Doximity Inc Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Doximity Inc (NYSE: DOCS) Q3 2026 Earnings Call dated Feb. 05, 2026

Presentation

Operator

Thank you for standing by. My name is Jail and I’ll be your conference Operator Today at this time I would like to welcome everyone to the Doximity third quarter 2026 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker’s remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press Star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press Star one again. I would now like to turn the conference over to Perry Gold, VP of Investor Relations.

Go ahead.

Perry Gold — Head of Investor Relations

Thank you operator hello and welcome to Doximity’s fiscal 2026 third quarter earnings call. With me on the call today are Jeff Tangney, co Founder and CEO of Doximity, and Audit Committee Chair and Board member Tim Cabral, who is stepping in to help out with our CFO Anna Bryson, currently on medical leave. A complete disclosure of our results can be found in our press release issued earlier today as well as in our related form 8K, along with a copy of our prepared remarks, all available on our website@investors.doximity.com As a reminder, today’s call is being recorded and a replay will be available on our website as part.

Of our comments Today we will be. Making forward looking statements. These statements are based on management’s current views, expectations and assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially and we disclaim any obligation to update any forward looking statements or outlook. Please refer to the risk factors in. Our annual report on Form 10K, any subsequent Form 10Qs and our other reports and filings with the SEC that may be filed from time to time, including our upcoming filing on Form 10Q. Our forward looking statements are based on. Assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of today’s date, February 5, 2026. Of note, it is Doximity’s policy to neither reiterate nor adjust the financial guidance provided on today’s call unless it is also done through a public disclosure such as a press release or through the filing of a Form 8K. Today we will discuss certain non GAAP metrics that we believe aid in the understanding of our financial results. A historical reconciliation to comparable GAAP metrics can be found in today’s earnings release. Finally, during the call we may offer incremental metrics to provide greater insights into the dynamics of our business.

These details may be one time in nature and we may or may not provide updates on those metrics in the future. I would now like to turn the call over to our co Founder and CEO Jeff Tangney.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Jeff thanks Barry and thank you everyone for joining our third quarter earnings call. We have four updates today, our CFO financials, network stats and AI results. First, some unfortunate news. Our CFO Anna Bryson is out sick on medical leave. We miss her here at the office and wish her the best. I know she wishes she could be here too. We’ve been fortunate to have Tim Cabral, the former 10 year veteran CFO from Veeva Systems, as our Audit Committee Chair the past five years. Tim has graciously agreed to speak to our financials on this call and help guide our finance team.

Okay, in happier news, our Q3 financials were solid. We delivered $185 million in revenue, which was 10% year on year growth and a 2% beat from the high end of our guidance. Meanwhile, our Q3 adjusted EBITDA margin was 60% or $111 million, which which was 7% above the high end of our guidance. All in, we had a better than expected third quarter and another record upfront annual buying season. Okay, time now for our network stats. We’re excited to announce that we just surpassed 3 million registered members and now have more than 85% of all US physicians and 2/3 of all NPs and PAs on our platform.

Engagement in Q3 was strong. Our unique active users on a quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily basis all hit fresh highs with record usage of our NewsFeed workflow and AI products. Our workflow users saw the largest sequential gain we’ve ever had with a record 720,000 unique active prescribers in Q3. As a reminder, workflow includes our telehealth scheduling, daily digital facts and AI tools. And for the fifth year in a row, Doximity Dialer was ranked the number one best in class telehealth platform by health system CIOs and their teams, outperforming Microsoft Teams, Zoom and many others with an AI Glow Up.

Our fax service also hit new highs. Doctors can now query or summarize long faxes as part of our AI platform. You’d be surprised how long patient record transfer faxes can be. We had one last month that was 2,600 pages. So with our AI summary and query tool, we’re proud to help doctors save both time and toner. Okay, on that note, I’d like to share our results so far in entering the noisy, crowded and rapidly expanding market for medical AI. First, we’re proud to announce that over 300,000 unique prescribers used our AI products in Q3 and they’re using us a lot.

In January, DocsGPT active prescribers queried us on average four times a week. So in our first full quarter since acquiring Pathway AI in August, we’ve already become one of the most used AI tools by physicians. We’ve done so by delivering doctors a faster, higher quality clinical answer. Indeed, in a head to head trial of over 1,300 high prescribing physicians we publish today, doctors prefer docsgpt at over twice the rate of our nearest competitor. We win most often on drug related questions as ours is the only medical AI with a built in deterministic drug reference. We also do well with complex cases and niche evidence as we have a licensing agreement with ASCO that gives our users access to their guidelines and we’re the only medical AI to provide full PDF access to over 2,000 medical journals.

We’re also doing great with hospitals. We’re delighted that over 100 of the top health systems in the country have now reviewed, cleared privacy and AI committees and ultimately bought our AI suite, which includes both our Clinical Reference Docs GPT and our Doximity Scribe note taking tool. In total, these hospitals have purchased access for over 180,000 prescribers, granting them permission to put patient data into our secure tools. We’ve won over hospital leaders by being honest and transparent about both AI’s strengths and shortcomings. To be clear, no AI has eliminated mistakes or achieved anything near superintelligence. Claims to the contrary are misleading and dangerous.

