Airbnb
Airbnb, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABNB) operates a global marketplace connecting guests with stays, experiences, and services across more than 220 countries and regions through its website at www.airbnb.com. Founded in 2007, the company has grown to facilitate connections between over 5 million hosts and more than 2.5 billion… 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 Airbnb does
In the company’s own words
Airbnb, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABNB) operates a global marketplace connecting guests with stays, experiences, and services across more than 220 countries and regions through its website at www.airbnb.com. Founded in 2007, the company has grown to facilitate connections between over 5 million hosts and more than 2.5 billion guest arrivals since inception.
The platform serves as a two-sided marketplace where hosts list residential properties, experiences, and services while guests discover and book accommodations and activities. Airbnb's core offerings include short-term rental accommodations, curated experiences, and services launched in May 2025. The company generates revenue primarily through service fees charged to guests and hosts for transactions completed on its platform. International operations represent a significant portion of the business, with 61 percent of revenue generated from listings outside the United States.
Airbnb operates with approximately 8,200 employees as of December 31, 2025, supplemented by a global network of approximately 13,000 third-party workers who support community support functions. The company maintains a "Live and Work Anywhere" policy enabling most employees to work remotely, supporting talent acquisition across diverse geographies.
The company's technology platform powers the marketplace through a microservices architecture incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for fraud detection, personalized listing matching, and customer support. Key platform features include secure global payments supporting approximately 20 local payment methods, multilingual community support, and advanced business intelligence tools for hosts.
Airbnb's trust and safety system includes host and guest reviews, account protection, background checks in certain jurisdictions, fraud prevention, insurance protections through AirCover for Hosts and AirCover for Guests, and a 24/7 neighborhood support line. The company competes with online travel agencies, hotel chains, property management companies, and experience platforms. Its intellectual property portfolio includes patents, trademarks for AIRBNB and the Bélo logo, and domain names across multiple jurisdictions. The business experiences seasonal fluctuations reflecting global travel patterns, with peak demand in the first, second, and third quarters.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry (SIC)
- Business Services & Software
- Headquarters
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1559720
- SIC
- 7340
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2021–2025 · 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 Airbnb — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Airbnb · 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 · Airbnb’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Airbnb’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 3 issues of Airbnb’s debt, $797.97M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.81%, maturing 2029 to 2036.
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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