Reddit can compound monetization by converting valuable users into an expanding ad and data platform; improving app engagement and advertiser demand support upside beyond near-term noise.
Search-driven user acquisition is weakening just as core audiences and quarterly forecasts disappoint; rising acquisition costs and opaque metrics raise estimate risk and cap the multiple.
The company is testing ads in search results, which are shown based on contextual relevance to search queries, potentially opening a new revenue stream.
Loop Capital downgraded Reddit to Hold from Buy.
Revenue of $895M beat Street expectations of $877M.
International DAUq grew by 2.5M quarter-over-quarter to 79.6M, beating the internal bogey of 76-77M.
Adjusted EBITDA of $402.3M was in line with Street expectations of $400M.
GAAP EPS of $1.40 beat Street estimates of $1.33.
Free Cash Flow (FCF) of $362.6M beat Street estimates of $351.7M.
Logged-in and app DAUq grew sequentially and represent over 80% of monetization, with first-week retention for new app users showing significant improvement.
US DAUq fell to 50.7M, a decrease of 2.5M quarter-over-quarter and 2% year-over-year, missing Street estimates of 53.5M and the internal bogey of 53.3-53.4M.
The company's letter indicated that total DAUq could fall by a low-double-digit percentage in Q4 due to declining search referrals.
Revenue of $895M missed the internal bogey of $935-945M.
The Q4 revenue guidance of $1,000-1,030M missed both Street estimates of $1,044M and the internal bogey of $1.07-1.08B.
The decline in US users was worse than bears expected, with a 2.5M drop compared to 0.3M in Q2, and the Q4 guidance removed the revenue cushion.
Search referral traffic was down meaningfully in Q3, with the decline accelerating later in the quarter and continuing into Q4, impacting logged-out and web traffic.
International DAUq missed Street estimates of 80.1M.
Total DAUq was flat quarter-over-quarter at 130.3M, missing Street estimates of 133.6M.
International revenue of $176.1M missed Street estimates of $182.3M and showed a deceleration in growth from Q2.
Adjusted EBITDA margin of 44.9% missed the internal bogey of ~46%.
Sales and Marketing (S&M) expenses grew faster than revenue, indicating increased spending to offset user declines.
The Q4 Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $480-510M missed Street estimates of $512M.
Web visits were down year-over-year for the first time since July '23, with US time spent decreasing by 16%, indicating a decline in user engagement.
Ad checks remain strong, driving increases in 3Q revenue and EBITDA estimates.
AI Overviews penetration, exceeding 80% of U.S. desktop queries, is negatively impacting Reddit traffic, leading to cuts in 3Q/4Q US Daily Active Users (DAU) net adds.
Third-quarter users grew +5.6% quarter-over-quarter, including U.S. +3.1%, which exceeded Street and buyside expectations for flat or down daily active users.
Digital ad spend remains healthy, and the company continues to gain wallet share at approximately 20–25% annually, increasingly viewed as a full-funnel platform with AI-search visibility as an added tailwind.
Pricing is no longer at a material discount, and early Max tests show approximately 15–20% lower cost per acquisition.
App downloads accelerated +19% quarter-over-quarter in Q3, and web visitors grew +2–3%, with continued U.S. strength and rising international users, suggesting potential user and revenue upside for Q3.
META CPM growth accelerated to +47% in September from +33% in August, while GOOGL’s share of AI Mode/Overview citations rose to 21.4%, +290bps m/m/+540bps since April. Ad checks remain strong into 4Q, with NFLX/ROKU/YouTube/RDDT standouts and TTD/SNAP weakest
The company is tactically rated Outperform after a significant year-to-date pullback, with improving ad checks, daily active users, and licensing upside.
Internet: Evercore reshuffles top longs to AMZN/META/SPOT; TAP Outperform RDDT, Underperform BKNG
audiobooks/add-ons plus an expected AI tier support ARPU, PT $700/~43% upside. Tactically, Evercore is Outperform RDDT after a -34% YTD pullback with improving ad checks/DAUs and licensing upside, while Underperform BKNG on greater Q4 risk from weak long-ha...
App downloads improved sharply to +46.8% y/y from -27.9%.
September Ads Manager reach growth slowed to +17.0% globally vs. +20.8% in August and +6.9% domestic vs. +7.2%, though a mid-September targeting-model change makes the sequential data noisy.
