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Last update: May 26, 2025
Identity management software maker Okta (OKTA) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after market close. Here’s what to look for.
Okta beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $682 million, up 12.7% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ billings estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Okta’s revenue to grow 10.2% year on year to $680.1 million, slowing from the 19.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.77 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. Okta has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at Okta’s peers in the cybersecurity segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Qualys delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 9.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.8%, and Palo Alto Networks reported revenues up 15.3%, topping estimates by 0.5%. Qualys’s stock price was unchanged after the results, while Palo Alto Networks was down 6.9%.
Read our full analysis of Qualys’s results here and Palo Alto Networks’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the cybersecurity segment, with share prices up 7.3% on average over the last month. Okta is up 18.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $123.56 (compared to the current share price of $124).
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