Storytel - Swedish audiobook growth company

Now I finally had time to look at this in more detail. I have somewhat mixed feelings about this: the train is going in the right direction regarding profitability and EPS quite well, but growth is indeed modest.

Pros

  • Churn is on a downward trend
  • Marketing costs barely grew even though revenue increased somewhat.
  • Profitability is improving rapidly, and the full-year forecast was even slightly raised.

Question marks:

  • Average subscribers grew by only about 2% from the previous quarter (and ~10% from a year ago) - can this even be called a growth company anymore?
  • Streaming revenue growth is modest (Q1-Q3/25 increase of only 4% YoY). Profitability can be improved up to a certain point, but I believe there should be more growth as well.
  • Of course, now that profitability is reaching a better level, perhaps we will start to see more rapid expansion in the future?

Here are the compiled figures:

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