Allot Ltd.

Allot Ltd.

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Q3 FY2025 · Earnings Call TranscriptNovember 20, 2025

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Allot's Third Quarter 2025 Results Conference Call.

All participants are at present in listen-only mode. Following management's formal presentation, instructions will be given for the question-and-answer session.

As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. You should have all received by now the company's press release.

If you have not received it, please contact Allot's Investor Relations team at EK Global Investor Relations at 1-212-378-8040, or view it in the News section of the company's website at www.allot.com. I would like now to hand over the call to Mr.

Kenny Green of EK Global Investor Relations. Mr.

Green, would you like to begin, please?

Kenny Green

Good day to all of you, and welcome to Allot's conference call to discuss its financial results for the quarter. I would like to thank Allot's management for hosting this conference call.

All participants are present in listen-only mode. Following the formal presentation, instructions will be given for the question-and-answer session.

As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. If you have not received the company's press release, please check the company's website at www.allot.com.

With me today on the line are Mr. Eyal Harari, CEO, and Ms.

Liat Nahum, CFO. Following Eyal's prepared remarks, we will open the call for the question-and-answer session.

Both Eyal and Liat will be available to answer those questions. You can all find the highlights of the quarter, including the financial highlights and metrics, including those specifically discussed in the conference call, in today's earnings press release.

Before we start, I'd like to point out the following safe harbor statement. This conference call may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future performance of the company.

Those statements are only predictions, and Allot cannot guarantee that they will, in fact, occur. Allot does not assume any obligation to update that information.

Actual events or results may differ materially from those projected, including as a result of changing market trends, delays in the launch of services by Allot customers, reduced demand and the competitive nature of the security services industry, as well as other risks identified in the documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Also, the financial results in this call will be presented mainly on a non-GAAP basis.

Allot believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide more consistent and comparable measures to help investors understand Allot's operating performance in the quarter. For all the data, please refer to the financial tables published in the results press release issued earlier today, which also include the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation tables.

With that, I would now like to hand the call over to Eyal Harari, CEO of Allot. Eyal, please go ahead.

Eyal Harari

Thank you, Kenny. We are pleased with our excellent third quarter 2025 results.

We reported double-digit year-over-year revenue growth for the first time in multiple years, continued strong SECaaS momentum, and our highest level of operating profitability in over a decade. We saw strength across all parts of our business, both in cybersecurity as well as network intelligence solutions.

Revenue for the quarter was $26.4 million, up 14% year-over-year. Our profitability has likewise expanded strongly, and we reported a solid operating profit in the quarter versus a loss last year.

Our cybersecurity-as-a-service growth engine continued with its excellent performance. As of September 2025, our SECaaS ARR was up 60% year-over-year, which demonstrates very strong traction for our service among end customers.

As each quarter passes, SECaaS is becoming an ever more important part of the revenue pie, and it made up 28% of our revenues in the quarter. We ended the quarter with over $80 million in cash and no debt, and Allot is back to a very strong financial position with the resources to further execute on our growth strategy.

Overall, our results demonstrate that we are executing exceptionally well on our cybersecurity-first strategy and renewed go-to-market focus. Looking at some of the trends within the business, I first want to discuss our SECaaS growth engine.

We are seeing increased traction among major telcos for cybersecurity-as-a-service solutions. As we progress, we are starting to see the fruits of our long-term investments in this solution.

The recent customer launches of our cybersecurity service are going very well. We are actively supporting our customer launches, and the offerings are gaining traction with their end customers, driving our strong sales momentum.

During the quarter, we gained our first customer for our newly released Off-Net Secure solution. Off-Net Secure will allow the extending of network-based cybersecurity protection beyond the operator's infrastructure to subscribers using any network or Wi-Fi connection.

It allows operators to offer a seamless, always-on security experience that travels with the user without requiring complex installations or device-level configuration. For the operator, Off-Net Secure strengthens customer loyalty, increases subscription-based revenue opportunities, and reinforces their role as a trusted provider of digital security backed by Allot technology.

The pipeline of new potential business continues to increase. Our SECaaS offering is gaining traction not only with new CSPs and telcos, but also among the end customers of our existing partners.

The positive momentum is allowing us to show accelerated growth and is providing us with a strong forward visibility. As you can see, we are working hard to successfully bring new SECaaS customers to Allot.

