UserTesting Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results

UserTesting, Inc.  a leader in video-based human insight, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021.

“The strong momentum in our business continued in the fourth quarter with total revenue growing 45% year-over-year,” said Andy MacMillan, CEO of UserTesting. “The investments we are making across our go-to-market organization to both drive awareness and expand use cases within existing customers are generating results. We believe the ability to use genuine human insights to inform business decisions at the speed of innovation represents a broad, underpenetrated market, which creates growth opportunities for years to come.”

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“The strong momentum in our business continued in the fourth quarter with total revenue growing 45% year-over-year”

Fourth Quarter 2021 Financial Highlights:

• Revenue: Total revenue was $42.5 million, up 45% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $39.8 million, up 49% year-over-year.
• Operating Loss and Margin: GAAP operating loss was $(17.2) million, or (40)% of total revenue, compared to $(8.4) million, or (28)% of total revenue, in the same period last year. Non-GAAP operating loss was $(9.9) million, or (23)% of total revenue, compared to $(7.5) million, or (26)% of total revenue, in the same period last year.
• Net Loss: GAAP net loss was $(16.9) million, or $(0.22) per share, compared to $(7.8) million, or $(0.47) per share, in the same period last year. Non-GAAP net loss was $(9.6) million, or $(0.12) per share, compared to $(7.0) million, or $(0.42) per share, in the same period last year.
• Cash Flow: Net cash used in operations was $(15.1) million, compared to $(1.6) million in the same period last year. Free cash flow was $(15.8) million, compared to $(2.3) million in the same period last year.
• Cash and Cash Equivalents: UserTesting completed its initial public offering and began trading on November 17, 2021. Net proceeds to UserTesting from the initial public offering were approximately $124.1 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering costs. Cash and cash equivalents were $178.4 million as of December 31, 2021.

Full Year 2021 Financial Highlights:

• Revenue: Total revenue was $147.4 million, up 44% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $136.7 million, up 46% year-over-year.
• Operating Loss and Margin: GAAP operating loss was $(51.2) million, or (35)% of total revenue, compared to $(34.0) million, or (33)% of total revenue, in the same period last year. Non-GAAP operating loss was $(40.3) million, or (27)% of total revenue, compared to $(30.9) million, or (30)% of total revenue, in the same period last year.
• Net Loss: GAAP net loss was $(50.7) million, or $(1.50) per share, compared to $(34.0) million, or $(2.10) per share, in the same period last year. Non-GAAP net loss was $(39.9) million, or $(1.18) per share, compared to $(30.9) million, or $(1.91) per share, in the same period last year.
• Cash Flow: Net cash used in operations was $(41.1) million, compared to $(14.3) million in the same period last year. Free cash flow was $(43.7) million, compared to $(15.3) million in the same period last year.

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Recent Highlights:

• Recent new wins and growth deals included AMC Entertainment, Anheuser-Busch, Hawaiian Airlines, Home Chef, Lowe’s, Metlife, Philips, Phoenix Group, Reddit, and Vestiaire Collective SA.
• UserTesting was again named a leader by G2, the world’s leading independent user review site, in User Research, Mobile App Testing, and Software Testing. G2 also named UserTesting a leader in all three business segments, including Enterprise, Mid-Market, and Small Business.
• Announced partnership with Quantum Metric to help organizations design and build customer-centric experiences faster.
• Introduced new templates for testing Facebook metaverse and virtual reality experiences.
• Held our global virtual customer conference, Human Insight World (HiWorld), with tours in North America, EMEA, and APAC.

Financial Outlook:

For the first quarter ending March 31, 2022, UserTesting currently expects:

• Total revenue between $43.0 million and $44.0 million.
• Non-GAAP operating margin between (25.0%) and (27.0%).
• Non-GAAP net loss per share between $(0.07) and $(0.08) assuming 142.5 million weighted-average shares outstanding⁽¹⁾.

For the full year ending December 31, 2022, UserTesting currently expects:

• Total revenue between $194.5 million and $198.5 million.
• Non-GAAP operating margin between (29.0%) and (31.0%).
• Non-GAAP net loss per share between $(0.39) and $(0.41) assuming 145.0 million weighted-average shares outstanding⁽¹⁾.

⁽¹⁾ Includes the impact of (i) the issuance of shares of common stock by UserTesting in its initial public offering, and (ii) the conversion of all then outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock into shares of common stock in connection with the initial public offering, in the weighted-average shares calculation weighted from the date of the initial public offering.

The guidance provided above are forward-looking statements and actual results may differ materially. Refer to the “Forward-Looking Statements” section below for information on the factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements.

Non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating loss, non-GAAP operating loss margin, non-GAAP net loss, non-GAAP net loss per share, free cash flow and free cash flow margin are non-GAAP financial measures. Additional information on UserTesting’s reported results, including a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to their most comparable GAAP measures, is included in the financial tables below. Our definition for each non-GAAP measure used is provided below, however a limitation of non-GAAP financial measures is that they do not have uniform definitions. Accordingly, our definitions for non-GAAP measures used will likely differ from similarly titled non-GAAP measures used by other companies thereby limiting comparability. In addition, the utility of free cash flow as a measure of our liquidity is limited as it does not represent the total increase or decrease in our cash and cash equivalents balance for a given period.

With regards to the non-GAAP guidance provided above, a reconciliation of non-GAAP guidance measures to corresponding GAAP measures is not available on a forward-looking basis without unreasonable effort due to the uncertainty of expenses that may be incurred in the future, although it is important to note that these factors could be material to UserTesting’s results computed in accordance with GAAP.

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