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The selloff has been brutal
The Trade Desk has spent the last stretch getting treated like a piñata, with investors fretting about competitive pressure and whether big clients like Omnicom and Publicis will squeeze harder on service agreements. Add Amazon's DSP muscling in on pricing and data, and you get a stock that’s been punished for all the things the market can imagine going wrong.
Why bulls are peeking back in
The pitch here is basically: yes, growth is slower and margins are under pressure, but the market may have already overcooked the doom-and-gloom. The company still sports more than 25% free cash flow margins, which is the kind of number that makes value investors stop doomscrolling for a second.
Cheap, or just cheap-looking?
At about 11x forward earnings, TTD is being priced like a company with no comeback script. Yet analysts still expect 16% EPS growth, which is a pretty decent plot twist if the business can stabilize and avoid a full-on customer renegotiation horror movie.
Big picture
This isn’t a victory lap. It’s more like the market finally admitting the stock has been through the wringer. If the competitive drama doesn’t get worse, any hint of stabilization could turn this into a classic “the bad news was already in the price” setup.