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Analyst
Tyler Radke
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q3 (8 quarters).
- Questions
- 51on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 8%4 of 51 questions
- Companies
- 12questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 8with 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 51 of 51 questions from 12 companies
ADSKAutodesk12 questions · 7 reporting periods · 1 of 12 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
why now? Why sort of midway through the year?
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Janesh said the disclosure changes reflect the launch of the operations business with MaintainX and the convergence strategy, committing to regular commentary on construction (growing north of 20%), Fusion, and operations, plus MaintainX revenue for four quarters. Direct answer.
Calendar 2026 Q2
their appetite to allow Autodesk to use their data, in terms of AI, and how have those conversations evolved
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Andrew framed data use around transparency and opt-out choice, describing productive customer conversations. Direct.
Calendar 2026 Q1
are there sort of other partnerships and investments that we should be expecting you to make
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Andrew said to expect Autodesk to lean into operations (extending engagement from months/years to decades) following the construction playbook. World Labs is significant but operations space expansion is next.
can you just help us understand how much is sort of driven by the go-to-market changes in that restructuring
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Janesh explained this restructuring impacts customer-facing sales roles (vs prior non-selling roles), creating natural disruption. Q4's 14% laps an easy prior year. Data center business has been great, capacity shifts between sectors mean demand is viewed in aggregate.
Calendar 2025 Q4
is this strength is this coming in well above your expectations
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Janesh said direct revenue mix increase was expected with NTM scaling. Store strength partly channel shift but also broader-based from countries without NTM rollout. India, LatAm, and Middle East contributing.
where is that underlying growth of the business? In your view now
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Janesh acknowledged FY26 started with prudent 8-9% guide (first full-year guidance, post-restructuring). Described business as consistent and resilient, with similar consistency implied in Q4 guide. Will consider GTM and macro risks for FY27.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Why give that FY '29 outlook now?
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Janesh said they completed long-term planning and wanted to address high-interest stockholder question. FCF and operating income will correlate highly as the business model settles.
Is there any new PLG motions or marketing initiatives you're doing?
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Andrew confirmed PLG investment for construction and Fusion via the store. Self-service cross-sell/upsell automation still in development and will take time to monetize.
Calendar 2025 Q2
did the EBA timing land a little bit different than you expected?
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Janesh said EBA upfront revenue was one of several positive factors alongside strong billings linearity. Renewal rates and uplift momentum unchanged, with prudence factored in.
are you thinking about the uplift or, you know, the pricing philosophy as those customers come up for renewal
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Andrew confirmed the 10-year maintenance-to-subscription price lock program is approaching sunset, with future increases tied to value delivered. Too early for specifics.
Calendar 2024 Q4
Can you just help us understand, do you think that reacceleration is durable?
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Andrew emphasized organic growth plus inorganic acceleration from Payapps, growing international distribution, and end-to-end solution demand driving durability.
What are some of the areas that you've identified as having that efficiency potential?
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Andrew outlined self-service, data-driven upsell/cross-sell automation, and channel partner transformation from transactional to solution-focused as efficiency levers.
VEEVVeeva Systems Inc.10 questions · 7 reporting periods · 1 of 10 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
when you see the kind of the growth inflection happening from those S curves
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Brian Van Wagener declined to give timing beyond the current year but expressed confidence in the trajectory of EDC, eCOA, RTSM, Safety and LIMS toward 2030.
Calendar 2026 Q2
Were there a lot of top 20s included there? Can you just talk about the pipeline, particularly in Development Cloud.
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Peter said pipeline is strong with enterprise wins in safety and quality, attributing the lack of large top 20 Dev Cloud wins to timing.
Calendar 2026 Q1
are you seeing any acceleration in implementation times driven by AI or other things? And just sort of what drove that outperformance
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Peter attributed outperformance to good execution and timing. Implementation times shortening naturally as products and services improve. Big push on tech-enabling services hasn't borne much fruit yet but expects it in 1-2 years. AI helping with system migration, cited EDC migration use case. Still early days.
Calendar 2025 Q4
where those heads are focused and then anything you would call out in terms of how to think about margin expansion into next year
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Brian said hiring is in product and services (including Generation Veeva college program). Some services margin impact as new hires ramp. Will wind down over time as new hires build projects.
