LiveRamp (RAMP) To Report Earnings Tomorrow: Here Is What To Expect

Data collaboration platform LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.

LiveRamp beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.9% last quarter, reporting revenues of $194.8 million, up 10.7% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but revenue guidance for next quarter slightly missing analysts’ expectations. It lost 1 enterprise customers paying more than $1 million annually and ended up with a total of 127.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting LiveRamp’s revenue to grow 6.7% year on year to $198 million, slowing from the 16% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.48 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. LiveRamp has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years by 3.1% on average.

Looking at LiveRamp’s peers in the sales and marketing software segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. ZoomInfo delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 4.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.7%, and GoDaddy reported revenues up 10.3%, topping estimates by 2.7%. GoDaddy traded up 5.1% following the results.

Read our full analysis of ZoomInfo’s results here and GoDaddy’s results here.

Investors in the sales and marketing software segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.2% on average over the last month. LiveRamp is down 1.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $39.63 (compared to the current share price of $27.49).

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