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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by irrational on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:19PM (#29787779)
Netflix only has about 200 million subscribers. That is astonishingly small (IMHO). Though, I'm not a subscriber, so it probably shouldn't surprise me, but it still does.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by TrackerFF on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:29PM (#29787895)
I don't know, that's about 2.5% of the worlds population. All paid subscribers. Haven't checked out their financials, but are they making money yet?
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by BbzzbB on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:19PM (#29790879)
Yet, in the US, they make less per paid subscriber than Facebook does per free user. There's also 3 to 4 times the amount of said free users as there are of those paid users.

Netflix's first free-cash-flow positive year was 2020. A measly $2B, less than 10% of Facebook's (the least cash flowing FAAMG).

Netflix is a big company, but not in the same league as FAAMG.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by skylanh on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @01:42AM (#29792084)
https://ir.netflix.net/financials/sec-filings/sec-filings-de...

Consolidated statement of net income for each year (page 22 of the PDF):

2020: ~$2.7b on 200m members

2019: ~$1.8b on 167m members

2018: ~$1.2b on 139m members

2017: ~$0.5b on 110m members

2016: ~$0.2b on 89m members

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by epolanski on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:17PM (#29789077)
Small? I can't think many subscription services with such numbers.
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