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The leading subscription streaming service; uses AI for recommendations and production.
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Both Co-CEOs — Peters and Sarandos — sold stock on February 10–11, 2026 and again on May 5–7, 2026 with no 10b5-1 plan cited in the Form 4. Reed Hastings sold $184M on a long-running pre-planned schedule. The question isn't Hastings — it's why two sitting CEOs have $9.9M in combined discretionary sales in two synchronized clusters.
The sheet documents both clusters at the Form 4 level. The February cluster (Peters $2.3M + Neumann $752K + Hyman $464K + Willems $259K) occurred at ~$81–83/share. The May cluster (Sarandos $2.4M + Peters $2.4M + Neumann $823K + Hyman $504K) occurred at ~$87–89/share. No 10b5-1 plan footnote was confirmed in the Form 4 filings for any of these transactions. The sheet notes 'no major negative news release between these sell dates was confirmed' — but concurrent discretionary selling by the Co-CEO and CFO at two separate dates without filed pre-commitment is the signal the sheet scores AMBER on, not GREEN.
You say ads revenue exceeded $1.5B in FY2025, up 2.5x from the prior year. Show me where that number is in the 10-K.
It isn't. The sheet is explicit: the $1.5B FY2025 ads figure is 'call-stated; not broken out as a separate audited line in the 10-K.' Netflix does not report advertising revenue as a discrete line in any EDGAR filing. The only primary-source proxy is total streaming content obligations — not a revenue breakdown. The $1.5B figure cannot be verified from the 10-K.
Netflix stopped reporting paid memberships effective Q1 2025. The password-sharing crackdown benefit was Q2 2023 through Q4 2024. The timing is exact — crackdown runs, numbers look great, then the metric disappears. Coincidence?
The sheet documents the discontinuation: 'Netflix has stopped reporting memberships — a signal management views engagement/revenue metrics as the more relevant compass.' End Q4 2024 memberships were 301.6M (filed); end Q4 2025 is 325M (call-stated, no longer in quarterly filings). The bear case in the sheet names this directly: 'Stopping membership reporting makes AI narrative verification impossible.' The sheet does not resolve the question of whether the crackdown benefit has plateaued — it flags it as an unverifiable gap.