What Happened?
Shares of home services online marketplace ANGI (NASDAQ: ANGI) jumped 29.5% in the afternoon session after the company reported impressive first quarter 2025 results which beat analysts' revenue, EPS, and EBITDA expectations. The real story for the quarter was the profit rebound, a turnaround from the prior year driven by cuts in acquisition and marketing costs. On the other hand, its number of requests declined, and it pulled its full-year guidance. Still, we think this was a solid quarter with some key areas of upside.
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What The Market Is Telling Us
Angi’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 32 moves greater than 5% over the last year. But moves this big are rare even for Angi and indicate this news significantly impacted the market’s perception of the business.
The biggest move we wrote about over the last year was 9 months ago when the stock gained 28.8% on the news that the company reported strong second quarter 2024 results. Angi beat analysts' revenue and service request expectations this quarter, but we note that sales growth was quite weak, and requests declined. Overall, this was a decent quarter for Angi.
Angi is down 10.1% since the beginning of the year, and at $14.57 per share, it is trading 49.4% below its 52-week high of $28.80 from September 2024. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Angi’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $180.93.
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