IonQ (IONQ) Soars 21.7% on Revenue Beat; Eyes 73-88% Growth Outlook

We recently published Wall Street Can’t Keep Up: 10 Big Names on a High. IonQ Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) was one of the best performers on Thursday.

IonQ rallied for a third straight day on Thursday, surging 21.70 percent to finish at $40.88 apiece, after beating its revenue expectations by high double digits last year and posting a highly optimistic outlook for 2026.

In an updated report, IonQ Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) said that it tripled its revenues last year to $130 million from only $43 million in 2024, beating its guidance by 20 percent.

Revenues in the fourth quarter alone soared by 429 percent to $61.89 million from only $11.7 million in the same period a year earlier, exceeding company expectations by 55 percent.

“2025 was a year of tremendous accomplishments and both a strategic and financial inflection point for IonQ. We became the first public quantum company in history with more than $100 million in GAAP revenue. We tripled our annual revenue and accelerated to a semiconductor-based roadmap for our industry-leading quantum computers. We expanded and deepened our platform into quantum networking, quantum sensing, and quantum security. We have now integrated our capabilities to create powerful operating momentum into 2026,” IonQ Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) Chairman and CEO Niccolo de Masi said.

However, the company remained at an attributable net loss of $510 million, higher by 54 percent than the $331.6 million in 2024, despite swinging to an attributable net income of $754 million in the fourth quarter of 2025 from a $202 million attributable net loss in the same period in 2024.

For this year, IonQ Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) expects revenues to grow by 73 percent to 88 percent to a range of $225 million to $245 million, while revenues in the first quarter are expected to end at $48 million to $51 million.

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