Digital storytelling platform WEBTOON (NASDAQ: WBTN) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what investors should know.
WEBTOON missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $325.7 million, flat year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and revenue guidance for next quarter meeting analysts’ expectations. It reported 153.4 million monthly active users, down 10.1% year on year.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting WEBTOON’s revenue to grow 6.2% year on year to $340.9 million, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.02 per share.
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. WEBTOON has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times since going public.
Looking at WEBTOON’s peers in the digital media & content platforms segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Stride delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 22.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.2%, and Ziff Davis reported revenues up 9.8%, topping estimates by 4.5%. Stride traded up 15.4% following the results while Ziff Davis was also up 21.2%.
Read our full analysis of Stride’s results here and Ziff Davis’s results here.
Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the digital media & content platforms stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.4% on average over the last month. WEBTOON is down 2.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $12.36 (compared to the current share price of $9.08).
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