# DROPBOX, INC. (DBX)

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CIK: 0001467623
SIC: 7372 Services-Prepackaged Software
SIC breadcrumb: [Services](/division/I/) > [Business Services](/major-group/73/) > [SIC 7372 Services-Prepackaged Software](/industry/7372/)
Latest 10-K filed: 2026-02-20
SEC page: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1467623
Filing source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762326000008/dbx-20251231.htm

## At a glance

FY2025 · period end 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-02-20 · accession 0001467623-26-000008 · source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001467623.json

| Metric | Value | FY | Provenance |
| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| Revenue | 2,521,000,000 USD | 2025 | verified |
| Net income | 508,400,000 USD | 2025 | verified |
| Assets | 2,844,900,000 USD | 2025 | verified |
| Free cash flow | 930,800,000 USD | 2025 | computed |
| Net margin | 20.17% | 2025 | computed |
| Operating margin | 27.33% | 2025 | computed |
| Revenue YoY | -1.07% | 2025 | computed |

Stockholders' equity was not positive at FY2025 year-end (-1,797,200,000 USD, as filed); ROE and liabilities / equity are omitted rather than computed.

Computed values are grepcent-computed from the verified facts above and may differ from ratios the company itself reports. Free cash flow = operating cash flow − capital expenditures. Net margin = net income ÷ revenue. Operating margin = operating income ÷ revenue. Revenue YoY = FY2025 revenue ÷ FY2024 revenue − 1 (consecutive fiscal years only).

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### Peer percentile fingerprint

| Ratio | DBX | Peer median | Percentile | N |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Net margin | 20.2% | 1.5% | 84 | 122 |
| Operating margin | 27.3% | 1.3% | 90 | 121 |
| Revenue growth | -1.1% | 13.5% | 11 | 124 |
| FCF margin | 36.9% | 19.3% | 96 | 120 |
| ROA | 17.9% | 0.9% | 93 | 124 |
| Current ratio | 0.63 | 1.57 | 5 | 124 |

Percentile = share of the N covered peers reporting that ratio whose value is lower (ties counted half); computed among grepcent-covered companies in SIC industry 7372 Services-Prepackaged Software, not the whole market. A higher percentile means a higher value of the ratio, not a better company. Ratios with fewer than 8 reporting peers are omitted. Latest reported values per company; fiscal periods may differ. Descriptive arithmetic - not a score, rating, or ranking.

## Selected Fundamentals
| Metric | Value | Unit | FY | Filed |
| --- | ---: | --- | ---: | --- |
| Revenue | 2521000000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-20 |
| Net income | 508400000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-20 |
| Assets | 2844900000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-20 |

## Financials

Annual standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-02-20. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001467623.json. Derived margins, ratios, and free cash flow are computed from the extracted annual SEC facts.

