Zedge (ZDGE)
Runs mobile personalization, gamified photography, emoji reference, and rights-cleared AI-data businesses.
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Monetizes free mobile-personalization and creator communities through ads, subscriptions, virtual credits, and paid goods, while licensing rights-cleared multimedia datasets to enterprises. Its global audience is weighted toward emerging markets, Android supplies most revenue, and dual-class shares concentrate voting control.
Operates a mobile-personalization marketplace alongside the GuruShots photography-competition community, Emojipedia emoji reference property, and DataSeeds rights-cleared multimedia-data business. Free consumer products build audiences monetized through advertising, subscriptions, virtual credits, and paid digital goods; DataSeeds earns from enterprise dataset contracts.
Executes a creator-to-commerce flywheel through content creation, friendly competition, and marketplace consumption across a global audience weighted toward emerging markets. Android accounts for most revenue and app distribution relies almost entirely on Google Play and Apple's App Store. Google search changes and AI answers reduced Emojipedia traffic and monetization, while dual-class shares concentrate voting control with Michael C. Jonas.
Company facts
Target rangeAs of Sep 21, 2026
Latest analyst notes
No analyst notes in the last 24 months.
EPSReportedEstimate
RevenueReportedEstimate
Balance sheet, Apr 30, 2026Cash & short-term investments $19.7M · Total debt $194.0K · Total assets $34.3M · Shareholders' equity $24.6M
- Revenue
- $8.0M
- Operating income
- $1.1M
- Net income
- $926.0K
HistoryDividendAnnual yield
| Institutions | 18.65% | 2.44M shares | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 holders · as of Jun 30, 2026 | |||
| Insiders | 20.29% | 2.65M shares | |
| 3 holders · as of Sep 15, 2026 | |||
| Other | 61.06% | 7.98M shares | |
| remainder | |||
13.07M company shares as of Sep 22, 2026 · institutions as of Jun 30, 2026 · holders as of their latest filing
This company has 2 share classes; every stake here is a share of the whole company.
Top shareholders13F · 13D/G · Form 4
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Michael C. Jonas1Insiderdirector, 10 percent owner, officer: Executive Chairman | 15.66% | 2.05M B | filed Sep 10, 2026 |
Renaissance Technologies LLCInstitution | 4.07% | 532,222 B | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Vanguard Capital Management LLCInstitution | 3.97% | 519,339 B | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Elliot GibberInsiderdirector | 3.53% | 461,952 B | filed Sep 15, 2026 |
Old West Investment Management, LLCInstitution | 3.48% | 455,358 | filed Feb 14, 2022 |
- Michael C. Jonas's transaction reports restate only vehicles that traded; the 2026 ownership statement (2.05M) is used instead.
Insider tradesForm 4
| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Avg price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2026 | Elliot Gibber | director | +421,502 | $3.07 |
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- Adobe
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- Shutterstock
Rights-cleared AI datasets and licensed media overlap directly.
- Getty Images
Licensed visual media and AI-ready data target the same buyers.
Compare
| Company | Price | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zedge | $3.06 | −0.81% | $40.3M | — | 17.0 | 1.3 | +3.1% |
| Alphabet Class A | $354.18 | −0.22% | $4.30T | 17.8 | 26.4 | 9.6 | +24.2% |
| Meta | $750.14 | +1.20% | $1.89T | 27.9 | 24.6 | 8.3 | +28.0% |
| AppLovin | $327.92 | −0.68% | $110.92B | 25.4 | 18.1 | 16.2 | +52.8% |
| Adobe | $240.18 | −3.74% | $99.18B | 13.9 | 8.9 | 3.8 | +12.9% |
| Shutterstock | $4.50 | −0.66% | $166.4M | — | 10.0 | 0.2 | −16.9% |
| Getty Images | $0.2349 | +0.73% | $97.7M | — | — | 0.1 | −2.5% |
| Median | 21.6 | 18.1 | 6.0 | +18.6% |