subscription management platform Zuora (NYSE:ZUO) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after market close. Here’s what to expect.
Last quarter Zuora reported revenues of $109.8 million, up 8.7% year on year, beating analyst revenue expectations by 1.1%. It was a decent quarter for the company, with a significant improvement in its gross margin.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Zuora’s revenue to grow 7.5% year on year to $110.8 million, slowing down from the 13.6% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.05 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company only missed Wall St’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, and has on average exceeded top line expectations by 1%.
Looking at Zuora’s peers in the finance and HR software segment, some of them have already reported Q4 earnings results, giving us a hint what we can expect. Workday delivered top-line growth of 16.7% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 0.3% and Asure reported revenue decline of 10.3% year on year, missing analyst estimates by 0.2%. Workday traded down 5% on the results, and Asure was down 1.2%.
Read our full analysis of Workday’s results here and Asure’s results here.
Investors in the finance and HR software segment have had steady hands going into the earnings, with the stocks down on average 1.5% over the last month. Zuora is down 12.5% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $12.5, compared to share price of $8.3.
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