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Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
3 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2026
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all disclosures normally required in annual consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Therefore, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, as filed with the SEC on March 19, 2026 (the “Annual Report”).
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes include the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries and reflect all adjustments that, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of the periods presented. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Certain prior period amounts reported in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. For the three months ended April 30, 2026 and 2025, the Company combined maintenance revenue and other revenue into “Other” on the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations. The presentation of cost of revenue has been conformed to reflect the changes related to the presentation of revenues. Such reclassifications related to the presentation of revenue and cost of revenue did not impact total revenue, loss from operations or net loss.
Principles of Consolidation The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes include the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries and reflect all adjustments that, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of the periods presented. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Such management estimates include, but are not limited to, the estimation of standalone selling prices for performance obligations, the estimates for material rights, the application of a portfolio approach for capitalization of deferred commissions, the determination of the period of benefit for deferred commissions, the determination of fair value of the Company’s common stock prior to the completion of the IPO, the valuation of stock-based awards, the valuation and assessment of recoverability of intangible assets and their estimated useful lives, the assessment of goodwill impairment, the incremental borrowing rate used to value operating lease liabilities, the valuation of deferred income tax assets and uncertain tax positions, and contingencies. Management evaluates these estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis using historical experience and other factors and makes adjustments when facts and circumstances dictate. Actual results could differ materially from these estimates.
Revenue Recognition
The Company generates revenue primarily from the sale of subscriptions and typically invoices customers at the inception of the contract. The Company’s contracts with customers have a typical stated duration ranging from one to five years, with the majority of contracts having a stated duration of three years. The Company’s contracts with customers are generally non-cancelable and non-refundable. The Company primarily sells products and services to end users through distributors and resellers (“Channel Partners”). Channel Partners are the Company’s customers. The Company offers rebates to its Channel Partners calculated as a fixed percentage
of the total selling price of a revenue contract. The Company accounts for rebates as consideration payable to a customer and records the amounts as a reduction to revenue.
The Company determines revenue recognition through the following steps:
Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer;
Identification of the performance obligations in the contract;
Determination of the transaction price;
Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and
Recognition of revenue when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation.
Payment terms of the Company’s contracts range from 30 days to 60 days after fulfillment or service commencement date, except for certain contracts, which are billed in installments over the contract term.
The Company determines its transaction price based on the expected amount it is entitled to receive in exchange for transferring promised products and services to the customer.
The Company’s contracts with customers can include multiple products and services. The Company determines performance obligations in a customer contract by assessing whether products and services are capable of being distinct and distinct in the context of the contract, including customer options that are determined to be material rights. The transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations based on the relative standalone selling price basis. The standalone selling price is determined based on the price at which the performance obligation either is sold separately or, if not observable through past transactions, is estimated taking into account available information such as market conditions and internally approved pricing guidelines related to the performance obligations. For performance obligations that are not sold separately, standalone selling price is determined based on observable inputs, overall pricing trends, market conditions and other factors, such as the price charged by the Company’s competitors for similar products and services with any necessary or appropriate adjustments.
Subscription revenue
Subscription revenue consists of software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) subscriptions and subscription term-based licenses with related support services.
SaaS subscriptions include standalone sales of SaaS subscription offerings as well as sales of RSC. RSC is a fully-hosted subscription in the case of protection of cloud, SaaS, and unstructured data applications. When RSC is securing enterprise applications, it is a hybrid cloud subscription which includes software hosted from the cloud (as a service) and on-premise software licenses. RSC is accounted for as a single performance obligation because the software hosted from the cloud (as a service) and the on-premise software licenses are not separately identifiable and serve together to fulfill the Company’s promise to RSC customers, which is to provide a single, unified data security solution. The Company’s subscription capabilities are primarily sold as editions which bundle multiple products and include the Foundation Edition, Business Edition, and Enterprise Edition. Subscription revenue related to SaaS is recognized ratably over the subscription period.
Subscription term-based licenses provide customers with a right to use the software for a fixed term commencing upon delivery of the license to the customers. Support services are bundled with each subscription term-based license for the term of the subscription. Subscription revenue related to subscription term-based licenses includes upfront revenue recognized at the later of the start date of the subscription term-based license and the date when the subscription term-based license is delivered. The remainder of the revenue is recognized ratably over the subscription period for support services, commencing on the date the service is made available to customers. The Company does not recognize software revenue related to the renewal of subscription term-based licenses earlier than the beginning of the related renewal period. The Company also sells Rubrik-branded commodity servers (“Rubrik-branded Appliances”) support which is recognized ratably over the support period.
Other revenue
Other revenue includes fees earned from sales of professional services, software updates on a when-and-if-available basis, telephone and integrated web-based support, Rubrik-branded Appliance maintenance relating to our perpetual licenses, and Rubrik-branded Appliances. Revenue related to professional services is typically recognized as the services are performed. Revenue for Rubrik-branded Appliances is recognized when shipped to the customer, as the Company's shipping term is free on board shipping point, meaning control of the Rubrik-branded Appliance transfers to the customer upon shipment. When we sell our software license with our Rubrik-branded Appliances, revenue for both the Rubrik-branded Appliances and software licenses are recognized at the same time.
