LinkedIn’s Q3 sales beat estimates with 568M dollar sales

LinkedIn reported its results for the third quarter of the year, beating the estimates on sales 568 million dollars, up 45 percent compared to a year ago and sales of 393 million dollars and non-GAAP earnings per share of 0.52 dollar.

The business-oriented social networking service also reported a wider net loss of 4.3 million dollars, against the net loss of 3.4 million dollars in Q3.

However, non-GAAP net income was 66 million dollars, versus 47 million dollars last year.

The company today has been trading a couple of percentage points higher than its opening price of $198.46 dollars per share in anticipation of strong earnings, the report said.

—-ANI