Similarweb/Google traffic weakened more clearly, with 3Q Google traffic -5.9% y/y vs. +8.9% in 2Q.
The stock rose on chatter that a third-party data provider indicated revenue was significantly above Street estimates as of September 30th.
The company has a history of consistently beating revenue expectations, and strong checks early in quarters typically lead to stock rallies.
The company's stock shrugged off the launch of META's Forum app for Facebook Groups in the US, indicating resilience to potential competition.
META +3.3% bounced off Monday’s -5%, which was partly about fears of an OpenAI Muse rival at Dev Day although we thought it was just also sensible digestion after stock got <15% to the $900 25x target investors generally circling. Dots is pitched at work an...
Yipit reported that US and International DAUs are tracking to a significant miss of approximately 1.5 million and 4.5 million, respectively.
The more monetizable logged-in/app user base remains healthy, with Apptopia downloads up 59% year-over-year and daily active users up 38%.
Google search traffic to Reddit is down year-over-year in September and August.
Wells Fargo still estimated that Reddit's current $60 million per year deal could otherwise step to $250-300 million in 2027.
Wells Fargo reported that Google is piloting payments to publishers contributing content to Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI Mode, which they view as an acknowledgment that the traditional content-for-traffic model is out of balance.
Wells Fargo argued that the program reduces Google's need to send more traffic back to Reddit in a reworked licensing deal, lowering the probability of a favorable RDDT renewal.
Piper sees stronger August ad trends and solid Reddit user growth, with users rising 8% month-over-month and audience growth accelerating to 18% year-over-year.
Piper notes RDDT users rose 8% m/m in August and audience growth accelerated to 18% y/y, although a methodology change should drive a ~20% reported reset in audience size. Piper also sees META monetization improving, with CPM growth accelerating to +33% fro...
The company is experiencing strong user and audience growth, with advertising momentum remaining favorable.
A methodology change is expected to result in a reported reset of audience size by approximately 20%.
CEO Steve Huffman noted hundreds of thousands of unattributed app downloads daily, indicating strong organic user acquisition.
New-user retention increased by 50% last quarter, demonstrating improved user engagement and stickiness.
The recommendation engine is still 12-18 months behind the state of the art, which is where investment is directed, suggesting significant room for improvement and future growth.
The CEO confirmed active negotiations with Google and stated that Reddit's content has been used to build every AI model, positioning the company favorably regardless of formal relationships.
Buybacks are on track for roughly $500m year to date, indicating a commitment to shareholder returns.
M&A activity is increasing for team and technology, suggesting strategic growth initiatives.
Goldman Sachs believes Reddit's r/bodega event demonstrated deep community engagement and the potential to extend the brand into offline activations, which can drive app downloads and logged-in usage.
App users are significantly more valuable than web users, with an ARPU 4-5 times higher, making the shift towards authenticated and app engagement a meaningful monetization lever.
Longer-term upside is seen from ads, data licensing, and on-platform AI search.
Near-term debates around user linearity, Google/search partnerships, and AI product execution offset longer-term upside.
App growth is accelerating.
The Information called out RDDT as part of a broader group that Hatch is trained to access.
RDDT +6% as TI called it out as part of a broader group Hatch is trained to access, including DASH, ETSY, & YELP. Jefferies was out saying RDDT data mixed: app growth is accelerating, but web DAUs slowed to +5% as AI Overview/referral headwinds persist, whi...
Web DAUs slowed to +5% as AI Overview/referral headwinds persist, keeping visibility on 3Q traffic less clean.
Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations significantly declined from an average of 3.8% to 0.5% in mid-August, representing an approximately 86% drop, which may explain recent stock weakness.
The stock has completely given up all gains from its S&P 500 addition.
The company's exposure to Google AI Overviews is narrower than feared, as a large portion of Google traffic is navigational rather than generic search.
The Feed recommendation-system rebuild is seen as the biggest offset, with better model refresh and retrieval potentially improving WAU-to-DAU conversion.
Chatbot referrals are a longer-term upside option, as Reddit’s AI citation share has risen to approximately 20%.
The base case has U.S. DAUs recovering toward approximately 56 million exiting FY27.
Near-term U.S. DAUs are cautious because Google AI Overviews are compressing click-through rates.
The stock rose significantly after its inclusion in the S&P 500 index.
