Business automation software provider Upland Software (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:UPLD) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after market hours. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter Upland reported revenues of $74.5 million, down 7.14% year on year, beating analyst revenue expectations by 1.59%. It was a weak quarter for the company, with underwhelming revenue guidance for the next quarter and full-year.
Is Upland buy or sell heading into the earnings? Find out by reading the original article on StockStory.
This quarter analysts are expecting Upland's revenue to decline 8.15% year on year to $73.1 million, a deceleration on the 4.6% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.21 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 1.3%.
Looking at Upland's peers in the sales and marketing software segment, some of them have already reported Q3 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Freshworks delivered top-line growth of 19.3% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 1.86%, and VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported revenues up 5.44% year on year, missing analyst estimates by 0.75%. Freshworks was up 1.9%, and VeriSign was flat after the results.
Read the full analysis of Freshworks's and VeriSign's results on StockStory.
The whole tech sector has been facing a sell-off, and while some of the sales and marketing software stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 4.45% over the last month. Upland is down 25.4% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $4.8, compared to share price of $3.34.
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