8X8 INC /DE/ (EGHT) FY 2025 MD&A
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ITEM 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes and other information included elsewhere in this Annual Report. In addition to historical data, this discussion contains forward-looking statements about our business, results of operations, cash flows, financial condition and prospects based on current expectations that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results could differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to those differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below and those discussed in the sections titled “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” included elsewhere in this Annual Report. Additionally, our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any period in the future.
This section discusses items pertaining to and comparisons of financial results between fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024. A discussion of fiscal 2024 items and comparisons between fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023 financial results can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 (the “2024 MD&A”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 21, 2024.
Overview
8x8, Inc. is a global provider of integrated customer experience and business communications solutions, purpose-built to unify customer and employee engagement across the enterprise. Our Platform for CX™ combines contact center, business communications, and application programmable interfaces, or APIs, for communications into a single, secure, AI-powered system that delivers seamless, data-driven interactions. Designed for agility and scale, our platform helps businesses eliminate silos, improve operational efficiency, and turn every conversation into actionable intelligence. By aligning technology with measurable outcomes, we empower organizations to transform how they connect, serve, and grow — from first interactions to lasting relationships.
We serve a broad customer base—from small businesses to large global enterprises—across every major industry and in over 160 countries. Our strategic focus has increasingly shifted toward mid-market, small and mid-sized enterprise, and public sector organizations, particularly those with 500 to 10,000 employees. These customers often have more complex communication and customer service needs and are more likely to benefit from—and invest in—multiple services across our platform. This focus aligns with our strengths, eliminating communication silos and enabling businesses to transform every customer interaction into a strategic asset. We also invest resources in retaining our small business customers, including world class onboarding and customer care specialists that are a single point of contact for all service and support needs.
We reach customers through a diversified go-to-market strategy that includes both direct and indirect channels. We utilize a diversified partner ecosystem to complement our direct sales efforts and expand our global market reach. Our go-to-market strategy includes technology solutions distributors, or TSDs, and their sub-agent networks, who contribute to pipeline growth through referrals. We also engage value-added resellers, or VARs, who market, sell, implement, and support our solutions, helping to drive customer acquisition and optimize our routes to market.
In addition, we collaborate closely with strategic technology partners—particularly those with whom we maintain deep integrations or original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, relationships—via structured referral agreements and coordinated lead flow processes. Our carrier partnerships extend our service availability to over 100 countries and territories, ensuring high-quality, reliable communications that support our international footprint.
To further enhance deployment speed and geographic coverage, we leverage third-party service providers, enabling us to deliver implementation and support services efficiently at a global scale.
With our unified approach to communication and a commitment to continuous innovation, 8x8 enables businesses to deliver intelligent, connected experiences that securely scale across the enterprise.
We generate service revenue from subscriptions to our communications services, as well as from usage of our platform. Our service subscription plans are sold on a per-user basis and are structured with increasing levels of functionality, based on the specific communication needs and customer engagement profile of each user. Platform usage, including telephony minutes, messaging, SMS, and digital and voice chat bot interactions, encompasses committed usage, which may be bundled with our service subscription plans, and uncommitted usage, which is sold on an as-used basis.
We generate other revenue from professional services and the sale of office phones and other hardware equipment. We define a “customer” as one or more legal entities to which we provide services pursuant to a single contractual arrangement. In some cases, we may have multiple billing relationships with a single customer (for example, where we establish separate billing accounts for a parent company and each of its subsidiaries).
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Macroeconomic and Other Factors
We are subject to risks and exposures, including those caused by adverse economic conditions. Macroeconomic conditions that could adversely affect our business include geopolitical instability, tariffs, continued inflation, increased interest rates, supply chain disruptions, decreased economic output and fluctuations in currency exchange rates. We continuously monitor the direct and indirect impacts of these factors, as well as the overall global economy and geopolitical landscape on our business and financial results.
While the implications of macroeconomic events on our business, results of operations, and overall financial position remain uncertain over the long term, we expect that adverse economic conditions could adversely impact our business in future periods. For example, our installed base includes more than 50,000 small businesses, which tend to be disproportionately impacted by macroeconomic headwinds.
Summary and Outlook
As part of our long-term strategy to grow our revenue and increase profitability and cash flow, we are focused on retaining our existing customers and expanding our mid-market, enterprise and public sector customer base. We believe that continued innovation is a critical factor in attracting and retaining our customers and is an important variable in achieving sustainable growth. We are committed to maintaining a high level of investment in research and development to deliver innovation across our Platform for CX, expand our ecosystem of integrated third-party applications, and maintain the high platform availability our customers require.
