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Roblox Corp. · Q3 2022 earnings

Q3 2022 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Reported strong growth in daily active users, hours engaged, and bookings.

Roblox Corporation released its Q3 2022 financial results, highlighting strong growth across core operating metrics, driven by a growing developer community. The company reported increases in revenue, bookings, daily active users, and hours engaged.

  • Revenue was $517.7 million, up 2% year over year.
  • Bookings were $701.7 million, up 10% year over year, and up 15% year over year on a constant currency basis.
  • Average Daily Active Users (DAUs) were 58.8 million, up 24% year over year.
  • Hours Engaged were 13.4 billion, up 20% year over year.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$518M

Previous: $509M+1.6%
EPS (adj)

-$0.50

Previous: -$0.13-284.6%
Average DAUs

58.8M

Previous: 24+244999900.0%
Hours engaged

13.4B

Previous: 20+66999999900.0%
Bookings

$702M

Previous: $10.00+7016999900.0%
Capital Expenditures

-$269M

Previous: -$48.3M-456.5%
Free Cash Flow

-$567M

Previous: -$122M-363.3%
Net Income

-$298M

Previous: -$74M-302.4%
Operating Income

-$300M

Previous: -$77.4M-287.4%
Gross Profit

$391M

Previous: $379M+3.2%
Cash & Equivalents

$3.02B

Previous: $1.93B+56.9%
Total Assets

$5.04B

Previous: $3.27B+54.0%
Stock-Based Comp

$161M

Previous: $89.3M+80.7%

Revenue & EPS history

Roblox · Revenue · Quarterly

$518M

Q3 2022+1.6%vs Q3 2021
Beat estimate in 2 of 15 quarters(13%)
ActualEstimate

Forward guidance

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding our business, product, strategy and user growth, retention and monetization plans and trends, the plans and advances of our developers, our investment strategy, including our capital allocation strategy, our opportunities for and expectations of improvements in growth rate, particularly bookings, the benefits of our product and operational initiatives, including our “group grid,” our expectation of successfully executing such strategies and plans, our employee recruitment plans, our commitment to contain share dilution, our expectations for our quarterly and monthly financial and operational results and future growth rates, our estimates of infrastructure expenses for the balance of the year, and our expectations of future net losses.

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 20 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q3 2022

Historical avgQ3 2022

+1.0%

Avg return

Earnings day

+2.0%

Avg return

5 days after

+4.2%

Avg return

30 days after

44%

11 / 25 earnings

Positive

+40.4%

Q3 2021

Best reaction

-21.2%

Q4 2021

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2026-0.5%-21.7%-16.3%
Q4 2025+9.7%+13.9%+4.9%
Q3 2025-15.5%-22.1%-28.9%
Q2 2025-9.3%-2.6%-9.6%
Q1 2025+2.9%+5.5%+29.7%
Q4 2024-11.1%-12.5%-24.2%
Q3 2024+19.2%+18.6%+16.2%
Q2 2024-6.0%-9.3%+5.9%
Q1 2024-19.4%-18.9%-8.7%
Q4 2023+10.5%+7.7%-1.6%
Q3 2023+8.5%+10.5%+16.4%
Q2 2023-18.9%-19.1%-23.1%
Q1 2023+10.2%+7.7%+6.9%
Q4 2022+22.2%+14.6%+22.5%
Q3 2022-13.8%-9.0%-19.1%
Q2 2022-1.8%+4.6%-14.4%
Q1 2022-2.6%+34.0%+23.9%
Q4 2019+2.9%-3.3%-6.0%
Q4 2021-21.2%-27.2%-32.2%
Q3 2020+23.7%+39.7%+51.0%
Q3 2021+40.4%+37.9%+60.0%
Q2 2020-6.3%-1.4%-2.2%
Q2 2021-6.3%-1.4%-2.2%
Q4 2020-6.1%-0.7%+22.9%
Q1 2021+14.4%+4.5%+34.1%
Q1 2020
Q3 2019
Q2 2019
Q1 2019

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