4-Quarter Review: Fitbit Beat EPS Estimates By 137%, But Stock Is Down 54%

Fitbit Inc FIT 1.55% continues to deliver quarter after quarter of blowout earnings, and the market just doesn’t seem to care. Oppenheimer analyst Andrew Uerkwitz cares.

Uerkowitz pointed out Fitbit has delivered an average consensus earnings beat of 137 percent over the past four quarters. Yet despite the consistent earnings upside, the stock is down 54 percent in that time.

Uerkowitz believes market guidance expectations are finally appropriately set headed into Q2 earnings season, and Fitbit could be in the position to deliver data that will ease market fears about the long-term picture.

“Repeat customers, new product transaction, importance of digital health, and healthy gross margins could be areas where we get positive data points,” Uerkowitz explained in a note on Wednesday.

Once the market is reassured about the future, he believes investors will shift their focus to Fitbit’s severe undervaluation.

Uerkowitz sees…

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