While ServiceNow was able to largely exceed its own forecasts for the past quarter and the 2024 financial year, the software company screamed with its outlook at the NYSE with its outlook.
• ServiceNow with solid growth 2024
• forecasts for 2025 careful
• Servicenow share on a descent
The US software company ServiceNow presented its figures for the fourth quarter and the year 2024 on the evening before. While the provider of a AI platform for business transformation was convincing in sales growth, the CFO gave a cautious forecast for the subscription income.
Solid growth
Total turnover rose by 21 percent to $ 2.957 billion. In addition, the subscription income in the fourth quarter, which ended on December 31, 2024, amounted to $ 2.866 billion, which also corresponds to an increase of 21 percent compared to the previous year. However, analysts forecast $ 2.879 billion in advance.
However, the company itself was positive: “Serviceenow has completed the year on the expectations of the fourth quarter and at the same time exceeded our success record on ‘Beat and Raise’. Ki is driving a fundamental reorganization of the company technology landscape. Managers use the service tower as a control tower For AI agencies to release exponential productivity and or orchestratate end-to-end business transformation. Bill McDermott cited in the corresponding press release. Gina Mastantuono, Chief Financial Officer from Serviceenow, commented similarly: “Q4 was a great quarter and crowned an incredible innovation and implementation for a year. […] We are just scratching what is possible on the surface. The measures we take in 2025 are not just about claiming our lead, but expanding it. We are ready to define the future of agent-based automation, to consolidate ServiceNow as a AI platform for business transformation and to achieve strong growth year after year. ”
The company’s own forecast for sales and the operational margin (non-gaap) was therefore exceeded, but that for CRPO (contract sales over the next twelve months) failed. At the end of the past quarter, this was $ 10.27 billion – 19 percent higher than in the previous year.
Outlook scares investor
Despite the mostly strong results and confident statements by ServiceNow, the view remained careful. With its forecast for the subscription income, the AI company missed expectations. Servicenow now expects subscription income of $ 2.995 to $ 3 billion for the first quarter of 2025, while analysts predicted $ 3.031 billion.
“As always, we start the year with a well thought -out first forecast, which forms a really solid basis for success in the course of the year,” Mastantuono noted. And further: “In addition, we have carefully considered some dynamics that I think is important”.
Investors are nevertheless unsettled: In the NYSE trade, the Papers from ServiceNow are now collapsing a whopping 10.85 percent to $ 1,019.57.
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