EXTON, PA, May 11, 2022 – Bentley Systems, Inc., has announced operating results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022. For the first quarter of 2022, the company reported revenue of $275.5M with net income $56.3M.
CEO Greg Bentley said, “Against this quarter’s backdrop of compounding global concerns, I am pleased that we are reporting overall resilience, starting with strong operating results, consistent with our established financial outlook for 2022. Our 22Q1 results absorbed consequences directly related to Russia, including mandatory sanctions, our discretionary new business suspension there, and especially reductions in Russian ARR to reflect an estimation of recurrence probability. But we also absorbed a comparable amount of ARR attrition within China that I believe stems largely from indirectly related ‘counter-globalism.’ Net of these disruptions, we still achieved constant currency ARR growth, from a year ago, of 12% in business performance, plus 15% from platform acquisitions.”
Mr. Bentley continued, “To proactively enhance our business resilience with respect to counter-globalism, BSY Investments announced our first joint venture in China to ‘glocalize’ our platform within software and cloud service offerings being developed there to meet the Chinese government’s provenance requirements for critical infrastructure applications. Also on the investment front, our leadership in core structural and geotechnical engineering disciplines was augmented by our acquisition of ADINA to add advanced non-linear analyses across our simulation portfolio, to help in assessing and improving infrastructure asset resilience against increasingly prevalent environmental extremes.”
“And with respect to potential macroeconomic downturns, I consider that 22Q1’s impressive net momentum in our business corresponds with generally having become more resilient, even since going public in 2020. Notably, as we have extended our global leadership position in infrastructure engineering software and digital twins for mobility, our flourishing platform acquisitions for environmental opportunities (Seequent) and grid opportunities (Power Line Systems) have considerably reduced the significance of our comparatively minor exposure, within the commercial and industrial infrastructure sectors, to cyclically vulnerable CAPEX spending,” Mr. Bentley concluded.
A complete chart of the financial results is available here.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. They provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Their industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Their offerings include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset and network performance, Seequent’s leading geoprofessional software portfolio, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,500 colleagues and generates annual revenues of approximately $1 billion in 186 countries.
For more information, visit www.bentley.com.
