MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 7, 2025.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
- Organization, Consolidation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Organization and Business
Manhattan Associates, Inc. (“Manhattan”, the “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) is a developer and provider of supply chain commerce solutions that help organizations optimize the effectiveness, efficiency, and strategic advantages of their supply chains. Our solutions consist of software, services, and hardware, which coordinate people, workflows, assets, events, and tasks holistically across the functions linked in a supply chain from planning through execution. These solutions also help coordinate the actions, data exchange, and communication of participants in supply chain ecosystems, such as manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, trading partners, transportation providers, channels (such as catalogers, store retailers, and Web outlets), and consumers.
Our operations are in North and South America (the “Americas"), Europe (EMEA), and the Asia/Pacific (APAC) region. The Americas operation are conducted through the Parent Company, Manhattan Associates, Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Manhattan Associates Chile Spa. Our European and Asia Pacific operations are conducted through wholly owned subsidiaries within their respective geographies. We occasionally sell our products and services in other countries, such as countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Asia, through our direct sales channel as well as various reseller channels.
Risks Associated with Single Business Line, Technological Advances, and Foreign Operations
We currently derive a substantial portion of our revenues from sales of cloud solutions and related services. The markets for supply chain commerce solutions are highly competitive, subject to rapid technological change, changing customer needs, frequent new product introductions, and evolving industry standards that may render existing products and services obsolete. As a result, our position in these markets could be eroded rapidly by unforeseen changes in customer requirements for application features, functions, and technologies.
Our international business is subject to risks typical of an international business, including, but not limited to, differing economic conditions, changes in political climate, differing tax structures, other regulations and restrictions, and foreign exchange rate volatility. We recognized foreign exchange losses of$1.0 million in 2024, compared to losses of $1.5 million in 2023, and gains of $4.7 million in 2022. Foreign exchange rate transaction gains and losses are classified in “Other (loss) income, net” on the Consolidated Statements of Income.
In addition, we have a large development center in Bangalore, India, that does not have a natural in-market revenue hedge to mitigate currency risk to our operating expenses in India. Fluctuations in the value of other currencies, particularly the Indian Rupee, could significantly affect our expenses, operating profit and net income.
Principles of Consolidation and Foreign Currency Translation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The financial statements of foreign subsidiaries have been translated into United States dollars in accordance with the foreign currency matters topic in the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (the “Codification”). Revenues and expenses from international operations were denominated in the respective local currencies and translated using the average monthly exchange rates for the year. All balance sheet accounts have been translated using the exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date and the effect of changes in exchange rates from year to year are disclosed as a separate component of shareholders’ equity and comprehensive income.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Cash and Cash Equivalents
We consider all highly liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash or cash equivalents.
Concentrations of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject us to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. We maintain cash and cash equivalents with various financial institutions. Amounts held are above the federally insured limit.
Our sales are primarily to companies located in the United States, Europe and Asia. We perform periodic credit evaluations of our customers’ financial condition and do not require collateral. Accounts receivable are due principally from large U.S., European and Asia Pacific companies under stated contract terms. Accounts receivable, net as of December 31, 2024 for the Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments were$144.8 million,$50.6 million, and$10.1 million, respectively. Accounts receivable, net as of December 31, 2023 for the Americas, EMEA, and APAC segments were$137.2 million,$34.6 million, and$9.4 million, respectively. Our top five customers in aggregate accounted for 12%,11%, and 11% of total revenue recognized for each of the years ended December 31,2024 (“2024”), the year ended December 31, 2023 (“2023”), and the year ended December 31, 2022 (“2022”), respectively. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of revenue in 2024, 2023 and 2022, or more than 10% of accounts receivable as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Fair Value Measurement
We measure our investments based on a fair value hierarchy disclosure framework that prioritizes and ranks the level of market price observability used in measuring assets and liabilities at fair value. Market price observability is affected by a number of factors, including the type of asset or liability and their characteristics. This hierarchy prioritizes the inputs into three broad levels as follows:
Level 1–Quoted prices in active markets for identical instruments.
Level 2–Quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs and significant value drivers are observable in active markets.
Level 3–Valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable.
Investments with maturities of 90 days or less from the date of purchase are classified as cash equivalents; investments with maturities of greater than 90 days from the date of purchase but less than one year are generally classified as short-term investments; and investments with maturities of one year or greater from the date of purchase are generally classified as long-term investments. Unrealized holding gains and losses are reflected as a net amount in a separate component of shareholders’ equity until realized. For the purposes of computing realized gains and losses, cost is determined on a specific identification basis.
At December 31, 2024, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents were$172.4 million and$93.8 million, respectively. Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid money market funds of$83.9 million and certificates of deposit of$9.9 million. For money market funds, we use quoted prices from active markets that are classified as Level 1, the highest level of observable input in the disclosure hierarchy framework. The Company hadno investments at December 31, 2024.
The carrying values of cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, accounts receivable, and accounts payable included in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets approximate their fair values principally due to the short-term maturities of these instruments.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Estimates include the allowance for credit losses, which is based upon an evaluation of historical amounts written-off, the customers’ ability to pay, and general economic conditions; self-insurance accruals; impairment testing of goodwill; and our effective income tax rate (including the impact of unrecognized tax benefits) and deferred tax assets, which are based upon our expectations of future taxable income, allowable deductions, and projected tax credits. Actual results will differ from these estimates.
Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenue when we transfer control of the promised products or services to our customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for those products or services. We derive our revenue from cloud subscriptions, software licenses, customer support services and software enhancements (“maintenance”) for software licenses, professional services, and sales of hardware. We exclude sales and usage-based taxes from revenue.
Nature of Products and Services
Cloud subscriptions includes software as a service (“SaaS”) and arrangements which provide customers with the right to use our software within a cloud environment that we provide and manage where the customer does not have the right to take possession of the software without significant penalty. SaaS and hosting revenues are recognized over the contract period.
Our services revenue consists of fees generated from implementation, training and application managed services, including reimbursements of out-pocket expenses in connection with our implementation services. Implementation services include system planning, design, configuration, testing, and other software implementation support, and are typically optional and distinct from our software. Following implementation, customers may purchase application managed services to support and maintain our software. Fees for our services are separately priced and are generally billed on an hourly basis, and revenue is recognized over time as the services are performed. In certain situations, we render professional services under agreements based upon a fixed fee for portions of or all of the engagement. Revenue related to fixed-fee-based services contracts is recognized over time based on the proportion performed.
We provide maintenance services, to customers who have previously purchased a perpetual license, that include a comprehensive 24 hours per day, 365 days per year program that provides customers with software upgrades, when and if available, which include additional or improved functionality and technological advances incorporating emerging supply chain and industry initiatives. Maintenance contracts typically only have one performance obligation. Revenue related to maintenance is generally paid in advance and recognized over the term of the agreement, typically twelve months.
Our perpetual software licenses provide the customer with a right to use the software as it exists at the time of purchase. We recognize revenue for distinct software licenses once the license period has begun and we have made the software available to the customer. The selling price of our software licenses are highly variable. Thus, we estimate SSP for software licenses using the residual approach, determined based on total transaction price less the SSP of other goods and services promised in the contract.
Our customers periodically purchase hardware products developed and manufactured by third parties from us for use with the software licenses purchased from us. These products include computer hardware, radio frequency terminal networks, radio frequency identification (RFID) chip readers, bar code printers and scanners, and other peripherals. As we do not physically control the hardware that we sell, we are acting as an agent in the transaction and recognize our hardware revenue net of related cost. We recognize hardware revenue when control is transferred to the customer upon shipment.
Significant Judgments
Our cloud contracts with customers can include the sales of SaaS and services. Judgment is required to determine whether each product and service is considered to be a distinct performance obligation that should be accounted for separately under the contract. We allocate the transaction price to the distinct performance obligations based on relative standalone selling price (“SSP”). We estimate SSP based on the prices charged to customers, or by using information such as market conditions and other observable inputs. The selling price of our cloud subscriptions are highly variable. Thus, we estimate SSP for our cloud subscriptions and using the residual approach, determined based on total transaction price less the SSP of other goods and services promised in the contract.
Contract Balances
Cloud subscriptions and maintenance for perpetual software licenses are typically billed annually in advance. Timing of invoicing to customers may differ from timing of revenue recognition. Payment terms for our software licenses vary. We have an established history of collecting under the terms of our software license contracts without providing refunds or concessions to our customers. Services are typically billed monthly as performed. In instances where the timing of revenue recognition differs from the timing of invoicing, we have determined that our contracts generally do not include a significant financing component. The primary purpose of our invoicing terms is to provide customers with predictable ways to purchase our software and services, not to provide or receive financing. Additionally, we are applying the practical expedient to exclude from consideration any contracts with payment terms of one year or less. We rarely offer terms extending beyond one year.
Deferred revenue mainly represents amounts collected prior to having fully satisfied cloud subscriptions, maintenance and professional services performance obligations. $232.5 million of revenue that was included in the deferred revenue balance as of December 31,2023 was recognized in 2024.
No revenue was recognized in 2024 from performance obligations that were satisfied in prior periods.
Remaining Performance Obligations
As of December 31, 2024, approximately $1.8 billion of revenue is expected to be recognized from remaining performance obligations. Over 98% of our remaining performance obligations represent cloud native subscriptions with a non-cancelable term greater than one year (including cloud-deferred revenue as well as amounts we will invoice and recognize as revenue from our performance of cloud services in future periods). Maintenance contracts for perpetual software licenses are typically one year in duration and are not included in the remaining performance obligations. We expect to recognize revenue on approximately 40% of these remaining performance obligations over the next 24 months with the majority of the remaining balance recognized over the following 36 months. We have elected not to provide disclosures regarding remaining performance obligations for contracts with a term of 1 year or less.
Returns and Allowances
We have not experienced significant returns or warranty claims to date and, as a result, have not recorded a provision for the cost of returns and product warranty claims.
We record an allowance for credit losses utilizing a model of internal historical losses data. In estimating the allowance for credit losses, we considered our historical write-offs, the historical creditworthiness of the customer, and other factors. We also analyzed expected credit losses given future risks in projected economic conditions and future risks of customer collection. Should any of these factors change, the estimates made by us will also change accordingly, which could affect the level of our future allowances. Additions to the allowance for credit losses are recorded in general and administrative expense and were immaterial in all periods presented. Our credit loss reserve was $0.9 million and $0.9 million as of December 31,2024 and 2023, respectively.
