Planet Labs PBC
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) operates as a leading commercial Earth observation company with a mission to use space to help life on Earth by imaging the world daily and making global change visible, accessible, and actionable. The company's website is www.planet.com. From the company’s description.
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What Planet Labs PBC does
In the company’s own words
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) operates as a leading commercial Earth observation company with a mission to use space to help life on Earth by imaging the world daily and making global change visible, accessible, and actionable. The company's website is www.planet.com.
Planet has designed, built, launched, and operated hundreds of satellites that collect a comprehensive dataset of over 3,000 images on average for every point on Earth's landmass, creating a non-replicable historical archive dating back to 2009 for daily scanning data and 2017 for continuous monitoring. The company's core business generates revenue primarily through cloud-based platform subscriptions and usage-based contracts for satellite imagery, data analytics, and AI-enabled solutions. Additionally, Planet provides satellite services arrangements to large-scale government and enterprise customers, including designing and manufacturing customer-owned satellites, mission systems engineering, launch procurement, ground station infrastructure, satellite operations, and maintenance.
Planet's satellite fleet includes SuperDove satellites for daily global monitoring at up to 3.5-meter resolution, SkySat and Pelican high-resolution tasking satellites capable of capturing images at up to 50-centimeter resolution multiple times daily, and Tanager hyperspectral satellites delivering full-spectrum imagery across visible and shortwave infrared regions. The company serves customers across agriculture, defense and intelligence, energy, forestry, finance, insurance, mapping, and civil government sectors globally.
The company operates on an agile aerospace methodology, leveraging miniaturization and rapid development cycles to deliver compact, high-performance satellites at significantly lower costs than traditional aerospace companies. Planet's competitive advantages include its proprietary big data archive, advanced analytics capabilities powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, scalable one-to-many business model where captured images can be sold to unlimited customers, and proven operational expertise in satellite manufacturing and fleet management.
As of January 31, 2026, Planet employed approximately 1,000 people, including roughly 945 full-time employees, operating across 29 countries worldwide. The company operates as a Delaware public benefit corporation, aligning its commercial mission with environmental and social impact objectives.
Company details
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry (SIC)
- Communications Equipment
- Headquarters
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- Fiscal year end
- January
- CIK
- 1836833
- SIC
- 3663
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2022–2026 · 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 Planet Labs PBC — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Planet Labs PBC · 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 · Planet Labs PBC’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Planet Labs PBC’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 1 issues of Planet Labs PBC’s debt, $134.78M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 0.50%, maturing 2030 to 2030.
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
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