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Investors in Meta stock wanted to hear one thing on the embattled company’s earnings call late Wednesday: an acknowledgement by founder Mark Zuckerberg that leaner spending times were ahead as margins have been squeezed by an ill-timed metaverse build out and a slowing ad market.
They heard the opposite.
The social media platform outlined about 13% year-over-year expense growth for fiscal year 2023, well above the Street’s forecast of 7%. Meta will clearly continue to spend aggressively — despite the prospects of a 2023 U.S. recession — on Instagram, the metaverse, and VR hardware.
“With a new CFO in place, some may argue the company is being overly conservative,” Deutsche Bank analyst Benjamin Black wrote in a note to clients, “and while Meta typically lowers \[operating expenditure\] guidance throughout the year (as they did so far year to date), the elevated expense outlook is the wrong number at the wrong time for investors. Perhaps just as importantly, growing Reality Labs (RL) expenses appear to be one source of the elevated expense guide as RL operating losses are expected to grow significantly year over year in 2023.”
Meta shares crashed more than 20% in pre-market trading on Thursday. The ticker was atop the “[Top Trending](https://finance.yahoo.com/trending-tickers)” section on the Yahoo Finance platform.
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Here is how Meta [performed](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-thid-quarter-earnings-130316557.html) in the third quarter, which disappointed investors:
* **Revenue**: $27.7 billion versus $27.4 billion expected
* **Earnings Per Share (EPS)**: $1.64 versus $1.89 expected
* **Facebook Daily Active Users (DAUs):** 1.98 billion versus 1.86 billion expected
* **Facebook Monthly Active Users (MAUs):** 2.96 billion versus 2.97 expected
* **Reality Labs operating loss:** $3.67 billion versus $3.09 billion expected
The company’s outlook also wasn’t very good. Meta’s fourth quarter revenue guidance came in between $30 billion and $32.5 billion while Wall Street was expecting $32.2 billion.
The House of Zuck also announced that it will be pacing Reality Lab investments beyond 2023, but that spending will be significantly higher next year.
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The company still has a very profitable social media empire and the stock would be a great buy if it wasn’t for Zuckerberg throwing everything at the money hole.
I’m expecting very soon either he pivots or is fired which would send the stock going right back up.
Buy meta calls
>This is clearly bad news for Meta shareholders. The company is obviously overspending and this will only continue in the future. Zuckerberg is making a huge mistake by not acknowledging the problems withMeta’s business model and instead continuing to pour money into losing ventures. I would recommend selling any Meta shares that you may have as soon as possible.
Probably made a bet with Kanye to determine who can lose the most money in a short time
Meta what?
metainverse