Twitter Crashes After User-Growth Tumbles

What do you call a “growth” stock that has stopped growing?

TWTR!

While earnings (top and bottom line were ok):

  • *TWITTER 4Q ADJ. EPS 16C, EST. 12C
  • *TWITTER 4Q REV. $710M, EST. $709.9M

Not only did they reduce guidance:

  • *TWITTER SEES 1Q REV $595M-$610M, EST. $627.6M; SHARES FALL 11%

And miss expectations on usewr growth overall…

  • TWITTER 4Q TOTAL MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS 320M, EST. 324M

But the “growth” in users has ceased… with US monthly active users declining by 1 million to 65mm in Q4:

Don’t worry they note however:

  • *TWITTER SEEN JAN MONTHLY ACTIVES BOUNCE BACK TO 3Q LEVELS

Must have been a weather thing?

 

And this the reaction in the stock – an 11% crash after hours to new record lows…

 

Time for some buybacks?


via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1TTc5n5 Tyler Durden

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