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#Earnings Results: Adobe stock rallies 5% as results, outlook top Street views

“Earnings Results: Adobe stock rallies 5% as results, outlook top Street views”

Adobe Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Wednesday after the software company topped Wall Street expectations for the quarter and hiked its outlook for the year.

Adobe
ADBE,
+0.08%
shares rose 5% after hours, following a less than 0.1% gain to close the regular session at $333.61.

Adobe reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $1.25 billion, or $2.71 a share, compared with $1.27 billion, or $2.66 a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings, which exclude stock-based compensation expenses and other items, were $3.80 a share. Revenue rose to $4.66 billion from $4.26 billion in the year-ago quarter.

Analysts had forecast $3.68 a share on revenue of $4.62 billion, based on Adobe’s forecast of $3.65 to $3.70 a share on revenue of $4.6 billion to $4.64 billion.

In digital media, Adobe said annualized recurring revenue, or ARR, came in at $410 million , while analysts had forecast $376.1 million. ARR is a metric often used by software-as-a-service, or SaaS, companies to show how much revenue the company can expect based on subscriptions.

The company also forecast second-quarter earnings of $3.75 to $3.80 a share on revenue of $4.75 billion to $4.78 billion, and new digital media ARR of about $420 million, while the Street was looking for $3.76 a share on revenue of $4.75 billion and $388.7 million in ARR, according to FactSet.

Read: Adobe’s stock drops as potential block on Figma deal raises concerns about growth

Adobe also raised its forecast to earnings of $15.30 to $15.60 a share for the year, with net new digital media ARR of $1.7 billion. A quarter ago, Adobe forecast full-year earnings of $15.15 to $15.45 a share on revenue of $19.1 billion to $19.3 billion, and net new digital media ARR of $1.65 billion, which had been slightly lower than Street estimates at the time.

Analysts had estimated $15.29 a share and ARR of $1.66 billion.

Over the past 12 months, Adobe shares are down 25%, compared with a 10% fall in the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
IGV,
-0.20%,
 an 11% decline in the S&P 500 index 
SPX,
-0.70%,
 and a 15% drop in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index
COMP,
+0.05%.

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