Meh, I don't get it.
They're making money, they grew to 18% more active users (that sounds like a lot), what seems to be the problem?
They're making money, they grew to 18% more active users (that sounds like a lot), what seems to be the problem?
If I expect that I'll have 50,000 dollars in the bank a year from now (starting from 0), and 6 months in I only have 15,000 dollars, then naturally I would adjust my expectations downwards.
Did they expect the stock to be valued higher and because it has not lived up to that, they're selling it and buying a different stock that will do that?
twitter is currently valued at say $35 billion then long term to justify that valuation per what the stock market demands long term they need to consistently generate around 2 billion a year in profit. If they do really well and have say a 25% margin they'd need $8 billion a year in revenue to operate at that level. Current revenue projections are closer to 2 billion and are being scaled back by executives and they're not consistently profitable at all.
There's a big gap between where they need to be to support the current stock price and where they are (and seem to be heading in the near and mid term). That's why the stock is under a lot of negative pressure.
isn't it possible that some number can be purposefully influenced so that the stock will go up upon announcement?
I'm not quite sure what you're asking here: "Normal" investors can and do set these numbers. Every time you buy or sell a share of stock at a given price, you're adding your (tiny) signal of what you think the price should be (and nudging it a little in that direction as well). The price of the stock reflects the aggregate of the millions of these little guesses.