微博第三季度财报好于预期

China's equivalent of Twitter continues to make a loss, but investors seem happy enough with its latest results.

微博（Weibo，中国的类Twitter微博客服务）继续录得亏损，不过投资者似乎对其最新财报结果相当满意。

Shares of Weibo gained 3 per cent in after hours trading, after the Chinese microblog service beat third quarter estimates.

在该公司发布好于预期的第三季度财报后，其股价在盘后交易中上涨3%。

Weibo reported a net loss of $5.2m or 3 cents a share in the three months ended in September, compared to $5.3m or 4 cents a share in the year-ago period. Sales climbed 58 per cent to $84.1m.

在截至9月底的3个月里，微博净亏损520万美元，摊薄后每股亏损3美分，低于上年同期530万美元、摊薄后每股4美分的亏损。净营收同比增长58%，至8410万美元。

Wall Street analysts were looking for a loss of $8.02m, on sales of $80.4m.

华尔街分析师此前预计该公司净亏损802万美元，净营收8040万美元。

Weibo had 76.6m daily active users on average in September, up 30 per cent from a year ago. Meanwhile, monthly active users climbed 36 per cent from a year ago to 167m as of the end of September.

9月份，微博日均活跃用户数达7660万，较上年同期增长30%。与此同时，截至9月底，微博月均活跃用户数攀升至1.67亿，同比增长36%。

For the social media platform which derives a chunk of its revenue from advertising, this is an important metric.

对这个很大一部分营收源自广告的社交媒体平台而言，这是一个重要的衡量指标。

Meanwhile, Chinese internet platform Sina, from which Weibo was spun off, topped third-quarter earnings estimates but reported sales just shy of expectations, prompting shares to slip 2 per cent in after hours trading.

另一方面，中国互联网平台新浪（Sina，微博就是从该公司剥离出来的）第三季度的利润超出市场预期，不过净营收略低于市场预期，导致其股价在盘后交易中下跌2%。

The company saw profits rise to $133.6m or $1.91 a share, compared to $25.4m or 37 cents a share in the year ago period.

第三季度，新浪净利润增至1.336亿美元，摊薄后每股净收益1.91美元，上年同期净利润为2540万美元，每股摊薄净收益37美分。

Meanwhile, sales climbed nine per cent to $196m.

净营收为1.96亿美元，较上年同期增长9%。

Analysts on Wall Street were looking for net income of $8.23m on sales of $196.3m.

华尔街分析师曾预计，新浪第三季度净利润823万美元，净营收1.963亿美元。

Weibo shares traded in New York are down three per cent in the past three months and Sina shares are off 13 percent. Meanwhile, shares of Twitter are down 9 per cent in the same period.

过去3个月里，在纽约证交所(NYSE)挂牌的微博，股价累计下跌了3%，新浪的股价则累计下挫了13%。同期，Twitter股价累计下跌9%。