“Netflix Inc’s subscriber growth and forecast fell short of Wall Street expectations, sending shares of the normally high-flying stock crashing 14 percent on Monday,” Lisa Richwine and Vibhuti Sharma report for Reuters. “The company’s total monthly customers reached 130 million worldwide, 1 million fewer than forecasts from Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, as it added new programming including Lost in Space and new episodes of Marvel’s Jessica Jones and 13 Reasons Why.”
“Netflix said it had ‘over-forecasted’ quarterly fluctuations in the pace of new customers,” Richwine and Sharma report. “Before the earnings report, Netflix shares had doubled in 2018, far outpacing the 3.7 percent gain for the S&P 500 index. In after-hours trading on Monday, Netflix shares sunk 14 percent to $343.60, down from an earlier close of $400.48.”
“‘Investors are devastated by Netflix’s Q2 projection that went down in dramatic flames. Now future projections are suspect and that decimates valuation,’ said Eric Schiffer, chief executive officer of private equity firm Patriarch,” Richwine and Sharma report. “Netflix added 670,000 subscribers in the United States, well below analysts’ estimates of 1.19 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Netflix signed up 4.47 million subscribers internationally, while analysts were expecting 4.97 million.”
For the current quarter, Netflix projected it would add 5 million customers. It is making a big push in India. Earlier this month, it debuted its first Indian original series, Sacred Games, part of a slate of new shows aimed at the vast Bollywood entertainment market,” Richwine and Sharma report. “But it also faces growing competition.
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MacDailyNews Take: Don’t look now, Netflix, but, very soon, here comes Apple!
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After political payoffs to Obozo and other leftists, I hope they crash and burn.
You need to deflect after Finland….
I just love that Wall St. gamblers are devastated by the very market forces that they created which is a rare loss for the 1% wannabes. The Capitalists lost wealth fair and square, the sleazy way. Color me happy. As you know, the markets are being misused by the idle rich.
I have no animosity toward Netflix as a service company. It seems to be an upstanding enterprise.
U sound like a very pathetic and jealous person…
U rejoice in others pain?
FU !!!!!
Dingler, you are assuming that the 1% investors failed to hedge their investments and/or withdraw money from Netflix before the big drop. Corporations and wealthy people have access to news – effectively insider information – before us regular peon investors. They often get out early leaving the rest of us with the big loss. Furthermore, they have the capital to hedge their investments to protect their downside – put options, for instance. You do not need to fear for the 1% – the investment industry and tax laws favor them greatly.
Yes, I understand that the 1% know how to profit from ups as well as downs, that they know when to fold because they can take advantage of their connections, leaving 1% wannabes holding the bag which means those who lost on that drop. But I am also addressing the bad morality of making money off of money even though it’s ethically correct in Capitalism.
Ok that dors it!
You are certifiably an idiot living in LALA land …
This was a bubble waiting to burst. The only “surprise” is how long it took.
It reminds me of treatment AAPL gets sometimes. Almost all umbers were climbing except they missed their own forecast.
It’s Wallstreet, but hardly a negative tell-tale sign, imo.
‘Very soon’ in Applespeak means 2021
I cancelled when they sharply reduced the selection of movies.
They keep sending me offers for a free month, but their original programming was never the reason I joined.
I think Netflix maybe finding out that you cannot play politics these days… you cannot keep making shows that use personalities that really aren’t funny or hire politicians for big $$ to do shows that won’t be entertainment.
But a new one Apple is taking their place….
I would not invest in Netflix.