Domain registrar and web services company GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) will be reporting earnings this Thursday afternoon. Here’s what you need to know.
GoDaddy beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.19 billion, up 7.7% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a miss of analysts’ annual recurring revenue estimates. It lost 27,000 customers and ended up with a total of 20.48 million.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting GoDaddy’s revenue to grow 7.3% year on year to $1.21 billion, in line with the 7.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.78 per share.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. GoDaddy has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at GoDaddy’s peers in the sales and marketing software segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. BigCommerce delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.3%, and VeriSign reported revenues up 5.9%, in line with consensus estimates. BigCommerce traded up 4.6% following the results while VeriSign was also up 6.5%.
Read our full analysis of BigCommerce’s results here and VeriSign’s results here.
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