The Trade Desk Reports Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results

The Trade Desk also announced an additional $500 million share repurchase authorization.

The Trade Desk, Inc. (“The Trade Desk,” the “Company” or “we”) (NASDAQ: TTD), a provider of a global technology platform for buyers of advertising, today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2025.

“Q3 was another strong quarter for The Trade Desk, with revenue growing to $739 million, representing 18% year-over-year growth,” said Jeff Green, CEO and Co-Founder of The Trade Desk. “Our momentum continues to be fueled by new product innovations we’ve launched across our Kokai platform, which are helping the world’s leading brands unlock the full potential of data-driven advertising. As AI transforms the advertising ecosystem, customers globally are relying on The Trade Desk to enable objective, data-rich buying across channels and partners, to drive real-world outcomes for their businesses. The pace of our innovation reinforces our leadership position across CTV, retail media, and the open internet more broadly. As we close out 2025 and look to the future, we believe The Trade Desk is uniquely positioned to capture more market share as we help advertisers succeed on the open internet and drive measurable business growth through data and AI.”

Third Quarter 2025 Financial Highlights:

The following table summarizes the Company’s unaudited consolidated financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 ($ in millions, except per share amounts):

Third Quarter and Recent Business Highlights:

• Strong Customer Retention: Customer retention remained over 95% during the third quarter, as it has for the past 11 consecutive years.
• Anders Mortensen joins The Trade Desk as Chief Revenue Officer:
  • He brings to The Trade Desk a 25-year track record of successfully scaling advertising businesses, including most recently at Google, where he led one of the largest and fastest-growing advertising business units globally, delivering double-digit growth and expanded market share.
• Strong Financial Profile: Delivered $317 million of Adjusted EBITDA, representing 43% of revenue, and $225 million of cash provided by operating activities in the third quarter, representing the strength of our operating model and our financial discipline.
• New Innovation and Partnership Announcements:
  • Audience Unlimited, a major upgrade to our third-party data marketplace.
  • OpenAds, an open-source auction to promote transparency for buyers and publishers.
  • Pharma ad marketplace, consolidates healthcare professional (HCP) and direct-to-consumer (DTC) targeting and reporting, including integrations with IQVIA and Swoop.
  • Koddi, a leading commerce media platform, integrated with The Trade Desk to bring sponsored product and onsite retail inventory to advertisers, with Gopuff as first retail partner.
• Continued Collaboration and Support for Unified ID 2.0: The Trade Desk is building support for Unified ID 2.0 (UID2), an industry-wide approach to identity that preserves the value of relevant advertising, while putting user control and privacy at the forefront. UID2 is an upgrade and alternative to third-party cookies. Recent partnerships and pledges of integration and support include:
  • IPG’s Axiom integrated UID2 to help marketers connect their campaigns to real-world outcomes.
  • Treasure Data’s CDP integrated UID2 for seamless audience activation and measurement.
• Connected TV (CTV): The Trade Desk offers advertisers access to premium inventory across major networks and streaming services around the world.
  • DIRECTV, in collaboration with The Trade Desk, is planning to develop a custom version of Ventura TV OS.
  • OSN and The Trade Desk partnered to offer advertisers data-driven, premium CTV inventory across the Middle East and North Africa region.
  • DAZN integrated EUID and OpenPath to enable precise, privacy-conscious targeting on its premium live sports inventory across Europe.
• Share Repurchases: The Company used $310 million of cash to repurchase its Class A common stock in the third quarter of 2025. As of September 30, 2025, the Company had $60 million available and authorized for repurchases.
  • In October 2025, the Company used the remaining $60 million authorization under the share repurchase program. The Company also announced that its board of directors approved an additional $500 million under its share repurchase program pursuant to which the Company may purchase its outstanding Class A common stock.
• Industry Recognition:
  • Newsweek America’s Greatest Companies, 2025
  • Forbes America’s Best Companies, 2025

Financial Guidance:

Fourth Quarter 2025 outlook summary:

• Revenue at least $840 million
• Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $375 million

