Netflix Q2 Subscriber Losses Could Be Worse Than Forecast, Analyst Warns

Barrons2022-07-07

It's now been almost three months since Netflix shocked investors with a very ugly first-quarter-earnings report. The primary issue was a surprise reversal in subscriber growth. Netflix lost 200,000 ...

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Angellee24
2022-07-07
Angellee24
Losing subscribers is bad news.
Jeremysee
2022-07-07
Jeremysee
Upup
jllwang
2022-07-07
jllwang
Ok

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Netflix has reportedly been rushing an ad-supported subscription option to market, while making several rounds of job cuts to address softening results. As usual, though, the focus is going to be on the company's comment on subscriber growth -- or losses.Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar asserts in a research note Wednesday that despite recent strength in the company's content slate -- including the new seasons of Stranger Things , Ozark, and Peaky Blinders -- Netflix could once again post disappointing progress on subscribers. He writes that Netflix appears on target for a loss of 2.8 million subs in the June quarter, 800,000 higher than the company had forecast. 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