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IREN shareholders lost 54.9% over the past year, including dividends, according to a Simply Wall St article published on 30 October. The piece says quarterly revenue fell and a US$176.7 million profit became a US$684 million loss.

That is a bruising contrast with the growth assumptions investors were weighing a year ago. The article says IREN’s shift towards AI cloud, backed by multi-billion-dollar contracts and GPU financing, has not yet made profitable scaling a settled matter. The figures and analysis are Simply Wall St’s account, not a full set of independently checked company results. Still, they sharpen the test for IREN’s AI ambitions: contracts matter, but the earnings have to arrive too.

Discuss: Does IREN’s AI infrastructure push still look credible after this earnings reversal, or should investors wait for profitable growth before giving it the benefit of the doubt?

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