Netflix Reports Mixed Q4 Results, Shares Fall

Netflix recently shared its financial results for the last three months of 2025.

They made a bit more money than experts expected, with earnings of 56 cents per share and revenue of $12.051 billion.

Their ad revenue was especially impressive, reaching $1.5 billion in 2025, which is a lot more than the previous year.

They also shared that they have over 325 million subscribers, and when you count all the people watching in each household, that's almost one billion people worldwide.

Netflix is planning to grow by making more shows and movies, improving their service, and expanding their ad business.

They expect to make around $51 billion in 2026, with ad revenue doubling to over $3 billion.

Despite the good news, their stock price dropped a bit because some investors are worried about their plans to buy Warner Bros.

and the challenges they might face.

Netflix also revised the terms of the deal to make it all-cash and to provide more certainty about the transaction, with a shareholder vote expected by April of this year.

Paramount Skydance has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros.

Discovery, seeking to compel the board to provide certain information to shareholders that it argues will cast its offer in a more favorable light.