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GitLab · Q1 2027 earnings

Q1 2027 earnings · · After market close · Investor relations

Briefing

GitLab announced a major restructuring and reaffirmed its Q1 and full year FY27 guidance in a letter to customers and investors.

CEO Bill Staples outlined structural changes including workforce reduction, reduced country footprint, flatter organization, and reorganized R&D to prepare for the agentic AI era. The company is making architectural bets on machine-scale infrastructure, orchestration, context, governance, and a flexible platform while maintaining customer commitments without disruption. Guidance for Q1 and FY27 was reaffirmed with final restructuring impacts to be detailed on the June 2 earnings call.

  • GitLab initiated a transparent restructuring process with voluntary separation, targeting up to 30% reduction in countries with small teams and flattening management layers.
  • R&D is being reorganized into roughly 60 smaller empowered teams nearly doubling independent teams, with AI agents rewiring internal processes.
  • Ten core beliefs were introduced focusing on agentic software development, machine-scale infrastructure, full-lifecycle orchestration, and a flexible consumption-based business model.
  • Q1 and full year FY27 guidance was reaffirmed; final scope and financial impact of restructuring will be shared on the June 2, 2026 earnings call.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$264M

Previous: $215M+23.1%
EPS

-$0.03

Previous: -$0.22+86.4%
Capital Expenditures

-$2.39M

Previous: -$912K-162.4%
Free Cash Flow

$147M

Previous: -$36.8M+499.1%
Net Income

-$4.97M

Previous: -$35.9M+86.1%
Operating Income

-$15.7M

Previous: -$34.6M+54.5%
Gross Profit

$227M

Previous: $189M+19.6%
Cash & Equivalents

$335M

Previous: $256M+31.2%
Total Assets

$1.71B

Previous: $1.44B+18.3%

Revenue & EPS history

GitLab · Revenue · Quarterly

$264M

Q1 2027+23.1%vs Q1 2026
Beat estimate in 15 of 16 quarters(94%)
ActualEstimate

Revenue by segment

GitLab · $150M total across 2 segments · Q3 2024

  • Subscription—self-managed and SaaS
    $131M+33.1%
  • License—self-managed and other
    $18.7M+28.4%

Forward guidance

GitLab reaffirmed its Q1 and full year FY27 guidance. The majority of restructuring savings are expected to be reinvested into growth and technological initiatives.

Tailwinds

  • Reaffirmed existing guidance despite restructuring
  • Majority of savings to accelerate agentic-era initiatives
  • Next innovation roadmap to be shared at GitLab Transcend on June 10, 2026

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 19 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q1 2027

Historical avgQ1 2027

+2.4%

Avg return

Earnings day

+5.0%

Avg return

5 days after

+1.6%

Avg return

30 days after

50%

12 / 24 earnings

Positive

+37.7%

Q1 2024

Best reaction

-23.4%

Q4 2023

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2027-2.8%-2.4%
Q4 2026-7.2%-7.9%-15.5%
Q3 2026-12.8%-9.9%-16.6%
Q2 2026-7.3%+2.7%+0.0%
Q1 2026-0.1%+2.7%+2.3%
Q4 2025+11.6%+0.2%-24.4%
Q3 2025+0.9%-7.5%-10.2%
Q2 2025+14.7%+12.0%+2.9%
Q1 2025-5.2%-7.6%+12.7%
Q4 2024-19.7%-21.3%-22.9%
Q3 2024+12.4%+12.8%+11.2%
Q2 2024+1.7%+6.5%-9.4%
Q1 2024+37.7%+39.9%+50.3%
Q4 2023-23.4%-16.8%-23.6%
Q3 2023+1.6%+12.4%+3.1%
Q2 2022+16.6%+30.2%+12.1%
Q2 2023+12.1%+20.0%+17.5%
Q1 2022+26.4%+12.8%+48.3%
Q1 2023+24.6%+9.8%+36.8%
Q1 2020-7.1%+2.0%-15.0%
Q4 2022+0.5%+76.9%+43.3%
Q4 2021-5.4%-15.9%-21.6%
Q3 2021-5.4%-15.9%-21.6%
Q3 2022-7.1%-14.8%-21.7%
Q2 2021
Q1 2021

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