Meta Platforms shares climbed on Wednesday as Facebook's quarterly daily active users were above Wall Street estimates, even as Meta recorded its slowest revenue growth in a decade.Profit soundly beat Wall Street targets at US$2.72 per share, compared with an analyst consensus of US$2.56, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
Meta has lost about half of its value since the start of the year, after a dismal February earnings when it reported a decline in Facebook's daily active users for the first time and forecast a gloomy quarter, blaming factors including Apple's privacy changes and increased competition from platforms like ByteDance's TikTok.
Total revenue, the bulk of which comes from ad sales, rose 7 per cent to US$27.91 billion in the first quarter, but missed analysts' estimates of US$28.20 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
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