– Fourth quarter revenue grew 12 percent as reported and on a constant currency basis, to $1.6 billion

– Autodesk initiates optimization phase of its sales and marketing plan; and reallocates internal resources to accelerate its strategic priorities

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2025.

All growth rates are compared to the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2024, respectively, unless otherwise noted. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the accompanying tables. For definitions, please view the Glossary of Terms later in this document.

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial Highlights

• Total revenue increased 12 percent to $1.64 billion;
• GAAP operating margin was 22 percent, compared to 21 percent;
• Non-GAAP operating margin was 37 percent, compared to 36 percent;
• GAAP income from operations was $366 million, compared to $315 million;
• Non-GAAP income from operations was $608 million, compared to $522 million;
• GAAP diluted EPS was $1.40; Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $2.29;
• Cash flow from operating activities was $692 million; free cash flow was $678 million.

“Autodesk is focused on the convergence of design and make in the cloud, enabled by platform, industry clouds, and AI. We are reallocating internal resources toward these critical areas and beginning the optimization of our go-to-market functions to better meet the evolving needs of our customers and channel partners,” said Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk president and CEO. “We expect consistent growth momentum and disciplined execution, reinforced by persistent share repurchases, to deliver sustainable shareholder value over many years.”

“The fourth quarter and full year fiscal 25 results are strong,” said Janesh Moorjani, Autodesk CFO. “The completion of the new transaction model launch in the fourth quarter marked a significant milestone, and we have now initiated the optimization phase of our sales and marketing plan. Once our sales and marketing optimization is complete, we expect to deliver GAAP margins among the best in the industry.”

Following a review of our business, Autodesk has announced today a worldwide restructuring plan that includes a reduction in force that will result in the termination of approximately 9 percent of our workforce, or approximately 1,350 employees, other exit costs, and facility reductions. We anticipate incurring total pre-tax restructuring charges of approximately $135 million to $150 million, a substantial majority of which would result in cash expenditures. For more information, please see our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on February 27, 2025. 

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2025 Additional Financial Details

• Total billings increased 23 percent to $2.11 billion.
• Total revenue was $1.64 billion, an increase of 12 percent as reported and on a constant currency basis. Recurring revenue represents 97 percent of total.
• Design revenue was $1.36 billion, an increase of 12 percent as reported and on a constant currency basis. On a sequential basis, Design revenue increased 5 percent as reported and on a constant currency basis.
• Make revenue was $176 million, an increase of 28 percent as reported and on a constant currency basis. On a sequential basis, Make revenue increased 3 percent as reported and on a constant currency basis.
• Subscription plan revenue was $1.52 billion, an increase of 14 percent as reported and on a constant currency basis. On a sequential basis, subscription plan revenue increased 4 percent as reported, and 5 percent on a constant currency basis.
• Net revenue retention rate was within the range of 100 to 110 percent on a constant currency basis.
• GAAP income from operations was $366 million, compared to $315 million. GAAP operating margin was 22 percent, compared to 21 percent.
• Total non-GAAP income from operations was $608 million, compared to $522 million. Non-GAAP operating margin was 37 percent, compared to 36 percent.
• GAAP diluted net income per share was $1.40, compared to $1.31.
• Non-GAAP diluted net income per share was $2.29, compared to $2.09.
• Deferred revenue decreased 3 percent to $4.13 billion. Unbilled deferred revenue was $2.81 billion, an increase of $966 million. Remaining performance obligations (“RPO”) increased 14 percent to $6.94 billion. Current RPO increased 12 percent to $4.46 billion.
• Cash flow from operating activities was $692 million, an increase of $255 million. Free cash flow was $678 million, an increase of $251 million.

Net Revenue by Geographic Area

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Net Revenue by Product Family

Our product offerings are focused in four primary product families: Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (“AECO”), AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, Manufacturing (“MFG”), and Media and Entertainment (“M&E”).

Fiscal 2025 Financial Highlights

• Total billings increased 16 percent to $6.00 billion.
• Total revenue was $6.13 billion, an increase of 12 percent as reported, and 13 percent on a constant currency basis. Recurring revenue represents 97 percent of total.
• Design revenue was $5.10 billion, an increase of 10 percent as reported, and 11 percent on a constant currency basis.
• Make revenue was $654 million, an increase of 25 percent as reported, and 26 percent on a constant currency basis.
• Subscription plan revenue was $5.72 billion, an increase of 12 percent as reported, and 13 percent on a constant currency basis.
• Total subscriptions increased approximately 516 thousand to 7.79 million. Total subscriptions adjusted for the multi-user trade-in increased approximately 471 thousand to 7.18 million.
• GAAP income from operations was $1.35 billion, compared to $1.13 billion. GAAP operating margin was 22 percent, up 1 percentage point.
• Total non-GAAP income from operations was $2.23 billion, compared to $1.96 billion. Non-GAAP operating margin was 36 percent, flat compared to the prior period.
• GAAP diluted net income per share was $5.12, compared to $4.19.
• Non-GAAP diluted net income per share was $8.47, compared to $7.60.
• Cash flow from operating activities increased to $1.61 billion, compared to $1.31 billion. Free cash flow increased to $1.57 billion, compared to $1.28 billion.

