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MarketWise, Inc. Reports Preliminary Selected Unaudited Fourth Quarter Results with Billings Up 42% YoY; CFFO for FY 2025 of $45 Million; Beats FY 2025 Guidance for Both Billings and Cash Flow; Cash Balances Increase $20 Million in the Quarter to $70 ...
MarketWise, Inc. Reports Preliminary Selected Unaudited Fourth Quarter Results with Billings Up 42% YoY; CFFO for FY 2025 of $45 Million; Beats FY 2025
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[{"type":"text","content":"MarketWise, Inc. Reports Preliminary Selected Unaudited Fourth Quarter Results with Billings Up 42% YoY; CFFO for FY 2025 of $45 Million; Beats FY 2025 Guidance for Both Billings and Cash Flow; Cash Balances Increase $20 Million in the Quarter to $70 Million \n BALTIMORE, Jan. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MarketWise, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTW) (“MarketWise” or the “Company”), a leading multi-brand digital subscription services platform that provides premium financial research, software, education, and tools for self-directed investors, today reported preliminary selected unaudited financial and operational updates for fourth quarter 2025 below. Consistent with past practice, and as we did in January of last year, we are providing investors with selected information on recent directional trends in advance of issuing our usual earnings press release announcing full year 2025 financial results, which we expect to release in March 2026. The selected unaudited results in this press release are preliminary and subject to the Company’s normal quarter and year-end accounting procedures and external audit by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. Therefore, these preliminary unaudited results are subject to adjustment. In addition, these preliminary unaudited results are not a comprehensive statement of the Company’s financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025 and should not be viewed as a substitute for full, audited financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Q4 2025 Preliminary Selected Unaudited Financial and Operational Updates: Consolidated Paid subscribers at December 31, 2025 were 374 thousand. Active Free subscribers were 2.0 million at December 31, 2025.Billings, or Net Sales1, for fourth quarter 2025 totaled approximately $79 million, representing over a 23% sequential increase compared with Q3 2025, and a year-over-year increase of 42%.Billings for FY 2025 totaled approximately $271 million, beating guidance of $250 million.CFFO for fourth quarter 2025 was approximately $24 million, or $45 million for the full year beating guidance of $30 million. This represents an approximately $65 million improvement in CFFO compared to FY 2024.Cash and cash equivalents balance increased to $70 million at December 31, 2025 from $51 million at September 30, 2025.Cumula...