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# Airbnb grew revenue 19% and authorised another US$12 billion of buybacks
- URL: https://www.sharespective.com/stories/airbnb-grew-revenue-19-authorised-another-2026-11-06/
- Published: 2026-11-05T22:15:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-06T00:50:34.000Z
- Description: Airbnb reported revenue of US$4.87 billion for the September quarter, up 19% on a year earlier. Analysts had expected about US$4.75 billion. Earnings came in at US$3.16 a share against the US$2.85 forecast.
- Author: Shaun Botha
- Tags: Travel, #story, #group-other, Airbnb

Airbnb reported revenue of US$4.87 billion for the September quarter, up 19% on a year earlier. Analysts had expected about US$4.75 billion. Earnings came in at US$3.16 a share against the US$2.85 forecast.

**That 19% is the fastest Airbnb has grown in more than three years.** Revenue grew 10% in the same quarter last year. Guests booked 155 million nights and seats, up 16%, and the value of those bookings rose 21% to US$27.7 billion.

Margins went with it. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, a rough measure of operating profit, reached US$2.51 billion. That is 52% of revenue, up from 50% a year earlier. Net income rose 38% to US$1.89 billion.

[![Chart: Airbnb's growth hits its fastest pace in three years. Airbnb's revenue growth on the same quarter a year earlier, in percent, Q4 2023 to Q3 2026. The average nightly rate rose 4%, so part of it is price.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/02/71/0271df32-cec6-421f-9f13-b06ab90e54c1/content/images/2026/11/chart-airbnb-revenue-growth-same-2026-11-06-wide-light.jpg)](https://www.sharespective.com/chart-airbnb-revenue-growth-same-2026-11-06/) 

This story’s chart of the day: the numbers, the dark version and the animated version are on its own page. [The chart’s page →](https://www.sharespective.com/chart-airbnb-revenue-growth-same-2026-11-06/)

The forecast did the rest. Airbnb now expects full-year revenue growth in the high teens, up from the mid-teens or better it had been guiding to. December-quarter revenue is guided to between US$3.22 billion and US$3.28 billion.

The share price told two stories. Airbnb fell about 3.5% during the session as the market sold everything, then rose about 10% once the numbers were out.

The fine print 

the average nightly rate rose 4% to US$179, so part of that 19% is price rather than more guests. I'd want to see nights and seats still growing at 16% next year, when the comparisons get harder.

[ This story ran in The AI Unwind Friday 6 November’s edition, with the market snapshot, the other two stories, the numbers and the week ahead. Read the whole edition → ](https://www.sharespective.com/sharespective-2026-11-06/)