Five9 Inc. FIVN is scheduled to report first-quarter 2017 results on May 3. Last quarter, the company posted a positive earnings surprise of 50%. Notably, the stock outperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in all the trailing four quarters with an average positive surprise of 36.36%.
Let us see how things are shaping up for this announcement.
Factors at Play
Five9 offers a virtual contact center cloud platform that acts as a hub for interaction between clients and customers. This facilitates contact center operations focused on inbound or outbound customer interactions within a single unified architecture. The company offers software products such as workforce management, speech recognition, predictive dialer and voice applications.
The cloud-based contact center solution industry has been witnessing growth over the past several quarters as organizations are looking for ways to minimize costs and improve customer support. We believe that Five9 has been capitalizing on this opportunity, which should reflect in its to-be-reported quarter.
Moreover, the company’s consistent focus on expanding its product portfolio will aid the top-line performance.
However, intensifying competition from small and large players like Cisco Systems CSCO is likely to dent Five9’s first-quarter performance.
Five9, Inc. Price and EPS Surprise
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Earnings Whispers
Our proven model does not conclusively show that Five9 will beat on earnings this quarter. This is because a stock needs to have both a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) for this to happen. That is not the case here as you will see below.
Zacks ESP: Earnings ESP for Five9 is 0.00%. This is because both the Most Accurate estimate and the Zacks Consensus Estimate are pegged at a loss of 10 cents. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they’re reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.
Zacks Rank: Although Five9’s Zacks Rank #3 increases the predictive power of ESP, its 0.00% ESP makes surprise prediction difficult.
Note that we caution against stocks with a Zacks Rank #4 or 5 (Sell rated) going into the earnings announcement, especially when the company is seeing a negative estimate revisions momentum.
Stocks to Consider
Here are some companies which, as per our model, have the right combination of elements to post an earnings beat this quarter:
AMTEK Inc. AME, with an Earnings ESP of +1.79% and a Zacks Rank #2. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.