Facebook parent Meta drops 23 percent after hours – The company Meta, which owns WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, reported slowing Daily active users & increased spending in its metaverse project, sending its shares plunging as much as 23% after the markets closed on Wednesday US time.
The California based company in Menlo Park said it earned US$10.29 billion, or US$3.67 per share, in the 4th quarter of 2021. That represented a Year-on-year drop of 8% from US$11.22 billion, or US$3.88 per share. Revenue was up though, 20% to $33.67 billion.
Meta invested very heavily in its Reality Labs new segment — includes virtual reality (VR) headsets and augmented reality (AR) technology — during the last quarter of 2021, which accounted for much of the profit decline.
Daily active users rose 5% from 12 months ago to 1.93 billion, and monthly active users posted only a 4% gain to 2.91 billion. Figures using Meta’s “active people” definition showed marginally slightly better single-digit percentage growth from year-ago levels.
“Solid”
CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the quarter’s results
For now, though, the metaverse exists only as an amorphous idea dubbed by a science fiction writer. It’s not yet clear if it’ll be the next iteration of human-computer interaction the way Zuckerberg sees it, or just another playground for techies and gamers.
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