| Metric | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Revenue | 844,800,000 | 1,106,800,000 | 1,391,700,000 | 1,661,300,000 | 1,913,900,000 | 2,157,900,000 | 2,324,900,000 | 2,501,600,000 | 2,548,200,000 | 2,521,000,000 |
| Net income | -210,200,000 | -111,700,000 | -484,900,000 | -52,700,000 | -256,300,000 | 335,800,000 | 553,200,000 | 453,600,000 | 452,300,000 | 508,400,000 |
| Operating income | -193,500,000 | -113,700,000 | -494,000,000 | -80,500,000 | -277,000,000 | 274,400,000 | 181,300,000 | 538,700,000 | 486,200,000 | 689,100,000 |
| Gross profit | 454,200,000 | 737,900,000 | 997,000,000 | 1,250,300,000 | 1,499,300,000 | 1,713,700,000 | 1,880,700,000 | 2,023,100,000 | 2,103,100,000 | 2,020,200,000 |
| Diluted EPS |  |  |  | -0.13 | -0.62 | 0.85 | 1.52 | 1.31 | 1.40 | 1.86 |
| Operating cash flow | 252,600,000 | 330,300,000 | 425,400,000 | 528,500,000 | 570,800,000 | 729,800,000 | 797,300,000 | 783,700,000 | 894,100,000 | 951,800,000 |
| Capital expenditures | 115,200,000 | 25,300,000 | 63,000,000 | 136,100,000 | 80,100,000 | 22,100,000 | 33,800,000 | 24,300,000 | 22,500,000 | 21,000,000 |
| Share buybacks |  |  | 0.00 | 0.00 | 397,500,000 | 1,058,500,000 | 795,400,000 | 539,900,000 | 1,241,600,000 | 1,713,900,000 |
| Assets |  | 1,019,900,000 | 1,694,100,000 | 2,699,200,000 | 2,387,200,000 | 3,091,300,000 | 3,110,100,000 | 2,983,500,000 | 3,325,200,000 | 2,844,900,000 |
| Liabilities |  | 917,000,000 | 1,017,300,000 | 1,890,800,000 | 2,053,400,000 | 3,385,200,000 | 3,419,500,000 | 3,149,300,000 | 4,077,600,000 | 4,642,100,000 |
| Stockholders' equity | 122,800,000 | 102,900,000 | 676,800,000 | 808,400,000 | 333,800,000 | -293,900,000 | -309,400,000 | -165,800,000 | -752,400,000 | -1,797,200,000 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 352,700,000 | 430,000,000 | 519,300,000 | 551,300,000 | 314,900,000 | 533,000,000 | 232,800,000 | 614,900,000 | 1,328,300,000 | 891,300,000 |
| Free cash flow | 137,400,000 | 305,000,000 | 362,400,000 | 392,400,000 | 490,700,000 | 707,700,000 | 763,500,000 | 759,400,000 | 871,600,000 | 930,800,000 |

### Ratios

ROE and ROA use period-end equity/assets. Liabilities / equity uses total liabilities divided by stockholders' equity. Current ratio uses current assets divided by current liabilities when both are reported.

| Metric | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Net margin | -24.88% | -10.09% | -34.84% | -3.17% | -13.39% | 15.56% | 23.79% | 18.13% | 17.75% | 20.17% |
| Operating margin | -22.90% | -10.27% | -35.50% | -4.85% | -14.47% | 12.72% | 7.80% | 21.53% | 19.08% | 27.33% |
| Return on assets |  | -10.95% | -28.62% | -1.95% | -10.74% | 10.86% | 17.79% | 15.20% | 13.60% | 17.87% |
| Current ratio |  | 0.70 | 1.45 | 1.23 | 1.13 | 1.57 | 1.25 | 1.26 | 1.44 | 0.63 |

## As-reported value updates

No tracked differences above grepcent's stated thresholds and capped precision rule were found between the earliest XBRL-filed value and the value currently on file for the standardized annual metrics grepcent tracks.


## Quarterly

Quarterly standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-08-07. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001467623.json.

Flow metrics use discrete quarter-length periods from 10-Q/10-Q/A filings. Q4 revenue and net income are derived only when annual FY and nine-month YTD facts exist for the same fiscal year; derived Q4 values are labeled. EPS Q4 is not derived.

| Quarter | End date | Revenue | Net income | Diluted EPS | Method |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 2022-Q3 | 2022-09-30 |  |  | 0.23 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2023-Q1 | 2023-03-31 |  |  | 0.20 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2023-Q2 | 2023-06-30 |  |  | 0.13 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2023-Q3 | 2023-09-30 | 633,000,000 | 114,100,000 | 0.33 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2023-Q4 | 2023-12-31 | 635,000,000 | 227,300,000 |  | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD |
| 2024-Q1 | 2024-03-31 | 631,300,000 | 132,300,000 | 0.39 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q2 | 2024-06-30 | 634,500,000 | 110,500,000 | 0.34 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q3 | 2024-09-30 | 638,800,000 | 106,700,000 | 0.34 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q4 | 2024-12-31 | 643,600,000 | 102,800,000 |  | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD |
| 2025-Q1 | 2025-03-31 | 624,700,000 | 150,300,000 | 0.51 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q2 | 2025-06-30 | 625,700,000 | 125,600,000 | 0.45 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q3 | 2025-09-30 | 634,400,000 | 123,800,000 | 0.47 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q4 | 2025-12-31 | 636,200,000 | 108,700,000 |  | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD |
| 2026-Q1 | 2026-03-31 | 629,500,000 | 114,500,000 | 0.48 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2026-Q2 | 2026-06-30 | 631,500,000 | 95,800,000 | 0.42 | reported discrete quarter |

