Tour de earnings

🥗 Sweetgreen ended the day basically flat after the salad chain forecast lackluster quarterly results. While Sweetgreen has been serving up its bowl slop for about a decade, it still has never made a profit, despite its popularity. And the outlook didn’t indicate it will reach profitability any time soon: management anticipates same-store sales growth of 1% to 3% for 2025, lower than the 4% Wall Street expected. However, we can report firsthand from our corporate jail cells cubicles—it’s still delicious.

• EPS: A $0.25 loss per share, steeper than the $0.21 loss projected
• Revenue: $153.03 million, slightly below forecasts

🛍️ eBay is on sale thanks to a less-than-stellar earnings report: Shares dropped 8.19% after the company projected Q1 revenue of between $2.52 billion and $2.56 billion, lower than the $2.59 billion anticipated by analysts. Management cited persistent inflation and losses from President Trump’s proposed tariffs as the two main culprits. However, it wasn’t all bad news: Gross merchandise volume climbed 4% to $19.3 billion.

• EPS: $1.25 per share, above the $1.20 analysts expected
• Revenue: $2.58 billion, higher than projections of $2.57 billion

📺 Warner Bros. Discovery jumped 4.76%, even though on the surface, its top and bottom line numbers don’t look great. Streaming saved the day: The company boasted 6.4 million new subscribers in Q4, bringing its total subscribers to 116.9 million. Shareholders were pleased to hear that management believes it has a “clear path” to hit 150 million subscribers by the end of 2026, though a decline in advertising spending caused losses in its TV network business.—LB

• EPS: A $0.20 loss, versus EPS expectations of $0.01
• Revenue: $10.03 billion, compared to $10.10 billion forecast