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Brad Reback

Stifel · covers Technology, Industrials

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
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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

ChallengingGuidance ReliabilityDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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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?

DemandRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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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?

DemandRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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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...

Cloud & AIRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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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

Subscriber GrowthDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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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?

Capital AllocationMarginTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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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
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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?

Subscriber GrowthDemandTranscript · FY2026 Q3 →
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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.

ChallengingRevenue GrowthDemandTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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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?

Cloud & AIRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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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?

ChallengingMarginCapex InvestmentTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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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
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Calendar 2026 Q2

is that fundamentally changing the competitive landscape when you're going into new customers?

Competitive DynamicsDemandTranscript · FY2027 Q1 →
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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
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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?

Revenue GrowthGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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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

Capex InvestmentRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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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

Cloud & AICompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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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
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Calendar 2024 Q4

it would feel like the recovery in Mailchimp is more a driver next year, than needed for this year

Subscriber GrowthRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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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

Revenue GrowthDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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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
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Calendar 2024 Q4

any sense of what percent of inference done on Azure will be done on proprietary models versus open models

Cloud & AICompetitive DynamicsInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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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.

CompanyQuestionsChallenge rate
ROP Roper Technologies714%1 of 7 questions
MDB MongoDB, Inc.540%2 of 5 questions
SNOW Snowflake Inc.40%none of 4 questions
DDOG Datadog30%none of 3 questions
INTU Intuit2—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
MSFT Microsoft Corporation1—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
  • ROP
    Roper Technologies · 7 questions
    14%1 of 7 questions
  • MDB
    MongoDB, Inc. · 5 questions
    40%2 of 5 questions
  • SNOW
    Snowflake Inc. · 4 questions
    0%none of 4 questions
  • DDOG
    Datadog · 3 questions
    0%none of 3 questions
  • INTU
    Intuit · 2 questions
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions
  • MSFT
    Microsoft 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”.

Questions by calendar reporting period
Calendar periodQuestionsChallenge rateCompanies
2024 Q4425%1 of 4 questions3
2025 Q130%none of 3 questions2
2025 Q230%none of 3 questions3
2025 Q3425%1 of 4 questions3
2025 Q4617%1 of 6 questions4
2026 Q1No questions recorded——
2026 Q220%none of 2 questions2
  1. 2024 Q44 questions · challenge rate 25% (1 of 4 questions) · 3 companies
  2. 2025 Q13 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
  3. 2025 Q23 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 3 companies
  4. 2025 Q34 questions · challenge rate 25% (1 of 4 questions) · 3 companies
  5. 2025 Q46 questions · challenge rate 17% (1 of 6 questions) · 4 companies
  6. 2026 Q1No questions recorded
  7. 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