Digital Turbine Inc.APPS is expanding its publisher network, strengthening its advertising ecosystem and creating opportunities to scale its mobile advertising business. App Growth Platform (“AGP”) revenues increased 55.9% year over year to $56.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2027. Advertising exchange revenues rose by $14.3 million, primarily due to onboarding new publishers and demand partners, particularly in Asia Pacific (APAC) and China.
Management said AGP supply continues to expand as Digital Turbine broadens its software development kit footprint. Publisher growth is occurring globally, with strong contributions from APAC, while non-gaming and AI-focused publishers are also seeking monetization opportunities. This broadens inventory and strengthens the platform’s ability to serve advertisers across app categories.
The expanding publisher base is reinforcing Digital Turbine’s demand-and-supply flywheel. Nearly 3 billion devices and more than 80,000 apps use its advertising technology. As supply expands, the company can attract advertiser demand and improve monetization. DTX revenues rose 54% year over year, reflecting continued onboarding of publishers and demand partners, particularly in APAC. About 80% of advertiser spend on DTX came from non-gaming partners, highlighting demand diversification.
Higher advertiser demand is supporting monetization through improved pricing and fill rates, particularly for premium placements. Brand and DTX rates each increased more than 40%, while AI-powered first-party data and machine learning are helping improve advertiser returns. Management noted that brands are shifting spending toward apps as AI contributes to declining open-web traffic.
The momentum supports Digital Turbine’s growth outlook. Management raised fiscal 2027 guidance to revenues of $650-$670 million from the prior guidance of $630-$650 million and adjusted EBITDA to $145-$155 million from the previous guidance of $135-$145 million. Continued publisher additions, expanding app supply, stronger advertiser demand and AI-driven optimization could support AGP growth and increase advertising marketplace scale.
ZETA & APP’s AI Initiatives vs. APPS
Zeta Global Holdings Corp.ZETA is evolving into an intelligent AI infrastructure platform by combining proprietary data, workflow automation and activation to help enterprises make better real-time decisions and take action. Built on its proprietary data cloud, Athena enables customers to interact with the platform using natural language, while Zeta Business Intelligence extends the platform beyond marketing by transforming business and customer data into intelligence, insights and real-time actions. Zeta believes growing adoption of Athena, along with its OpenAI, Snowflake and Palantir partnerships, will accelerate enterprise adoption and support durable long-term growth.
AppLovin CorporationAPP is strengthening its advertising platform by investing in more sophisticated AI models and compute infrastructure to improve advertiser performance and platform efficiency. AppLovin said stronger model performance enables advertisers to profitably increase spending at their target return on advertising spend, while recent model improvements have already contributed to a strong start to the third quarter of fiscal 2026. AppLovin expects continued investments in model development, creative tools and strategic partnerships to expand advertiser adoption and support long-term growth.
APPS’ Price Performance, Valuation & Estimates
Digital Turbine’s shares have skyrocketed 207.2% over the past three months compared with the industry’s 13.9% growth.
Image Source: Zacks Investment Research
From a valuation standpoint, APPS trades at a trailing price-to-sales ratio of 2.50X, below the industry’s average of 5.79X. It has a Value Score of A.
Image Source: Zacks Investment Research
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for APPS’ fiscal 2027 earnings implies year-over-year growth of 53.6%, whereas the same for fiscal 2028 indicates an uptick of 33.7%. Estimates for fiscal 2027 and 2028 have been revised upward by 2 cents and 9 cents to 86 cents and $1.15, respectively, over the past 30 days.
Zacks' Research Chief Names "Stock Most Likely to Double"
Our team of experts has just released the 5 stocks with the greatest probability of gaining +100% or more in the coming months. Of those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian highlights the one stock set to climb highest.
This top pick is a little-known satellite-based communications firm. Space is projected to become a trillion dollar industry, and this company's customer base is growing fast. Analysts have forecasted a major revenue breakout in 2025. Of course, all our elite picks aren't winners but this one could far surpass earlier Zacks' Stocks Set to Double like Hims & Hers Health, which shot up +209%.
Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report
Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd,
racist or sexually-oriented language. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another
person will not be tolerated. Be Truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone
or anything. Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism
that is degrading to another person. Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on
each comment to let us know of abusive posts. Share with Us. We'd love to hear eyewitness
accounts, the history behind an article.
(0) comments
Welcome to the discussion.
Log In
Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
Be Truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything.
Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism that is degrading to another person.
Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.
Share with Us. We'd love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article.