Nutanix, Inc. (NTNX)

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows should be read in conjunction with (1) the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and (2) the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto and "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2025 filed on September 24, 2025. The last day of our fiscal year is July 31. Our fiscal quarters end on October 31, January 31, April 30 and July 31. This discussion contains forward-looking statements based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth under the heading "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2025 and in Part II, Item 1A of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. See also "Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" above.

Overview

Nutanix, Inc. ("we," "us," "our," or "Nutanix") is a hybrid multicloud computing leader, offering organizations a unified software platform for running applications, deploying enterprise AI workloads and managing data anywhere. Our vision is to simplify the deployment and operation of the increasingly distributed landscape of apps and data while freeing organizations to focus on business goals. Our mission is to delight customers with an open, secure platform with rich data services that increases their ability to take advantage of new technologies such as cloud native and AI, optimizes how they run their organizations today, and accelerates innovation, efficiency, and growth.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform is designed to enable organizations to build hybrid multicloud infrastructure, providing a consistent cloud operating model with a single platform for running applications and enterprise AI workloads, and managing data in core data centers, at the edge, and in public clouds, while supporting customer choice across server platforms, storage options, public and managed clouds, and container and virtualization platforms. The Nutanix Cloud Platform supports a wide variety of workloads with varied compute, storage, and network requirements, including business-critical applications, data platforms (including SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases and business intelligence applications), enterprise AI workloads (including machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI), general-purpose workloads (including system infrastructure, networking, and security), end-user computing and virtual desktop infrastructure services, and cloud native applications (including modern, containerized applications).

We originally pioneered hyperconverged infrastructure ("HCI") to break down legacy silos by merging compute, storage and networking into a single software-defined data center platform. We continued to innovate and developed Nutanix AHV, our native hypervisor that offers enterprise-grade virtualization and built-in Kubernetes support. To provide our customers with more choice, we further engineered our software solutions to run on a variety of server platforms and with a variety of external storage providers, decoupling our software from the underlying hardware and powering a variety of hybrid multi cloud deployments, as part of our previously-completed transition from a hardware company to a software company. Most recently, we have extended our software platform support to include external storage from qualified partners. To provide our customers with the flexibility to choose their preferred license levels and durations based on their specific business needs, we reshaped our licensing by completing a transition to a subscription-based business model. In addition to enabling enterprise AI and simplifying hybrid multicloud deployments, we have a further long-term vision to enable developers to build modern container-based applications once and run them anywhere through Project Beacon, our multi-year effort to provide consistent Kubernetes platform management and data-centric platform services across clouds.

Our business is organized into a single operating and reportable segment. We operate a subscription-based business model, meaning one in which our products, including associated support and maintenance arrangements, are sold with a defined duration.

Our platform typically includes one or more years of support and maintenance, which provides customers with the right to software upgrades and enhancements as well as technical support. Purchases of term-based licenses and software-as-a-service ("SaaS") subscriptions have support and maintenance included within the subscription fees and are not sold separately. Purchases of non-portable software are typically accompanied by the purchase of separate support and maintenance.

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We had a broad and diverse base of over 31,000 end customers as of April 30, 2026. We define the number of end customers as the number of end customers for which we have received an order by the last day of the period, excluding partners to which we have sold products for their own demonstration purposes. A single organization or customer may represent multiple end customers for separate divisions, segments or subsidiaries, and the total number of end customers may contract due to mergers, acquisitions, or other consolidation among existing end customers.

Our solutions are primarily sold through our channel partners or original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and delivered directly to our end customers. We have end customers across a broad range of industries, such as automotive, consumer goods, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, public sector, retail, technology, and telecommunications. We also sell to service providers, who utilize our platform to provide a variety of cloud-based services to their customers.

We plan to continue investing in initiatives that support the long-term growth of our business, including the development of our solutions and sales and marketing efforts aimed at capitalizing on market opportunities. Simultaneously, we are focused on improving our operating cash flow through operational efficiencies, including in our go-to-market functions. By maintaining this balance, we believe we can sustain profitable growth.