I was wondering if you could just sort of elaborate on it
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Peter said decisions involve individual dynamics, cultural alignment, and desire to try something new. Win-backs depend on executive turnover, vendor non-delivery, or project failure, could be one year or ten years.
Calendar 2025 Q3
what do you think is, you know, puts you at an advantage, you know, whether certain design or technology decision that you made
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Peter said the structural advantage is having deep system-of-record applications with users in workflow. Agents run inside Vault with full security, transaction control, and data access. Contrasted with AgentForce growing from call center use case and generic toolkit approaches.
is there a sort of immediate imminent revenue unlocks that is perhaps driving the higher forecast for this year
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Peter said IQVIA revenue impact is not material for this year but will contribute in coming years. Higher confidence in the year comes from Q3/Q4 being closer with things firming up.
Calendar 2025 Q2
To what extent do you view this opportunity? Is this a potential tailwind
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Peter said reshoring is not material for Veeva. Large customers have enterprise capabilities regardless. Could potentially delay quality projects if emergency reshoring takes strategic focus, but no evidence so far.
are you increasing, you know, discount rates or any type of deterioration in close rate assumptions
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Brian said the Q1 outperformance was largely Crossix and services timing. Services expected to normalize Q2-Q4. The Crossix beat pulls through to the balance of the year. Business is largely as expected ninety days ago.
Calendar 2024 Q4
just any way of framing how we should think about the growth in the context of this year and in your long-term targets
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Brian declined to give specific FY26 guidance but noted marginally better visibility. Updated FY25 guidance reflects subscription growth of about 15%.
PTCPTC Inc.6 questions · 6 reporting periods · 0 of 6 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
How much are you assuming for the deferred ARR contribution there? And then as we look at FY '27
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DiRico gave the 2x deferred ARR figure for fiscal '27 but explicitly declined to quantify the Q4 contribution.
Calendar 2026 Q1
can you just help us understand like how are you benefiting? What are some of the increased levels of complexity that are driving demand for PTC products
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Barua described data center infrastructure companies facing fragmented PLM environments with multiple systems and manual processes. AI aspiration leads back to needing structured data foundation. PTC positioned as picks and shovels underneath the data center build-out. Displacements accelerating across Codebeamer, PLM, Onshape and Creo.
Calendar 2025 Q4
the magnitude in which that surprised you in in the quarter and then how that changes for the year
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Barua framed the entire transformation narrative: 12 months of GTM work now showing in demand capture. Inflection point becoming more apparent in Q4 2026 and substantially in FY2027-2028. Building a durable accelerating growth company, not optimizing in-quarter ARR.
Calendar 2025 Q3
how do you think about where the growth of this business could go over time? What are sort of the key levers you need to see for this business to get back into the double digits
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Barua did not commit to a double-digit timeline but described ingredients: Intelligent Product Lifecycle vision resonating, GTM foundation set, business focus sharpened with divestiture. Said this year is about repeating and making it durable, then results will speak for themselves.
Calendar 2025 Q2
How are you sort of thinking about the evolution of verticalization as well as the product in packaging at this point?
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Barua described win rates creeping up, rep productivity improving, and vertical messaging being deployed. Dahdah added outcomes-based messaging is being tested internally and externally and is on track to inform FY2026 planning.
Calendar 2025 Q1
if you’re seeing a risk uncertainty for a specific product or if it’s in a specific vertical, if there’s any more color you have to provide on that
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Barua confirmed uncertainty is not product-specific since all PTC products are mission-critical. Framed it as customers reassessing investment timing based on supply chain, input costs and manufacturing location uncertainties triggered by April trade policy changes.
MDBMongoDB, Inc.5 questions · 4 reporting periods · 1 of 5 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
you talked about some inference workloads at AI labs. Can you just elaborate on were those new this quarter?
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CJ said one lab began inference on Atlas late last year as a memory layer and added more inference workloads in Q2 after strong read/write performance versus Postgres.