The company saw positive revisions in spending estimates from ad buyers in July.
In Tech, RDDT +11% after getting added to SP500, SNDK +6.6% as Harlan at JPM finally upgraded, AEHR +8.5% on a positive initiation.
RBLX/RDDT/META/GOOGL: Piper Says July Ad Checks Remain Strong, with Reddit Users Mixed
Piper says July ad buyer checks were broadly positive, with market growth roughly 130bps above expectations and 3Q spending estimates moving about 50bps higher. Piper says RDDT and ROKU saw the largest positive revisions, while META CPM growth accelerated t...
Reddit's user metrics were softer in July, with average users down month-over-month, despite some improvement into August.
The stock bounced nicely after a significant decline on the previous trading day.
The company demonstrated its ability to build a scaled, high-return advertising business with significant revenue growth, expanding advertiser base, and strong performance from lower-funnel products.
The user miss is partly a traffic-mix problem, as direct app users are significantly more engaged and monetizable than search-referred logged-out users, and the company is showing progress in converting its web audience to app users.
AI increases the scarcity value of the company's human-generated content, potentially leading to benefits through data licensing, real-time grounding, and improved advertising.
The company demonstrated strong monetization capabilities, achieving significant revenue growth and high EBITDA margins even with modest US user growth.
Headline #s better than expected in typical RDDT fashion but focus remains on slowing user growth/search shifting to AI/GOOGL reliance in a redux of narrative back in early 2025 - hard to see stock working until these issues show progress (will be harder to...
Despite better-than-expected headline numbers, the focus remains on slowing user growth and reliance on Google search, which is shifting to AI, making it difficult for the stock to perform until these issues show progress.
The company will no longer disclose logged-in and logged-out DAUq, removing a key metric for tracking its success in replacing low-value search traffic with higher-value users.
User pressure is attributed to volatile search referrals, with Google AI Overviews not generating the same ecosystem value as traditional blue links, leading to low visibility and expected continued volatility.
The company may be monetizing a user base whose most valuable domestic segment is not growing meaningfully, with US DAUq declining sequentially and logged-in users remaining flat.
The search issue could be structural, as AI Overviews can ingest content and answer queries within Google, weakening the company's top-of-funnel acquisition channel and making it harder to convert casual users.
Monetization growth may not be sustainable if the highest-value user base grows slowly, and aggressive pricing could pressure user experience or advertiser returns.
The bear case strengthened due to sequential declines in US DAUq and logged-in/logged-out users, worsening search pressure, and the decision to stop reporting key user metrics.
We’ll cover AMZN (+11%) first, then AAPL’s miss (-8%), RDDT’s DAU issues (-12%) Kioxia, and then onto the usual. We’ll post the RBLX (-22%) takes in Slack #earnings channel although don’t hear much interest on that stock these days either side.
Top-line revenue numbers were better than both Street and bogey expectations.
Logged-in US Daily Active Users (DAUs) were weaker than Street expectations, indicating a potential slowdown in user engagement.
Commentary from the shareholder letter regarding choppy search referrals and volatile traffic later in the quarter adds to concerns about user engagement and visibility.
The weaker DAUs and cautious commentary fuel the ongoing debate about user engagement and are likely to maintain an overhang on the stock.
The company's community moat and the increasing value of its content for AI model training support a durable, high-growth outlook.
The stock continues to fluctuate, indicating active trading.
Needham argues that the company's 2026 product roadmap is shifting its monetization towards transactions, making Amazon a more relevant comparison than Meta.
New features like AI Shopping Deep Dives, Reddit Shopping, Shopify integrations, and Shopping Listing Ads keep users on the platform from discovery through purchase, providing advertisers with better conversion measurement.
Needham believes the company's authentic human conversations, real-time sentiment, and community trust create a defensible purchase-intent asset that LLMs can summarize but not replicate, supporting stronger monetization.
The stock continues to perform better than the rest of the internet sector ahead of its earnings report, with checks indicating mainly positive sentiment and expectations for a double-digit top-line beat. User numbers have remained stable, and bulls anticipate potential LLM deal announcements in the second half of the year.
The analyst suggested that if one wants to increase long internet exposure, this stock appears to be a favorable long-side opportunity.
The growing casual games initiative could become a meaningful driver of engagement and help support its path to 100 million U.S. daily active users.
