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People Inc

TechnologyComputer Services
Ticker PPLINEW YORK, NYFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $66.12Diluted shares 76.9M

IAC Inc. (NASDAQ: IAC) operates as a leading internet company with a diversified portfolio of digital media and online services businesses. The company's website is www.iac.com. From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$2.39B
−37.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $2.08B
-4.07%
−4 percentage points
Last 12 mo -8.65%
$-116.76M
+78.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $417.74M
1.68%
+11.4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 6.62%
Cash & financing
$64.03M
−81.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $122.36M
$44.83M
−84.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $93.12M
0.30
Was 0.35× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.28
80.1M
−3.7% year over year
Last 12 mo 76.9M

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 People Inc does

In the company’s own words

IAC Inc. (NASDAQ: IAC) operates as a leading internet company with a diversified portfolio of digital media and online services businesses. The company's website is www.iac.com.

IAC's current portfolio centers on category-leading businesses including People Inc., a major digital and print publisher, and Care.com, an online marketplace connecting families with caregivers. The company also maintains strategic equity positions in MGM Resorts International and Turo Inc., along with a controlling interest in Vivian Health, a healthcare professional job platform.

People Inc. operates over forty iconic brands across multiple verticals, including PEOPLE magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Allrecipes, Food & Wine, Better Homes & Gardens, The Spruce, InStyle, Verywell Health, and Travel + Leisure. The segment generates revenue through digital advertising, performance marketing, licensing arrangements, print subscriptions, and newsstand sales. As of December 31, 2025, People Inc. maintained approximately 15.4 million active print subscriptions and reaches more than 175 million people monthly across digital and print platforms.

Care.com provides consumer matching solutions connecting families with caregivers for children, elderly parents, pets, and homes, alongside enterprise solutions for employers offering care-related employee benefits. The platform also offers HomePay, a tax and payroll service for household employers. The Search segment includes Ask Media Group, which operates general search websites and content properties, generating revenue primarily through paid search listings supplied by Google under an agreement expiring March 31, 2026.

Emerging & Other includes The Daily Beast, a news and commentary website, and IAC Films, a film production services provider. The company previously held Angi Inc., a home services marketplace, which was spun off as an independent public company on March 31, 2025.

IAC's business model emphasizes building and acquiring internet companies across diverse verticals. The company benefits from significant seasonality, with approximately half of consolidated annual adjusted EBITDA generated in the fourth quarter, driven by holiday advertising and consumer spending. IAC maintains a dual-class share structure with Class B common stock carrying ten votes per share, with Barry Diller and family members collectively holding all outstanding Class B shares, representing approximately 46 percent of total voting power.

Company details
Sector
Technology
Industry
Computer Services
Headquarters
NEW YORK, NY
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1800227
SIC
7370

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2020–2025 · USD
$-1.84B$90.94M$2.02B$3.95B$5.88B202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The 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.

Ownership

Who owns People Inc — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

226
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$1.15B
held by funds, at market
1
bond issues held by funds

Largest fund holders · People Inc’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.16%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
Longleaf Partners Fund
LLPFX · Longleaf Partners Funds Trust
7.35%of fund net assets
Patient Opportunity Trust
LMORX · Advisor Managed Portfolios
3.62%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.03%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

People Inc’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 1 issues of People Inc’s debt, $101.38M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 7.63%, maturing 2032 to 2032.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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