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WPP PLC (LSE:WPP) shareholders hoping for a turnaround in 2025 may be left disappointed, according to a leading investment bank, which has kept its 'sell' rating on the advertising giant and lowered its price target from 580p to 520p. UBS's latest update paints a gloomy picture.

WPP plc (NYSE:WPP ) Q1 2025 Results Conference Call April 25, 2025 4:30 AM ET Company Participants Mark Read - CEO Joanne Wilson - CFO Conference Call Participants Nicolas Langlet - BNP Paribas Simon Baker - Bernstein Adrien de Saint Hilaire - Bank of America Steve Liechti - Deutsche Numis Lisa Yang - Goldman Sachs Adam Berlin - UBS Laura Metayer - Morgan Stanley Julien Roch - Barclays Mark Read Thank you very much, and good morning, everybody. Welcome to our first quarter trading update.

WPP PLC (LSE:WPP) said it was too early to judge the full impact of President Trump's new tariffs, but acknowledged that trade disruption was adding to an already cautious backdrop for clients. The advertising group reported a slowdown in business for the first quarter of 2025, although results came in line with expectations and full-year guidance was reiterated.

WPP confirmed its guidance for 2025 after a start to the year that was slightly weaker than analysts expected, but cautioned on the impact of global tariffs on its clients and the economy.

PHILADELPHIA , April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic media healthcare agency CMI Media Group, a WPP company (NYSE: WPP), today announces that their Empower™ SaaS-operating system's automated media orchestration (AMO) application has achieved the milestone of over 200 campaigns in market, representing $1 Billion in incremental revenue for more than 25 CMI clients. With AMO, CMI Media Group has built an application that solves the problem of orchestrating paid media at scale, connecting to and working in concert with client mar tech stacks that support owned media, web personalization, and CRM.

Ad Council and Alzheimer's Association's campaign highlights early warning signs that can be mistaken for normal aging, with emphasis on reaching Black Americans, who are twice as likely to develop the disease NEW YORK , April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ad Council, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association, today launched new public service advertisements (PSAs) to help people recognize the early signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in their loved ones. The new suite of PSAs are the latest in the award-winning "Some Things Come with Age" campaign, which continues to encourage pre-care partners to learn about the early warning signs of Alzheimer's.

PHILADELPHIA , April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CMI Media Group, WPP's healthcare specialty agency (NYSE: WPP) and Compas will be working with Microsoft Advertising to support healthcare brands to help accelerate their growth and enable them to reach their audience across the Microsoft ecosystem and beyond. Current clients of CMI Media Group can discuss the benefits with their account leads.

The London-listed ad group said that InfoSum—which will join its media investment group GroupM—will help it create marketing solutions that are enhanced by AI.

WPP (WPP) has become technically an oversold stock now, which implies exhaustion of the heavy selling pressure on it. This, combined with strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in revising earnings estimates higher, indicates a potential trend reversal for the stock in the near term.

"Will WPP ever grow again?" UBS pondered this as it reiterated a 'sell' recommendation on the advertising and marketing giant after mulling a weak set of results last week and a 25% decline in the shares so far this year.