Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) operates at adobe.com as a global software company empowering creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences across multiple media types and channels. The company serves five primary customer audiences: business professionals, consumers, creators, creative professionals and… From the company’s description.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.
What Adobe Inc. does
In the company’s own words
Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) operates at adobe.com as a global software company empowering creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences across multiple media types and channels. The company serves five primary customer audiences: business professionals, consumers, creators, creative professionals and marketing professionals through an integrated platform spanning ideation, creation, production and activation.
Adobe's business comprises three reportable segments. The Digital Media segment serves productivity and creativity needs through Adobe Acrobat solutions, Adobe Express, Creative Cloud subscriptions and flagship applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere Pro and After Effects, alongside Adobe Firefly generative AI capabilities. The Digital Experience segment addresses end-to-end content supply chain requirements for marketing professionals through Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time Customer Data Platform, Customer Journey Analytics, Experience Manager, Commerce, Journey Optimizer, Marketo Engage and GenStudio solutions. The Publishing and Advertising segment contains legacy offerings including eLearning solutions, technical document publishing, web conferencing and Adobe PostScript and PDF standards.
The company employs 31,360 people globally, with fifty percent based in the United States and fifty percent in international locations across Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom and other markets.
Adobe's value proposition centers on delivering commercially safe, first-party and partner AI models integrated throughout its solutions, with emphasis on brand safety, compliance, intellectual property protection and reliability. The company builds its own Firefly foundation models for generation and editing while offering customers flexibility to select from partner models. Adobe leverages licensed content and public domain assets to train models, providing Content Credentials digital labels indicating generative AI usage.
The company distributes solutions through direct sales forces, app stores, its website and partner channels including distributors, retailers, systems integrators and value-added resellers. Adobe offers products via subscription models, software-as-a-service, managed services and pay-per-use arrangements, complemented by consulting services, customer success management, technical support and digital learning solutions.
Company details
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry (SIC)
- Prepackaged Software
- Headquarters
- SAN JOSE, CA
- Fiscal year end
- November
- CIK
- 796343
- SIC
- 7372
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Adobe Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Adobe Inc. · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Adobe Inc.’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Adobe Inc.’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 8 issues of Adobe Inc.’s debt, $443.56M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.13%, maturing 2027 to 2035.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
All filings →Each filing opens into its own statements and disclosures here.
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