A recent Stanford Harvard study found that AI can cause clinical harm in up to 22% of real patient cases. And with overconfident models those errors can become harder to spot. So we believe physician oversight is essential. To that end, we now have over 10,000 US physician experts who have reviewed our clinical answers and that number grows every day. Medical publishers call this peer review. AI researchers call it RLHF or Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. We call it peer check. Before a doctor puts their license and their patient’s life on the line, they’ll want to see a peer check answer first.

Now these aren’t just any doctors doing our peer check, but rather the actual experts and authors cited by the AI for each question. For 15 years now, we’ve painstakingly mapped each doctor to each paper and trial so we know the right expert or right away. Our peer check editorial board is co headed by noted researcher Dr. Eric Topol and former Surgeon General Regina Benjamin. In their words quote Together we can build AI systems worthy of our profession and our patients trust. End quote. We’re gathering with 150 other physician leaders in San Francisco next month to further build this out.

Our focus today is on building AI tools doctors can trust outside of hospitals. We have not yet commercialized our AI tools, so we have not included any revenue upside for AI in our current guidance. At a high level, our strategy is simple. We’re strengthening our AI powered digital platform for doctors the same way we always have by putting physicians first. Okay, as always, I’d like to end by thanking my Doximity teammates who continue to work incredibly hard to care for those who care for us. And with that, I’ll hand it over to our Audit Committee chair and board member Tim Cabral to discuss our financials and guidance.

Timothy Cabral — Audit Committee chair and board member

Tim thanks Jeff, and thanks to everyone on the call today. Third quarter revenue grew to 185.1 million, up 10% year over year and exceeding the high end of our guidance range. Similar to prior quarters, our existing customers continue to lead our growth. We finished the quarter with a net revenue retention rate of 112% on a trailing twelve month basis for our top twenty customers. Net revenue retention was higher at 117%, so our biggest, most sophisticated customers once again represented our fastest growing. We ended the quarter with 126 customers contributing at least 500,000 each in subscription based revenue on a trailing 12 month basis.

This is a roughly 10% increase from the 115 customers we had in this cohort a year ago and these customers accounted for 84% of our total revenue. Turning to our profitability, non GAAP gross margin in the third quarter was 91% versus 93% in the prior year period, driven by a step up in our AI infrastructure investments from increased usage. Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter was 1 11.4 million and adjusted EBITDA margin was 60% compared to 102 million and and a 61% margin in the prior year period. Now turning to our balance sheet cash flow and an update on our share repurchase program.

We generated free cash flow in the third quarter of 58.5 million. We ended the quarter with 735 million of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. During the third quarter we repurchased 196.8 million worth of shares. We believe repurchasing our shares is a valuable use of the incremental cash we generate above what’s needed to reinvest in the business. As of December 31, we had 83 million remaining in our existing repurchase program. In addition, our board just approved a new $500 million open ended repurchase authorization. Now moving on to our outlook for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2026.

We expect revenue in the range of 143 to 144 million, representing 4% growth at the midpoint and we expect adjusted EBITDA in the range of 63.5 to 64.5 million, representing a 45% adjusted EBITDA margin. For the full fiscal year. We now expect revenue in the range of 642.5 to 643.5 million, representing 13% growth at the midpoint and we now expect adjusted EBITDA in the range of 355.5 to 356.5 million, representing a 55% adjusted EBITDA margin. Despite our Q3 outperformance, the midpoint of our annual outlook remains in line with our prior guidance. This is the result of lower Q4 revenue expectations and higher AI infrastructure investment driven by a strong increase in usage.

During this year’s upfront selling season we saw significant client engagement, strong growth among many top 20 pharma customers and high double digit SMB growth. We also faced short term industry wide policy headwinds. As we mentioned on our last call, we had observed client uncertainty over how recent policy changes may influence annual budgets. We saw this uncertainty continue through year end with 16 of the top 20 pharma companies signing Most Favored Nation agreements with the White House focused on tariffs and pricing between late December and early January. As a result, our annual selling season was impacted in two ways.

First, we saw multiple customers deploy a lower percentage of their annual budgets upfront than usual as 2026 planning wasn’t fully complete and some funds remained unreleased. Second, this uncertainty resulted in many deals we’d normally have signed by December 31st being delayed and pushed into our fiscal Q4. This is evident in our January pharma bookings growth rate, which is the best we’ve seen since going public. As a result of these Q3 bookings, Dynamics Calendar 2026 is off to a slower start than usual evident in our Q4 revenue guided growth rate. With that said, we have a few reasons to be optimistic that will end our calendar year 2026 with significantly better growth than we started it.

First, we believe the higher portion of our clients budgets that wasn’t deployed up front will likely be available to be invested later this year during the upsell season. Second, with MFN deals now signed for 16 of the top 20 pharma manufacturers. We believe they should be able to to more confidently complete and execute their 2026 media plans. Finally, we see strong inbound demand for our AI member engagement which we have not yet commercialized but expect to have a product in market this year. We believe this will allow us to meaningfully tap into our clients 2026 innovation, upsell and search budgets.

Moving to our operating model, we will continue to invest in our doctor Trusted AI platform, including increases in infrastructure development and our peer check program. Even with these investments, we are in a position where we expect to maintain 50% or greater adjusted EBITDA margins on an annual basis. With that, I will turn it over to the operator for questions.

Question & Answers

Operator

Thank you. The floor is now open for questions. If you have dialed in and would like to ask a question, please press Star one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press Star one again. If you are called upon to ask a question and are listening via loudspeaker on your device, please pick up your handset and ensure that your phone is not on mute when asking your question. And we do request for today’s session that you please limit yourself to one question and one follow up.

