The chart below shows how VERI performed 10 days before and after its earnings report, based on data from the past quarters. Typically, VERI sees a +18.09% change in stock price 10 days leading up to the earnings, and a +17.54% change 10 days following the report. On the earnings day itself, the stock moves by -4.01%. This data can give you a slight idea of what to expect for the next quarter's release.
Positive
Divestiture Agreement Success: Veritone successfully executed an agreement and closed on the divestiture of Veritone One, valued at up to $104 million.
Strategic AI Divestiture: The divestiture represents a fundamental repositioning of the company in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, unlocking shareholder value and reinforcing market leadership.
Customer Diversification Success: Post-divestiture, Veritone has eliminated customer concentration risk with no single customer accounting for more than 5% of revenues, while maintaining gross revenue retention well above the 90th percentile.
Public Sector Customer Growth: In Q3, Veritone added 13 new Public Sector customers to its portfolio, showcasing strong demand and growth in this vertical.
Fiscal 2025 Revenue Projection: The company expects fiscal 2025 revenue to be between $107 million and $122 million, representing a 22% year-over-year increase.
Negative
Q3 Revenue Decline: Q3 revenue was $22 million in line with our guidance and down $6 million from Q3 2023 primarily due to a decline in Software Products & Services.
Software Revenue Decline: The decline in Software Products & Services was driven in part by commercial enterprise, which declined $5.8 million year-over-year largely due to the expected decline in consumption-based customers over the same period, including Amazon and certain one-time software revenue in Q3 2023 of approximately $2.7 million, which did not recur in Q3 2024.
Operational Loss Improvement: Q3 loss from operations was $22.5 million as compared to $25.2 million, an improvement of $2.7 million or 11% from Q3 2023. This was primarily driven by improvements made in our operating expense structure over the past 24 months, offset by a lower non-GAAP gross profit from the decline in revenue over the same period.
Gross Profit Decline: Excluding the divestiture Q3 non-GAAP gross profit reached $15.7 million, declining 24.9% from Q3 2023 of $20.9 million.
Gross Margin Decline Analysis: Our non-GAAP gross margin in Q3 2024 was 71.2% as compared to 74.9% in Q3 2023. Driving this was the decline in the revenue mix over the corresponding period, which largely came from revenue that generated over 90% non-GAAP gross margin.
Veritone, Inc. (VERI) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
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