Netflix is set to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell. Here's what to expect

Are consumers gravitating towards Netflix's caller ad-supported service? Shareholders are hoping the streamer sheds airy connected the caller program during its fourth-quarter net report, which is owed aft the doorbell Thursday.

Wall Street has kept a adjacent oculus connected Netflix successful caller quarters arsenic it broke with its ain contented to connection up a lower-priced tier with advertisements and teased caller strategies for cracking down connected password sharing, each successful an effort to boost revenue.

Here's what Wall Street expects:

• EPS: 45 cents per share, according to Refinitiv.
• Revenue: $7.85 billion, according to Refinitiv survey.
• Expected planetary paid nett subscribers: Addition of 4.57 cardinal subscribers, according to StreetAccount estimates.

Last quarter, the streamer said it was "very optimistic" astir its caller advertizing business. While it doesn't expect the caller tier volition adhd a worldly publication to its fourth-quarter results, it foresees rank increasing gradually implicit time.

Heading into Thursday's report, analysts are expecting the institution to denote an further 4.57 cardinal paid subscribers, connected gait with Netflix's ain projection of 4.5 million. The fig would beryllium stronger than the 2.4 cardinal the work added successful the erstwhile 4th and importantly amended than the declines it saw successful the archetypal fractional of the year.

Going forward, Netflix volition nary longer springiness subscriber guidance, though it volition inactive study those numbers successful aboriginal net reports. The rationale is that the institution is increasing its absorption connected gross arsenic its superior apical enactment metric alternatively of rank growth.