The Trade Desk, Inc. · TTD · FY2025 Q2 · Calendar Q3 2025

The Trade Desk highlights Kokai adoption as competition and execution risks persist

The quarter supports a constructive operating thesis: growth in CTV and retail media, rising Kokai adoption, and supply-chain and measurement products provide identifiable growth drivers. The evidence is balanced by competition, weaker performance in some verticals, regulatory scrutiny, and execution risk around product rollouts.

Reported After market closeNASDAQCommunication Services $5.68B market cap
100quality score

Earnings scorecard

Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS $0.18 Consensus $0.18
EPS surprise +1.4% Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue $694.0M Consensus $685.5M
Revenue surprise +1.3% Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

event-close to next-session close
Stock move -38.6% Event window
SPY move +0.8% Same window
Abnormal move -39.4% Stock minus SPY
Volume 6.4× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift -4.1% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

The latest analysis adds Q2 revenue growth of 19%, broader evidence of Kokai adoption, and a larger Joint Business Plans pipeline. It also highlights new leadership and governance developments, while making competition, vertical underperformance, and rollout returns clearer areas to monitor.

Guidance delta

Management maintained Q3 revenue guidance at least $717 million and adjusted EBITDA guidance of $277 million.

Key takeaways

  • Q2 revenue grew 19% year over year to $694 million, led by CTV and retail media.
  • Kokai now powers roughly 75% of client spend, with management citing more than 20-point KPI improvements.
  • Management highlighted nearly 100 Joint Business Plans in progress and continued development of Deal Desk, OpenSincera, and OpenPath.

Management priorities

  • Reach 100% client adoption of Kokai by year-end.
  • Scale Deal Desk beyond beta and deepen publisher partnerships.
  • Integrate Sincera data through OpenSincera while expanding supply-chain transparency and AI-driven products.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
TTD EPS earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 3 future estimate-only quarters. Q4 '23 estimate $0.41 Q4 '23 actual $0.41, match Q1 '24 estimate $0.22 Q1 '24 actual $0.26, beat Q2 '24 estimate $0.36 Q2 '24 actual $0.39, beat Q3 '24 estimate $0.39 Q3 '24 actual $0.41, beat Q2 '25 estimate $0.18 Q2 '25 actual $0.18, match Q3 '25 estimate $0.20 Q3 '25 actual $0.45, beat Q4 '25 estimate $0.34 Q4 '25 actual $0.39, beat Q1 '26 estimate $0.09 Q1 '26 actual $0.08, match Q2 '26 estimate $0.18 Q2 '26 actual $0.14, miss Q3 '26 estimate $0.05 Q4 '26 estimate $0.45 Q1 '27 estimate $0.14
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusHold45 ratings
Bullish1635.6%
Neutral2453.3%
Bearish511.1%

1 unmapped firm rating excluded from the percentages.

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$12.08Current
$6Low
$49.2Average
$145High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted current price from FN2's market snapshot as of Oct 9, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

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FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
Guggenheim Neutral NeutralMaintainSep 18, 2026
RBC Capital Sector Perform Sector PerformMaintainSep 9, 2026
HSBC Reduce HoldDowngradeAug 10, 2026
DA Davidson Neutral BuyDowngradeAug 10, 2026
Wells Fargo Equal Weight Equal WeightMaintainAug 7, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $12.08. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
GuggenheimMichael Morris$13$14.26 +7.6%Sep 18, 2026
Evercore ISIMark Mahaney$14$14.1 +15.9%Sep 8, 2026
BNP ParibasNick Jones$10$13.12 -17.2%Aug 10, 2026
Morgan StanleyAnalyst unavailable$13$13.2 +7.6%Aug 10, 2026
HSBCAnalyst unavailable$10$13.8 -17.2%Aug 10, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

The Trade Desk, Inc. is a global technology company that provides a self-service, cloud-based platform. This platform enables advertising buyers to efficiently create, manage, and optimize data-driven digital ad campaigns across diverse formats and channels, including display, video, audio, native, and social media, reaching audiences on computers, mobile devices, and connected TVs. In addition to the platform, the company offers various data and value-added services. Their primary clients are advertising agencies and other service providers who represent advertisers. The Trade Desk was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Ventura, California.

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By FN2 Research · Updated · As of 2026-10-09. For educational purposes only; not investment advice.