Shopify's shares tumble on weak outlook after a very strong start to 2024
Time:2024-05-09 09:44:41 Source:styleViews(143)
Shares of Shopify plunged Wednesday after the Canadian company that helps retailers with online sales warned of easing revenue growth and thinner margins in the current quarter.
That caught a lot of investors off guard after the company rebounded strongly from the pandemic and started 2024 with a bang.
Shopify Inc. predicts that revenue will climb by a high-teens percentage rate for the second quarter, well below the 23% jump in the first quarter.
The e-commerce company anticipates quarterly gross margin will decrease by about 50 basis points compared with the first quarter, when that measured 51.4%.
Shares slid 19.5% in afternoon trading, a bit of a recovery after having been down more than 21% earlier.
For the first quarter, Shopify reported an adjusted profit of 20 cents per share on revenue of $1.86 billion. Analysts polled by Zacks Investment Research expected a profit of 16 cents per share on revenue of $1.84 billion.
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