- China's net-TV leader Youku Tudou (NYSE:YOKU) was selling off after hours before reversing course, +1.4%, after it posted a mixed Q1 earnings report where a net loss widened despite revenues that grew 51% and beat expectations easily.
- The company recorded a gross loss in non-GAAP terms of $5.3M, vs. a year-ago gross profit of $14.6M, as its content costs jumped 87.6%, to 669M yuan ($107.9M). Content costs were 59% of net revenues, up from 46%, and bandwidth costs of $49.5M were 29% of revenues.
- Chairman and CEO Victor Koo says strategy will improve business economics: Q1 was "marked by solid progress in the three key growth pillars that drive our business development for this year: accelerated topline growth, revenue diversification, and significant ramp up of web-native content."
- The company guided to Q2 revenues of 1.47B-1.52B yuan ($237M-$245M, on the high side of an expected $225.5M). It expects advertising revenues to be between 1.25B-1.3B yuan.
- Conference call at 9 p.m. ET.
- Press Release