Reddit (RDDT) is getting a lot of attention, but not all of it is positive. Reddit saw strong profitability in 2025, but market sentiment signals a “show me” mentality.
Its growth gives investors optimism, but tech expectations leave tiny room for error.
Still, a recent SEC Form 4 filing shows one executive recently plowed millions of dollars into Reddit’s stock.
Differentiating from other social media powerhouses like Facebook or Instagram, Reddit has shifted its niche to a data engine.
Its fourth quarter 2025 earnings:
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Q4 2025 earnings increased 70% year-over-year to $726 million.
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Full-year revenue $2.2 billion.
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Digital advertising increased 75% in Q4.
Analysts are focused on Reddit’s “human” conversations, like the threads you often see, and are using them to train AI models.
This allowed the company to reach a 92% gross margin, but despite these metrics, investors boggled down over “logged-out” user growth versus “logged-in” monetization.
Reddit has been licensing its 20 years’ worth of human conversation, yes, including those “rage bait” threads.
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For two decades, Reddit has been the place for the internet’s most chaotic anonymous conversations, from heated moral debates to literal thousand-comment “rage bait” threads where strangers vent and argue over workplace drama and initiate family blowups in painstaking detail.
But, it’s also where hobbyists share artwork and knitting designs, where engineers debate the mechanics of flamethrowers, and chaotic college threads about internship advice or grad school admissions.
All of that data? Yes, it’s being sold to AI companies like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI to help train their models.
This stream of “other revenue” is high-marginand relatively less dependent on the ad revenue market.
Total daily active unique (DAUq) increased from 19% to 121 million: how much of the organic growth is included in the price?
According to a recent SEC Form 4 filing, Reddit’s director, Sarah Farrell, executed a series of buys on February 10 and 11.
Through Waygrove Partnership LP, Farrell purchased 50,500 shares valued at approximately $7.48 million.
Her buys were aggressive.
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On February 10, she bought over 43,000 shares at prices ranging from $148.13 to $150.00.
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On February 11, she bought another 6,700 shares as the price decreased to an average of $139.27.
