Nokia (NOKBF) Operating Expenses (2009 - 2025)

Nokia's (NOKBF) quarterly Operating Expenses came in at -$65.2 million in Q4 2025, up 97.93% year-on-year from -$32.9 million in Q4 2024, and up 97.93% quarter-over-quarter from -$3.1 billion in Q4 2024.

Nokia (NOKBF) Operating Expenses (2009 - 2025) Analysis & Trends

Nokia has disclosed Operating Expenses across 17 years of filings, most recently posting -$65.2 million for Q4 2025.

  • Operating Expenses for Q4 2025 came in at -$65.2 million, up 97.93% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was -$4.8 billion (up 9.9% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was $9.0 billion, up 13.52% from the prior year.
  • Operating Expenses came in at -$65.2 million for Q4 2025 at Nokia, up from -$3.1 billion in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Expenses ranged from a high of -$65.2 million in Q4 2025 to a low of -$8.0 billion in Q4 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Operating Expenses is -$1.3 billion (2024), against an average of -$2.6 billion.
  • Across the five-year window, Operating Expenses slumped 277.77% in 2024 and jumped 97.93% in 2025, its largest moves.
  • Nokia's Operating Expenses stood at -$8.0 billion in 2021, then surged by 31.41% to -$5.5 billion in 2022, then soared by 84.85% to -$832.8 million in 2023, then tumbled by 277.77% to -$3.1 billion in 2024, then jumped by 97.93% to -$65.2 million in 2025.
  • The last three Operating Expenses figures came in at -$65.2 million (Q4 2025), -$3.1 billion (Q4 2024), and -$1.3 billion (Q3 2024), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Opex (Qtr)
1 Cisco Systems 480.96 Bn 464.32 Bn 10.08 Bn 6.12 Bn
2 Ciena 69.17 Bn 67.87 Bn 625.52 Mn 436.11 Mn
3 Motorola Solutions 68.03 Bn 67.17 Bn 1.36 Bn 691.00 Mn
4 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 65.63 Bn 60.79 Bn 8.25 Bn 8.83 Bn
5 Lumentum Holdings 61.32 Bn 58.15 Bn 357.00 Mn 182.50 Mn
6 Ubiquiti 34.34 Bn 33.97 Bn 370.71 Mn 79.89 Mn
7 AST SpaceMobile 27.21 Bn 27.79 Bn -69.36 Mn 164.15 Mn
8 Applied Optoelectronics 13.45 Bn 13.01 Bn 43.92 Mn 56.91 Mn
9 Zebra Technologies 11.38 Bn 11.26 Bn 742.00 Mn 527.00 Mn
10 Nokia - - 10.09 Bn -65.19 Mn

Historic Data

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DateValue
Dec 31, 2025 -65.19 Mn
Dec 31, 2024 -3.15 Bn
Sep 30, 2024 -1.33 Bn
Jun 30, 2024 -288.61 Mn
Mar 31, 2024 -595.33 Mn
Dec 31, 2023 -832.78 Mn
Jun 30, 2023 -751.36 Mn
Dec 31, 2022 -5.50 Bn
Dec 31, 2021 -8.01 Bn
Sep 30, 2021 -5.85 Bn
Mar 31, 2021 -1.95 Bn
Dec 31, 2020 -8.33 Bn
Sep 30, 2020 -5.64 Bn
Jun 30, 2020 -3.65 Bn
Mar 31, 2020 -1.89 Bn
Dec 31, 2019 -2.28 Bn
Sep 30, 2019 -5.89 Bn
Jun 30, 2019 2.44 Bn
Mar 31, 2019 -8.73 Bn
Dec 31, 2018 3.42 Mn