Upwork, Inc. UPWK

Solo founder built a $13K/month mobile game with a lightweight tech stack: Cursor, ChatGPT, React Native, Firebase, Discord Nitro, Vercel, Unity Asset Store, and Fiverr.Ken spent 12 years in big tech (Meta, Amazon) before quitting to build Harpagia, a text-based idle RPG. He hadn’t written a line of code in 4 years when he started.

Upwork (UPWK) has attracted fresh attention after recent trading left the stock around $8.52, with one day, week and month returns clustered close to flat, while the past 3 months show a mid single digit gain. Against that backdrop, Upwork’s share price return over the past year has fallen more than 50%, with the 90 day share price return of 5.8% hinting at stabilising sentiment even as the 5 year total shareholder return remains deeply negative. Scan beyond Upwork and compare this setup with...

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What a brutal six months it’s been for Upwork. The stock has dropped 30.7% and now trades at $9.10, rattling many shareholders. This was partly due to its softer quarterly results and may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Upwork Inc. (Nasdaq: UPWK), the world’s human and AI-powered work marketplace, today announced that senior management will participate in a fireside chat at The Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in San Francisco, CA on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 3:05 p.m. PT/6:05 p.m. ET. A live webcast of the fireside chat will be available in the Events and Presentations section of Upwork’s Investor Relations website at investors.upwork.com. A webca

On August 10, Upwork (NASDAQ:UPWK) reported second-quarter 2026 results that beat its own targets on profit even as the freelance marketplace confronts a shrinking core business. Revenue landed at $191.7 million, the high end of guidance, and adjusted EBITDA came in at $64.1 million, above the top of its range. Yet management also lowered its […]

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Upwork’s second quarter was marked by ongoing challenges tied to the accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and changing patterns in client acquisition. Management emphasized that increased AI automation, especially for lower-complexity work, and headwinds from shifting Google Search dynamics weighed on active client numbers. CEO Hayden Brown described the environment as “a transition of work broadly,” noting the impact of rapid AI-related automation and a deterioration in search-

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Upwork (NasdaqGS: UPWK) has launched an MCP server that connects its marketplace with popular AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT. The integration allows clients and freelancers to post jobs and hire talent directly from supported AI platforms through automated workflows. The move is intended to embed Upwork more deeply into everyday AI driven work processes used by businesses and independent professionals. This rollout comes as demand grows for flexible, AI powered workforce solutions that...

Shares of online work marketplace Upwork (NASDAQ:UPWK) fell 10.2% in the morning session after the company reported second-quarter results accompanied by weak forward guidance, prompting multiple analysts to lower their price targets. While the company beat earnings and revenue estimates for the second quarter, it lowered its full-year guidance for both revenue and earnings per share. Following the release, Scotiabank lowered its price target on the stock to $10 from $15, and RBC Capital adjuste

Online work marketplace Upwork (NASDAQ:UPWK) announced better-than-expected revenue in Q2 CY2026, but sales fell by 1.7% year on year to $191.7 million. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $180 million was less impressive, coming in 7.1% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.41 per share was 19.7% above analysts’ consensus estimates.