April 30 (Reuters) – Twilio raised its full-year forecast on Thursday and posted stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, signaling \u200csustained demand for its cloud communications tools \u200cas companies invest in customer engagement and AI-driven services.<\/p>\n
The company’s shares \u200bsurged 18% in extended trading.<\/p>\n
Twilio, which provides messaging, voice and email tools used by companies to communicate with customers, has been working to boost profitability after years of \u200cprioritizing growth.<\/p>\n
The company \u2060has also been repositioning itself around AI-powered customer engagement, aiming to embed more automation \u2060and data-driven capabilities into its platform.<\/p>\n
For 2026, Twilio raised its forecast for revenue growth to 14% to 15%, \u200bfrom 11.5% \u200bto 12.5% previously. It \u200balso lifted its expectations \u200cfor operating income and free cash flow to between $1.08 billion and $1.10 billion.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco-based company reported revenue of $1.41 billion for the first quarter, up 20% from a year earlier and above Wall Street estimates of about $1.34 \u200cbillion, according to data compiled \u200bby LSEG.<\/p>\n
Adjusted earnings per share \u200bof $1.50 also beat expectations \u200bof $1.27.<\/p>\n
Twilio projected second-quarter revenue of $1.42 billion \u200cto $1.43 billion, ahead of analysts’ \u200bestimates, pointing to \u200bcontinued momentum in its core communications business.<\/p>\n
The company reported first-quarter net income of $90 million, or 57 \u200bcents per share, \u200ccompared with $20 million, or 12 cents per share, \u200ba year earlier.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Akash Sriram in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 30 (Reuters) – Twilio raised its full-year forecast on Thursday and posted stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, signaling \u200csustained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,2490,111,139,69,145,209203],"class_list":["post-406159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-customer-engagement","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-twilio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}