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InterDigital, Inc. IDCC

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
3 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$834.0M
▼ 4.0% YoY
$406.6M
▲ 13.4% YoY
$528.6M
▲ 98.9% YoY
In brief

What this company does

It licenses its innovations worldwide to companies that provide wireless communications devices, consumer electronics, internet of things devices, cars and other motor vehicles, and cloud-based services such as video streaming. As of December 31, 2025, InterDigital's wholly owned subsidiaries held a portfolio of more than 38,000 patents and patent applications related to wireless communications, video coding, display technology, and other areas relevant to communications and entertainment products and services. Its headquarters are located in Wilmington, Delaware, and its research and development activities are conducted primarily in facilities in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; Los Altos, California; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; London, United Kingdom; and Rennes, France. As of December 31, 2025, its global workforce included approximately 460 employees, with approximately 240 employees based outside the United States, nearly all full-time. In 2025 and 2024, its total revenue was $834.0 million and $868.5 million, respectively. InterDigital, Inc.'s ultimate predecessor company was incorporated in 1972 under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and conducted its initial public offering in November 1981.

Written from the business description in InterDigital, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 5 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 834.0M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 834.0 · Net income 406.6
400M800M2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+22.1%
+18.4%
+6.6%
+5.1%
+63.1%
+55.4%
+13.3%
+6.7%
+56.6%
+52.3%
+13.7%
+8.6%
+22.9%
+13.2%
+12.5%
+24.3%
+10.5%
+29.3%
+2.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +18.4% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +55.4%, earnings per share at +52.3%.

The share count fell from 0.03B to 0.03B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
49 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 55.3% · Net 48.8%
20%40%60%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 41.5%
20%40%60%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity produced 42 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 155.7M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 528.6
200M400M2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 60.7 · Net buybacks 95.0
200MDividendsNet buybacks2008201120142017202020232025

USD 60.7M in dividends and USD 95.0M in buybacks — 38% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 2.1B
EquityUSD 1.1B
CashUSD 739.0M
Gross debtUSD 474.7M
Net debtUSD -264.3M
Current ratio1.84×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B0.80.90.50.50.40.40.30.30.50.70.40.40.30.70.30.40.30.2
Operating income $B0.50.40.20.20.10.10.00.10.30.40.20.20.10.40.10.20.10.0
EBITDA $B0.50.50.30.20.10.10.10.10.40.50.30.20.10.40.20.30.10.1
Income tax $B0.10.10.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.00.10.10.10.10.00.10.00.10.00.0
Net income $B0.40.40.20.10.10.00.00.10.20.30.10.10.00.30.10.20.10.0
Free cash flow $B0.50.30.20.30.10.20.10.10.30.40.10.20.20.2−0.00.10.30.1
EPS, diluted $11.8012.077.623.071.771.440.661.844.938.783.272.620.926.261.943.431.970.57
Dividend / sh $2.601.701.501.401.401.401.401.401.301.000.800.700.401.900.400.100.00·
Payout %151218457896213752510252335312000·
ROE %41.549.932.812.77.35.82.57.322.149.023.320.16.854.921.758.867.929.9
Shares out B0.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.040.040.040.040.050.050.04·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 6 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityPatent Owners & Lessors
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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