We also reduce accounts receivable with a corresponding reduction in services revenue for the most likely amount of potential service revenue adjustments based on a detailed assessment of accounts receivable. The total amount recorded to services revenue was $1.6 million, $4.9 million, and $5.4 million for the years ended December 31,2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, we have reduced our accounts receivable balance by $2.8 million and $4.4 million, respectively, for these potential adjustments.
Deferred Commissions
We consider sales commissions to be incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer. We defer and recognize an asset for sales commissions related to performance obligations with an expected period of benefit of more than one year. We amortize these amounts over the expected benefit period which we estimate by considering several factors, including the rate of technological change and duration of our customer contracts. Sales commissions for renewal contracts are amortized over the related contractual renewal period. We apply the practical expedient to expense sales commissions when the amortization period would have been one year or less. Deferred commissions were $42.4 million as of December 31,2024, of which $31.8 million is included in other assets and $10.6 million is included in prepaid expenses. Deferred commissions were $39.6 million as of December 31,2023, of which $29.6 million is included in other assets and $10.0 million is included in prepaid expenses. Sales commission expense is included in Sales and Marketing expense in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations. Amortization of sales commissions in 2024, 2023 and 2022 was $10.6 million, $9.8 million, and $7.5 million respectively. No impairment losses were recognized during 2024, 2023 and 2022.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment is recorded at cost and consists of furniture, computers, other office equipment, and leasehold improvements. We depreciate the cost of furniture, computers, and other office equipment on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives (five years for office equipment, seven years for furniture and fixtures). Leasehold improvements are depreciated over thelesser of their useful lives or the term of the lease. Depreciation and amortization expense for 2024, 2023 and 2022 was approximately$6.3 million,$5.8 million, and$6.7 million, respectively, and was included in “Depreciation and amortization” in the Consolidated Statements of Income. Amortization expense on intangible assets in 2024, 2023 and 2022 was immaterial.
Property and equipment, at cost, consist of the following (in thousands):
| December 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| Office equipment | $41,208 | $40,072 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 5,596 | 5,005 |
| Leasehold improvement | 26,396 | 23,849 |
| Property and equipment, gross | 73,200 | 68,926 |
| Less accumulated depreciation | (59,229) | (57,131) |
| Property and equipment, net | $13,971 | $11,795 |
Software Development Costs
Software may be for internal use or for resale. Costs related to certain software, which is for resale, are capitalized in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 985-20, Costs of Software to be Sold, Leased, or Marketed. Under this guidance, computer software development costs are charged to research and development (R&D) expense until technological feasibility is established, after which remaining software production costs are capitalized. We have defined technological feasibility as the point in time at which we have a detailed program design or a working model of the related product, depending on the type of development efforts, and high-risk development issues have been resolved through end-to-end system testing. We do not typically capitalize costs related to software for resale as technological feasibility generally coincides with general availability of the software.
We account for internal use software in accordance with ASC 350-40, Internal Use Software. We expense all costs incurred during the preliminary project stage of our development. We capitalize the costs incurred during the application development stage once it is probable that development will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended. These costs are typically insignificant. All other costs, primarily related to maintenance and minor software fixes as well as research and development, are expensed as incurred.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
We review the values assigned to long-lived assets, including property and equipment and certain intangible assets, to determine whether events and circumstances have occurred which indicate that the remaining estimated useful lives may warrant revision or that the remaining balances may not be recoverable. If such events and circumstances exist, undiscounted cash flows associated with these assets are compared with their carrying value to determine if a write-down to fair value is required. During 2024, 2023 and 2022, we didnot recognize any impairment charges associated with our long-lived or intangible assets.
The evaluation of asset impairment requires management to make assumptions about future cash flows over the life of the asset being evaluated. These assumptions require significant judgment, and actual results may differ from assumed and estimated amounts.
Goodwill and Impairment of Goodwill
Goodwill
Goodwill represents the excess of the consideration transferred over the fair value of net identified tangible and intangible assets and liabilities acquired. We evaluate goodwill for impairment on at least an annual basis. During 2024 and 2023, we didnot recognize any impairment charges associated with our goodwill. We donot have any accumulated impairment loses as of 2024. Goodwill was$62.2 million at the end of both years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Impairment of Goodwill
We evaluate the carrying value of goodwill annually as of December 31 and between annual evaluations if events occur or circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of the reporting unit below its carrying amount. Such circumstances could include, but are not limited to, (1) a significant adverse change in legal factors or in business climate, (2) unanticipated competition, or (3) an adverse action or assessment by a regulator.
