Airbnb — Feb 13, 2025 release
Fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter results · 8-K Item 2.02 · Exhibit 99.1 · 0001193125-25-026054
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Revenue
“$2.23 billion to $2.27 billion”
Period
Q1 FY2025
Measure
GAAP-tied
Source
Prose
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Effective tax rate for FY2025
“slightly below our long-term effective tax rate of approximately 20%”
Growth rate of stock-based compensation (SBC) for FY2025
“will approximate headcount growth”
Revenue for Q1 FY2025
“$2.23 billion to $2.27 billion”
Revenue year-over-year growth for Q1 FY2025
“4% to 6%”
Revenue year-over-year growth excluding the … for Q1 FY2025
“7% to 9%”
Revenue year-over-year growth excluding the … for Q1 FY2025
“10% to 12%”
Year-over-year growth of Nights and Experien… for Q1 FY2025
“relatively stable compared to Q1 2024 after excluding Leap Day”
ADR for Q1 FY2025
“decline slightly on a year-over-year basis”
ADR excluding the impact of FX for Q1 FY2025
“a slight year-over-year increase”
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin for Q1 FY2025
“decline compared to Q1 2024”
Adjusted EBITDA Margin excluding the impact … for Q1 FY2025
“approximately flat year-over-year”
Investment in launching and scaling new busi… for FY2025
“$200 million”
Investment towards launching and scaling new… for FY2025
“$200 million to $250 million”
Adjusted EBITDA Margin for FY2025
“at least 34.5%”
Exhibit 99.1 · the passage around this item
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Our strategy to deliver industry-leading growth remains: improving our core business, accelerating growth in global markets, and launching and scaling new offerings beginning with our Summer Release. Q4 was our highest nights and bookings
growth quarter of 2024 and we are excited by the continued strong demand we are seeing in 2025. For Q1 2025, we expect to deliver revenue of $2.23 billion to $2.27 billion, representing year-over-year growth of 4% to 6%, or 7% to 9% excluding the
impact of FX. As we mentioned in our previous shareholder letter, revenue in Q1 2024 benefited from both the timing of Easter and the inclusion of Leap Day, creating an unfavorable comparison of approximately three percentage points on a
year-over-year basis in Q1 2025. Excluding the impact of the calendar factors and FX headwinds, we anticipate revenue year-over-year growth would be 10% to 12%. We expect year-over-year growth of Nights and Experiences Booked in Q1 2025 to be
relatively stable compared to Q1 2024 after excluding Leap Day, which contributed to approximately one percentage 6 A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measures is provided at the end of this letter. 17
point of growth in Q1 2024. In Q1 2025, we expect ADR to decline slightly on a year-over-year basis, largely driven by FX headwinds.
Excluding the impact of FX, we would have anticipated a slight year-over-year increase in ADR. In Q1 2025, we expect Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin to decline compared to Q1 2024, primarily driven by the one-time calendar factors and F
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