Bentley Systems Announces Operating Results for the First

Bentley Systems Announces Operating Results for the First Quarter of 2022

EXTON, Pa. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 10, 2022 — Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY) (“Bentley Systems” or the “Company”), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced operating results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022.

First Quarter 2022 Financial Results

Total revenues were $275.5 million, up 24.1% or 27.7% on a constant currency basis, year-over-year;

Subscriptions revenues were $241.2 million, up 28.2% or 32.0% on a constant currency basis, year-over-year;

Last twelve-month recurring revenues were $885.9 million, up 23.6% year-over-year;

Last twelve-month recurring revenues dollar-based net retention rate was 108%, compared to 107% for the same period last year;

Last twelve-month account retention rate was 98%, consistent with the same period last year;

Annualized Recurring Revenue (“ARR”) was $962.6 million as of March 31, 2022, representing a constant currency ARR growth rate of 27% from March 31, 2021;

GAAP operating income was $56.6 million, compared to $55.6 million for the same period last year;

GAAP net income was $56.4 million, compared to $57.0 million for the same period last year. GAAP net income per diluted share was $0.18, compared to $0.18 for the same period last year. GAAP net income margin was 20.5%, compared to 25.7% for the same period last year;

Adjusted Net Income was $79.6 million, compared to $64.1 million for the same period last year. Adjusted Net Income per diluted share was $0.24 compared to $0.20 for the same period last year;

Adjusted EBITDA was $97.6 million, compared to $83.0 million for the same period last year. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 35.4%, compared to 37.4% for the same period last year; and

Cash flow from operations was $101.7 million, compared to $132.8 million for the same period last year.

Definitions of the non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release and reconciliations of such measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures are included below under the heading “Use and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

CEO Greg Bentley said, “Against this quarter’s backdrop of compounding global concerns, I am pleased that we are reporting overall resilience, starting with strong operating results, consistent with our established financial outlook for 2022. Our 22Q1 results absorbed consequences directly related to Russia, including mandatory sanctions, our discretionary new business suspension there, and especially reductions in Russian ARR to reflect an estimation of recurrence probability. But we also absorbed a comparable amount of ARR attrition within China that I believe stems largely from indirectly related ‘counter-globalism.’ Net of these disruptions, we still achieved constant currency ARR growth, from a year ago, of 12% in business performance, plus 15% from platform acquisitions.”

Mr. Bentley continued, “To proactively enhance our business resilience with respect to counter-globalism, BSY Investments announced our first joint venture in China to ‘glocalize’ our platform within software and cloud service offerings being developed there to meet the Chinese government’s provenance requirements for critical infrastructure applications. Also on the investment front, our leadership in core structural and geotechnical engineering disciplines was augmented by our acquisition of ADINA to add advanced non-linear analyses across our simulation portfolio, to help in assessing and improving infrastructure asset resilience against increasingly prevalent environmental extremes.”

“And with respect to potential macroeconomic downturns, I consider that 22Q1’s impressive net momentum in our business corresponds with generally having become more resilient, even since going public in 2020. Notably, as we have extended our global leadership position in infrastructure engineering software and digital twins for mobility, our flourishing platform acquisitions for environmental opportunities (Seequent) and grid opportunities (Power Line Systems) have considerably reduced the significance of our comparatively minor exposure, within the commercial and industrial infrastructure sectors, to cyclically vulnerable CAPEX spending,” Mr. Bentley concluded.

First Quarter 2022 Financial Developments

On January 31, 2022, we completed the acquisition of Power Line Systems, a leader in software for the design of overhead electric power transmission lines and their structures, for $696.0 million in cash, net of cash acquired. We used available cash and borrowings under our bank credit facility to fund the transaction.

Operating Results Call Details

Bentley Systems will host a live Zoom video webinar on May 10, 2022 at 8:15 a.m. Eastern time to discuss operating results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022.

Those wishing to participate should access the live Zoom video webinar of the event through a direct registration link at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4aR1BzzRQJCALyGU052TrQ. Alternatively, the event can be accessed from the Events & Presentations page on Bentley Systems’ Investor Relations website at https://investors.bentley.com. In addition, a replay and transcript will be available after the conclusion of the live event on Bentley Systems’ Investor Relations website for one year.

Definitions of Certain Key Business Metrics

Definitions of the non-GAAP financial measures used in this operating results press release and reconciliations of such measures to their nearest GAAP equivalents are included below under “Use and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

Last twelve-month recurring revenues are calculated as recurring revenues recognized over the preceding twelve-month period. We define recurring revenues as subscription revenues that recur monthly, quarterly, or annually with specific or automatic renewal clauses and professional services revenues in which the underlying contract is based on a fixed fee and contains automatic annual renewal provisions;

Business performance is defined as organic growth results inclusive of the impact from the ARR onboarding of certain programmatic acquisitions, which generally are immaterial, individually and in the aggregate, and is exclusive of the ARR onboarding of our Seequent and Power Line Systems platform acquisitions;

GAAP net income margin is determined by dividing GAAP net income by total revenues;

Adjusted EBITDA margin is determined by dividing Adjusted EBITDA by total revenues; and

Adjusted Net Income per diluted share is determined by dividing Adjusted Net Income by the weighted average diluted shares.

Constant Currency Metrics

In reporting period-over-period results, we calculate the effects of foreign currency fluctuations and constant currency information by translating current period results using prior period average foreign currency exchange rates. Our definition of constant currency may differ from other companies reporting similarly named measures, and these constant currency performance measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as a substitute for, our operating performance measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.

Our last twelve-month recurring revenues dollar-based net retention rate is calculated, using the average exchange rates for the prior period, as follows: the recurring revenues for the current period, including any growth or reductions from accounts with recurring revenues in the prior period (“existing accounts”), but excluding recurring revenues from any new accounts added during the current period, divided by the total recurring revenues from all accounts during the prior period. A period is defined as any trailing twelve months.

Our last twelve-month account retention rate for any given twelve-month period is calculated using the average currency exchange rates for the prior period, as follows: the prior period recurring revenues from all accounts with recurring revenues in the current and prior period, divided by total recurring revenues from all accounts during the prior period.

Our constant currency ARR growth rate is the growth rate of our ARR, measured on a constant currency basis. Our ARR is defined as the sum of the annualized value of our portfolio of contracts that produce recurring revenue as of the last day of the reporting period, and the annualized value of the last three months of recognized revenues for our contractually recurring consumption-based software subscriptions with consumption measurement durations of less than one year.

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