Smart property technology provider Alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM) will be reporting earnings this Thursday after market hours. Here’s what investors should know.

Alarm.com beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $256.4 million, up 6.6% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and full-year EPS guidance exceeding analysts’ expectations.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Alarm.com’s revenue to grow 3.6% year on year to $250.8 million, slowing from the 7.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.64 per share.

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. Alarm.com has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years by 2.4% on average.

Looking at Alarm.com’s peers in the software-as-a-service segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Manhattan Associates delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.2%, and Fastly reported revenues up 22.8%, topping estimates by 6.9%. Manhattan Associates traded down 5.1% following the results while Fastly was up 72.3%.

Read our full analysis of Manhattan Associates’s results here and Fastly’s results here.

The outlook for 2025 remains clouded by potential trade policy changes and corporate tax discussions, which could impact business confidence and growth. While some of the software-as-a-service stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 13.6% on average over the last month. Alarm.com is down 7.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $66.33 (compared to the current share price of $45.41).

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