Netflix Beat Earnings—Then Shares Dropped 2.96%. What Spooked Wall Street?

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Netflix beat earnings, but its shares still fell 2.96% as investors weighed reports that users are watching less and opening the app on fewer days a month. The concerns echo co-CEO Greg Peters’ third-quarter admission that the company has an issue it needs to address, raising a broader debate about engagement, expanding margins, and the outlook for NFLX.  For informational and educational purposes only. Not financial advice.  #Netflix #NFLX #Earnings #StreamingStocks #StockMarket

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00:00Netflix beat earnings then dropped 2.96 percent. Why? What happened was a fresh engagement warning

00:08landed even after an earnings beat. According to Yahoo, the decline coincided with a Blumerg

00:15report that users are watching less and opening the app on fewer days each month than they did

00:21a couple of years ago. Yahoo also reported that co-CEO Greg Peters acknowledged the company can

00:28do better on engagement. What remains unclear is whether those concerns fully explain today's

00:34selling or how much other factors contributed. Communication services fell 1.58 percent today,

00:42so this looks like the sector moving, not one company. A new post-market recap every trading day.

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