Marchex, Inc. operates as an analytics and solutions company that helps businesses connect, drive, measure, and convert callers into customers in the United States and Canada. Its products include Marchex Call Analytics, an analytics platform for enterprises, which depend on inbound phone calls to drive sales, appointments, and reservations; Marchex Call Analytics, Conversation Edition that enable actionable insights for enterprise, mid-sized, and small businesses; Text Analytics and Communications, a solution for intelligent messaging, which enables sales, marketing, and operations teams in businesses to engage in two-way communications with field staff, prospects, and customers through text/SMS messages; Call Monitoring for call recording; and Marchex Marketing Edge, an analytics solution for marketers in enterprise, mid-sized and small businesses that depend on inbound phone calls to drive sales, appointments and reservations. The company's Marchex Sales Engagement products comprise Marchex Engage, which combines Marchex artificial intelligence and machine learning with call monitoring and scoring services; Marchex Spotlight, a product for corporate and regional managers; Marchex Engage for Automotive; and Marchex Platform Services that allows businesses to add Marchex conversation intelligence to their existing workflows and enabling them to decode what happens in their conversations with customers. Marchex, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Marchex (MCHX) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.01 per share in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. This compares to loss of $0.01 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
A quarter ago, it was expected that this advertising and marketing company would post a loss of $0.02 per share when it actually produced a loss of $0.01, delivering a surprise of 50%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times.
Marchex, which belongs to the Zacks Internet - Services industry, posted revenues of $12.55 million for the quarter ended September 2024, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 0.33%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $12.78 million. The company has not been able to beat consensus revenue estimates over the last four quarters.
The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.
Marchex shares have added about 30.9% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 21.9%.
What's Next for Marchex?
While Marchex has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?
There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.
Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.
Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Marchex: mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is -$0.01 on $12.35 million in revenues for the coming quarter and -$0.04 on $48.62 million in revenues for the current fiscal year.
Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Internet - Services is currently in the top 24% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
One other stock from the same industry, Eventbrite (EB), is yet to report results for the quarter ended September 2024. The results are expected to be released on November 7.
This company is expected to post quarterly loss of $0.13 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -30%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days.
Eventbrite's revenues are expected to be $75.74 million, down 7.1% from the year-ago quarter.
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Marchex (MCHX) Reports Q3 Loss, Lags Revenue Estimates

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to make a purchase, is that they expect to make money. Today we look at one noteworthy recent insider buy.
At Marchex, there was insider buying on Tuesday, by Chief Executive Officer Edwin A. Miller who purchased 200,000 shares for a cost of $1.36 each, for a trade totaling $272,000. Before this latest buy, Miller purchased MCHX on 3 other occasions during the past year, for a total investment of $24,996 at an average of $1.38 per share. Marchex is trading up about 13.2% on the day Thursday. So far Miller is in the green, up about 20.6% on their purchase based on today's trading high of $1.64.
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