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(UIPATH) $PATH DD - Lumpy Revenue To Secular Growth
$PATH targets secular growth via AI playbooks and cross-platform adoption, despite pricing models causing adoption friction.
- Transitioning from cyclical to linear revenue through new AI automation levers and standardized playbooks.
- Strong tailwinds from enterprise AI adoption, effectively countering bear narratives of slow growth or AI competition.
- Management acknowledges pricing model flaws and is expected to address them to unlock frictionless upselling and consumption.
- Revenue remains lumpy and cyclical rather than linear, leading to persistent bearish sentiment regarding growth speed.
- Current software licensing and lack of platform unit pricing actively slow down customer adoption and consumption.
Long term seeker, first time writer, I need to challenge my own thesis to reduce or add more capital. I'm not going write everything but just a current overview. This is a boring company with possible huge tailwinds. Bears used to say "AI is eating their lunch" to now "they are growing too slow".
As we all know they are a neutral agentic enterprise that designs any vertical systems to work each other instead of having enterprises go through multiple disconnected systems to do tasks which takes up a lot of time. Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO, called it 2 years ago before any other software CEOs even thought about it. Now they're ahead, got the edge to expand their relationships with a Lot of their fortune 500 customers. Now lets get to the fun part: The 3 Levers that can flip UIPath revenue from cyclical to linear
- Standardize "Out-of-the-box" vertical AI Playbooks is a collection of pre-built, industry-specific AI automation solutions and methodologies. Rather than building workflows from scratch, it allows organizations (such as those in healthcare, financial services, and retail) to deploy domain-specific AI agents and automations almost instantly.
- Software Licensing & No Platform Unit Pricing \- This might be a huge issue, it slows down customer adoption and consumption. This is possible where can do frictionless up-selling whereas they can do ai credits/units, outcome pricing & etc. They are not doing it and management knows it's a problem, they mentioned it in Q4 FY26.
- Target Low-Code + "Cross-Platform" Adopters \- Look how their innovating and scaling time for customers. EX: maestro case & coding agents. Research it. This basically as of now UiPath time to value just like Palantir Bootcamps.
What To Watch for: big DoD deals, RPO growth, NDR increase, AI agent tokenization fallout & Ungoverned.
4100 shares @ $12.84.
There's a racist premium on it like other European founded stocks till they earned too much.
Same with spotify, ASML, Jumia, flutter, Fartec, Lilium, Couchbase, MariaDB, etc
If they were founded in America they would be closer to intrinsic value. Likely more.
You know this shitty stock shows up every few months and people try to pump it up before earnings, and like clockwork, this shits the bed. Why? Because analysts and bears did their research. This company has questionable moat; which is increasingly likely to get replaced by ai as each day pass. The same argument gets rehashed to add in the latest quarter.
It's ancient technology