Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Twitter (TWTR) - Earnings Postmortem; Just The Facts: Everything You Need to Know



TWTR just released earnings and after hours the stock is trading at around $38.15 down from a close of $42.62. The Symbol Summary is included below.

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Note that I have highlighted the AH trades.
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UPDATE 4-30-2014

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TWTR has in fact broken into a new all-time low.
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This is a review of all the information that has come out thus far from the earnings release.  First, with respect to stock price, I have included the all-time stock price for TWTR, below.

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We can see the meteoric rise and the equally abrupt fall in price.  The all-time low for TWTR is $38.80 and for the moment (it's just a moment in AH), it is now trading below that all-time low.

Now, the earnings results:


  • Average Active Users: 255M up 5.8% quarter-over-quarter and 25% Y-O-Y
  • "Freshened" Timelines: 157 billion times up 15% from last year but below analyst estimates
  • Revenue: $250M (up 119% from $114M a year ago) above estimates of $241.5M
  • Ad Revenue per Thousand Timeline Views: $1.44 (nearly 2x last quarter).
  • Ad Revenue: $226M up 125% from year ago
  • Mobile Ad Revenue: 80% of total revenue
  • Mobile Ad Market Share: Estimate 2.7% (up from 2.4%) vs FB 22% and GOOG 47%
  • "Excluding Items" EPS: Even vs. expected -0.03 (loss)
  • Net Loss: $135MM (up 5x from $27M a year ago)

Future:
Revenue Next Quarter: Company forecasts $272M; Wall St. estimates were [$270M, $280M]
Revenue for Full Year: Wall St. Estimates: $1.2B - $1.25B

But, the chart of the day comes from BUSINESS INSIDER:


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Yep... Active user growth is down to 5.8% quarter over quarter, down from over 120%. Can you imagine if that turns negative?... yikes.

For the record my position is:
Long CS 46/48
Long PS 39/37

This is trade analysis, not a recommendation.






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4 comments:

  1. you sold wings to lower the debit?

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  2. Good Luck on your trade Ophir. But how do you evaluate of Twitter longer term? Do you see value in the company as a medium to reach potential clients/customers or are you strictly reading the options market shorter term?

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  3. Not surprised at the decreasing active user base. The app is a very simple app and not very useful. You cannot even search through the tweets you receive. I cannot believe there are not so many other tweet apps. There will always be active users like you who produce content, but you don't know how many actually get read. I think this is long put worthy stock.

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