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Zynga's CEO Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings Call TranscriptWed, Oct 24, 2012
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Zynga Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call TranscriptThu, Jul 26, 2012
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Company Description
Zynga Inc. is the world's largest social game developer with more than 232 million monthly active users playing their games which include CityVille, FarmVille, FrontierVille, Words With Friends, Mafia Wars, Zynga Poker, Cafe World, and Treasure Isle. Zynga Inc. games are available on a number of... More
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- Tuesday, May 21, 11:39 AM Piper raises its PT for Zynga (ZNGA +2.4%) to $3.50 from $2.75: the firm says checks indicate core business stability and mobile game traction. Running with Friends remains #5 on the App Store's U.S. free app leaderboard; Draw Something 2 has fallen to #64. 2 Comments [Tech]
- Wednesday, May 15, 9:56 AM Barry Rosenstein's Jana Partners discloses it bought 25.5M Zynga (ZNGA +8.2%) shares in Q1. That's good for a 4.2% stake in the social gaming leader, which is shooting higher on the news. (13F) 2 Comments [Tech, On the Move, Breaking News]
- Monday, May 13, 4:10 PM Zynga (ZNGA +7.4%) closes sharply higher in the absence of major news. Enthusiasm about the performance of new mobile titles Draw Something 2 and Running with Friends could be a factor - AppData's stats (I, II) indicate both games continue to fare well in App Store charts. Zynga's short interest has tripled since November, but is still well below where it stood a year ago. 1 Comment [Tech, On the Move]
- Friday, May 10, 6:42 PM Mobile game Running with Friends is the first Zynga (ZNGA) title in the endless running genre. Just launched globally following a Canadian soft launch, the game amounts to a collaboration with popular console game developer Eat Sleep Play - this could be a sign of Zynga's efforts to keep R&D spending down as much as anything. Regardless, Zynga is hoping the game can add to the mobile momentum produced by Draw Something 2, as the company bets on "high-engagement" mobile titles to help spark a rebound. 5 Comments [Tech]
- Friday, May 3, 1:49 PM Draw Something 2 is looking like a hit for Zynga (ZNGA -0.6%): the sequel to one-time hit/write-down Draw Something, which adds more advanced drawing tools and a "social feed," has quickly shot to the top of the App Store's free iPhone app leaderboard since its late-April launch (it's monetized via in-app purchases). Zynga can use the good news after getting hammered last month due to poor Q2 guidance, as engagement for its Facebook games dives in spite of FarmVille 2's success. Also: Zynga is pitching itself to video advertisers during upfront season, as it tries to bolster an ad business that made up 13% of Q1 revenue. 1 Comment [Tech]
- Wednesday, May 1, 6:19 PM Facebook's (FB) ad impressions and prices respectively rose 39% and 3% Y/Y in Q1, Sheryl Sandberg states on the CC; given the success of Sponsored Stories and the FBX Exchange, the price growth seems light (mobile a likely reason). Still, Y/Y ad rev. growth was higher in Q1 than in any 2012 quarter, thanks partly to demand for app install ads (used by 3.8K developers to drive ~25M downloads). Payments revenue rose Q/Q after adjusting for an extra month in Q4, and Facebook claims record gaming activity (good for ZNGA). PC ad revenue was flat Y/Y. Mark Zuckerberg hints Instagram will soon be monetized. (live blogs: I, II) (previous) 3 Comments [Tech]
- Tuesday, April 30, 12:58 PM Zynga (ZNGA -1.1%) strikes a deal to publish Game of Thrones Ascent, a a social game based on HBO's hit series that has been developed by startup Disruptor Beam. Zynga has slowly but steadily been adding games and developers to its publishing network, and is hoping the efforts, together with its Zynga.com site and Zynga with Friends social network, will lessen its dependence on home-grown Facebook games, which (with an exception or two) haven't been faring well lately. Comment! [Tech]
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Thursday, April 25, 9:12 AM
Premarket gainers: MPG +23%. INFN +19%. AKAM +17%. FIO +16%. CLF +8%. YNDX +7%. NXST +7%. NOW +7%. CAB +6%. CAKE +6%.