Calendar 2026 Q1
some of the challenges with the prior approach that didn't lead out to as robust of a partner ecosystem
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CJ laid out a three-bucket partner strategy, hyperscalers, a few system integrators for modernization, and the AI-native ecosystem, leveraging his ServiceNow playbook.
were these existing workloads that moved from Atlas to EA? Or was this sort of plans for new workloads?
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Mike said the Atlas/EA mix is customer-specific with no pattern; CJ added this customer runs hybrid infrastructure, keeping some workloads on EA and growing others on Atlas.
Calendar 2025 Q3
how much of that is playing into the Atlas strength that you're seeing here in the quarter?
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Dev candidly said the AI-native cohort was not a material driver of Q2 growth despite adding thousands of such customers; growth came from the core business.
Calendar 2024 Q4
So curious how the quality of workload acquisition has trended this year.
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Dev said workload-quality changes are having a reasonable positive impact but it is too early to declare victory since workloads start small and grow.
ADBEAdobe Inc.4 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
the guidance raise on the full year was slightly short of kind of the beat in Q3.
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Steven attributed the gap between the beat and the raise to a slight FX headwind into Q4, with nothing changing in the underlying business.
was just hoping to kind of, like, understand your perspective on creative positioning.
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Anil emphasized an expanding creativity TAM and the SaaS-to-agentic-software shift, deferring product specifics to Adobe MAX.
Calendar 2025 Q3
I was wondering if you could comment on if you have any texture on kind of the performance ex price
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Shantanu said strength was broad across all areas: CC Pro migration, Firefly subscriptions driving new creators, and Firefly Services in the enterprise.
Calendar 2025 Q2
how you're thinking about, you know, overall Gen AI usage versus monetization
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Shantanu said AI-influenced revenue already in the billions. Tracking ahead of $250M AI Direct ARR target. Very early in AI monetization but advanced in innovation delivery.
SNOWSnowflake Inc.4 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
Does it make sense for Snowflake to take on more of the system of record data?
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Sridhar and Christian said owning the UX (CoCo/CoWork) is critical and hybrid tables plus Postgres position Snowflake for operational systems of record.
Calendar 2025 Q4
How are those structured from a duration perspective, and are you expected to see significant growth in those deals?
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Sridhar said the four nine-figure customers spend significantly, and product revenue is the best forward indicator.
Calendar 2025 Q3
how are they bucketing and thinking about the different swim lanes of these various technologies
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Sridhar asserted Snowflake's leadership on ease of use, connectedness and trust versus competitors.
Calendar 2025 Q2
what are you seeing specifically among kind of larger AI native customers in terms of their consumption?
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Mike said AI-native customers remain less than 1% of revenue, no extraordinary contribution.
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CRWVCoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q3
Is this a delay that you think kind of gets fully resolved into Q1?
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Management said the vast majority of the delayed CapEx and capacity resolves in Q1 2026; answered directly.
Calendar 2025 Q2
Can you just help us understand the timing aspect there, particularly with CapEx a little bit lighter than we expected
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Management described the power-then-CapEx-then-revenue sequence backloaded into Q4 but did not fully quantify; partial.
Calendar 2025 Q1
which came in a bit higher for Q1 and is guided to be a bit higher for Q2, can you just double click on the main factors
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Management explained improved vendor terms reduced capitalized interest, raising reported interest expense; answered directly.
NOWServiceNow3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 1 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
help us understand the relatively modest full year subscription revenue raise versus the Q2 outperformance?
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Gina explained about half the beat was on-prem timing that doesn't recur, that all net new ACV overachievement was passed through, and she is being prudent for the back half.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Can you just talk to what do you think is sort of driving that type of consumption? I mean, I imagine it's pretty broad-based, but if you're seeing that outsized in a particular vertical or use case.
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Amit explained agentic workflows consume 5-12x more assists per call than simple summarization. Prepackaged flows get customers live faster, driving rapid consumption growth. Bill cited Lenovo (35% faster resolution, 100% CSAT) and Bell (3M calls deflected). Gina confirmed $500M tracking ahead of plan.
Calendar 2025 Q1
I'm curious about how you think about the glide path for Pro Plus adoption through this year. Are you anticipating greater adoption in the back half given bigger renewal quarters or similar trends ...
