Streaming video platform Roku (ROKU) late Thursday beat Wall Street's targets for the fourth quarter and signaled a shift to profitability ahead. Roku stock jumped 11% in extended trading.
The San Jose, Calif.-based company lost 24 cents a share on sales of $1.2 billion in the December quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected Roku to lose 41 cents a share on sales of $1.15 billion. In the year-earlier period, Roku lost 55 cents a share on sales of $984 million.
For the current quarter, Roku forecast sales of $1.01 billion, in line with estimates. For the full year, Roku is targeting revenue of $4.61 billion, also matching views, and up 12% from 2024.
Importantly, the entertainment firm announced that it expects to be operating income positive for full year 2026.
Roku reported 89.8 million streaming households in the fourth quarter, vs. the consensus estimate of 89 million. The company announced Jan. 7 that it had surpassed 90 million streaming households in the first week of the year. In Q4, Roku added 4.3 million households.
Roku generates most of its revenue from advertising on its platform as well as from Roku-billed subscriptions to paid services.
Roku has the No. 1 streaming TV operating system in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It sells devices like televisions and streaming boxes and also licenses its OS to other TV makers.
免責聲明:投資有風險,本文並非投資建議,以上內容不應被視為任何金融產品的購買或出售要約、建議或邀請,作者或其他用戶的任何相關討論、評論或帖子也不應被視為此類內容。本文僅供一般參考,不考慮您的個人投資目標、財務狀況或需求。TTM對信息的準確性和完整性不承擔任何責任或保證,投資者應自行研究並在投資前尋求專業建議。