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Wall Street Breakfast

Netflix global memberships maintain double-digit growth

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, Investing, Business, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Key takeaways from Netflix's (NFLX) third-quarter earnings as stock gains. (00:23) Forward Air (FWRD) spiked into close after report of formal sales process. (01:58) Stripe (STRIP) in talks to acquire startup Bridge for $1B: Forbes. (03:05)

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

Good morning. Today is Friday, October 18th. I'm Julie Morgan.

0:13.1

Netflix's top expectations.

0:15.4

Forward Air has reportedly started a formal sales process

0:19.2

and Stripe is in talks to acquire a startup.

0:29.0

Netflix is up 5% pre-market after the company easily topped expectations for profits and user growth in its third quarter earnings report.

0:33.0

Revenues grew 15% year over year to 9.8.25 billion,

0:38.0

and the company said it expected 15% growth for 2024

0:42.0

after similar expectations for the fourth quarter.

0:45.0

Meanwhile operating margin rose to 30 percent from a year ago 22 percent leading

0:51.3

Netflix to bump its full year expectations to 27% from 26%.

0:57.0

After some concerns in 2022 about membership growth topping out,

1:02.0

the company has moved into a steady period of double digit growth of users,

1:06.4

and this quarter it again topped expectations.

1:09.4

Adding 5.07 million global paid net members, a 14.4% growth rate to land at

1:16.2

282.72 million global paid memberships.

1:20.5

The story from previous quarters about an ad supported plan proving even more profitable than expected continues.

1:28.0

It has been nearly two years since Netflix launched its advertising business.

1:32.0

The companies said that their ads plan allowed Netflix launched its advertising business.

1:32.6

The companies said that their ads plan allows them to offer a lower price point for

1:37.2

consumers, which is proving to be popular.

1:40.0

And in Q3, it accounted for over 50% of sign-ups in their ad supported countries and

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