Your first question comes from the line of Brian Peterson of Raymond James. Your line is open.

Brian Peterson — Analyst, Raymond James

Thanks for taking the question and first thoughts and prayers are with Anna. I hope you can get well soon. So just starting out on the budgets for calendar year 26, I think in prior calls you referenced the growth rate around 5 to 8%. I know you mentioned a lot of swing factors that may have influenced that, but I’m curious, is that still the case for market growth and how much was MFN a factor or was that the largest factor in the calendar year 26 dynamics?

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Any color there? Hey Brian, it’s Perry. Thanks for the question. So I’ll take that one. So our operating assumption right now is that the market will grow roughly 5% in calendar 2026. EMarketer was out a few months ago with the report and they’re looking at about 5% growth for all of healthcare and pharma digital advertising, which is down from last year. So that’s kind of the growth assumption for the market. On the second part of the question on mfn, we think it certainly played a role. So you’re coming into the very end of the year when usually we will have signed a large portion of bookings for the next year and you have many of these top 20 pharma companies that still haven’t signed off on these big deals with the White House.

These MFN deals, which, you know, are pretty broad based to do with pricing and tariffs. And so it’s a large, I think, bogey, a lot of uncertainty at the very end of the year. And so what we found were many of these customers weren’t ready to fully sign off on their 2026 plans. They had some funds that were unreleased from the top down. And so that timing really impacted us. So it was a large part of kind of the impact. And I think it manifest in two ways, as Tim called out. So one of them was just certain deals were pushed from.

Usually we have signed by December 31st or pushed into next year. And you can see our January bookings. Growth rate as we mentioned, was one of the highest we’ve had since going public was the highest. And in addition, from what we heard from multiple customers, they deployed a lower percentage of their budget upfront. And so both of those, we think were largely impacted by mfn. So MFN played a big part of. There’s some other policy things going on in the background. And as you know, this year has been very noisy. But we think MFN happening as late in the year as it did was kind of one of the primary factors in that slow start to the year for us.

Brian Peterson — Analyst, Raymond James

Got it. Thanks. Very appreciate that. And Jeff, maybe just a follow up on AI, congrats on getting to the 100 plus health systems. I’m just curious, as we think about your customer conversations there, does that change the pace of where innovation budgets start? Like, do you expect that number to ramp up over time or. I guess I’m just trying to think about the AI oriented spend for your customers, what that ramp looks like, and maybe your differentiation as you go attack that AI budget. Thanks, guys.

Glen Santangelo — Analyst, Barclays

Yeah, thanks, Brian. You know, I think we really proved this last quarter that we are indeed trusted digital platform for doctors. Right. With over 85% of US doctors, they really look to us for the latest technology to help them take better care of their patients. We’ve done this in the past with identity and news and workflow and AI. I have to say I’m exceedingly proud that in our first full quarter after the pathway acquisition, we’ve grown to over 300,000 quarterly active doctors, which is just a terrific case. I don’t think any other company could do that and then design 100 hospitals.

Those hundred hospitals are major health systems, so those represent 20% of all US doctors and those rollouts we’re just doing now. So we signed those contracts to start at the beginning of this year, January, and of course takes a while to get the training plans and to get the rollouts plan. That’s really important, I think, for our continued AI growth because of course what doctors need to do with these systems is to put in protected health information, phi patient information to get the right answers out. And if you aren’t in a signed agreement with that hospital covered under what they call their baa, their HIPAA agreement, well, that’s not something the IT departments allow doctors to, to use just any tool for.

So we’re proud again to be powering 100 health systems, 180,000 clinicians with, with our AI toolset.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Michael Cherney of Lyric Partners. Your line is open.

Michael Cherny — Analyst, Lyric Partners

Good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. And yeah, I think we’ll probably all say the same thing, but really, best wishes to Anna as she goes through her medical leave. Maybe diving back in. I’m just going to ask one question. I know, sure, plenty of people are behind me, but diving back in on the demand curve and the booking side, clearly the narrative on your stock as well as virtually anything else that touches tech and software in the market is on this dynamic of AI disruption. Whether that’s similar lookalike peers, broader gen AI oriented players, just the general thought process of a new paradigm going forward.

As you think through the moving pieces tied to your start of your bookings, the January dynamic, how do you think about where the competitive dynamic lies and your ability to continue to capture the same hearts and minds of pharma companies, deliver the same ROI relative to what other peers may be promising them, whether they’re hitting them or not.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Sure. Thanks. Michael, this is Jeff. I’ll take that. So, yes, step back. Big picture. Our core business, very healthy. We had over a million quarterly active users of our newsfeed record high, we had 720,000 quarterly active users of our workflow tools, which is the biggest sequential step up we’ve ever had. Our telehealth product does very well, I will say. Last week during the snowstorms, we served more telehealth visits than we really ever have. It was over 700,000, which is a big chunk of all the care that was delivered in the US that day when people were snowed in.

So we’re really proud to have won that telehealth market back in 2020 and we believe we’ll win the AI market here in 2026. And we do that by just having some very large moats around, having again so many hospitals that have already worked with us and so many doctors. So the stat that I’m actually most proud of on this whole call is the number of peer check experts that we have. These 10,000 cited authors, experts, doctors who wrote the evidence that made the clinical trials spent years of their lives studying and building this medical collective wisdom that we have.