Our Smart product for network intelligence continued to perform well and was also a contributor to our growth in the quarter. We are winning new customers, which are driving higher revenues, stronger backlog, improved visibility, and we have a robust pipeline.

Today, our Smart product is being sold as part of our unified cybersecurity-first platform, and this integrated solution, best-in-class technology and innovation, is enabling us to generate increased demand. We are actively executing on the various projects we have recently won, including new Tera-3 deployments and upgrades, where we are working closely with the customers to roll out the platform.

We are investing to bring new capabilities and functionality to maintain our technology leadership, and our recent enhancements around visibility is creating new opportunities for us. Overall, our efforts to grow the Smart business and product line continues to prove us well, and the backlog that we have built over the past few months provide us with solid visibility heading into next year.

In summary, we are very pleased with our third quarter 2025 results, driven by strong performance across all parts of our business, namely accelerating SECaaS traction and increased network intelligence solution sales. Looking ahead, we have good visibility, our backlog is strong, and our pipeline continues to be broad with many opportunities.

I am increasingly optimistic about our long-term future, and I am excited to continue progressing on our cybersecurity-first strategy. Given the continued accelerated SECaaS growth, our solid visibility, and high level of backlog, we are increasing our guidance.

We expect 2025 year-end SECaaS ARR to show an exceptionally strong year-over-year growth, surpassing 60%. We are also rising our full-year 2025 revenue guidance to between $100 and $103 million.

As we move into 2026, Allot is exceptionally well-positioned for the year ahead, and we see ourselves at the inflection point of a longer-term trend of ongoing profitable growth. Now, I would like to hand it over to our CFO, Liat Nahum, for the financial summary.

Liat, please go ahead.

Liat Nahum

Thanks, Eyal. Revenue in the third quarter was $26.4 million, up 14% year-over-year.

Revenue from our growth engine, SECaaS, was $7.3 million in the quarter, up 60% year-over-year, and comprising 28% of our revenue in the quarter. Our SECaaS annual recurring revenue, ARR, as of September 2025, was $27.6 million.

Our revenue increase was driven by growth in both our SECaaS and our Smart businesses. From a geographic perspective, I want to point out that in the third quarter, we had an increased level of Americas sales, in line with our strategy to increase business in this region.

Specifically, we recognized revenue on a relatively large Smart order, and on the SECaaS front, we experienced a growing contribution from the US. Finally, I want to point out that recurring revenue continued to grow as a percentage of our overall revenues, standing at 63% in Q3 2025 versus 58% in Q3 2024.

I will now discuss the non-GAAP financial measures. For all our financial results, including the GAAP financial measures and the various other breakdowns of our revenues, please refer to the table in our results press release.

Non-GAAP gross margin in the quarter was 72.2%, compared with 71.7% in the third quarter of last year. Non-GAAP operating expenses were $15.4 million, compared with $15.6 million in the third quarter of last year.

During the quarter, we received a grant of approximately $1 million for research and development funding. This grant was also received in the third quarter of last year.

We reported non-GAAP operating income of $3.7 million, compared with $1.1 million in Q3 2024. The growth in revenue and improved gross margin on a similar operating expense base led to significant growth in our operating income.

Allot had 497 full-time employees as of September 30th, 2025. In terms of non-GAAP net income, we reported $4.6 million in the quarter, or a profit of 10 cents per diluted share, as compared with $1.3 million, or 3 cents per diluted share, in the third quarter of last year.

During the quarter, we completed $46 million follow-on share offering, of which $40 million in gross proceeds were received during the second quarter and the remaining $6 million in gross proceeds received this quarter. Our shares issued and outstanding as of the end of September were 48.4 million shares.

We reported $4 million positive operating cash flow in the third quarter, representing the third quarter in a row that we are generating positive operating cash flow. We added over $10 million to our cash balance, and we are well-positioned to drive profitable growth.

Cash, bank deposits, and investments as of September 30th, 2025, totaled $81 million, versus $59 million as of December 31st, 2024. Allot has no debt.

That ends my summary. Eyal and I are now happy to take your questions.

Operator

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. At this time, we will begin the question-and-answer session.

If you have a question, please press star one. If you wish to cancel your request, please press star two.

If you are using speaker equipment, kindly lift the handset before pressing the numbers. Your questions will be polled in the order they are received.

