Earnings summary

Guidewire Software, Inc. Q1 2026 results

Reported 2025-12-03Full transcript →

Snapshot

Guidewire Software, Inc. reported $333M of revenue in Q1 2026, up 26.5% year over year, with diluted EPS of $0.36 and an operating margin of 5.6%.

Revenue
$333M
YoY growth
+26.5%
Diluted EPS
$0.36
Operating margin
5.6%
$333M
Revenue
+26.5%
YoY growth
$0.36
Diluted EPS
5.6%
Operating margin
01 Key takeaways

What management said

  • Statements today include forward-looking ones regarding our financial results, products, customer demand, operations, the impact of local, national, and geopolitical events on our business, and other matters.
  • Following a record Q4, we saw continued momentum with another eight cloud deals in Q1.
  • All this momentum was driven by the factors we've shared before: our cloud maturity, track record of customer success, and a resilient global P&C insurance market that continues to modernize.
  • Both new applications represent significant market opportunities that address the industry's need to overcome very fragmented and manual processes that negatively impact their speed-to-market loss ratios and growth.
  • By integrating ProNavigator into Guidewire applications, we can now deliver instant, context-aware guidance and answers to the people using our applications.
  • This sort of in-context guidance is a first step in generative AI deployment to insurance workflows and can upskill every user of Guidewire application.
  • Q1 saw record sales activity for a first quarter and a clean beat across ARR revenue and profitability expectations.
  • Total revenue is $333 million, up 27% year-over-year, reflecting strong performance across all segments.
  • We continue to see strong subscription and support revenue growth as customers migrate to cloud and new insurers adopt our cloud products.
  • In the first quarter, subscription and support revenue grew 31% to $222 million.
  • In general, we expect license revenue to decline as we continue to migrate customers to cloud and drive subscription revenue growth.
  • As a reminder, revenue related to multi-year term license contracts are generally recognized upfront, and as a result, no additional license revenue is recognized until the committed term expires.
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