Cloud communications infrastructure company Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after the bell. Here's what investors should know.
Last quarter Twilio reported revenues of $1 billion, up 10% year on year, beating analyst revenue expectations by 5.1%. It was a weak quarter for the company, with underwhelming revenue guidance for the next quarter and decelerating customer growth. The company added 4,000 customers to a total of 304,000.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Twilio's revenue to grow 0.7% year on year to $989.5 million, slowing down from the 32.8% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.36 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 has a history of exceeding Wall St's expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years on average by 3.8%.
Looking at Twilio's peers in the software development segment, some of them have already reported Q3 earnings results, giving us a hint what we can expect. Bandwidth delivered top-line growth of 2.5% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 2% and JFrog reported revenues up 23.1% year on year, exceeding estimates by 1.2%. Bandwidth traded down 6.2% on the results, JFrog was up 10.8%.
Read our full analysis of Bandwidth's results here and JFrog's results here.
There has been a stampede out of high valuation technology stocks and while some of the software development stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 4.4% over the last month. Twilio is down 7.4% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $67.6, compared to share price of $53.05.
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