Elastic N.V.

On August 29, 2024, after market hours, Elastic released its first quarter fiscal 2025 financial results and revised its annual revenue guidance to be between $1.436 billion and $1.444 billion, compared to a previous range of $1.468 billion and $1.48 billion and consensus estimates of $1.48 billion. The Company explained that the revision was due to “a slower start to the year with the volume of customer commitments impacted by segmentation changes that [the Company] made at the beginning of the year, which are taking longer than expected to settle.”

On this news, Elastic’s stock price fell $27.45, or 26.5%, to close at $76.19 per share on August 30, 2024, thereby injuring investors.

The complaint filed in this class action alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Elastic had implemented significant changes to its sales operations, particularly with respect to its customer segments in the Americas; (2) the foregoing changes were likely to, and did, disrupt Elastic’s sales operations during the first quarter of its FY 2025; (3) accordingly, Defendants had overstated the stability of Elastic’s sales operations; (4) as a result of all the foregoing, Elastic was unlikely to meet its own previously issued revenue guidance for its FY 2025; and (5) as a result, Defendants’ positive statements about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.