Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU) shares are trading lower by 22.9% at $111.60 Friday morning after the company reported worse-than-expected fourth-quarter sales results and issued first-quarter net sales guidance below estimates.
Roku reported quarterly sales of $865.30 million which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $894.01 million by 3%. This is a 33% increase over sales of $649.89 million in the same period last year. Roku is guiding for first-quarter net sales of $720 million versus the analyst consensus estimate of $748.5 million.
Roku provided the following key results from 2021 in their earnings release:
- Total net revenue grew 55% year-over-year (YoY) to $2.765 billion
- Platform revenue increased 80% YoY to $2.285 billion
- Gross profit was up 74% YoY to $1.409 billion
- Active Accounts reached 60.1 million, a net increase of 8.9 million active accounts from Q4 2020
- Streaming Hours increased by 14.4 billion hours YoY to 73.2 billion1
- Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) grew to $41.03 (trailing 12-month basis), up 43% YoY
- No. 1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico by hours streamed
Roku has a 52-week high of $490.76 and a 52-week low of $105.10.
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