Spotify Shares Up 12% After Q4 Earnings Release

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Spotify's stock rose after beating expectations on two closely watched metrics: subscriber growth and gross margins.

Spotify’s share price rose 12.7% to $112.71 on Tuesday following the company’s earnings release for 2022’s fourth quarter earlier in the day.

Now with a market capitalization of $21.8 billion, Spotify has more than overcome the investor exodus following its underwhelming . After delivering a weaker-than-expected gross margin on Oct. 25, Spotify’s share price fell 13% to $84.42 and bottomed out at $69.29 on Nov. 4. Tuesday’s closing price marked a 62.7% improvement in fewer than three months.Investors want Spotify to continue adding subscribers while improving its margins. Tuesday’s earnings results delivered on both fronts. Its fourth-quarter subscriber growth of 10 million handily beat guidance of 7 million, giving the company 205 million subscribers globally.

In the fourth quarter, Spotify’s gross margin of 25.3% was 80 basis points — eight-tenths of a percentage point — above guidance “due primarily to lower podcast spend along with broad-based favorability in our core music business,” said CFOSpotify’s licensing deals with record labels and publishers give it little room for improvement on recorded music margins, which were 28% in 2021.

, Spotify executives said they expect podcast margins to reach 30-35% within three to five years and 40-50% further in the future.on Jan. 23 that it would lay off 6% of its global headcount. Among the departures — though technically not part of the layoffs — was chief content officer, the engineer of the company’s strategy to build its podcast business by attracting marquee names such as

 

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