Digital payment platform Paymentus (NYSE: PAY) will be reporting earnings this Monday afternoon. Here’s what you need to know.
Paymentus beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 8.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $280.1 million, up 41.9% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Paymentus’s revenue to grow 21.2% year on year to $280.6 million, slowing from the 51.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.15 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Paymentus has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 10.1% on average.
Looking at Paymentus’s peers in the diversified financial services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Donnelley Financial Solutions’s revenues decreased 2.3% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and PayPal reported revenues up 7.3%, topping estimates by 2.2%. Donnelley Financial Solutions traded down 11.7% following the results while PayPal’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Donnelley Financial Solutions’s results here and PayPal’s results here.
Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the diversified financial services stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.1% on average over the last month. Paymentus is down 11.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $38 (compared to the current share price of $28.60).
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