Yext Inc
NYSE:YEXT
Yext Inc
Yext, Inc. is an emerging growth company engages in software development. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 1,400 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-04-13. The firm organizes a business's facts to provide official answers to consumer questions, including with the business's own Website and then across search engines and voice assistants. Its platform lets businesses structure the facts about their brands in a database called the Knowledge Graph. The Company’s platform is built to leverage the structured data stored in the Knowledge Graph to deliver a modern search experience on a business’s or organization's own Website, as well as across approximately 200 service and application providers, which it refers to as Knowledge Network, and includes Amazon Alexa, Apple Maps, Bing, Cortana, Facebook, Google, Google Assistant, Google Maps, Siri and Yelp. Its platform includes various features, including listings, pages, and answers, along with its other features and capabilities.
Yext, Inc. is an emerging growth company engages in software development. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 1,400 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-04-13. The firm organizes a business's facts to provide official answers to consumer questions, including with the business's own Website and then across search engines and voice assistants. Its platform lets businesses structure the facts about their brands in a database called the Knowledge Graph. The Company’s platform is built to leverage the structured data stored in the Knowledge Graph to deliver a modern search experience on a business’s or organization's own Website, as well as across approximately 200 service and application providers, which it refers to as Knowledge Network, and includes Amazon Alexa, Apple Maps, Bing, Cortana, Facebook, Google, Google Assistant, Google Maps, Siri and Yelp. Its platform includes various features, including listings, pages, and answers, along with its other features and capabilities.
Strong Q1 Results: Yext outperformed its guidance across all key metrics for the first quarter, driven by improving business health and product innovation.
Product Momentum: The new Scout product has attracted a waitlist of 2,000 customers, with both existing and new prospects showing interest and early beta feedback described as highly positive.
Retention & Value: Both gross and net retention rates improved, reflecting increased customer satisfaction and higher perceived value of Yext's core offerings.
Conservative Outlook: Despite strong momentum, management remains cautious in providing full-year guidance due to ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty.
Capital Flexibility: The company increased buybacks in the quarter and secured a new, larger credit facility with BlackRock to support further M&A and organic investments.
