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GoPro (GPRO) Q4 Earnings: Disappointment in the Cards?

Several videos revealed that the Karma drone was crashing back to earth while in mid-flight, and of course, it is unsafe for drones to be suddenly falling from the sky. Adjusted EBITDA improved to $4.3 million from -$9.3 million a ear previously. In the first month of this year, GoPro was up 23 percent, compared with the Russell 2000 Index, which declined 1 percent through the end of January.

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According to the latest research reports released, 0 analysts have issued a rating of “buy”, 1 analysts “outperform”, 12 analysts “hold”, 4 analysts “underperform” and 1 analysts “sell”. MSI Financial Services Inc now owns 6,812 shares of the company’s stock worth $114,000 after buying an additional 2,044 shares during the last quarter.

GoPro, like Fitbit Inc. For the to-be-reported quarter, the company anticipates to generate non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of 30 cents (+/- 5 cents), on revenues of $625 million (+/- $25 million). (GPRO) managed to surpass quarterly earnings per share estimates in 5 of the trailing twelve fiscal quarters, and has a positive trend with an average surprise of 50%. On the other hand, in the June 2017 quarter the company recorded a net $220.76M revenue with earnings per share of $-0.52. The current share price indicate that stock is -43.03% away from its one year high and is moving 26.98% ahead of its one year low.

Analysts on average were expecting $574.5 million (roughly Rs. 3,869 crores), having lowered their estimate by almost 14 percent since November 3, when GoPro gave a revenue forecast of $600 million to $650 million (roughly Rs. 4,040 crores to Rs. 4,376 crores) for the quarter. The median estimate represents a -7.76% decrease from the last price of 10.57. The company had revenue of $240.56 million for the quarter, compared to analysts expectations of $312.73 million. According to their predictions High & Low revenue estimates are 608.76 Million and 515.2 Million respectively. Currently, the company has SMA200 (200-day simple moving average) of -10.6 Percent. Year to Date performance value (YTD perf) value is 21.35%. Finally, NEXT Financial Group Inc boosted its position in shares of GoPro by 73.5% in the third quarter. GoPro, Inc. got Downgrade on 6-Jan-17 where investment firm Longbow Downgrade the stock from Neutral to Underperform. Raymond James also Downgrade the company to Mkt Perform on 9-Nov-16, 2016.

Shares of GoPro have been in a tailspin since reaching a peak of more than $93 per share in October 2014, less than four months after the stock IPOed.

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During a conference call with investors, GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman emphasized the company’s recent cost-cutting initiatives.

After a three month hiatus, GoPro's Karma drone is available for purchase again