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Reddit has filed an 8-K with the SEC, a form companies use to announce major events that shareholders should know about. This specific filing confirms a change among the company's top executives or its board of directors.

While the filing marks a shift in who is helping run the company, it does not change the core business of selling ads and licensing data. For long-term owners, the focus remains on whether the leadership team can keep user growth high and continue signing deals with AI developers.

Source: 8-K filing

Key highlights

• International expansion accelerating: Revenue from outside the U.S. jumped 84% to $167 million, far outstripping the 56% growth seen in the domestic market. This shift is critical for long-term owners because it shows the platform is successfully finding a global audience and and starting to make more money from those users.
• Efficiency gains driving profit: The company now generates $1 million in revenue for every employee it hires, which helped net income more than double to $253 million. This performance pushed net margins to 31.4% compared to 17.9% a year ago, proving that the business can grow its earnings much faster than its costs.
• User base widening: Daily active users grew 18% to 130.3 million, and weekly active users crossed a major milestone of half a billion people. While the U.S. user count only grew 6%, the international user base surged 28% to 77.1 million, providing a massive new pool of people for advertisers to reach.
• Advertising revenue surge: Advertising revenue grew 64% to $762 million, and the average amount of money made from each global user rose 36% to $6.18. This suggests that advertisers are increasingly willing to pay more to reach Reddit's specific communities, especially in the U.S. where revenue per user hit $11.85.
• Optimistic growth outlook: For the next quarter, management expects revenue between $860 million and $870 million, which would be another significant step up from the $805 million earned this period. They also guided for adjusted EBITDA, a measure of cash profit, to be between $385 million and $395 million.

Our take: This was an exceptionally strong quarter that showed Reddit is finally cracking the code on making money from its massive user base. Crossing the $6.00 annual revenue per user mark is a major win that strengthens the case for the stock as a long-term winner in digital advertising.