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Wall Street Breakfast

Meta Platforms Soars

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Meta (META) earnings call: Never mind the ad beat, here's the AI future (and present). (00:46) Disney (DIS) sues Florida Gov. DeSantis after district clampdown (02:22). Biogen (BIIB) gains as Medicare to cover new Alzheimer’s drug with full FDA approval (08:44).

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.6

Good morning, today is Thursday, April 27th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

0:13.0

Meta Platforms is trending higher following its earnings report Wednesday.

0:18.0

The company beat on top and bottom lines.

0:21.0

Today is crypto Thursday. We're hearing from our weekly contributor Mike Faye.

0:26.0

He's the investing group leader of blockchain reaction on Seeking Alpha.

0:30.0

It was the stairs up and the elevator down for Bitcoin on Wednesday.

0:34.8

He's also talking about the number two coin, Ethereum.

0:38.4

Biogen closed the day Wednesday up 2%.

0:42.0

This after Medicare agreed to cover a new Alzheimer's drug.

0:45.0

Our top story.

0:47.0

Meta Platform's stock is up 11% pre-market,

0:51.0

following first quarter earnings where it easily beat expectations on top

0:56.1

and bottom lines thanks to a better than expected ad recovery at its flagship Facebook

1:02.2

platform.

1:03.0

Meta Platform's Q1 Gap BPS of $2.20, beat by 23 cents.

1:10.0

Revenue of $28.65 billion dollars beats by 990 million dollars and is up nearly 3% year over year.

1:19.2

Facebook Daily active users rose 4% to a better than expected 2.04 billion and monthly active

1:27.1

users were 2.99 billion roughly in line with expectations.

1:32.6

For the wider family of apps, including Instagram and

1:35.8

WhatsApp, daily active people rose 5% year over year,

1:40.9

and monthly active people rose 5% both beating consensus.

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