Key Financial and Performance Metrics

We monitor the following key financial and performance metrics:

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Beginning with the first quarter of fiscal 2026, our methodology for calculating ARR was updated to align more closely with the timing of when licenses are made available to customers. For comparability purposes, ARR for all prior periods have been adjusted to conform to the updated methodology.

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The total end customer count reflects standard adjustments/consolidation to certain customer accounts within our system of record and is rounded to the nearest 10.

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Disaggregation of Revenue

The following table depicts the disaggregation of revenue by type, consistent with how we evaluate our financial performance:

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Prior to fiscal 2026, these amounts were presented as separate line items, Professional services and Other non-subscription product, as described below. Prior period amounts have been updated to conform to the current period presentation.

Subscription revenue — Subscription revenue includes any performance obligation which has a defined duration and is generated from the sales of software maintenance subscriptions, support subscriptions, subscription software licenses and cloud-based SaaS offerings.

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Ratable — We recognize revenue from software maintenance subscriptions, support subscriptions and SaaS offerings ratably over the contractual service period, the substantial majority of which relate to software maintenance subscriptions and support subscriptions. These offerings represented approximately $279.7 million and $840.3 million of our subscription revenue for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2025, respectively, and $322.6 million and $950.6 million of our subscription revenue for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2026, respectively.

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Upfront — We generally recognize revenue from our subscription software licenses upfront upon the transfer of control to the customer. For sales of our software purchased alongside a server from an OEM or other partner, revenue is typically recognized upon shipment of the server. For software sold separately from a server, revenue is typically recognized when the software is made available to the customer. These subscription software licenses represented approximately $330.0 million and $954.5 million of our subscription revenue for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2025, respectively, and $342.2 million and $1,042.6 million of our subscription revenue for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2026, respectively.

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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, results of operations and cash flows should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The last day of our fiscal year is July 31. Our fiscal quarters end on October 31, January 31, April 30 and July 31. This discussion contains forward-looking statements based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth under "Risk Factors" or in other parts of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. See also "Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" above. For a discussion of our results of operations for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2025 as compared to the fiscal year ended July 31, 2024, please refer to Part II, Item 7, “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on September 24, 2025.

Overview

Nutanix, Inc. ("we," "us," "our," or "Nutanix") is a hybrid cloud and AI platform company, offering organizations a unified infrastructure software platform to run applications, data, and AI anywhere. Our vision is to simplify the deployment and operation of hybrid computing infrastructure and AI factories to support the increasingly distributed landscape of apps and data, including agentic AI, while freeing organizations to modernize their infrastructure and focus on business goals. Our mission is to delight customers with an open, secure platform with rich data services that increases their ability to take advantage of technologies such as cloud native and AI, optimizes how they run their organizations today, and accelerates innovation, efficiency, and growth.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform is designed to enable organizations to build hybrid cloud infrastructure. It provides a consistent cloud operating model with a single platform for running and managing applications, agentic AI workloads, and data in core data centers, at the edge, and in public clouds. We aim to provide customers with flexibility and choice across server platforms, storage options, virtualized and cloud-native environments, public clouds, and deployment models. The Nutanix Cloud Platform supports a wide variety of workloads with varied compute, storage, and network requirements. These workloads include traditional business-critical general-purpose applications, modern applications (including containerized applications running on Kubernetes), data platforms (including SQL, NoSQL and vector databases, as well as business intelligence applications), and enterprise AI workloads (including machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI applications).

We first pioneered hyperconverged infrastructure ("HCI") by combining compute, storage and networking through a software-defined architecture. We subsequently developed Nutanix AHV, our native enterprise hypervisor. Building on this foundation, the Nutanix Cloud Platform has evolved into a unified infrastructure platform. The Nutanix Cloud Platform supports a broader range of architectures, applications and deployment models, across public clouds (including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud), datacenters, and edge. This expansion includes support for qualified external storage systems, modern applications through our Kubernetes platform, and enterprise agentic AI workloads through our AI infrastructure and management offerings. Our research and development efforts on the agentic AI front aim to provide customers with an optimized full stack platform to run, control, and govern AI workloads.

