Firm’s fourth-quarter 2025 beat expectations as it lavishes investment on AI infrastructure and CEO faces questioning
As Meta spends billions on artificial intelligence data centers and its CEO prepares to testify in a landmark social media trial, the company is earning a pretty penny.
Meta reported strong financial results on Wednesday, beating Wall Street expectations of $58.59bn with $59.89bn in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025. It reported earnings per share (EPS) of $8.88 – which also surpassed Wall Street expectations of $8.23 in EPS. Meta’s stocks jumped nearly 10% in after-hours trading after the release.
“We had strong business performance in 2025,” said founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “I’m looking forward to advancing personal superintelligence for people around the world in 2026.”
The earnings report follows Meta’s major expansion of its multibillion-dollar investment into AI infrastructure in 2025. On Tuesday, the company announced a deal worth up to $6bn with Corning, a manufacturer of complex materials for telecoms and electronics, to supply fiber optic cables for the tech giant’s data centers.
