Sentiment · FY2026 Q2
| Quarter | Revenue | Rev YoY | EPS | EPS YoY | Op margin | Net margin | FCF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Q4 | $741M | +22.3% | $0.36 | +89.5% | 26.4% | 24.6% | $177M |
| FY2025 Q1 | $616M | +25.4% | $0.10 | +57.5% | 8.8% | 8.2% | $230M |
| FY2025 Q2 | $694M | +18.7% | $0.18 | +5.9% | 16.8% | 13.0% | $117M |
| FY2025 Q3 | $739M | +17.7% | $0.23 | +21.1% | 21.8% | 15.6% | $164M |
| FY2025 Q4 | $847M | +14.3% | $0.40 | +11.1% | 30.3% | 22.1% | $277M |
| FY2026 Q1 | $689M | +11.8% | $0.08 | -20.0% | 9.7% | 5.8% | $279M |
| FY2026 Q2 | $715M | +3.0% | $0.14 | -22.2% | 14.2% | 9.0% | $419M |
Management’s own words, often on a non-GAAP, constant-currency, or adjusted basis — so these can differ from the GAAP figures above (e.g. constant-currency revenue growth excludes currency swings).
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Shyam Patil | Susquehanna | 7 (0%) |
| Justin Patterson | KeyBanc Capital Markets | 7 (0%) |
| Vasily Karasyov | Cannonball Research | 7 (14%) |
| Youssef Squali | Truist Securities | 6 (17%) |
| Jason Helfstein | Oppenheimer | 5 (20%) |
| Matt Swanson | RBC Capital Markets | 5 (0%) |
| Jessica Reif Ehrlich | Bank of America | 4 (0%) |
| Tim Nollen | SSR | 3 (0%) |
| Mark Mahaney | Evercore ISI | 3 (0%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Susquehanna | 1 | 7 (0%) |
| Cannonball Research | 1 | 7 (14%) |
| KeyBanc Capital Markets | 1 | 7 (0%) |
| Truist Securities |
| 1 |
| 6 (17%) |
| Oppenheimer | 1 | 5 (20%) |
| RBC Capital Markets | 1 | 5 (0%) |
| Bank of America | 1 | 4 (0%) |
| SSR | 1 | 3 (0%) |
The Trade Desk grew revenue 12% year-over-year to $689M with continued CPG and auto vertical pressure, while adjusted EBITDA of $206M reflected a 30% margin as the company invested in growth initiatives. Record JBP signings of 45 in March alone represented 55% year-over-year growth, and audio emerged as the fastest-growing channel with Spotify measurement reform advancing. Audience Unlimited showed early results with 75% more efficient CPA, and Q2 guidance of at least $750M signaled expected acceleration as macro uncertainty from geopolitics and tariffs moderated.
Competitive Dynamics | Revenue Growth | Innovation & R&D | Cloud & AI | Macroeconomic | Product Launch | Regulation Policy | Capex Investment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2025Q1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2025Q2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 2025Q3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2025Q4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2026Q1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| '24Q4 | '25Q1 | '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Competitive Dynamics | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Revenue Growth | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| Innovation & R&D | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Cloud & AI | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Macroeconomic | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Product Launch | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Regulation Policy | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Capex Investment | 1 | 1 |
What TTD and other companies said about each other on FY2026 Q1 earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“We've begun integrating with partners like Koddi and even more recently, Dollar General, and we expect more retailers to enable programmatic access to sponsored listings in 2026.”
Dollar General is integrating with The Trade Desk to enable programmatic access to on-site sponsored listings, extending Dollar General's retail-media monetization.
“We were also recently chosen by Lyft Ads to power their off-site rider experience or mobility media, as Lyft calls it.”
Lyft Ads chose The Trade Desk to power its off-site mobility-media advertising, a positive read-through for Lyft's advertising/media business.
“we announced the first of many partnerships with one of the up-and-coming large agencies, Stagwell.”
The Trade Desk announced an agentic-AI partnership with agency Stagwell to create, edit and modify campaigns, a positive for Stagwell's programmatic capabilities.
“since 2018, we've done billions of dollars of business with Publicis through the agreement that we have.”
The Trade Desk has done billions in business with agency Publicis since 2018 and is in ongoing negotiations about the next chapter of the partnership amid public friction.
“about a decade ago, Google made the decision to stop sharing ad level logs or log-level data.”
The Trade Desk contrasts its data-sharing approach with Google, which stopped sharing log-level data a decade ago; framed as a walled-garden competitor dynamic.
“our pharma team recently went head-to-head against Amazon for one of the largest pharmaceutical advertisers in the world.”
The Trade Desk won back a large pharma advertiser from Amazon's ad platform, and separately noted Amazon represents under 15% of US retail spend versus TTD's broader retail-data marketplace.
“NBCU has institutionally embraced that better signals and better options will move more dollars to CTV.”
Comcast's NBCUniversal (including FreeWheel) is leaning into supply-chain and price-discovery initiatives that move more ad dollars to CTV, a positive read-through for NBCU's ad platform.
“Our partnership with Netflix is a source of optimism for us, but also for the open Internet.”
Netflix's methodical ad rollout and partnership with The Trade Desk is highlighted as a positive for Netflix's ad business and the open Internet.
“Disney has one of the largest ad businesses of any publisher in CTV.”
Disney is a major CTV ad publisher with a close biddable/programmatic relationship with The Trade Desk, benefiting from better data and higher CPMs.
“just over 10% of Spotify's revenue has come from ads.”
The Trade Desk sees large untapped ad upside at Spotify, noting ads are only ~10% of Spotify revenue and expressing bullishness on Spotify audio ad monetization.
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
TTD The Trade Desk, Inc. | 8 | +11.8% | |
| ADSK Autodesk | 10 | +19.8% | |
| AI C3.ai, Inc. | 1 | -46.1% | |
| APP Applovin Corp | 9 | +59.0% | |
| CDNS Cadence Design Systems | 9 | +18.7% | |
| CHYM Chime Financial, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 10 | +24.8% | |
| CRM Salesforce, Inc. | 9 | +12.1% | |
| DDOG Datadog | 10 | +32.1% | |
| FICO Fair Isaac | 9 | +38.7% | |
| FIG Figma, Inc. | 9 | +46.1% | |
| INTU Intuit | 9 | +17.4% | |
| MSTR MicroStrategy Inc. | 7 | +11.9% | |
| NOW ServiceNow | 7 | +22.1% | |
| PTC PTC Inc. | 9 | +21.7% | |
| SHOP Shopify | 8 | +34.3% | |
| SNOW Snowflake Inc. | 9 | +30.1% | |
| SOUN SoundHound AI, Inc. | 8 | +51.7% | |
| TEAM Atlassian | 7 | +31.7% | |
| TYL Tyler Technologies | 8 | +8.6% | |
| U Unity Software Inc. | 9 | +16.8% | |
| UBER Uber | 8 | +14.5% | |
| WDAY Workday, Inc. | 7 | +14.5% |