## Filed narrative (10-K & 10-Q)

## Business

Verbatim Item 1 Business section from DBX's latest 10-K: [/company/DBX/business/](/company/DBX/business/).

## Risk Factors

Verbatim Item 1A Risk Factors from DBX's latest 10-K: [/company/DBX/risk-factors/](/company/DBX/risk-factors/).

## Latest quarter (10-Q)

Latest 10-Q source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762326000049/dbx-20260630.htm

Extracted structurally from real Item 2 body heading to real Item 3/4 boundary.
Confidence: high
Filing date: 2026-08-07
Report date: 2026-06-30

ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K. As discussed in the section titled “Forward-Looking Statements,” the following discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below and those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” under Part II, Item 1A in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in our Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our fiscal year ends December 31.

Overview

Our modern economy runs on knowledge. Today, knowledge lives in the cloud as digital content, and Dropbox is where businesses and individuals can create, access, and share this content globally. We serve more than 700 million registered users across approximately 180 countries.

Since our founding in 2007, our market opportunity has grown as we’ve expanded from keeping files in sync to keeping teams in sync. In a world where using technology at work can be fragmented and distracting, Dropbox makes it easy to focus on the work that matters.

By solving these universal problems, we’ve become invaluable to our users. The popularity of our platform allows us to scale efficiently. We’ve built a thriving global business with 18.19 million paying users.

Our Subscription Plans

We generate revenue from individuals, families, teams, and organizations by selling subscriptions to our platform, which serve the varying needs of our diverse customer base. Our subscriptions include individual licenses through our Plus, Simple, Professional or Essentials plans, or multiple licenses through our Family plan or our Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus and Enterprise team plans. We also offer Dash, our AI-powered universal search tool, which we offer to teams at an additional cost. Each team or family represents a separately billed deployment that is managed through a single administrative dashboard. Teams must have a minimum of three users, but can also have more than tens of thousands of users. Families can have up to six users. Customers can choose between an annual or monthly plan, with a small number of large organizations on multi-year plans. A majority of our customers opt for our annual plans, which are offered at a discount compared to our monthly plans, although we have seen and may continue to see an increase in customers opting for our monthly plans. We typically bill our customers at the beginning of their respective terms and recognize revenue ratably over the term of the subscription period. International customers can pay in U.S. dollars or a select number of foreign currencies.

Our premium subscription plans, such as Professional and Advanced, provide more functionality than our other subscription plans and have higher per user prices. Our team subscription plans offer robust capabilities for businesses, and the vast majority of Dropbox Business teams purchase our Standard or Advanced subscription plans. While our Enterprise subscription plan offers more opportunities for customization, companies can subscribe to any of these team plans for their business needs.

We offer FormSwift, our cloud-based service that gives individuals and businesses a simple solution to create, complete, edit, and save critical business forms and agreements. We offer only monthly subscriptions based on their individual or business needs. We typically bill FormSwift customers at the beginning of their respective terms and recognize revenue ratably over the subscription period. FormSwift primarily sells within the United States, and the majority of its sales are in U.S. dollars. We made the strategic decision to significantly reduce investments in FormSwift at the beginning of 2025 and plan to wind down operations by the end of 2026, which has negatively impacted our annual recurring revenue ("ARR"), revenue and paying users.