The Company has not provided an outlook for GAAP net income or reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA guidance to net income, the closest corresponding U.S. GAAP measure, because net income outlook is not available without unreasonable efforts on a forward-looking basis due to the variability and complexity with respect to the charges included in the calculation of this GAAP measure; in particular, the measures and effects of our stock-based compensation expense that are directly impacted by unpredictable fluctuations in our share price. The Company expects the variability of the above charges could have a significant and potentially unpredictable impact on our future U.S. GAAP financial results.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

Included within this press release are the non-GAAP financial measures of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin, Non-GAAP net income and Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) that supplement the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations of the Company prepared under generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). Adjusted EBITDA is net income before depreciation and amortization expense; stock-based compensation expense; interest income, net; and provision for income taxes. Adjusted EBITDA margin is Adjusted EBITDA divided by revenue, and Adjusted EBITDA margin’s closest corresponding U.S. GAAP measure is net income margin, which is GAAP net income divided by revenue. Non-GAAP net income excludes charges and the related income tax effects for stock-based compensation. Tax rates on the tax-deductible portions of the stock-based compensation expense approximating 25% to 30% have been used in the computation of non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted EPS. Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP amounts for the periods presented herein are provided in schedules accompanying this release and should be considered together with the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. These non-GAAP measures are not meant as a substitute for GAAP, but are included solely for informational and comparative purposes. The Company’s management believes that this information can assist investors in evaluating the Company's operational trends, financial performance, and cash-generating capacity. Management believes these non-GAAP measures allow investors to evaluate the Company’s financial performance using some of the same measures as management. However, the non-GAAP financial measures should not be regarded as a replacement for or superior to corresponding, similarly captioned, GAAP measures and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies.

Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results Webcast and Conference Call Details

• When: November 6, 2025 at 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time (5:00 P.M. Eastern Time).
• Webcast: A live webcast of the call can be accessed from the Investor Relations section of The Trade Desk’s website at http://investors.thetradedesk.com. Following the call, a replay will be available on the Company’s website.
• Dial-in: To access the call via telephone in North America, please dial 888-506-0062. For callers outside the United States, please dial +1-973-528-0011. Participants should reference the conference call ID code “280315” after dialing in.
• Audio replay: An audio replay of the call will be available beginning about two hours after the call. To listen to the replay in the United States, please dial 877-481-4010 (replay code: 53106). Outside the United States, please dial +1-919-882-2331 (replay code: 53106). The audio replay will be available via telephone until November 13, 2025.

The Trade Desk, Inc. uses its Investor Relations website (http://investors.thetradedesk.com), its X feed (@TheTradeDesk), LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-trade-desk), Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheTradeDesk) and Jeff Green’s LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefftgreen) as a means of disclosing information about the Company and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. The information that is posted through these channels may be deemed material. Accordingly, investors should monitor these channels in addition to The Trade Desk’s press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls and webcasts.

About The Trade Desk

The Trade Desk^™ is a technology company that empowers buyers of advertising. Through its self-service, cloud-based platform, ad buyers can create, manage, and optimize digital advertising campaigns across ad formats and devices. Integrations with major data, inventory, and publisher partners ensure maximum reach and decisioning capabilities, and enterprise APIs enable custom development on top of the platform. Headquartered in Ventura, CA, The Trade Desk has offices across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit thetradedesk.com or follow us on Facebook, X, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to expectations concerning matters that (a) are not historical facts, (b) predict or forecast future events or results, or (c) embody assumptions that may prove to have been inaccurate, including statements relating to industry and market trends, the Company’s growth and financial targets, such as revenue and Adjusted EBITDA and the amount, timing and sources of funding for the Company’s share repurchase program. When words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “will,” “outlook” or similar expressions are used, the Company is making forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot give readers any assurance that such expectations will prove correct. These forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those related to the Company’s ability to maintain and grow its client base and spend through its platform and related offerings, which makes it difficult to evaluate the Company’s business and prospects, the market for programmatic advertising developing slower or differently than the Company’s expectations, the demands and expectations of clients and the ability to attract and retain clients. The actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of numerous factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. These are disclosed in the Company’s reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Form 10-K and any subsequent filings on Forms 10-Q or 8-K, available at www.sec.gov. Readers are urged not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company does not intend to update any forward-looking statement contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date hereof.

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