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Ginkgo Bioworks Q4 2025 earnings summary

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Q4 2025 earnings summary26 Feb, 2026

Executive summary

  • Strategic focus shifted to autonomous labs as the core platform, with divestiture of the biosecurity business to enable targeted investment and operational focus on robotics and AI-driven lab automation.

  • Major contract wins include a $47 million deal with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and a high-profile collaboration with OpenAI deploying GPT-5, demonstrating leadership in AI-integrated lab automation and achieving a 40% reduction in protein production costs.

  • Significant restructuring and cost controls over the past two years reduced annual cash burn by 55%, positioning the company for sustainable investment in core growth areas.

  • Expansion of the Boston autonomous lab from 50 to 100 racks is underway, aiming to showcase scalability and attract further commercial and research partnerships.

  • Partnerships announced with ARPA-H, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon, Agricen, and Deep Origin, and launch of Datapoints business serving top pharma customers.

Financial highlights

  • Full year 2025 revenue was $170 million, down 25% year-over-year; Q4 2025 revenue was $33 million, down 24% from Q4 2024.

  • Cell engineering revenue for FY2025 was $133 million, down 24% year-over-year; Biosecurity revenue was $37 million, down 30%.

  • Adjusted EBITDA improved to -$36 million in Q4 2025 from -$57 million in Q4 2024; full-year Adjusted EBITDA was -$167 million, up from -$293 million in 2024.

  • Full year 2025 GAAP net loss was $(313) million, improved from $(547) million in 2024.

  • Cash burn for 2025 was $171 million, a 55% reduction from $383 million in 2024; year-end cash and equivalents totaled $423 million.

Outlook and guidance

  • No revenue guidance for 2026; focus is on cash burn, expected to be $125 million–$150 million, reflecting continued cost discipline and investment in autonomous labs.

  • 2026 priorities include completing the biosecurity business divestiture, expanding autonomous lab capacity, and commercializing lab automation offerings through direct sales and cloud lab services.

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Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc, a biomolecular engineering company, develops biological manufacturing technologies to program cells for molecular manufacturing systems. Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings software engineering platform uses the widely used programming language Python and its library of bioinformatics functions and statistical methods. Ginkgo Bioworks' programs are designed to modify bacterial genes to make organic compounds such as vanillin, scents to produce civetone in bacteria, Beta-carotene and lycopene in yeast cells, gluconic acid in E. coli; and shikimic acid and artemisinic acid in yeast cells. The company sells its products to pharmaceutical companies including AstraZeneca Group and Eli Lilly & Co; chemical companies including Firmenich SA; flavor, aroma, and fragrance companies; craft breweries; and others.

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