Block, Inc. Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Overview

  • Block reported one of its strongest years to date, with significant growth across Cash App, Square, and lending products.
  • A major strategic restructuring was announced: the workforce will be reduced from over 10,000 to just under 6,000 employees. Leadership frames this as a shift toward an “intelligence-native,” AI-driven operating model.
  • Block exceeded guidance on gross profit, adjusted operating income, and adjusted EPS for Q4 2025.
  • The company raised its 2026 outlook meaningfully, citing accelerating product velocity and a reduced cost structure.

Key Financial Highlights

Q4 2025 Performance (vs. Q4 2024)

  • Gross profit: $2.87 billion, up 24% year-over-year.
  • Adjusted operating income (AOI): $588 million, up 46% year-over-year.
  • Adjusted diluted EPS: up 38% year-over-year.
  • Share repurchases: $790 million in Q4; $2.3 billion for the full year.
  • Rule of 40 target exceeded.

Full-Year 2025 Performance (vs. 2024)

  • Gross profit: $10.36 billion, up 17% year-over-year.
  • Adjusted operating income: up 30% year-over-year with 2pts margin expansion.
  • Cash App monthly actives: returned to growth, ending at 59 million.
  • Primary banking actives: 9.3 million, up 22% year-over-year.
  • Square GPV growth accelerated to 10% from 8.6% in 2024.

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Operator: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining our fourth quarter 2025 earnings call. Today's call will be 45 minutes. We have Jack and Amrita with us today, along with Owen Jennings, our business lead; and Nick Molnar, our Sales and Marketing Lead for Block. We will begin this call with some short remarks before opening the call directly to your questions. During Q&A, we will take questions from conference call participants. We would also like to remind everyone that we will be making forward-looking statements on this call. All statements other than statements of historical facts could be considered to be forward-looking. These forward-looking statements include discussions of our outlook, strategy and guidance as well as our long-term targets and goals and how we plan to operate moving forward. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including changes in macroeconomic conditions and risks related to the workforce reduction we announced earlier today. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by our forward-looking statements. Reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. Please take a look at our filings with the SEC for a discussion of the factors that could cause our results to differ. Also note that the forward-looking statements, including earnings guidance for 2026 and our future operating plans discussed on this call are based on information available to us and assumptions we believe are reasonable as

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