Earnings To Watch: Dolby Laboratories (DLB) Reports Q4 Results Tomorrow

Audio and video technology company Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after the bell. Here’s what to expect.

Dolby Laboratories beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $307 million, flat year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations significantly and EPS guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations significantly.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Dolby Laboratories’s revenue to decline 7% year on year to $331.9 million, a reversal from the 13.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.99 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. Dolby Laboratories has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

Looking at Dolby Laboratories’s peers in the vertical software segment, only Agilysys has reported results so far. It beat analysts’ revenue estimates by 1.4%, delivering year-on-year sales growth of 15.6%. The stock was down 20.2% on the results.

Questions about potential tariffs and corporate tax changes have caused much volatility in 2025. While some of the vertical software stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 8.1% on average over the last month. Dolby Laboratories is down 4.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $89.25 (compared to the current share price of $61.45).

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