(Reuters) - Image-sharing firm Pinterest Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly results on Thursday, making potentially the most of solid particular person increase and heavy promoting by e-commerce outlets throughout the vacation season.
Shares of the firm jumped practically 10% in prolonged buying and selling as its first-quarter gross sales increase forecast of a upward thrust in the low 70% fluctuate also beat Wall Avenue expectations of 56% increase.
Advert spending has rebounded from a walk throughout the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic as outlets flip to the on-line to entice home-run possibilities, boosting revenues of companies equivalent to Alphabet Inc’s Google and Fb Inc.
The shift to virtual interactions has also increased engagement on social media platforms, with Pinterest’s month-to-month crammed with life users jumping 37% to 459 million in the fourth quarter.
“We welcomed over 100 million extra month-to-month crammed with life users to Pinterest in 2020, larger than any hundreds of one year in our history,” Chief Govt Officer and co-founder Ben Silbermann acknowledged in an announcement.
Pinterest generates revenue by placing ads subsequent to the Pins, or posts, uploaded on the space by users.
The firm’s revenue from the US, its largest market, surged 67% to $582 million.
Entire revenue soared 76% to $706 million, beating analysts’ estimates of $645.6 million, in response to Refinitiv IBES info.
Other than items, Pinterest earned 43 cents per piece, larger than estimates of 32 cents per piece.
Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; Modifying by Aditya Soni