Infrastructure engineering software company Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY) will be reporting results this Thursday morning. Here’s what to look for.
Bentley Systems beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $391.6 million, up 11.9% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ billings estimates and full-year guidance of accelerating revenue growth.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Bentley Systems’s revenue to grow 13.2% year on year, improving from the 9.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
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. Bentley Systems has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Bentley Systems’s peers in the software-as-a-service segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Manhattan Associates delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Palantir Technologies reported revenues up 84.7%, topping estimates by 6.1%. Manhattan Associates traded up 5.9% following the results while Palantir Technologies was down 7.3%.
Read our full analysis of Manhattan Associates’s results here and Palantir Technologies’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the software-as-a-service segment, with share prices up 12.4% on average over the last month. Bentley Systems is down 3.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $46.93 (compared to the current share price of $33.95).
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