Key Points
Airbnb is expecting growth to pick up in 2026 after a good fourth quarter of 2025.
New businesses haven't taken off the way management hoped though.
Doubts remain for a company that has a great niche, but may never be more than that.
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Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) reported better-than-expected earnings for Q4 2025, and the company expects to grow even more in the first quarter. But Airbnb stock has still gone nowhere for years, and we haven't seen the multi-billion dollar businesses that management hoped would be possible because of AI. Have the doubters been proved wrong by a good quarter, or does Airbnb still need to answer some big questions? I answer in the video below.
*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Feb. 11, 2026. The video was published on Feb. 16, 2026.
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