SAN FRANCISCO — For most tech companies this financial earnings¹ season, it has become a game of survival of the fittest. By that score,Facebook may outlast² the others.

旧金山——对于大多数科技企业来说，本次的季度财报成为了一个适者生存的游戏。从这个角度来看，Facebook可能会比其他公司生存得更久远。

On Wednesday, the social network said sales in the first quarter rose 52 percent from a year ago to $5.3 billion, while profit increased to $1.5 billion, tripling from $512 million a year ago. Excluding certain items, Facebook’s profit was 77 cents a share, far surpassing Wall Street expectations of 62 cents a share.

Facebook周三公布，其第一季度销售额比去年同期上涨了52%，达53亿美元，利润增至15亿美元，是一年前5.12亿美元的差不多三倍。若不计特定项目，Facebook的利润相当于每股77美分，远远超过华尔街预期的每股62美分。

Facebook also announced a new class of nonvoting stock, called Class C shares, which the company said was aimed at ensuring that Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, would remain in “an active leadership role.”

Facebook还宣布推出新的无投票权类股票，称为C类股份。公司表示，此举的目的是确保首席执行官马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)继续担当“积极的领导角色”。

“We’re focused on our 10-year road map to give everyone in the world the power to share anything they want with anyone,” Mr. Zuckerberg said in a statement.

“我们聚焦在公司的10年路线图上，要让世界上的所有人都能做到与任何人分享任何东西，”扎克伯格在声明中表示。

The results were a far cry from the disappointing numbers posted in the past 10 days by Facebook peers like Twitter, whose advertising³ business showed signs of stumbling on Tuesday, or Alphabet, the parent company of Google, which missed analysts⁴’ estimates for revenue last week.

这样的业绩，与过去10天里同行们令人失望的财报数字形成了鲜明对比。比如，Twitter本周二的财报显示，其广告业务表现不佳；上周，谷歌(Google)母公司Alphabet发布的业绩也不及分析师的预期。

Other tech companies have also recently reported a string of weaker-than-expected results, including Microsoft and Apple. And some of the companies are having to cut deep; last week, Intel said it planned to eliminate 12,000 jobs to deal with the downturn in demand for personal computers.

其他一些科技公司最近发布的业绩亦不尽如人意，包括微软(Microsoft)和苹果(Apple)。有些公司不得不大幅裁员；上周，英特尔(Intel)表示计划裁减1.2万人，以应对个人电脑需求低迷的状况。

Facebook, in contrast, has figured out how to wring⁵ billions of dollars from its members on mobile devices and other platforms, making the company’s revenue-generation machine unstoppable. The company said 82 percent of its advertising revenue came from mobile devices in the first quarter.

相比之下，Facebook似乎找到了妙方，足以在移动设备和其他平台的用户那里赚取数以亿计的美元，给公司带来滚滚财源。Facebook表示，公司第一季度广告营收的82%来自移动设备。

And while the growth in new users on Facebook has slowed in recent years, the total is still getting larger. Facebook said 1.65 billion people visited the site on a monthly basis, up from 1.44 billion a year earlier. More than 1.5 billion people are monthly mobile-only users, up from 1.25 billion a year ago.

虽然Facebook的新用户增长率最近几年有所减缓，但用户总数仍在日益扩充。 Facebook表示，其网站的月度访客人数为16.5亿，而去年同期为14.4亿。其中逾15亿月度访客完全使用移动设备访问其服务，而去年同期这个数字是12.5亿。

Shares of Facebook surged more than 6 percent in after-hours trading.

Facebook的股价在盘后交易中大涨，涨幅逾6%。