Losers: XIDE -15%. WHX -14%. INTU -13%. ZNGA -9%. MLNX -8%. AVEO -7%. CTXS -7%. 1 Comment [On the Move] - Wednesday, April 24, 6:20 PM Though Zynga (ZNGA) beat Q1 estimates thanks to strong FarmVille 2 bookings, its quarterly metrics help explain its poor Q2 guidance. Daily active users (DAUs) fell 8% Q/Q and 21% Y/Y in Q1 to 52M, after having fallen 6% Q/Q in Q4. Monthly active users fell 15% Q/Q and 13% Y/Y to 253M, monthly unique payers fell 14% Q/Q and 30% Y/Y to 2.5M, and average daily bookings per DAU fell 2% Q/Q and 11% Y/Y to $0.055. Cost controls are keeping Zynga from witnessing huge cash burn: R&D spend -31% Y/Y, sales/marketing -52%, G&A -41%. Only $2.5M worth of buybacks took place. Can real-money gambling help turn the tide? Shares -9.2% AH. (Q4 data) (PR) 1 Comment [Tech, Earnings, On the Move]
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Wednesday, April 24, 5:52 PM
After-hours top gainers, as of 5:15 p.m.: AKAM +16%. FIO +12%. AVG +10%. ANGI +8%. BYI +6%.
After-hours top losers: SUPN -14%. CTXS -12%. EQIX -11%. INTU -10%. ZNGA -8%. Comment! [On the Move] - Wednesday, April 24, 4:11 PM Zynga (ZNGA): Q1 EPS of $0.01 beats by $0.05. Bookings of $229.8M (-30% Y/Y) beats by $20M. Expects Q2 bookings of $180M-$190M and EPS of -$0.04 to -$0.03, below a consensus of $236.1M and -$0.01. Shares -13.4% AH. (PR) 5 Comments [Tech, Earnings, On the Move, Breaking News]
- Monday, April 15, 10:43 AM Electronic Arts (EA -1.1%) is doing a social gaming about-face: the company is shuttering Facebook titles The Sims Social, SimCity Social, and Pet Society due to declining usage. "For people who have seen other recent shutdowns of social games, perhaps this is not surprising," says EA in a jab at former lawsuit target Zynga (ZNGA -1.2%), which nonetheless can't be upset about this news. The closings come shortly after EA CEO John Riccitiello resigned, and a fresh round of layoffs were carried out. SimCity Social once had 10M monthly users. Comment! [Tech]
- Friday, April 5, 4:14 PM Another Friday, another rally for well-shorted Internet stocks. Though Zynga (ZNGA +3.2%) may have benefited from news it's adding John Doerr to its board, most Internet names with large short interests that posted big gains did so in the absence of major news. Groupon (GRPN +5.9%), a frequent participant in such rallies, was among the standouts, as were Yelp (YELP +8.5%), Zillow (Z +3.8%), and OpenTable (OPEN +4.6%). 3 Comments [Tech, On the Move]
- Friday, April 5, 9:35 AM Zynga (ZNGA) adds famous Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr to its board. Doerr, whose firm was a pre-IPO investor in Zynga, also sits on Google's board. (PR) 1 Comment [Tech]
- Thursday, April 4, 5:46 PM Hit hard by a torrent of executive defections over the last 9 months, Zynga (ZNGA) is boosting the salaries of many top execs, while also providing huge cash bonus/stock grant incentives tied to the performance of Zynga's games, network, and adjusted EBITDA numbers. On the other hand, CEO/founder Mark Pincus, who still owns a giant chunk of Zynga, is lowering his salary to $1, and won't receive any bonus/equity compensation for 2013. (8-K) 4 Comments [Tech]
- Wednesday, April 3, 6:25 PM Jefferies tries to throw some cold water on the euphoric market response to Zynga's (ZNGA +15%) U.K. real-money gambling launch. The firm's arguments: Only 6%-9% of Zynga's revenue comes from the U.K., 81% of Zynga's revenue is still tied to Facebook and 18% to mobile, there's some cannibalization risk for Zynga Poker (ed: Zynga is probably willing to accept this), revenue is shared with Bwin.party, and the timing of a U.S. launch remains a question mark. Needham is more optimistic, arguing the launches and the popularity of What's the Phrase could provide a Q2 lift. 2 Comments [Tech]
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DIgitalMediaView: Heavy short term call buying activity. http://bit.ly/10Tx8WI Feels like it has to be anticipating of FB-based UK gambling launch.