We also offer DocSend as our secure document sharing and analytics solution. DocSend offers paid subscription plans, including a Personal plan designed for individuals and Standard, Advanced, Advanced Data Rooms and Enterprise plans designed for business users and teams. Similar to Dropbox plans, pricing of DocSend's plans is based on the number of licenses purchased. Customers can choose between an annual or monthly plan, with a small number of large organizations on multi-year plans. We typically bill DocSend customers at the beginning of their respective terms and recognize revenue ratably over the subscription period. DocSend primarily sells within the United States, and the majority of sales are in U.S. dollars.

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We also offer Dropbox Sign, as our e-signature solution. Dropbox Sign has several product lines, and the pricing and revenue generated from each product line varies. Product lines are primarily priced based on the number of licenses purchased (similar to Dropbox plans), while some are priced based on a customer’s transaction volume. Depending on the product purchased, teams must have a minimum number of licenses, but can also have hundreds of users. Customers can choose between an annual or monthly plan, with a small number of large organizations on multi-year plans. We typically bill Dropbox Sign customers at the beginning of their respective terms and recognize revenue ratably over the subscription period. Dropbox Sign products are offered globally, with pricing primarily denominated in U.S. dollars.

Our Customers

Our customer base is highly diversified, and in the period presented, no customer accounted for more than 1% of our revenue. Our customers include individuals, families, teams, and organizations of all sizes, from freelancers and small businesses to Fortune 100 companies. They work across a wide range of industries, including professional services, technology, media, education, industrials, consumer and retail, and financial services. Within companies, our platform is used by all types of teams and functions, including sales, marketing, product, design, engineering, finance, legal, and human resources.

Our Business Model

Drive new signups

We acquire users efficiently and at relatively low costs through word-of-mouth referrals, direct in-product referrals, and sharing of content. Anyone can create a Dropbox account for free through our website or app and be up and running in minutes. These users often share and collaborate with other non-registered users, attracting new signups into our network.

Increase conversion of registered users to our paid subscription plans

We generate over 90% of our revenue from self-serve channels—users who purchase a subscription through our app or website. To grow our recurring revenue base, we actively encourage our registered users to convert to one of our paid plans based on the functionality that best suits their needs. We do this via in-product prompts and notifications, time-limited free trials of paid subscription plans, email campaigns, and lifecycle marketing. We use these tactics in combination with the goal of generating increased recurring revenues from our existing paying user base.

Upgrade and expand existing customers

We offer a range of paid subscription plans, from Plus, Simple, Professional, and Essentials for individuals to Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus and Enterprise for teams. We analyze usage patterns within our network and run hundreds of targeted marketing campaigns to encourage paying users to upgrade their plans. We prompt individual subscribers who collaborate with others on Dropbox to purchase our Standard, Advanced or Business, and Business Plus plans for a better team experience, and we also encourage existing Dropbox Business teams to purchase additional licenses or to upgrade to premium subscription plans. We also aim to offer additional products that expand our content collaboration capabilities, such as through our acquisitions of Dropbox Sign, DocSend and Reclaim.

Recent Developments

Impact of Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Factors on our Business

Our overall performance depends in part on worldwide economic and geopolitical conditions and their impact on customer behavior. Uncertain economic conditions including inflation, fluctuations in interest rates, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, impacts of tariffs and retaliatory actions, geopolitical issues, changes in government administration policy positions, and other conditions may adversely impact our results of operations and financial performance.

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, we outperformed expectations, with stronger customer retention and engagement, particularly across Individual plans. Teams performance showed signs of positive growth, supported by continued progress on pricing and packaging simplification, a more unified checkout experience, credit card trials, and onboarding and activation improvements. While these initiatives are beginning to yield positive results, we remain cautious in our outlook as these efforts are still in the early stages of adoption and impact.

Due to our subscription-based business model, any impact of the current macroeconomic environment on our business, particularly as a result of changes in our customer behavior, may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future

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periods, if at all. For a further discussion of the potential impacts of the macroeconomic environment on our business, see “Risk Factors” included in Part II, Item 1A. of this report.

Key Business Metrics

We review a number of operating and financial metrics, including the following key metrics to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans, and make strategic decisions.

