Zoom Video Communications ZM Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know

With revenue and earnings growth expected to pull back in the years ahead, I wouldn’t be surprised to see growth-oriented investors exit their positions in Zoom stock. The slowdown in growth, combined with ongoing macroeconomic headwinds and geopolitical concerns, will put additional downward pressure on Zoom’s valuation for the foreseeable future. As a long-term investor, I don’t ignore past performance, but I’m generally more interested in where the company is heading. Zoom has provided investors with spectacular growth and returns in the past couple of years; however, I don’t see that continuing into the future.

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More importantly, the growth in larger customers — those with more than 10 employees and those spending more than $100,000 in revenue — provides a large base to upsell new features and hardware options as Zoom’s offerings expand. Looking back at the last two years, there may be no stock more representative of the pandemic’s impact on the stock market than Zoom Video Communications (ZM 5.76%). After growing parabolically in 2020, the stock has come crashing back to earth and is down 45% year to date at the time of this writing.

Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool’s board of directors. Luke Meindl has no position in any of the companies mentioned.The Motley Fool owns and recommends Alphabet (A shares), Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Zoom Video Communications. Zoom Video Communications (ZM 5.76%) rewarded shareholders w