GDS Holdings (NASDAQ: GDS) notched a convincing pair of beats in its latest quarterly-earnings report, and investors were all too happy to reward the company for this feat. They bid the price of its American depositary shares (ADSs) up sharply after news of the results made headlines on Wednesday, to the point where they closed the day more than 17% higher in price. That compared very well to the 0.4% uptick of the S&P 500 index on Hump Day.

For its second quarter, GDS managed to increase its net revenue by 14% year over year to more than 2.83 billion yuan ($397 million). If one-time revenue items in the same quarter of 2023 are excluded, that growth rate rises to nearly 18%.

There was also encouraging movement on the bottom line, where the data-center operator's net loss deepened only slightly. This came in at almost 232 million yuan ($33 million), against the year-ago period's 225 million yuan ($32 million) deficit. On a per-ADS basis, the latest net-loss figure was 1.30 yuan ($0.18).

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