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Snap shares dive 35% following poor earnings report (CNBC)

Shares of Snap fell 35% on Friday, a day after the company reported disappointing second-quarter results.

It was hit with a slew of analyst downgrades following the latest earnings report. The company attributed its results to a challenging economy, slowing demand for its online ad platform, Apple's 2021 iOS update and competition from companies like TikTok. Shares of Snap are down 78% year-to-date.

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Snap 'is going through a near-death experience,' analyst explains (Yahoo Finance)

Snap's 40% stock price crash on Friday after a dismal second quarter earnings report and brutal call is well warranted, one analysts explained to Yahoo ...

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Snap Shares Plunge on Weakest Sales Ever (Investopedia)

Shares of Snap Inc. (SNAP) plunged nearly 35% at the start of trading Friday following disappointing second quarter results, posting its weakest-ever sales.

In a statement, the company said “we are not satisfied with the results we are delivering, regardless of the current headwinds.” Snap shares are down about 65% so far this year. Snap’s board also authorized a $500 million stock buyback in the next 12 months and said it would split the stock if it reached $40 in the next 10 years.

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Snap stock is getting obliterated (TechCrunch)

Plenty of tech stock has taken massive haircuts amid a wider selloff in tech stocks, but Snap has now fallen much deeper percentage-wise than some ...

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Social media stocks slump as Twitter, Snap warn of dire ad spending (CNA)

Shares of social media firms fell sharply on Friday after Twitter Inc and Snapchat's owner signaled advertisers had tightened their purse strings in ...

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Snap's Plunge Threatens Recovery of $506 Million Metaverse ETF (Bloomberg)

An exchange-traded fund recovering from an all-time low in June is now in the red thanks to Snap Inc.'s lackluster earnings report.

On Friday, the ETF tumbled more than 6%, after rising 12% from its low on June 16. The social media company makes up 5.6% of METV’s total holdings. An exchange-traded fund recovering from an all-time low in June is now in the red thanks to Snap Inc.’s lackluster earnings report.

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Never mind Snap. Meta and Alphabet are different stories heading ... (CNBC)

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But it's important to recognize the differences in scale and perceived value Alphabet and Meta have compared to Snap and other smaller social media firms, such as Pinterest (PINS). Another key difference to keep in mind is the financial health of Alphabet and Meta, and the way investors value those companies. While JPMorgan said it anticipates expectations for Alphabet and Meta to will fall further, the analysts highlight the key differences between Alphabet and Meta. When companies need to tighten the belt, marketing budgets are one of the first places they look. That came after Alphabet repurchased roughly $13 billion worth of shares in the first quarter alone — almost approaching the entire value of Snap on Friday around $16.4 billion. Google's ad revenue rose 22.3% year over year in the first quarter to $54.66 billion. In the first quarter, Meta's ad revenue rose 6.1% year over year to roughly $27 billion. Snap's year-over-year revenue growth rate went from 38% in the first quarter to 13% in the second. We know GDP growth in the U.S. is slowing considerably — it was negative in the first quarter and could very well be in the second quarter , too. Analysts from JPMorgan summarized the situation well in a note to clients Friday, as they downgraded Snap to underweight from overweight. Its overall revenue rose 7%, the first time since the company went public a decade ago that its growth rate was in the single digits. At the most basic level, that is not great news for Alphabet and Meta. Analysts who cover the companies have been revising their revenue estimates lower for the second-quarter — and the third and fourth quarters for that matter. Of course, it's hard to quantify its specific impact, so we think it's prudent to primarily zoom in on Snap. What it means for Alphabet and Meta Simply put, Meta and Alphabet are just much bigger, more established players in the digital ad market than Snap is. Disappointing results from the parent company of Snapchat (SNAP) are weighing on other digital ad stocks Friday, but Club members should be mindful of important differences between companies in the industry.

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Snap Stock Tumbles as Digital-Advertising Concerns Spread (The Wall Street Journal)

Snap shares fell 39% to $9.96, the lowest since the pandemic began in March 2020. The stock is on track for its second-largest daily percentage drop on record.

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Snap shares are tanking once again. How much is TikTok to blame ... (Fortune)

The two social media companies posted underwhelming second quarters, though the reasons for revenue misses are debatable.

Crypto Twitter gets a lot of well-deserved flak for its unbridled optimism and relentless shaming of skeptics, but some credit is due to @cobie. As The Verge noted Thursday, it appears the popular crypto influencer (real name: Jordan Fish) set in motion this week’s arrest of former Coinbase employee Ishan Wahi on charges related to insider trading at the company. Amazon’s venture into primary health care has one patient shaking in his disposable robe: The Washington Post’s Geoffrey A. Fowler. The tech columnist laid out his worries about patient privacy and care quality Friday following Amazon’s announcement of plans to acquire 1Life Healthcare, the parent company behind the One Medical network of clinics, for $3.9 billion. Verizon shares slipped 7% in mid-day trading Friday after it lowered its profit and revenue forecasts for the second half of the year, The Wall Street Journal reported. With the agreement, Ford said it has secured about 70% of the battery capacity needed to reach its goal of producing 2 million electric vehicles annually by 2026. Twitter executives didn’t hold an earnings call, citing the company’s pending sale to Elon Musk, but they noted in a press release that “advertising industry headwinds associated with the macroenvironment” contributed to the revenue miss. Andreessen Horowitz leaders said Silicon Valley’s “network effect” is less appealing in an era of hybrid and remote offices. The telecom giant has warned that rising interest rates and higher-than-expected operating costs would weigh on its bottom line in 2022. The accuracy of Snap’s analysis will become clearer next week, when advertising heavyweights Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft report their second-quarter earnings. Snap’s leadership blamed a fast-deteriorating global advertising market following the release of middling second-quarter results, which fell slightly short of Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates. It’s not a perfect apples-to-apples comparison, but Snap and Twitter reported a combined 585 million daily active users this past quarter. Social media rival reported second-quarter revenue of $1.18 billion, well short of analyst estimates of $1.32 billion, and down 1% from the year before. About 99% of Snap revenue is generated by ads.

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