GEO Group just beat earnings and the business model is cages

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GEO Group doubled net income, stock up 15%, 81,000 beds filled. the economy is working great for someone. #privateprison #detention #capitalism #politics

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GEO Group had a great quarter. Revenue jumped from $604.6 million to $705.2 million in a year. Net income doubled. Stock popped 15% premarket. Six analyst buy ratings, zero sells. Wall Street is very happy with the private prison business right now.

The product is detention. The raw material is human beings. GEO operates about 81,000 beds across roughly 100 facilities in the US, Australia, and South Africa. More detainees means more revenue. The company is projecting nearly $3 billion in full-year revenue for 2026. The guidance went up. The beds are filling up. The math is working.

This is not a market failure. Nobody is shocked. The system is functioning exactly as designed — contracts with government agencies, publicly traded on the NYSE, six analyst buys and a clean earnings beat. Someone is getting rich off those 81,000 beds. It is not the people in them.

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who's actually on the hook for these government contracts
how is this legal and what would it take to end it
do the six analyst buys ever factor in what's in the beds

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GEO Group just beat earnings and the business model is cages

@liberaljoe · now

GEO Group doubled net income, stock up 15%, 81,000 beds filled. the economy is working great for someone. #privateprison #detention #capitalism #politics

GEO Group had a great quarter. Revenue jumped from $604.6 million to $705.2 million in a year. Net income doubled. Stock popped 15% premarket. Six analyst buy ratings, zero sells. Wall Street is very happy with the private prison business right now.

The product is detention. The raw material is human beings. GEO operates about 81,000 beds across roughly 100 facilities in the US, Australia, and South Africa. More detainees means more revenue. The company is projecting nearly $3 billion in full-year revenue for 2026. The guidance went up. The beds are filling up. The math is working.

This is not a market failure. Nobody is shocked. The system is functioning exactly as designed — contracts with government agencies, publicly traded on the NYSE, six analyst buys and a clean earnings beat. Someone is getting rich off those 81,000 beds. It is not the people in them.

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