Facebook Beats Wall Street Estimates in Q3 with $7.01B Revenue

Facebook unveiled its Q3 earnings yesterday, beating all analyst estimates by posting $7.01 billion in revenue and $1.09 EPS, as compared to Wall Street estimates of a profit of 97 cents on sales of $6.92 billion, Re/Code reports. The social networking giant brought in over $5.7 billion in mobile advertising revenue, which alone is bigger than the company’s entire business in Q3 of 2015.

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Facebook also announced that it surpassed one billion “mobile only” monthly active users for the first time last quarter, suggesting that those billion-plus users actually never visited Facebook on any other device other their phone. And since advertisers are spending more and more on mobile advertising, Facebook is in a unique position to collect a lot of revenue from those ads. “We had another good quarter”, said company CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Mobile now makes up 84% of Facebook’s ad revenue, the same as last quarter and up from 78% in Q3 2015. The company make a total of $2.379 billion in profit, up an impressive 16% versus the $2.05 billion it raked in last quarter, and up a whopping 160% year over year. Expenditures were up slightly to $1.1 billion.

Facebook is currently sitting on $26.14 billion in cash, equivalents, and securities.

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