Shares of Roblox closed up greater than 3% on Wednesday, marking a turnaround from an preliminary 10% plunge Tuesday night after the corporate revealed disappointing first-quarter earnings.

The firm reported a lack of 27 cents per share in contrast with the lack of 21 cents per share anticipated by Wall Street, in line with Refinitiv. Analysts additionally anticipated $645 million in income, however the firm posted $631.2 million. The firm’s bookings declined by 3% within the quarter. It additionally reported 54.1 million common every day energetic customers in its first quarter, which was beneath the StreetAccount consensus of 55 million.

While it is unclear what’s driving the surge, the corporate appeared bullish in regards to the present quarter’s development charges. The on-line gaming platform has been dealing with powerful comparisons with its efficiency earlier within the pandemic, when youngsters have been glued to their televisions and gaming platforms as a option to entertain themselves in lockdown.

“We had expected year-over-year growth to bottom in April. Right now, it looks like it bottomed in March, which is good, so sequentially our year-over-year growth rates in April were better than they were in March, and on a year-over-year basis I expect that to be true in May and again in June,” Roblox CFO Michael Guthrie stated on the corporate’s convention name with buyers Wednesday morning, in line with a tough transcript.

“In terms of the overall shape of the curve, normally … May is lower than April, and then June is back up higher than May, and really, the opening of the summer season, where normal seasonality starts to kick in,” Guthrie added.

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