We applied the simplified goodwill impairment test for 2024, that permits companies to perform a qualitative assessment based on economic, industry and company-specific factors as the initial step in the annual goodwill impairment test for all or selected reporting units. Based on the results of the qualitative assessment, companies are only required to perform Step 1 of the annual impairment test for a reporting unit if the company concludes that it is not more likely than not that the unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount. To the extent we conclude that it is more likely than not that a reporting unit’s estimated fair value is less than its carrying amount, the two-step approach is applied. The first step would require a comparison of each reporting unit’s fair value to the respective carrying amount. If the carrying amount exceeds the fair value, a second step is performed to measure the amount of impairment loss, if any. We did not identify any macroeconomic or industry conditions as of December 31, 2024, that would indicate that the fair value of the reporting units were more likely than not to be less than their respective carrying values. If circumstances change or events occur to indicate that it is more likely than not that the fair value of any reporting units have fallen below their carrying amount, we would record an impairment charge based on that difference. We performed our periodic review of goodwill for impairment as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and did not identify any impairment as a result of the review.
Guarantees and Indemnities
We account for guarantees in accordance with the guarantee accounting topic in the FASB Codification. Our customer contracts generally contain infringement indemnity provisions. Under those provisions, we generally agree, subject to certain exceptions, to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the customer in connection with third party claims against the customer alleging that the customer’s use of our software products in compliance with their license infringe the third party’s patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights. Conditions to our obligations generally include that we are provided the right to control the defense of the claims and, in general, to control settlement negotiations. Those provisions generally provide also that, if the customer is prevented from using our software because of a third party infringement claim, our sole obligation (in addition to the indemnification, defense, and hold harmless obligation referred to above) is to, at our expense, (i) procure for the customer the right to continue to use the software, (ii) replace or modify the product so that its use by the customer does not infringe, or, if either of the foregoing are not reasonably feasible, (iii) terminate the customer contract and provide a refund of the unamortized portion of the customer’s license fee (based on afive year amortization period). Our customer contracts sometimes also require us to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the customer in connection with death, personal injury, or property damage claims made by third parties with respect to actions of our personnel or contractors. The indemnity obligations contained in our customer contracts generally have no specified expiration date and no specified monetary limitation on liability. We have not previously incurred costs to settle claims or pay awards under these indemnification obligations. We account for these indemnity obligations in accordance with FASB guidance on accounting for contingencies, and record a liability for these obligations when a loss is probable and reasonably estimable. We have not recorded any liabilities for these contracts as of December 31, 2024, or 2023.
In general, in our customer contracts for purchase of our cloud SaaS services or license of our on-premises software products, we warrant that our services or software will perform in accordance with our published services or product specifications. Additionally, we may include other warranties such as “no-malware” warranties and warranties that we will perform our SaaS services consistent with generally accepted industry standards or similar standards. We also warrant to our customers that services will be performed consistent with generally accepted industry standards or specific service levels through completion of the agreed upon services. If necessary, we will provide for the estimated cost of product and service warranties based on specific warranty claims history. However, we have not incurred significant recurring expenses under product or service warranties. As a result, we believe the estimated fair value of these agreements is nominal. Accordingly, we have no liabilities recorded for these agreements as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Segment Information
We have three reportable segments as defined by the FASB Codification topic for segment reporting: Americas, EMEA, and APAC. See Note 8 for discussion of our reportable segments.
Basic and Diluted Net Income Per Share
Basic net income per share is computed using net income divided by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding (“Weighted Shares”) for the period presented.
Diluted net income per share is computed using net income divided by Weighted Shares and the treasury stock method effect of common equivalent shares (CES) outstanding for each period presented. Inthe following table, we present a reconciliation of earnings pershare and the shares used in the computation of earnings per share for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 (in thousands, except per share data):
| Year Ended December 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |
| (in thousands, except per share data) | |||
| Net income | $218,364 | $176,568 | $128,959 |
| Earnings per share: | |||
| Basic | $3.56 | $2.86 | $2.05 |
| Effect of CESs | (0.05) | (0.04) | (0.02) |
| Diluted | $3.51 | $2.82 | $2.03 |
| Weighted average number of shares: | |||
| Basic | 61,303 | 61,817 | 62,768 |
| Effect of CESs | 880 | 791 | 640 |
| Diluted | 62,183 | 62,608 | 63,408 |
The number of anti-dilutive CESs in 2024, 2023 and 2022 was immaterial. See Note 2 for further information on those securities.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
Comprehensive income includes net income and foreign currency translation adjustments that are excluded from net income and reflected in shareholders’ equity. The entire accumulated other comprehensive income balance as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 represents foreign currency translation adjustments.
Accounting for Income Taxes
We provide for the effect of income taxes on our financial position and results of operations in accordance with the Income Taxes Topic of the Codification. Under this accounting pronouncement, income tax expense is recognized for the amount of income taxes payable or refundable for the current year and for the change in net deferred tax assets or liabilities resulting from events that are recorded for financial reporting purposes in a different reporting period than recorded in the tax return. Management must make significant assumptions, judgments, and estimates to determine our current provision for income taxes and also our deferred tax assets and liabilities and any valuation allowance to be recorded against our net deferred tax asset.
Our judgments, assumptions, and estimates relative to the current provision for income tax take into account current tax laws, our interpretation of current tax laws, allowable deductions, projected tax credits, and possible outcomes of current and future audits conducted by foreign and domestic tax authorities. We do not recognize a tax benefit unless we conclude that it is more likely than not that the benefit will be sustained on audit by the taxing authority based solely on the technical merits of the associated tax position. If the recognition threshold is met, we recognize a tax benefit measured at the largest amount of the tax benefit that, in our judgment, is greater than 50 percent likely to be realized. Changes in tax law or our interpretation of tax laws and the resolution of current and future tax audits could significantly impact the amounts provided for income taxes in our statement of financial position and our statements of income. Our assumptions, judgments, and estimates relative to the value of our net deferred tax asset take into account predictions of the amount and category of future taxable income. Actual operating results and the underlying amount and category of income in future years could render our current assumptions, judgments, and estimates of recoverable net deferred taxes inaccurate, thus materially impacting our financial position and results of operations.
