微博第三季度財報好於預期

China's equivalent of Twitter continues to make a loss, but investors seem happy enough with its latest results.

微博（Weibo，中國的類Twitter微博客服務）繼續錄得虧損，不過投資者似乎對其最新財報結果相當滿意。

Shares of Weibo gained 3 per cent in after hours trading, after the Chinese microblog service beat third quarter estimates.

在該公司發佈好於預期的第三季度財報後，其股價在盤後交易中上漲3%。

Weibo reported a net loss of $5.2m or 3 cents a share in the three months ended in September, compared to $5.3m or 4 cents a share in the year-ago period. Sales climbed 58 per cent to $84.1m.

在截至9月底的3個月裏，微博淨虧損520萬美元，攤薄後每股虧損3美分，低於上年同期530萬美元、攤薄後每股4美分的虧損。淨營收同比增長58%，至8410萬美元。

Wall Street analysts were looking for a loss of $8.02m, on sales of $80.4m.

華爾街分析師此前預計該公司淨虧損802萬美元，淨營收8040萬美元。

Weibo had 76.6m daily active users on average in September, up 30 per cent from a year ago. Meanwhile, monthly active users climbed 36 per cent from a year ago to 167m as of the end of September.

9月份，微博日均活躍用戶數達7660萬，較上年同期增長30%。與此同時，截至9月底，微博月均活躍用戶數攀升至1.67億，同比增長36%。

For the social media platform which derives a chunk of its revenue from advertising, this is an important metric.

對這個很大一部分營收源自廣告的社交媒體平臺而言，這是一個重要的衡量指標。

Meanwhile, Chinese internet platform Sina, from which Weibo was spun off, topped third-quarter earnings estimates but reported sales just shy of expectations, prompting shares to slip 2 per cent in after hours trading.

另一方面，中國互聯網平臺新浪（Sina，微博就是從該公司剝離出來的）第三季度的利潤超出市場預期，不過淨營收略低於市場預期，導致其股價在盤後交易中下跌2%。

The company saw profits rise to $133.6m or $1.91 a share, compared to $25.4m or 37 cents a share in the year ago period.

第三季度，新浪淨利潤增至1.336億美元，攤薄後每股淨收益1.91美元，上年同期淨利潤爲2540萬美元，每股攤薄淨收益37美分。

Meanwhile, sales climbed nine per cent to $196m.

淨營收爲1.96億美元，較上年同期增長9%。

Analysts on Wall Street were looking for net income of $8.23m on sales of $196.3m.

華爾街分析師曾預計，新浪第三季度淨利潤823萬美元，淨營收1.963億美元。

Weibo shares traded in New York are down three per cent in the past three months and Sina shares are off 13 percent. Meanwhile, shares of Twitter are down 9 per cent in the same period.

過去3個月裏，在紐約證交所(NYSE)掛牌的微博，股價累計下跌了3%，新浪的股價則累計下挫了13%。同期，Twitter股價累計下跌9%。