Net Revenue by Geographic Area

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Net Revenue by Product Family

Our product offerings are focused in four primary product families: AECO, AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, MFG, and M&E.

Business Outlook

The following are forward-looking statements based on current expectations and assumptions, and involve risks and uncertainties, some of which are set forth below under “Safe Harbor Statement.” Autodesk’s business outlook for the first quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 takes into consideration the current economic environment and foreign exchange currency rate environment. A reconciliation between the first quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 GAAP and non-GAAP estimates is provided below or in the tables later in this document.

First Quarter Fiscal 2026

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Full-Year Fiscal 2026

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The full-year fiscal 2026 outlook assumes a projected annual effective tax rate of 25 to 28 percent for GAAP, which includes the effects of the utilization of US deferred tax assets, and 19 percent for non-GAAP results.  The first quarter fiscal 2026 outlook assumes a projected annual effective tax rate of 25 to 29 percent for GAAP, which includes the effects of the utilization of US deferred tax assets, and 19 percent for non-GAAP results. Shifts in geographic profitability continue to impact the annual effective tax rate due to significant differences in tax rates in various jurisdictions. As such, assumptions for the annual effective tax rate are evaluated regularly and may change based on the projected geographic mix of earnings.

Earnings Conference Call and Webcast

Autodesk will host its fourth quarter conference call today at 5 p.m. ET. The live broadcast can be accessed at autodesk.com/investor. A transcript of the opening commentary will also be available following the conference call. 

A replay of the broadcast will be available at 7 p.m. ET at autodesk.com/investor. This replay will be maintained on Autodesk’s website for at least 12 months.

Investor Presentation Details

An investor presentation, excel financials and other supplemental materials providing additional information can be found at autodesk.com/investor.

Key Performance Metrics

To help better understand our financial performance, we use several key performance metrics including billings, recurring revenue, net revenue retention rate (“NR3”) and subscriptions. These metrics are key performance metrics and should be viewed independently of revenue and deferred revenue. These metrics are not intended to be combined with those items. We use these metrics to monitor the strength of our recurring business. We believe these metrics are useful to investors because they can help in monitoring the long-term health of our business. Our determination and presentation of these metrics may differ from that of other companies. The presentation of these metrics is meant to be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for or in isolation from, our financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Glossary of Terms

Billings: Total revenue plus the net change in deferred revenue from the beginning to the end of the period. 

Cloud Service Offerings: Represents individual term-based offerings deployed through web browser technologies or in a hybrid software and cloud configuration. Cloud service offerings that are bundled with other product offerings are not captured as a separate cloud service offering.

Constant Currency (CC) Growth Rates: We attempt to represent the changes in the underlying business operations by eliminating fluctuations caused by changes in foreign currency exchange rates as well as eliminating hedge gains or losses recorded within the current and comparative periods. We calculate constant currency growth rates by (i) applying the applicable prior period exchange rates to current period results and (ii) excluding any gains or losses from foreign currency hedge contracts that are reported in the current and comparative periods. 

Design Business: Represents the combination of maintenance, product subscriptions, and all EBAs. Main products include, but are not limited to, AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Industry Collections, Revit, Inventor, Maya, and 3ds Max. Certain products, such as our computer aided manufacturing solutions, incorporate both Design and Make functionality and are classified as Design.

Enterprise Business Agreements (EBAs): Represents programs providing enterprise customers with token-based access to a broad pool of Autodesk products over a defined contract term. 

Flex:  A pay-as-you-go consumption option to pre-purchase tokens to access any product available with Flex for a daily rate.

Free Cash Flow: Cash flow from operating activities minus capital expenditures. 

Industry Collections: Autodesk Industry Collections are a combination of products and services that target a specific user objective and support a set of workflows for that objective. Our Industry Collections consist of: Autodesk Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Collection, Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection, and Autodesk Media and Entertainment Collection.

Maintenance Plan: Our maintenance plans provide our customers with a cost effective and predictable budgetary option to obtain the productivity benefits of our new releases and enhancements when and if released during the term of their contracts. Under our maintenance plans, customers are eligible to receive unspecified upgrades when and if available, and technical support. We recognize maintenance revenue over the term of the agreements, generally one year.    

Make Business: Represents certain cloud-based product subscriptions. Main products include, but are not limited to, Autodesk Build, BIM Collaborate Pro, BuildingConnected, Fusion, and Flow Production Tracking. Certain products, such as Fusion, incorporate both Design and Make functionality and are classified as Make.

Net Revenue Retention Rate (NR3): Measures the year-over-year change in Recurring Revenue for the population of customers that existed one year ago (“base customers”).  Net revenue retention rate is calculated by dividing the current quarter Recurring Revenue related to base customers by the total corresponding quarter Recurring Revenue from one year ago. Recurring Revenue is based on USD reported revenue, and fluctuations caused by changes in foreign currency exchange rates and hedge gains or losses have not been eliminated. Recurring Revenue related to acquired companies, one year after acquisition, has been captured as existing customers until such data conforms to the calculation methodology. This may cause variability in the comparison.

