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BZFDW

BuzzFeed, Inc.

BZFDW

BuzzFeed, Inc. • NASDAQ
$0.03 ▲ 2.74% (+0.00)
Market Cap $1.12 M
52w High $0.07
52w Low $0.03
Dividend Yield 0%
P/E 0.18
Volume 4
Outstanding Shares 37.19M

Income Statement

Period Revenue Operating Expense Net Income Net Profit Margin Earnings Per Share EBITDA
Q3-2025 $46.317M ▼ $22.721M ▲ $-7.435M ▲ -16.052% ▲ $-0.2 ▲ $-2.842M ▲
Q2-2025 $46.394M ▲ $21.873M ▼ $-10.82M ▲ -23.322% ▲ $-0.284 ▲ $-4.674M ▲
Q1-2025 $36.021M ▲ $26.271M ▲ $-12.671M ▼ -35.177% ▼ $-0.328 ▼ $-6.625M ▼
Q4-2024 $33.88M ▼ $20.663M ▼ $31.031M ▲ 91.591% ▲ $-0.1 ▼ $-4.929M ▼
Q3-2024 $64.32M $27.044M $2.089M 3.248% $0.055 $10.903M

Balance Statement

Period Cash & Short-term Total Assets Total Liabilities Total Equity
Q3-2025 $34.292M ▲ $211.211M ▲ $134.555M ▲ $75.866M ▼
Q2-2025 $29.706M ▼ $210.354M ▲ $126.454M ▲ $81.127M ▼
Q1-2025 $34.326M ▼ $203.249M ▼ $106.957M ▼ $93.796M ▼
Q4-2024 $38.648M ▼ $221.398M ▼ $114.456M ▼ $104.774M ▲
Q3-2024 $53.723M $276.543M $202.473M $71.68M

Cash Flow Statement

Period Net Income Cash From Operations Cash From Investing Cash From Financing Net Change Free Cash Flow
Q3-2025 $-7.426M ▲ $1.736M ▲ $-4.131M ▼ $7.086M ▼ $4.586M ▲ $-2.395M ▲
Q2-2025 $-10.627M ▲ $-10.099M ▼ $-3.667M ▼ $8.899M ▲ $-4.62M ▼ $-10.545M ▼
Q1-2025 $-12.461M ▼ $1.344M ▲ $-3.449M ▼ $-2.454M ▲ $-4.322M ▲ $-2.172M ▲
Q4-2024 $-2.872M ▼ $-4.555M ▼ $79.525M ▲ $-89.4M ▼ $-15.075M ▼ $-7.53M ▼
Q3-2024 $2.512M $9.579M $-3.171M $1.196M $8.262M $6.408M

Revenue by Products

Product Q4-2024Q1-2025Q2-2025Q3-2025
Advertising
Advertising
 $50.00M ▲$20.00M ▼$20.00M ▲$20.00M ▲
Commerce And Other
Commerce And Other
 $0 ▲$10.00M ▲$10.00M ▲$20.00M ▲
Content
Content
 $0 ▲$0 ▲$10.00M ▲$10.00M ▲

Five-Year Company Overview

Income Statement

Income Statement BuzzFeed’s income statement shows a company that has been shrinking and restructuring. Revenue has trended down over the last few years after an earlier peak, suggesting pressure on the core digital media business and possibly a pullback from some lines of activity. Profitability has been weak: operating results have stayed in the red, and net losses have been recurring, although the size of those losses has recently narrowed. That pattern points to cost-cutting and tighter focus helping, but on a smaller revenue base. Overall, this looks like a business still searching for a stable and scalable profit model rather than one already operating at steady, healthy margins.

Balance Sheet

Balance Sheet The balance sheet points to a leaner and less flexible financial position than a few years ago. Total assets have come down from prior highs, which likely reflects divestments, write-downs, or simply less investment as the business retrenches. Cash is modest and has not been building, which limits the cushion to absorb ongoing losses or fund big new initiatives. Debt rose earlier in the period and has since been reduced, which is a positive step for risk, but overall equity has also eroded, meaning the capital base is thinner. In simple terms, the company still has a positive net worth, but the margin for error looks narrower than in the past.

Cash Flow

Cash Flow Cash flow has generally hovered around breakeven to mildly negative, with most recent years showing small but persistent cash outflows from running the business. Free cash flow has also tended to be negative, although not dramatically so, helped by relatively light spending on equipment and long-term projects. This pattern suggests the business is not rapidly burning cash, but it is also not consistently generating its own fuel for growth. Unless operating cash flow moves clearly into positive territory, the company will remain dependent on continued cost control, new revenue streams, or external financing to support its plans.

Competitive Edge

Competitive Edge BuzzFeed’s competitive position rests on brand recognition, cultural relevance, and audience reach, but it operates in one of the toughest corners of media. Well-known properties like BuzzFeed, Tasty, and Complex give it strong name recognition, especially with younger audiences, and years of experience in viral content and data-driven storytelling remain differentiators. However, the company faces intense competition from social platforms, streaming services, and independent creators, while also being exposed to shifts in algorithms and digital ad budgets. The pivot toward higher-margin programmatic advertising and affiliate commerce aims to improve resilience, but the competitive landscape is crowded and fast-moving, so any advantage must be constantly renewed.

Innovation and R&D

Innovation and R&D On the innovation side, BuzzFeed is clearly leaning hard into AI and new experience-led products. It is using AI to personalize quizzes and content, accelerate creative production, and power shoppable recommendations inside articles through partnerships like Shopsense AI. Vertical brands such as Tasty are experimenting with AI-based tools like recipe assistants, showing an effort to deepen engagement rather than just chase page views. The most ambitious bet is BF Island, an AI-native social platform positioned as a more joyful, less algorithmically harsh alternative to traditional social media, with a freemium model planned. These initiatives show creativity and a willingness to experiment with new formats and revenue models, but they are still early and unproven at scale, so their ultimate impact on growth and profitability is highly uncertain.

Summary

BuzzFeed appears to be a media company in the middle of a difficult transition. The traditional advertising-led content model has come under pressure, leading to shrinking revenues and several years of losses, even as cost actions have begun to narrow those losses. The balance sheet and cash flows indicate limited but not exhausted financial flexibility, with small ongoing cash burn and a thinner capital base than in the past. Against this backdrop, the company is betting on AI, commerce, and new platforms like BF Island to rebuild growth and improve margins. The core strengths remain its brands, cultural relevance, and audience insights, but execution risk is high, competition is intense, and the path from innovative ideas to durable, profitable scale is still to be demonstrated.