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by nkohari 3881 days ago
They've been reinvesting potential profit into the company in order to grow R&D. (Spend has increased from $57M in FY13 to $141M in FY15.)

Their gross margins are probably what you want to look at instead, since their cost of revenue won't include R&D ($ in 1,000s):

                 FY13     FY14     FY15
  Gross revenue  148,512  215,109  319,521
  Gross profit   115,481  117,123  266,589
  Gross margin   77.7%    54.4%    83.4%
These are very healthy for a software company. They nearly doubled their spend on sales and marketing between FY13 and FY14, which explains the temporary dip in gross margin in FY14.