Our business is organized into a single operating and reportable segment. We operate a subscription-based business model, meaning our products, including associated support and maintenance arrangements, are sold with a defined duration.

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Our platform typically includes one or more years of support and maintenance, which provides customers with the right to software upgrades and enhancements as well as technical support. Purchases of term-based licenses and software-as-a-service ("SaaS") subscriptions have support and maintenance included within the subscription fees and are not sold separately.

We had a broad and diverse base of over 32,000 end customers as of July 31, 2026. We define the number of end customers as the number of end customers for which we have received an order by the last day of the period, excluding partners to which we have sold products for their own demonstration purposes. A single organization or customer may represent multiple end customers for separate divisions, segments or subsidiaries, and the total number of end customers may contract due to mergers, acquisitions, or other consolidation among existing end customers.

Our solutions are primarily sold through our channel partners or original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and delivered directly to our end customers. We have end customers across a broad range of industries, such as financial services, retail, manufacturing, public sector, automotive and other transportation, consumer goods, education, energy, healthcare, media, technology, and telecommunications. We also sell to service providers, who utilize our platform to provide a variety of cloud-based services to their customers.

Key Financial and Performance Metrics

We monitor the following key financial and performance metrics:

(1)
Beginning with the first quarter of fiscal 2026, our methodology for calculating ARR was updated to align more closely with the timing of when licenses are made available to customers. For comparability purposes, ARR for all prior periods have been adjusted to conform to the updated methodology.

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Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Continued)

Disaggregation of Revenue

The following table depicts the disaggregation of revenue by type, consistent with how we evaluate our financial performance:

(1)
Prior to fiscal 2026, these amounts were presented as separate line items, Professional services and Other non-subscription product, as described below. Prior period amounts have been updated to conform to the current period presentation.

Subscription revenue — Subscription revenue includes any performance obligation which has a defined duration and is generated from the sales of software maintenance subscriptions, support subscriptions, subscription software licenses and cloud-based SaaS offerings.

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Ratable — We recognize revenue from software maintenance subscriptions, support subscriptions and SaaS offerings ratably over the contractual service period, the substantial majority of which relate to software maintenance subscriptions and support subscriptions. These offerings represented approximately $1,029.0 million, $1,138.4 million and $1,299.7 million of our subscription revenue for fiscal 2024, 2025 and 2026, respectively.

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Upfront — We generally recognize revenue from our subscription software licenses upfront upon the transfer of control to the customer. For sales of our software purchased alongside a server from an OEM or other partner, revenue is typically recognized upon shipment of the server. For software sold separately from a server, revenue is typically recognized when the software is made available to the customer. These subscription software licenses represented approximately $987.8 million, $1,272.4 million and $1,412.6 million of our subscription revenue for fiscal 2024, 2025 and 2026, respectively.

Professional services and other revenue — Includes Professional services revenue and Other non-subscription product revenue, as described below:

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Professional services revenue — We also sell professional services with our products. We recognize revenue related to professional services as they are performed. Professional services revenue was approximately $100.9 million, $112.2 million, and $126.6 million for fiscal 2024, 2025 and 2026, respectively.

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Other non-subscription product revenue — Includes non-portable software revenue and hardware revenue, which were immaterial for the periods presented.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Key Performance Measures

In addition to GAAP metrics, we regularly monitor ARR, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, and free cash flow, which are non-GAAP financial measures and key performance measures, to help us evaluate our growth and operational efficiencies, measure our performance, identify trends in our sales activity, and establish our budgets. We evaluate these measures because they:

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are used by management and our Board of Directors to understand and evaluate our performance and trends, as well as to provide a useful measure for period-to-period comparisons of our core business, particularly as we operate a subscription-based business model;

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are widely used as a measure of financial performance to understand and evaluate companies in our industry; and

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are used by management to prepare and approve our annual budget and to develop short-term and long-term operational and compensation plans, as well as to assess our actual performance against our goals.

ARR is a performance measure that we believe provides useful information to our management and investors as it allows us to better track the top-line growth of our subscription business (including our ability to acquire subscriptions with new customers and to retain and expand wit

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