{"id":970414,"date":"2025-10-30T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970414"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:51:43","slug":"metas-q3-earnings-miss-eps-estimates-amid-16-billion-tax-hit-and-rising-ai-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/metas-q3-earnings-miss-eps-estimates-amid-16-billion-tax-hit-and-rising-ai-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s Q3 earnings miss EPS estimates amid $16 Billion tax hit and rising AI costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms (META) reported its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, exceeding revenue projections but falling short on earnings per share in regard to a huge one-time tax-related charge and climbing AI-related expenditures. After the announcement, Meta\u2019s stock dropped more than 6% in after-hours trading. <\/p>\n<p>Financial Performance <\/p>\n<p>For Q3, Meta recorded earnings per share of $1.05 and revenue of $51.24 billion, surpassing analyst predictions of $6.72 EPS on $49.6 billion revenue, as per the Bloomberg consensus. The company primarily attributed the lower earnings to almost $16 billion one-time charge linked to the U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s Big Beautiful Bill. By not including this charge, Meta stated that its net income would have jumped from $2.71 billion to between $15.93 billion and $18.64 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms (META) reported its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, exceeding revenue projections but falling short on earnings per share in regard to a huge one-time tax-related charge and climbing AI-related expenditures. After the announcement, Meta\u2019s stock dropped more than 6% in after-hours trading. Financial Performance For Q3, Meta recorded earnings per share of $1.05 and revenue of $51.24 billion, surpassing analyst predictions of $6.72 EPS on $49.6 billion revenue, as per the Bloomberg consensus. The company primarily attributed the lower earnings to almost $16 billion one-time charge linked to the U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s Big Beautiful Bill. By not including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}