And I’m proud that at 10,000 we’re bigger than the largest players in the industry. The biggest publisher in the space that’s the leader and has been there for decades has about 7,000 experts that inform their clinical answers. And again we’re now over 10,000. So I feel really good about the 20% of all US docs that we’ve gotten to use are docs GPT our AI already and again for the first full quarter after the Pathway acquisition. I don’t think there’s really any other company that could have grown into this market that fast. To your question about what that means with pharma today we do not have a product that pharma can buy in this AI suite.

We are just very thoughtful, I think about how we work with doctors and make sure that things are win win. We’re not just going to slap a full page banner on top of a product. We know what that does to the experience for the end user and certainly we want to be finding ways to have win wins with industry around this. And we done a great job of that in the past and will continue to do here moving forward. So we’re excited later this year to come to market with some products there. But again we have no revenue in our forecast for our AI products right now.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Allen Lutz of Bank of America. Your line is open.

Allen Lutz

Good afternoon and thanks for taking the questions I wanted to ask on the policy uncertainty that farm. Can you talk a little bit about your recent conversations with top 20 pharma? You know, obviously in the beginning of the year there was the uncertainty around all the things that you mentioned. Can you talk about the recent conversations and if the expectation is that some of that spend that was supposed to be maybe in the beginning of the year gets pushed out, is there any opportunity for the mid year upsell season to be a little bit stronger? I’m just curious on your recent conversations and whether or not you think that could come into play.

Perry Gold — Head of Investor Relations

Thanks. Hey Alan, it’s Perry. I’m happy to take that one. So you know I think what I want to get across is, you know, there were many of our top 20 customers. We actually had really good outcomes. So it was not the case of every single one of the top 20 had an issue. But there were a bunch where it was very clear that I think the brand managers wanted to be deploying more funds with us, but they hadn’t got that approval of those funds released yet. And I think a lot of that had to do with the uncertainty very late in the year.

And so they just didn’t have access to kind of that. That full amount of money to go deploy with us right away. We do believe that the intent is there that when they get those funds released, we will get access to that later in the year. So that’s, I think, one of the bigger things we’ve seen at play. Not really the brand manager not wanting to deploy the funds, which is not having access to them from top down. It wasn’t available yet. I think that was kind of the manifestation of it that we saw. But again, there were multiple top 20 customers that will get really good outcomes, and we’re very proud of those accounts and kind of what we did there.

But it was, you know, certainly the case that this unreleased funds issue was kind of more permanent, permeated more in the top 20 than we’ve ever seen anything like this before.

Allen Lutz

Thank you, that’s helpful. And then, you know, more of a strategy question, not asking for fiscal 27 guidance here, but as we think about the increasing AI infrastructure or usage cost, I look at the gross margin year over year down about 180bps. As we think about, you know, the way that you’re scaling 300,000 physicians on the platform using AI, really, really strong, impressive growth there. You mentioned the 50% adjusted EBITDA margin floor. As we think about you SC AI and having costs there with no associated revenue, how should we think about the intermediate term strategy? There is revenue on the table for the next year or two, or should we think about this really trying to build out the user base within fiscal 27 before turning on or even contemplating turning on that spigot.

Thank you.

Perry Gold — Head of Investor Relations

Hey, Ellen, it’s Perry. Once again, great question. I think you hit the nail on the head. So the 50% that Tim referenced in the call, think of that as a floor, not a guide. We have an incredible opportunity in front of us with AI We’ve already seen in one full quarter, you know, how much engagement this can drive. And, you know, it’s something that we want to lean into. We want to invest in. And we’re in a really fortunate position. We already have best in class margins, and so we have room to go invest. To your point, I think it’s late this year was when we plan to be in market with commercial AI products.

So we’ll eventually start to put some revenue against this. Next year, you know, 2027 will pick up even more calendar 27. And so, you know, it’s probably another few quarters in which there’s cost without associated revenue. But that’s an investment we’re willing to make all day. And if there’s upside in usage, a little bit more infrastructure costs, we think it’s well worth it. As you see with a lot of these technologies, over time the unit economics start to get better. They go down, so the unit costs to go down. We saw something similar happen with the early days of telehealth.

And over time, the economics got better for us. We got bigger. We negotiate better rates, so that won’t be a big burden for too long. We’re also investing in peer check, and I think peer check is something that will really differentiate the offering. That trust component is huge for doctors. We have an opportunity, like Jeff said, we can go tap into this network with 3 million members and in a month or two get 10,000 expert reviewers to kind of come along and review a lot of these answers. And so we’ve got something that nobody else can do.

And I think that investment, again, well worth it. Differentiated offering. And I think that this will pay dividends over time. But yeah, think of that 50% as a floor.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Glenn Santangolo of Barclays. Your line is open.

Glen Santangelo — Analyst, Barclays

Oh, yeah, thanks for taking my question, Jeff. Just two quick ones for me. In the prepared remarks, I think you guys were commenting a little bit on fiscal 27, where I think you said you expect to end calendar year 26 with significantly better growth than where you started. So, you know, looking at your fiscal 4Q growth, you’re assuming 4% revenue growth. So is the assumption that you’ll end the year much better than that 4% for the full year? I just want to clarify what you’re saying.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

And then.