Our primary focus involves the following: (i) accelerating innovation, particularly in enhancing our platform and contact center with artificial intelligence-based capabilities, and (ii) leveraging our CPaaS leadership in the Asia Pacific region to expand globally. We continue to introduce new products like 8x8 Engage, add capabilities that allow our customers to enhance employee and customer experience, and expand our Technology Partner Ecosystem to provide complete solutions tailored to specific use cases. We are also enhancing our platform foundation with cutting edge technology, such as the Customer Interaction Data Platform and composable agent and supervisor user interfaces. These innovations enable tightly integrated solutions that prioritize ease-of-use, out-of-the-box functionality, and rapid deployment.
Our investment in innovation has been complemented by initiatives to manage the cost of delivering our services and improve our sales efficiency. We continue to monitor factors that could have an impact on customer buying behavior and demand, including macroeconomic conditions, the competitive environment, contract duration, churn, upsell and down-sell, renewals, and payment terms, all of which have caused variability in our results and may continue to do in the future. We expect the cost of delivering our communication services — both in total dollars and as a percentage of service revenue — to vary with the amount of service revenue and the mix of subscription and usage revenue within service revenue. To improve our sales efficiency over time, we continue to invest in marketing programs to drive awareness for our solutions, and we have increased training for our sales teams, and invested in tools to increase productivity. We have also expanded our reseller partner programs to extend our reach within our target customer market, placing increased emphasis on developing a community of value-added resellers who provide implementation services and Tier 1 customer support in addition to sales. To support our customers and partners, we have expanded our customer success organization and continue to invest in improvements to our back-office processes to increase our operational efficiency over time.
Key GAAP Operating Results
To assess the success of our strategies to achieve growth and increase our cash flow, management reviews our financial performance as presented in our consolidated financial statements, including trends in revenue, gross profit margin, income (loss) from operations, and cash flow generated by operations in absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenue as presented in the following table:
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| (In thousands, except percentages) | March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | September 30, 2024 | June 30, 2024 | March 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | September 30, 2023 | June 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| Service revenue | $ | 171,588 | $ | 173,459 | $ | 175,075 | $ | 172,801 | $ | 172,490 | $ | 175,069 | $ | 177,782 | $ | 175,238 | |||||||
| % of Total Revenue | 96.9 | % | 97.0 | % | 96.7 | % | 97.0 | % | 96.1 | % | 96.7 | % | 96.1 | % | 95.6 | % | |||||||
| Gross profit | $ | 120,052 | $ | 121,085 | $ | 123,175 | $ | 120,960 | $ | 122,444 | $ | 124,846 | $ | 127,897 | $ | 128,613 | |||||||
| % of Total Revenue | 67.8 | % | 67.7 | % | 68.1 | % | 67.9 | % | 68.2 | % | 69.0 | % | 69.1 | % | 70.2 | % | |||||||
| Income (loss) from operations | $ | 419 | $ | 8,979 | $ | 7,169 | $ | (1,374) | $ | (14,219) | $ | (9,391) | $ | (2,583) | $ | (1,410) | |||||||
| % of Total Revenue | 0.2 | % | 5.0 | % | 4.0 | % | (0.8) | % | (7.9) | % | (5.2) | % | (1.4) | % | (0.8) | % | |||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | (5,401) | $ | 3,022 | $ | (14,543) | $ | (10,290) | $ | (23,591) | $ | (21,222) | $ | (7,452) | $ | (15,327) | |||||||
| % of Total Revenue | (3.1) | % | 1.7 | % | (8.0) | % | (5.8) | % | (13.1) | % | (11.7) | % | (4.0) | % | (8.4) | % | |||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 5,873 | $ | 27,216 | $ | 12,317 | $ | 18,148 | $ | 12,653 | $ | 22,396 | $ | 17,463 | $ | 26,473 |
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Components of Results of Operations
Service Revenue
Service revenue consists of communication services subscriptions, platform usage revenue, and related fees from our UCaaS, CCaaS, and CPaaS offerings. We plan to increase service revenue through a combination of new customer acquisition, cross-sell of additional products to existing customers, including new products resulting from our increased investment in innovation, artificial intelligence, geographic expansion of our customer base outside the United States, innovation in our products and technologies, and through strategic acquisitions of technologies and businesses.
