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Amazon soars as Q3 earnings, sales beat Wall Street expectations

AWS was the star of the show in Amazon’s results on Thursday.

Updated 10/31/25 5:31AM

Amazon shares soared after the company beat Wall Street’s expectations for third-quarter sales and profit, as revenue from its AWS business jumped.

The stock shot up 13% in recent after-hours trading, and has broadly held onto its gains in early trading on Friday.

The company posted $180.2 billion in sales for Q3, growing 13% from the same quarter a year earlier and topping analysts’ expectations of $177.9 billion.

Earnings per share came in at $1.95, blowing past analysts’ estimate of $1.57, as compiled by FactSet.

Amazon’s AWS cloud business saw revenue jump 20% year on year to $33 billion, powered by huge demand for AI. The Street was expecting $32.5 billion. Last week, a major AWS outage disrupted websites and platforms around the world, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox, and Venmo.

The company’s capital expenditure — a number that’s been watched closely in recent quarters as tech giants spend vast sums of money to build the infrastructure to power AI — totaled $35.1 billion, blowing past analysts’ forecasts of $31.9 billion and topping second-quarter spending of $32.18 billion.

Amazon gave guidance for fourth-quarter sales between $206 billion and $213 billion, compared with estimates of $208.4 billion. Operating income was forecast at $21 billion to $26 billion, topping Wall Street’s expectation of $19.73 billion.

Some highlights for the quarter:

  • Amazon added 3.8 gigawatts of computing capacity, an amount the company says is larger than any other cloud provider.

  • The company opened Project Rainier, its massive AI data center containing 500,000 of its custom Trainium2 chips.

  • Amazon said Trainium2 is a “fully subscribed” multibillion-dollar business that’s grown 150% since the second quarter.

  • Advertising revenue was $17.7 billion, up 24% year on year.

  • Subscription revenue (Amazon Prime, audiobooks, etc.) was up 11% year on year, at $12.6 billion for the quarter.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said:

“AWS is growing at a pace we haven’t seen since 2022, re-accelerating to 20.2% YoY. We continue to see strong demand in AI and core infrastructure, and we’ve been focused on accelerating capacity — adding more than 3.8 gigawatts in the past 12 months.”

On Wednesday, Amazon announced it would reduce its corporate workforce by a net 14,000 employees, after Reuters reported the number of roles reduced company-wide could reach 30,000. The cuts follow a report from The New York Times that reveled internal Amazon documents that show a desire to automate of up to 75% of its operations.

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Figma jumped postmarket Thursday after posting impressive sales in Q1, surpassing Wall Street expectations and raising its full-year guidance. The key numbers:

  • Q1 revenue of $333.4 million (compared to analyst estimates of $316 million).

  • Q2 sales guidance of $348 million to $350 million (estimate: $329.7 million).

  • Full-year revenue between $1.422 billion and $1.428 billion (up from previous guidance of $1.37 billion).

The digital design software firm is the latest company to diminish investor fears about AI-induced disruption by making the technology work for them. Like Atlassian or Datadog, Figma said it was able to use AI to its advantage, bringing more customers on board and getting them to spend more.

In the press release, Praveer Melwani, Figma CFO, said:

As AI gets better, Figma is accelerating and customer usage and workflows on our platform are deepening. Our platform and AI products drove faster growth for both new customer acquisition and expansion within existing accounts.

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Infleqtion is falling in postmarket trading after reporting a Q1 adjusted loss from operations of $13.2 million and sales of $9.5 million.

Management modestly upgraded its sales guidance to “at least” $40 million for 2026, adding that language to enhance the target provided in early April. Revenues of $40 million would mark an increase of roughly 23% compared to the $32.5 million generated in 2025, and an acceleration from growth of 12% last year.

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“Q1 reinforced our confidence that quantum is gaining momentum as the market shifts toward deployable systems, real applications, and measurable customer value,” said CEO Matt Kinsella. “Across computing, sensing, and software, we are seeing expanding customer activity especially in national security, space, and hybrid quantum-AI applications.”

Shares are roughly flat since February 13, which is just before the company went public via a SPAC, after being down 35% near the end of March, and then up nearly 30% in mid-April.

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Shares of Applied Materials are gaining in postmarket trading after the company reported robust Q2 results and a sales outlook that indicate building momentum.

  • Net sales: $7.9 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $7.7 billion and guidance for $7.65 billion, plus or minus $500 million).

  • Adjusted earnings per share: $2.86 (estimate: $2.68, guidance: $2.68, plus or minus $0.20).

For Q3, the company anticipates net sales of $8.95 billion (plus or minus $500 million; estimate: $8.15 billion) with adjusted EPS of $3.36 (plus or minus $0.20; estimate: $2.88).

“The growth in AI that Applied has been investing for is now in full force,” CFO Brice Hill said in the press release.

Management has consistently indicated that it expects demand to pick up in the second half of this year, but its first-half results have already blown away expectations by a wide margin. All this appetite for semiconductors to support AI compute is fantastic news for companies like Applied Materials that make the equipment to produce these specialized chips.

Shares of Applied Materials closed near a record high ahead of this report, up more than 70% year to date.

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