Equity-Based Compensation
We account for equity-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation. See Note 2 for further information.
Advertising Costs
We expense advertising costs as incurred. Advertising expense was $1.8 million in 2024, $2.4 million in 2023, and $2.3 million in 2022.
Retire ment of Repurchased Shares
We immediately retire shares repurchased pursuant to any share repurchase program. We allocate the share purchase price in excess of par value between additional paid-in capital and retained earnings.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2023-07 Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures which expands annual and interim disclosure requirements for reportable segments, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses starting with disclosure in Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and interim periods going forward. We have adopted the new accounting guidance in our segment disclosures in Note 8.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The updated accounting guidance, among other things, requires additional disclosure primarily related to the income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. We expect to adopt the updated accounting guidance in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025. We are currently evaluating the impact the adoption of the new accounting guidance will have on our income tax disclosures in Note 3.
In November 2024, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses ("ASU 2024-03"), and in January 2025, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date ("ASU 2025-01"). ASU 2024-03 requires additional disclosure of the nature of expenses included in the income statement as well as disclosures about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented in the income statement. We expect to adopt the updated accounting guidance in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2028 and for interim period reporting beginning in 2029, as required in ASU 2024-03 and further clarified by ASU 2025-01. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of these standards will have on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
- Equity-Based Compensation
Equity Based Compensation Plans
In May 2020, the Manhattan Associates, Inc. 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2020 Plan”) was approved by our shareholders. The 2020 Plan provides for the grant of stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, and stock appreciation rights. Vesting conditions can be service-based or performance-based, or a combination of both.
A maximum of 4,500,000 shares are available for grant under the amended 2020 Plan. Each stock option, stock appreciation right, restricted stock, or restricted stock unit granted is counted against the maximum share limitation asone share. Options and stock appreciation rights cannot have a term exceeding seven years. As of December 31, 2024, there were 2,337,032 shares available for issuance under the 2020 Plan. The 2020 Plan is administered by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. The committee has the authority to interpret the provisions thereof.
The restricted stock unit awards contain vesting provisions that are 50% service based and 50% performance based for employee awards and 100% service based for non-employee members of the Board of Directors (“Outside Directors”). The employee awards have afour year vesting period, with the performance portion tied to annual revenue and operating income targets. The awards to Outside Directors have aone year vesting period. We recognize compensation cost for service-based restricted awards with graded vesting on a straight-line basis over the entire vesting period, with the amount of compensation cost recognized at any date at least equal to the portion of the grant-date value of the award that is vested at that date. For our performance-based restricted stock awards with graded vesting, we recognize compensation cost on an accelerated basis applying straight-line expensing for each separately vesting portion of each award. We utilize the price of our publicly traded shares to determine the fair value of restricted stock units on the grant date.
Restricted Stock Unit Awards
We present below a summary of changes in unvested units of restricted stock during 2024:
| Number of Units | Grant Date Fair Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding at January 1, 2024 | 1,376,063 | $124.13 |
| Granted | 549,754 | 201.54 |
| Vested | (519,717) | 121.26 |
| Forfeited | (15,862) | 142.75 |
| Outstanding at December 31, 2024 | 1,390,238 |
The Company recorded equity-based compensation expense related to restricted stock and RSUs (collectively “restricted stock awards”) of $93.2 million, $71.6 million, and $59.4 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The total fair value of restricted stock awards vested in 2024, 2023 and 2022, based on market value at the vesting dates was $127.1 million, $85.2 million, $81.4 million, respectively. The weighted average grant-date fair value of RSUs granted during fiscal year 2024, 2023 and 2022 was $201.54, $127.51, and $123.75, respectively. As of December 31, 2024, unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested RSU totaled $115.7 million and is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 2.1 years. We recognize forfeitures of equity-based payments as they occur.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company granted 386,042 RSUs that have performance-based vesting criteria, which are tied to our financial performance. The performance-based RSUs granted in 2024 related to 2024 employee awards and 2023 above-target employee awards. As of December 31, 2024, the associated equity-based compensation expense has been recognized for the portion of the award attributable to the 2024 performance criteria.
