Twilio Company Profile (NYSE:TWLO)

Twilio trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "TWLO."

Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May, 2nd. The company reported ($0.14) earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.14). The company earned $87.37 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $83.57 million. Twilio had a negative net margin of 16.07% and a negative return on equity of 14.26%. View Twilio's Earnings History.

Twilio updated its FY17 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of ($0.30)-(0.27) for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of ($0.17). The company issued revenue guidance of $356-362 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $369.60 million.Twilio also updated its Q2 guidance to ($0.11)-(0.10) EPS.

16 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Twilio's shares. Their forecasts range from $23.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate Twilio's stock price to reach $35.73 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Twilio.

Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Twilio stock:

• 1. JMP Securities analysts commented, "Building high-quality, reliable API services that have 99.999 percent availability and have resulted in nearly 30,000 production deployments."Listening to its customers to build higher-value APIs that solve customer’s problems but are also stickier than lower-lower APIs."Introducing new feature and products at a rate of one every 3.5 days, a rate competitors will be hard-pressed to match."Rapidly adding developers to its community, including 600,000 in the last 12 months." (5/25/2017)
• 2. J P Morgan Chase & Co analysts commented, "Building high-quality, reliable API services that have 99.999 percent availability and have resulted in nearly 30,000 production deployments."Listening to its customers to build higher-value APIs that solve customer’s problems but are also stickier than lower-lower APIs."Introducing new feature and products at a rate of one every 3.5 days, a rate competitors will be hard-pressed to match."Rapidly adding developers to its community, including 600,000 in the last 12 months." (5/25/2017)
• 3. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Twilio Inc. provides Cloud Communications Platforms. The Company enables developers to build, scale and operate real-time communications within software applications. Its Programmable Communications Cloud software enables developers to embed voice, messaging, video and authentication capabilities. The Super Network is the software layer which allows its customers' software to communicate with connected devices globally. Twilio Inc. is based in SAN FRANCISCO, United States. " (5/6/2017)
• 4. Drexel Hamilton analysts commented, "We believe Twilio may slightly exceed our 1Q:17 revenue forecast of $83.2 million (up 40% YoY; Street is at $83.5 million) and at least meet our loss per share projection of $0.06 (Street is at a loss per share of $0.07). Our 1Q:17 sales forecast represents a 1% QoQ rise and well below the 2-year average of up 18% for past March quarters. Recall, Twilio’s 1Q:17 outlook calls for sales of $82-84 million and a loss per share of $0.07-0.06. Twilio is recognized as a pioneer in the cloud communications platform market with a following of over 1 million developers across 36,606 active customer accounts in 4Q:16. We estimate Twilio added 3,000 to 3,250 active customer accounts in 1Q:17 and up from the 2,149 added in 4Q:16." (5/2/2017)

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Twilio's management team includes the folowing people:

• Jeff Lawson, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
• Lee Kirkpatrick, Chief Financial Officer
• George Hu, Chief Operating Officer
• Roy Ng, Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations
• Karyn Smith, General Counsel
• Richard L. Dalzell, Director
• Byron B. Deeter, Directors
• Elena A. Donio, Director
• James McGeever, Director
• Erika F. Rottenberg, Director

(TWLO) raised $130 million in an IPO on Thursday, June 23rd 2016. The company issued 10,000,000 shares at a price of $12.00-$14.00 per share. Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Allen, Pacific Crest Securities (a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets), JMP Securities, William Blair and Canaccord Genuity were co-managers.

Twilio's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Perigon Wealth Management LLC (0.02%). Company insiders that own Twilio stock include Bessemer Venture Partners Vii, James Mcgeever, Jeff Lawson, Karyn Smith, Lee Kirkpatrick and Scott Campbell Raney. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Twilio.

Twilio's stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Perigon Wealth Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Twilio stock in the last two years include James Mcgeever and Jeff Lawson. View Insider Buying and Selling for Twilio.

Shares of Twilio can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of Twilio stock can currently be purchased for approximately $28.32.