Other Revenue
Other revenue consists of revenue from professional services, primarily in support of deployment of our solutions and/or platform, and revenue from sales and rentals of IP telephones in conjunction with our cloud telephony service. Other revenue is dependent on the number of customers who choose to purchase or rent an IP telephone hardware in conjunction with our service instead of using the solution on their cell phone, computer, or other compatible device, and/or choose to engage our professional services organization for implementation and deployment of our cloud services.
Cost of Service Revenue
Cost of service revenue consists primarily of costs associated with network operations and related personnel, technology licenses, amortization of capitalized internal-use software, other communication origination and termination services provided by third-party carriers, outsourced customer service call center operations, and other costs such as customer service, and technical support costs. We allocate overhead costs, such as information technology and facilities, to cost of service revenue, as well as to each of the operating expense categories, generally based on relative headcount. Our information technology costs include costs for information technology infrastructure and personnel. Facilities costs primarily consist of office leases and related expenses.
Cost of Other Revenue
Cost of other revenue consists primarily of direct and indirect costs associated with the purchase and shipping and handling of IP telephones as well as the scheduling, shipping and handling, personnel costs, and other expenditures incurred in connection with the professional services associated with the deployment and implementation of our products, and allocated information technology and facilities costs.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel and related costs, third-party development, software and equipment costs necessary for us to conduct our product, platform development and engineering efforts, as well as allocated information technology and facilities costs.
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel and related costs, sales commissions, including those to the channel, trade shows, advertising and other marketing, demand generation, and promotional expenses, as well as allocated information technology and facilities costs.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel and related costs, professional services fees, corporate administrative costs, tax and regulatory fees, and allocated information technology and facilities costs.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
Impairment of long-lived assets consists of non-cash impairment charges for right-of-use assets and capitalized software. During the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, we partially ceased use of the Company's Headquarters and an international office space. We reviewed the recoverability of the related right-of-use assets and determined an impairment indicator was identified as these events indicated the carrying value of the right-of-use assets may not be recoverable. In connection with partially ceasing use of the Company’s Headquarters and an international office space, the Company recorded impairment charges of $9.9 million and $1.1 million, respectively, as the carrying amount of the right-of-use assets related to the leases exceeded its fair value based on the Company’s estimate of future discounted cash flows related to the leased facility. During the year ended March 31, 2024, the non-cash charge of $11.0 million was recorded as an impairment of long-lived assets on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss and consisted of an $11.0 million impairment of operating lease right-of-use assets. See Note 1, The Company and Significant Accounting Policies, for further details.
During the year ended March 31, 2023, the impairment charge of $6.4 million was due to capitalized software and right-of-use assets of $3.7 million and $2.7 million, respectively.
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Interest Expense
Interest expense consists primarily of interest expense related to our term loan and convertible notes, and amortization of debt discount and issuance costs.
Other Expense, Net
Other expense, net, consists primarily of losses on debt extinguishment, gain or loss on warrant remeasurement, interest income, gains or losses on foreign exchange transactions, as well as other income.
Provision for Income Taxes
Provision for income taxes consists primarily of foreign income taxes and state minimum taxes in the United States. As we expand the scale of our international business activities, any changes in the United States and foreign taxation of such activities may increase our overall provision for income taxes in the future. We have a valuation allowance for our United States deferred tax assets, including federal and state non-operating loss carryforwards. We expect to maintain this valuation allowance until it becomes more likely than not that the benefit of our federal and state deferred tax assets will be realized by way of expected future taxable income in the United States.
Results of Operations
Revenue
Service revenue
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Service revenue | $ | 692,923 | $ | 700,579 | $ | (7,656) | (1.1) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | 96.9 | % | 96.1 | % |
Service revenue decreased by $7.7 million, or 1.1%, for fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024. This change was driven by a decrease in revenue from subscriptions of $19.9 million primarily due to a decline in revenue from customers on the Fuze platform offset by an increase of $12.2 million in platform usage revenue.
Our business is diversified by vertical market and geography, and no single customer represented more than 10% of our total revenue during fiscal years 2025 and 2024. We continue to monitor factors that could have an impact on customer buying behavior and demand, including macroeconomic conditions, contract duration, churn, upsell and down-sell, renewals, and payment terms, all of which could cause variability in our revenue.
