{"id":972132,"date":"2025-11-06T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972132"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:27:04","slug":"this-social-media-stock-plunges-20-today-as-unexpected-tax-charges-and-rising-ai-spending-shake-investor-confidence-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-growth-sparks-market-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/this-social-media-stock-plunges-20-today-as-unexpected-tax-charges-and-rising-ai-spending-shake-investor-confidence-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-growth-sparks-market-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"This social-media stock plunges 20% today as unexpected tax charges and rising AI spending shake investor confidence \u2014 Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp growth sparks market concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinterest stock plunged 20% on Thursday after the company\u2019s third-quarter 2025 earnings and holiday-quarter guidance fell short of Wall Street expectations, sending shockwaves across the social media sector. The drop erased all of Pinterest\u2019s gains for the year, pushing shares below $31 and valuing the company near $21 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Pinterest reported adjusted earnings per share (EPS) that missed analyst forecasts, while revenue growth slowed significantly in its core North American market, which accounts for more than 70% of total sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinterest stock plunged 20% on Thursday after the company\u2019s third-quarter 2025 earnings and holiday-quarter guidance fell short of Wall Street expectations, sending shockwaves across the social media sector. The drop erased all of Pinterest\u2019s gains for the year, pushing shares below $31 and valuing the company near $21 billion. Pinterest reported adjusted earnings per share (EPS) that missed analyst forecasts, while revenue growth slowed significantly in its core North American market, which accounts for more than 70% of total sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}