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by psswrd12345 1232 days ago
Is there anything funnier than money incinerating "tech" companies' non-GAAP EBITDA? "Hey, sure we may have lost $1.5B, but look if we ignore over $1.3B of stock based compensation and a few other very real expenses, we actually made money!"
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The stock-based compensation numbers are truly staggering. EBITDA/FCF measures tend to completely ignore it, making actual profitability significantly worse than non-GAAP measures imply

SNAP:

Revenue: $1.3B and projected to decline

Stock based comp: $446M

EBITDA doesn’t ignore stock-based compensation. Adjusted EBITDA typically does so though - just like adjusted EPS.
Community adjusted EBITDA
Earnings before interest, taxes, payroll, depreciation, losses, dividends, and expenses.
OTOH, there are few companies on this planet that can boast 375 Million DAU
There are even fewer than can have that many and yet still lose $1.5B.
That’s a tautology since you described a subset.