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Yahoo Finance Live’s Julie Hyman and Brian Sozzi discuss quarterly earnings for AT&T.
Video Transcript
JULIE HYMAN: This is Yahoo Finance Live. We are just under five minutes until the opening bell on this Thursday morning. I wanted to tell you about some other big earnings reports that we got. AT&T is one of them, and, you know, much like a Netflix, for example, we look at the subscriber numbers, although they looked different than the Netflix numbers.
Look, the company actually added monthly phone subscribers and added them at a higher rate than was expected, even as earnings per share and revenue also beat estimates. They added about 691,000 regular monthly phone subscribers. 437,000 is what analysts have been looking for.
And this was, Brian Sozzi, the last quarter that AT&T was also a big media giant, right? So we saw some HBO and HBO Max numbers in here, but we can kind of ignore those, because now those are going over to Warner Brothers Discovery. But, you know, it looks like that they're benefiting in the core business, so the old school AT&T business.
BRIAN SOZZI: Yeah, we could probably ignore the next AT&T earnings report here during this around the bell chat three months from now, Julie, because you essentially just have a phone company. But look, let's look at this quarter here. Adjusted operating profits for AT&T down 1.8%, and the company continues to invest in rolling out 5G, marketing, infrastructure-- you name it. It wasn't that great of a quarter. For a company that is going to be valued as now a straight phone company, to see adjusted operating profits down almost 2%, not a good look, but underscores all the investments they are making.
I should also note, again, we're seeing AT&T shares pop on the Yahoo Finance trending ticker page. It is the number two trending ticker on our site. We also saw this, too, a couple of weeks ago, Julie, when that deal closed with WarnerMedia and Discovery.
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JULIE HYMAN: Yeah, and one more note, just sort of as connected to your operating profit note, if it is an old-fashioned phone company, right, like, it used to be, you want to look to it for dividends, you want to look to it for cash flow and a steady flow of income, right? That's what these companies used to be.
BRIAN SOZZI: 6%--
JULIE HYMAN: [INAUDIBLE] actually fell. Yeah, I mean-- yeah, so you're still getting the yield, but free cash flow actually fell to $700 million, even though they got a payment from DirecTV. So that's a number I'll be paying attention to, along with that dividend yield.
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- Netflix's best days are behind it, warns analyst who predicted the stock's crash
Apr 20, 2022
Netflix (NFLX) is past its prime.
Shares of the streaming media giant crashed nearly 40% on Wednesday as the company uncorked another disappointing quarter, sparking fresh worry on the Street about future growth potential.
"I think its best days are behind it," said Macquarie tech analyst Tim Nollen on Yahoo Finance Live.
Nollen is one of the few analysts on Wall Street to downgrade Netflix shares ahead of the company's latest results. And Nollen's call looks to be spot on.
Here's how Netflix performed compared to Wall Street analyst estimates:
Revenue: $7.87 billion vs. $7.95 billion expected, $7.16 billion Y/Y Earnings per share: $3.53 vs. $2.91 expected, $3.75 Y/Y Net subscribers: -200,000 vs.+2.51 million expected, +3.98 million million Y/Y
For the current quarter, Netflix said it expected an even steeper decline in new users as it battles through increased competition from the likes of Apple and Paramount and tries to get 100 million account sharers to pay up.
The streaming service is modeling for subscribers to decline by 2 million in the fiscal second quarter, whereas consensus analysts were looking for a gain of 2.4 million.
Nollen is standing by his Sell rating on Netflix even in the wake of the stock's plunge.
"We certainly are avoiding the stock and selling the stock for now," Nollen said. "Eventually, if they can turn this around there is still a good growth opportunity for them — particularly internationally."
Brian Sozzi is an editor-at-large and anchor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn.
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