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原文標題：Facebook shares plunge more than 20% on weak earnings
         , big forecast miss
原文連結：https://reurl.cc/QjEmp5
發布時間：2 20223:31 PM
原文內容：

Facebook shares tumbled more than 20% in extended trading on Wednesday after
the company reported disappointing earnings, gave weak guidance and said user
growth has stagnated.

Here are the results:

Earnings per share: $3.67 vs $3.84 expected, according to a Refinitiv survey
of analysts
Revenue: $33.67 billion vs $33.4 billion expected, according to Refinitiv
Facebook also missed estimates with user numbers.

Daily Active Users (DAUs): 1.93 billion vs 1.95 billion expected by analysts,
according to StreetAccount
Monthly Active Users (MAUs): 2.91 billion vs 2.95 billion expected by
analysts, according to StreetAccount
Average Revenue per User (ARPU): $11.57 vs $11.38 expected by analysts,
according to Street Account

The company, which was recently renamed to Meta, issued disappointing
guidance for the first quarter in addition to coming up short on its
fourth-quarter profit and user numbers. Daily Active Users (DAUs) on Facebook
were slightly down in the fourth quarter compared to the previous quarter,
marking its first quarterly decline in DAUs on record.

Facebook said revenue in the first quarter will be $27 billion to $29
billion, while analysts were expecting sales of $30.15 billion, according to
Refinitiv. That would mean 3% to 11% year-over-year growth, while analysts
were expecting about 15%, according to Refinitiv.

Facebook said it’s being hit by a combination of factors, including privacy
changes to Apple’s iOS and macroeconomic challenges. It blamed the
lower-than-expected growth in part on inflation and supply chain issues that
are impacting advertisers’ budgets.

There’s also a shift to products that don’t generate as much revenue as its
core news feed. For example, people are spending more time on its Reels
videos.

“On the impressions side, we expect continued headwinds from both increased
competition for people’s time and a shift of engagement within our apps
towards video surfaces like Reels, which monetize at lower rates than Feed
and Stories,” Facebook said.

The report is Facebook’s first since changing the name of its parent company
to Meta, which is a nod to the metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the
name change in October following a series of troubling reports about Facebook
that stemmed from leaked documents shared by a former employee with
journalists, lawmakers and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

With the name change to Meta comes a new reporting structure. The company
said in its last earnings report that it will break out its hardware
division, Facebook Reality Labs, into a separate division. Its core business
will be Facebook’s Family of Apps (FoA), including Instagram, Messenger and
WhatsApp.

Meta said its Family of Apps saw revenue of $32.79 billion with operating
income of $15.89 billion in the fourth quarter. Its Reality Labs segment made
$877 million in revenue in the quarter with an operating loss of $3.3 billion.

For the fourth quarter, Facebook is proving to be an outlier among the top
tech companies. Its results come a day after Alphabet cruised past estimates,
sending its stock higher on Wednesday. Apple and Microsoft also topped
estimates on profit and revenue. Despite a January stock slump across tech,
the industry giants, other than Netflix, have delivered uplifting earnings
reports, reminding investors of the power of their dominant businesses even
in a challenging macro environment.

As of Wednesday’s close, the company’s shares are down about 4% this year.

心得/評論：

EPS 不如預期
財報展望不如預期
活躍用戶成長趨緩

META 現在盤後 -21%
市值蒸發快 200B
這比 NFLX 還誇張
搞不好有創什麼史上一天跌掉最多市值紀錄

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