Digital media company Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) will be reporting earnings this Monday afternoon. Here’s what to expect.

Ziff Davis missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $363.7 million, up 2.9% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates but a miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Ziff Davis’s revenue to be flat year on year, slowing from the 5.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Ziff Davis has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Ziff Davis’s peers in the media & entertainment segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Stride delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.5%, and IAC reported a revenue decline of 10.5%, topping estimates by 0.8%. Stride traded up 14.2% following the results while IAC was down 3%.

Read our full analysis of Stride’s results here and IAC’s results here.

Questions about potential tariffs and corporate tax changes have caused much volatility in 2025. While some of the media & entertainment stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 6.2% on average over the last month. Ziff Davis is down 16.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $43.43 (compared to the current share price of $31.42).

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