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Amit said agentic AI in Yokohama release is accelerating Pro Plus adoption with prepackaged agents and orchestration engine. Gina noted Now Assist is one key growth lever but not the only one, CRM, creator workflows, security, and core workflows all contribute to 20%+ CAGR target.
FIGFigma, Inc.1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
as you think about AI becoming a larger piece of the business, obviously, usage is more volatile than subscription seats.
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Praveer cited tougher pricing comps in H2, coterminous add-on contracting for visibility, and possible variability if pay-as-you-go grows.
NBISNebius Group N.V.1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
How do you think about the mix of allocating 2027 capacity between short-dated capacity versus multiyear deals? Is there a threshold of ACV per megawatt you are waiting for on the longer-dated deal...
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Marc Boroditsky said Nebius optimizes across customer type, price, payment structure, duration and deal size rather than a single metric, prioritizing existing customers, then new logos, then terms, and has tactically shortened how far in advance it sells capacity to improve pricing.
ORCLOracle Corporation1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
How are you thinking about the opportunity to sell additional services such as database, middleware, other pieces of the portfolio
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Larry detailed three-step strategy: multi-cloud database everywhere, vectorize all data for AI models, then AI Data Platform lake house unifying all enterprise data across systems.
SHOPShopify1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q2
I was wondering if you could just double-click on kind of what specifically is driving that? Are you seeing kind of improving payback trends, new logo acquisition opportunity?
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Jeff attributed marketing ramp to improved internal models yielding better signal, noting Q3 2024 was a testing period creating a tough year-over-year comparison. Broad-based support across all geographies and segments.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ADSK Autodesk | 12 | 8%1 of 12 questions |
| VEEV Veeva Systems Inc. | 10 | 10%1 of 10 questions |
| PTC PTC Inc. | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions |
| MDB MongoDB, Inc. | 5 | 20%1 of 5 questions |
| ADBE Adobe Inc. | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| SNOW Snowflake Inc. | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| CRWV CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions |
| NOW ServiceNow | 3 | 33%1 of 3 questions |
| FIG Figma, Inc. | 1 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| NBIS Nebius Group N.V. | 1 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
- ADSKAutodesk · 12 questions8%1 of 12 questions
- VEEVVeeva Systems Inc. · 10 questions10%1 of 10 questions
- PTCPTC Inc. · 6 questions0%none of 6 questions
- MDBMongoDB, Inc. · 5 questions20%1 of 5 questions
- ADBEAdobe Inc. · 4 questions0%none of 4 questions
- SNOWSnowflake Inc. · 4 questions0%none of 4 questions
- CRWVCoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock · 3 questions0%none of 3 questions
- NOWServiceNow · 3 questions33%1 of 3 questions
- FIGFigma, Inc. · 1 question—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- NBISNebius Group N.V. · 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 | 0%none of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q1 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q2 | 9 | 0%none of 9 questions | 7 |
| 2025 Q3 | 10 | 0%none of 10 questions | 8 |
| 2025 Q4 | 7 | 14%1 of 7 questions | 5 |
| 2026 Q1 | 6 | 17%1 of 6 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q2 | 6 | 17%1 of 6 questions | 6 |
| 2026 Q3 | 6 | 17%1 of 6 questions | 5 |
- 2024 Q44 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q13 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q29 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 9 questions) · 7 companies
- 2025 Q310 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 10 questions) · 8 companies
- 2025 Q47 questions · challenge rate 14% (1 of 7 questions) · 5 companies
- 2026 Q16 questions · challenge rate 17% (1 of 6 questions) · 4 companies
- 2026 Q26 questions · challenge rate 17% (1 of 6 questions) · 6 companies
- 2026 Q36 questions · challenge rate 17% (1 of 6 questions) · 5 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Revenue Growth22
- Competitive Dynamics15
- Cloud & AI13
- Guidance Reliability12
- Demand10
- Pricing6
- Margin4
- Capex Investment3
- Macroeconomic3
- Product Launch2
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- Regulation Policy2
- Subscriber Growth2
- M&A1
- Fx1
- Supply Chain1
- Cost Pressure1
- Capital Allocation1