Online reputation and search platform Yext (NYSE:YEXT) will be reporting earnings tomorrow afternoon. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter Yext reported revenues of $100.9 million, up 9.47% year on year, missing analyst expectations by 0.1%. It was a weak quarter for the company, with slower customer growth and underwhelming guidance for the next year. The company kept the number of customers flat at a total of 2,700.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Yext's revenue to grow 5.12% year on year to $96.7 million, slowing down from the 7.78% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.07 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 2.65%.
Looking at Yext's peers in the sales and marketing software segment, some of them have already reported Q1 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. SEMrush delivered top-line growth of 42.8% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 2.04% and Freshworks reported revenues up 42.2% year on year, exceeding estimates by 5.91%. SEMrush traded flat on the results, and Freshworks was down 0.52%. Read our full analysis of SEMrush's results here and Freshworks's results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the software segment, with the stocks up on average 8.15% over the last month. Yext is up 0.19% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $6.5, compared to share price of $5.25.
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