Guidewire Software Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

Guidewire Software NYSE: GWRE closed fiscal 2026 with annual recurring revenue, or ARR, above its guidance range, supported by cloud migrations, low customer attrition and demand for newer artificial intelligence and pricing products. Chief Executive Officer Mike Rosenbaum said ARR ended the fiscal year at $1.242 billion, up 19% year over year on a constant-currency basis. After a $5 million foreign-exchange adjustment at year-end, ARR was $1.237 billion, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Cooper said. Fully ramped ARR, which reflects the annualized value of customer contracts once fully deployed, rose 22% on a constant-currency basis. Guidewire’s Buyback Could Be the Clue the Sell-Off Is Ending The company reported 26 core deals in the fourth quarter and 62 for the full fiscal year, covering PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter or InsuranceNow. Guidewire’s cloud ARR grew 35% year over year and represented 84% of total ARR, Cooper said. Nationwide migration and product expansion A key fourth-quarter agreement came from Nationwide, which signed a multiyear deal to move its full InsuranceSuite estate to Guidewire Cloud Platform. Nationwide also selected PricingCenter for personal-lines pricing and rating, becoming Guidewire’s first U.S. tier-one PricingCenter customer, according to the company. Down 20%+, These 3 Software Stocks Are Boosting Buybacks Rosenbaum said the Nationwide relationship, which spans more than a decade, validates Guidewire’s ability to support large insurers in the cloud. He added that the PricingCenter deployment is expected to test the product’s capability and scale for other tier-one insurers. Guidewire closed eight PricingCenter deals during the fourth quarter and 12 for the full year. Other customers selecting or expanding PricingCenter included Capital Insurance Group, Shelter Insurance and Achmea Farm Insurance in Australia. A longstanding customer in Finland became the company’s first existing InsuranceSuite customer in Europe to adopt the product. President John Mullen said the pricing market is fragmented, with insurers generally using multiple established rating and pricing tools rather than internally developed systems. He said PricingCenter’s integration with PolicyCenter, Advanced Product Designer and Guidewire’s data platform is intended to help insurers make pricing changes more quickly and accurately. AI products gain commercial traction Guidewire also highlighted early demand for ProNavigator, an AI-driven assistance product embedded in ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter workflows. The company recorded 14 ProNavigator wins in the fourth quarter and 28 for the full year. Customers adopting ProNavigator included MAPFRE US, Definity, Alfa Insurance and Hollard in Australia. Mullen s