Equinix, Inc. Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Q4 2025 was described as Equinix’s best quarter ever, with significantly stronger-than-expected performance in bookings, recurring revenue, margins, and cash flows.
  • AI-related demand continues to surge—60% of Equinix’s largest Q4 deals were driven by AI workloads, up from 50% earlier in 2025.
  • Company enters 2026 with strong momentum, already booking 45% of its Q1 target and achieving its largest presales quarter ever.

Financial Highlights (Compared to Q4 2024 Unless Noted)

  • Revenue: $2.4B, up 7% year-over-year.
  • Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR): Up 10% year-over-year; churn lower than planned at 2.2% for Q4 and 2.4% for the full year.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $1.2B, +15% year-over-year; 49% margin.
  • AFFO: $877M, +13% year-over-year.
  • MRR per cabinet increased by $65 quarter-over-quarter.
  • Balance sheet strong with $3.2B in cash/short-term investments; net leverage of 3.8x.

Operational Highlights

  • Annualized gross bookings for 2025 reached $1.6B, up 27% from 2024.
  • Q4 bookings of $474M were up 42% year-over-year and 20% from Q3.
  • Interconnection revenue grew 9% year-over-year; the company surpassed 500,000 total interconnections.
  • Executed 17,200+ customer transactions in 2025; Q4 was highest ever at 4,500+ deals.

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Operator: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Equinix Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Also, today's conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the call over to Phillip Konieczny, Senior Vice President of Finance. You may begin. Phillip Konieczny: Good afternoon and welcome to our fourth quarter conference call. Before we get started, I would like to remind everyone that some of the statements that we will be making today are forward-looking in nature and involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly from those statements and may be affected by the risks we identified in today's press release as well as those identified in our filings with the SEC, including our most recent Form 10-K filed on February 11, 2026, and our most recent Form 10-Q. Equinix assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or comment on forward-looking statements made on this call. In addition, in light of Regulation Fair Disclosure, it is our policy not to comment on its financial guidance during the quarter unless it is done through an explicit public disclosure. On today's conference call, we will provide non-GAAP measures. We provide a reconciliation of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in today's press release on the Equinix Investor page at www.equinix.com. We have made available on the IR page of our website a presentation designed to accompany this discus

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