Tencent Posts Record Q4 Profit Slump as China Video Game Ban Hives Earnings
Tencent Holdings posted its biggest profit decline in more than a decade Thursday, as a nine-month ban on new video game approvals in China clipped the tech giant's bottom line.
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Tencent said net profit for the three months ending in December came in at 14.299 billion yuan, missing the consensus forecast and falling 32% from the same period in 2017. Group revenues, however, rose 28% to a record 84.9 billion and were marked well ahead of analysts' estimates of 83 billion. Smartphone games sales rose 19% to 19 billion, Tencent said and were up 24% for the whole of 2018 to 77.8 billion.
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https://www.thestreet.com/investing/earn...s-14902958
Tencent Holdings posted its biggest profit decline in more than a decade Thursday, as a nine-month ban on new video game approvals in China clipped the tech giant's bottom line.
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Tencent said net profit for the three months ending in December came in at 14.299 billion yuan, missing the consensus forecast and falling 32% from the same period in 2017. Group revenues, however, rose 28% to a record 84.9 billion and were marked well ahead of analysts' estimates of 83 billion. Smartphone games sales rose 19% to 19 billion, Tencent said and were up 24% for the whole of 2018 to 77.8 billion.
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https://www.thestreet.com/investing/earn...s-14902958
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