
Insurance customer acquisition platform MediaAlpha (NYSE: MAX) will be reporting results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
MediaAlpha missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $291.2 million, down 3.2% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and revenue guidance for next quarter exceeding analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting MediaAlpha’s revenue to grow 13.3% year on year, slowing from the 109% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

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. MediaAlpha has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
With MediaAlpha being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for media & entertainment stocks. However, there has been positive investor sentiment in the segment, with share prices up 13.1% on average over the last month. MediaAlpha is up 4.5% during the same time .
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