R&D expense · 2015–2025

Snap R&D expense

$1.8B+6.0% · FY2025

Snap (SNAP) reported $1.8B in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, +6.0% year on year.

$82.2M2015$184M2016$1.5B2017$772M2018$884M2019$1.1B2020$1.6B2021$2.1B2022$1.9B2023$1.7B2024$1.8B2025
Snap — R&D expense, 2015–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$1.8B+6.0%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$1.7B−11.5%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$1.9B−9.4%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$2.1B+34.8%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$1.6B+42.1%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$1.1B+24.7%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$884M+14.4%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$772M−49.7%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$1.5B+735.6%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$184M+123.4%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$82.2M—Open →

R&D expense — Research and development expense is what the company charged to R&D in the income statement for the year. Most companies report no R&D at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the roughly 40% of filers that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2015–2025 compound annual growth +36.1%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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BibTeX

@misc{companiesranked-en-company-snap-research-and-development-expense-2026,
  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Snap R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/snap/research-and-development-expense}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001564408-26-000013 · February 5, 2026

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