Shopify shares soar 22% after earnings top expectations, upbeat forecast

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The company said it saw strong demand for its services, which include software for online merchants, despite 'a mixed consumer spend environment.'

The company said it saw strong demand for its services, which include software for online merchants, despite "a mixed consumer spend environment."The company said gross merchandise volume, or the total volume of merchandise sold on the platform, jumped 22% during the quarter to $67.2 billion. That easily topped consensus estimates of $65.8 billion, according to FactSet.

Shopify sells software for merchants who run online businesses as well as services such as advertising and payment processing tools. Jeff Hoffmeister, Shopify's CFO, said in a statement the company continued to "take share" during the quarter even as consumer spending remains in flux amid a rocky economic backdrop.

"I think that our merchants do seem to be, you know, outperforming and doing better than others," Shopify President Harley Finkelstein said on the call. "And I think a big part of the reason that we are not seeing the same thing that others might is because we simply have merchants across a ton of verticals and across a ton of ."

For the third quarter, Shopify said it expects revenue to grow at a low-to-mid twenties percentage rate year over year. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expect sales to grow 21% year over year to $2.07 billion.

 

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