Digital media measurement and analytics provider DoubleVerify (NYSE:DV) will be reporting results tomorrow after market hours. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter DoubleVerify reported revenues of $133.6 million, up 26.6% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a decent quarter for the company with revenue guidance for the next quarter inline with analysts' expectations.
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This quarter analysts are expecting DoubleVerify's revenue to grow 22.1% year on year to $118.1 million, slowing down from the 43.1% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.11 per share.
The analysts covering the company have been growing increasingly bearish about the business heading into the earnings, with revenue estimates seeing three downward revisions over the last thirty days. 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 3.89%.
Looking at DoubleVerify's peers in the sales and marketing software segment, some of them have already reported Q1 earnings results, giving us a hint what we can expect. Braze delivered top-line growth of 40.1% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 3.05% and VeriSign reported revenues up 5.04% year on year, missing analyst estimates by 0.8%. Both companies (Braze and Verisign) traded flat on the results. Read our full analysis of Braze's results here and VeriSign's results here.
The fears around raising interest rates have been putting pressure on tech stocks and while some of the software stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 4.81% over the last month. DoubleVerify is down 11.3% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $34.5, compared to share price of $27.17.
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