Financial marketplace platform LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
LendingTree missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $313.4 million, up 25.3% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations and a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting LendingTree’s revenue to grow 7.1% year on year, slowing from the 18% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. LendingTree has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at LendingTree’s peers in the consumer internet segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Coinbase’s revenues decreased 35% year on year, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Robinhood reported revenues up 11.8%, in line with consensus estimates. Coinbase traded down 10.3% following the results while Robinhood was also down 3.4%.
Read our full analysis of Coinbase’s results here and Robinhood’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer internet segment, with share prices up 2.1% on average over the last month. LendingTree is up 13.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $56 (compared to the current share price of $27.85).
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