On November 9th, Viacom held their Q3 2016 (technically their Q4, full year) earnings call. Here are the highlights
Change in Leadership:
Tom Dooley, the current CEO, will step down next week. Robert Bakish, who managed Viacom’s international business, will take over.
Financials – Total:
Full year total revenue of $12.5B was 6% lower than the $13.3B in FY 2015. Total revenue for the quarter was $3.2B down 15% YoY.
On October 27th, Twitter held their Q3 2016 earnings call. Here are the top 6 things you should know:
1. Slight Increase in Revenue: Total revenue was up only 8% YoY and 2% sequentially to $616MM. Advertising made up 88% of the total at $545MM. Data Licensing and Other brought in $71MM.
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Apple reported their FY 16 4th Quarter results on October 25th. Here are 8 things you should know:
1. FY 2016 Revenue was $216B: If Apple was a country, they’d be the 47th largest according GDP, ahead of Portugal, Vietnam and Greece. This was down nearly 8% from 2015 ($234B).
2. Quarterly Revenue Down 9% YoY: Revenue for the quarter was $46.9B, down from $51.5B last year.
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Yesterday, Netflix held their Q3 quarterly earnings call. Here are the Top 10 things you should know:
1. Over $2B in Streaming Revenue: For the first time they crossed over the $2B mark in quarterly streaming revenue. Domestic streaming was $1.3B, an 8% increase from the previous quarter and up 23% YoY. International streaming revenue of $.853B was 40% of the total, and 13% higher from Q2 and an impressive 65% growth YoY.
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Starting next week, through the second week of November will be the quarterly earnings conference calls for the major entertainment, tech and telecom companies. The chart below has the complete schedule. As usual, Netflix will kick things off first, with their Monday 5PM ET call.
Showbiz Brief will have a write up after each call.
| Company | DOW | Date | Time |
| Netflix | Mon | Oct 17 | 5:00pm ET |
| Verizon | Thu | Oct 20 | 8:30am ET |
| AT&T | Tue | Oct 25 | 4:30pm ET |
| Apple | Tue | Oct 25 | 5:00pm ET |
| Comcast | Wed | Oct 26 | 8:30am ET |
| Amazon | Thu | Oct 27 | 5:30pm ET |
| Alphabet | Thu | Oct 27 | 4:30pm ET |
| Thu | Oct 27 | 5:00pm ET | |
| Regal Entertainment | Thu | Oct 27 | 4:30pm ET |
| Discovery | Tue | Nov 01 | 8:30am ET |
| Sony Corp | Tue | Nov 01 | 4:15am ET |
| Frontier Communications | Tue | Nov 01 | 4:30pm ET |
| Time Warner | Wed | Nov 02 | 8:30am ET |
| 21st Century Fox | Wed | Nov 02 | 4:00pm ET |
| Wed | Nov 02 | 5:00pm ET | |
| Charter | Thu | Nov 03 | 10:00am ET |
| CBS | Thu | Nov 03 | 4:30pm ET |
| Lionsgate | Thu | Nov 03 | 5:00pm ET |
| AMC Networks | Thu | Nov 03 | 11:00am ET |
| Scripps Networks | Mon | Nov 07 | 11:00am ET |
| Viacom | Wed | Nov 09 | 8:30am ET |
| Disney | Thu | Nov 10 | 5:00pm ET |
| Altice | Thu | Nov 10 | TBD |
| AMC Entertainment | TBD | ||
| Cinemark | TBD | ||
| Dish Network Corp | TBD |
Below are my key takeaways from the Sony Q1 2016 Earnings Call on July 29:
Summary:
Consolidated revenue dropped 11% YoY, operating income was down 42% and net income was off 74%. The reasons for the bad results were the Kumamoto Earthquake in April, a decrease in demand for image sensors for mobile, a reduction in mid-range smartphone unit sales and negative effects of currency exchange
On the positive side, Uncharted 4 helped Game & Network Services segment rise by 14% and Angry Birds contributed to the Pictures Segment 7% gain with their $347MM global take.
Below are my key takeaways from the Charter Q2 2016 Earnings Call on Aug 9:
Summary:
CEO Tom Rutledge’s opening statement: “On May 18th we closed our transaction with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks creating a new company with a bigger and a significantly more concentrated footprint giving us the local and national scale to innovate and grow faster. Our high capacity network now reaches nearly 49MM homes and business and we have over 25MM residential and business customers in attractive markets.”
Bought Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks for approximately $67,000MM. The new company will have over 25MM customers in 41 states and be marketed under the Charter Spectrum brand name. They will be the second-largest U.S. broadband provider and third-largest video provider.
Total Q2 revenue for the new company was $9,988MM, a 6.6% YoY increase. Here’s a breakdown by segment:
