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Can Zoom’s Business Boom Again?

Latest results helped by low expectations and a stock buyback, though growth remains sluggish
Zoom’s stock price has slumped nearly 7% over the last six months. PHOTO: GABBY JONES/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Zoom’s stock price has slumped nearly 7% over the last six months. PHOTO: GABBY JONES/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Nobody expects much from Zoom Video Communications ZM 6.25%increase; green up pointing triangle these days. Sometimes that works to the company’s advantage. 

The videoconferencing wunderkind that shot to fame during the early days of the pandemic has been experiencing a long and painful comedown since. Revenue growth has been in the low single-digit percentage range for the last six quarters, culminating in just 2.6% growth for the fiscal year ended January, according to the company’s fourth-quarter results reported late Monday. That makes Zoom the slowest growing among cloud-software companies generating more than $1 billion in annual revenue, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Workday—a notably larger cloud provider—said Monday that its annual revenue grew nearly 17% over the same period. 

Zoom hasn’t even been able to break into the market’s artificial-intelligence party—despite its best efforts. The company announced a generative AI tool called Zoom AI Companion in September, and said less than two months later that more than 125,000 of its customers were using it. But Zoom’s stock price has slumped nearly 7% over the last six months—a notable laggard on the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index that has jumped nearly 16% in that time.  

Call OptionsZoom's revenue per fiscal year ended JanuarySource: the companyNote: FY25 is a projection

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Author: Editors Desk, Dan Gallagher

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