By selecting the “Chat With This Person Live” link 616, the user of the search engine website 604 can establish an online chat session over the network with the expert associated with the expert profile 606A in real-time between their respective computers 112, 114 through the chat engine 108 of the expert search system 102. Alternatively, where an expert’s status is offline and thus the expert is not available for communication at that time, the expert profile data transmitted from the expert search server 104 can cause the search engine to display an “Email This Person Now” link 618. Accordingly, the client can engage in an offline, non-real-time email session with the expert. The VICP was adopted in response to an earlier scare over the pertussis portion of the DPT vaccine. LivePerson reported first-quarter revenue of $78.1 million, up 17.6% year over year and about $1 million higher than the average analyst estimate. Shares of LivePerson (LPSN 0.10%) soared on Wednesday after the provider of conversational commerce solutions reported its first-quarter results.
The stock was pennies away from hitting another all-time high on Thursday, and the shares have nearly tripled since the start of last year. You have to go all the way back to the third quarter of 2015 to find the last time LivePerson was growing faster. So this Tenfold gives us an ability to do that and get into CRM systems and everything else in a much deeper way. Get a full record or chat transcripts and offline messages. To get started, fill out the form at the bottom right of the screen. The stock did open lower on Friday following the news, but LivePerson continues to do a lot of things right. Revenue is checking in at $66.4 million through the first three months of this year, climbing exactly 14% to fit right in with the tight growth window that investors have seen play out for more than a year. Live Person’s top line is checking in at $58.2 million, up 14% since the prior year’s showing.
LivePerson is reiterating most of its guidance for all of 2019, including a 14% to 17% rise in revenue to hit $284.5 million to $291.5 million this year. It continues to woo new clients to its platform, including a major airline, cable company, and a couple of international telcos during the quarter. The company is still facing challenges, including general economic uncertainty, potentially longer sales cycles, and customer attrition. There are some one-time items baked into that number, but it’s still a larger loss on an adjusted basis. 0.20. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization was a loss of $4.6 million, worse than a loss of $3.2 million in the first quarter of last year. LivePerson’s loss widened to $18.9 million in the first quarter, its biggest deficit in more than three years. The company signed 130 deals during the quarter, 10% more than in the prior-year period. CEO Rob LoCascio and his team have predicted that sales for the period will land between $92 million and $93 million, constituting a 24% year-over-year increase. 0.31 in the prior-year period.
LivePerson (LPSN 0.10%) shares trailed a declining market in September as the stock fell by 13% compared to the S&P 500’s 3.9% drop, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Rattling off five consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth is something that we haven’t seen at LivePerson since 2015, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. LivePerson’s steady growth is impressive, and we’ve now seen sequential revenue growth move higher for eight consecutive quarters. This isn’t the jaw-dropping run of 51 consecutive quarters of sequential top-line gains that LivePerson saw snapped four years ago, but double-digit year-over-year growth that is expected to accelerate as the year plays out will keep padding the current streak. After a rough patch in which it posted six consecutive quarters of year-over-year declines in revenue, LivePerson has gone on to rattle off three straight periods of positive — and now accelerating — top-line growth. To start, we improved upon our initial 2018 growth outlook of 10% by 4 points, delivering mid-teens growth for the year.