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Table of Contents
a. Key Points
- New ad formats and placements are working well.
- Ongoing work to improve content personalization is bearing fruit.
- Sharp revenue outperformance driven by 100%+ Y/Y performance marketing growth.
- 24 points of Y/Y net income margin expansion.
b. Demand
- Beat revenue estimate by 9% & beat guidance by 10.5%.
- USA revenue beat estimates by 9.5%; international revenue beat estimates by 7.6%.
- Ad revenue was strong across all top-15 industry verticals. As an aside, things like that will make it hard for Trade Desk to blame macro if they have another bad quarter.
- Beat 126M daily active user (DAU) estimate by 800K.
- Weekly Active Users (WAUs) rose 22% Y/Y.
- Beat average revenue per user (ARPU) estimate by 3.5%.
c. Profits & Margins
- Beat 90.7% GPM estimate by 80 basis points (bps; 1 basis point = 0.01%).
- Beat EBITDA estimate by 20.4% & beat guidance by 23.7%.
- Adjusted OpEx rose by 42% Y/Y due mainly to marketing and headcount growth.
- Beat $0.83 GAAP EPS estimate by $0.18. EPS rose by 7x Y/Y (from a small base but still).
- Beat FCF estimate by 22%.
d. Balance Sheet
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