- Income Taxes
We are subject to future federal, state, and foreign income taxes and have recorded net deferred tax assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2024 and 2023. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the difference between the financial accounting and tax bases of assets and liabilities. We present below significant components of our deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 are as follows (in thousands):
| December 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| Deferred tax assets: | ||
| Accounts receivable | $835 | $1,179 |
| Accrued liabilities | 13,373 | 12,255 |
| Equity-based compensation | 16,568 | 12,148 |
| Capitalized R&D costs | 73,364 | 50,654 |
| Accrued sales taxes | 265 | 189 |
| Operating lease liabilities | 10,206 | 3,219 |
| State tax credits | 3,222 | 3,102 |
| Tax credit - foreign | 6,112 | 5,397 |
| Valuation allowance | (2,853) | (2,881) |
| Other | - | 295 |
| 121,092 | 85,557 | |
| Deferred tax liabilities: | ||
| Intangible Assets | 7,395 | 7,417 |
| Depreciation | 150 | 429 |
| Deferred commissions | 9,032 | 8,638 |
| Operating lease right-of-use assets | 9,992 | 3,030 |
| Other | 18 | |
| 26,587 | 19,514 | |
| Net deferred tax assets | $94,505 | $66,043 |
We present below income from domestic and foreign operations before income tax expense for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 are as follows (in thousands):
| Year Ended December 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |
| Domestic | $240,871 | $193,727 | $139,217 |
| Foreign | 25,943 | 19,944 | 18,904 |
| Total | $266,814 | $213,671 | $158,121 |
The components of our income tax provision for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 are as follows (in thousands):
| Year Ended December 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |
| Current: | |||
| Federal | $54,761 | $46,497 | $42,198 |
| State | 12,627 | 10,911 | 11,183 |
| Foreign | 9,751 | 8,539 | 5,492 |
| $77,139 | $65,947 | $58,873 | |
| Deferred: | |||
| Federal | (23,777) | (23,116) | (22,383) |
| State | (3,796) | (3,132) | (5,200) |
| Foreign | (1,116) | (2,596) | (2,128) |
| (28,689) | (28,844) | (29,711) | |
| Total | $48,450 | $37,103 | $29,162 |
We currently have a tax holiday in India under the Special Economic Zone Act through March 2029. As a result of this holiday, we had pre-tax income of approximately $16.8 million, for the year ended December 31, 2024, $11.1 million of which was not subject to tax. The impact on diluted earnings per share if the income had been fully taxable would have been a decrease of $0.06 per share in 2024.
We have tax credit carry-forwards of approximately $4.1 million available to offset future state tax. These tax credit carry-forwards expire in 2026 to 2035. These credits represent a deferred tax asset of $3.2 million after consideration of the federal benefit of state tax deductions. A valuation allowance of $1.6 million has been established for these credits because the ability to use them is not more likely than not. We also have a tax credit carry-forward of approximately $6.1 million available to offset future foreign tax. This tax credit carryforward begins expiring in 2036.
At December 31, 2024 we had approximately $107.6 million of undistributed earnings and profits. The undistributed earnings and profits are considered previously taxed income and would not be subject to U.S. income taxes upon repatriation of those earnings, in the form of dividends. The undistributed earnings and profits are considered to be permanently reinvested, accordingly no provision for local withholdings taxes have been provided, however, upon repatriation of those earnings, in the form of dividends, we could be subject to additional local withholding taxes.
We present below a summary of the items that cause recorded income taxes to differ from taxes computed using the statutory federal income tax rate for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022:
| Year Ended December 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |
| Statutory federal income tax rate | 21.0% | 21.0% | 21.0% |
| Effect of: | |||
| State income tax, net of federal benefit | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.6 |
| State credit carryforwards | - | (0.2) | 1.2 |
| U.S. federal R&D tax credit | (1.6) | (1.8) | (1.8) |
| Non-deductible equity compensation | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Excess benefit of equity compensation | (4.9) | (3.2) | (4.8) |
| Employee compensation limitation | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| Global Intangible Low Taxed Income (GILTI) | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Foreign-derived intangible income (FDII) deduction | (3.5) | (3.6) | (3.3) |
| Foreign operations | (0.2) | (2.9) | 0.5 |
| Tax contingencies | (0.2) | (0.3) | (1.3) |
| Other permanent differences | 0.4 | 0.7 | (0.3) |
| Change in valuation allowance | - | 0.1 | (1.3) |
| Income taxes | 18.2% | 17.4% | 18.4% |
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 (in thousands):
| December 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |
| Unrecognized tax benefits at January 1, | $(9,688) | $(10,532) | $(13,186) |
| Gross amount of increases in unrecognized tax benefits as a result of tax positions taken during a prior period | (147) | (425) | (199) |
| Gross amount of decreases in unrecognized tax benefits as a result of tax positions taken during a prior period | 32 | 908 | 2,583 |
| Gross amount of increases in unrecognized tax benefits as a result of tax positions taken during the current period | (1,996) | (2,182) | (1,787) |
| Reductions to unrecognized tax benefits relating to settlements with taxing authorities | 16 | - | - |
| Reductions to unrecognized tax benefits as a result of a lapse of the applicable statute of limitations | 2,634 | 2,543 | 2,057 |
| Unrecognized tax benefits at December 31, | $(9,149) | $(9,688) | $(10,532) |
Our unrecognized tax benefits totaled $9.1 million and $9.7 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Included in these amounts are unrecognized tax benefits totaling $8.5 million and $9.1 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which, if recognized, would affect the effective tax rate.
We recognize potential accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits within our global operations in income tax expense. For the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized the following income tax expense: $0.6 million, $0.1 million, and $0.7 million, respectively, for the potential payment of interest and penalties. Accrued interest and penalties were $1.3 million and $1.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. We conduct business globally and, as a result, file income tax returns in the United State federal jurisdiction and in many state and foreign jurisdictions. We are generally no longer subject to U.S. federal, state, and local, or non-US income tax examinations for the years before 2010. Due to the expiration of statutes of limitations in multiple jurisdictions globally during 2025, the Company anticipates it is reasonably possible that unrecognized tax benefits may decrease by $3.1 million.
