{"id":991633,"date":"2026-02-12T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991633"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:41:53","slug":"spotify-stock-jumped-15-after-earnings-best-quarter-ever-growth-machine-or-margin-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/spotify-stock-jumped-15-after-earnings-best-quarter-ever-growth-machine-or-margin-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify stock jumped 15% after earnings. Best quarter ever: Growth machine or margin trap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday brought good news for Spotify shareholders. The Swedish music streaming giant\u2019s stock soared nearly 15% in a single day, its biggest jump since 2018. The catalyst? Fourth quarter numbers that looked genuinely impressive on the surface. <\/p>\n<p>Spotify added 38 million new users in three months, a company record. Total monthly listeners hit 751 million. Paid subscribers reached 290 million, up 10%. Revenue climbed to \u20ac4.24 billion. And profits? They nearly tripled year-over-year to \u20ac1.17 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday brought good news for Spotify shareholders. The Swedish music streaming giant\u2019s stock soared nearly 15% in a single day, its biggest jump since 2018. The catalyst? Fourth quarter numbers that looked genuinely impressive on the surface. Spotify added 38 million new users in three months, a company record. Total monthly listeners hit 751 million. Paid subscribers reached 290 million, up 10%. Revenue climbed to \u20ac4.24 billion. And profits? They nearly tripled year-over-year to \u20ac1.17 billion.<\/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":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991633","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=991633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}