susirahayu99.blogspot.com|| Meta's Stock Has Experienced A 14% Surge, Delighting Investors Who Are Especially Pleased With The Company's Inaugural Dividend ~ Meta's emphasis on the "year of efficiency" has proven to be highly successful, with significant benefits for investors and a surge in stock value. In the latest report on Thursday, the tech giant disclosed that profits for the three months ending in December soared by over 200% year-over-year to $14 billion, surpassing the expectations of Wall Street analysts.
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Quarter sales also experienced a 25% growth from the same period the previous year, reaching over $40 billion.
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As an added incentive for investors, Meta announced its inaugural cash dividend of $0.50 per share, scheduled for payment on March 26 to shareholders recorded as of February 22. Additionally, the company unveiled a $50 billion share buyback, a move that is often critiqued for potentially inflating stock prices without corresponding investment in employee welfare or business improvements.
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The positive news led to a more than 14% increase in Meta's shares during after-hours trading on Thursday. This report concludes Meta's self-proclaimed "year of efficiency," a strategy initiated by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in February of the preceding year. The strategy involved cost-cutting measures, including layoffs, resulting in a remarkable reversal of the prior year's revenue decline and share price weakness.
For the entire year of 2023, Meta reported a 69% year-over-year increase in profits, reaching $39 billion. Since the same time last year, Meta's stock had surged by 109% as of Thursday's closing bell.
In its outlook, Meta revealed completion of data center initiatives and employee layoffs by the end of 2023. Mark Zuckerberg expressed gratitude for the success in 2023, stating, "Our communities are growing, and our businesses are back on track."
The report comes shortly after Zuckerberg's appearance on Capitol Hill, where he issued a rare apology for the impact of the company's platforms on young users. Meta reported a 6% year-over-year growth in Facebook daily active users, surpassing 2.1 billion.
Looking forward, Meta will no longer report Facebook user numbers, signaling a shift towards focusing on its broader family of apps. The company will now report only daily active people on its family of apps, averaging 3.19 billion in December.
Meta also highlighted a 2% year-over-year increase in average price per ad in the December quarter, a crucial indicator for its core advertising business. The company anticipates a 20% year-over-year jump in revenue for the first quarter of 2024, ranging from $34.5 billion to $37 billion.
Addressing future plans, Zuckerberg emphasized that artificial intelligence (AI) would be Meta's major investment area in 2024. The company outlined plans to allocate between $30 billion and $37 billion in capital expenditures for the year, with a focus on AI, non-AI servers, and data centers. This increased spending is attributed to Meta's ambitious long-term AI research and product development efforts.
In 2023, Meta introduced new AI tools to enhance its advertising business, which had been impacted by Apple App Store privacy changes. The company anticipates continued investment in AI ads in 2024, emphasizing the significance of these features. Moreover, Zuckerberg revealed Meta's intention to build its own artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Despite Reality Labs' operating losses of over $16 billion in 2023, Meta remains committed to investing heavily in this unit, which plays a crucial role in building the metaverse—an immersive form of the internet based on virtual and augmented reality. Meta expects Reality Labs operating losses to increase significantly in the coming year.
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