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Hims reports Q4 earnings beat, revenue miss

The report comes as the company has faced mounting legal troubles related to its short-lived Wegovy pill copy.

Hims & Hers reported mixed financial results and gave lukewarm full-year guidance, moves that come after a tumultuous stretch for the telehealth company. 

For the last three months of 2025, Hims & Hers reported:

  • Earnings per share of $0.08, compared to the $0.04 analysts polled by FactSet were expecting.

  • Revenue of $617.8 million, compared to the $619 million analysts were penciling in.

For the full year in 2026, the company expects:

  • Revenue to hit between $2.7 billion and $2.9 billion, compared to the $2.74 billion analysts are currently expecting.

  • Adjusted EBITDA between $300 million and $375 million, compared to the $369 million Wall Street is expecting. The company said it intends to accept smaller margins in its international business in the short term as it gains market share.

The earnings report comes as the company has faced massive blowback from regulators after it rolled out a copy of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy pill early this month. Hims is now facing a patent infringement lawsuit from Novo as well as potential charges by the Department of Justice. 

CEO Andrew Dudum declined to comment on ongoing talks with the Food and Drug Administration and the DOJ.

We pulled back to prioritize, honestly, just the engagement and the relationships with the ecosystem of stakeholders, Dudum said. We talked to quite a few of them on launch and understood their dynamics and chose to prioritize them in those conversations, so we decided to pull it.

The stock has also taken a hit: it is down more than 50% since the start of the year, with more than 30% of that drawdown coming after Hims announced the Wegovy pill copies. The stock fell about 4% in after-hours trading following the report.

The company said its outlook assumes that it will continue to be able to sell copycat versions of Novo’s drugs. Throughout the report and call, company executives played down the impact of GLP-1s for its growth prospects.

Today, some may think of us as a GLP-1 company, Dudum said in an X post. The reality is that only a small minority of our subscribers are using a compounded GLP-1 treatment.

As its weight-loss segment sits in a precarious place, the company has focused on expanding into new treatments and geographies.

While Hims does not break out revenue by treatment segment, it did say that more than half of its revenue in 2025 came from “non-GLP-1 offerings” and described compounded GLP-1s as an “incremental growth vector.” Dudum told analysts he expects to add performance, recovery, and sleep in the future. He also said the company is looking into peptide therapies right now.

In the final quarter of 2025, Hims added hormone treatments and labs, including a cancer detection test from Grail. Hims announced last week that it would acquire Eucalyptus, an Australian digital health company, in a deal valued up to $1.15 billion.

Last year, Hims bought Zava, a UK-based peer with a presence in France, Ireland, and Germany, for $265.7 million. It also announced that it would launch in Canada this year offering generic Wegovy. The Eucalyptus acquisition puts Hims in new markets — like Australia and Japan — and gives it a wider presence in other international markets like the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. 

The company also broke out its international revenue for the first time: in 2025 if it brought in $133.9 million from outside the US, compared to $26.8 million in 2024.

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United beats Q1 earnings and revenue estimates, lowers full-year profit guidance amid surging jet fuel prices

United Airlines reported its first-quarter earnings results after the bell on Tuesday. The carrier’s shares ticked down in after-hours trading.

For Q1, United reported:

  • Adjusted earnings of $1.19 per share, compared to the Wall Street estimate of $1.08 per share compiled by FactSet.

  • $14.6 billion in revenue, compared to the $14.39 billion consensus estimate.

In the first quarter, United’s fuel expense grew 12.6% from the same period last year to $3.04 billion.

For the second quarter, United expects adjusted earnings per share of between $1 and $2, shy of Wall Street expectations of $2.08. For the full year ahead, United said it expects earnings between $7 and $11 per share, compared to its prior guidance of between $12 and $14 per share.

“Guidance assumes United’s revenue recovers 40% to 50% of the fuel price increases in the second quarter, 70% to 80% of the fuel price increases in the third quarter and 85% to 100% of the fuel price increases in the fourth quarter 2026,” read the company’s investor update.

Earlier this month, United was among the first major US airlines to hike its bag fees amid higher fuel costs. Its shares have fallen more than 15% from a February high days before the war in Iran began.

United has also made waves this month following reports that CEO Scott Kirby had floated the idea of a merger with American Airlines to President Trump. A merger between two of the big four airlines would create a true US behemoth, controlling more than a third of the American market. American Air last week said it wasn’t interested in merging with United and hadn’t held talks on the idea. On Tuesday, Trump told CNBC that he doesn’t like the idea either.

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Hedge funds are following retail traders into the Magnificent 7

Hedge funds are following retail traders into the stocks the masses never stopped buying.

“As we kick off earnings for megacap tech stocks, this stood out: [hedge funds] have started buying Mag7 stocks again this month though positioning remains well below the peak levels seen in early 2016,” wrote Goldman Sachs’ Cullen Morgan.

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In early April, JPMorgan strategist Arun Jain noted that retail investors had basically been selling everything but the Magnificent 7 stocks as part of a more cautious stance due to the Iran war.

(Apple has been a long-standing exception to this trend, presumably because retail traders arent fond of its hands-off approach to AI.)

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Last August, Jain discussed how retail activity tended to “crowd in” institutional buyers in meme stocks, while Goldman’s John Marshall advised clients to piggyback on stocks beloved by retail traders. Speculative, retail-geared assets proceeded to go on a tremendous run that soured in October.

But there are some early indications that a similar bout of speculative fervor is bubbling up once more.

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POET Technologies surges above $10 for first time in 4 years amid explosion in call volumes

POET Technologies is up nearly 40% this week as options market activity goes haywire in a faint echo of what got the stock on retail traders’ radars in October.

As of 11:12 a.m. ET, more than 10 calls have changed hands for every put traded. This bullish impulse has propelled the stock above the $10 threshold for the first time since March 2022.

Shares of the optical communications firm briefly dipped last week after Wolfpack Research said it was short the company because its investors would be exposed to an “IRS tax nightmare.”

The company responded that day saying it was taking measures for US shareholders that “should mitigate certain potential adverse US federal income tax consequences to it that could otherwise result from the Company’s status as a passive foreign investment company.”

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