Fitbit Shares Sink Following Unsatisfactory Quarterly Results

Shares of Fitbit tumbled by as much as 18% after it announced trimming its workforce and it reported lower-than-anticipated financial results during the fourth quarter.

The stock managed to reverse some of its losses, but still closed the session almost 16% down.

In a release issued on Monday, the wearable fitness device maker said its layoffs will impact 110 people within its workforce across different divisions which makes up around 6% of the company's total global labor force. The expenses of the reorganization are anticipated to cost around $4 million, which will be included during the first quarter of 2017.

The firm added that it projects to post 6.5 million sales of devices and revenue during the Q4 of 2016 to be within the range of $572 million- $580 million, a steep drop from the company's initially issued guidance range of $725 million-$750 million.

Revenue growth for the previous business year is seen to be around 17% from the prior projected expansion of 25% to 26%.

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