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Square shares rose as a lot as 4.5% in prolonged buying and selling on Thursday after reporting fiscal first-quarter earnings that blew previous Wall Street’s expectations.
Here’s how the corporate did:
- Earnings per share: 41 cents, adjusted, vs. 16 cents per share anticipated in a Refinitiv survey of analysts, although the consequence may not be comparable
- Revenue: $5.06 billion vs. $3.36 billion anticipated by Refinitiv
First quarter revenue rose to $5.06 billion, up 266% 12 months over 12 months, largely due to features in bitcoin revenue.
Square reported $3.5 billion in bitcoin revenue, up eleven occasions 12 months over 12 months. But bitcoin gross revenue was solely $75 million, or roughly 2% of revenue.
Gross revenue grew 79% 12 months over 12 months to $964 million within the quarter that ended Mar. 31, in accordance with a assertion.
Cash App gross revenue got here in at $495 million, up 171% 12 months over 12 months. In March, Square’s peer-to-peer competitor to Venmo started providing clients the power to immediately ship bitcoin without cost.
Square itself purchased $50 million price of bitcoin in October and an extra $170 million price of bitcoin in February. The firm stated that as of March 31, it had misplaced $20 million on its bitcoin funding for the quarter, although the honest worth of its funding was $472 million, based mostly on observable market costs.
Excluding the after-hours transfer, Square inventory has risen about 2.3% for the reason that begin of the 12 months, whereas the Nasdaq is up about 5.8% over the identical interval.
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