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Squawk on the Street

Netflix Slides on Earnings Miss, WBD Update, Return of the Memes 10/22/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber led off the show with Netflix shares down sharply on a quarterly earnings miss. The anchors reacted to Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos' earnings call comment about M&A opportunities in light of Warner Bros. Discovery initiating a process to sell itself. In his "Faber Report," David gave an update on WBD — including where Paramount, Comcast and Netflix fit into the picture. Also in focus: Cramer's words of wisdom about meme stocks as Beyond Meat surges more than 900% this week, gold's moves after its worst day in more than a decade, Texas Instruments' weaker guidance drags the stock and the chip sector, Vertiv and the AI energy trade, AT&T earnings reaction, the financial stock Jim says you should buy now. Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns CNBC. Versant would become the new parent company of CNBC upon Comcast’s planned spinoff of Versant. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market Insight and Analysis. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC, Squawk on the Street.

0:20.6

Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanillo with Jim Kramer and David Faber at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Future is pretty solid after the Dow's record high on Tuesday. Busy session of earnings today, AT&T, G. Iver Nova, Texan, Netflix. Tonight will get Tesla and IBM.

0:22.7

Our roadmap begins with

0:21.9

Netflix. Shares dropping in the pre-market after the streamer does miss because of this tax

0:26.9

dispute in Brazil. Shares of Texas instruments are also dropping. This on disappointing guidance,

0:33.1

the company warns of a slower recovery in the chip industry, or at least certainly what parts it plays in.

0:39.1

And keep an eye on gold, because it is falling again, this after suffering what was its biggest drop yesterday in more than a decade.

0:47.6

Which is a collapse?

0:48.8

I wouldn't say it was a total collapse, but collapse perhaps was not such a ill-fitting word, Jim. The real-time editing

0:57.8

continues. We'll begin with Netflix, though. Shares are down in reaction to that earnings

1:02.1

miss. Co-CEO, Greg Peters, summed up the results in the state of the business on last night's

1:06.5

call. We think the business is very healthy. We feel good about our progress on our key initiatives.

1:13.8

We've got also a lot of opportunity ahead of us, but we've got a lot of work we need to accomplish

1:17.6

and fully realize those opportunities. So what's working? We had a good Q3. We had revenue in line

1:23.2

with expectations. Our operating income would have exceeded our forecast absent the Brazilian tax matter.

1:29.7

We're also seeing good progress against our key priorities. So engagement remains healthy. We achieved

1:34.7

record share at TV time in Q3 in both the U.S. and the U.S. and the U.K. We recorded our best

1:39.7

ad sales quarter ever. We're now on track to more than double ad revenue this year.

1:45.7

So Brazil did kind of ding margins on that quarter?

1:48.2

Yeah, I think one of the problems is it was just, they claimed it was telegram, but you really

1:52.8

had to go through a lot of fine print to be able to realize that. I'm going to take the other side

1:56.8

of the selling. I thought the quarter was excellent. I think that the engagement is really good. I think advertising is really good. I think what the slate that they have is really good. And what happens is something like this. Okay, you say, listen, I want to sell it. And then Friday, Catherine Bigelow's a House of Dynamite comes out. And then all Monday, we're all coming on. We're talking about House of Dynamite. I just think that to leave this stock with their advertising, with the gaming possibly coming,

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