MDB · Forward model
Revenue by vertical, 20 quarters out
Model as of
Each segment is projected from its own operating driver, rolled up into consolidated cash flow, and discounted back to a fair value per share. The assumptions below are editable — change them and every number on this page moves with them.
MongoDB reports a single operating segment but publishes, in every 10-Q and 10-K, an exact three-line ASC 606 revenue disaggregation: Atlas-related, MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and other, and Services. That is the split modelled here, and it is the only one used - nothing is split by geography, by product inside Atlas, or by AI workload, because none of those is disclosed. The three verticals foot to reported consolidated revenue with a difference of exactly zero in all 25 quarters from fiscal 2021 Q1 to fiscal 2027 Q1, against data/companies/mdb/series.json. Fiscal labelling matters more here than for most names: MongoDB's year ends 31 January, so '2027 Q1' is the February-April 2026 quarter and seasonal index 0 is that February-April quarter. The whole model is built on a NON-GAAP basis, because that is the basis on which MongoDB guides operating income and earnings per share, and each figure is labelled. Stock-based compensation of $137.8 million in the basis quarter - 20.0% of revenue - is excluded throughout, and GAAP operating income was negative at -$24.8 million against non-GAAP +$123.2 million for the same quarter. That is the single largest caveat on every margin and multiple in this model: MongoDB's own fiscal 2027 guidance adds back $634.6 million of stock-based compensation to bridge GAAP to non-GAAP operating income, more than the $571-591 million of non-GAAP operating income it is guiding to. The exit is taken on revenue rather than EBITDA for exactly this reason. Two things in the model are assumed rather than reported and must not be read as disclosure. First, the Atlas and Enterprise Advanced gross margins of 73.5% and 89.0%: MongoDB publishes no cost of revenue split between them, only a blended non-GAAP subscription margin of 77.06%, which this pair reproduces to within 0.02 points along with the disclosed 74.49% company non-GAAP gross margin. Second, corporate overhead at 54.73% of revenue, which is what the full-year guide implies (74.49% gross margin less the 19.76% non-GAAP operating margin at the guide midpoints) rather than the 56.58% the basis quarter actually ran at - the guide already assumes operating leverage inside the year, and because the engine's overhead rate is flat with no glide, the further leverage MongoDB describes is carried by the vertical margin ladders instead. What was deliberately rejected: Atlas customer counts as a driver. MongoDB publishes total customers, Atlas customers and customers over $100,000 of ARR, but the first two are floors rounded to the nearest hundred ('66,400+'), not a series, and the evidence says they are the wrong quantity anyway - Atlas accounts grew 19.0% year over year while Atlas revenue grew 29.4%. There is no disclosed subscriber-times-price history for Atlas and none was invented; consumption revenue is driven by workloads running, and the only honest driver is a deseasonalised trend growth rate. Remaining performance obligations were likewise not used as a revenue driver, because the 10-Q states recognition is 'inherently variable at the customers' discretion'. No sell-side consensus was used anywhere: Nasdaq's reported EPS for the basis quarter is neither MongoDB's GAAP $0.05 nor its non-GAAP $1.32, so its estimates cannot be paired with either basis. Seasonality was tested on all three verticals by ratio to a centred four-quarter moving average over 25 quarters, and accepted on Atlas alone: 0.9728 / 1.0013 / 1.0023 / 1.0237, a 5.1-point signal against a worst within-quarter spread of 2.9 points, with a mechanical explanation (a 89-day February-April quarter against 92 days elsewhere, plus a 1.6% November-January workload lift). Enterprise Advanced and Services were left aseasonal because their apparent shapes - 5.4 and 6.6 points - are swamped by within-quarter spreads of 17.6 and 15.5 points. The model's central claim is arithmetic rather than editorial. Base settings reproduce the guided fiscal 2027 Q2 revenue at $733.8 million, inside the company's $729-734 million range, but carry the full year to $2,994 million - 1.2% above the top of the $2.92-2.96 billion guide. No defensible trend rate reproduces that guide, because it embeds a second half decelerating to 13.4-16.4% year-over-year growth three months after the company printed 25.2% and raised the year.
