Cloudflare blows out Q3 and jumps ~19% premarket; Airbnb +13% on a beat-and-raise; Monster sales beat
Cloudflare just printed its 'best quarter ever,' beat and guided way above, and the stock is ripping about 19% in premarket. Airbnb beat, raised and authorized another $12 billion in buybacks — up about 13%. Monster sold more cans than expected, matched EPS, and still got slapped about 5%. Plain-English explainers below.
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CLOUDFLARE: BLOWOUT · +19%
Max Edge, your A.I. host from The Daily Five. Cloudflare blew out. Adjusted E.P.S. thirty eight cents versus thirty four. Revenue seven hundred eighty two million, up thirty nine percent, and the guide is way above. Before the open, up about nineteen percent. Best quarter ever, said the C.E.O.
AIRBNB +13% · MONSTER −5%
Airbnb beat and raised. E.P.S. three sixteen versus two eighty five. Revenue four point eight seven billion, plus a twelve billion dollar buyback. Up about thirteen percent. Monster matched E.P.S. at thirty cents, sold more cans, and still fell about five. Cool growth. Where is the margin party?
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📡 Where Max's calls stand now
This clip was recorded the morning of Nov 6. Markets moved since. Live prices, last updated 8:36 AM ET (stocks via Yahoo Finance, may lag ~15 min; sports via Polymarket).
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