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ZIFF DAVIS, INC. ZD

Telegraph & Other Message Communications · CIK 0001084048 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$1.45B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$183.09M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
$287.87M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$883.47MMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$23.46Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income18.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue0.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity0.5×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

18.7× earnings today, against a median of 18.5× across 10 years on record. In line with its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$883.47M18.7×
2024-06-28$1.50B23.8×
2023-06-30$2.03B48.9×
2022-06-30$2.06B32.3×
2021-06-30$3.96B8.0×
2020-06-30$2.06B13.7×
2019-06-30$2.99B13.7×
2018-06-30$2.65B20.6×
2017-06-30$2.56B18.4×
2016-06-30$2.10B13.8×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

ZIFF DAVIS, INC. (ZD) reported revenue of $1.45B and net income of $47.35M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from ZIFF DAVIS, INC.’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Telegraph & Other Message Communications.

Income

ZIFF DAVIS, INC. income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$1.45B$1.40B$1.36B$1.39B$1.42B$1.16B$1.05B$1.21B$1.12B$874.26M
Cost of revenue$206.60M$200.32M$185.65M$184.55M$188.05M$178.40M$187.33M$201.07M$172.31M$147.10M
Gross profit$1.24B$1.20B$1.18B$1.21B$1.23B$980.43M$863.13M$1.01B$945.52M$727.16M
Operating income$183.09M$113.65M$132.61M$198.94M$167.34M$138.34M$88.22M$244.28M$245.71M$242.57M
Net income$47.35M$63.05M$41.50M$63.76M$496.71M$150.67M$218.81M$128.69M$139.42M$152.44M
Research & development$61.96M$67.37M$68.86M$74.09M$78.87M$57.15M$44.65M$48.37M$46.00M$38.05M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 41.10Mshares 44.52Mshares 46.46Mshares 47.03Mshares 47.86Mshares 47.12Mshares 49.03Mshares 48.93Mshares 48.67Mshares 47.96M
Pretax income$80.75M$93.19M$74.97M$131.15M$351.35M$78.35M$54.82M$177.59M$199.97M$211.44M
Income tax expense$25.45M$41.37M$24.14M$57.96M-$14.20M$38.35M$13.76M$44.76M$60.54M$59.00M
Diluted EPS$1.15$1.42$0.89$1.36$10.37$3.18$4.39$2.59$2.83$3.13
Selling, general & administrative$753.35M$723.16M$683.09M$672.65M$949.83M$784.94M$730.26M$713.57M$653.81M$446.54M
General & administrative$210.03M$203.46M$195.73M$181.87M$456.78M$418.58M$402.60M$375.27M$323.52M$239.67M
Selling & marketing$543.32M$519.69M$487.36M$490.78M$493.05M$366.36M$327.66M$338.30M$330.30M$206.87M

Balance

ZIFF DAVIS, INC. balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$573.78M$505.88M$737.61M$652.79M$694.84M$176.44M$575.62M$209.47M$350.94M$123.95M
Total assets$3.66B$3.70B$3.47B$3.53B$3.77B$3.67B$3.51B$2.56B$2.45B$2.06B
Current assets$1.37B$1.27B$1.19B$1.08B$1.30B$622.84M$886.89M$460.33M$620.43M$348.00M
Total liabilities$1.91B$1.89B$1.58B$1.64B$1.80B$2.45B$2.19B$1.53B$1.43B$1.15B
Current liabilities$1.07B$899.65M$431.83M$432.45M$497.24M$882.56M$833.10M$307.32M$265.10M$454.09M
Total equity incl. NCI$1.75B$1.81B$1.89B$1.89B$1.97B$1.21B$1.31B$1.04B$1.02B$914.54M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
InventoryUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Accounts receivable$623.44M$660.22M$337.70M$304.74M$316.34M$309.55M$261.93M$221.62M$234.20M$199.87M
Goodwill$1.35B$1.58B$1.55B$1.59B$1.53B$1.52B$1.31B$1.38B$1.20B$1.12B
Long-term debt$717.82M$864.28M$1.00B$999.05M$1.04B$1.18B$1.06B$1.01B$1.00B$601.75M
Accounts payable$144.68M$164.35M$123.26M$120.83M$130.98MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Cash flow

ZIFF DAVIS, INC. cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flow$407.07M$390.32M$319.96M$336.44M$516.54M$480.08M$412.54M$401.32M$264.42M$282.39M
Capital expenditures$119.20M$106.64M$108.73M$106.15M$113.74M$92.55M$70.59M$56.38M$39.60M$24.75M
Investing cash flow-$145.76M-$297.46M-$127.41M-$220.77M$59.09M-$586.22M-$505.27M-$406.61M-$158.49M-$448.86M
Financing cash flow-$170.29M-$320.99M-$114.79M-$140.83M-$113.09M-$234.63M$456.70M-$131.36M$111.82M$41.15M
Net change in cash$101.13M-$231.73M$84.82M-$42.05M$452.19M-$332.96M$366.14M-$141.47M$227.00M-$131.58M
Stock-based compensation$44.93M$40.92M$31.92M$26.60M$25.25M$24.01M$23.92M$28.09M$22.74M$13.65M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$0$0$43.92M$82.57M$73.47M$65.84M
Common share repurchases$173.79M$185.18M$108.53M$78.29M$78.33M$275.65M$20.80M$47.10M$9.85M$56.50M
Depreciation & amortization$228.69M$211.92M$236.97M$233.40M$258.30M$228.74M$232.03M$187.17M$162.04M$122.09M

Derived

ZIFF DAVIS, INC. derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flow$287.87M$283.68M$211.23M$230.29M$402.80M$387.53M$341.95M$344.95M$224.82M$257.64M
Gross margin85.8%85.7%86.4%86.7%UnavailableUnavailable82.2%83.3%84.6%83.2%
Operating margin12.6%8.1%9.7%14.3%11.8%11.9%8.4%20.2%22.0%27.7%
FCF margin19.8%20.2%15.5%16.6%28.4%33.4%32.6%28.6%20.1%29.5%
SBC / revenue3.1%2.9%2.3%1.9%1.8%2.1%2.3%2.3%2.0%1.6%
Current ratio1.27x1.41x2.76x2.51x2.62x0.71x1.06x1.50x2.34x0.77x
Revenue YoY growth3.5%2.8%-1.9%-1.8%22.3%10.3%-13.0%8.0%27.9%Unavailable
Net margin3.3%4.5%3.0%4.6%35.1%13.0%20.8%10.7%12.5%17.4%
R&D / revenue4.3%4.8%5.0%5.3%5.6%4.9%4.3%4.0%4.1%4.4%
CapEx / revenue8.2%7.6%8.0%7.6%8.0%8.0%6.7%4.7%3.5%2.8%
Long-term debt / equity0.41xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate31.5%44.4%32.2%44.2%-4.0%48.9%25.1%25.2%30.3%27.9%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open ZD in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-08View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-24View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-09View SEC filing

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