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Sprout Social (SPT) guidance and outlook
Sprout Social (SPT) raised its guidance on Nov 3, 2026: Revenue $495M–$496M for FY2026; Operating income $77.8M–$78.8M for FY2026; Operating margin 18% for Q4 2026; Operating margin 30% for FY2026. Sprout Social's 10-Q filed Nov 4, 2026 makes 28 forward-looking statements.
Guidance and outlook
Latest guidance
| Metric | Period | Range | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | FY2026 | $495M–$496M | reaffirmed |
| Operating income | FY2026 | $77.8M–$78.8M | new |
| Operating margin | Q4 2026 | 18% | raised |
| Revenue | FY2026 | +30% | new |
| Operating margin | FY2026 | 30% | new |
From the earnings release filed Nov 3, 2026 (8-K on EDGAR).
Forward-looking statements, 10-Q filed Nov 4, 2026
- This revenue has historically represented approximately 1% of our revenue and is expected to be immaterial for the foreseeable future.
- Our tiered subscription-based model allows our customers to choose among four core plans to meet their needs.
- We believe macroeconomic uncertainty could persist, and as a result, we expect that some or all of these negative trends may emerge or recur during future quarters.
- In addition, as we continue to focus on expanding our enterprise customer base, we have experienced and expect to continue to experience longer and more expansive average sale cycles and increased pricing pressure, which may be exacerbated by the macroeconomic and geopolitical factors described above.
- We expect these trends to continue as we remain focused on our most sophisticated prospects and customers.
- We intend to continue to invest in enhancing awareness of our brand, creating additional uses for our products and developing more products, features and functionality of existing products, which we believe are vital to achieving increased adoption of our platform.
- We believe global demand for our platform and offerings will continue to increase as awareness of our platform in international markets grows.
- We will continue supporting our international operations and will evaluate opportunities to invest in local sales, customer support and customer success resources in select markets as appropriate.
- has historically represented approximately 1% of our revenue and is expected to be immaterial for the foreseeable future.
- Although we expect our cost of revenue to increase in absolute dollars as our business and revenue grows, we expect it to remain stable as a percentage of our revenue over time.
- We expect our gross profit and gross margin to increase as our business grows over time.
- We expect to continue investing in research and development as we focus on developing new features and enhancements to our plan offerings.
Sprout Social's latest quarter
Sprout Social, Q3 2026: revenue $125M (+8% year over year), operating margin -5.5%, net loss $6.5M, operating cash flow $10.7M. The chart follows the revenue to costs, profit and cash.
Questions
Did Sprout Social raise or lower its guidance?
Sprout Social (SPT) raised its guidance on Nov 3, 2026: Revenue $495M–$496M for FY2026; Operating income $77.8M–$78.8M for FY2026; Operating margin 18% for Q4 2026; Operating margin 30% for FY2026.
What does Sprout Social expect?
This revenue has historically represented approximately 1% of our revenue and is expected to be immaterial for the foreseeable future. Our tiered subscription-based model allows our customers to choose among four core plans to meet their needs. We believe macroeconomic uncertainty could persist, and as a result, we expect that some or all of these negative trends may emerge or recur during future quarters.
Updated Nov 8, 2026. Read automatically from SEC filings and public data; errors are possible. Not investment advice.