Meta Platforms, Silicon Valley Parent Company of Social Media Facebook, Instagram and Threads sites, the WhatsApp messaging application, and more, publishes its quarterly results.
The CEO and President Mark Zuckerberg plays a leading role in these calls to report the status of Meta to its shareholders.
Here is a ventilation of recent Meta income.
Meta Q4 Gains 2024
Meta published its results in the fourth quarter on January 29 after the closing bell. The social media society has crushed the expectations of Wall Street.
Meta I tried to reassure investors on the quantity of expenditure in artificial intelligence and on possible competition from the Chinese IA company Deepseek.
Facebook’s parent said turnover for a period of $ 48.39 billion, beating the consensual analyst’s estimate of $ 46.98 billion.
Although his sales forecasts in the first quarter are lower than estimates, investors seemed more concerned about other questions.
During the Meta results conference, Meta results, CEO Mark Zuckerberg asked analysts’ questions about the company’s moderation of the company’s recent content, its major spending plans for 2025, Tiktok, etc.
He teased Llama 4 News and said he was “optimistic” about “progress and innovation” under the government of Donald Trump. Zuckerberg also answered a question on Deepseek, saying that it was important that a national company established the standard on open source AI “for our own national advantage”.
4th trimester results
- Profit by action: $ 8.02 compared to the estimate of $ 6.78
- Income: 48.39 billion dollars vs estimation of $ 46.98 billion
- Operational margin: 48% vs estimate of 42.6%
Meta Q3 Gains 2024
Meta published its results in the third quarter on October 30 after the closing of the market. The company clearly indicated that it would not slow its expenses while building its IA infrastructure this year – and expects these costs to increase in 2025.
“We had a good quarter motivated by AI’s progress between our applications and our business,” said meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg. “We also have a strong momentum with Meta Ai, the adoption of Llama and glasses powered by AI.”
Company’s revenues for the quarter were $ 40.59 billion, before 40.25 billion dollars expected. The profit per share was $ 6.06 greater than the $ 5.25 expected.
In its advertising database, Meta said that its average price per advertisement had increased by 11% from one year to the next.
However, the company has missed user growth expectations. He said daily active users increased by 5% from one year to the next to 3.29 billion. It was lower than the expectations of 3.31 billion daily users.
Actions fell more than 3% after calling Meta’s profits with analysts, during which Zuckerberg talked about the company’s investment strategy and said that “this could be the most dynamic moment I saw in our industry”.
The company’s big bet on AI, which includes both the formation of its own AI models and the launch of consumer products on its platforms powered by them, continued to increase its costs.
3rd quarter results
- Profit by action: $ 6.03 compared to the estimate of $ 5.25
- Income: 40.59 billion dollars vs estimated $ 40.25 billion
- Operational margin: 43% vs 39.6% estimate
Meta Q2 Gains 2024
Meta reported the second quarter gains July 31 after closing the market, and it was Another victory for Mark Zuckerberg.
Parents ‘income and parents’ share profits by parents are estimates by consensus analysts, motivated by better than expected advertising sales.
Like the other giants of technology, Meta has invested a lot in a generative AI with little to show so far, but CEO Zuckerberg has defended its spending plans in the call for profits.
“Before talking really about the monetization of one of these things by themselves, I do not think that anyone is surprised to say that it would be years,” he said, noting that “the first signals on this subject are good”.
Zuckerberg also said in the Profits The fact that the company’s chatbot, Meta Ai, is becoming the most used in the world by the end of 2024.
Meta’s Stock increased by more than 6% in working hours shortly after the results.
2nd quarter results
- Profit by action: $ 5.16 compared to the estimate of $ 4.72
- Income: $ 39.07 billion, compared to $ 38.34 billion
- Operational margin: 38% vs 37.7% estimate
Meta Q1 Gains 2024
Meta declared gains from the first quarter April 24 after the fence bell.
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The company declared income and profits by action that have beaten the estimates of consensual analysts. But the actions slipped after Meta gave a range for the second quarter sales which was on the light side of the forecasts and said that he would spend more than he expected this year.
The report is Meta’s first without average and daily user and daily user numbers specially exploded for Facebook. Rather, the company declared global results of “family of applications” which also included Instagram and Whatsapp. The combined group saw $ 36 billion in revenue, beating the consensual estimate of $ 35.5 billion.
Meta’s Stock fell up to 17% in discussions after opening hours, investors evaluated the results.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg The accent on the call of investors was Meta’s plans to invest more considerably in AI. He also aroused the recent partnership of the company with Ray-Ban.
1st quarter results
- Profit by action: $ 4.71 compared to the estimate of $ 4.30
- Income: 36.46 billion dollars, + 27% y / y, estimate $ 36.12 billion
- Operational margin: 38% against 25% in annual shift, estimate 37.2%
History of meta gains
Meta’s income is a chance for investors to hear Mark Zuckerberg himself. The founder and CEO tends to sprinkle interesting extracts during winning calls and has a leading line in the growing AI arrow.
Meta recently moved her goal of large -scale language models based on Metaverse at AI. The Meta AI offer, Llama, is unique in that it is open source, similar to Deepseek from China. The company has also talked about the adoption of AI technologies in its advertising network, which has shown solid results so far.
An ongoing antitrust trial of the government recently weighed on Meta. The trial alleys that metaly bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush competition and maintain a monopoly in the social media industry.
Zuckerberg himself would have put pressure on the Trump administration to abandon the trial.
If Meta is unsuccessful in the fight against the anti-trust trial, this could lead to a break in certain aspects of its activities.
The next META results report is scheduled for April 30 after the market is close.
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