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Good news, bad news, rinse, repeat
Figma just showed off the kind of quarter that makes bulls grin and bears squint. Revenue climbed 40.1% year over year to $303.8 million, and EPS came in at $0.08 versus the $0.20 loss analysts expected. On paper, that’s a pretty clean beat. In real life? The stock still got smacked 7%, because Wall Street loves growth… until it asks where the profits are hiding.
The margin monster is still in the room
Here’s the part investors can’t really hand-wave away: Figma is still unprofitable, with a net margin of -121.9% and negative return on equity. That’s the kind of math that says, “Cool product, now show me the business model.” The company can absolutely keep winning hearts in design and collaboration software, but the market wants evidence that scale will eventually translate into actual earnings, not just a bigger top line.
AI hype helps, but governance chatter hurts
There’s still plenty to like in the story. Figma reintroduced its AI tool, Weave, which keeps the product narrative spicy and gives the company another excuse to be in every investor PowerPoint. Analyst sentiment also looks decent, with a consensus Hold and a $43.25 target. But then you get the less fun stuff: Anthropic’s CPO leaving the board, plus more than 1.06 million shares sold by insiders over the last 90 days. That’s enough to make the market wonder whether everybody on the inside is packing sunscreen while the rest of us are waiting for beach weather.
Big picture
Figma is still a high-growth software name with real product momentum, but the stock is behaving like investors are done paying unlimited multiples for “almost profitable.” Until margins tighten and the governance noise quiets down, every strong quarter is going to come with the same annoying question: great, but when does the money part kick in?