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WalkMe Earnings: What To Look For From WKME


Petr Huřťák /
2022/11/14 2:46 pm EST

User support software provider WalkMe (NASDAQ: WKME) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow before market open. Here's what to expect.

Last quarter WalkMe reported revenues of $59.9 million, up 28% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a weak quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for both the next quarter and the full year missing analysts' expectations.

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This quarter analysts are expecting WalkMe's revenue to grow 24.5% year on year to $63 million, slowing down from the 30.8% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.19 per share.

WalkMe Total Revenue

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 has a history of exceeding Wall St's expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years on average by 2.32%.

Looking at WalkMe's peers in the sales and marketing software segment, some of them have already reported Q3 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. The Trade Desk delivered top-line growth of 31.1% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 2.13% and ZoomInfo reported revenues up 45.5% year on year, exceeding estimates by 3.27%. The Trade Desk traded down 2.6% on the results, and ZoomInfo was down 12.00%. Read our full analysis of The Trade Desk's results here and ZoomInfo's results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the software segment, with the stocks up on average 5.95% over the last month. WalkMe is down 1.73% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $16.4, compared to share price of $7.85.

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The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.