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NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies)
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Nature of Operations
Nature of Operations
Mitek Systems, Inc. (“Mitek,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) is a global provider of digital identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. We are a software development company with expertise in artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning. We currently serve more than 7,000 organizations globally, including financial institutions, financial technology (“fintech”) companies, telecommunications providers, and digital marketplaces. We market and sell our products and services worldwide through internal, direct sales teams located in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America as well as through channel partners. Our partner sales strategy includes channel partners who are financial services technology, and identity verification providers. These partners integrate our products into their solutions to meet the needs of their customers, typically provisioning Mitek services through their respective platforms.
Basis of Presentation
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2025 and the condensed consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, are unaudited.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X and, accordingly, they do not include all information and footnote disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“GAAP”) for complete financial statements. The Company believes the footnotes and other disclosures made in the financial statements are adequate for a fair presentation of the results of the interim periods presented. The financial statements include all adjustments (solely of a normal recurring nature) which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to make the information presented not misleading.
These unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 11, 2025 (the “2025 Annual Report”).
Results for the three months ended December 31, 2025, are not necessarily indicative of results for any other interim period or for a full fiscal year.
Principles of Consolidation
Principles of Consolidation
The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Use of Estimates
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of certain assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses, deferred taxes, and related disclosures. On an ongoing basis, management reviews its estimates based upon currently available information. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. These estimates include, but are not limited to, assessing the collectability of accounts receivable, estimation of the value of stock-based compensation awards, assessing for impairment of goodwill, useful lives of intangible assets, standalone selling price related to revenue recognition, estimated variable consideration in contracts, and income taxes.
Segment Reporting
Segment Reporting
Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise for which separate financial information is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance. The Company’s CODM is comprised of its Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
The Company provides software and service offerings focused on fraud prevention and check verification. The Company has grown its product and service offerings through both organic development and through acquisitions, which have allowed the Company to expand its offerings, presence and reach in the fraud prevention and check verification markets. While the Company has a number of product and service offerings, and operates in multiple countries, the Company has determined it has one operating segment. This
determination is based on how the CODM evaluates the Company’s financial information, allocates resources, and assesses the performance of these resources, on a consolidated basis. While there are different product and service offerings, the Company manages the development, sale, deployment, and support of its offerings in a similar manner.
The Company’s significant segment expenses are the expenses included in operating income and other segment items, which includes other income (expense), net, and the benefit (provision) for income taxes, are included in the Company’s condensed consolidated statement of operations. An additional component of the Company’s measure of profit or loss is net income. The measure of segment assets is reported on the condensed consolidated balance sheet as total consolidated assets.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements, Change in Significant Accounting Policy and Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
The Company did not adopt any new accounting pronouncements in the three months ended December 31, 2025.
Change in Significant Accounting Policy
The Company’s significant accounting policies are disclosed in the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included in the Company’s 2025 Annual Report. There have been no changes to these accounting policies through December 31, 2025.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which amends existing income tax disclosure guidance, primarily requiring more detailed disclosure for income taxes paid and the effective tax rate reconciliation. The ASU is effective for the Company’s annual reporting period beginning after October 1, 2025, with early adoption permitted and can be applied on either a prospective or retroactive basis. The enhanced income tax disclosures will be included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”), which requires disaggregation of certain costs in a separate note to the financial statements, such as the amounts of employee compensation, depreciation and intangible asset amortization, included in each relevant expense caption in annual and interim consolidated financial statements. ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027 on a retrospective or prospective basis, with early adoption permitted. The Company is evaluating the effect that ASU 2024-03 will have on its financial statement disclosures.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-06, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software (“ASU 2025-06”), which improves the operability of the guidance by removing all references to software development project stages so that the guidance is neutral to different software development methods, including methods that entities may use to develop software in the future. ASU 2025-06 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2027 and for interim periods within those annual periods on a prospective, retrospective, or modified transition basis, with early adoption permitted. The Company is evaluating the effect that ASU 2025-06 will have on its financial statement disclosures.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270). The ASU improves the navigability of the required interim disclosures and clarifies when the guidance is applicable, as well as provides additional guidance on what disclosures should be provided in interim reporting periods. The amendments in this ASU are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2028. The Company is evaluating the impact this ASU will have on its consolidated financial statements which is not expected to be material.
No other new accounting pronouncement issued or effective during the three months ended December 31, 2025 had, or is expected to have, a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.
Revenue Recognition
Nature of Goods and Services
The following is a description of principal activities from which the Company generates its revenue. Contracts with customers are evaluated on a contract-by-contract basis as contracts may include multiple types of goods and services as described below.
Software License
Software license revenue is generated from on premise software license sales. Software is typically sold as a time-based license with a term of one to three years. For software license agreements that are distinct, the Company recognizes software license revenue upon delivery and after evidence of a contract exists. Our standard payment terms are generally no more than 60 days. Invoices for software are typically issued when the license is made available for customer use.
