Steve Huffman, Co-founder and CEO of Reddit, presented at the WSJ Tech Live conference on Montage Laguna Beach, California, on October 21, 2024 Speech.
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reddit The company reported in its fourth-quarter earnings that stocks fell more than 15% on Wednesday.
Compared with LSEG estimates, the company’s performance:
- Earnings per share: 36 cents, estimated 25 cents
- income: $428 million Estimated to be $405 million
The only unique feature of global daily activity has increased by 39% from the same period last year to an average of 101.7 million in the fourth quarter. The estimated one behind Wall Street is 103.1 million.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a letter to shareholders that changes in Google’s search algorithm caused some “volatility” in the fourth quarter, but the company’s search-related traffic was first The quarter has resumed.
“What happened is not uncommon – the referrals of searches fluctuate from time to time, and they mainly affect logged in users,” Hoffman wrote. “Our team has navigated many algorithm updates and has done so in effectively adapting to these latest changes.” very good.”
Reddit benefits from it Google Search Update And for the past year and a half, social companies have called it internal site improvements for logged-in users that have helped them gain a large number of new and redirected users. Reddit said it is working to convince logged in users to create accounts in the form of logged in users, which is more profitable for its business.
Dauq grew 27% to 46.1 million in the quarter, while Dauq rose 51% to 55.6 million, the company said.
Despite the lack of user numbers, the company otherwise reported a strong quarter and provided optimistic guidance.
Reddit’s sales in the quarter rose 71% from $250 million a year ago, the fastest growth rate in any quarter since 2022.
The company said first-quarter sales will be $330 million to $370 million in the average analyst estimate of $358 million.
A year ago, net income almost tripled to $71 million or 36 cents per share, from $18.5 million or breakeven of earnings per share a year ago. Reddit reported adjusted earnings of $154 million in the fourth quarter, an analyst expects $128 million.
Reddit’s fourth-quarter earnings followed several other online advertising technology companies that recently reported their latest quarterly earnings.
last week, Amazon Report Fourth quarter revenue, explain Its online advertising business has a record of $17.29 billion, an increase of 18% from the same period last year. In the fourth quarter revenue, Pinterest explain Sales volume During this period, it increased by 18% year-on-year to $1.15 billion.
Also last week, letter It said its Google ad sales increased 11% from sales a year ago, while YouTube ad revenue rose 14% to $10.47 billion Fourth quarter. BreakAt the same time, report Fourth quarter revenue It increased by 14% year-on-year to $1.56 billion.
In late January Yuan explain Its fourth-quarter revenue was $48.39 billion, up 21% from the previous year. Microsoft return Report Its news advertising sales rose 21% year-on-year in its latest quarterly earnings. Microsoft did not disclose the unit’s specific quarterly sales data.
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