Roblox (NYSE:RBLX) wrapped up the primary buying and selling session of the week up 11.8% – its finest achieve since a mid-October soar that was spurred by a robust report on metrics for September.

This time round was the same story, as the corporate on Tuesday posted December metrics that confirmed estimated bookings up as a lot as 20% year-over-year.

Bookings have been pegged at $430M-$439M, up 17-20% from the earlier December and beating some whisper numbers circulated on the Street.

Daily energetic customers got here in at 61.5M, itself marking a achieve of 18%, and hours engaged rose 21% to 4.7B. Estimated common bookings per DAU fell within the roughly flat vary of $6.99-$7.14.

April will mark the final of such month-to-month metrics experiences from Roblox, which says some well-understood seasonality in its enterprise means it’ll change to reporting such numbers quarterly.

The report clearly drove the stock on hopes for a strong fourth-quarter earnings report, which is predicted in mid-February. Roblox stock has initially declined after every of its previous 4 quarterly experiences, the place it missed earnings per share expectations in every case.

For the fourth quarter, Roblox is predicted to lose 50 cents per share on revenues of $847.8M (which might imply year-over-year progress of simply over 10%).

The stock is down 53.7% over the previous yr, vs. a decline within the S&P 500 of simply 12.8% (see a chart right here).