Netflix stock sees new peak amid high hopes for ‘Squid Game’ return – National

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stock sees new peak amid high hopes for ‘Squid Game’ return – National

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shares hit an all-time high on Friday, buoyed by investor optimism that its robust content lineup will help the streaming giant maintain upbeat subscriber growth even as the boost from its password-sharing crackdown wanes.

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The company, widely seen as the winner of Hollywood’s streaming wars, saw its stock rise nearly 10% and was set to add more than $28 billion to its market value of about $295 billion, if gains hold.

It topped estimates for quarterly subscriber additions by more than 1 million and projected higher sign-ups sequentially for the last three months of the year when South Korean drama “Squid Game” returns.

The company’s profit and revenue also beat estimates, a positive sign for its efforts to shift investor focus away from subscriber growth amid what some analysts see as an inevitable slowdown in sign-ups after the success of its password-sharing curbs.

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added in the third quarter were below the 8.76 million additions in the year-ago *******.

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“The third quarter showed the slowdown in subscriber growth that we’ve been expecting, but

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has other areas of opportunity to continue boosting its financial performance,” Morningstar analyst Matthew Dolgin said.

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Part of the push includes price increases. After increasing fees in Japan, the Middle East and ******* as well as parts of Europe in recent weeks,

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is hiking prices in Italy and Spain, and some analysts expect a similar move in the U.S. next year.

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did not announce any price change, though (it) did hint that there is room to take price with stronger engagement,” Bernstein analysts said.

The ad-supported tier also showed signs of progress as it accounted for more than 50% of sign-ups in countries where it was available in the third quarter, though

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does not expect advertising to become a primary growth driver until 2026.

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At least 20 analysts raised their price targets on the stock following results, bringing the median target to $760 from $706.38, according to data compiled by LSEG.

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’s shares were trading at 30.40 times 12-month forward profit estimates, compared with 18.50 for Walt Disney and Comcast’s 9.65.

So far this year,

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’s stock has risen about 41.2%, Disney has been up 6.9%, while Warner Bros Discovery has shed about 31%.

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is ******** on a strong line-up including the new “Knives Out” movie, the latest season of “Stranger Things” and live events including two National Football League games on Christmas Day to draw subscribers.

“Peers in the legacy media space are losing money hand over fist, meaning

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can push its advantage in content creation while others can’t stomach allocating more capital,” said Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown.

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