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01 May 2025, 10:57
Etsy Q1 2025 Earnings Summary
Etsy's Q1 2025 results showed resilience amid marketplace challenges, with flat revenue growth and stable profitability, offset by a significant goodwill impairment.
Key Financials:
- Gross merchandise sales (GMS): $2.79 billion (down 6.5% year-over-year)
- Etsy marketplace GMS: $2.3 billion (down 8.9%)
- Depop saw highest GMS since acquisition in 2021
- Revenue: $651.2 million (up 0.8%)
- Marketplace revenue: $458.5 million (down 1.8%)
- Services revenue: $192.7 million (up 7.7%)
- Take rate: 23.3% (up from 21.6%)
- Net loss: $52.1 million (vs. $63.0 million income in Q1 2024)
- Includes $101.7 million impairment to Reverb goodwill
- Net loss margin: (8.0%)
- Adjusted EBITDA: $171.1 million (up 1.9%)
- Margin: 26.3% (up 30 basis points)
Operational Metrics:
- Active buyers: 94.8 million (down 1.7%)
- Etsy active buyers: 88.5 million (down 3.4%)
- Habitual buyers: 6.2 million (down 11%)
- GMS per buyer: $120 (down 3.5%)
- Active sellers: 8.1 million (down 11.3%)
- Etsy active sellers: 5.4 million
- Reverb announced to be sold; transaction expected to close in the coming months
Strategic Highlights:
- Etsy app hit highest-ever GMS share, with stronger engagement and user growth
- AI and ML improvements enhanced product recommendations, app navigation, chatbot support, and seller tools
- Rolled out checkout integration for YouTube ads and partnered with OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot for new buyer channels
- Etsy Insider loyalty program closed beta expanded
- Depop maintained its position as fastest-growing U.S. online resale apparel platform (Consumer Edge data)
- Reverb improved user experience with MSRP visibility and shipping tools; seller participation reached record highs
Cash and Liquidity:
- Cash and investments: $997.2 million
- Operating cash flow: $49.2 million
- Share repurchases: $189 million (3.7 million shares)
- Long-term debt: $2.29 billion
- Net cash decreased by $162 million during the quarter
Guidance for Q2 2025:
- GMS decline similar to or slightly better than Q1 2025
- Take rate to remain at Q1 level (~23.3%)
- Adjusted EBITDA margin expected around 25%
Overall, Etsy is investing in personalized buyer experiences and operational efficiency, while navigating consumer softness and positioning for long-term growth through AI and marketplace differentiation.
Etsy's Q1 2025 results showed resilience amid marketplace challenges, with flat revenue growth and stable profitability, offset by a significant goodwill impairment.
Key Financials:
- Gross merchandise sales (GMS): $2.79 billion (down 6.5% year-over-year)
- Etsy marketplace GMS: $2.3 billion (down 8.9%)
- Depop saw highest GMS since acquisition in 2021
- Revenue: $651.2 million (up 0.8%)
- Marketplace revenue: $458.5 million (down 1.8%)
- Services revenue: $192.7 million (up 7.7%)
- Take rate: 23.3% (up from 21.6%)
- Net loss: $52.1 million (vs. $63.0 million income in Q1 2024)
- Includes $101.7 million impairment to Reverb goodwill
- Net loss margin: (8.0%)
- Adjusted EBITDA: $171.1 million (up 1.9%)
- Margin: 26.3% (up 30 basis points)
Operational Metrics:
- Active buyers: 94.8 million (down 1.7%)
- Etsy active buyers: 88.5 million (down 3.4%)
- Habitual buyers: 6.2 million (down 11%)
- GMS per buyer: $120 (down 3.5%)
- Active sellers: 8.1 million (down 11.3%)
- Etsy active sellers: 5.4 million
- Reverb announced to be sold; transaction expected to close in the coming months
Strategic Highlights:
- Etsy app hit highest-ever GMS share, with stronger engagement and user growth
- AI and ML improvements enhanced product recommendations, app navigation, chatbot support, and seller tools
- Rolled out checkout integration for YouTube ads and partnered with OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot for new buyer channels
- Etsy Insider loyalty program closed beta expanded
- Depop maintained its position as fastest-growing U.S. online resale apparel platform (Consumer Edge data)
- Reverb improved user experience with MSRP visibility and shipping tools; seller participation reached record highs
Cash and Liquidity:
- Cash and investments: $997.2 million
- Operating cash flow: $49.2 million
- Share repurchases: $189 million (3.7 million shares)
- Long-term debt: $2.29 billion
- Net cash decreased by $162 million during the quarter
Guidance for Q2 2025:
- GMS decline similar to or slightly better than Q1 2025
- Take rate to remain at Q1 level (~23.3%)
- Adjusted EBITDA margin expected around 25%
Overall, Etsy is investing in personalized buyer experiences and operational efficiency, while navigating consumer softness and positioning for long-term growth through AI and marketplace differentiation.
