“Comparison of the six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 Revenue Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 $ Change % Change (In millions) Revenue $ 1,261.0 $ 1,250.4 $ 10.6 0.8 % Revenue increased $10.6 million or 0.8% during the six months ended June 30, 2026, a…”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
Dropbox, Inc.
DBX
You’ve read what changed. Here’s whether the market is confirming it.
Market read
Dropbox, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 36 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 20 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 0.9% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 0.8 percentage points.
- Interest expense increased $22.1M for the three months ended March 31, 2026, primarily due to interest related to the term loan facility now fully drawn.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if DBX's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 36 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 20 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 0.9% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 0.8 percentage points.
- Net income decreased 23.7% versus the comparable filing period.
- Net margin fell 4.9 percentage points.
- Interest expense increased $22.1M for the three months ended March 31, 2026, primarily due to interest related to the term loan facility now fully drawn.
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?
- Operating margin changed +8.3 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +2.4 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Foreign exchange has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
- Latest annual revenue changed -1.1% year over year.
- Product pipeline and R&D has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- P/E is 59% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 24% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
35.55Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Research and development Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 $ Change % Change (In millions) Research and development $ 372.3 $ 362.8 $ 9.5 2.6 % Research and development expenses increased $9.5 million or 2.6% during the six months ended June 30, 2026, as co…”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
“For the six months ended June 30, 2026, net cash provided by investing activities was $86.1 million, which primarily related to $89.5 million in net investment activity inflows, driven by maturities of short-term investments, offset by cash paid for capital e…”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
“Interest expense, net Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 $ Change % Change (In millions) Interest expense, net $ (86.7) $ (33.2) $ (53.5) 161.1 % Interest expense, net increased by $53.5 million during the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared to the s…”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 3.8× · EV/sales 3.5×. 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 11 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 DBX. 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.
Latest filing assessment
The latest filing shows material pressure
10-Q filed 2026-08-07 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-08.
Capital and cash conversion
Reported investment and cash context
- Capital spending YoY
- +114.3%
- Capital spending / revenue
- +0.4%
- Free-cash-flow margin
- +34.8%
- FCF margin change
- +1.8 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
- Revenue increased 0.9% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
- Operating margin fell 0.8 percentage points.
- Net income decreased 23.7% versus the comparable filing period.
- Net margin fell 4.9 percentage points.
Filing receipts
“Our gross margin decreased during the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025, primarily due to a 5.3% increase in our cost of revenue, partially offset by a 0.8% increase in revenue during the period, as described above.”
“Interest expense, net Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 $ Change % Change (In millions) Interest expense, net $ (50.0) $ (18.6) $ (31.4) 168.8 % Interest expense, net increased by $31.4 million during the three months ended June 30, 2026, as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2025, primarily due to an increase in interest expense related to our term loan facility now that it is fully drawn.”
“Interest expense, net Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 $ Change % Change (In millions) Interest expense, net $ (86.7) $ (33.2) $ (53.5) 161.1 % Interest expense, net increased by $53.5 million during the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025, primarily due to an increase in interest expense related to our term loan facility now that it is fully drawn.”
Point-in-time filing assessment published from the live pipeline.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind DBX
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
CRMSalesforce, Inc.partnerMay 8, 2026 ▾
“Products like Dropbox Backup, Dropbox Sign, DocSend, Dropbox Dash ("Dash"), Dropbox Replay, Dropbox Transfer, and Reclaim.ai, Inc.”
MSFTMicrosoft CorporationpartnerMay 8, 2026 ▾
“We also integrate seamlessly with other products, integrating with partners including Microsoft, Zoom, Slack (now part of Salesforce), BetterCloud, Atlassian, Google and a variety of productivity, collaboration, data management, and security vendors.”
Depended on by
BOXBox, 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.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
DBX is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Enterprise Software. 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.