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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent by Whitney Wimbish

Private prison company GEO Groups net income rose 800 percent during fiscal year 2025, the company announced Thursday, thanks mainly to the Trump administrations multibillion-dollar project to create a network of concentration camps across the country.
GEO Groups net income for fiscal year 2025 was $254.3 million, compared to $31.9 million for the year before, executives said.
The earnings report comes as GEO Groups stock price has plummeted by more than 60 percent after it rose sharply the day after Trump won the 2024 election. On Thursday, it fell by more than 14 percent to end trading at around $13.50 a share, partially due to fears of a backlash against Trumps deportation surge.
But a companys stock prices and its profits are not perfectly correlated. Stock prices can reflect that investors are confident about a company because its profits are high; they can also reflect how investors feel about a companys activities, the tendency for some to follow trading trends or the activities of major investors, and their expectations about the future. Those factors do not necessarily have bearing on whether a company wins millions of dollars worth of government contracts, as GEO Group has.
Executives said they expect revenue in 2026 to hit between $2.9 billion and $3.1 billion.
GEO chief executive George Zoley said he was pleased with the results and that the year was the most successful period for new business wins in our companys history. We expect 26 to be as active as 25. He noted that the company still has 6,000 idle beds that the government could use in its effort to deport one million people annually. Executives said they expect the government will increase its prisoner capacity to 100,000 or more, and prefers to run fewer but larger facilities.
GEO Groups net income for fiscal year 2025 was $254.3 million, compared to $31.9 million for the year before, executives said.
The earnings report comes as GEO Groups stock price has plummeted by more than 60 percent after it rose sharply the day after Trump won the 2024 election. On Thursday, it fell by more than 14 percent to end trading at around $13.50 a share, partially due to fears of a backlash against Trumps deportation surge.
But a companys stock prices and its profits are not perfectly correlated. Stock prices can reflect that investors are confident about a company because its profits are high; they can also reflect how investors feel about a companys activities, the tendency for some to follow trading trends or the activities of major investors, and their expectations about the future. Those factors do not necessarily have bearing on whether a company wins millions of dollars worth of government contracts, as GEO Group has.
Executives said they expect revenue in 2026 to hit between $2.9 billion and $3.1 billion.
GEO chief executive George Zoley said he was pleased with the results and that the year was the most successful period for new business wins in our companys history. We expect 26 to be as active as 25. He noted that the company still has 6,000 idle beds that the government could use in its effort to deport one million people annually. Executives said they expect the government will increase its prisoner capacity to 100,000 or more, and prefers to run fewer but larger facilities.
https://prospect.org/2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/
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ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent by Whitney Wimbish (Original Post)
justaprogressive
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Ferrets are Cool
(22,657 posts)1. I hope they lose their collective asses when they are shut down.
efhmc
(16,333 posts)2. Sadly they will not. They will just go to the next hateful endeavor provided by DJT, inc.
KitFox
(525 posts)3. The for profit private prison system alive and well following the Civil War, ramped up during Reagan's
so called War on Drugs and now burgeoning on steroids. Hopefully the communities targeted for expansion of these concentration camp style facilities will continue to resist and at least throw some sand in the gears.