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What To Expect From Asana’s (ASAN) Q3 Earnings


Petr Huřťák /
2022/11/30 4:12 am EST

Work management software maker Asana (NYSE: ASAN) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after the bell. Here's what you need to know.

Last quarter Asana reported revenues of $134.8 million, up 50.7% year on year, beating analyst revenue expectations by 5.99%. It was a strong quarter for the company, with exceptional revenue growth and a solid beat of analyst estimates. The company added 1,351 enterprise customers paying more than $5,000 annually to a total of 18,040.

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This quarter analysts are expecting Asana's revenue to grow 38.5% year on year to $139 million, slowing down from the 70.3% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.32 per share.

Asana 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 7.5%.

Looking at Asana's peers in the productivity software segment, some of them have already reported Q3 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Atlassian delivered top-line growth of 31.4% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 0.12% and monday.com reported revenues up 64.8% year on year, exceeding estimates by 4.94%. Atlassian traded down 25.1% on the results, monday.com was up 5.94%. Read our full analysis of Atlassian's results here and monday.com's results here.

The technology sell-off has been putting pressure on stocks since November and while some of the productivity software stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 7.98% over the last month. Asana is down 15.4% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $25.60, compared to share price of $17.21.

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