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$ZNGA rises with gambling news. Is this 4% increase anticipating $FB gambling in UK? http://seekingalpha.com/a/u7fj - View all 2 replies
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DIgitalMediaView: Or possibly next US state legalizing online gambling like PA (http://bit.ly/13ix2xb)?
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sprasad03: just sold out, it will go back to low 3s again, waiting for a major dip
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Quoth the Raven
$ZNGA guidance is garbage. What a horrible stock to be in. Time to short ZNGA to zero. - View all 4 replies
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inandoutnevertoolate: Kudos to Yogi for being absolutely right about the bounce back.
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$ZNGA whisper number at -$0.01, three cents ahead of the analysts' estimate. http://bit.ly/10dvLC9 - View all 2 replies
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DIgitalMediaView: Heavy short term call buying activity. http://bit.ly/10Tx8WI Feels like it has to be anticipating of FB-based UK gambling launch.
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$ZNGA rises with gambling news. Is this 4% increase anticipating $FB gambling in UK? http://seekingalpha.com/a/u7fj - View all 2 replies
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DIgitalMediaView: Or possibly next US state legalizing online gambling like PA (http://bit.ly/13ix2xb)?
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Fuinhaz Setups for April 22 2013 | $BBRY $GOLD $HLIT $NSPH $PWER $SHPG $YHOO $ZNGA | SharePlanner http://bit.ly/13qxKHm - View all 28 replies
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DumpsterDiver: Do you believe that note about PWER was NOT embarrassingly uninformed? If so, why?
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Ryan Mallory: No I don't, and what is more embarrassing is your obsession with a comment made 10 days ago.
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sprasad03: just sold out, it will go back to low 3s again, waiting for a major dip
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$ZNGA guidance is garbage. What a horrible stock to be in. Time to short ZNGA to zero. - View all 4 replies
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inandoutnevertoolate: Kudos to Yogi for being absolutely right about the bounce back.
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$ZNGA whisper number at -$0.01, three cents ahead of the analysts' estimate. http://bit.ly/10dvLC9 - View all 2 replies
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WhisperNumber: We're not allowed to take positions in anything we cover, even then all our data is post earnings related, and we have very limited data.
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dmba$$: joe kelly, that pretty much sums up my investments. :( Seem to always be a day late and a few dollars short.
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sevastos_m@yahoo.com: TY obviously - it's a good stock "I believe" worth 10 - I think they put the cart before the horse that is the issue or problem... ;~)
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sevastos_m@yahoo.com: CEOs come n go w/a chunk of money, while the employees get the shaft -looks like too many cooks - lets hire an independent accnt firm
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sprasad03: idk i bought in for the long term, low risk high reward stock. Its near bottom value anyways and can only go up.
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dmba$$: same here. not sure what is going on today either. except the one announcement.
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DIgitalMediaView: Probably rise next few days after UK announcement but highly volatile stock going into earnings.
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PinkSheet Panther: It will go back down a few more times before it runs. They will need actual good numbers before we see a real run.
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cheznazi: The stock is not performing as great as GLUU did when similar news was released. I thought ZNGA was more popular!?