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Share price of Brightcove Inc. (BCOV - Free Report) rallied to a new 52-week high of $13.06, eventually closing a tad bit lower at $13.02 on Sep 1. This represents a massive one year return of approximately 149%, better than the S&P 500’s 11.3% over the same period.
Currently, Brightcove holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Notably, the stock has a market cap of $426.3 million.
Key Factors
Brightcove is a provider of cloud content services for the publishing and the distributing of professional digital media. The ever changing consumer viewing habit and a few new business models are driving disruption in the market. This presents significant growth opportunity for the company, in our view.
Brightcove has been a consistent performer in recent times courtesy of its strategic investments in developing innovative products. Moreover, expanding sales force has been a key growth driver. Notably, Brightcove has outperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by an average of 61% in the last four trailing quarters.
At the end of second quarter of 2016, customer count was 4,774, of which 1,926 were classified as premium customers. Average revenue per premium customer was $69,000, up 8% on a year-over-year basis.
The growth was primarily driven by new customer wins. During the second quarter, the company signed separate multi-year, multi-million dollar agreements with two large Japanese media companies. Total committed value of the deal is worth $10 million over a period of 3.5 years.
Moreover, new and expanded agreements with the likes of AMC, Bounce TV, Fox Plus, Express Newspapers, Le Parisien, Pluto TV, Ringier AG, TV Dorama, TV5Monde Asia, Woven Digital and Yelp demonstrate the company’s growing clout in the market.
Additionally, partnerships with the like of Eloqua and Marketo continue to add value to Brightcove’s footprint in the digital marketing business. The company won contracts from the likes of Angie's List, Comodo, Jardine Matheson, Keurig Green Mountain, Lush Cosmetics, Morningstar, Omron, Rolls Royce, SAS, and Xero, among others, in this segment.
Estimate Revisions
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2016 has remained steady at a loss of 13 cents over the last 30 days. Also, for fiscal 2017, estimates have remained steady, standing at a loss of 10 cents over the same time frame.
Key Sector Picks
Better-ranked stocks in the broader technology sector include Everyday Health , Changyou.com and Shutterstock (SSTK - Free Report) . While Everyday sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), both Changyou and Shutterstock have a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Brightcove Hits 52-Week High, Customer Wins Key Catalyst
Share price of Brightcove Inc. (BCOV - Free Report) rallied to a new 52-week high of $13.06, eventually closing a tad bit lower at $13.02 on Sep 1. This represents a massive one year return of approximately 149%, better than the S&P 500’s 11.3% over the same period.
Currently, Brightcove holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Notably, the stock has a market cap of $426.3 million.
Key Factors
Brightcove is a provider of cloud content services for the publishing and the distributing of professional digital media. The ever changing consumer viewing habit and a few new business models are driving disruption in the market. This presents significant growth opportunity for the company, in our view.
Brightcove has been a consistent performer in recent times courtesy of its strategic investments in developing innovative products. Moreover, expanding sales force has been a key growth driver. Notably, Brightcove has outperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by an average of 61% in the last four trailing quarters.
BRIGHTCOVE Price and Consensus
BRIGHTCOVE Price and Consensus | BRIGHTCOVE Quote
At the end of second quarter of 2016, customer count was 4,774, of which 1,926 were classified as premium customers. Average revenue per premium customer was $69,000, up 8% on a year-over-year basis.
The growth was primarily driven by new customer wins. During the second quarter, the company signed separate multi-year, multi-million dollar agreements with two large Japanese media companies. Total committed value of the deal is worth $10 million over a period of 3.5 years.
Moreover, new and expanded agreements with the likes of AMC, Bounce TV, Fox Plus, Express Newspapers, Le Parisien, Pluto TV, Ringier AG, TV Dorama, TV5Monde Asia, Woven Digital and Yelp demonstrate the company’s growing clout in the market.
Additionally, partnerships with the like of Eloqua and Marketo continue to add value to Brightcove’s footprint in the digital marketing business. The company won contracts from the likes of Angie's List, Comodo, Jardine Matheson, Keurig Green Mountain, Lush Cosmetics, Morningstar, Omron, Rolls Royce, SAS, and Xero, among others, in this segment.
Estimate Revisions
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2016 has remained steady at a loss of 13 cents over the last 30 days. Also, for fiscal 2017, estimates have remained steady, standing at a loss of 10 cents over the same time frame.
Key Sector Picks
Better-ranked stocks in the broader technology sector include Everyday Health , Changyou.com and Shutterstock (SSTK - Free Report) . While Everyday sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), both Changyou and Shutterstock have a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Confidential from Zacks
Beyond this Analyst Blog, would you like to see Zacks' best recommendations that are not available to the public? Our Executive VP, Steve Reitmeister, knows when key trades are about to be triggered and which of our experts has the hottest hand. Click to see them now>>