The games ecosystem now exceeds 1 million subscribers across more than 50 titles.
Games can broaden user activity while creating incremental monetization opportunities over time.
The strategy strengthens the long-term growth story alongside improving AI search trends and advertising fundamentals.
Piper Sandler reiterated an Overweight rating and a $215 price target.
Guggenheim’s June data review indicates continued user growth momentum for Reddit in Q2, with June global audience reach up 11.8% year-over-year and international reach accelerating 19.1% year-over-year despite tougher comparisons.
The firm believes downloads and audience data remain consistent with Q2 DAUq growth of approximately 18.9%, up from 17.3% in Q1, supporting expectations for another solid quarter of engagement growth.
Guggenheim's positive outlook indicated continued user growth momentum in Q2, with global audience reach up 11.8% year-over-year and international reach accelerating 19.1% year-over-year.
Third-party data suggests a double-digit beat for Q2.
The stock is acting better, driven by solid user growth data, consistent strong top-line numbers, and investor anticipation of resolutions regarding GOOGL/OAI renewals or the Anthropic case in the second half of the year.
Monthly traffic moderated sequentially.
The company is well positioned for renewed AI data-licensing agreements, benefiting from healthy advertising demand.
Healthy Q2 engagement trends and accelerating advertising demand are supporting continued estimate upside.
Investors are underestimating Reddit’s ability to sustain growth despite tougher comparisons, with potential upside to both revenue and margin expectations, and EBITDA margins tracking towards the high end of management’s guidance.
AI-referred traffic appears to have inflected higher in 2026, with Reddit seeing measurable increases, albeit still generally below 1% of total traffic.
The stock's rally is largely attributed to the war ending and oil prices moving lower, creating a favorable market environment.
AI-referred traffic has inflected higher for consumer internet names, indicating a positive trend for user engagement and potential revenue.
RDDT +12% / Dash +11% / PINS+5% led the way higher: We think this is largely the war ending and oil moving lower, but DB also had an interesting snippet, which we flagged in our morning wrap saying AI referred traffic has inflected higher for consumer inter...
JPM is more constructive on engagement, monetization, and AI optionality, following management meetings.
The company's focus on improving feed relevance through ML, search, and product enhancements can continue driving user growth and engagement.
Active advertiser growth of 75% year-over-year and improving lower-funnel ad products support a multi-year monetization runway.
The data licensing opportunity is expected to expand beyond current agreements as AI models increasingly rely on fresh, human-generated content.
The company's dual advertising and data-licensing revenue streams are viewed as a unique strategic advantage.
JPM remains constructive on the balanced growth-and-profitability profile, highlighting continued margin expansion, a capital-light model, and an increasingly shareholder-friendly capital allocation strategy.
New customer pipeline is improving, alleviating prior macro slowdown fears.
May digital advertising checks were better than expected, with Reddit ranking among the strongest relative outperformers alongside YouTube and Roku. Despite some volatility in Reddit Ads Manager data, management commentary and improving AI search relevance are more important indicators. Ahrefs data shows Reddit’s share of citations in Google’s AI Overview and AI Mode continues to improve, now ranking second among cited domains. The ad-spend buyer raised both 2Q and 2026 spending estimates, reinforcing the view that Reddit remains a beneficiary of both healthy advertising demand and growing importance within AI-driven search experiences.
The stock was a main outperformer after Cleeland reported an improved new customer pipeline compared to the last quarter, indicating that fears of a macro slowdown are subsiding as ROI continues to improve.
Deals with Google and OpenAI are expected in 2H26, leading to more traffic sourcing from Google when users are in lean-back mode. Revenue pictures sound strong, with deals primarily driving incremental traffic rather than being a huge source of incremental revenue.
The stock experienced weakness, declining by 5%, as part of a broader midcap downturn.
The company ranks #3 in citation share for AI-assisted search, reinforcing its growing importance as source material for AI search results.
The company's stock continued its positive momentum from yesterday, supported by a positive Jefferies note regarding its integration with Shopify.
RDDT +9% following through on yesterday’s strength — Jefferies had a positive not here around integration with SHOP +8%, which now up 15% since Thrive announced they bought under $100.
The CEO's comments support the bull case for much higher negotiated contracts for its data, as LLMs heavily rely on Reddit as a primary source of training data and the most cited platform across models.