Glen Santangelo — Analyst, Barclays

And then I just had one other follow up. You know, Jeff, at this point it’s pretty clear that the public markets, they’ve been very punishing the companies with this perceived AI disruption. And, and whether it’s reality or not, you know, we’ll ultimately see. But you know, when you look at the public markets, they may not be appropriately valuing your Business. And so I’m just kind of curious to get your take, you know, on this whole sort of dynamic that we’re seeing. I mean, you’re a big shareholder of Doximity. I mean, does Doximity need to be.

A public company just given the strength. Of your balance sheet?

Perry Gold — Head of Investor Relations

Hey Glenn, it’s Perry. I’m happy to take the first one and then I’ll pass the terminal multiple question to Jeff. So great question, Glenn. Yeah, I think the way to think about it is slower start to the year, the 4%, but we actually feel really good about our ability to exit, exit the calendar year as a double digit grower once again. And you know, the reason for that, there’s a few, I think this year a little bit more of a ramp. But one of the reasons is we think we, you know, that those funds that hadn’t been released earlier in the year will be released as we go through the year.

And as they get released, we’ve got one of the highest ROIs in the market. And we think folks will come to us because of that with those funds. In addition, we plan to be in market later in the year with a commercially product. And I think by having that we will be able to very quickly tap into kind of innovation upsell budgets and search budgets. And so, yeah, I just want to be very clear. I think we will end the year, exit the year as a double digit grower. I think, you know, I will reemphasize.

We can, we believe for the entire year without giving guidance. Hopefully the calendar year will be able to outgrow the market as we have every year before. But that’s probably the most we’re prepared to give at this point. Glenn.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Great. Glenn? Yeah, this is Jeff. I’ll just say I think overall AI is a tailwind for us. I think the opportunity in front of us to change healthcare. Wow, it’s never been better. And again, to see 300,000 doctors come use our product here in the first full quarter after acquiring something and growing with it. I mean, we’re just really excited. I think the opportunity to make being a doctor a better job, it’s really fundamentally changing. I think the way we’re going to look at the world here in a few years. And I’ll just say the only problem from the doctor’s point of view when you look at AI today is you really can’t trust it.

The truth is they’re putting their license on the line with every patient. And you know, these are life or death decisions that are, I mean, Very, very important. And so there’s still this need to go check multiple different sources or to go back to the textbooks, which are trusted. So AI is fast, but they want textbook trusted and AI fast. And again, that’s where I think PeerCheck is just an incredible opportunity for us because these 10,000 noted authors, they’re putting their name at the top of that. And that name up there, that’s trust. That’s showing that an expert in the field reviewed this answer and that it is correct.

And I can get to it quickly with the speed of AI but again, with the trust of the traditional textbook and an expert approach. Your last question about our public market trading, I don’t try not to pay too much attention to it. I’ll just say that there are certainly investors asking some of the same questions that you just asked there of us. And again, from our point of view, we’re just proud to be able to continue to be a company that is both serving doctors every day and able to generate cash flows that are attractive.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Elizabeth Anderson of Evercore isi. Your line is open.

Elizabeth Anderson — Analyst, Evercore Isi

Hi. Hey, guys. Sorry. Thank you very much for the question. I guess my question is how do you guys see the monetization opportunity evolving over the course? I know you talked about it potentially over the course coming later in the year, but I just curious how you just kind of what your early thoughts are at this point on that opportunity, both in terms of sort of model and then how that might sort of play into your broader advertising portfolio. Thank you.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Hey, Liz, this is Jeff. I’ll take that. I’ll just say at a broad level, there’s a whole new TAM here that we traditionally haven’t paid in, and it’s called paid search. And if you look at that same E marketer report that Perry referenced from a few months ago, you’ll see that 55% of digital marketing spend in healthcare is for search. And so I think this is a large market and a big opportunity for us. We’re not going to talk much about our plans there. I think we are very good at doing this and we don’t want to tip off others too much.

But suffice it to say, we think there’s a really large opportunity here. And again, there’s a lot of client excitement about it as well.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Craig heading back of Morgan Stanley. Your line is open.

Craig Hettenbach

Thank you. Just a point on 20% of health systems using AI. Where do you think that could go in the coming years. And how do you think about just kind of reference cases of those health systems that adopted in terms of bringing others kind of into the fold?

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Hey Craig. Yeah, this is Jeff. Thanks for the question. So we publicly said in prior quarters that we have 45% of all US physicians through their health systems that use our telehealth tools. I think that gives you a sense of some of the opportunity here. But I’ll just say getting to 20% in one quarter when every major health system has not only a privacy review committee, but also an AI review committee and they only work with trusted partners. And I think over time the tech here is increasingly a commodity. I think we’re seeing this across a lot of different areas of AI.

It’s the trust and the relationships and the platforms that really matter. And we hear it from our clients all the time. The CIOs of these hospitals, they don’t want to buy point solutions, they don’t want to buy features, they want to buy platforms. And again, between our scheduling and our fax and our telehealth and our other tools, we really are one of those platforms that they turn to.

