Growth Metrics

Clearwater Analytics Holdings (CWAN) Share-based Compensation (2020 - 2026)

Clearwater Analytics Holdings posted quarterly Share-based Compensation of $28.6 million for Q1 2026, up 20.51% year-on-year from $23.7 million in Q1 2025, and down 13.84% on a QoQ basis from $33.2 million in Q4 2025.

Clearwater Analytics Holdings (CWAN) has 7 years of Share-based Compensation data on file, last reported at $28.6 million in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Share-based Compensation rose 20.51% year-over-year to $28.6 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $132.8 million (up 29.28% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $127.9 million, up 23.93% from the prior year.
  • Share-based Compensation for Q1 2026 stood at $28.6 million, down from $33.2 million in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Share-based Compensation topped out at $37.5 million in Q2 2025 and bottomed at $15.9 million in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Share-based Compensation is $24.9 million (2024), against an average of $25.3 million.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Share-based Compensation soared 226.33%; it then decreased 14.43% in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Share-based Compensation shows it stood at $16.9 million in 2022, then jumped by 31.9% to $22.3 million in 2023, then grew by 26.08% to $28.1 million in 2024, then rose by 17.85% to $33.2 million in 2025, then declined by 13.84% to $28.6 million in 2026.
  • The last three Share-based Compensation figures came in at $28.6 million (Q1 2026), $33.2 million (Q4 2025), and $33.5 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Share-based Compensation (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn 333.66 Mn
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 1.08 Bn
3 Uber Technologies 151.10 Bn 150.06 Bn 11.88 Bn 473.00 Mn
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn 132.00 Mn
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn 547.00 Mn
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn 138.18 Mn
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn 509.00 Mn
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 51.00 Mn
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 485.00 Mn
10 Clearwater Analytics Holdings 7.17 Bn 7.10 Bn 145.55 Mn 28.58 Mn

Historic Data

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Mar 31, 2026 28.58 Mn
Mar 31, 2026 28.58 Mn
Dec 31, 2025 33.17 Mn
Dec 31, 2025 33.17 Mn
Sep 30, 2025 33.47 Mn
Sep 30, 2025 33.47 Mn
Jun 30, 2025 37.55 Mn
Jun 30, 2025 37.55 Mn
Mar 31, 2025 23.71 Mn
Mar 31, 2025 23.71 Mn
Dec 31, 2024 28.14 Mn
Dec 31, 2024 28.14 Mn
Sep 30, 2024 25.98 Mn
Sep 30, 2024 25.98 Mn
Jun 30, 2024 24.86 Mn
Jun 30, 2024 24.86 Mn
Mar 31, 2024 24.23 Mn
Mar 31, 2024 24.23 Mn
Dec 31, 2023 22.32 Mn
Dec 31, 2023 22.32 Mn
Sep 30, 2023 30.36 Mn
Sep 30, 2023 30.36 Mn
Jun 30, 2023 28.57 Mn
Jun 30, 2023 28.57 Mn
Mar 31, 2023 23.20 Mn
Mar 31, 2023 23.20 Mn
Dec 31, 2022 16.92 Mn
Dec 31, 2022 16.92 Mn
Sep 30, 2022 16.70 Mn
Sep 30, 2022 16.70 Mn
Jun 30, 2022 16.19 Mn
Jun 30, 2022 16.19 Mn
Mar 31, 2022 15.88 Mn
Mar 31, 2022 15.88 Mn
Dec 31, 2021 17.46 Mn
Dec 31, 2021 17.46 Mn
Sep 30, 2021 7.68 Mn
Sep 30, 2021 7.68 Mn
Jun 30, 2021 6.69 Mn
Jun 30, 2021 6.69 Mn
Mar 31, 2021 4.87 Mn
Mar 31, 2021 4.87 Mn
Dec 31, 2020 17.90 Mn
Dec 31, 2020 17.90 Mn
Sep 30, 2020 1.71 Mn
Sep 30, 2020 1.71 Mn