Other revenue
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Other revenue | $ | 22,147 | $ | 28,126 | $ | (5,979) | (21.3) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | 3.1 | % | 3.9 | % |
Other revenue decreased by $6.0 million, or 21.3%, in fiscal 2025, as compared to fiscal 2024, due to lower product and professional service revenue of $3.2 million and $2.8 million, respectively.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of service revenue
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Cost of service revenue | $ | 200,094 | $ | 192,960 | $ | 7,134 | 3.7 | % | ||||||
| Percentage of service revenue | 28.9 | % | 27.5 | % |
Cost of service revenue increased $7.1 million, or 3.7%, during fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024, primarily due to an increase of $17.5 million in costs to deliver our subscription and platform usage services. This increase was partially offset by decreases of $5.7 million from amortization of capitalized software and intangible assets, $3.1 million in stock-based compensation driven by lower weighted average grant date fair values for awards granted, $1.1 million in software costs, and $0.5 million in salaries, benefits, and consulting costs.
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Cost of other revenue
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Cost of other revenue | $ | 29,704 | $ | 31,945 | $ | (2,241) | (7.0) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of other revenue | 134.1 | % | 113.6 | % |
Cost of other revenue decreased $2.2 million, or 7.0%, in fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024, primarily due to decreases of $1.6 million in lower product costs associated with IP telephone hardware and $0.8 million of stock-based compensation. These decreases were offset by an increase of $0.2 million in salaries, benefits, and consulting costs to deliver our professional services.
Operating Expenses
Research and development
| For the years ended March 31, | ||||||||||||||
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 123,211 | $ | 136,216 | $ | (13,005) | (9.5) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | 17.2 | % | 18.7 | % |
Research and development expenses decreased $13.0 million, or 9.5%, in fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024, primarily due to decreases of $9.5 million in stock-based compensation driven by lower weighted average grant date fair values for awards granted, $4.3 million in combined salaries, benefits, and consulting costs driven by lower headcount, and $3.5 million in facilities costs. These decreases were partially offset by increases of $2.3 million to operate data centers, $1.4 million in internally-developed software, and $0.6 million in other costs necessary for us to conduct our product, platform development and engineering efforts.
Sales and marketing
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 264,461 | $ | 271,944 | $ | (7,483) | (2.8) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | 37.0 | % | 37.3 | % |
Sales and marketing expenses decreased $7.5 million, or 2.8%, in fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024 primarily due to decreases of $8.2 million in channel commissions and amortization of contract acquisition costs and $6.7 million in stock-based compensation expense driven by lower weighted average grant date fair values for awards granted. These decreases were partially offset by an increase of $5.3 million in salaries, benefits, and consulting costs driven by increased sales organization headcount and $2.1 million in digital marketing and other costs.
General and administrative
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 82,407 | $ | 112,209 | $ | (29,802) | (26.6) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | 11.5 | % | 15.4 | % |
General and administrative expenses decreased $29.8 million, or 26.6%, in fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024 primarily due to a $24.2 million decrease associated with regulatory and state and local tax matters. During fiscal 2025, we adjusted accruals related to USF and other legal, regulatory and state and local tax matters and recognized a benefit of $9.9 million, compared to $14.3 million of expenses recognized during fiscal 2024. The decrease was also due to decreases of $3.9 million in salaries, benefits, and consulting costs and $3.8 million in stock-based compensation driven by lower weighted average grant date fair values for awards granted. These decreases were partially offset by an increase of $2.1 million in other general corporate costs.
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Impairment of long-lived assets
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Impairment of long-lived assets | $ | — | $ | 11,034 | $ | (11,034) | (100.0) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | — | % | 1.5 | % |
Impairment of long-lived assets decreased $11.0 million in fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024. During the third quarter of fiscal 2024, we partially ceased use of the Company's Headquarters and an international office space. We reviewed the recoverability of the related right-of-use assets and determined an impairment indicator was identified as these events indicated the carrying value of the right-of-use assets may not be recoverable. In connection with partially ceasing use of the Company’s Headquarters and an international office space, the Company recorded impairment charges of $9.9 million and $1.1 million, respectively, as the carrying amount of the right-of-use assets related to the leases exceeded its fair value based on the Company’s estimate of future discounted cash flows related to the leased facility. During the year ended March 31, 2024, the non-cash charge of $11.0 million was recorded as an impairment of long-lived assets on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss and consisted of an $11.0 million impairment of operating lease right-of-use assets. See Note 1, The Company and Significant Accounting Policies, for further details.
