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Revenue only tells us how much business they conducted, not how much of a "killing" they made. Profits is what would tell you that, which I guarentee are going to be far less than their $177.6 million in revenue.



You don't have to guess: they're a public company.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ESTC/financials?p=ESTC


Look for Normalized EBITDA. It's -121! A negative number isn't really killing it. Unless your growth number is poppin!




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