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Latest: $1.24B (2032Q1E)
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2021Q1 | $130M |
| 2021Q2 | $138M |
| 2021Q3 | $151M |
| 2021Q4 | $171M |
| 2022Q1 | $182M |
| 2022Q2 | $199M |
| 2022Q3 | $227M |
| 2022Q4 | $266M |
| 2023Q1 | $285M |
| 2023Q2 | $304M |
| 2023Q3 | $334M |
| 2023Q4 | $361M |
| 2024Q1 | $368M |
| 2024Q2 | $424M |
| 2024Q3 | $433M |
| 2024Q4 | $458M |
| 2025Q1 | $451M |
| 2025Q2 | $478M |
| 2025Q3 | $529M |
| 2025Q4 | $548M |
| 2026Q1 | $549M |
| 2026Q2 | $591M |
| 2026Q3 | $628M |
| 2026Q4 | $695M |
| 2027Q1 | $688M |
| 2027Q2E | $734M |
| 2027Q3E | $765M |
| 2027Q4E | $808M |
| 2028Q1E | $806M |
| 2028Q2E | $854M |
| 2028Q3E | $883M |
| 2028Q4E | $927M |
| 2029Q1E | $918M |
| 2029Q2E | $967M |
| 2029Q3E | $995M |
| 2029Q4E | $1.04B |
| 2030Q1E | $1.03B |
| 2030Q2E | $1.08B |
| 2030Q3E | $1.10B |
| 2030Q4E | $1.15B |
| 2031Q1E | $1.13B |
| 2031Q2E | $1.18B |
| 2031Q3E | $1.21B |
| 2031Q4E | $1.26B |
| 2032Q1E | $1.24B |
Where each case comes from
Bear case — primary sources
The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bear column is what happens if they are taken at face value.
The guide the bear case takes at face value
- May 28, 2026 Revenues are expected to be in the range of: $2.92 billion to $2.96 billion
- May 28, 2026 Revenues are expected to be in the range of: $729 million to $734 million
- May 29, 2026 the amount and timing of revenue recognition are generally dependent upon customers’ future consumption, which is inherently variable at the customers’ discretion
Bull case — primary sources
The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bull column is what happens if they are taken at face value.
The disclosed expansion metrics
Desai case — primary sources
The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Desai column is what happens if they are taken at face value.
From cash flow to fair value
| Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters | $2.56B |
| Terminal-year revenue | $4.90B |
| Terminal-year EBITDA | $1.07B |
| Exit multiple, on revenue | 6.5x |
| Terminal value | $31.83B |
| Discounted at 10.0% a year, terminal value becomes | $19.76B |
| Share of enterprise value from the terminal | 89% |
| Enterprise value | $22.32B |
| Net cash | $2.40B |
| Equity value | $24.73B |
| Shares | 0.08B |
| Fair value per share | $307.41 |
| Against the deployed price of $368.74, as of | -17% |
10% on a business with $2.40 billion of net cash, no borrowings at all and non-GAAP profitability - the same rate this repo carries on Datadog, the closest consumption-priced comparable. The exit is taken on revenue rather than on EBITDA deliberately: every margin in this model is non-GAAP and excludes stock-based compensation of $137.8 million in the basis quarter, 20.0% of revenue, so a terminal EBITDA multiple here would not be comparable to a cash EBITDA multiple. 6.5x forward revenue is a de-rate from today's 11.4x for a line the model has fading to about 9% annual growth by fiscal 2032; it is the single largest lever in the valuation, and on the same basis Datadog is carried at an 8.0x exit off 17.4x today and Snowflake at 9.0x off 17.6x.
Read the other way round: at $368.74 the market is paying 8.1x terminal-year revenue, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.
