These 2 User Metrics From Facebook's Third Quarter Should Bug Shareholders
By most measures, it was a healthy enough quarter. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) was more profitable than analysts had expected, and while the company's third-quarter top line fell short of estimates, both metrics were firmly higher on a year-over-year basis. And the company continued to bring active users of its social media platforms into the fold. The knee-jerk selling of the stock stemming from lackluster fourth-quarter guidance was and still is relatively well-contained.
Investors willing and able to look past all the recent drama surrounding the social networking giant, however, may have noticed something within Facebook's quarterly update that not enough people are talking about. That is, total user growth has decelerated to record-low, near-nil levels, while per-user revenue appears to have hit a wall.
Could Facebook be facing its "as good as it gets" milestone?
Source Fool.com
