“Interest Expense Three Months Ended Six Months Ended July 31, Change July 31, Change (dollars in thousands) 2026 2025 $ % 2026 2025 $ % Interest expense $ 2,404 $ 2,680 $ (276 ) -10 % $ 4,805 $ 5,376 $ (571 ) -11 % The $0.3 million and $0.6 million decreases…”10-Q · Aug 26, 2026 ↗
Box, Inc.
BOX
Market read
Box, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 36 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 9 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Research and development expense increased with a 6% headcount increase, showing continued investment in the product base.
- Interest expense declined after convertible notes matured in January 2026, reducing financing costs in the latest six-month comparison.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if BOX's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 36 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 9 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Research and development expense increased with a 6% headcount increase, showing continued investment in the product base.
- Interest expense declined after convertible notes matured in January 2026, reducing financing costs in the latest six-month comparison.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +8.0% year over year.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 3.09x in the latest annual period.
- Foreign exchange has repeated favorable evidence across 6 filings.
- Net margin changed -12.6 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Data center and AI demand has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- P/E is 140% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 9, 2026
34.47Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“The increases were partially offset by the weakening of foreign currency exchange rates, which negatively impacted our revenue growth rates by approximately 170 basis points and 60 basis points for the three and six months ended July 31, 2026, respectively.”10-Q · Aug 26, 2026 ↗
“The $10.3 million, or 7%, increase in research and development expense for the six months ended July 31, 2026 was primarily due to increases of $10.2 million and $3.2 million in employee related costs and stock-based compensation expense, respectively, driven…”10-Q · Aug 26, 2026 ↗
“This increase was partially offset by a decrease of $4.8 million in subscription software contract expense and decreases of $4.1 million in bandwidth and data center related expense and $1.3 million in contractor related costs due to the completion of our mig…”10-K · Mar 9, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 4.4× · EV/sales 4.4×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 9 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for BOX. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for BOX. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind BOX
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
DBXDropbox, Inc.competitorMay 27, 2026 ▾
“In the enterprise file sync and share market, our primary competitors include, but are not limited to, Microsoft (OneDrive), Google (Drive) and, to a lesser extent, Dropbox.”
MSFTMicrosoft CorporationcompetitorMay 27, 2026 ▾
“In the content management market, our primary competitors include, but are not limited to, Microsoft (SharePoint) and OpenText (Documentum).”
CRMSalesforce, Inc.partnerMar 9, 2026 ▾
“We offer more than 1,500 pre-built integrations with leading enterprise technology providers, including Adobe, Apple, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Guidewire, IBM, Microsoft, Okta, Oracle-NetSuite, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, USDM, Workda…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
BOX is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Software - Application. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.