Pandora whiffs on earnings — stock slides after-hours (P)

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Pandora missed Wall Street targets for its Q4 earnings per share, and the stock is down almost 6% after hours.

It has been a roller-coaster day for Pandora. The stock had been up over 8% in trading on reports that Pandora is in preliminary talks to sell itself.

Here's how Pandora did versus Wall Street expectations:

• Adjusted EPS: 4 cents per share, which was lower than both Bloomberg (6 cents) and Yahoo's (7 cents) analyst estimates. 
• Revenue:$336.2 million, which was lower than Bloomberg's analyst estimate of $341.6 million, but above Yahoo's $331.83 million.

Pandora reported that total listener hours grew 3% to 5.37 billion for Q4 2015, compared to the 5.20 billion in the same period of 2014. Listener hours grew 5% for the year of 2015.

Pandora's guidance for Q1 2016 pegged revenue between $280 million and $290 million. This is below Bloomberg's $294.2 million analyst estimate and in line with Yahoo's 284.01 million.

Here is a chart of the stock plunge:

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