Evercore ISI downgraded Reddit to In Line from Outperform and cut its price target to $120 from $265 after the company's third-quarter results beat estimates but warned of declining traffic due to AI search summaries. Analyst Mark Mahaney said U.S. daily active users fell 2% year over year, and management warned global daily active users could drop by a low-double-digit percentage in the fourth quarter from about 130 million if search-referral losses continue at October's pace. Revenue rose 53% to $895 million and adjusted EPS was $1.40, but fourth-quarter guidance had a midpoint of $1.015 billion, below the $1.05 billion Wall Street estimate, and shares fell more than 29% on Friday. Evercore still views monetization positively but is less confident that it can offset pressure on user growth.
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