Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) and the best and worst performers in the e-commerce software industry.
While e-commerce has been around for over two decades and enjoyed meaningful growth, its overall penetration of retail still remains low. Only around $1 in every $5 spent on retail purchases comes from digital orders, leaving over 80% of the retail market still ripe for online disruption. It is these large swathes of the retail where e-commerce has not yet taken hold that drives the demand for various e-commerce software solutions.
The 5 e-commerce software stocks we track reported a satisfactory Q3. As a group, revenues beat analysts’ consensus estimates by 0.7% while next quarter’s revenue guidance was in line.
Luckily, e-commerce software stocks have performed well with share prices up 25.1% on average since the latest earnings results.
GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY)
Founded by Bob Parsons after selling his first company to Intuit, GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) provides small and mid-sized businesses with the ability to buy a web domain and tools to create and manage a website.
GoDaddy reported revenues of $1.15 billion, up 7.3% year on year. This print was in line with analysts’ expectations, and overall, it was a strong quarter for the company with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ bookings estimates.
Interestingly, the stock is up 33.2% since reporting and currently trades at $215.40.
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Best Q3: Shopify (NYSE:SHOP)
Originally created as an internal tool for a snowboarding company, Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) provides a software platform for building and operating e-commerce businesses.
Shopify reported revenues of $2.16 billion, up 26.1% year on year, outperforming analysts’ expectations by 1.9%. The business had a strong quarter with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA and total payment volume estimates.
Shopify delivered the biggest analyst estimates beat and fastest revenue growth among its peers. The market seems happy with the results as the stock is up 32.7% since reporting. It currently trades at $119.47.
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Weakest Q3: VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN)
While the company is not a domain registrar and does not directly sell domain names to end users, Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) operates and maintains the infrastructure to support domain names such as .com and .net.
VeriSign reported revenues of $390.6 million, up 3.8% year on year, in line with analysts’ expectations. It was a mixed quarter as it struggled in other parts of the business.
VeriSign delivered the weakest performance against analyst estimates and slowest revenue growth in the group. Interestingly, the stock is up 15.6% since the results and currently trades at $214.01.
Read our full analysis of VeriSign’s results here.
BigCommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC)
Founded in Sydney, Australia in 2009 by Mitchell Harper and Eddie Machaalani, BigCommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC) provides software for businesses to easily create online stores.
BigCommerce reported revenues of $83.71 million, up 7.3% year on year. This result surpassed analysts’ expectations by 0.7%. More broadly, it was a satisfactory quarter as it also logged a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ annual recurring revenue estimates.
BigCommerce had the weakest full-year guidance update among its peers. The stock is up 13.4% since reporting and currently trades at $6.45.
Read our full, actionable report on BigCommerce here, it’s free.
Wix (NASDAQ:WIX)
Founded in 2006 in Tel Aviv, Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) offers a free and easy to operate website building platform.
Wix reported revenues of $444.7 million, up 12.9% year on year. This print met analysts’ expectations. Zooming out, it was a mixed quarter as it underperformed in some other aspects of the business.
Wix achieved the highest full-year guidance raise among its peers. The stock is up 30.8% since reporting and currently trades at $240.51.
Read our full, actionable report on Wix here, it’s free.
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