- Shareholders’ Equity
During 2024, 2023 and 2022, we purchased 986,555,1,024,328, and 1,352,954 shares of the Company’s common stock for$241.6 million, $166.0 million, and $175.4 million, respectively, through open market transactions as part of a publicly-announced share repurchase program. In January 2025, our Board of Directors raised the Company’s share repurchase authority to an aggregate of $100.0 million of our common stock.
As of 2023, we are subject to a 1% excise tax on stock repurchases as enacted by the United States Inflation Reduction Act which we include in the cost of stock repurchases as a reduction of shareholders’ equity. In 2024, we paid $1.1 million in excise tax related to 2023 repurchase and vesting activity.
- Contingencies
From time to time, we may be involved in litigation relating to claims arising in the ordinary course of business, and occasionally legal proceeding not in the ordinary course. Many of our installations involve products that are critical to the operations of our clients’ businesses. Any failure in our company’s products could result in a claim for substantial damages against us, regardless of our responsibility for such failure. Although we attempt to contractually limit our liability for damages arising from product failures or negligent acts or omissions, there can be no assurance that the limitations of liability set forth in its contracts will be enforceable in all instances. We are not currently a party to any legal proceeding in the ordinary course of business or other legal proceedings the result of which we believe is likely to have a material adverse impact upon our business, financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. We expense legal costs associated with loss contingencies as such legal costs are incurred.
- Employee Benefit Plan
We sponsor the Manhattan Associates 401(k) Plan and Trust (the “401(k) Plan”), a qualified profit sharing plan with a 401(k) feature covering substantially all our employees. Since 2012, we have provided a 50% matching contribution up to 6% of eligible compensation being contributed after the participant’s first year of employment. During the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company expensed matching contributions to the 401(k) Plan of $8.5 million, $7.8 million, and $6.7 million, respectively.
- Leases
We lease our facilities and some of our equipment under noncancelable operating lease arrangements that expire at various dates through 2036. The total operating lease liabilities for these leases at December 31, 2024 was approximately $51.3 million. For a few of our facility leases, we have certain options to extend the lease term for up to 10 years, at our sole discretion. We have no finance leases.
We present below the operating lease right-of-use assets and lease liabilities as of December 31, 2024 (in thousands):
| ASSETS | |
|---|---|
| Operating lease right-of-use assets | $47,923 |
| LIABILITIES | |
| Operating lease liabilities, current (included in accrued and other liabilities) | $3,532 |
| Operating lease liabilities, long-term | 47,794 |
| Total operating lease liabilities | $51,326 |
Aggregate future minimum lease payments under noncancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2024 are as follows (in thousands):
| Year Ending December 31, | |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $8,798 |
| 2026 | 9,396 |
| 2027 | 9,336 |
| 2028 | 9,324 |
| 2029 | 6,171 |
| Thereafter | 37,292 |
| Total minimum payments required | 80,317 |
| Less short-term leases | (117) |
| Less imputed interest | (28,874) |
| Total operating lease liabilities | $51,326 |
We are applying the practical expedient to not separate lease and non-lease components, which allows us to account for lease and non-lease components as a single lease component. The total lease cost in 2024 was $9.3 million, consisting of $9.0 million of operating lease costs and $0.3 million of short-term lease costs. The total lease cost in 2023 was $8.1 million, consisting of $7.8 million of operating lease costs, and $0.3 million of short-term lease costs. Total lease costs in 2022 were $7.7 million, consisting of $7.3 million of operating lease costs, and $0.4 million of short-term lease costs. Our variable lease cost during 2024, 2023 and 2022 were immaterial.
| Weighted average remaining lease term | 9.4 years |
|---|---|
| Weighted average discount rate | 5.27% |
| Supplemental cash flow information - operating cash flows (in thousands): | |
| Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities | |
| Operating cash flows for operating leases | $6,798 |
During 2024, we executed the eighth amendment to our lease agreement for our corporate headquarters office space, which extended our lease termination date from September 30, 2025, to September 30, 2036, for substantially all of the Company's leased premises at its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. To determine our discount rate for the lease liability, we evaluated peer company debt agreements, U.S. Treasury notes, company-specific risks, and other factors.
- Segment Reporting
We manage our business by geographic segment and have three geographic reportable segments: the Americas (North, Latin and South America); Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific (APAC). All segments derive revenue from the sale and implementation of our supply chain commerce solutions. The individual products sold by the segments are similar in nature and are all designed to help companies manage the effectiveness and efficiency of their supply chain commerce. We use the same accounting policies for each reportable segment. The chief operating decision maker (Chief Executive Officer) evaluates performance and allocates resources (including employees, financial or capital) based on operating income for each reportable segment.
