Twitter Inc. (TWTR – Analyst Report) released 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: