BuzzFeed, Inc. (BZFD) Stock

BuzzFeed, Inc. (BZFD) is a Communication Services stock trading at $1.08 (as of 2026-08-20), with a market capitalization of $40.63M. Figures are sourced from first-party U.S. SEC EDGAR filings and market data.

BuzzFeed, Inc. operates digital media properties that publish news, reporting, entertainment, and video content distributed across social platforms for a global audience. Its brands include BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed News, Tasty, HuffPost, Complex Networks, and other sites such as As/Is, BringMe, Goodful, and Nifty.

Understand BuzzFeed, Inc.: how it makes money

BuzzFeed, Inc. is a digital media company that publishes breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and videos, and it earns money mainly by selling advertising and monetizing content through related commerce and other revenue streams.

BuzzFeed’s profit engine depends on turning audience attention, measured by time spent across its properties, into monetizable revenue categories such as advertising revenue and commerce-related revenue.

Revenue by segment (latest quarter)
Ads$0.0B
Content$0.0B
Commerce+Other$0.0B

Business quality (Weak): Good visibility into the revenue categories (advertising, content, commerce and other) and audience time-spent metrics, but the company-level revenue is presented as ~0.0B in the provided dataset, limiting precision when reconciling totals.

Bull case

  • Multiple monetization lines: The quarter shows revenue categories spanning advertising, content, and commerce and other revenue from continuing operations.
  • Audience measurement is explicitly tracked: Time spent across BuzzFeed properties is provided, along with time spent for HuffPost and other branded areas, which supports monitoring engagement.

Bear case

  • Material operating losses: The provided latest-quarter operating margin is -42.7%, indicating operating losses.
  • Ad and commerce revenue are sensitive to audience engagement: Because the monetization mix includes advertising and commerce-related revenue categories, any weakness in audience time spent across properties can reduce monetizable demand.
Valuation — source: SEC EDGAR (first-party)
Price$1.08
Market Cap$40.63M
Price / Book1.11
Price / Sales0.25
FCF Yield-36.6%
Profitability & Growth — source: SEC EDGAR
Revenue (TTM)$185.27M
Net Margin-31.2%
Revenue Growth (YoY)-2.4%
EPS Growth (YoY)466.7%
FCF Growth (YoY)-3.1%
Financial Health — source: SEC EDGAR
Altman Z-Score-4.79 (distress)
Valuation vs Sector & Industry
Sector P/E (Communication Services)24.4
Industry P/E (Communication)17.9
Smart-Money Activity — SEC Form 4 / 13F / Congressional disclosures
Top Institutional HolderVANGUARD GROUP INC ($876678.00)
Institutional Holders Tracked10
Company
SectorCommunication Services
IndustryCommunication
CEOJonah Peretti
Employees611
CountryUS
IPO Date2021-03-05

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Data as of 2026-08-20.

Figures sourced from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) filings and market data. Not personalized investment advice.