Facebook (FB) Tops Q1 EPS by 2c

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) reported Q1 EPS of $0.42, $0.02 better than the analyst estimate of $0.40. Revenue for the quarter came in at $3.54 billion versus the consensus estimate of $3.56 billion.

First Quarter 2015 Operational Highlights

• Daily active users (DAUs) were 936 million on average for March 2015, an increase of 17% year-over-year.
• Mobile DAUs were 798 million on average for March 2015, an increase of 31% year-over-year.
• Monthly active users (MAUs) were 1.44 billion as of March 31, 2015, an increase of 13% year-over-year.
• Mobile MAUs were 1.25 billion as of March 31, 2015, an increase of 24% year-over-year.

First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights

Revenue – Revenue for the first quarter of 2015 totaled $3.54 billion, an increase of 42%, compared with $2.50 billion in the first quarter of 2014. Excluding the impact of year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates, revenue would have increased by 49%.

• Revenue from advertising was $3.32 billion, a 46% increase from the same quarter last year. Excluding the impact of year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates, revenue from advertising would have increased by 55%.
• Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 73% of advertising revenue for the first quarter of 2015, up from approximately 59% of advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2014.
• Payments and other fees revenue was $226 million, a 5% decrease from the same quarter last year.

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