Mata overtook the early forecasts, and shows a moderate forecast to continue

Technology giant Metaph Tonight (Wed) released its financial results for the fourth quarter for 2024. Matta reported $ 48.4 billion in revenue, thus bypiring/missed the analysts’ forecasts, which was $ 46.9 billion. In the profit line, the company reported $ 8.02 a share, thus bypassing analysts’ forecasts, which was $ 6.76 per share. Now, after publishing the reports, the stock responds with a 1% increase in late Wall Street trading.

The company did not publish a forecast for 2025, but said that the first quarter revenue would grow at a lower rate than the expected.

In the investor call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his people will have to give explanations about the interesting gospel that comes from China, and how it will affect the work model in Meta. It may be a change in the Silicon Valley.

At the end of the previous quarter, Mata has already overcame its big fall from 2022. The company’s share is then $ 574, and is now $ 670 a share.

The market will quit Meta for reducing the investor in Matte Whers (Zuckerberg’s dream), and its advertising business streamlining. Another report that continued Zuckerberg’s “efficiency” trend of 2023 is that Matta fungus 5% of its lowest performance workers.

The stock rose about two -thirds last year, and Bank America’s analysts said it was “preventing an increase in revenue, strong pricing and optimism about artificial intelligence capabilities.” The investment company even raised the share price from $ 660 to $ 710.

Significant changes in meta policy following Trump’s victory

Recently, Zuckerberg has unveiled his plans to invest between $ 60 and $ 65 billion in capital expenses, partly for artificial intelligence, compared to $ 38-40 billion, which he reported a year earlier. Thus, you can see that the company expands the investments in artificial intelligence. Among other things from perception That artificial intelligence is more involved in her social networks, which will benefit her in the field of advertising.

However, the company has not completely abandoned the dream of virtual worlds, and still continues to lose in the Meta-Wors division, after all. Meta’s Reality Labs continues to gain operational losses, and the company continues to mention that this division accumulates losses because they build future technology that is not ready for commercialization yet.

The company’s relationship with incoming US President Donald Trump also affects Meta’s business: During the last quarter, there was a big threat to Tiktok closure in the United States – a move that if he had happened to help Meta. Zuckerberg canceled the company’s factory program, and moved to a community factual test model, much like Elon Musk’s Twitter, where users can give the connection to things they are wrong.