RingCentral (RNG) Reports Earnings. What To Expect
Office and call centre communications software provider RingCentral (NYSE:RNG) will be announcing earnings results today. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter RingCentral reported revenues of $539.3 million, up 10.8% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a decent quarter for the company, with revenue and EPS coming in ahead of Wall Street's estimates.
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This quarter analysts are expecting RingCentral's revenue to grow 8.8% year on year to $554.1 million, slowing down from the 22.8% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.75 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 1.8%.
Looking at RingCentral's peers in the productivity software segment, some of them have already reported Q3 earnings results, giving us a hint what we can expect. Five9 delivered top-line growth of 16% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 2.5% and 8x8 reported revenue decline of 1.3% year on year, exceeding estimates by 0.8%. Five9 traded up 12.2% on the results, 8x8 was up 1.3%.
Read our full analysis of Five9's results here and 8x8's results here.
Technology stocks have been hit hard on fears of higher interest rates and while some of the productivity software stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 2.7% over the last month. RingCentral is down 4.4% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $43.3, compared to share price of $28.7.
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