About The Trade Desk, Inc. - Class A Common Stock (TTD)
Trade Desk Inc is a technology company that provides a self-service platform allowing advertisers to manage digital marketing campaigns across various ad formats and channels, including display, video, audio, and social media. Through its sophisticated data management capabilities and real-time bidding technology, Trade Desk enables businesses to efficiently target and engage their audience, optimizing advertising spend to achieve better results. The company focuses on empowering ad buyers with tools and insights to maximize their marketing effectiveness in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Read More
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but the latter has weighed on returns as the industry was flat over the past six months.
A consolation is that the S&P 500 hasn’t budged either.
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Global advertising technology leader The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) today announced OpenSincera, a new application that provides the ad tech ecosystem with Sincera’s rich advertising metadata to reveal deeper insights on advertising quality and health of the digital advertising supply chain. Free and open to all participants across the entire advertising industry, OpenSincera will provide metrics on the ad experience such as ads-to-content ratio, page weight, average ads-in-view, and ad refresh rate.
Shares of advertising software maker The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD)
jumped 11.3% in the afternoon session after the major indices popped (Nasdaq +3.4%, S&P 500 +2.5%) in response to the positive outcome of U.S.-China trade negotiations, as both sides agreed to pause some tariffs for 90 days, signaling a potential turning point in ongoing tensions. This rollback cuts U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods to 30% and Chinese tariffs on U.S. imports to 10%, giving companies breathing room to reset inventories and supply chains.
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However, their paths to becoming $100 billion corporations are ripe with competition, ranging from giants with vast resources to agile upstarts eager to disrupt the status quo.
Shares of advertising software maker The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD)
jumped 17.4% in the afternoon session after the company reported strong first quarter 2025 results which significantly beat analysts' revenue and EBITDA estimates. Sales rose by 25% as more buyers adopted its open-internet tools like Kokai and identity tech such as UID2, now being used by major publishers across the globe. Looking ahead, Q2 guidance for revenue was roughly in line while EBITDA guidance beat. Zooming out, this was a strong quarter, especially considering the weak print last quarter that had investors worried.
The Trade Desk stock is trading higher Friday after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter financial results on Thursday after the market closed.
Advertising software maker The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) reported Q1 CY2025 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 25.4% year on year to $616 million. The company expects next quarter’s revenue to be around $682 million, close to analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.33 per share was 32.4% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
