Digital media company Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) will be reporting results this Thursday after market close. Here’s what investors should know.
Ziff Davis missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $267.6 million, down 1.9% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Ziff Davis’s revenue to decline 18.5% year on year, a reversal from the 9.8% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. Ziff Davis has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Ziff Davis’s peers in the media & entertainment segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Stride’s revenues decreased 2.7% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.4%, and People reported a revenue decline of 13.5%, topping estimates by 0.9%. People traded up 10.3% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Stride’s results here and People’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the media & entertainment segment, with share prices up 7.8% on average over the last month. Ziff Davis is up 3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $49.40 (compared to the current share price of $55.41).
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