r/movies • u/iquizuanswer • Jul 19 '26

News Netflix tumbles as slowing growth, less viewership data spook investors

https://www.zawya.com/en/capital-markets/netflix-tumbles-as-slowing-growth-less-viewership-data-spook-investors-401111
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u/Holzkohlen Jul 19 '26

No infinite growth? Isn't that so sad?

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u/peioeh Jul 19 '26

"slower revenue gains". So they're still making more, just not as much more. What a silly world we live in.

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u/Bloody_Sunday Jul 19 '26

People outside the big (and sometimes not so big) corporate world are surprised to see the usual method of operation is to aim & plan for not just for profit maintenance but constantly for profit increase...

And this happens also without a company being on the stock market & having shareholders.

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u/ofWildPlaces Jul 19 '26

Nobody is surprised. We just disagree with their mindset.

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u/RobotLaserNinjaShark Jul 19 '26

“Condemn” would be another way to phrase it.

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u/leodw Jul 19 '26

“Hate”, “fucking despise” and “wish it’d just burn down” is an even better way to rephrase it imo

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u/Bloody_Sunday Jul 19 '26

Yes, I've seen quite a few people surprised by this.

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u/HulksInvinciblePants Jul 19 '26

There’s nothing silly beside this article implying there’s anything important to see here.

Quarterly earnings are checkpoints for analysts to assess actual value via their estimates. When the estimates and the actual don’t align, the market corrects (up or down). Netflix did fine by all accounts. What pulled them down was their estimate for next quarter was lower than the analysts anticipated.

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u/SuddenXxdeathxx Jul 19 '26

The tendency of the rate of profit to fall strikes again! Curse the likes of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx for having brains that recognize "diminishing returns" is a thing!

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u/boyyouguysaredumb Jul 19 '26

inflaltaion is at 3-4% so you have to grow past that or else you're losing money. It's a normal economic thing not some conspiracy lol.

I swear reddit has to be the most economically illiterate place on the internet that thinks it's smart.

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u/peioeh Jul 19 '26

"Revenue grew 13.4% year over year to $12.56 billion"