Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) Revenue-to-Profit Sankey Flow & SEC XBRL Financials
Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) carries a Roarable Rating of C+ (Hold) with 68/100 RQD Confidence. The underlying business is intact, so current owners don’t need to panic-sell—but mixed big-money flow or rich pricing means new buyers can afford to wait for either a pullback or a B-or-higher upgrade.
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Multi-Year SEC EDGAR XBRL Revenue, Net Profit & Free Cash Flow Trajectory
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Gross Margin | Op Margin | Net Profit | Free Cash Flow | ROIC % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2025 | $45.18B | 48.5% | 29.5% | $10.98B | $9.46B | 32.9% |
| FY 2024 | $39.00B | 46.1% | 26.7% | $8.71B | $6.92B | 25.3% |
| FY 2023 | $33.72B | 41.5% | 20.6% | $5.41B | $6.93B | 19.6% |
| FY 2022 | $31.62B | 39.4% | 17.8% | $4.49B | $1.62B | 14.8% |
| FY 2021 | $29.70B | 41.6% | 20.9% | $5.12B | -$132.0M | 19.4% |
| FY 2020 | $25.00B | 38.9% | 18.3% | $2.76B | $1.93B | 18.9% |
In accession 0001065280-26-000034, Netflix explicitly acknowledges advertising friction as an emerging churn driver while stripping out quarterly seasonality disclosures, reflecting structural maturation in mature subscriber territories. Management deleted per-membership revenue references in fixed content leverage warnings, signaling that monetization per subscriber has hit pricing resistance against aggressive digital competitors. The redline changes confirm escalating top-line deceleration risks and elevated churn sensitivity as ad-tier inventory expands.
Management expanded the explicit drivers of subscriber churn to formally include ad-load dissatisfaction. This reveals that commercial ad insertions on the ad-supported tier are degrading user retention, directly capping ad-tier CPM pricing power and threatening core subscriber durability.
The quiet deletion of '(per membership)' reveals that ARM/ARPU optimization has peaked as a standalone margin shock-absorber. Netflix can no longer rely on repeated per-user price increases to offset massive fixed sports rights and content amortizations without accelerating net churn.
Deleting the predictable Q4 seasonality disclosure signals that subscriber additions have decoupled from historical holiday cadence and become lumpier. Concurrently elevating 'open content platforms' (YouTube/TikTok) shows Netflix bleeding aggregate screen time to lower-cost, algorithmic content platforms.
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SEC XBRL FY2024 → FY2025: Net share cannibal / buyback tailwind.
vs. +14.7% actual YoY revenue growth (assuming 9.25% cost of equity & 16.5x terminal multiple).
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100% OPEN ACCESS • SEC EDGAR × CBOE × FREDHow profitable is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)?
In FY 2025 (10-K), NFLX converted $45.2B of revenue into a 48.5% gross margin, 29.5% operating margin, and $9.5B in free cash flow (20.9% FCF margin).