What Happened?
Shares of data analytics software provider Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL) jumped 13% in the afternoon session after the company reported strong first quarter 2025 results which included full-year and next quarter revenue guidance that slightly beat Wall Street estimates, though customer growth slowed. What really stood out was the growth in recurring revenue, which jumped 12%, mostly because more big companies are locking in longer contracts and using more parts of the platform. That helped drive sales up 10% from this time last year, though the company's growth rate still isn't back to what it used to be. Most of the boost came from existing high-spending clients, not from signing up a lot of new ones. Overall, this quarter was decent.
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What The Market Is Telling Us
Amplitude’s shares are very volatile and have had 22 moves greater than 5% over the last year. But moves this big are rare even for Amplitude and indicate this news significantly impacted the market’s perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was 14 days ago when the stock gained 6.4% on the news that stocks extended their rebound, led by strong gains in the technology sector, as renewed optimism surrounding U.S.–China trade negotiations lifted investor sentiment.
Contributing to the bullish tone was a standout earnings report from enterprise software leader ServiceNow, which topped Wall Street's expectations on RPO, profit and earnings. More importantly, the company's remaining performance obligations (RPO), a key forward-looking metric for future revenue, gave investors confidence that enterprise customers were not pulling back spending amidst uncertain macro.
This optimism was further reinforced by solid results from Texas Instruments and Lam Research. Their performance was especially encouraging for semiconductor stocks, which had been under pressure due to their exposure to global trade tensions. These earnings results suggested that, despite macroeconomic uncertainties, demand in key tech verticals remained resilient.
Amplitude is up 0.7% since the beginning of the year, but at $10.77 per share, it is still trading 25.4% below its 52-week high of $14.44 from February 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Amplitude’s shares at the IPO in September 2021 would now be looking at an investment worth $196.53.
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