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After posting what was likely its worst earnings report ever in Q4 2024, Trade Desk NASDAQ: TTD roared back with a vengeance in Q1 2025. The communication services company's final report for 2024 saw it miss internal expectations on revenue for the first time in 33 quarters.

The Trade Desk is a market leader in programmatic advertising, and continues to take market share in the industry. Antitrust actions against Google and Meta are creating a more favorable competitive environment, potentially accelerating TTD's market share gains. Recent share price volatility was driven by a rare earnings miss and conservative guidance, but Q1 results exceeded expectations, reaffirming the business outlook.

The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite index has been under pressure this year and is slightly in the red as of this writing. This is due to weakness in technology stocks on account of the tariff-fueled turmoil and other factors such as questions surrounding the viability of huge investments being made in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

The Nasdaq-100 plunged earlier this year following the Liberation Day tariffs, sinking into a bear market. Over the past few weeks, however, the index has come roaring back and now sits less than 5% below the peak it hit in February.

The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price.

The tech-focused Nasdaq-100 is home to some of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies around. As of May 14, most of the stocks in the index are up year to date.

When President Trump announced the imposition of worldwide tariffs last month, the reaction from investors was swift and severe. Each of the major market indexes fell into correction territory -- marked by a decline of more than 10%.

The Trade Desk's ongoing transition with Kokai has already delivered robust FQ1'25 performance and promising FQ2'25 guidance, with it signaling its improved ad monetization. These may be significantly aided by the potential opening up of walled gardens to open Internet, with it potentially driving TTD's renewed DSP growth prospects. Even so, readers may want to closely monitor TTD's future performance, especially given AppLovin, APP's entry into the CTV/ e-commerce advertising market.

Investors of The Trade Desk (TTD 1.42%) have endured a terrible year, with the stock down 33% in 2025, first triggered when the company missed its own quarterly revenue in February.

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