Digital storytelling platform WEBTOON (NASDAQ:WBTN) will be reporting results this Monday after the bell. Here’s what to look for.
WEBTOON missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $330.7 million, down 6.3% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations significantly and a significant miss of analysts’ revenue estimates. It reported 160 million monthly active users, flat year on year.
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This quarter, the market is expecting WEBTOON’s revenue to decline 1.6% year on year, a deceleration from its flat revenue 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. WEBTOON has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at WEBTOON’s peers in the digital media & content platforms segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Stride delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 2.7%, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Ziff Davis reported a revenue decline of 18.6%, falling short of estimates by 6.9%. Stride traded up 2.8% following the results while Ziff Davis was down 5.3%.
Read our full analysis of Stride’s results here and Ziff Davis’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the digital media & content platforms segment, with share prices up 10.9% on average over the last month. WEBTOON is up 19.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $12.21 (compared to the current share price of $13.28).
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