Humans: 1, Robots: 0

Call this a win for humanity.

On Wednesday, Netflix reported second quarter earnings that beat expectations. This news sent the stock higher by more than 10%. And this for a stock that had already doubled in price this year.

But the Associated Press' robo-earnings report made a big, embarrassing mistake.

In its report, the AP said, "Netflix shares have decreased 71% since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has risen slightly more than 2%."

This is wrong. But there is a simple mistake the robot made that any thinking human would've (hopefully) not made.

On Wednesday, Netflix shares began trading on a split-adjusted basis. This means that every 1 share of Netflix you owned previously became 7 shares.

As a result, the price of Netflix stock - which was around $700 on Tuesday - was closer to $98 on Wednesday. Except, since you now own 7 Netflix shares, nothing changed.

However!

If you looked at the price of the stock and didn't back out the split-adjustment, you would've thought the stock went down almost 80% overnight.

And so while Netflix has seen shares more than double this year, with stock serving as S&P 500's best performing stock this year (by far), it seems that the AP's robot was fooled.

At least on Wednesday, it seems like humans won.

(via @nycsouthpaw)