Other expense, net
Interest expense
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Interest expense | $ | (28,856) | $ | (39,824) | $ | 10,968 | (27.5) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | (4.0) | % | (5.5) | % |
Interest expense decreased by $11.0 million, or 27.5%, in fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024, primarily due to the 2022 Term Loan Debt extinguishment and decreased interest rate and principal on the Term Loan. See Note 8, Convertible Senior Notes and Term Loan, for further details.
Other expense, net
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||||
| Other income (expense), net | $ | (10,400) | $ | 3,477 | $ | (13,877) | NM | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | (1.5) | % | 0.5 | % |
We recognized $10.4 million of other expense, net during fiscal 2025 compared to $3.5 million of other income, net during fiscal 2024 primarily due to a $10.6 million increase on loss of debt extinguishment due to the payoff of the 2022 Term Loan, an increase of $2.0 million in unrealized foreign exchange losses, a decrease of $0.7 million in interest income, and a $0.6 million increase in other expense.
Provision for income taxes
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| (in thousands, except percentages) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||
| Provision for income taxes | $ | 3,149 | $ | 3,642 | $ | (493) | (13.5) | % | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | 0.4 | % | 0.5 | % |
For the year ended March 31, 2025, we recorded an income tax provision of $3.1 million compared to $3.6 million in fiscal 2024, primarily due to a reduction in state income taxes as a result of a reduction in state taxable income offset by an increase in foreign taxes primarily due to the exhaustion of NOL carryforwards and a change in income mix of our foreign jurisdictions.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and our anticipated cash flows from operations will be sufficient to meet our working capital, expenditure, and contractual obligation requirements for a minimum of the next twelve months and the foreseeable future. Although we believe we have adequate sources of liquidity for at least the next twelve months and for the foreseeable future, the success of our operations, the global economic outlook, and the pace of growth in our markets could impact our business and liquidity.
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Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Investments
The following is a summary of our cash and cash equivalents and investments (in thousands):
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||
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| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 88,050 | $ | 116,262 | ||
| Restricted cash, current1 | 462 | 356 | ||||
| Short-term investments | — | 1,048 | ||||
| Restricted cash, non-current1 | 812 | 105 | ||||
| Total | $ | 89,324 | $ | 117,771 |
(1) Restricted cash supports letters of credit securing leases for office facilities and certain equipment for the same periods, and an accrued holdback related to a business combination (see Note 1, The Company and Significant Accounting Policies).
Our primary requirements for liquidity and capital are working capital needs due to delivery of our various products to customers, research and development, sales and marketing activities, principal and interest payments on our outstanding debt and other general corporate needs. Historically, these cash requirements have been met from cash provided by operating activities and our cash and cash equivalents balances. Our current capital deployment strategy for fiscal year 2026 is to invest excess cash on hand to support our continued growth initiatives into select markets and planned software development activities, and pay down our debt. As of March 31, 2025, we are not party to any off-balance sheet arrangements that have had or are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, or capital resources. Significant cash requirements for the fiscal year include our operating lease obligations, interest payments related to our debt obligations, and operating and capital purchase commitments. For information regarding our expected cash requirements and timing of payments related to leases and noncancellable purchase commitments, see Note 6, Leases, and Note 7, Commitments and Contingencies, respectively, to the consolidated financial statements. Additionally, refer to Note 8, Convertible Senior Notes and Term Loan, to the consolidated financial statements for more information related to our debt obligations and applicable covenants.
Our outstanding Term Loan allows for voluntary prepayments. In order to reduce future cash interest payments, as well as future amounts due at maturity or upon redemption, we may, from time to time, make prepayments. The Company evaluates opportunities for stock repurchases, and may utilize cash and cash equivalents to repurchase shares under the 2017 Repurchase Plan. For more information, see Note 9, Stock-Based Compensation and Stockholders' Equity.
As of March 31, 2025, our 2028 Notes were trading at a discount to their respective principal amount. We may seek to retire or purchase our outstanding debt through open-market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise which may have an impact on our liquidity requirements. Any such transactions will be dependent upon several factors, including our liquidity requirements, contractual restrictions, prevailing market conditions, and other factors. Whether or not we engage in any such transactions will be determined at our discretion. For historical debt payments, see Note 8, Convertible Senior Notes and Term Loan.
