Twitter Surprises, Comcast Looks Skyward
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🗓️ 25 April 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Twitter surprises Wall Street with a 1st-quarter profit. Comcast’s 1st-quarter earnings take a back seat to its $31 billion bid for Sky. Abi Malin analyzes those stories and shares her thoughts on Costco’s latest dividend hike.
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| 0:18.6 | It's Wednesday, April 25th. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio. It's Abby |
| 0:25.3 | Mallin. Thanks for being here. Thanks for asking me. It's earnings Palusa and I |
| 0:29.2 | know this is a busy time for analysts like you so I I always appreciate when you come in the studio |
| 0:34.7 | but I extra appreciate it when it's earnings polosa. You're welcome. I always have |
| 0:39.5 | time for you. Let's we got some interesting dividend news and we'll get to that in a second, but let's start |
| 0:46.7 | with Twitter because first quarter profits for Twitter were just that. |
| 0:51.1 | They were profits and this is the second quarter in a row that |
| 0:54.0 | Twitter was profitable. Their international growth is up. Why is this stock down |
| 1:00.2 | today? It's not falling off a cliff but it's down a little bit. This was a good quarter, |
| 1:04.2 | they're growing. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.2 | What's going on here? |
| 1:07.2 | I think there were really three bright spots of this quarter. The first was that revenue |
| 1:10.2 | grow, so total revenue was |
| 1:14.0 | audience and engagement continued to increase. |
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