Software development tools maker JFrog (NASDAQ:FROG) will be reporting results tomorrow after the bell. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter JFrog reported revenues of $79.8 million, up 25.3% year on year, beating analyst revenue expectations by 1.81%. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with accelerating growth in large customers but its net revenue retention rate in jeopardy. The company added 49 enterprise customers paying more than $100,000 annually to a total of 785.
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This quarter analysts are expecting JFrog's revenue to grow 22.4% year on year to $83 million, slowing down from the 39.4% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.05 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company only missed Wall St's revenue estimates once over the last two years, and has on average exceeded top line expectations by 2%.
With JFrog being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don't have anywhere else to look at to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for software development stocks, but there has been positive sentiment among investors in the segment, with the stocks up on average 9.07% over the last month. JFrog is up 13.3% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $29.36364, compared to share price of $30.75.
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