Twitter Beats Q4 Earnings And Revenue, Sequential User Growth Declines

Twitter Inc. (TWTR - Analyst Reportreleased their fourth quarter fiscal 2015 earnings results, posting earnings of $-0.07 and revenue of $710 million.

Currently, TWTR has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), but it is subject to change following the release of the company’s latest earnings report. Here are 5 key statistics from this just announced report below.

Twitter:                                                 

1. Beat earnings estimates. The company posted $-0.07 per share, beating our Zacks Consensus Estimate of -0.13. This number excludes $0.06 from nonrecurring items.

2. Beat revenue estimates. The company saw revenue figures of $710 million, beating our estimate of $709 million. This number reflects an increase of 48% year-over-year.

3. Reported total average monthly active users (MAUs) were 320 million, up 9% year-over-year. Mobile MAUs represented approximately 80% of total MAUs.

4. “2015 was another very strong year for Twitter. Total revenue reached $2.2 billion, up 58% year over year with more than $550 million in adjusted EBITDA. We made significant progress in scaling the total number of active advertisers to 130,000 in Q4, up almost 90% year over year. It's remarkable we built this business in just five years from zero revenue. We saw a decline in monthly active usage in Q4, but we've already seen January monthly actives bounce back to Q3 levels. We're confident that, with disciplined execution, this growth trend will continue over time,” wrote the company in its shareholder letter.

5. TWTR was down $0.55, or 3.67%, to $14.43 as of 4:56 PM ET in after hours trading shortly after its earnings report was released.

Here’s a graph that looks at Twitter’slong-term quarterly reported EPS:

Twitter Inc. (TWTR - Analyst Report) Quarterly Reported EPS | FindTheCompany

Twitter is a public, real-time, global platform where any user can create a Tweet and any user can follow other users. The platform is unique in its simplicity: Tweets are limited to 140 characters of text. This constraint makes it easy for anyone to quickly create, distribute and discover content that is consistent across our platform and optimized for mobile devices. As a result, Tweets drive a high velocity of information exchange that makes Twitter uniquely live. Twitter was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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