Database company MongoDB announced Monday (Nov. 3) that Dev Ittycheria will retire as president and CEO after leading the company for 11 years. Ittycheria will be succeeded in those roles by Chirantan “CJ” Desai, who most recently served as president of product and engineering at Cloudflare, MongoDB said in a Monday press release.
Dev Ittycheria, who took MongoDB public in 2017, is stepping down as CEO. He's being replaced by Cloudflare executive Chirantan "CJ" Desai, effective Nov. 10.
MongoDB NASDAQ: MDB was on track to end October as the Most Upgraded stock, as tracked by MarketBeat. The only reason it didn't is that Alphabet reported its earnings on Oct. 30, outperforming the consensus, providing solid guidance, and sparking a round of bullish analyst revisions.
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MongoDB is finally benefiting from the AI software adoption cycle, with its Atlas cloud product seeing strong demand from AI-native startups. Atlas posted 29% year-over-year revenue growth, but overall revenue guidance is tempered by a decline in non-Atlas, on-premise business. The market reacted positively, with shares up 38% after the report (plus more), recognizing the shift toward cloud and AI despite headline guidance appearing soft.
With rising enterprise adoption and deeper workloads, MDB's Atlas is strengthening its grip as a core growth engine.
Headed into the Labor Day weekend, the CE 100 Index managed to post a 0.5% gain, in contrast to the slides seen across all broader benchmarks such as the Nasdaq and the S&P 500. The Enablers segment proved to be the leader this past week, as the pillar rose 4.1%.
MongoDB, Pure Storage and Snowflake all touted artificial intelligence in earnings reports this week. The stocks notched big gains as investors started seeing the benefits of AI moving further downstream in technology.
Shares of MongoDB surged about 31% on Wednesday after the database software firm said its Atlas cloud service was seeing increasing usage as more customers build AI applications on the platform.
MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), a leading database management provider, recently reported strong Q2 results that surpassed analyst expectations. The company also increased its full-year earnings forecast by 22% at the midpoint of its guidance range.
MongoDB, Inc. MDB released its second-quarter financial results after Tuesday's closing bell.
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