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Amazon is slated to report fourth-quarter earnings Thursday after the market close.

Here’s what analysts are expecting:

  • Earnings: $1.49 per share expected, according to LSEG
  • Revenue: $187.3 billion expected, according to LSEG

Wall Street is also watching several other numbers in the report:

  • Amazon Web Services: $28.8 billion, according to StreetAccount
  • Advertising: $17.4 billion, according to StreetAccount

Analysts are projecting revenue growth of roughly 10% during the quarter, which includes results from the holiday shopping season. Online spending jumped nearly 9% to $241.1 billion in November and December, according to data from Adobe Analytics, which tracks sales on retailers’ websites. That was slightly higher than analysts’ forecast for sales of $240.8 billion.

Operating income during the fourth quarter is expected to grow 44% year over year to roughly $19 billion, according to FactSet estimates.

The company’s bottom line has benefited from CEO Andy Jassy’s cost-cutting campaign, which has been ongoing since late 2022. The company laid off more than 27,000 employees in 2022 and 2023, and it’s had smaller rounds of job cuts in 2024 that have stretched into this year. Amazon has also continued to wind down some of its more experimental and unprofitable initiatives.

Amazon rounds out a busy earnings period for the top tech companies. Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday posted disappointing fourth-quarter revenue. Apple, Meta and Microsoft reported results last week.

Wall Street will be looking for any commentary from Amazon about the impact of President Donald Trump’s recently announced tariffs on its business. Tariffs on Canada and Mexico are now on hold for one month, while the import taxes remain in place for China.

The company has long connected Chinese manufacturers to American shoppers through its sprawling third-party marketplace. By some estimates, China-based merchants outnumber American sellers on the platform, according to data from Marketplace Pulse.

Amazon’s first-party retail business has the highest exposure to Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports among the e-commerce companies it tracks, analysts at Morgan Stanley wrote in a Monday note. The analysts estimate that 25% of products sold by Amazon’s first-party retail business come direct from China.

Over the years, Amazon has moved away from first-party sales to third-party sellers, which now account for 60% of products sold on the site.

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During the fourth quarter, Amazon launched its competitor to Temu and Shein, called Haul, which offers low-cost apparel, jewelry, electronics and other items. Trump’s tariffs also took aim at the “de minimis” trade exemption that has allowed direct-from-China services like Amazon Haul to bypass duties and taxes on packages worth less than $800. Prices on Amazon Haul could rise as a result of Trump shutting the de minimis loophole.

The company’s investments in artificial intelligence are also likely to be an area of focus.

Amazon planned to spend about $75 billion on capex in 2024, Jassy said last quarter, adding that he suspected the company would spend more in 2025. The jump in spending is primarily being driven by AI investments, Jassy said.

An AI model created by Chinese startup DeepSeek has captured headlines and roiled markets in recent weeks. DeepSeek claims it only took two months and less than $6 million to develop its R1 model, which it says rivals OpenAI’s o1. The announcement caught Wall Street and Silicon Valley by surprise, challenging the assumption that tech companies must spend heavily on chips and data centers in order to build cutting-edge AI models.

Amazon has been racing to release new AI products and features as it looks to keep up with its competitors. The company in December launched a new set of AI models, called Nova. The company also offers Bedrock, which lets users access AI models from Amazon and others, and an AI chatbot for shopping called Rufus.

The company is expected to release an updated version of its Alexa digital assistant with AI features. It first previewed the redesigned Alexa in 2023, though the rollout has reportedly been slowed by technical challenges, according to Bloomberg. In October, Jassy said the new Alexa could launch “in the near future.”

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Hims & Hers stock falls 10% on revenue miss

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The Hers app arranged on a smartphone in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. 

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Shares of Hims & Hers Health fell 9% in extended trading on Monday after the telehealth company reported second-quarter results that missed Wall Street’s expectations for revenue.

Here’s how the company did based on average analysts’ estimates compiled by LSEG:

  • Earnings per share: 17 cents adjusted vs. 15 cents
  • Revenue: $544.8 million vs. $552 million

Revenue at Hims & Hers increased 73% in the second quarter from $315.6 million during the same period last year, according to a release. Hims & Hers reported a net income of $42.5 million, or 17 cents per share, compared to $13.3 million, or 6 cents per share, during the same period a year earlier.

For its third quarter, Hims & Hers said it expected to report revenue between $570 million to $590 million, while analysts were expecting $583 million. The company said its adjusted EBITDA for the quarter will be between the range of $60 million to $70 million. Analysts polled by StreetAccount were expecting $77.1 million.

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Hims & Hers has faced controversy in recent months over its continued sale of compounded GLP-1s, which are cheaper, unapproved versions of the blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs. Compounded drugs can be mass produced when brand-name treatments are in shortage, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in February that ongoing supply issues had been resolved.