SaaS, Maintenance, and Other
SaaS, maintenance, and other revenue is generated from the sale of software as a service (“SaaS”) products and services, maintenance associated with the sale of on premise software licenses, and consulting and professional services. The Company’s SaaS offerings give customers the option to be charged upon their incurred usage in arrears (“Pay as You Go”), or commit to a minimum spend over their contracted period, with the ability to purchase additional transactions above the minimum during the contract term. Revenue related to Pay as You Go contracts are generally recognized based on the customer’s actual usage, in the period of usage. For contracts which include a minimum commitment, the Company is stand-ready to provide the services throughout the contract term, and revenue is primarily recognized on a ratable basis over the contract period including an estimate of usage above the minimum commitment. Usage above minimum commitment is estimated by looking at historical usage, expected volume, and other factors to project usage for the remainder of the contract term. The estimated usage-based revenues are constrained to the amount the Company expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for providing access to its platform. Maintenance and support services generally call for the Company to provide software updates and technical support to customers and is recognized ratably over the term of the contract as this is the period the services are delivered. If professional services are deemed to be distinct, revenue is recognized as services are performed. The Company does not view the signing of the contract or the provision of initial setup services as discrete earnings events
that are distinct. Our standard payment terms are generally no more than 60 days. SaaS (other than Pay as You Go) and maintenance services are typically invoiced annually in advance, and consulting and professional services are typically invoiced at the time of sale.
Significant Judgments in Application of the Guidance
The Company uses the following methods, inputs, and assumptions in determining amounts of revenue to recognize:
Identification of Performance Obligations
For contracts that contain multiple performance obligations, which include combinations of software licenses, maintenance, and services, the Company accounts for individual goods or services as a separate performance obligation if they are distinct. The good or service is distinct if the good or service is separately identifiable from other items in the arrangement and if a customer can benefit from it on its own or with other resources that are readily available to the customer. If these criteria are not met, the promised goods or services are accounted for as a combined performance obligation.
Determination of Transaction Price
The transaction price is determined based on the consideration to which the Company will be entitled in exchange for transferring products or services to the customer. The Company includes any fixed charges within its contracts as part of the total transaction price. To the extent that variable consideration is not constrained, the Company includes an estimate of the variable amount, as appropriate, within the total transaction price and updates its assumptions over the duration of the contract.
Assessment of Estimates of Variable Consideration
Certain of the Company’s contracts with customers contain some component of variable consideration; however, variable consideration will only be included in the transaction price to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal of revenues recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is resolved. The Company may constrain the estimated transaction price in the event of a high degree of uncertainty as to the final consideration amount owed because of an extended length of time over which the fees may be adjusted or due to uncertainty surrounding collectability. The Company estimates variable consideration in its contracts primarily using the expected value method as the Company believes this method represents the most appropriate estimate for this consideration, based on historical usage trends, the individual contract considerations, and its best judgment at the time.
Allocation of Transaction Price
The transaction price, including any discounts, is allocated between separate goods and services in a contract that contains multiple performance obligations based on their relative standalone selling prices. The standalone selling prices are based on the prices at which the Company separately sells each good or service. For items that are not sold separately, the Company estimates the standalone selling prices using available information such as market conditions and internally approved pricing guidelines. In certain situations, primarily transactional SaaS revenue described above, the Company allocates variable consideration to a series of distinct goods or services within a contract. The Company allocates variable payments to one or more, but not all, of the distinct goods or services or to a series of distinct goods or services in a contract when (i) the variable payment relates specifically to the Company’s efforts to transfer the distinct good or service and (ii) the variable payment is for an amount that depicts the amount of consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring the promised goods or services to its customer.
Contract assets primarily result from when transfer of control occurs but the right to receive consideration is conditional upon factors other than the passage of time. Contract liabilities primarily relate to advance consideration received from customers (deferred revenue), for which transfer of control occurs, and therefore revenue is recognized, as services are provided. Contract balances are reported in a net contract asset or liability position on a contract-by-contract basis at the end of each reporting period.Contract costs included in other current and non-current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheetsContract origination costs are amortized based on the transfer of goods or services to which the asset relates, including consideration of the expected customer benefit period. Contract fulfillment costs related to goods or services transferred under a specific anticipated contract have historically been immaterial. Amortization of contract origination costs are included in selling and marketing expenses in the condensed consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss)
Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures
The Company uses a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:
Level 1: Valuation is based on quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2: Valuation is based on observable market-based inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3: Valuation is based on significant unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity.
Other Borrowings
Other Borrowings
The Company has certain loan agreements with Spanish government agencies. These agreements have repayment periods of five to twelve years and bear interest rates ranging from 0% to 3.72%.