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Traders Brace for Twitter's (TWTR) Post-Earnings Rollercoster Ahead of Q2 Report

July 28, 2015 3:06 PM EDT

Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) will report Q2 results following the close of markets today. If there's one TV show tagline that might be appropriate to describe the event, it would be from "Whose Line is It Anyway?" Everyone remembers how host Drew Carey would ramble off, Welcome to Whose Line is it Anyway; the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter.

Twitter is fairly unpredictable when it comes to post-earnings trading activity. The company has met or beat consensus EPS expectations since its first report in February 2014 (for Q413). The following is a summary of results and one-day stock movement for TWTR over the last five quarterly reports:

  • Q114 - Beat EPS by 3c, stock fell 8.6 percent
  • Q214 - Beat by 3 cents, stock gained 20 percent
  • Q314 - Flat with EPS expectations, stock fell 9.6 percent
  • Q414 - Beat by 6 cents, stock rose 16.7 percent
  • Q115 - Topped EPS expectations by 3 cents, stock dropped 23.1 percent

Traders are clearly looking beyond just the top- and bottom-line metrics (MAUs, next-quarter expectations, ad revenue, mobile traction, etc.), but Twitter shouldn't be one to disappoint with today's report given uncertainty surrounding whom will be permanent CEO at the company or what results might be given the early exit of Dick Costolo as CEO last month.

Shares of Twitter are up 4.3 percent late Tuesday.

NOTE: For more pre-earnings coverage on Twitter, click here. Or, check out Twitter's earnings history here.



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