PTC reported a solid Q1 with ARR growth at the high end of its guidance, but the real story is the record amount of deferred ARR contracted, signaling a significant demand inflection slated for Q4 FY26 and beyond. The company is winning large, strategic deals by displacing competitors and is positioning itself as the central AI platform for industrial product development. Reported Q1 FY26 constant currency ARR growth of 9% excluding divested assets, in line with guidance.
PTC reported a solid Q1 with ARR growth at the high end of its guidance, but the real story is the record amount of deferred ARR contracted, signaling a significant demand inflection slated for Q4 FY26 and beyond. The company is winning large, strategic deals by displacing competitors and is positioning itself as the central AI platform for industrial product development. Reported Q1 FY26 constant currency ARR growth of 9% excluding divested assets, in line with guidance.
Management repeatedly cited strong demand capture, record deferred ARR, and successful go-to-market transformation, expressing optimism about the company's trajectory and future growth.
Management emphasized that customers want AI embedded directly into existing systems of record like Windchill and CodeBeamer, not standalone AI tools. They highlighted recent AI product releases (CodeBeamer AI, Windchill AI Parts Rationalization) and a common AI infrastructure…
Management emphasized that customers want AI embedded directly into existing systems of record like Windchill and CodeBeamer, not standalone AI tools. They highlighted recent AI product releases (CodeBeamer AI, Windchill AI Parts Rationalization) and a common AI infrastructure…
Record deferred ARR under contract with tripling Q4 deferrals. Management repeatedly cited strong demand capture, record deferred ARR, and successful go-to-market transformation, expressing optimism about the company's trajectory and future growth.
Management emphasized that customers want AI embedded directly into existing systems of record like Windchill and CodeBeamer, not standalone AI tools. They highlighted recent AI product releases (CodeBeamer AI, Windchill AI Parts Rationalization) and a common AI infrastructure being built across the portfolio. While AI is seen as a strategic differentiator, management noted it is currently immater
Record deferred ARR under contract with tripling Q4 deferrals. Management repeatedly cited strong demand capture, record deferred ARR, and successful go-to-market transformation, expressing optimism about the company's trajectory and future growth.
Management repeatedly cited strong demand capture, record deferred ARR, and successful go-to-market transformation, expressing optimism about the company's trajectory and future growth.
“For Q4 26, there's triple the amount of deferred ARR on the books for Q4 26. And then in the same view for 27, there is double for 27 versus where there was last year for 26.”
“Yeah, the split's correct that we get the majority from expansion, but there is actual growth and accelerate growth in competitive displacement. And so we feel really good about that as a kind of a next step grower for us.”
“We had another strong demand capture quarter for Windchill Plus... we're seeing the similar sort of lift that we've been saying around the one and a half to two and a half times kind of lift in terms of on-prem to SAS lift on ARR.”
| Metric | Period | Range | Midpoint | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free cash flow | FY2026 | $0.99B–$1B | $0.995B | MAINTAINED |
| Issued | Metric | Target | Guide | Actual | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 Q2 | Free cash flow | FY2026 Q3 | $0.24B–$0.245B | $0.2493B | Met / beat |
Garrett is choosing PTC to unify product development on a cloud-first architecture, representing a greenfield cloud opportunity and a shift away from the incumbent on-premise vendors.
“An example of our momentum is the expansion deal we struck with Garrett Motion, a leading automotive supplier. We won this on the strength of our intelligent product lifecycle vision and how it resonated with their leadership and across”
… Q1 of large deal volume and strong competitive displacements and deferred ARR. Some of these deals will begin converting to ARR in Q4 of fiscal 26, and most will ramp in fiscal 27 and fiscal 28. Jen will talk more about the positive impact of deferred ARR on our outlook for the remainder of fiscal 26. We are confident our transformation is helping us build a more durable multiyear growth engine. An example of our momentum is the expansion deal we struck with Garrett Motion, a leading automotive supplier. We won this on the strength of our intelligent product lifecycle vision and how it resonated with their leadership and across the company. Garrett is modernizing its product development environment on a cloud-first, AI-ready architecture. They were already using Onshape and selected Windchill Plus for PLM, displacing a PLM competitor, and CodeBeamer Plus for ALM, displacing an ALM competitor. Garrett's goal is to unify product development with our connected systems broaden access to product data beyond engineering, and establish a foundation for AI. This is increasingly representative of how large product companies are engaging with PTC. Overall, Q1 demonstrated PTC's …