On Friday, Shares of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), lost -0.86% to $94.30.
Facebook stated financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015.
Second Quarter 2015 Other Financial Highlights
- Mobile advertising revenue – Mobile advertising revenue represented about 76% of advertising revenue for the second quarter of 2015, up from about 62% of advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2014.
- Capital expenditures – Capital expenditures for the second quarter of 2015 were $549 million.
- Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities – Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities were $14.13 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2015.
- Free cash flow – Free cash flow for the second quarter of 2015 was $1.33 billion.
Facebook, Inc. operates as a social networking company worldwide. It provides a set of development tools and application programming interfaces that enable developers to integrate with Facebook to create mobile and Web applications.
Shares of Constellium N.V (NYSE:CSTM), inclined 11.04% to $6.54, during its last trading session.
Constellium stated results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. Highlights below are in comparison to the second quarter of 2014.
Constellium’s second quarter 2015 results comprise a record Adjusted EBITDA in our AS&I segment and better than anticipated results in our A&T business. We also achieved record shipments and Adjusted EBITDA in P&ARP due to the acquisition of Wise Metals in January 2015.
Revenues for the second quarter 2015 were €1.375 billion, an enhance of 49% from the second quarter 2014, of which €308 million were contributed by Muscle Shoals. Adjusted EBITDA was €93 million, counting €19 million from Muscle Shoals. This is an enhance of 15% from the second quarter 2014 Adjusted EBITDA of €81 million. For the six months ended June 30, 2015, Constellium stated Adjusted EBITDA of €188 million, counting €44 million from Muscle Shoals contrast to €152 million for the same period in 2014. Second quarter 2015 shipments were 386k metric tons, an enhance of 38% from second quarter 2014, of which 111k metric tons were contributed by Muscle Shoals. Adjusted EBITDA per metric ton for the second quarter 2015 was €241 contrast to €291 for the second quarter 2014.
Constellium N.V. is engaged in the design, manufacture, and sale of specialty rolled and extruded aluminum products for the aerospace, packaging, and automotive end-markets.
Finally, PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL), ended its last trade with 0.84% gain, and closed at $32.36.
PPL Electric Utilities customers never even knew it, but nearly 200,000 power outages were prevented during the first six months of 2015 thanks to work the utility is doing to make its delivery system more reliable.
PPL Electric Utilities has been installing smart grid technology, working harder to keep trees away from lines, and putting in stronger poles and wires – all with the aim of preventing power outages for the three million people in its service territory. The company is investing more than $1 billion per year in this work.
On average, customers are having 20 percent fewer power outages than they did in 2007. And, with the additional work planned, reliability is predictable to improve by at least another 20 percent in the next five years.
To calculate the number of power outages that were avoided in the first half of this year, company reliability engineers looked at historical outage data over a four-year period, 2008 through 2011. This period was before PPL Electric Utilities began noteworthy raised investment in technology, storm-resistant equipment and better tree trimming.
PPL Corporation, a utility company, delivers electricity and natural gas in the United States and the United Kingdom. It serves 321,000 natural gas and 397,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties; and 543,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and 5 counties in Virginia.
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