Amounts billed to customers for shipping and handling costs are classified as other revenue, and the Company’s shipping and handling costs are classified as cost of revenue.
Judgments
The Company identifies performance obligations in a customer contract by assessing whether products and services are capable of being distinct and distinct in the context of the contract. The determination of the performance obligations for RSC when offered as a hybrid cloud subscription requires significant judgment due to the ongoing interaction between the software hosted from the cloud (as a service) and the on-premise software licenses. The Company has concluded that the software hosted from the cloud (as a service) and software licenses are not distinct from each other in the context of the contract such that revenue from the combined offering should be recognized ratably over the subscription period for which the software hosted from the cloud (as a service) is provided. In reaching this conclusion, the Company considered the nature of its promise to customers with a RSC hybrid cloud subscription, which is to provide a single, unified data security solution that operates seamlessly across multiple data sources and teams, and to give customers the ability to manage all their data sources consistently and/or in a manner they dictate. The Company only fulfills this multi-faceted promise by providing access to an integrated solution comprised of both cloud-based and on-premise software. The cloud-based software and on-premise software work together to provide features and functionalities necessary to fulfill that promise, which neither the software hosted from the cloud (as a service) nor the software licenses could provide on their own or together with third-party resources.
The Company had offered Subscription Credits for RSC to qualified customers in exchange for relinquishing their existing rights to next-generation Rubrik-branded Appliances at no cost (“Refresh Rights”). These are customer options that are accounted for as material rights.
The Company’s contracts with customers may include customer options that are material rights. The determination of the likelihood of customers exercising their options requires significant judgment. Management estimates the likelihood of customers exercising their options by taking into account available information such as the number and timing of options exercised or forfeited, and considers other factors such as customer churn that may impact the options that have yet to be exercised or forfeited. Depending on the type of customer option exercised, the amount of consideration allocated to the material rights will be recognized into revenue at a point in time or over time beginning on the date the customer accepts the option. Deferred revenue associated with customer options that are subsequently forfeited will be released into revenue at the time the options are forfeited.
Timing of revenue recognition (in thousands):
Three Months Ended April 30,
20262025
Subscription revenue
Products and services transferred over time$355,639 $243,991 
Products and services transferred at a point in time18,514 21,670 
Other revenue
Products and services transferred over time11,160 11,074 
Products and services transferred at a point in time1,755 1,746 
Total revenue $387,068 $278,481 
Contract assets
The Company invoices its customers in accordance with contractual billing terms established in each contract. As the Company performs under customer contracts, its right to consideration that is unconditional is classified as accounts receivable. If the Company’s right to consideration for such performance is contingent upon a future event or satisfaction of additional performance obligations, the amount of revenue the Company has recognized in excess of the amount it has billed to the customer is classified as a contract asset. Contract assets are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets and other assets, noncurrent in the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. There were $14.0 million and $12.6 million of contract assets as of April 30, 2026 and January 31, 2026, respectively. The current and noncurrent contract assets balances as of April 30, 2026 were $4.6 million and $9.4 million, respectively, and as of January 31, 2026 were $3.8 million and $8.8 million, respectively.
Deferred revenue
Deferred revenue, which are contract liabilities, are amounts received or due from customers in advance of the Company’s performance. The current portion of deferred revenue represents the amount that is expected to be recognized as revenue within one year of the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet date. The Company invoices customers upfront for the majority of contracts, and the increase in the Company’s deferred revenue corresponds to an increase in revenue contracts that include SaaS and support in which the Company satisfies its performance obligations typically over the contractual service period. During the three
months ended April 30, 2026 and 2025, the Company recognized revenue of approximately $336.4 million and $240.3 million, respectively, pertaining to amounts deferred at the beginning of each respective period.
Transaction price allocated to the remaining performance obligations
Transaction price allocated to the remaining performance obligations represents contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized, which includes deferred revenue for contracts that have been invoiced and will be recognized as revenue in future periods.
Concentration of Risk
Credit risk
The Company’s financial instruments that are exposed to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, short-term investments, and accounts receivable. Cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments are primarily held in three financial institutions and, at times, may exceed federally insured limits. The Company grants credit to customers in a wide variety of industries worldwide and generally does not require collateral. The Company has not experienced any material credit losses as of April 30, 2026.
Vendor risk
The Company uses third-party vendors for delivering its SaaS. While these services are highly available and designed to be resilient to failure of infrastructure, the Company’s services could be significantly impacted if the third-party vendors’ services experience certain types of interruptions.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-05, Financial Instruments — Credit Losses, which provides a practical expedient for estimating expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract assets that arise from transactions accounted for under Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The Company adopted ASU 2025-05 effective February 1, 2026 on a prospective basis and elected the practical expedient. The adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Recently Announced Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures, which requires entities to provide disclosures about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the income statement as well as disclosures about selling expenses. ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, on either a prospective or retrospective basis, with early adoption permitted. The Company is assessing the timing and impact of adopting this standard.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software: Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software, which modernizes the accounting for internal-use software costs by increasing the operability of the recognition guidance considering different methods of software development. ASU 2025-06 is effective for annual
periods beginning after December 15, 2027 and interim periods within those annual reporting periods and can be applied prospectively, retrospectively, or with a modified transition approach, with early adoption permitted. The Company is assessing the impact of adopting this standard.