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MDB forward model
Horizon
Consolidated fair value $500.87 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $44M 3% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution −$698614 EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The Atlas trend holds where it has actually been running rather than where the guide implies. Deseasonalised Atlas growth was 7.30% in the basis quarter against a trailing four-quarter mean of 6.67%, so the trend accelerated into the print. Expansion inside the installed base strengthened on the company's own metric - net ARR expansion rate of 121% at 30 April 2026, against approximately 119% a year earlier - and remaining performance obligations grew 88% year over year to $1,458.6 million, more than three times the rate of revenue, which is larger multi-year commitments landing rather than a pricing effect. A point of extra quarterly growth, three points of margin and a 9.0x exit is Snowflake's carried exit multiple applied to the cheaper name.

Services

Basis quarter$21M
Final quarter$44M
Implied CAGR+15%
Final revenue mix3%

Professional services and training sold alongside the platform: 3.1% of revenue in the basis quarter and the one line MongoDB runs at a gross loss, at -5.0% on a non-GAAP basis and -23.5% on GAAP. It exists to get customers deployed rather than to earn, and MongoDB publishes no headcount, utilisation or day rate for it, so a base growth rate tied loosely to platform deployments is the only honest driver.

Last four quarters
2026 Q2 $19M Reported
2026 Q3 $19M Reported
2026 Q4 $22M Reported
2027 Q1 $21M Reported
Consulting and implementation services for platform deploymentsTraining and certification
Sequential growth +3.5%/qtr decaying toward +1.5% 3.5% a quarter is 14.8% annualised, below the 22.3% delivered; services trails subscription as deployments mature.
Services

Latest: $44M (2032Q1E)

Period Value
2021Q1 $5M
2021Q2 $6M
2021Q3 $7M
2021Q4 $7M
2022Q1 $7M
2022Q2 $7M
2022Q3 $9M
2022Q4 $8M
2023Q1 $11M
2023Q2 $12M
2023Q3 $13M
2023Q4 $13M
2024Q1 $14M
2024Q2 $14M
2024Q3 $15M
2024Q4 $13M
2025Q1 $14M
2025Q2 $14M
2025Q3 $17M
2025Q4 $17M
2026Q1 $18M
2026Q2 $19M
2026Q3 $19M
2026Q4 $22M
2027Q1 $21M
2027Q2E $22M
2027Q3E $23M
2027Q4E $24M
2028Q1E $25M
2028Q2E $26M
2028Q3E $27M
2028Q4E $28M
2029Q1E $29M
2029Q2E $31M
2029Q3E $32M
2029Q4E $33M
2030Q1E $34M
2030Q2E $35M
2030Q3E $36M
2030Q4E $37M
2031Q1E $38M
2031Q2E $40M
2031Q3E $41M
2031Q4E $42M
2032Q1E $44M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Services gross margin is one of the few product-level economics MongoDB actually discloses, because services revenue and services cost of revenue are separate income-statement lines: revenue of $21,478 thousand against non-GAAP services cost of revenue of $22,558 thousand (GAAP $26,534 less $3,976 of stock-based compensation) gives -5.03%.
  • Tested for seasonality and left ASEASONAL: a 6.6-point apparent signal against window-to-window spread of up to 15.5 points inside one fiscal quarter. On a line this small and this lumpy the shape is noise.
  • The line is projected to breakeven rather than to profit. MongoDB has never run services for margin and nothing in the filings suggests it intends to start; a loss-making line growing faster than the company average is a small drag on the blend.
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