Facebook earnings: 42 cents per share, ex-items, vs. expected EPS of 32 cents
July 23, 2014 at 16:06 PM EDT
Analysts had expected the company to report earnings excluding items of 32 cents a share on $2.81 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.. The push into mobile ads has partly nudged Facebook into profitability, unlike fellow social media firms such as Twitter.