Five9, Inc.

Five9 is a cloud-based contact center software provider that helps organizations manage customer interactions across voice, email, chat, SMS, social media, and video.

Key figures

Data as of Jun 2026 · Pills compare vs Mar 2026

ARR Multiple

2.1x

+0.9x

ARR

$1.2B

+2.3%

YoY Growth

10.3%

+1.1pp

Market Cap

$2.6B

+66.1%

Revenue (Q)

$312M

+2.3%

Gross Margin

53.4%

-2.5pp

Op. Margin

0.6%

-5.4pp

Rule of 40

10.9

-3.8

Magic Number

0.36

+0.10

Revenue, margins & ratios from SEC filings; market cap & ARR multiple from market data. Market cap & ARR multiple use the close of 13 Oct 2026; their pills compare vs the Jun 2026 quarter-end (1.3x).

Valuation by quarter

Current ARR Multiple: 1.3x· Forward at Q3 FY2026 guidance: 1.2x

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AI Replacement RiskLOW

13/ 100

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Structural moats (regulation, integration depth, or proprietary data) make AI-only replacement unlikely in the near term.

What's driving the score

Communication & collaborationCategory baseline

low base

Workflow complexity4/5

-6 risk

Data moat3/5

-1 risk

Integration depthHigh

-10 risk

SegmentEnterprise

-8 risk

IndustryOther

neutral

Own AI integration3/5

-1.6 risk

Company overview

Five9 is a cloud-based contact center software provider that helps organizations manage customer interactions across voice, email, chat, SMS, social media, and video. It was founded in 2001 in San Ramon, California, and was one of the early companies to move contact center technology from on-premises hardware to the cloud.

The Intelligent Cloud Contact Center platform handles the basics and then some. Automatic call distribution, interactive voice response, predictive and progressive dialing for outbound, omnichannel routing, workforce management, quality management, recording, reporting, and CRM integrations. It supports both inbound customer service and outbound sales.

The Intelligent Virtual Agent uses AI and natural language processing to handle customer inquiries through self-service, reducing the need for live agents. Agent Assist gives real-time guidance during conversations by surfacing knowledge base articles, suggesting next-best-actions, and automating after-call work like summaries and disposition codes.

Five9 Genius AI is the broader AI platform. It combines large language models with customer-specific data to deliver summaries, sentiment analysis, automated quality scoring, and workflow recommendations. The company partners with major AI providers while also building proprietary models tuned specifically for contact center conversations.

The target market is mid-market and enterprise organizations across financial services, healthcare, retail, technology, education, and business process outsourcing. Five9 uses a mix of direct enterprise sales, channel partners including telecom carriers, and system integrator partnerships.

Annual revenue is roughly $1.2 billion with gross margins around 55%. Revenue is mostly subscription-based with annual contracts, plus some usage-based telecom charges. Net revenue retention exceeds 110%.

The contact center market is in the middle of a massive cloud migration. Most capacity still runs on legacy on-premises systems. Five9 estimates the total addressable market exceeds $24 billion, so there's significant runway. Competitors include NICE, Genesys, Amazon Connect, and emerging AI-first players.

With about 2,800 employees and a platform handling billions of customer interactions, Five9 has built a strong position in cloud contact center technology, particularly for organizations modernizing customer operations with AI.