had strong quarter off tough comp. Healthcare remained particularly strong.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Software bookings decelerated a little bit sequentially, I think from the mid-teens to the high singles. Was that predominantly Deltek? Or were there other drivers there?
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Jason confirmed Deltek and Frontline drove deceleration. TTM bookings still up low double digits. Healthcare particularly strong, Strata/Syntellis combination gaining market traction, Clinisys doing well in Europe and U.S. bolt-on markets.
you talked about the rollout of the AI SKUs happening now through the first half of '26 and then needing to sell it. That all seems like we should be thinking about this more of a '27 and beyond or...
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Neil confirmed meaningful AI revenue impact is a 2027 story. Expects building bookings momentum in 2026 across 20+ software businesses but commercial activity must accompany innovation before material impact.
Calendar 2025 Q2
following up on that 30% productivity gain comment. How do you decide what falls to the bottom line and what gets invested back
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Neil said current mantra is reinvest productivity gains to drive competitive advantage and top line growth rather than take cost out. Focus on doing more with available resources.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Given that there are 200,000 providers on the platform, does the gross retention rate look a little different here than maybe other aspects
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Jason explained logo retention is mid-to-high 90s, but therapist churn brings gross to low 90s. Net retention of 115-120% as market consolidation flows to winners.
As it relates to free cash flow and operating cash flow, should we expect a return to growth here in June? Or is it more back-end weighted?
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Jason explained back-half weighted FCF due to Q2 federal tax payments and bond coupon timing, with strong Q3 from Transact seasonal EBITDA concentration.
MDBMongoDB, Inc.5 questions · 4 reporting periods · 2 of 5 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
Philosophically, how do you think about M&A as it relates to Mongo?
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CJ emphasized organic growth, calling Voyage AI a strong acquisition, and said M&A is considered only for adjacent technology or teams that accelerate the roadmap.
are you seeing new customers ramp faster for net new workloads than they have been historically?
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Dev credited self-serve friction removal and 8.x price/performance for faster onboarding; Mike noted the revenue impact of that cohort has not changed materially.
Calendar 2025 Q3
The 7% EA ARR growth seems fine. I'm assuming you're not satisfied with single-digit growth there.
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Dev gave no longer-term EA growth target, instead emphasizing hybrid on-prem/cloud optionality on one codebase as EA's value proposition; a partial answer.
Calendar 2025 Q2
AI only being modestly incremental to revenue growth in 2026 here. Is that the same expectation ninety days later?
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Dev reaffirmed AI is early and only modestly incremental near-term, citing skills, trust, and hallucination barriers; enduring value from custom AI apps.
Calendar 2024 Q4
should we think about this incremental investment phase next year as gating margin upside?
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Dev declined to commit on next year's margins, reiterating high conviction in up-market, legacy-modernization, and GenAI investments.
SNOWSnowflake Inc.4 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
is that fundamentally changing the competitive landscape when you're going into new customers?
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Sridhar emphasized customer choice, cloud independence and model choice (partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI) as the value proposition; Brian added it was the most net new customer adds in company history, strong across all geographies and verticals.
Calendar 2025 Q4
how do you think about balancing the huge opportunity in front of you and the ability to drive margin expansion?
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Sridhar said growth and margin are not either-or, citing AI-driven internal efficiency gains.
Calendar 2025 Q3
I know last quarter, you talked about having good line of sight into that level of activity.
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Mike cited identified on-prem and first-generation cloud migration workloads going into production.
Calendar 2025 Q2
Maybe an update on how that's tracking and if that had any impact on the strong bookings in the quarter.
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Mike said the bookings quota component helped but the two large known deals drove bookings strength.
DDOGDatadog3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
should we assume that if we ex out the sequential downtick in that customer that the core guide would have been probably 300 or 400 basis points higher?
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Olivier declined to quantify the impact, redirecting to the message that the business ex the largest customer is growing at the same accelerating rate, and David reiterated that non-AI has accelerated and AI ex the largest customer continues.
Calendar 2025 Q4
Can you give us a sense of where you are in that productivity curve? And if there's additional meaningful gains you think
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Pomel noted feeling good about productivity. Focus is on scaling capacity while maintaining productivity, not improving productivity per se. More go-to-market scaling expected in 2026.
Calendar 2025 Q1
what are you thinking philosophically as it relates to that maybe on-prem workloads in general
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Pomel discussed new products for monitoring on-prem from the cloud and testing customer-managed data options for geopolitical needs.
INTUIntuit2 questions · 1 reporting period · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2024 Q4
it would feel like the recovery in Mailchimp is more a driver next year, than needed for this year
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Sandeep confirmed Mailchimp recovery is a multi-quarter effort focused on first-time use. Not banking on Mailchimp improvement for the 20% online ecosystem target this year.
in the quarter, money represented well over half of the growth in online services. Should we expect that to continue
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Sandeep expressed confidence in money portfolio as key contributor to 20% online ecosystem growth for the year without guiding by subsegment.
MSFTMicrosoft Corporation1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2024 Q4
any sense of what percent of inference done on Azure will be done on proprietary models versus open models
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Nadella argued apps will use a mix of frontier and distilled/open models and emphasized Foundry as the app-server layer; did not quantify the mix.
Challenge rate by company
Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| ROP Roper Technologies | 7 | 14%1 of 7 questions |
| MDB MongoDB, Inc. | 5 | 40%2 of 5 questions |
| SNOW Snowflake Inc. | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| DDOG Datadog | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions |
| INTU Intuit | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| MSFT Microsoft Corporation | 1 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
- ROPRoper Technologies · 7 questions14%1 of 7 questions
- MDBMongoDB, Inc. · 5 questions40%2 of 5 questions
- SNOWSnowflake Inc. · 4 questions0%none of 4 questions
- DDOGDatadog · 3 questions0%none of 3 questions
- INTUIntuit · 2 questions—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- MSFTMicrosoft Corporation · 1 question—rate withheld: under 3 questions
Activity by reporting period
Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 4 | 25%1 of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q1 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q2 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q3 | 4 | 25%1 of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q4 | 6 | 17%1 of 6 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q1 | No questions recorded | — | — |
| 2026 Q2 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 2 |
- 2024 Q44 questions · challenge rate 25% (1 of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q13 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q23 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q34 questions · challenge rate 25% (1 of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q46 questions · challenge rate 17% (1 of 6 questions) · 4 companies
- 2026 Q1No questions recorded
- 2026 Q22 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 2 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Revenue Growth11
- Demand8
- Cloud & AI5
- Margin4
- Competitive Dynamics3
- Subscriber Growth3
- Guidance Reliability2
- Capex Investment2
- M&A1
- Innovation & R&D1
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- Capital Allocation1