WEBTOON (WBTN) Reports Q1: Everything You Need To Know Ahead Of Earnings

Anthony Lee

Mon, May 12, 2025, 12:00 AM 2 min read

Digital storytelling level WEBTOON (NASDAQ:WBTN) volition beryllium reporting results time aft marketplace close. Here’s what to expect.

WEBTOON missed analysts’ gross expectations by 1.3% past quarter, reporting revenues of $352.8 million, up 5.6% twelvemonth connected year. It was a slower 4th for the company, with a important miss of analysts’ EPS estimates. It reported 163.3 cardinal monthly progressive users (mau), down 3.7% twelvemonth connected year.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting WEBTOON’s gross to beryllium level twelvemonth connected twelvemonth astatine $328.8 million, slowing from the 5.3% summation it recorded successful the aforesaid 4th past year. Adjusted nonaccomplishment is expected to travel successful astatine -$0.13 per share.

Analysts covering the institution person mostly reconfirmed their estimates implicit the past 30 days, suggesting they expect the concern to enactment the people heading into earnings. WEBTOON has missed Wall Street’s gross estimates doubly since going public.

Looking astatine WEBTOON’s peers successful the integer media & contented platforms segment, immoderate person already reported their Q1 results, giving america a hint arsenic to what we tin expect. Vimeo’s revenues decreased 1.8% twelvemonth connected year, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.6%, and Stride reported revenues up 17.8%, topping estimates by 3.6%. Vimeo traded down 10.1% pursuing the results portion Stride’s banal terms was unchanged.

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There has been affirmative sentiment among investors successful the integer media & contented platforms segment, with stock prices up 9.1% connected mean implicit the past month. WEBTOON is up 13.3% during the aforesaid clip and is heading into net with an mean expert terms people of $14.07 (compared to the existent stock terms of $9.17).

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