Record Revenue & Profit, AI Investments for 2026

Meta, the world’s most large social-media company, retains scarfing down more digital advert {dollars} — and it’s planning to plow billions more into AI initiatives this yr, betting that will propel future development.

The company blew past Wall Street expectations for the fourth quarter of 2025. Meta reported income of $59.89 billion (up 24%) and internet earnings of $22.77 billion (up 9%), each quarterly information. Earnings got here to $8.88 per diluted share for the year-end quarter.

Meta said it expects to capital spending in 2026 to be $115 billion-$135 billion, with “year-over-year growth driven by increased investment to support our Meta Superintelligence Labs efforts and core business.” That’s up considerably over $72.2 billion in 2025. Meta is boosting its AI investments because it seeks to compete with the likes of Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and other heavyweights in the area. As a part of its AI buildout efforts, the company on Tuesday announced a multiyear deal of as much as $6 billion with Corning to provide fiber-optic cables for its data facilities.

“We had strong business performance in 2025,” Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s co-founder, chairman and CEO, said in asserting the outcomes Wednesday. “I’m looking forward to advancing personal superintelligence for people around the world in 2026.”

For This autumn, Wall Street analysts on common anticipated Meta to submit income of $58.35 billion estimated and earnings per share of $8.21, per LSEG Data & Analytics.

Meta, the mum or dad of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said daily energetic customers across all of its apps averaged 3.58 billion in December 2025, up barely from 3.54 billion three months prior.

Earlier this month, Meta’s money-losing Reality Labs laid off 1,500 workers, about 10% of the unit’s headcount, as the company pivots away from growing “metaverse” and VR merchandise and experiences and invests more into AI-powered good glasses.