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WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (WBTN)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

About WEBTOON Entertainment Inc.

WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. operates a global digital storytelling platform that connects creators and users to discover, create, and share web-comics and web-novels. The company serves both amateur and professional creators by enabling them to publish serialized visual and text-based stories, primarily accessed via mobile devices. WEBTOON generates revenue through paid content sales, advertising, and licensing intellectual property for adaptations into media such as films, streaming series, games, and merchandise.

Snapshot

Revenue
$1.38B
Revenue growth (YoY)
2.5%
Net income
$-345.9M
Diluted EPS
$-2.66
Gross margin
23.3%
Operating margin
-4.6%
Net margin
-25.0%
FCF margin
0.3%
ROE
-28.7%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
trailing when available, otherwise FY EPS
Market cap
$1.43B
Long-term debt / equity
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at WEBTOON Entertainment

  • Revenue grew 2.5% to $1.4B in FY2025, slower than the 5.1% the year before.
  • Operating margin is -4.6% in FY2025, +6.0 pp against -10.6% in FY2022.
  • Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $338M, down 2.8% from Q2 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was $4M in FY2025, 0.3% of revenue.
  • Net loss widened to $346M in FY2025, from $144M in FY2024.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where WEBTOON Entertainment’s fundamentals sit among the 216 Communication Services companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Gross margin23.3%
18th percentile of 105
Operating margin-4.6%
36th percentile of 185
Net margin-25.0%
15th percentile of 191
FCF margin0.3%
31st percentile of 164
Revenue growth (YoY)+2.5%
48th percentile of 209
ROE-28.7%
22nd percentile of 165
Short interest10.48d
91st percentile of 216

WEBTOON Entertainment’s net margin of -25.0% ranks in the 15th percentile of the 191 Communication Services companies reporting it.

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Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Institutional ownership

Held by 3 quant / multi-strat books among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.

Conviction investors
0
+3 quant / multi-strat
Initiated / added
1
0 new, 1 added
Reduced / exited
2
2 trimmed, 0 exited
Combined position
$5.2M
reported long value
InvestorAs ofPosition valueSharesChange
Millennium ManagementquantQ2 2026$3.1M270.7KReduced
AQR Capital ManagementquantQ2 2026$1.7M146.8KAdded
D. E. ShawquantQ2 2026$435,22838.1KReduced

From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
4.5M
settled 2026-08-14
Change vs prior
-2.0%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
10.48
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
426.4K
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-08-144.5M-2.0%10.48
2026-07-314.6M-3.2%13.58
2026-07-154.7M-3.1%14.62
2026-06-304.9M-11.9%12.86
2026-06-155.5M+2.6%22.04
2026-05-295.4M-2.5%13.66
2026-05-155.5M-7.9%14.80
2026-04-306.0M+8.2%21.45

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$1.38B$1.35B$1.28B$1.08B
Gross profit$322.2M$339.1M$295.5M$273.0M
Operating income$-63.5M$-100.7M$-36.4M$-114.7M
Net income$-345.9M$-143.9M$-116.5M$-129.9M
Diluted EPS$-2.66$-1.21$-1.06$-1.22

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Cash and equivalents$581.8M$572.4M$231.7M$279.7M
Current assets$831.2M$836.4M$492.8M
Total assets$1.60B$1.94B$1.78B
Current liabilities$318.6M$313.2M$316.1M
Long-term debt$0$30,000
Total liabilities$367.2M$378.9M$429.1M
Total equity$1.20B$1.52B$1.31B$1.47B

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Operating cash flow$11.2M$17.9M$14.8M$-140.6M
Capital expenditure$7.6M$2.4M$10.2M$2.7M
Free cash flow$3.6M$15.5M$4.6M$-143.3M

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend (as reported)

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q2 FY2026$338.5M-2.8%$-15.2M$-0.11
Q1 FY2026$320.9M-1.5%$-9.5M$-0.07
Q4 FY2025$330.7M-6.3%$-307.6M$-2.36
Q3 FY2025$378.0M8.7%$-11.6M$-0.09
Q2 FY2025$348.3M8.5%$-4.3M$-0.03
Q1 FY2025$325.7M-0.3%$-22.4M$-0.17
Q4 FY2024$352.8M5.6%$-93.0M$-0.72
Q3 FY2024$347.9M9.5%$19.8M$0.15

Latest 8 reported quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR.

Company facts

ExchangeNasdaq
SectorCommunication Services
SIC industryMiscellaneous Publishing
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended December 31, 2025)
Latest reported quarterQ2 FY2026 (ended June 30, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2023
SEC CIK1997859

Selected SEC filings

10-K2026-03-05
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10-Q2026-08-10
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10-Q2026-05-11
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10-Q2025-11-13
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10-Q2025-08-13
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8-K2026-08-10
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8-K2026-06-04
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8-K2026-05-11
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.