Key Takeaways
- Adobe shares surged nearly 15% in extended trading on Thursday after the media software maker reported earnings that topped analysts' estimates and lifted its full-year guidance amid robust demand for its suit of generative AI digital media products.
- Monitor the $535 level on Adobe's chart, an area where the price may encounter selling pressure near the closely watched 50% Fibonacci retracement level that sits in close proximity to the downward sloping 200-day moving average and a period of February price consolidation.
- Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told analysts on Thursday that the company hadn’t seen any noticeable changes to the economy.
Adobe (ADBE) shares surged nearly 15% in extended trading on Thursday after the software maker reported earnings that topped Wall Street’s estimates and lifted its full-year earnings and sales guidance amid robust demand for its suit of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:generative artificial intelligꦆence (𓆏AI) digital media products.
Below, we identify a key level to watch out for on Adobe’s chart and review the company’s latest earꦍnings report.
Breakout From Falling Wedge Pattern
Since forming a double top between December and February, Adobe shares have traded within a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:falling wedge, a bullish chart pattern that indicates a potential upward price movement. More recently, the stock found buying interest near the wedge’s lower trendline, with volume increasing slightly over the past week leading into 🐻the company’s quarterly resulไts.
Following Friday’s expected earnings-driven breakout from the pattern, investors should keep an eye on the $535 level, an area on the chart where the price may encounter selling pressure near the closely-watched 50% 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fibonacci retracement level, which also sits in close proximity to the downward sloping 200-day moving average and a period of February price 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:consolidation.
The stock rose 14.8% to $526.43 in a🌠fter-hours trading Thursday.
Earnings and Sales Top Expectations
In the three-month period ending May 31, the company posted 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:adjusted earnings of $4.48 per share, above analysts’ estimates of $4.39 a share. Revenue in the period of $5.31 billion grew 10% from the same quarter last year and edged past expectations of $5.29 billion.
The company’s Digital Media business, which houses its Creative Cloud subscriptions, reported net-new annualized 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:recurring revenue of $487 million, well above Wall Street expe♛ctations of $437.4 million. Adobe noted that it’s seeing Creative Cloud subscribers upgrade their plans to access Firefly capabilitiesꦺ, the company’s generative AI model to enhance users' creative work.
“We’re pleased with the adoption of AI functionality as well as its early 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:monetization across Document Cloud and Creative Cloud, including our flagship applications, Firefly services and Express,” Adobe’s Digital Media president David Wadhwani told analysts on the company’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:conference call.
Adobe Lifts Full-Year Guidance, No Sign of 𒁃Slow꧒down
Turning to the full fiscal year outlook, Adobe lifted both its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:top and bottom-line guidance. It now expects adjusted earnings to range between $18.00 and $18.20 per share, up from $17.60 to $18.00 a share. It sees annual 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:net sales of $21.40 billion to $21.50 billion, bumping the lower end of that forecast by $100 million. Analysts had been calling for adjusted earnings of $18.02 a share on revenue of $21.46 billion.
While other software companies have recently trimmed their full-year guidance citing concerns over an uncertain economic outlook and softening enterprise interest in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:AI development, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told analysts on Thursday that the company hadn’t seꦡen any noticeable changes to the econ🅷omy.
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