Alarm.com (ALRM) Q1 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

May 07, 2025 at 03:09 AM EDT

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Home security and automation software provider Alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow afternoon. Here’s what to expect.

Alarm.com beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $242.2 million, up 7.1% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ billings estimates but full-year guidance of slowing revenue growth.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Alarm.com’s revenue to grow 4.9% year on year to $234.3 million, slowing from the 6.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.47 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 only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 1.9% on average.

Looking at Alarm.com’s peers in the software-as-a-service segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Manhattan Associates delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.3%, and Pegasystems reported revenues up 44.1%, topping estimates by 33.1%. Manhattan Associates traded up 5.8% following the results while Pegasystems was also up 28.8%.

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

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the software-as-a-service segment, with share prices up 17% on average over the last month. Alarm.com is up 6.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $69.88 (compared to the current share price of $52.68).

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