Other Revenue: Consists of revenue from consulting, training and other products and services, and is recognized as the products are delivered and services are performed. 

Product Subscription: Provides customers a flexible, cost-effective way to access and manage 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software tools. Our product subscriptions currently represent a hybrid of desktop and cloud functionality, which provides a device-independent, collaborative design workflow for designers and their stakeholders.  

Recurring Revenue: Consists of the revenue for the period from our traditional maintenance plans, our subscription plan offerings, and certain Other revenue. It excludes subscription revenue related to third-party products. Recurring revenue acquired with the acquisition of a business is captured when total subscriptions are captured in our systems and may cause variability in the comparison of this calculation.    

Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO): The sum of total short-term, long-term, and unbilled deferred revenue. Current remaining performance obligations is the amount of revenue we expect to recognize in the next twelve months.  

Solution Provider: Solution Provider is the name of our channel partners who primarily serve our new transaction model customers worldwide. Solution Providers may also be resellers in relation to Autodesk solutions.

Spend: The sum of cost of revenue and operating expenses. 

Subscription Plan: Comprises our term-based product subscriptions, cloud service offerings, and EBAs. Subscriptions represent a combined hybrid offering of desktop software and cloud functionality which provides a device-independent, collaborative design workflow for designers and their stakeholders. With subscription, customers can use our software anytime, anywhere, and get access to the latest updates to previous versions.  

Subscription Revenue: Includes our cloud-enabled term-based product subscriptions, cloud service offerings, and flexible EBAs.  

Total Subscriptions: Consists of subscriptions from our maintenance plans and subscription plan offerings that are active and paid as of the fiscal year end date. For certain cloud service offerings and EBAs, subscriptions represent the monthly average activity reported within the last three months of the fiscal quarter end date. Total subscriptions do not include education offerings, consumer product offerings, and third-party products. Subscriptions acquired with the acquisition of a business are captured once the data conforms to our subscription count methodology and when added, may cause variability in comparison of this calculation.

Unbilled Deferred Revenue: Unbilled deferred revenue represents contractually stated or committed orders under early renewal and multi-year billing plans for subscription, services, and maintenance for which the associated deferred revenue has not been recognized. Under FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, unbilled deferred revenue is not included as a receivable or deferred revenue on our Consolidated Balance Sheet.  

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including quotations from management, statements in the paragraphs under “Business Outlook” above, statements regarding  reallocating internal resources, our new transaction model and sales and marketing optimization,statements about our short-term and long-term goals, statements regarding our strategies, market and product positions, performance and results, statements regarding our share repurchase programs, and all statements that are not historical facts. There are a significant number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from statements made in this press release, including: our strategy to develop and introduce new products and services and to move to platforms and capabilities, exposing us to risks such as limited customer acceptance  (both new and existing customers), costs related to product defects, and large expenditures; global economic and political conditions, including changes in monetary and fiscal policy, foreign exchange headwinds, recessionary fears, supply chain disruptions, resulting inflationary pressures and hiring conditions; geopolitical tension and armed conflicts, and extreme weather events; costs and challenges associated with strategic acquisitions and investments; our ability to successfully implement and expand our transaction model and our sales and marketing optimization; dependency on international revenue and operations, exposing us to significant international regulatory, economic, intellectual property, collections, currency exchange rate, taxation, political, and other risks, including risks related to the war against Ukraine launched by Russia and our exit from Russia and the current conflict between Israel and Hamas; inability to predict subscription renewal rates and their impact on our future revenue and operating results; existing and increased competition and rapidly evolving technological changes; fluctuation of our financial results, key metrics and other operating metrics; our transition from up front to annual billings for multi-year contracts; deriving a substantial portion of our net revenue from a small number of solutions, including our AutoCAD-based software products and collections; any failure to successfully execute and manage initiatives to realign or introduce new business and sales initiatives, including our new transaction model for Flex; net revenue, billings, earnings, cash flow, or new or existing subscriptions shortfalls; social and ethical issues relating to the use of artificial intelligence in our offerings; our ability to maintain security levels and service performance meeting the expectations of our customers, and the resources and costs required to avoid unanticipated downtime and prevent, detect and remediate performance degradation and security breaches; security incidents or other incidents compromising the integrity of our or our customers’ offerings, services, data, or intellectual property; reliance on third parties to provide us with a number of operational and technical services as well as software; our highly complex software, which may contain undetected errors, defects, or vulnerabilities; increasing regulatory focus on privacy issues and expanding laws; governmental export and import controls that could impair our ability to compete in international markets or subject us to liability if we violate the controls; protection of our intellectual property rights and intellectual property infringement claims from others; the government procurement process; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; our debt service obligations; and our investment portfolio consisting of a variety of investment vehicles that are subject to interest rate trends, market volatility, and other economic factors. Our estimates as to tax rate are based on current interpretations of existing tax law and could be affected by changing interpretations, further guidance, and additional tax legislation.

Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of Autodesk are included in Autodesk’s Form 10-K and subsequent Forms 10-Q, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Autodesk disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

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