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Facebook will announce its fourth quarter earnings after markets close on Wednesday.

The social media giant is riding an impressive five-quarter earnings and revenue-beat streak. But investors are anxious to see how management plans to offset the slowdown in News Feed ad growth that Facebook has warned is coming in mid-2017.

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Here are the numbers expected by Wall Street analysts:

• EPS (adjusted): $1.31, up from $0.79 in the year-ago period.
• Revenue: $8.51 billion, up 46% from $5.84 billion in the year-ago period.
• Monthly active users: 1.84 billion vs. 1.79 billion last quarter.
• Daily active users: 1.21 billion vs. 1.18 billion last quarter.

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