Block Earnings Are Coming; Here’s What Matters

Block Earnings Are Coming; Here’s What Matters

Is now the best time for a previous high-flying digital payments growth name to deliver a quarterly report? Possibly not, considering the market’s adverse reaction to such stocks this earnings season.

However, that’s what Block (SQ) will do this Thursday (Feb 24). But maybe the fact peers such as PayPal and Affirm have disappointed means the bar is lowered somewhat, says RBC’s Daniel Perlin. Plus, the stock is down by 60% since the prior report, and as such, Perlin believes the “expectations hurdle going into the print is low, possibly creating a clearing event.”

Perlin’s estimates are more or less the same as the Street’s, calling for revenue to rise by 49% year-over-year to $1.35 billion (consensus has $1.34 billion) and adj. EBITDA to drop by 20% YoY to $148 million (same as the Street).