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APP (AppLovin) Operating Income : $2,386 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is AppLovin Operating Income?

AppLovin's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $852 Mil. Its Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $2,386 Mil.

Operating Margin % is calculated as Operating Income divided by its Revenue. AppLovin's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $852 Mil. AppLovin's Revenue for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $1,484 Mil. Therefore, AppLovin's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 57.44%.

AppLovin's 5-Year average Growth Rate for Operating Margin % was 0.00% per year.

Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition. AppLovin's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 77.15%. AppLovin's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 359.10%.


AppLovin Operating Income Historical Data

The historical data trend for AppLovin's Operating Income can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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AppLovin Operating Income Chart

AppLovin Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Operating Income
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 20.63 150.02 -47.79 648.21 1,873.46

AppLovin Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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AppLovin Operating Income Calculation

Operating Income, is the profit a company earned through operations. All expenses, including cash expenses such as cost of goods sold (COGS), research & development, wages, and non-cash expenses, such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, have been deducted from the sales.

Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2,386 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


AppLovin  (NAS:APP) Operating Income Explanation

1. Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

AppLovin's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

ROC % (Q: Mar. 2025 )
=NOPAT/Average Invested Capital
=Operating Income * ( 1 - Tax Rate % )/( (Invested Capital (Q: Dec. 2024 ) + Invested Capital (Q: Mar. 2025 ))/ count )
=3409.656 * ( 1 - 6.79% )/( (4219.671 + 4019.077)/ 2 )
=3178.1403576/4119.374
=77.15 %

where

Invested Capital(Q: Dec. 2024 )
=Total Assets - Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense - Excess Cash
=Total Assets - Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense - ( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities - max(0, Total Current Liabilities - Total Current Assets+Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities))
=5869.259 - 908.177 - ( 741.411 - max(0, 1057.472 - 2312.19+741.411))
=4219.671

Invested Capital(Q: Mar. 2025 )
=Total Assets - Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense - Excess Cash
=Total Assets - Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense - ( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities - max(0, Total Current Liabilities - Total Current Assets+Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities))
=5706.701 - 1136.6 - ( 551.024 - max(0, 1409.224 - 2367.334+551.024))
=4019.077

Note: The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2025) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

AppLovin's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

ROC (Joel Greenblatt) %(Q: Mar. 2025 )
=EBIT/Average of (Net fixed Assets + Net Working Capital)
=EBIT/Average of (Property, Plant and Equipment+Net Working Capital)
     Q: Dec. 2024  Q: Mar. 2025
=EBIT/( ( (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) + (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) )/ count )
=2685.128/( ( (198.599 + max(528.121, 0)) + (161.655 + max(607.086, 0)) )/ 2 )
=2685.128/( ( 726.72 + 768.741 )/ 2 )
=2685.128/747.7305
=359.10 %

where Working Capital is:

Working Capital(Q: Dec. 2024 )
=(Accounts Receivable + Total Inventories + Other Current Assets) - (Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense + Defer. Rev. + Other Current Liabilities)
=(1414.246 + 0 + 156.533) - (908.177 + 69.839 + 64.642)
=528.121

Working Capital(Q: Mar. 2025 )
=(Accounts Receivable + Total Inventories + Other Current Assets) - (Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense + Defer. Rev. + Other Current Liabilities)
=(1577.812 + 0 + 238.498) - (1136.6 + 72.624 + 0)
=607.086

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2025) EBIT data.

3. Operating Income is also linked to Operating Margin %:

AppLovin's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %=Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2025 )/Revenue (Q: Mar. 2025 )
=852.414/1484.021
=57.44 %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

4. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the Operating Income growth rate using Operating Income per share data.


Be Aware

Compared with a company's EBITDA margin, Operating Margin can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).

If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin may decline. Often the Operating Margin declines well before the company's revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.

For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokia's Operating Margin had already been in decline since 2002, although its earnings per share were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).

Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important screening filter for GuruFocus. GuruFocus's Buffett-Munger screener requires that the profit margin is either consistent or expanding. The Model Portfolio of the Buffett-Munger screener has outperformed the market every year since inception in 2009.


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AppLovin Business Description

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Address
1100 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 94304
AppLovin is a vertically integrated advertising technology company that acts as a demand-side platform for advertisers, a supply-side platform for publishers, and an exchange facilitating transactions between the two. About 80% of AppLovin's revenue comes from the DSP, AppDiscovery, while the remainder comes from the SSP, Max, and gaming studios, which develop mobile games. AppLovin announced in February 2025 its plans to divest from the lower-margin gaming studios to focus exclusively on the ad tech platform. AppLovin's primary tool for future growth is Axon 2, which is an ad optimizer operating within the DSP that allows advertisers to place ads according to specified return thresholds.
Executives
Vasily Shikin officer: Chief Technology Officer 1100 PAGE MILL ROAD, PALO ALTO CA 94304
Arash Adam Foroughi director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO & Chairperson 1100 PAGE MILL, PALO ALTO CA 94304
Victoria Valenzuela officer: CLO & Corp. Secretary 1100 PAGE MILL RD, PALO ALTO CA 94304-1047
Herald Y Chen director, officer: President & CFO 950 TOWER LANE, SUITE 1150, FOSTER CITY CA 94404-2127
Dawson Alyssa Harvey director 1100 PAGE MILL RD, PALO ALTO CA 94304-1974
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Katie Kihorany Jansen officer: Chief Marketing Officer 1100 PAGE MILL RD, PALO ALTO CA 94304-1047
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Kkr Group Co. Inc. 10 percent owner 30 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
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