Financial automation platform BILL (NYSE: BILL) reported Q2 CY2025 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 11.5% year on year to $383.3 million. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $390 million was less impressive, coming in 1.1% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.53 per share was 30.4% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

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Company Overview

Transforming the messy back-office financial operations that plague small business owners, BILL (NYSE: BILL) provides a cloud-based platform that automates accounts payable, accounts receivable, and expense management for small and midsize businesses.

Revenue Growth

A company’s long-term sales performance can indicate its overall quality. Any business can have short-term success, but a top-tier one grows for years. Thankfully, BILL’s 31.6% annualized revenue growth over the last three years was impressive. Its growth beat the average software company and shows its offerings resonate with customers, a helpful starting point for our analysis.

This quarter, BILL reported year-on-year revenue growth of 11.5%, and its $383.3 million of revenue exceeded Wall Street’s estimates by 2%. Company management is currently guiding for a 8.8% year-on-year increase in sales next quarter.

Looking further ahead, sell-side analysts expect revenue to grow 11.9% over the next 12 months, a deceleration versus the last three years. Despite the slowdown, this projection is above average for the sector and implies the market is baking in some success for its newer products and services.

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Customer Acquisition Efficiency

The customer acquisition cost (CAC) payback period represents the months required to recover the cost of acquiring a new customer. Essentially, it’s the break-even point for sales and marketing investments. A shorter CAC payback period is ideal, as it implies better returns on investment and business scalability.

BILL is extremely efficient at acquiring new customers, and its CAC payback period checked in at 12.5 months this quarter. The company’s rapid sales cycles stem from its strong brand reputation and self-serve model, where it can onboard many small customers with little to no oversight. These dynamics give BILL more resources to pursue new product initiatives so it can potentially move up market and serve enterprise clients, which can provide a second leg of growth.

Key Takeaways from BILL’s Q2 Results

It was encouraging to see BILL beat analysts’ revenue expectations this quarter. On the other hand, its full-year revenue guidance slightly missed and its full-year EPS guidance fell short of Wall Street’s estimates. Overall, this was a mixed quarter. The stock remained flat at $41.50 immediately following the results.

BILL underperformed this quarter, but does that create an opportunity to invest right now? If you’re making that decision, you should consider the bigger picture of valuation, business qualities, as well as the latest earnings. We cover that in our actionable full research report which you can read here, it’s free.