META (Meta) reported that the fourth quarter of Wednesday, exceeded expectations, the company predicted the deceleration of revenue growth in the quarterly, and that the cost in 2025 will be faster than last year.
The company’s shares increased by more than 4 % on Thursday early transactions and overturned the initial loss after the announcement of the results.
Social media giant reported the 4th quarter of the $ 8.02 profits with a higher revenue of $ 6.75 with a 469 billion dollar revenue of $ 46.9 billion, according to Bloomberg estimation.
The company’s net income was $ 62.4 billion in a year, an increase of 59 % from $ 39.1 billion last year.
However, in the first quarter, the Company exceeded $ 39.5 billion to $ 41.8 billion, reflecting 8 % to 15 % of the previous year. In the fourth quarter, last year’s revenue increased 21 %. In the year of 2024, profits were $ 164.5 billion, an increase of 22 % from last year.
The meta refused to provide a year -old profit forecast, and said, “I hope that the investment in this year’s core business will provide opportunities to continue strong profits through 2025.” I mentioned.
Wednesday reports will be in less than a week since the CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a meta plan to spend $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion on this year’s AI infrastructure project. Manhattan.
In the past, the company predicted $ 38 billion to $ 40 billion in 2024, but has increased from $ 37 billion to $ 40 billion.
In addition, the announcement of the meta created a large -scale sale of AI shares on Monday, and created an AI model that could compete with the fear of Deep Shek’s claims in Wall Street, and could compete with the best best at the cost of Silicon Valley. I’m fuel to the claim.
However, Zuckerberg has neglected concerns about the provision of a company based in China.
“I think there are many novel things they think we are still digesting. There are a lot of things they have … we want to implement it in our system. He said, “he said.
On Wednesday, CFO Susan Li said that the cost of 2025 in 2025 would be from $ 11.4 billion to $ 119 billion from $ 95.1 billion in 2024.
“We expect that the largest propulsion of cost growth in 2025 will be infrastructure costs, with higher operating costs and depreciation,” Li said.
“Infrastructure, profit, reality lab, generated artificial intelligence (AI), and regulation and regulations and compliance priority are expected to be the second largest factor. “
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