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Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

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Re: Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

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Is there any public company that releases earnings in realtime rather than quarterly and/or annually? Has this ever been tried? Is there any rational behind earnings being reported quarterly/annually besides it being aligned with existing regulatory and accounting procedures?

The procedures to produce an SEC report take time and aren't automatic. Management discussion, etc.

As a former professional investor quarterly is fine. i want mgmt focused on running the business, not reporting to investors. Anyone who wants more frequent data so they can trade the stock can hit the road as far as I care.

Re: Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

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Lets not forget that Facebook lost a lot lot of money before finally discovering a way to monetize its services. This is SNAP's first public earnings report. Disclosure: Not a user or stock holder of SNAP

They never lost money at SNAPs rate as a public company.

Re: Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

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Some quick highlights as to why the stock is being punished. > Adjusted Ebitda Loss $188.2M, Est. Loss $176.9M > 1Q Daily Active Users 166M, Est. 168M > 1Q Rev. $149.6M, Est. $158.6M > 1Q Loss/Shr $2.31 I'm guessing the big issue is the miss on Daily active users. This is the same thing that caused the street ot hammer twitter. Rule of thumb for non profitable tech companies.... If you are a company that isn't making…

I do not think that investors are concern about net loss - at least I'm not.

I'm disappointed by anemic growth: Facebook has 18 percent increase year over year. They have ~2B users [1]

This q Snapchat had growth of ~5% which will be about ~20% per year. But they are 10x smaller than Facebook.

[1] Facebook 5/3/17 earning report

Re: Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

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Some quick highlights as to why the stock is being punished. > Adjusted Ebitda Loss $188.2M, Est. Loss $176.9M > 1Q Daily Active Users 166M, Est. 168M > 1Q Rev. $149.6M, Est. $158.6M > 1Q Loss/Shr $2.31 I'm guessing the big issue is the miss on Daily active users. This is the same thing that caused the street ot hammer twitter. Rule of thumb for non profitable tech companies.... If you are a company that isn't making…

Sluggish user growth probably doesn't look much better when Facebook's overt effort to clone their product seems to be working.

Instagram Stories alone already outpaces Snap 200M to 166M. Looks like an uphill battle from here.

http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/14/instagram-stories-more-po...

Re: Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

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Some quick highlights as to why the stock is being punished. > Adjusted Ebitda Loss $188.2M, Est. Loss $176.9M > 1Q Daily Active Users 166M, Est. 168M > 1Q Rev. $149.6M, Est. $158.6M > 1Q Loss/Shr $2.31 I'm guessing the big issue is the miss on Daily active users. This is the same thing that caused the street ot hammer twitter. Rule of thumb for non profitable tech companies.... If you are a company that isn't making…

ARPU being down q4 to q1 makes sense since a lot of the ad revenue happens in q4. Similar trend with FB.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/facebook-average-revenue-per-...

Re: Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

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Some quick highlights as to why the stock is being punished. > Adjusted Ebitda Loss $188.2M, Est. Loss $176.9M > 1Q Daily Active Users 166M, Est. 168M > 1Q Rev. $149.6M, Est. $158.6M > 1Q Loss/Shr $2.31 I'm guessing the big issue is the miss on Daily active users. This is the same thing that caused the street ot hammer twitter. Rule of thumb for non profitable tech companies.... If you are a company that isn't making…

> A very key number here is revenue per user [...] this is down from $1.05 (14%) from what it reported for Q4 2016, before its IPO.

I disagree a little with Bloomberg here, the numbers are bad (active users isn't great), but given the same number of users you'd expect advertising revenue (which is what they're driven by) to be down Q1 vs Q4. Ad budgets and spending is cyclical and seasonal, far more money is thrown at the wall during the holiday period than after.

Re: Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results

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Some quick highlights as to why the stock is being punished. > Adjusted Ebitda Loss $188.2M, Est. Loss $176.9M > 1Q Daily Active Users 166M, Est. 168M > 1Q Rev. $149.6M, Est. $158.6M > 1Q Loss/Shr $2.31 I'm guessing the big issue is the miss on Daily active users. This is the same thing that caused the street ot hammer twitter. Rule of thumb for non profitable tech companies.... If you are a company that isn't making…

Is it surprising that revenue per user was down on Q4? Q4 is by far the biggest quarter for advertisers, and its typical to see agencies trying to get rid of their budgets before the end of the year. At the company I worked for there was always a Q1 slump.
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