secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     MARKETWISE, INC. (MKTW)
CIK:        0001805651
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-11-09T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-23-038022
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

MarketWise Q3 2023 net income $12M, revenue $106M; subscriber file down 13% YoY to 774K
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- Q3 GAAP net income of $12.0M on revenue of $106.2M vs. $16.5M/$119.9M in Q3 2022.
- Paid subscriber file 774,000 as of Sep 30, down 13.4% from 894,000 a year earlier.
- Trailing 12-month Billings total $389.8M: Marketing $279.6M, Renewal $105.5M, Other $4.6M.
- CEO cites cultural issues as primary reason for post-IPO underperformance; plans to restore partnership model.
- Board declared special dividend of approx. $50M payable in December 2023.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828023038022/0001628280-23-038022-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828023038022/mktw-20231109.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-23-038022

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