The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown at Netflix
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Netflix reported earnings last night and the stock is down today. |
| 0:08.9 | What's going on? |
| 0:09.9 | Monty Full Money starts now. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to Motley Full Money. I'm Travis Hoy. I'm joined by Rachel Warren and Lou Whiteman. |
| 0:26.1 | Big news over the last 24 hours has been Netflix. They reported earnings yesterday. The numbers |
| 0:31.2 | looked pretty good, but the stock's down about 3%. As we're recording, it was down about 5% to the open. But Rachel, what did you see |
| 0:40.3 | from the results from Netflix? I mean, despite the market's response, I would say it was a pretty |
| 0:45.5 | good report for the company. And I want to talk about a few of these numbers and metrics. So |
| 0:49.8 | Netflix, their Q4 revenue was just a little over $12 billion. That was actually up about |
| 0:54.0 | 18% from one year ago. |
| 0:56.2 | Earnings per share of 56 cents. Now, both were slightly above what Wall Street had been projecting. |
| 1:01.4 | The main driver of the stock drop that we saw post earnings had to do with management's forecast for |
| 1:07.6 | slower revenue growth in 2026. They're looking for anywhere between 12 to 14% |
| 1:12.7 | growth compared to 16% in 2025. And they also guided for lower than expected Q1 profit expectations. |
| 1:21.1 | Now, I think it's important to remember. Netflix is performing pretty strongly as a mature business. |
| 1:25.6 | This is a much more mature company than even, |
| 1:27.8 | you know, five, six years ago. They are really navigating a period of significant transition, |
| 1:33.4 | and I think that's feeding a lot into investor uncertainty. You know, they reached a massive milestone |
| 1:38.8 | of about 325 million global paid memberships last year. They added about 23 million subscribers over the |
| 1:45.7 | course of 2025. The ad business is growing significantly. They're aggressively moving into |
| 1:50.9 | live sports and events. And of course, there's that high stakes all cash bidding more to acquire |
| 1:55.9 | Warner Brothers. So I think, again, this is the undisputed leader in streaming. They've got that |
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