- Posted on February 03, 2022
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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 analystsRevenue: $33.67 billion vs $33.4 billion expected, according to RefinitivFacebook also missed estimates with user numbers.Daily Active Users (DAUs): 1.93 billion vs 1.95 billion expected by analysts, according to StreetAccountMonthly Active Users (MAUs): 2.91 billion vs 2.95 billion expected by analysts, according to StreetAccountAverage Revenue per User (ARPU): $11.57 vs $11.38 expected by analysts, according to Street AccountThe company, which was recently renamed 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.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.cnbc.com