The company is open for business regarding data deals, having learned the value and usefulness of its data since initial agreements with Google and OpenAI over two years ago.
The company can collaborate with partners like Google and OpenAI to put guardrails on data usage while making products for the next generation of the internet.
Sentiment and positioning are reportedly turning slightly more positive at the margins.
DA Davidson says recent search volatility tied to Google changes has not materially impacted engagement trends, with the firm still modeling strong 2Q DAU growth and ad revenue growth.
The firm highlighted improving advertiser conversations, growing Meta/Facebook forum competition risk, and strong early traction around the company’s pixel rollout.
DA Davidson noted the company continues benefiting from logged-in/mobile user growth and contextual advertising demand, while advertiser feedback increasingly positions it as a differentiated platform for intent-driven/community-based discovery.
The company's data is highly valuable and useful for training large language models, and it is actively pursuing new deals for data access.
The company has established good relationships with major AI companies, allowing for deals with guardrails on data use and collaboration on new internet products.
Meta's launch of a new Reddit-like app called Forum poses a direct competitive threat.
User data remains weak, keeping the stock out of favor.
RDDT -4.5% as META release a new RDDT-like app called Forum. Engadget had the details:
The stock declined following Meta's release of a new RDDT-like app called Forum, which aims to help users get 'real answers' from 'real people' through group conversations.
The stock remains under pressure as user data continues to be muted.
RDDT -4.5% as META release a new RDDT-like app called Forum. Engadget had the details:
RW Baird stated that Reddit management defended the durability of its AI/data licensing strategy, arguing that training-data value is largely 'solved for' while the bigger opportunity is inference-side monetization tied to Reddit’s scarce/authentic community content.
The firm highlighted strong logged-in user engagement (approximately 45-50 min/day for veteran cohorts), improving international monetization sequencing, and management’s view that AI agents primarily impact 'final click' commerce while Reddit continues to own the higher-value consideration/discovery layer.
The stock, a recent underperformer, saw a positive bid.
Recent Google AI Search updates could improve visibility and traffic attribution for publishers like Reddit by placing direct links closer to AI-generated responses and surfacing subscription/content sources more prominently.
The changes may help address concerns around traffic disintermediation from AI search, especially given Reddit’s strong SEO and citation positioning.
Improved referral dynamics could support a more constructive re-rating, which is particularly important ahead of Reddit’s Google licensing renewal in early 2027.
RBC issued a positive note on the company following recent changes by Google.
RDDT -4.5% despite RBC out with a positive note post recent GOOGL changes;
Google's integration of Reddit content into AI Search could be seen as positive, implying the essential nature of such content for AI search quality, which bodes well for future licensing deals.
Changes to Google Search's AI features could negatively impact Reddit by packaging its content directly into AI overviews, reducing the need for users to visit Reddit's site.
The negative read-through here is GOOGL is now packaging RDDT’s most valuable content directly inside AI overviews so people never need to visit RDDT.
The company delivered a very nice top-line beat against low expectations, with strong ad revenue and crushed margins.
Q1 beat bogey by 2%, and the Q2 guide was also above bogeys by a similar amount, indicating strong performance.
Performance-oriented revenue now constitutes over 60% of ad revenue, with conversion-driven lower-funnel revenue growing triple digits and active advertisers increasing significantly.
Reddit Max and DPA showed significant ROI gains, with Reddit Max delivering lower CPA and more conversions, and DPA delivering higher ROAS.
Gross margin remained high, and adjusted EBITDA and FCF margins were strong, while capital expenditure was minimal.
The Q2 guide implies cost growth significantly lower than revenue growth, easing concerns about AI/ML hiring and marketing impacting profitability.
The company is still early in monetizing a high-intent audience, with growth driven by better ML, signal optimization, more advertisers, and stronger conversion products.
The user debate is less concerning as the company has a massive weekly user base, and the opportunity lies in improving frequency rather than pure awareness.
The company is generating strong EBITDA and FCF margins while investing in talent and technology, creating a rare growth-plus-profitability profile with significant ARPU upside.
TWLO, TEAM beat handedly on the sw side while RDDT and ROKU both beat on the internet side (although RBLX was as bad as it gets).
US logged-in daily active users (DAUs) missed expectations, with only 200k net adds versus a bogey of 600k+, raising concerns about user growth in the highest-value cohorts.