Total annual recurring revenue

We primarily focus on total annual recurring revenue (“Total ARR”) as the key indicator of the trajectory of our business performance. Total ARR represents the amount of revenue that we expect to recur annually, enables measurement of the progress of our business initiatives, and serves as an indicator of future growth. In addition, Total ARR is less subject to variations in short-term trends that may not appropriately reflect the health of our business; however, the changes in ARR throughout the year could be subject to seasonality. Total ARR is a performance metric and should be viewed independently of revenue and deferred revenue, and is not intended to be a substitute for, or combined with, any of these items.

Total ARR consists of contributions from all of our revenue streams, including subscriptions and add-ons. We calculate Total ARR as the number of users who have active paid licenses for access to our platform as of the end of the period, multiplied by their annualized subscription price. We first include ARR related to acquired companies in our total ARR in the period of the acquisition. We adjust the exchange rates used to calculate Total ARR on an annual basis at the beginning of each fiscal year.

Our ARR fluctuates and may decrease in some periods as compared to prior periods. In the near term, ARR has experienced and may continue to experience a slight decline, primarily reflecting our strategic decision to significantly reduce investments in FormSwift at the beginning of 2025 as well as our plan to wind down operations by the end of 2026.

Total ARR increased for the period ended

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## Latest 10-K MD&A (excerpt)

Latest 10-K Item 7 source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762326000008/dbx-20251231.htm
Complete FY 2025 MD&A: /company/DBX/mda/fy2025/

Extracted from a substantive MD&A body after the formal Item 7 span was a TOC or reference stub.
Confidence: high
Filing date: 2026-02-20
Report date: 2025-12-31

Overview

Our modern economy runs on knowledge. Today, knowledge lives in the cloud as digital content, and Dropbox is where businesses and individuals can create, access, and share this content globally. We serve more than 700 million registered users across approximately 180 countries.

Since our founding in 2007, our market opportunity grew as we’ve expanded from keeping files in sync to keeping teams in sync. In a world where using technology at work can be fragmented and distracting, Dropbox makes it easy to focus on the work that matters.

By solving these universal problems, we’ve become invaluable to our users. The popularity of our platform allows us to scale efficiently. We’ve built a thriving global business with 18.08 million paying users.

Our Subscription Plans

We generate revenue from individuals, families, teams, and organizations by selling subscriptions to our platform, which serve the varying needs of our diverse customer base. Our subscriptions include individual licenses through our Plus, Simple, Professional or Essentials plans, or multiple licenses through our Family plan or our Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus and Enterprise team plans. We also offer Dash, our AI-powered universal search tool, which we offer to teams at an additional cost. Each team or family represents a separately billed deployment that is managed through a single administrative dashboard. Teams must have a minimum of three users, but can also have more than tens of thousands of users. Families can have up to six users. Customers can choose between an annual or monthly plan, with a small number of large organizations on multi-year plans. A majority of our customers opt for our annual plan, although we have seen and may continue to see an increase in customers opting for our monthly plans. We typically bill our customers at the beginning of their respective terms and recognize revenue ratably over the term of the subscription period. International customers can pay in U.S. dollars or a select number of foreign currencies.

Our premium subscription plans, such as Professional and Advanced, provide more functionality than our other subscription plans and have higher per user prices. Our team subscription plans offer robust capabilities for businesses, and the vast majority of Dropbox Business teams purchase our Standard or Advanced subscription plans. While our Enterprise subscription plan offers more opportunities for customization, companies can subscribe to any of these team plans for their business needs.

We offer FormSwift, our cloud-based service that gives individuals and businesses a simple solution to create, complete, edit, and save critical business forms and agreements. Customers can choose between annual or monthly subscriptions based on their individual or business needs. We typically bill FormSwift customers at the beginning of their respective terms and recognize revenue ratably over the subscription period. FormSwift primarily sells within the United States, and the majority of its sales are in U.S. dollars. We made the strategic decision to significantly reduce investments in FormSwift at the beginning of 2025, which has negatively impacted our annual recurring revenue ("ARR"), revenue and paying users in 2025.

