Digital advertising platform Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI) will be reporting results this Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what investors should know.
Magnite missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $205.4 million, up 5.9% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ revenue estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Magnite’s revenue to grow 11.7% year on year, improving from the 4.3% increase it recorded 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. Magnite has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Magnite’s peers in the media & entertainment segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Omnicom Group delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 69.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 8.7%, and MediaAlpha reported revenues up 17.3%, topping estimates by 3.5%. Omnicom Group’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile MediaAlpha was down 14.9%.
Read our full analysis of Omnicom Group’s results here and MediaAlpha’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the media & entertainment segment, with share prices up 8.7% on average over the last month. Magnite is up 13.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $22.21 (compared to the current share price of $13.80).
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