Redfin reports Q2 EPS (25c), consensus (31c)

Reports Q2 revenue $275.6M, consensus $275.7M. “In a declining market, Redfin improved our second-quarter net income by $50 million,” said Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. “We expect to break-even on an adjusted-EBITDA basis over the next 12 months rather than in 2023, which is a setback, but still we project that our adjusted EBITDA this year will improve by more than $140 million. We lost market share due to one-time setbacks from agent layoffs and the closure of RedfinNow, but we expect to return to quarter-over-quarter gains in the second half, as Redfin.com has been competing better for traffic. The year-over-year change in visitors to Redfin.com was 17 points better in the second quarter than it was for the two largest portals to for-sale listings, an acceleration from our first-quarter advantage of 12 points. Gross margins in our core real-estate-services business improved by nearly two percentage points. We believe Redfin is set up for profitable growth.”