We also offer DocSend as our secure document sharing and analytics solution. DocSend offers paid subscription plans, including a Personal plan designed for individuals and Standard, Advanced, Advanced Data Rooms and Enterprise plans designed for business users and teams. Similar to Dropbox plans, pricing of DocSend's plans is based on the number of licenses purchased. Customers can choose between an annual or monthly plan, with a small number of large organizations on multi-year plans. We typically bill DocSend customers at the beginning of their respective terms and recognize revenue ratably over the subscription period. DocSend primarily sells within the United States, and the majority of sales are in U.S. dollars.

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We also offer Dropbox Sign, as our e-signature solution. Dropbox Sign has several product lines, and the pricing and revenue generated from each product line varies. Product lines are primarily priced based on the number of licenses purchased (similar to Dropbox plans), while some are priced based on a customer’s transaction volume. Depending on the product purchased, teams must have a minimum number of licenses, but can also have hundreds of users. Customers can choose between an annual or monthly plan, with a small number of large organizations on multi-year plans. We typically bill Dropbox Sign customers at the beginning of their respective terms and recognize revenue ratably over the subscription period. Dropbox Sign products are offered globally, with pricing primarily denominated in U.S. dollars.

Our Business Model

Drive new signups

We acquire users efficiently and at relatively low costs through word-of-mouth referrals, direct in-product referrals, and sharing of content. Anyone can create a Dropbox account for free through our website or app and be up and running in minutes. These users often share and collaborate with other non-registered users, attracting new signups into our network.

Increase conversion of registered users to our paid subscription plans

We generate over 90% of our revenue from self-serve channels—users who purchase a subscription through our app or website. To grow our recurring revenue base, we actively encourage our registered users to convert to one of our paid plans based on the functionality that best suits their needs. We do this via in-product prompts and notifications, time-limited free trials of paid subscription plans, email campaigns, and lifecycle marketing. We use these tactics in combination with the goal of generating increased recurring revenues from our existing user base.

Upgrade and expand existing customers

We offer a range of paid subscription plans, from Plus, Simple, Professional, and Essentials for individuals to Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus and Enterprise for teams. We analyze usage patterns within our network and run hundreds of targeted marketing campaigns to encourage paying users to upgrade their plans. We prompt individual subscribers who collaborate with others on Dropbox to purchase our Standard, Advanced or Business, and Business Plus plans for a better team experience, and we also encourage existing Dropbox Business teams to purchase additional licenses or to upgrade to premium subscription plans. We also aim to offer additional products that expand our content collaboration capabilities, such as through our acquisitions of Dropbox Sign, DocSend and Reclaim.

Recent Developments

Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on our Business

Our overall performance depends in part on worldwide economic and geopolitical conditions and their impact on customer behavior. Uncertain economic conditions including inflation, fluctuations in interest rates, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, impacts of tariffs and retaliatory actions, geopolitical issues, changes in government administration policy positions, and other conditions may adversely impact our results of operations and financial performance.

During the year ended December 31, 2025, our overall performance exceeded expectations, with business trends reflecting steady execution amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty. We saw better than expected improvements in customer retention and engagement, particularly across our Individual plans. While Teams performance showed signs of stabilization, it continues to be affected by cautious customer spend amid broader macroeconomic uncertainty. Additionally, DocSend delivered strong growth, while Sign modestly exceeded expectations.

Due to our subscription-based business model, any impact of the current macroeconomic environment on our business, particularly as a result of changes in our customer behavior, may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods, if at all. For a further discussion of the potential impacts of the macroeconomic environment on our business, see “Risk Factors” included in Part I, Item 1A. of this report.

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Key Business Metrics

We review a number of operating and financial metrics, including the following key metrics to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans, and make strategic decisions.

Total annual recurring revenue

We primarily focus on total annual recurring revenue (“Total ARR”) as the key indicator of the trajectory of our business performance. Total ARR represents the amount of revenue that we expect to recur annually, enables measurement of the progress of our business initiatives, and serves as an indicator of future growth. In addition, Total ARR is less subject to variations in short-term trends that may not appropriately reflect the health of our business; however, the changes in ARR throughout the year could be subject to seasonality. Total ARR is a performance metric and should be viewed independently of revenue and deferred revenue, and is not intended to be a substitute for, or combined with, any of these items.