Please stand by while we poll for your questions. The first question is from Nehal Chokshi from Northland Capital Markets.

Please go ahead.

Nehal Chokshi

Morning. Congratulations on a good quarter.

Eyal, you mentioned that you're seeing increased traction with the major telecom customers. Can you outline whether or not that's coming from higher attach rates, or is that coming from more at-bats because potentially now bundled at the base premium bundle here?

Eyal Harari

Thanks, Nehal. Overall, we are seeing good progress with all of our new customer launches.

I think we are seeing positive trends both on attach rates as well as we have good progress with new services we launch with our customers. This quarter, we updated on a MásMóvil in Panama that launched our SECaaS service and expanded our customer base.

Overall, we're seeing good results with all of our customers that drove this very significant growth on both SECaaS revenue and ARR, and supported our highest revenue growth for the company in a while.

Nehal Chokshi

Great. You also mentioned that you secured your first customer for Off-Net Secure.

Can you give a little bit more detail of what is the customer profile of this first customer here?

Eyal Harari

Off-Net Secure is a product we launched a few quarters ago with an aim to enhance our security protection for our end customers, not only when they are connected to the operator network, but also when they're leaving the network and using other ways to connect to the services. With the new product starting to build pipeline, and we are in multiple sales opportunities with both new and existing customers that are looking to enhance their service with this option.

I don't want to go too much into the specific of this first launch, but I would say that the main value for this specific customer that they really want their customers to be protected 24/7, and they wanted to combine our unique network security with the off-net, no matter where the customer is connected, they're always using our cybersecurity services, and they minimize the risk to be under security threat.

Nehal Chokshi

Is it fair to say that this is a customer of materiality to Allot?

Eyal Harari

We appreciate the customer, and it's very important. I don't want to go into specifics.

As I said, it's the first customer that we already added this service, but we have additional multiple opportunities with both new and existing customers that are looking to further enhance our cybersecurity service with the

Nehal Chokshi

off-net. Great.

Thanks. My final question is that in the past quarters, you've commented on a strong Smart pipeline.

Do you continue to see that?

Eyal Harari

Yes. We announced earlier in the year that we won several multimillion-dollar deal, as well as very large deal we announced, I believe, in July or August.

We still see strong pipeline with opportunities, both with existing customers looking to further expand their platforms. We see good demand for the Tera-3 new product, which is very high-capacity service gateway solution, and we have a good mix of new and existing customer in the pipeline.

Overall, as commented earlier by Liat, we see in this quarter strong results not only from the SECaaS, but also from the Smart product line, and we are hoping for this trend to continue.

Nehal Chokshi

Great. Thank you very much.

Eyal Harari

Thank you, Nehal.

Operator

The next question is from Jonathan Ho from William Blair. Please go ahead.

Jonathan Ho

Hi. Good morning, and congratulations on the strong results.

Starting with SECaaS, can you maybe unpack for us a little bit more what the drivers of the growth were? How much of this growth is maybe coming from newer contracts that are now coming online versus adoption and growth in existing contracts?

Eyal Harari

Thank you, Jonathan. Our main growth is coming from the large Tier 1s contracts we announced in the last few quarters that onboarded, launched their service, and continue to onboard new and additional customers.

Overall, we're very pleased from the result of most of our strategic accounts that are continued to add new subscriptions and supporting the service. We announced this quarter about one new launch, MásMóvil in Panama, and some of the new projects and activities are going to support our longer-term growth.

When we look on a short-term, quarterly changes, this is mainly by new customers joining on the services we already launched.

Jonathan Ho

Got it. Then in terms of your network intelligence offerings, can you talk a little bit about the competitive landscape and pricing environment?

It looks like this has inflected back to growth, but just want to understand sort of the sustainability of that growth opportunity.

Eyal Harari

Our networking technologies part of our core assets. We have very large and significant install base of customers.

Overall, the competitive landscape is less, I would say, easier these days due to some of the changes in the dynamics. We see that overall telco CapEx spend is still tight and the telecom industry is still challenging, but we believe we have unique technology, and with the Tera-3 product that is very unique, we are able to get best price-performance in the market and by that get really competitive edge.

I believe that in the next few quarters, there is definitely a potential to continue to grow well with this product, and this still continue to be a significant part of our plans. While in parallel, as you could also see that the SECaaS starts to be very meaningful.

