Bending Spoons
Acquires and transforms digital businesses spanning media, productivity, video, events, and consumer apps.
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Profile
Acquires and operates a portfolio of digital businesses, earning mainly recurring subscription revenue alongside advertising and transaction-related income. A centralized platform supplies the teams, technology, data, and playbook used to integrate and optimize acquisitions.
Acquires and operates digital businesses across communications, media, video, productivity, events, and consumer utilities. AOL provides email, news, and search; Brightcove, Vimeo, and StreamYard support video; Evernote, Harvest, Loomly, and Issuu serve workflow; Eventbrite and Meetup support events and communities; Remini, komoot, WeTransfer, and Tractive extend the consumer portfolio. Customers span global markets, with North America its largest region.
Integrates acquisitions through a centralized platform of selectively recruited staff, proprietary technologies, and operating data. Its playbook reshapes teams, technology, interfaces, marketing, and monetization, then reinvests earnings and financing into further acquisitions.
Depends on acquisition sourcing, valuation, financing, and integration capacity, as well as subscription performance and external app-store, cloud, payment, advertising, data, and content-regulation infrastructure.
Company facts
Key statistics
Year to date +7.6% · Average volume (30d) 2.2M
Analysts
Ratings
Target range
Latest analyst notes
| Date | Firm | Action | Prior rating | Rating | Prior target | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2026 | Bernstein | Reiterate | Outperform | $40 | $47 | |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Bank of America Securities | Downgrade | Neutral | Underperform | ||
| Aug 11, 2026 | Mizuho Securities | Target | $72.28 | $72 | ||
| Jul 27, 2026 | Benchmark | Initiate | Buy | |||
| Jul 27, 2026 | Exane BNP Paribas | Initiate | Outperform |
Earnings
EPS
Revenue
History
| Report date | EPS est | EPS | Surprise | Revenue est | Revenue | Surprise | Next session |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026Q2 FY26 | $0.24 | $0.46 | +89.4% | $682.8M | $704.2M | +3.1% | −16.46% |
| Jun 8, 2026Q1 FY26 | — | $0.32 | — | — | $601.2M | — | — |
Financial highlights
| 3 quarters | — | — | — | Q1 FY25 | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY26 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | — | — | — | $258.9M | $601.3M | $704.2M | |
| Gross profit | — | — | — | $165.4M | $408.2M | $462.1M | |
| Operating income | — | — | — | −$4.6M | $120.2M | $240.3M | |
| Net income | — | — | — | −$112.2M | $27.5M | $177.0M | |
| Diluted EPS | — | — | — | −$0.19 | $0.04 | $0.29 | |
| Gross margin | — | — | — | 63.9% | 67.9% | 65.6% | |
| Operating margin | — | — | — | -1.8% | 20.0% | 34.1% |
Balance sheet, Jun 30, 2026Cash & short-term investments $793.0M · Total debt $4.96B · Total assets $8.06B · Shareholders' equity $1.26B
Dividends
No dividends on record.
Ownership
Shares outstanding 669.60M · Float 278.64M · 41.6% free float
Insider tradesForm 4
Nothing filed in the last 12 months.
View detailsPeers
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Broad overlap in email, search, news, file sharing and video.
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Email and search overlap, plus adjacent SaaS and file workflows.
- Cloudflare
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- Live Nation Entertainment
Ticketmaster contests paid-event ticketing, discovery and organizer tools.
- Adobe
Creative video, AI editing and review workflows overlap content creation.
- Apple
Apple News contests digital-news discovery, audiences and ad inventory.
- IBM
Enterprise live and on-demand streaming overlap across video workflows.
CompareAfter-hours close
| Company | Price | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bending Spoons | $43.50 | −0.21% | $29.19B | 132.3 | 27.0 | 22.4 | — |
| Alphabet Class A | $346.00 | −0.14% | $4.19T | 17.4 | 25.8 | 9.4 | +24.2% |
| Microsoft | $513.06 | −0.06% | $3.81T | 28.6 | 26.2 | 11.5 | +17.8% |
| Cloudflare | $301.61 | +0.66% | $106.39B | — | 203.4 | 42.3 | +35.9% |
| Live Nation Entertainment | $181.50 | −0.07% | $42.27B | — | 151.4 | 1.6 | +9.4% |
| Adobe | $291.46 | −0.04% | $115.88B | 16.7 | 11.3 | 4.6 | +12.7% |
| Apple | $320.07 | +0.15% | $4.70T | 36.6 | 34.7 | 10.1 | +16.4% |
| IBM | $235.80 | +0.10% | $221.96B | 20.8 | 18.4 | 3.2 | +1.1% |
| Median | 20.8 | 26.2 | 9.4 | +16.4% |










