Pinterest stock falls 10% after earnings miss
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Pinterest stock falls 10% after earnings miss

August 7, 2025
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Pinterest reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday, in which it beat on sales but missed on earnings per share.

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In this articlePINS your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTBill Ready, CEO of Pinterest, speaks at the 28th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on May 5, 2025.Patrick T

Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesPinterest s were down more than 10% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed on earnings per .Here's how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG:Earnings per : 33 cents adjusted vs. 35 cents expectedRevenue: $998 million vs. $975 million expectedSales in Pinterest's second quarter grew 17% year over year while net income was $38.76 million, up from $8.9 million a year ago during the same period.Pinterest said third-quarter sales will come in between $1.033 billion and $1.053 billion, topping analysts' estimates of $1.025 billion.The social media company said it had 578 million global monthly active users in the second quarter, ahead of the 574.5 million that StreetAccount was jecting

Pinterest said in May that it had 570 million monthly active users in the first quarter.Pinterest recorded $251 million in second-quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBIDTA, which was higher than StreetAccount's estimates of $233 million."I'm ud of our Q2 results — dering 17% revenue growth and another quarter of record users," Pinterest CEO Bill Ready said in a statement. "We're also excited that Gen Z has grown to over half of our user base."Pinterest finance chief Julia Donnelly told analysts in the company's Thursday earnings call that there's still some lingering concern from advertisers related to tariffs "and broader market uncertainty" that the company discussed in May.For instance, Donnelly said unspecified "Asia-based e-commerce retailers pulled back spend in the U.S. tied to the change in a de minimis exemption," referencing a now-closed trade loophole.Snap s plummeted more than 15% on Tuesday after the company reported second-quarter earnings in which global average revenue per user missed expectations

Snap's revenue grew only 9% year over year in the second quarter, far lower than peers such as Reddit and Meta, which saw their recent quarterly sales jump 78% and 22%, respectively.Evan Spiegel, the company's CEO, said in an investor letter that Snap's "topline growth" was negatively affected by factors including a botched advertising platform that has since been fixed.Amazon reported second-quarter earnings last Thursday and noted that its online ad sales jumped 23% year over year to $15.69 billion

Reddit reported its earnings the same day, and said second-quarter sales skyrocketed 78% year over year to $500 million.Alphabet beat on the top and bottom lines when it reported its second-quarter earnings on July 23, and Meta said on July 30 that its second-quarter revenue hit $47.52 billion

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