Craig Hettenbach

Got it. And then just as a follow up, nice, strong start in terms of momentum post the Pathway Medical acquisition. But anything surprise you at this point now that you’re kind of operating the business and things that, you know, whether it’s when you went in, what you saw, the opportunity set versus how it’s evolving? I know it’s only a few months, but just what’s been kind of the feedback in terms of Pathway.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Thanks, Craig. We’ve been really happy with the Pathway acquisition and its speed of adoption and growth has probably been the best surprise here. The team we’re also getting along very well with and they continue to really lean in, which is terrific. So we’re really pleased with the acquisition and the growth. I would say, if anything, the semantic data sets that they brought us the understanding of how to read through the 2000 journals that we provide uniquely provide full free PDF access to for our doctors and that drug data set that’s built in because a lot of questions are drug related questions and those are the ones you really don’t want to get wrong.

And the reality is LLMs do struggle with this a bit. I will say the largest player in this space who’s been around for decades, they’ve added an LLM to their product, but they haven’t added a drug reference to their LLM. And they do that on purpose because they’re careful and they see that LLMs really struggle with drug information, with dosages, with things that are easy to move a decimal point one way or the other and make a really serious error. So we think we’ve got some great IP in the pathway acquisition, but we also got a great team and great growth this past quarter.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Ryan McDonald of Needham and Company. Your line is open.

Ryan MacDonald — Analyst, Needham And Company

Thanks for taking my question. Maybe to ask on the budget question a little bit of a different way. Obviously understand the headwinds with mfn, but obviously some of the other regulatory sort of talk and chatter around has been around sort of closing some of these direct patient marketing loopholes on TV and other platforms. Are you seeing in any of your conversations pharma customers starting to react to that in terms of how they’re shifting the allocations of their budgets where maybe this potentially creates a tailwind and having more spend to the HCP budget over time? Thanks.

Perry Gold — Head of Investor Relations

Hey Ryan, it’s Perry. I’ll take that question. Yeah, I mean we’ve been having that conversation internally and externally for a little While now about D2C and is it going to benefit us? I can say at least this upfront season we didn’t see it happen yet. I think part of the issue was, you know, all of these cease and desist and warning letters went out September and I think people forget already, but right after we had the longest government shutdown we’ve ever had. So I don’t think there was much on the enforcement front for a few months, the beginning of this year.

I think there’s some examples of that picking up again. And I think if the FDA kind of really pushes that enforcement, you will find probably more and more of these brands having to add a lot more small print, fine print to some of their TV ads. It’ll make the ROI not look so attractive. And I think over time the smart marketers will start to move that money to HCP where and when they can. But in terms of has that impacted us positively yet? We just haven’t really seen it. And so, you know, that’s just kind of like where we are today.

Ryan MacDonald — Analyst, Needham And Company

Very helpful. Maybe as a follow up on the AI side of things. Great to see all the success in sort of these hospital and health system wide evaluations as you’re having conversations with your health system partners right now. How much of let’s call it the AI strategy is a sort of top down, you know, facility or system wide strategy versus more sort of let’s call it one off physician usage of Individual tools. And our health system’s trying to grapple with maybe changing it to the former versus the latter.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Yeah, this is Jeff. I’d say it’s been a mix, honestly, both bottom up and top down. That said, the early discussions we had in September, October with our clients about this, of course it was with the CIO CMIO suite, and then they try out the product and then they show a few friends, and then it becomes more bottom up. I will say that I think you’ll see much more vigorous AI enforcement. It’s been a little bit wild west, to be totally honest, in the AI world with hospitals this past year, but there are a lot of real concerns that they have about leaking patient data and liability and the accuracy of information.

So I think you’ll see more of an enforcement regime this year. And again, I think we’re on the the right side of that and working with them. So, you know, we’ve been doing this for 15 years. We are the trusted platform for physicians. We have a process to work with our hospital partners and our doctors to do this. I think, again, we’re just very well positioned to capture this AI opportunity.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of David Roman of Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

David Roman — Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I wanted just to start with maybe some of the signposts that you’re using to project the acceleration in both your business and in the market through the balance of the year. And why, as pharma companies look at their budgets, like how you think they’re balancing figuring out how to do more with less versus deploying resources in an accelerated manner throughout the year.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Yeah, David, this is Jeff. I’ll take this first. At least I’ll say this in an efficiency environment. Digital marketing does pretty well. Why? Because it’s the highest roi. And I’m really proud that our portal usage has doubled over the past year. This is the number of clients we have using our portal. And the great thing about our client portal is it lets them see their roi. We have iqvia data in there. They can actually look at their, what they call script lift or NRX lift on a monthly or quarterly basis. And so this past year, we had a record number, 965 ROI studies that were done by our clients, and we’re still at that same number.

We were at our IPO about 10 to 1, median return on investment for our clients. So I do think an efficiency driven environment, I think digital marketing will do well, especially when every $1 you put into it, you get 10 back.

Timothy Cabral — Audit Committee chair and board member

And then Maybe just one of the. Things you talked about earlier this year was on the recruiting front and we did see kind of a step up in stock comp associated with bringing on AI talent. And it seems like the talent race is on in that segment. You operate in a very, very talent competitive environment with anthropic opening offices and others right around you. So how are you thinking about talent retention and recruiting and making sure you keep the right people on board here, especially as the stock price has drifted lower.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

David, this is Jeff again. Yeah, the talent wars definitely are heating up. And yes, we are retaining our best people offering them stock grants. And you know, the reality is I think we’ve done very well at keeping, I think a very mission driven team here who really do love humans, do love doctors, do love working with doctors who take care of humans. So, you know, it’s I think an advantage in this market to be a company with such a long held purpose and such deep roots in the medical industry. I find that the folks that we have on our team who are sons, daughters or married to physicians really are the ones that really, I think are the cultural torch carriers for us because they come in every day, every week with examples of how doctors have used our products to again, save them time or lead to better care.

