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Etsy Drops, Zynga Pops

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Despite strong 1st-quarter results, Etsy shares fall 14%. PayPal’s stock gets a boost after 1st-quarter payment volume exceeded results from the holiday quarter. Alicia Alfiere analyzes those stories, along with Zynga’s strong quarter and acquisition of Chartboost, an ad-tech company.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, May 6th.

0:04.2

Welcome to Marketfoolery.

0:05.3

I'm Chris Hill with me today, Alicia Alfieri.

0:08.5

Good to see you.

0:09.7

So glad to be here.

0:11.6

So we've got mobile gaming, we've got the war on cash, but we are going to start today

0:15.7

with e-commerce.

0:17.0

Etsy's first quarter profits in revenue were both solidly higher than expected, but you

0:22.6

would not know that from what is happening to the stock today.

0:26.3

The shares of Etsy falling 14%, I'm assuming this is just based on valuation, right?

0:34.1

Because there didn't seem to be any big red flags in their results.

0:39.0

Yeah, and we could talk about the results in a second.

0:42.0

What I would say is that it looks to me like the stock price is really reacting to some

0:49.8

of the guidance that's coming up.

0:51.3

So they're going to have some a little bit more difficult year-to-year comps coming up

0:56.6

because they did so well.

0:58.0

Last year, remember, we had all of the masks on their platform that everyone was looking

1:03.0

to buy.

1:04.0

And I think that's really what's causing that.

1:07.2

But if we talk about their results, so I'll take a step back and just explain what

1:11.1

Etsy is.

1:12.1

So, Etsy is the e-commerce platform for unique handmade and vintage products.

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