Cash Flows
The following is a summary of our cash flows provided by (used in) operating, investing and financing activities (in thousands):
| Years Ended March 31, | ||||||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 63,554 | $ | 78,985 | $ | 48,786 | ||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | (16,424) | 8,546 | 6,050 | |||||||
| Net cash used in financing activities | (75,106) | (83,411) | (37,784) | |||||||
| Effect of exchange rate changes on cash | 577 | (126) | (5,037) | |||||||
| Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | $ | (27,399) | $ | 3,994 | $ | 12,015 |
Cash provided by operating activities decreased by $15.4 million to $63.6 million for fiscal 2025, mainly due to an increase in cash paid to suppliers and employees partially offset by an increase in cash received from customers. Cash used in investing activities decreased $25.0 million to $16.4 million for fiscal 2025, mainly due to decreases in the purchases, sales, and maturities of investments and $3.2 million of cash paid for the business combination. Cash used in financing activities decreased by $8.3 million to $75.1 million for fiscal 2025, due to principal repayments for our term loan and payoff of a perpetual license related to our enterprise resource planning software.
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Debt Obligations
See Note 8, Convertible Senior Notes and Term Loan in the audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for information regarding our debt obligations.
2024 Delayed Draw Term Loan
On July 11, 2024, we entered into a new term loan credit agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, and the lenders thereto (the “2024 Credit Agreement”). The 2024 Credit Agreement establishes a delayed draw term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $200.0 million maturing on August 15, 2027.
On August 5, 2024, we drew upon the entire facility of $200.0 million under the delayed draw term loan facility (the "Term Loan") and used the proceeds of the Term Loan and cash on hand of approximately $29.0 million to repay in full the $225.0 million of outstanding principal amount and accrued interest of the 2022 Term Loan and the fees incurred in connection with the repayment (the "Repayment").
The Term Loan bears interest at an annual rate equal to the Term SOFR, plus a margin of either 2.50%, 2.75% or 3.00% based on the consolidated total net leverage ratio of the Company and its subsidiaries. The initial margin will be 3.00% for the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2024. We have the option to pay interest monthly, quarterly, or semi-annually. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we elected monthly payment terms which resulted in cash payments of $2.7 million. During the three months ended June 30, 2025, we have elected monthly interest payment terms, which will result in cash payments of approximately $2.6 million. As of August 5, 2024, the scheduled principal repayments of $22.5 million in fiscal year 2025 ($7.5 million on October 31, 2024, December 31, 2024 and March 31, 2025, respectively), $37.5 million in fiscal year 2026 ($7.5 million on June 30, 2025 and $10.0 million on September 30, 2025, December 31, 2025 and March 31, 2026, respectively), and $47.5 million in fiscal year 2027 ($10.0 million on June 30, 2026, $12.5 million on September 30, 2026 and each quarter thereafter through maturity) are required, and the remaining $92.5 million principal is due before or upon maturity in fiscal year 2028. These annualized repayments will be made in quarterly installments. As of March 31, 2025, the debt issuance costs are amortized to interest expense over the term of the Term Loan at an effective interest rate of 8.67%.
Under the terms of the 2024 Credit Agreement, we have the right to prepay the Term Loan at any time without any premium or penalty. We completed three principal payments of the Term Loan during fiscal 2025 for a total payment of $48.0 million in aggregate principal amount as follows:
•On October 7, 2024, we paid $15.0 million of quarterly principal payments due October 31, 2024 and December 31, 2024.
•On November 1, 2024, we prepaid $18.0 million of additional principal payments due March 31, 2025, June 30, 2025 and September 30, 2025.
•On January 10, 2025, we paid $15.0 million of quarterly principal payments due September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2025.
These short-term principal debt payments are accounted for as partial debt extinguishment transactions. The carrying value of the Term Loan, including the unamortized debt discount and issuance costs, was derecognized. The difference of $0.3 million between the cash consideration paid to partially extinguish the Term Loan and the carrying value of the Term Loan was recognized as a loss on debt extinguishment included in the loss on debt extinguishment line item recorded in other expense in the consolidated statement of operations. The remaining principal amount of the Term Loan after the payments is $152.0 million. As of March 31, 2025, we have paid $22.5 million and $25.5 million of the originally scheduled principal repayments for fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2026, respectively. On April 11, 2025, we paid $15.0 million of quarterly principal payments due October 31, 2025, January 31, 2026, and April 30, 2026 under the Term Loan. The Company has no remaining short-term obligations due for fiscal year 2026. See Note 13, Subsequent Events, for more information regarding this prepayment.
2022 Term Loan Extinguishment
On August 5, 2024, we repaid in full the outstanding principal amount and accrued interest of the 2022 Term Loan using the proceeds of the Term Loan and cash on hand. The Repayment was accounted for as a debt extinguishment. The carrying value of the 2022 Term Loan, including the unamortized debt discount and issuance costs, was derecognized. The difference of $12.0 million between the cash consideration paid to extinguish the 2022 Term Loan and the carrying value of the 2022 Term Loan was recognized as a loss on debt extinguishment included in the loss on debt extinguishment line item recorded in other expense in the consolidated statement of operations. The Warrants continued to be outstanding with no change in terms in connection with the Repayment or issuance of the Term Loan.
We previously used the proceeds from the 2022 Credit Agreement to fund the cash portion of an exchange of the Company's approximately $403.8 million principal amount of 0.50% convertible senior notes due 2024 for cash plus approximately $201.9 million of 4.00% convertible senior notes due 2028, and the concurrent repurchase of approximately $60.0 million of our common stock with the counterparties to such exchange. Loans made under the 2022 Credit Agreement bore interest at an annual rate equal to the Term SOFR, subject to a floor of 1.00% and a credit spread adjustment of 0.10%, plus a margin of 6.50%. During the year ended March 31, 2025, we paid $9.4 million of interest under the 2022 Term Loan. See Note 8, Convertible Senior Notes and Term Loan, to our consolidated financial statements for details.
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Material Cash Requirements and Other Obligations
The following table summarizes the payments due for our outstanding contractual obligations as of March 31, 2025:
| Total | Less than 1 year | 1-3 years | 3-5 years | Thereafter | ||||||||||||||
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| 2028 Notes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Principal payments | $ | 201,914 | $ | — | $ | 201,914 | $ | — | $ | — | ||||||||
| Interest payments | 24,230 | 8,077 | 16,153 | — | — | |||||||||||||
| Term Loan(1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Principal payments | 152,000 | 12,000 | 140,000 | — | — | |||||||||||||
| Interest payments(2) | 21,317 | 10,203 | 11,114 | — | — | |||||||||||||
| Operating lease obligations(3) | 67,835 | 13,501 | 23,668 | 22,708 | 7,958 | |||||||||||||
| Purchase obligations | 59,766 | 49,409 | 9,787 | 532 | 38 | |||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 527,062 | $ | 93,190 | $ | 402,636 | $ | 23,240 | $ | 7,996 |
(1) See Note 8, Convertible Senior Notes and Term Loan, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report for further information.
(2) Total interest payments of $21.3 million were determined using the year-end Term SOFR rate of 7.32% plus 3.00% as of March 31, 2025. See Note 8, Convertible Senior Notes and Term Loan, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report regarding the interest rate terms.
(3) See Note 6, Leases, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report for further information.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer to Note 1, The Company and Significant Accounting Policies, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report, which describes the significant accounting policies and methods used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.
We have identified the policies below as critical to our business and the understanding of our results of operations. These policies may involve a higher degree of judgment and complexity in their application and represent the critical accounting policies used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements. Although we believe our judgments and estimates are appropriate, actual future results may differ from our estimates. If different assumptions or conditions were to prevail, the results could be materially different from our reported results. The impact and any associated risks related to these policies on our business operations is discussed throughout "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations", where such policies affect our reported and expected financial results.
Revenue Recognition
Significant management judgments and estimates must be made and used in connection with the revenue recognized in any accounting period. Material differences may result in the amount and timing of our revenue for any period if management made different judgments or utilized different estimates.
Revenue is recognized on a gross basis when the Company is considered the principal in the transaction with discretion on pricing and control, as performance obligations are satisfied, based on the transaction price. The Company recognizes revenue on a net basis when the Company is considered the agent in third party license sales, if material. We generally bill our customers on a monthly basis. Contracts typically range from annual to multi-year agreements, generally with payment terms of net 30 days.
We record reductions to revenue for estimated sales returns and customer credits at the time the related revenue is recognized. Sales returns and customer credits are estimated based on our historical experience, current trends, and our expectations regarding future service delivery and platform performance. We monitor the accuracy of its sales reserve estimates by reviewing actual returns and credits and adjust them for its future expectations to determine the adequacy of its current and future reserve needs. If actual future returns and credits differ from past experience, additional reserves may be required.