The projected path
| Quarter | Atlas-related | MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and other | Services | Revenue | YoY | EBITDA | Capex | FCF | R40 | PV of FCF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 Q2E | $554M | $158M | $22M | $734M | +24% | $146M | $3M | $115M | +40 | $112M |
| 2027 Q3E | $580M | $162M | $23M | $765M | +22% | $154M | $3M | $121M | +38 | $115M |
| 2027 Q4E | $619M | $165M | $24M | $808M | +16% | $164M | $3M | $129M | +32 | $120M |
| 2028 Q1E | $613M | $169M | $24M | $806M | +17% | $165M | $3M | $130M | +33 | $118M |
| 2028 Q2E | $656M | $173M | $25M | $854M | +16% | $176M | $3M | $138M | +33 | $123M |
| 2028 Q3E | $681M | $176M | $26M | $883M | +15% | $183M | $3M | $144M | +32 | $125M |
| 2028 Q4E | $721M | $179M | $26M | $927M | +15% | $193M | $4M | $152M | +31 | $128M |
| 2029 Q1E | $709M | $183M | $27M | $918M | +14% | $193M | $4M | $151M | +30 | $125M |
| 2029 Q2E | $753M | $186M | $27M | $967M | +13% | $204M | $4M | $160M | +30 | $129M |
| 2029 Q3E | $778M | $189M | $28M | $995M | +13% | $211M | $4M | $166M | +29 | $130M |
| 2029 Q4E | $819M | $193M | $29M | $1.04B | +12% | $221M | $4M | $174M | +29 | $134M |
| 2030 Q1E | $801M | $196M | $29M | $1.03B | +12% | $219M | $4M | $172M | +28 | $129M |
| 2030 Q2E | $848M | $199M | $30M | $1.08B | +11% | $231M | $4M | $181M | +28 | $133M |
| 2030 Q3E | $872M | $202M | $30M | $1.10B | +11% | $238M | $5M | $186M | +28 | $134M |
| 2030 Q4E | $915M | $205M | $31M | $1.15B | +11% | $248M | $5M | $195M | +28 | $136M |
| 2031 Q1E | $892M | $208M | $31M | $1.13B | +10% | $245M | $5M | $192M | +27 | $131M |
| 2031 Q2E | $942M | $211M | $32M | $1.18B | +10% | $257M | $5M | $202M | +27 | $135M |
| 2031 Q3E | $966M | $214M | $33M | $1.21B | +10% | $264M | $5M | $207M | +27 | $135M |
| 2031 Q4E | $1.01B | $217M | $33M | $1.26B | +10% | $275M | $6M | $216M | +27 | $137M |
| 2032 Q1E | $984M | $220M | $34M | $1.24B | +9% | $271M | $5M | $212M | +27 | $132M |
Every row is projected. A year-over-year change is shown only where the quarter it compares against exists — an em dash means there is no comparable quarter, not a flat year.
Model revisions
Assumptions are marked to reality as each quarter prints. Every change is appended here, with the fair value the model produced at the time, so the model's own history stays visible.
| Date | Fair value then | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-29 | $307.41 | First publication, built on fiscal 2027 Q1 - the quarter ended 30 April 2026, reported 28 May 2026 - which is the most recent quarter MongoDB has reported. Three verticals from the disclosed ASC 606 disaggregation, footing to reported revenue exactly in all 25 quarters; Atlas on a deseasonalised 5.0% trend with derived seasonal factors, Enterprise Advanced and Services on base growth rates and no seasonality; non-GAAP throughout; 6.5x exit on revenue. |
| 2026-08-29 | $307.41 | TIMING: the basis quarter is superseded three days after this model was built. MongoDB reports fiscal 2027 Q2, the quarter ended 31 July 2026, after the US close on 1 September 2026. Fiscal 2027 Q1 was the only basis available, which is the ordinary condition of a model built between prints and is NOT a reason to treat this model as unreliable - but it needs saying, because the two figures most exposed are the fiscal 2027 Q2 revenue guide of $729-734 million, which becomes an actual, and the full-year $2.92-2.96 billion guide, which management may raise again as it did in May. Rebuild required from the fiscal 2027 Q2 8-K Exhibit 99.1 once r40-earnings-data captures it: roll the basis to 2027 Q2, extend all three vertical series from the new disaggregation table, re-derive the Atlas seasonal factors on 26 quarters, recheck the deseasonalised Atlas trend against the 5.0% assumed here, and replace the Q2 guidance row with the reported outturn. |