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PPLI
People Inc
NASDAQ· Communication Services· Internet Content & Information· CUSIP 44891N208
$39.58+1.70%Price as of Oct 23, 00:45 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
People Inc (PPLI) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Internet Content & Information, part of the Communication Services sector. It is headquartered in New York, United States and has 5,156 employees. The company is worth $2.95B and trades at 7.3x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 16.1x. Revenue was $2.39B in fiscal 2025, down 8.7% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $104.03M. The share price is 18.1% below its 52-week high of $48.32. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Mason Hawkins (Southeastern Asset Management), at $144.57M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $2.95B
- P/E
- 7.3x
- Forward P/E
- 16.1x
- P/B
- 0.6x
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- $5.41
- ROE
- 9.04%
- Profit margin
- 14.12%
- Revenue growth
- -1.50%
- Beta
- 1.07
- 52-week high
- $48.32
- 52-week low
- $29.56
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▼ -64.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $310.09▼ -69.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 8 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $39.10 | $35.39 | $42.97 | $36.42 | $107.23 | $103.35 | $44.52 | $32.71 | |
| P/E | 20.7x | — | — | 14.5x | — | 20.7x | 42.4x | 201.0x | 20.7x |
| P/S | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.3x | 0.7x | 3.2x | 4.1x |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$91.15
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$36.92
Earnings growing 6.8% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$87.01
Median P/E of 16.1 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$111.94
Median P/E of 20.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$4.48
Cash flow growing 6.8% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Communication Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARGCarGurus, Inc. | $32.73 | 16.6x | 11.1x | 0.00% | 53.47% | $2.92B |
| ADArray Digital Infrastructure Inc | $33.32 | 4.3x | 2.3x | 63.78% | 22.68% | $2.88B |
| IMAXIMAX Corp | $52.31 | 71.7x | 8.1x | 0.00% | 11.02% | $2.87B |
| KYIVKyivstar Group Ltd. | $12.32 |
About the company
- 5,156
- New York, United States