We passed more than 25% of our business from the cybersecurity, and if we continue with this pace, we are going to about 30% of our business with the cybersecurity SECaaS service. This position us very well to continue the growth next year.

Jonathan Ho

Got it. Maybe one last one for me.

Can you talk a little bit about the drivers of growth in some of your larger SECaaS contracts, and whether some of the ad campaigns that were launched that were pretty public have had an impact in terms of adoption? Is there any way to measure that, or anything that you've taken away from a learning perspective?

Thank you.

Eyal Harari

We are seeing four drivers for our SECaaS growth. One is obviously when we add new customers that are expanding our TAM into new subscriber base.

This is what we are busy with our expanded go-to-market team that is going after new accounts. On accounts that we already work with, usually we start with certain services, but we are continue with our customer success teams to further offer additional services.

If we, for example, start with a mobile network, we are offering the fixed security. In some area, we are doing the business customers, we are looking into the consumer, and vice versa.

Every accounts, definitely those Tier 1s, has a lot of potential to do more. For the services that already launched, we are working closely, our marketing team and our consultants that bring best practices on what is the best way to go to market for our partners to reach to their customers.

We're trying to help them with marketing materials, marketing campaigns, and really more on a consultancy-supporting mode, and we are really relied on their go-to-market efforts. Typically, new services, once launched, they're peaking after two to three years, and we see strong double-digit attach rates in many of our customers.

This is why this growth is usually sustainable along this time. Last is we are looking to further upsell and cross-sell of new innovation, new products.

We are very pleased that our latest release of the off-net is now part of the portfolio, and this is helping us to get more revenue from the same customers that already attached to the cybersecurity service. We are continue to work on additional innovations and bring more value to our customer to further help them to protect their customers.

All of those are working together. Some are more longer-term growth, some of them are more shorter-term growth, and because we are investing in all those in parallel, we are seeing very good result in the 60% range 60% range of range year-over-year, which we are very pleased of.

Jonathan Ho

Excellent. Thank you.

Eyal Harari

Thank you, Jonathan.

Operator

The next question is from Matt Calitri of Needham & Company. Please go ahead.

Matt Calitri

Hey, guys. This is Matt Calitri over at Needham.

Thanks for taking our questions. On the SECaaS side, how is Verizon myBiz penetration trending versus expectations?

Are you seeing fairly linear scaling here, or is it more of an exponential path?

Eyal Harari

We cannot refer to specific customers, but as commented before, we are overall very pleased with our progress with all of our customer base. We see the results in the quarterly numbers, and as you saw, we raised our expectations to surpass 60% on a yearly level.

Overall, we are very happy with the progress.

Matt Calitri

That makes sense. Then a cleanup here.

When you said SECaaS revenue is going to about 30% of the business, was that expectation by the end of the year?

Liat Nahum

Yeah. If we will continue the current trend, and as we gave already guidance for the remaining of the year to reach 60% and above year-over-year, then this is indeed the expectations, yes.

Matt Calitri

Great. Then last one for me.

On the product revenue strength you're seeing, how is Tera-3 playing a role in customer conversations? What kind of color can you give there as far as new opportunities that's opening up and how conversations are changing there?

Thank you.

Eyal Harari

We do see a good mix in our pipeline of new opportunities as well as discussion with our existing customers. Overall, we're putting a lot of focus on our customer success and making sure we're helping to support our customer business goals, and a lot of the growth and a lot of the potential we see is already with a very impressive install base.

We have some of the best carriers in the world that are working with us, both on the Smart and SECaaS product line. We are trying to continue and improve and delight our customers to maximize the business value they get from our solutions, and overall in the telco industry, this is the best way to provide longer-term, sustainable growth.

We also see every quarters additional new customers that are adding to the potential, as we mentioned in the previous comments. We saw part of the quarters new logos joining in on both product lines, and we are trying to keep the investment on hunting and going after new accounts and maintaining a healthy mix in our pipeline between the two.

Matt Calitri

Great. Thank you.

Eyal Harari

Thank you, Matt.

Operator

There are no further questions at this time, so that ends our question-and-answer session. In the next few hours, this call will be made available on Allot's IR website.

I would like to thank everyone for joining this call today, and especially to Allot's management for hosting this call. With that, we end our call.

Have a good day.