The sell-off might be overdone, as the downturn that drove the panic will likely be temporary. Shares of Upwork (UPWK 19.08%) sank on Tuesday after the freelancer marketplace reported a decline in active clients. By the close of trading, Upwork's stock price was down more than 19%. Navigating AI trends Upwork's fourth-quarter revenue rose 4% year over year to $198.4 million. The company's gross se...
The sell-off might be overdone, as the downturn that drove the panic will likely be temporary. Shares of Upwork (UPWK 19.08%) sank on Tuesday after the freelancer marketplace reported a decline in active clients. By the close of trading, Upwork's stock price was down more than 19%. Navigating AI trends Upwork's fourth-quarter revenue rose 4% year over year to $198.4 million. The company's gross services volume (GSV) -- the total dollar value of all transactions facilitated by its platform -- increased 3% to $1 billion. Upwork is making inroads with small and midsize businesses. GSV from its Upwork Business Plus offering for SMBs increased 24% sequentially. The work marketplace is also investing aggressively in artificial intelligence (AI). AI-powered search recommendations helped boost GSV by over $100 million in 2025. Moreover, annualized GSV from AI-related work climbed more than 50% to over $300 million in the fourth quarter. Expand NASDAQ : UPWK Upwork Today's Change ( -19.08 %) $ -3.58 Current Price $ 15.21 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.5B Day's Range $ 14.82 - $ 16.91 52wk Range $ 11.13 - $ 22.84 Volume 19M Avg Vol 3.5M Gross Margin 77.75 % Still, active clients on Upwork's platform fell 6% to 785,000. This understandably concerning decline likely spooked investors. However, during a conference call with analysts, chief financial officer Erica Gessert noted that Upwork's churn rate improved throughout 2025 -- and the company expects to report active client growth in the first quarter of 2026. Growth is set to accelerate In turn, Upwork's 2026 guidance includes: Revenue of $835 million to $850 million, compared to $787.8 million in 2025 Adjusted earnings per share of $1.43 to $1.48, compared to $1.41 "Our diversified growth path across AI, SMB, and enterprise gives us confidence in our guidance of 4% to 6% GSV growth and 6% to 8% revenue growth for the year," Gessert said.
In this article .DJI .IXIC .AXJO .HSI .N225 .SPX Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT 19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Wednesday, continuing their rally despite AI fear...
In this article .DJI .IXIC .AXJO .HSI .N225 .SPX Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT 19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Wednesday, continuing their rally despite AI fears and weak economic data spooking U.S. investors. The U.S. December retail sales report showed that consumer spending was flat , missing the 0.4% monthly gain that economists polled by Dow Jones were expecting. In Asia, investors are assessing the latest data coming out from China. The country's consumer price index rose 0.2% in January from a year earlier, China's National Bureau of Statistics data showed Wednesday. That's below economists' forecast of 0.4% increase in a Reuters poll, a sign of continued deflationary pressure in the absence of stronger stimulus. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was up 1.43%. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.6%, on pace for a third day of gains, while the small-cap Kosdaq was 0.55% higher. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index added 0.13%, while the mainland CSI 300 lost 0.26%. Japan's markets are closed for a public holiday. Overnight in the U.S., the S&P 500 lost 0.33%, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.59% as AI fears took hold on Wall Street. However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1% to post a closing record of 50,188.14. The index had scored its third consecutive intraday record earlier in the day, a move that comes after it surpassed the 50,000 level for the first time ever last week. — CNBC's Sean Conlon and Sarah Min contributed to this report.
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Q4 sales and earnings beats weren't enough to stop ZoomInfo stock from seeing big sell-offs. ZoomInfo Technologies (GTM 9.77%) stock got hit with strong selling pressures Tuesday. The stock sank 9.4% in the daily session and had been down as much as 20.2% earlier in the day's trading. ZoomInfo published its Q4 results after the market closed yesterday and reported sales and earnings that beat Wall...
Q4 sales and earnings beats weren't enough to stop ZoomInfo stock from seeing big sell-offs. ZoomInfo Technologies (GTM 9.77%) stock got hit with strong selling pressures Tuesday. The stock sank 9.4% in the daily session and had been down as much as 20.2% earlier in the day's trading. ZoomInfo published its Q4 results after the market closed yesterday and reported sales and earnings that beat Wall Street's forecasts. Despite substantial Q4 beats, the stock sold off on underwhelming forward guidance. ZoomInfo breezed by Wall Street's Q4 targets ZoomInfo posted non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share of $0.32 on sales of $319.1 million in the fourth quarter. For comparison, the average analyst estimate had called for adjusted earnings per share of $0.28 on sales of roughly $309.3 million. ZoomInfo's revenue increased 3.2% year over year in Q4, and adjusted operating income rose roughly 6% year over year to hit $122.6 million. Despite performance beats in Q4, investors weren't happy with management's forward guidance. Expand NASDAQ : GTM ZoomInfo Technologies Today's Change ( -9.77 %) $ -0.71 Current Price $ 6.61 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.3B Day's Range $ 5.85 - $ 6.96 52wk Range $ 5.84 - $ 12.63 Volume 2M Avg Vol 5.5M Gross Margin 82.12 % ZoomInfo expects little growth this year ZoomInfo is guiding for sales between $306 million and $309 million in the current quarter, representing a significant decline on a sequential quarterly basis. Adjusted operating income is also projected to decline to between $105 million and $108 million. For the full year, management is targeting sales between $1.247 billion and $1.267 billion. -- suggesting a modest improvement over the roughly $1.25 billion in sales recorded last year. Meanwhile, guidance for an adjusted operating profit between $456 million and $466 million calls for annual growth of approximately 3.6% at the midpoint. With disappointing growth forecasts for this year, investors are rerating the business-services speci...