Service Revenue Recognition
Service revenue from subscriptions to our cloud-based technology platform is recognized on a ratable basis over the contractual subscription term beginning on the date that the platform is delivered to the customer until the end of the contractual period. Payments received in advance of subscription services being rendered are recorded as deferred revenue; revenue recognized for services rendered in advance of payments received are recorded as contract assets. Usage fees, when bundled, are billed in advance and recognized over time on a ratable basis over the contractual subscription term. Non-bundled usage fees are recognized as actual usage occurs.
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Other Revenue Recognition
Other revenue is primarily comprised of product revenue and professional services revenue. We recognize product revenue for telephony equipment at a point in time when transfer of control has occurred, which is generally upon shipment. Sales returns are recorded as a reduction to revenue estimated based on historical experience. Professional services for deployment, configuration, system integration, optimization, customer training or education are primarily billed on a fixed-fee basis and are performed by us directly. Professional services revenue is recognized as services are performed or upon completion of the deployment.
Allowance for Credit Losses
We account for allowances for credit losses under the current expected credit loss, or CECL, impairment model for our financial assets, including accounts receivable, and present the net amount of the financial instrument expected to be collected. The current expected credit loss impairment model requires an estimate of expected credit losses, measured over the contractual life of an instrument, which considers forecasts of future economic conditions in addition to information about past events and current conditions. Using this model, we estimate the adequacy of the allowance for credit losses at the end of each reporting period based on the aging of the receivable balance, current and historical customer trends, communications with customers, and macro-economic conditions. Amounts are written off after considerable collection efforts have been made and the amounts are determined to be uncollectible.
Acquisitions
Acquisitions are accounted for as business combinations, which treatment requires that the various assets acquired, and liabilities assumed be recognized based on their fair value, accordingly, significant estimates and judgments are made to arrive at the fair values. The use of estimates involves uncertainty, therefore, the initial accounting for goodwill, intangible assets (and related amortization in future periods), property, plant and equipment, right of use assets (and related operating lease liabilities and amortization), prepaid and other current assets, accrued liabilities, deferred revenue, holdback consideration, and other liabilities are all subject to estimates. The actual results could be significantly different from the estimates.
Capitalized Internal-Use Software Costs
Certain costs of software are capitalized during the application development phase. We begin to capitalize costs to develop software when preliminary development efforts are successfully completed, management has authorized and committed project funding, it is probable that the project will be completed, and the software will be used as intended. Capitalized internal-use software development costs are included in property and equipment. Once the project has been completed, these costs are amortized to cost of service revenue on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of the related asset as noted in Property and Equipment. Costs incurred prior to meeting these criteria together with costs incurred for training and maintenance are expensed as incurred and recorded in research and development expense. We test capitalized internal-use software development costs for impairment on an annual basis, or as events occur or circumstances change that could impact the recoverability of the capitalized costs.
Accounting for Long-Lived Assets
We review the recoverability of our long-lived assets, such as property and equipment, right-of-use assets, definite lived intangibles, or capitalized internal-use software costs, when events or changes in circumstances occur that indicate that the carrying value of the asset or asset group may not be recoverable. Examples of such events could include the disposal of a significant portion of such asset, an adverse change in the market involving the business employing the related asset, or a significant change in the operation or use of an asset. The assessment of possible impairment is based on our ability to recover the carrying value of the asset or asset group from the expected future cash flows (undiscounted and without interest charges) of the related operations. If these cash flows are less than the carrying value of such asset or asset group, an impairment loss is recognized for the difference between estimated fair value and carrying value. The measurement of impairment requires management to estimate the fair value of long-lived assets and asset groups through future cash flows. During fiscal 2024, we recorded an impairment of long-lived assets related to the Company's right-of-use assets on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. See Note 6, Leases, for further details.
Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
Goodwill represents the excess fair value of consideration transferred over the fair value of net assets acquired in business combinations. Goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite useful lives are not amortized but are tested annually for impairment and more often if there is an indicator of impairment. We perform testing for impairment of goodwill on an annual basis, or as events occur or circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of our single reporting unit below its carrying amount. Goodwill is considered impaired if the carrying value of the reporting unit exceeds its fair value.
Intangible assets, consisting of acquired developed technology, domain names, and customer relationships, acquired in business combinations were initially measured at fair value and were determined to have definite lives. Thereafter, intangible assets are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives. Amortization expense related to developed technology is included in cost of revenue. Amortization expense related to customer relationships and domain names are included in sales and marketing expense. Intangible assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate an asset’s carrying value may not be recoverable.
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