While global DAU was fine, US DAU was slightly below Street, and US logged-in DAU missed, which is the cohort investors care about most for long-term engagement.
Bears argue that while weekly reach is massive, DAU/WAU remains low, and management needs to prove that product, ML, and marketing can sustainably improve frequency.
Ad growth could decelerate sharply as comparisons become tougher, with the Q2 guidance implying a step down in revenue growth.
The company faces intense competition from larger platforms with more extensive advertiser bases, deeper ML stacks, and larger signal ecosystems.
Data licensing remains an uncertainty, with no renewals of deals expected until the second half of the year.
Cleveland is reportedly negative on the stock, citing trimmed outlooks due to test budget reductions and market share gains by larger platforms.
The stock showed strong performance, indicating positive sentiment in the midcap sector.
The platform remains under-monetized with significant upside as user growth, advertiser adoption, and LLM partnerships scale.
Improving contract renewals with AI partners, an expanding advertiser base, and meaningful operating leverage as revenue scales are highlighted.
The company is set up to beat 1Q guide with Adj. EBITDA in line, supported by strong ad execution despite slowing DAU/engagement trends in the U.S.
Monetization (higher ad load, RedditMax, new formats) and referral traffic from ChatGPT/Gemini are key offsets to slowing user metrics, with ~200M WAUs providing a large base to convert into daily users.
Upside potential from data licensing renewals and deeper LLM integrations is expected, leading to upward estimate revisions despite tougher comps.
Revenue appears to be performing well, with expectations for a significant beat in Q1 and strong preliminary Q2 data, which could mitigate concerns about tougher comparisons.
Management has learned to better communicate around user weakness, suggesting a potential post-earnings rally despite user data concerns.
Strong YTD stock performance has not been driven by fundamentals, creating an attractive entry point.
DAU trends are weak, with continued deceleration in user metrics.
Slowing daily active user (DAU) and engagement trends in the U.S. are a concern, despite a 'Buy' initiation from DA Davidson.
SensorTower DAU and web traffic data look poor, and historically, a stalled user base has been problematic for smidcap internet names.
The stock is currently a 'do-nothing' given the conflicting signals of better checks but weaker user data, making it difficult to find a clear investment thesis.
Jefferies' positive ad checks highlighted the company as a key performance channel due to its contextual targeting and attractive return on ad spend, especially during peak demand.
The firm noted increasing paid social allocation, with the company being among the largest beneficiaries, while other platforms experienced weaker spend.
Jefferies also highlighted growing down-funnel traction, such as shopping ads and a focus on conversion, and the early adoption of Reddit Max campaigns as incremental drivers.
RDDT +2.5% as Jefferies withpositive ad checks highlighting RDDT as a key performance channel driven by contextual targeting and attractive ROAS, particularly during peak demand; the firm notes increasing paid social allocation, with RDDT among the largest...
Needham's top pick for 2026, arguing the platform is evolving into a core internet utility as a human-verified trust layer, which becomes more valuable as AI-generated content degrades online quality.
The firm sees the company as complementary to AI Answers, noting a significant percentage of LLM citations already point to Reddit, and expects LLM licensing revenue to potentially double.
Needham sees significant pricing power runway ahead.
BofA reiterated a Neutral rating and cut its price target, reflecting broader multiple compression and a more mature margin profile.
The firm sees the company as highly exposed to any ad spend pullback due to its macro-sensitive nature and trading at steep premiums to peers.
BofA acknowledges the bull case but flags slowing logged-in user growth and widening ROAS gaps as key offsets.
March user growth showed significant deceleration.
Piper noted that MAUs rose by approximately 1M, but growth slowed to 14% year-over-year, implying limited near-term upside to DAU forecasts.
The stock is receiving positive attention after being penalized post-earnings due to the withdrawal of forward user disclosure, with early intra-quarter checks remaining positive.
Jefferies reiterated a Buy rating, with checks indicating continued outperformance driven by faster growth in performance ads and strong SMB adoption, with ARPU up approximately 33% year-over-year underpinning approximately 55% revenue growth.
The monetization gap compared to peers (e.g., PINS) remains an opportunity.
Data usage growth stabilized in Q4 (+14% month-over-month) and accelerated into January (+17% month-to-date), supporting longer-term growth.
Q1 EBITDA estimates are seen as conservative, as incremental margins are modeled below 50% despite recent prints.
