Shopify ($SHOP) – Channel Checks – June 22, 2024
Oppenheimer issued a bullish note on Shopify this week. It’s incredible how hated this stock was at $50 and how fashionable it suddenly is to like it once more at $65… but I digress. The source of the bullishness is highly encouraging. It stems from strong merchant momentum leading to great top line growth for this year and heading into next year. Specifically, it sees this growth offsetting temporary take-rate pressure via mix-shift to larger enterprise customers. All in all, its channel checks indicate $67.5 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV) for Q2 compared to $65.5 billion consensus. A 3% beat would be a large one for this specific metric.