“While we believe global demand for our platform will continue to increase as international market awareness of Zoom grows, our ability to conduct our operations internationally will require considerable management attention and resources and is subject to the…”10-Q · Aug 26, 2026 ↗
Zoom Communications, Inc.
ZM
Market read
Zoom Communications, 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 16 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 5.5% versus the comparable filing period.
- Third-party hosting costs rose as platform usage increased, including AI-related consumption from new products, pressuring operating margin.
- Zoom increased R&D spending for continued AI innovation while six-month revenue growth remained 4.9%.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if ZM'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 16 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 5.5% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 4.5 percentage points.
- Net income increased 67.2% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Third-party hosting costs rose as platform usage increased, including AI-related consumption from new products, pressuring operating margin.
- Zoom increased R&D spending for continued AI innovation while six-month revenue growth remained 4.9%.
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 +5.6 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +17.4 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Foreign exchange has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- EV/sales is 33% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
95.44Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“The decrease was primarily due to a $24.0 million decrease in interest income from cash and marketable securities due to lower interest rates and investment balances, and a $9.1 million unfavorable impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates.”10-Q · Aug 26, 2026 ↗
“While we believe global demand for our platform will continue to increase as international market awareness of Zoom grows, our ability to conduct our operations internationally will require considerable management attention and resources and is subject to the…”10-Q · May 22, 2026 ↗
“Operating Expenses Research and Development Six Months Ended July 31, 2026 2025 % Change (in thousands) Research and development $ 470,423 $ 411,863 14.2 % Research and development expense for the six months ended July 31, 2026 increased by $58.6 million, or…”10-Q · Aug 26, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 6.0× · EV/sales 5.8×. 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 10 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 ZM. 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 · baseline
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-05-22 against the comparable filing from 2025-05-23.
What improved
- Revenue increased 5.5% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 4.5 percentage points.
- Net income increased 67.2% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“Financing Activities Net cash used in financing activities of $394.1 million for the three months ended April 30, 2026 was primarily due to cash paid for repurchases of common stock of $361.7 million and taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards of $62.2 million, partially offset by proceeds from employee equity transactions to be remitted to employees and tax authorities, net, of $29.2 million.”
“Investing Activities Net cash used in investing activities of $480.7 million for the three months ended April 30, 2026 was primarily driven by net purchases of marketable securities of $314.1 million, purchases of strategic investments of $145.7 million, which included an additional $46.0 million investment in preferred stock of Anthropic, and purchases of property and equipment of $21.1 million.”
“Our net dollar expansion rate includes the increase in user adoption within our Enterprise customers, as our subscription revenue is primarily driven by the number of paid licenses within a customer and the purchase of additional products, and compares our subscription revenue from the same set of Enterprise customers across comparable periods.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind ZM
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
MSFTMicrosoft CorporationpartnerFeb 27, 2026 ▾
“Zoom Meetings integrates with tools created by companies such as Atlassian, Box, Dropbox, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Slack.”
AAPLApple Inc.competitorMay 22, 2026 ▾
“We face competition from legacy web-based meeting services providers, including Cisco Webex and GoTo, bundled productivity suite providers with communications offerings, including Microsoft 365 (with Teams) and Google Workspace (with Meet), and UCaaS and lega…”
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.competitorMay 22, 2026 ▾
“We face competition from legacy web-based meeting services providers, including Cisco Webex and GoTo, bundled productivity suite providers with communications offerings, including Microsoft 365 (with Teams) and Google Workspace (with Meet), and UCaaS and lega…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
ZM 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.