Factors Setting the Tone for Nutanix's (NTNX) Q3 Earnings
Nutanix NTNX is scheduled to release third-quarter fiscal 2021 results on May 26.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal third-quarter revenues is pinned at $336.6 million, indicating 5.8% year-over-year growth.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for loss is pegged at 47 cents per share for the quarter, which is significantly narrower than the year-ago quarter’s loss per share of 69 cents.
For the fiscal third quarter, Nutanix estimates ACV billings to lie between $150 million and $155 million. It projects non-GAAP gross margin to be around 81% in the quarter. Further, non-GAAP operating expenses are anticipated between $365 million and $370 million.
The company’s earnings beat estimates in all of the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 26.2%.
Nutanix Inc. Price and Consensus
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Factors to Consider
The company’s top line is likely to have benefited from increased demand for its hyper-converged solutions and automation services during the fiscal third quarter. Also, the ongoing shift to cloud solutions owing to the pandemic-induced remote-working wave is expected to have served as a key catalyst.
Nutanix continues to witness a strong adoption of its products. This trend is likely to have aided its quarterly performance. An increasing AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor Virtualization) adoption rate is anticipated to have boosted the top line.
The rise in the work-from-home trend, driven by the social-distancing norms related to the coronavirus pandemic, is spurring demand for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Daas solutions. This is likely to have been a positive for Nutanix during the quarter under review.
Moreover, the company’s business continuity program, FastTrack, is helping channel partners and global system integrators adapt to the changing demand patterns and the remote-working environment in the wake of the pandemic. This is likely to have helped Nutanix gain more buyers for its solutions in the quarter to be reported.
Besides, the company is managing expenses with various cost-reduction methods. This is expected to have been a tailwind to margins.
However, the ongoing transition to a subscription-based business model might have hurt Nutanix’s fiscal third-quarter top-line performance.
What Our Model Says
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Nutanix currently carries a Zacks Rank of 3 and has an Earnings ESP of 1.76%.
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