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Yelp's shares take a beating after revenue miss

Yelp shares fall sharply in after-hours trading after sales miss Wall Street expectations

Reported by: AP Published on: November 09, 2018 4:15 IST
Yelp's shares take a beating after revenue miss
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Shares of Yelp Inc. took a beating Thursday after the online-reviews site reported soft third-quarter sales and indicated the current period would also be weak.

Yelp's stock was down $12.50, or 29 percent, to $31 in after-hours trading.

CEO Jeremy Stoppleman blamed the revenue miss on the company's new non-term advertising, intended to encourage advertisers to try the site without being tied to longer-term contracts.

"While the shift to non-term advertising has opened our sales funnel, it has also made our results more sensitive to short-term operational issues," Stoppleman said in a new release. He said the company said expected revenue would also take a hit in the fourth quarter.

The San Francisco-based company reported revenue of $241.1 million in third quarter, up from $223 million during the same period a year ago. That was below Wall Street expectations of $245.4 million, according to Zacks Investment Research.

Yelp posted profits of $15 million, or 17 cents a share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense, came to 43 cents per share. That was above the 35 cents per share expected by analysts.

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Elements of this story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on YELP at https://www.zacks.com/ap/YELP

Disclaimer: This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Associated Press (AP) wire.
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