Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 and lets just say the numbers are BIG and pretty much everything is up, from revenues, to users, to ad spending and more!
Some of the numbers of interest from the Q1 earnings report include:
- Revenue Q1, 2015 – $ 3,543,000,000
- Revenue is up from the same period last year at an increase of 42%
- Daily active users (DAUs) were 936 million on average for March 2015, an increase of 17% year-over-year
- Mobile DAUs were 798 million on average for March 2015, an increase of 31% year-over-year
- Monthly active users (MAUs) were 1.44 billion as of March 31, 2015, an increase of 13% year-over-year
- Revenue from advertising was $3.32 billion, a 46% increase from the same quarter last year
- Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 73% of advertising revenue
- Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities were $12.41 billion at the end of the first quarter of 2015
- Free cash flow for the first quarter of 2015 was $1.20 billion
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