Competitive pressures from TikTok/OpenAI may temper expectations.
Guggenheim reiterated a Buy rating, expecting higher DAU forecasts than consensus due to onboarding enhancements and search UI updates that will improve retention and usage.
Q4 ad revenue growth is expected at the high end of guidance, with strong ad growth projected for 2026 as Reddit becomes increasingly central to enterprise ad budgets.
Scaled monetization is expected to improve as infrastructure builds, with further upside from deeper enterprise penetration and a more consistent ad cadence into 2027.
Third-party reports indicate Q4 results were in line, but the December decline was larger than November's.
The only potential reason for the stock's decline that has been heard is that OpenAI ads are siphoning away advertising dollars.
GOOG / RDDT / APP / UBER: DB Names Best Ideas for 2026 on AI-Driven Growth and Improving Capital Returns
DB frames 2026 around three themes—AI-driven top-line acceleration, easier comps in search and discovery, and a more supportive regulatory backdrop—and names Alphabet, Reddit, AppLovin, and Uber as Best Ideas given asymmetric growth and valuation setups, th...
Feedback was weaker, citing low pricing, uneven conversion, and limited near-term impact from Max Campaigns.
Piper highlighted improving engagement trends, noting users rose approximately 2% month-over-month, or about 22 million, marking the strongest net additions since August.
The data points to upside risk versus Street's 4Q25 estimated daily active users (DAUs) in both the U.S. and international markets, with stronger momentum in the latter.
Evercore ISI initiated coverage with an Outperform rating and a $320 target, implying approximately 30% upside and valuing the stock at 35x 2027E EBITDA on $1.8 billion, which the firm views as reasonable given a projected approximately 40% three-year revenue CAGR and approximately 40% EBITDA CAGR to approximately 50% margins, well ahead of Street expectations.
The analyst believes the company can sustain global user growth and increasingly monetize logged-in traffic, citing double-digit DAU and WAU growth, improving ad conversion driven by better ad formats and inventory flow, and expanding international engagement.
The company's corpus of over 5 billion posts and over 20 billion comments underpins both ad performance and emerging data-licensing revenue, estimated at over $200 million over the next few years, making it an AI winner.
Jefferies notes total DAUs increased sequentially in both November and December, following management’s disclosure that DAUs exited 3Q above the quarterly average, suggesting potential upside versus consensus which assumes DAU growth slows.
Jefferies adds that month-over-month expansion supports the view that product improvements and early user acquisition efforts are helping sustain growth and reinforce confidence in the long-term monetization story.
A third-party firm is reportedly lowering numbers for the company due to slower US/Europe bookings in December.
Reddit is seeing a strong uptick in daily active users, aided by high citation rates in AI search tools.
Increased competition among AI models improves Reddit's leverage in data licensing negotiations.
Decreasing visibility within ChatGPT is expected to lead to lower traffic for Reddit.
Reduced reliance by ChatGPT means Reddit will have less leverage when renewing its LLM data deals.
NFLX, E NFLX BeMEA#aRemS RDDT -2.5% breaking down below $200: Saw couple charts being passed around today showing decreasing visibility within ChatGPT: Remember; the neg read-through is two fold here: 1) less traffic to RDDT; 2) if ChatGPT relying less on R...
Ao CVNA -3% as 3p showed a decel in the latest week although Q3 still tracking well above street RDDT -1% after being up 2-3% most of the morning Other large cap weak: META -1.6%; NFLX ~2%; SPOT -1,7% @#2%; SPOT Ti* 1.7% SEMIS #B1 INTC +3.5% / TSM --3%-Acco...
Q2 revenues beat both street expectations and guidance
Q3 revenue guidance is ahead of street expectations
Q2 DAU bogey was flat quarter-over-quarter, showing no sequential growth
Strong July daily active user growth and high short interest create a favorable setup for a beat-and-raise.
ROKU Eak 4%, Clev # Yipit IJ#TN= RDDT +1.3% as Jefferies was positive saying July DAUs +1 mlm so far: Decent set up as plenty still short here and revs likely to beat
RDDT +1.3%/ META +7Obps / AMZN +60bps ahead of earnings on Thursday DUOL -6.5% as 3p continues to show a deceleration in paid bookings through the end of Q2.
The stock's success depends on management's ability to successfully manage the narrative during the earnings call.
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