Total ARR consists of contributions from all of our revenue streams, including subscriptions and add-ons. We calculate Total ARR as the number of users who have active paid licenses for access to our platform as of the end of the period, multiplied by their annualized subscription price. We first include ARR related to acquired companies in our total ARR in the period of the acquisition. We adjust the exchange rates used to calculate Total ARR on an annual basis at the beginning of each fiscal year.

Our ARR fluctuates and may decrease in some periods as compared to prior periods. In the near term, ARR has experienced and may continue to experience a slight decline, reflecting our strategic decision to significantly reduce investments in FormSwift at the beginning of 2025 as well as our plan to wind down operations by the end of 2026.

Total ARR decreased for the period ended December 31, 2025, compared to the period ended December 31, 2024 primarily driven by our strategic decision to significantly reduce our investment in FormSwift at the beginning of 2025 and a challenging operating environment across our Teams plans, partially offset by growth in Individuals plans.

The below tables set forth our Total ARR using the exchange rates set at the beginning of the applicable year, as well as on a constant currency basis relative to the exchange rates used in 2025.

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Revaluing our ending Total ARR for fiscal 2025 using exchange rates set at the beginning of fiscal 2026, Total ARR at the end of fiscal 2025 would be $2,562 million.

Paying users

We define paying users as the number of users who have active paid licenses for access to our platform as of the end of the period. One person would count as multiple paying users if the person had more than one active license. For example, a 50-person Dropbox Enterprise team would count as 50 paying users, and an individual Dropbox Plus user would count as one paying user. If that individual Dropbox Plus user was also part of the 50-person Dropbox Enterprise team, we would count the individual as two paying users. We first include paying users related to acquired companies among our paying users in the period of the acquisition.

For DocSend, FormSwift and Reclaim, we define paying users as the number of users who have active paid licenses for access to our platform as of the end of the period.

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Read the full FY 2025 MD&A: /company/DBX/mda/fy2025/
All MD&A years: /company/DBX/mda/


## MD&A history

Prior-year 10-K MD&A spans are extracted from SEC filings with the same bounded parser used for the latest filing. Each year's full verbatim text is on its own sub-page.

- [FY 2024 MD&A](/company/DBX/mda/fy2024/): filed 2025-02-21; accession 0001467623-25-000011 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762325000011/dbx-20241231.htm)
- [FY 2023 MD&A](/company/DBX/mda/fy2023/): filed 2024-02-16; accession 0001467623-24-000008 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762324000008/dbx-20231231.htm)
- [FY 2022 MD&A](/company/DBX/mda/fy2022/): filed 2023-02-23; accession 0001467623-23-000012 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762323000012/dbx-20221231.htm)
- [FY 2021 MD&A](/company/DBX/mda/fy2021/): filed 2022-02-18; accession 0001467623-22-000015 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762322000015/dbx-20211231.htm)




## Macro cross-references

Indicators mapped to this company's SIC classification (industry 7372 Services-Prepackaged Software) by grepcent's deterministic macro-sector crosswalk. A navigational mapping, not a statistical or causal claim.

- [PAYEMS](/indicator/PAYEMS/): All Employees, Total Nonfarm
- [CES0500000003](/indicator/CES0500000003/): Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private
- [DGS10](/indicator/DGS10/): Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity

Macro-to-micro threads including this sector: [US labor market](/thread/us-labor-market/), [Growth & output](/thread/growth-output/), [Government finances](/thread/government-finances/), [Sector employment](/thread/sector-employment/).

All macro indicators: /indicators/


## For LLMs & downloads

Markdown twin: /company/DBX.md · JSON record: /company/DBX.json · verified financials: /company/DBX/financials.json / /company/DBX/financials.csv · machine TOC for the whole site: /llms.txt