The Americas segment charges royalty fees to the other segments based on cloud subscriptions and software licenses sold by those reportable segments. The royalties, which totaled$18.9 million,$13.7 million, and$8.9 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, are included in costs of revenue for each segment with a corresponding reduction in the America’s cost of revenue. The revenues represented below are from external customers only. The geography-based costs consist of costs for professional services personnel, direct sales and marketing expenses, infrastructure costs to support the employee and customer base, billing and financial systems, management and general and administrative support. There are certain corporate expenses included in the Americas segment that we do not charge to the other segments. Such expenses include research and development, stock compensation, certain marketing and general and administrative costs that support the global organization, and the amortization of acquired developed technology. Costs in the Americas’ segment include all research and development costs including the costs associated with our operations in India.
In accordance with the segment reporting topic of the FASB Codification, we present below financial information by reportable segment for 2024, 2023 and 2022 (in thousands):
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 · 2023 | ||||||||||
| Americas · EMEA · APAC · Consolidated · Americas · EMEA · APAC · Consolidated | ||||||||||
| Revenue: | ||||||||||
| Cloud subscriptions | $264,331 | $62,779 | $10,093 | $337,203 | $205,611 | $42,243 | $6,758 | $254,612 | ||
| Software license | 12,251 | 1,376 | 1,458 | 15,085 | 12,040 | 2,925 | 3,241 | 18,206 | ||
| Maintenance | 110,751 | 18,349 | 9,204 | 138,304 | 114,963 | 19,721 | 9,252 | 143,936 | ||
| Services | 389,550 | 107,384 | 28,583 | 525,517 | 362,979 | 101,254 | 23,636 | 487,869 | ||
| Hardware | 25,603 | 635 | 5 | 26,243 | 23,602 | 495 | 5 | 24,102 | ||
| Total revenue | 802,486 | 190,523 | 49,343 | 1,042,352 | 719,195 | 166,638 | 42,892 | 928,725 | ||
| Costs and Expenses: | ||||||||||
| Cost of revenue | $351,112 | $98,051 | $21,817 | 470,980 | 321,701 | 89,523 | 19,390 | 430,614 | ||
| Operating expenses | 278,803 | 19,062 | 5,610 | 303,475 | 257,172 | 19,889 | 5,417 | 282,478 | ||
| Depreciation and amortization | 5,228 | 914 | 159 | 6,301 | 5,164 | 503 | 85 | 5,752 | ||
| Total costs and expenses | 635,143 | 118,027 | 27,586 | 780,756 | 584,037 | 109,915 | 24,892 | 718,844 | ||
| Operating income | $167,343 | $72,496 | $21,757 | $261,596 | $135,158 | $56,723 | $18,000 | $209,881 | ||
| Interest income | 6,029 | 5,304 | ||||||||
| Other (loss) income, net | (811) | (1,514) | ||||||||
| Income before income taxes | $266,814 | $213,671 | ||||||||
| Americas · EMEA · APAC · Consolidated | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue: | |||||
| Cloud subscriptions | $148,943 | $22,988 | $4,527 | $176,458 | |
| Software license | 16,364 | 6,380 | 2,104 | 24,848 | |
| Maintenance | 113,258 | 19,784 | 9,156 | 142,198 | |
| Services | 295,998 | 79,628 | 18,470 | 394,096 | |
| Hardware | 29,321 | 158 | 5 | 29,484 | |
| Total revenue | 603,884 | 128,938 | 34,262 | 767,084 | |
| Costs and Expenses: | |||||
| Cost of revenue | 271,222 | 71,108 | 15,907 | 358,237 | |
| Operating expenses | 227,409 | 17,187 | 4,888 | 249,484 | |
| Depreciation and amortization | 5,964 | 613 | 86 | 6,663 | |
| Total costs and expenses | 504,595 | 88,908 | 20,881 | 614,384 | |
| Operating income | $99,289 | $40,030 | $13,381 | $152,700 | |
| Interest income | 596 | ||||
| Other (loss) income, net | 4,825 | ||||
| Income before income taxes | $158,121 | ||||
In the following table, we present goodwill, long-lived assets, and total assets by reportable segment as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 (in thousands):
| As of December 31, 2024 | As of December 31, 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Americas | EMEA | APAC | Consolidated | Americas | EMEA | APAC | Consolidated | |
| Goodwill, net | $54,766 | $5,497 | $1,963 | $62,226 | $54,766 | $5,506 | $1,963 | $62,235 |
| Long lived assets | 83,517 | 11,501 | 2,538 | 97,556 | 53,061 | 10,129 | 2,696 | 65,886 |
| Total assets | 633,157 | 102,222 | 22,172 | 757,551 | 566,826 | 85,709 | 20,819 | 673,353 |
For the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, we derived revenue from sales to customers outside the United States of approximately $346.2 million, $301.4 million, and $238.4 million, respectively. Our remaining revenue was derived from domestic sales.
Cloud subscriptions revenue primarily relates to our Manhattan Active omnichannel, warehouse management solutions, and transportation management solutions for the year ended December 31, 2024. The majority of our software license revenue (approximately 85%) relates to our warehouse management product group for the same period.
- Subsequent Events
On January 14, 2025, the Company eliminated about 100 positions to align our services capacity with customer demand, which has been impacted by short-term macro-economic uncertainty. In connection with this workforce reduction, the Company expects to record a pre-tax restructuring expense in the first quarter of 2025 of approximately $2.8 million.
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