So every week we share what we call doc love, which is an email or a message that’s come into our inbox unprompted from a physician talking about how we’ve helped them that week take better care of a patient. So there’s no doubt you’ll see that we will have to fight the talent wars and we will have people who I think get bigger stock packages. But that’s all part of leading into this AI opportunity, which we think is pretty fantastic and is playing out in our margins as well.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Scott Schoenhouse of KeyBank. Your line is open.

Scott Schoenhaus — Analyst, KeyBank

Hey team, thanks for taking my questions and best wishes for Anna here. I guess. Perry, as a follow up here, you know, you talked about the demand getting pushed out from December into January from a select group of large pharma. You mentioned January pharma bookings having the best growth rate ever. Do you mind providing more color and what exactly this growth rate looks like? And then I know it’s still only the first handful days of February, but are you seeing the same kind of similar healthy growth rate in bookings in February?

Perry Gold — Head of Investor Relations

Hey Scott, how are you? Yeah, so January bookings growth rate was the best we’ve seen since going public. I can say it’s by a wide amount. It’s a clear indication of the delayed decision making we referenced. It was part of the impact. But less budget deployed up front also played a major role. Aren’t going to quantify beyond that. We never provided absolute bookings figures and it’s just really early in February so you know not much to add on that front.

Scott Schoenhaus — Analyst, KeyBank

Understand. And then back to the the market growth rate 5% and your ability to get to double digits exiting the end of the year. I mean what how should we think you had you know I think we took you took some market here in the mid year selling season this past year. How do we think about your ability to take market share as you scale and ramp throughout the year? Is it you know historically said we can take double the market share that the industry grows at?

Perry Gold — Head of Investor Relations

Yes, Scott. So I know we’ve talked about that in the past. I don’t think the 2x is always a hard and fast rule but you know we can we continually outgrown the market since we’ve been public. I think part of it has to do with the fact that we continue to innovate, we continue to grow our engagement, we continue to have best in class roi. And I think as soon as you come to market with something really new like an AI commercial product, you have our customers always have these innovation budgets and those are the types of things that kind of are generally always available for interesting new offerings.

And so AI will allow us to tap into those budgets, possibly search as Jeff referred to. And so I think these are a lot of factors that will put us in a good position to get to that double digit exit growth rate for the year. But that’s probably the most we can say on that without giving official guidance.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Jeff Garo of Stevens. Your line is open.

Jeffrey Garro — Analyst, Stevens

Yeah, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. Was hoping you could give us some kind of update on your strategy and. Progress integrating your workflow tools with the. Broader healthcare technology ecosystem. Most specifically curious about integrating medical AI and Scribe with electronic health records. Thanks.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Thanks Jeff. Yeah, this is Jeff. I’ll respond. So again we’re really proud to work with hundreds of health systems and we do integrations with many of them. The integrations to date have been mostly around our telehealth service offering, but we’re working on other integrations as well. I don’t have anything specific to say on that front today, but suffice it to say our Scribe product does do very well among individual doctors. It Saves them a lot of time. They like that it’s personal to them and that it’s something that they can carry with them in their pocket anywhere at any time.

And really, the integration isn’t that heavyweight when you think about it. It’s mostly a cut and paste. The other thing is our dialer tool, which is our most popular workflow tool for telehealth. You know, we have that button right there, the dialer call that allows you to go inscribe the visit again, which is a great point of integration for us to be in. And again, it’s not hard to have a receptionist or staff member go cut and paste that in at the end of the day. But we’re also working on integrations with folks. And I just end by saying, particularly with our telehealth product, I think we have many votes and we’ve seen new competitors come and go here.

We’ve had probably five direct competitors over the years that have tried to build a physician focused dialer. I will say it is very hard. It’s painstakingly difficult to go and do all the things you need to do with all the telcos. And we have unique relationships with the telcos to make sure that the caller ID and the attestation all works correctly. And in the end that manifests itself into pickup rates that we have that are three times what others have. So in short, when you call a patient using Doximity dialer, you will not be marked as spam, you will not be flagged as spam risk.

You will get through to that patient with a number that they recognize. And that’s a pretty big moat for us. And again, we’ve seen a number of companies try to come at us here. Our dialer usage has actually gone up more in the last quarter, nice and steady, than we’ve had in the past.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Stan Berenstein of Wells Fargo Securities. Your line is open.

Stanislav Berenshteyn — Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities

Hi, and thanks for taking my questions. On the medical AI, the 300,000 unique prescribers that you talked about. If we think about the workflow, I’m curious, how are the providers using these features? Are they opening up the app and going directly into the medical AI, or are they interacting somewhere else on the app and are organically getting redirected? I’m curious if you can talk about the workflow that’s getting them to use this feature.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Thanks. This is Jeff. Yeah, the full platform flow, which we’re happy to demo for folks, if they’d like to see, is you Start with a telehealth visit. You’re talking to seeing a patient. It describes the visit. At the end of the visit it writes what’s called a SOAP note for you. The A and the P in the. SOAP note is called assessment and plan. And a lot of times doctors will want to double check their assessment and plan. And again, that’s just a one click into our docpt AI to do an evidence based search and double check your assessment and plan. So there’s a lot of on ramps, honestly into the AI. The other one is, you know, from our newsfeed, which has more than a million quarterly active users. Last quarter, after reading an article about something new in medicine, maybe I have a follow up question or two. And again that leads you directly into our AI which can do more research and help you understand the full, the full article or new news a bit more.

