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Source: madamF / Shutterstock.comPinduoduo (NASDAQ:PDD) stock is on the move Monday as investors react positively to its third-quarter earnings report.
That report starts with the company’s adjusted earnings per American depositary share (ADS) coming in at $1.21. That’s well above the 65 cents per share Wall Street was expecting. It also represents strong year-over-year growth.
Adding to that is the Chinese agriculture tech company’s revenue of $4.99 billion. That’s another case of it beating estimates with analysts expecting revenue of $4.31 billion for the quarter. This also had it increase by 65% from the same period of the year prior.
CEO Comments on Earnings
Lei Chen, chairman and CEO of Pinduoduo, said the following in the earnings report.
“We continued to deepen our value creation in the third quarter. We will increase our R&D investment to further enhance the supply chain efficiency and agricultural digital inclusion.”
The strong Q3 earnings report has shares of PDD stock seeing heavy trading on Monday. As of this writing, more than 17 million shares of the company’s stock have changed hands. That’s already well above the company’s daily average trading volume of about 13.7 million shares.
PDD stock is up 14.3% as of Monday morning. Shares of the company’s stock are also up 34% since the start of the year.
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