The revenues of the first quarter of a 2025 destination jumps from 16% to $ 42.31 billion

Meta Platforms Inc., the mother company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, has announced a robust start until 2025, reporting a significant 16 % increase on an annual basis for the first quarter, reaching $ 42.31 billion.

Meta made this known in his report of the first quarter (Q1) 2025 published on Thursday.

He said that on a constant currency basis, the growth of revenues would have been even higher at 19 %, underlining the underlying strength of the business.

“Q1 2025 has been marked by a significant growth in the involvement of users and financial services.

“Our daily active people of the family (product family) have reached an average of 3.43 billion in March 2025, demonstrating a solid 6 % increase compared to the same period last year.

“In addition, advertising revenues have recorded positive trends, with advertising impressions delivered through the Meta app on the 5 % of the annual basis on the annual basis and the average price for advertising climbing of an impressive 10 % in the same period”, says the Meta Report.

Despite the strong growth of revenues, the organization said that it has effectively managed the costs and expenses, with total costs and expenses of $ 24.76 billion, representing a 9 % increase on an annual basis.

The company has continued its investments in future growth, with capital expenses, including the main payments on financial lease contracts, for a total of $ 13.69 billion in the first quarter of 2025.

Meta has also actively returned capital to its shareholders through the regime of actions of its ordinary class a class a $ 13.40 billion.

He revealed that at 31 March 2025, Meta held a strong financial position with $ 70.23 billion in cash, equivalent in cash and marketable securities.

The report showed that the company generated a healthy $ 24.03 billion of cash flow from operational activities and $ 10.33 billion in free cash flow during the first quarter.

The Meta Work Forces stands at 76,834 employees on March 31, 2025, reflecting an increase of 11 % year by year while the company continued to invest in talents to support its expanding operations and strategic initiatives.

Looking at the second quarter of 2025, Meta anticipated the total revenues in the range of $ 42.5 billion to $ 45.5 billion.

The company states that it provides a modest queue wind of exchange rates in foreign currency based on current rates.

Commenting on the second half, the Chief Financial Officer of Meta, Susan Li, said for the whole year 2025, Meta has revised its total expenditure perspectives up to an interval of 113 billion dollars to $ 118 billion, compared to the previous guide of $ 114 billion to $ 119 billion.

He said the company has increased the capital expenditure forecasts for the entire year 2025 at an interval of $ 64 billion to $ 72 billion, compared to the previous $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion.

“The adjustment mainly reflects further investments in the data centers to support the growing efforts of artificial intelligence of the goal, as well as an expected increase in the cost of infrastructure hardware,” observed them.

Meta reassured that most of its capital expenses in 2025 would remain directed towards its core business, even if it provided that the tax rate for the entire year 2025 was between 12 % and 15 %.

In addition, Meta highlighted its navigation under an evolving regulatory panorama, in particular in the EU and the United States, which could represent significant challenges for its corporate and financial results.

A recent decision of the European Commission (EC) had considered the Meta subscription for any ads not compliant with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Based on the EC feedback, Meta has anticipated the need to make changes to this model, which he warned could have a negative impact on the user experience for European users.

The organization added that it significantly affects its European activities and revenues already in the third quarter of 2025.

While Meta intended to appeal to the CE decision, the company recognized that the changes required to its model could be implemented before or during the appeal process.

Commenting, the founder and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, said: “We had a strong start for an important year. Our community continues to grow and our business is behaving very well.

“We are making good progress on artificial intelligence glasses and in the destination, which now has almost a billion of monthly active activates,” said Zuckerberg.