Some telehealth companies, including Hims & Hers, have continued to offer the compounded medications. It’s legal for patients to access personalized doses of the knockoffs in unique cases, like if they are allergic to an ingredient in a branded product, for instance. Hims & Hers has said consumers may still be able to access personalized doses through its site if clinically applicable. 

In June, Hims & Hers shares tumbled more than 30% after a short-lived collaboration with Novo Nordisk fell apart. The drugmaker said Hims & Hers “failed to adhere to the law which prohibits mass sales of compounded drugs” under the “false guise” of personalization.

Hims & Hers reported adjusted EBITDA of $82 million for its second quarter, up from $39.3 million last year and above the $73 million expected by StreetAccount.

Hims & Hers will host its quarterly call with investors at 5 p.m. ET.

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–CNBC’s Annika Kim Constantino contributed to this report

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Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance

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Palantir reports $1 billion in revenue for the first time

Palantir topped Wall Street’s estimates Monday, surpassing $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, and hiking its full-year guidance.

Shares rallied more than 5%.

Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates:

  • Earnings per share: 16 cents adj. vs. 14 cents expected
  • Revenue: $1.00 billion vs. $940 million expected

The artificial intelligence software provider’s revenues grew 48% during the period. Analysts hadn’t expected the $1 billion revenue benchmark from the Denver-based company until the fourth quarter of this year.

“The growth rate of our business has accelerated radically, after years of investment on our part and derision by some,” wrote CEO Alex Karp in a letter to shareholders. “The skeptics are admittedly fewer now, having been defanged and bent into a kind of submission.”

The software analytics company also boosted its full-year outlook guidance. For the full year, Palantir now expects revenues to range between $4.142 billion and $4.150 billion, up from prior guidance of $3.89 billion to $3.90 billion.

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For the third quarter, Palantir forecast revenues between $1.083 billion and $1.087 billion, beating an analyst estimate of $983 million. Palantir also lifted its operating income and full-year free cash flow guidance.

Palantir’s U.S. revenues jumped 68% from a year ago to $733 million, while U.S. commercial revenues nearly doubled from a year ago to $306 million.

The software analytics company has seen a boost from President Donald Trump‘s government efficiency campaign, which included layoffs and contract cuts. Palantir’s U.S. government revenues jumped 53% from the year-ago period to $426 million.

“It has been a steep and upward climb — an ascent that is a reflection of the remarkable confluence of the arrival of language models, the chips necessary to power them, and our software infrastructure,” Karp wrote in a letter to shareholders.

During the quarter, Palantir said it closed 66 deals of at least $5 million and 42 deals totaling at least $10 million. Total value of its contracts grew 140% from last year to $2.27 billion.

Net income rose 144% to about $326.7 million, or 13 cents a share, from about $134.1 million, or 6 cents per share a year ago.

Palantir shares have more than doubled this year as investors bet on the company’s AI tools and contract agreements with governments.

Its market value has accelerated past $379 billion and into the list of top 20 most valuable U.S companies, surpassing SalesforceIBM and Cisco to join the top 10 U.S. tech companies by market cap. Shares hit a new high Monday.

At its size, buying the stock requires investors to pay hefty multiples.

Shares currently trade 276 times forward earnings, according to FactSet. Tesla is the only other top 20 with a triple-digit ratio at 177.

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Firefly Aerospace lifts IPO range that would value company at more than $6 billion

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Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim sits for an interview at the Firefly Aerospace mission operations center in Leander, Texas, on July 9, 2025.

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Firefly Aerospace has lifted the share price range for its upcoming initial public offering in a move that would value the space technology company at more than $6 billion.

The lunar lander and rocket maker said in a filing Monday that it expects to price shares in its upcoming IPO between $41 and $43 apiece.

Firefly’s new target range would raise nearly $697 million at the top end of the range. That’s up from the previously expected $35 to $39 price per share that Firefly announced in a filing last week, which targeted a $5.5 billion valuation.

Firefly announced plans to go public last month as interest in space technology gains steam, and billionaire-led companies such as Elon Musk‘s SpaceX rake in more funding.

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The industry has also begun testing the public markets after a long hiatus in IPO deal activity, with space tech firm Voyager debuting in June.

Firefly makes rockets, space tugs and lunar landers, and is widely known for its satellite launching rockets known as Alpha.

The company has partnered with major defense players such as Lockheed Martin, L3Harris and NASA, and received a $50 million investment from defense contractor Northrop Grumman.

Firefly’s revenues jumped from $8.3 million a year ago to $55.9 million at the end of March, the company said. Its net loss grew to $60.1 million, from $52.8 million a year ago.

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