Why Ooma Stock Crashed After Crushing on Earnings
Key Points
Ooma beat on earnings but missed on sales last night.
GAAP profits was much weaker than management's reported "non-GAAP earnings."
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VoIP telephone company Ooma (NYSE: OOMA) stock tumbled 11.7% through 12:35 a.m. ET Tuesday after reporting fiscal Q3 2026 earnings last night. The strange thing: Ooma beat on earnings.
Analysts forecast Ooma would earn $0.22 per share on sales of $71.4 million, but Ooma actually earned $0.27. The problem wasn't Ooma's earnings, though. It was Ooma's sales, which missed badly at just $67.6 million.
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Ooma Q3 earnings
Not all the news was bad. Ooma grew sales 4% year over year, and flipped its profits as calculated according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) from negative $0.09 a year ago to $0.05 per share this time around.
Still, there's a world of difference between $0.05, GAAP, and the $0.27 per share Ooma supposedly earned -- which turns out to have been a non-GAAP number. Ooma CEO Eric Stang described the Q3 results as "strong," but they weren't really impressive.
Is Ooma stock a buy?
Nor do I love the company's guidance. Looking ahead through the end of fiscal 2026, Ooma projects between $270.3 million to $270.9 million, with earnings between $1 and $1.02 per share.
With Ooma stock costing only $11 a share, that may not sound bad. But recall that the $1-ish Ooma will earn this year is a non-GAAP number. Considering how much lower Q3 GAAP profit was compared to non-GAAP, I think it's safe to assume GAAP earnings for the whole year will end up looking similarly weak. Indeed, analysts polled by S&P Global Market Intelligence see Ooma earning no more than $0.20.
On an $11 stock, that's a rich 55 times earnings multiple. In my book, that makes Ooma stock a sell.
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