Shopify plunged Wednesday after the Canadian company that helps retailers with online sales warned of easing revenue growth and thinner margins in the current quarter.
That caught a lot of investors off guard after the company rebounded strongly from the pandemic and started 2024 with a bang.
Shopify Inc. is predicting that revenue will climb by a high-teens percentage rate for the second quarter, well below the 23% jump in the first quarter.
The e-commerce company anticipates quarterly gross margin will decrease by about 50 basis points compared with the first quarter, in which its gross margin was 51.4%.