So again, we’re a platform, we’re not a feature. And that’s a huge advantage here. In the end being a trusted platform for physicians for 15 years, it’s the place that they go. They’re spending again most of their time doing workflow, newsfeed, identity. All of that comes together into also having a question and answer tool. Thanks.

Stanislav Berenshteyn — Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities

And maybe a quick one on bookings. Just when you’re having these budget discussions, I’m curious, are customers sharing concrete budget expectations or is it still kind of like a theoretical framework and maybe there’s some squishiness and that’ll get worked out in the coming months or quarters?

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Thanks. Hey Stan. I think it varies, I think there are, you know, like I said before, brand managers who intend or want to spend a certain amount with us. But it really depends on kind of what gets deployed, sorry, what gets released to them and when. Yeah, obviously others, you know, that signed on, you know, at a large scale by December 31st. You know, we’ve got a good sense, you know, obviously it’s a sign of what, what they’re going to do with us. And a lot of times they’ll make that decision if they can, if they’re in position to do that, the funds have been released.

Because by doing that, you know, you kind of unlock the best possible economics. But like I said, it varies from customer to customer. And you know, I think there are, there are folks who would like to spend more with us and you know, just hadn’t gotten access to those funds yet. And hopefully if and when those funds become available, they’ll kind of spend kind of where they’ve indicated they may be able to to.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Ryan Halstead of RBC Capital Markets. Your line is open.

Ryan Halsted — Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Thanks. Good afternoon and thanks for taking the question. Maybe just to follow up on the pharma marketing budgetary decisions. Just curious if you are seeing any. Change in or anticipating any change in. The cadence of budgetary decisions by your large pharma customers. Is is sort of the traditional seasonality. Of the upfront and upsell seasons kind of still the norm or has there been any shift to a more periodic review and decision making process?

Perry Gold — Head of Investor Relations

Hey Ryan, great to see on your first call with us. It’s a great question. I think the answer is this is an anomaly. This what would happen at the end of this year was very odd. I think even for, even for our customers it was odd. And so this isn’t what you would typically see. There wouldn’t typically be this much uncertainty very late in the year. And I can tell you that I think like I said in my last response, it is to your advantage to buy, you know, at scale for the full year before December 31st because you unlock the best possible economics and soft benefits with us.

So I think this is truly an anomaly for this year and we’re working through that. I can say if you look back two years, it’s a little bit different, but we had kind of a similar dynamic where 4Q was, you know, a mid single digit revenue growth rate. It had to do with the fact that we’d sold a lot of point of care and content wasn’t ready. But you know, things, I think a lot of the programs, the launches were delayed and when you went to the first quarter there was a nice step up in revenue growth as those things kind of normalized a bit.

Ryan Halsted — Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Not a perfect compare, but this isn’t. The first time we’ve seen something like this. But in terms of is this a new norm for the upfront season, we think this is really an anomaly. This is not something that we expect to continue.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Got it. That’s helpful. And then for my follow up, just. Any color around demand for the multimodule integrated offerings. Yeah, so I can take that. So Doc, dynamic this quarter was about 45% of our bookings compared with 18% a year ago. So it was still significant part of the selling season. You know, again, you know, there’s only so many people that can buy it because the minimum is high to have access to it. So it’s still an interesting product for many it’s still really good. Tech folks are interested. But yeah, the Update is about 45% of the programs were doc dynamic in terms of what we sold in the third quarter.

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Richard Close of Canaccord Genuity. Your line is open.

Richard Close — Analyst, Canaccord Genuity

Yeah, thanks for the question. Obviously a lot of them questions already answered. I was wondering Jeff, if you could go into a little bit more detail on the background of the study you referenced with the docs using the AI and how much impact that maybe has made in terms of gaining additional utilization with other providers.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Yeah, Richard, I’m glad you asked. So yeah, we did do a study as we do our own research with doctors all the time. And again we’re about to have 150 doctors here in a few weeks to go really deep on this for a few days. But yeah, we had 1300 high prescribing physicians. So these are very busy physicians who took the time to go and actually ask a clinical question that they faced in their practice that day and do a side by side comparison of our AI versus other AI in the marketplace. And the net of it was we feel really great that we performed at twice the rate our competition did in this space and with good reason I think around the better drug reference, the full 2000 journals access and even some smaller things they like to our formatting of tables.

They like the speed of the product. We’re faster than any other product on the market. So yeah, we’re proud to do that research and we just put it out today so more can see it. I do think they probably used the product and maybe told others about it. That’s how we got from that 1300 trial list to 300,000 to give you a sense of how quickly word spreads in medicine. But to be fair, most of that study was done in January, so pretty recently. So I don’t think that that was a meaningful part of our 300,000 number.

Operator

Thank you. We’ve run out of time for any further questions. I will now turn the conference back over to Jeff for closing remark.

Jeffrey Tangney — Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson

Thank you. I want to thank you all for joining our third quarter 2026 earnings call. We appreciate the feedback and I just want to say thank you to the entire team here who continues to work incredibly hard to serve our physicians every day. Thank you.

Operator

This concludes today’s conference call. You may now disconnect. Sa.