Facebook said it’s expecting between $18 billion to $20 billion in capital expenditures in 2019, above the FactSet analyst estimate of $17.29 billion.
More than 2.6 billion people use the Facebook family of apps per month, the company said. Those apps include Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger. That figure was up 100 million more people from last quarter. More than 2 billion people a day use at least one of those apps.
“Our community and business continue to grow quickly, and now more than 2 billion people use at least one of our services every day,” Zuckerberg. “We’re building the best services for private messaging and stories, and there are huge opportunities ahead in video and commerce as well.”
The company said it increased headcount 45 percent and costs went up 53 percent as well. More than 92 percent of its advertising revenue for the quarter came from mobile advertising, up from 88 percent year-over-year.
Last quarter, Facebook advised it expected its revenue growth rates to decline as much as the high single-digit percentages during the third and fourth quarters of this year because the company has invested more in its Stories product, which has lower ad rates, and other things like security and compliance with the EU’s GDPR data privacy law.
However, the third-quarter earnings did not show as much of a slowdown as projected. Worldwide ARPU increased 2 percent from last quarter. U.S. and Canada ARPU showed signs of growth as well, up 7 percent from last quarter.
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