R&D expense · 2016–2025

Docusign R&D expense

$665M+13.0% · FY2025

Docusign (DOCU) reported $665M in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, +13.0% year on year.

$89.7M2016$92.4M2017$186M2018$186M2019$272M2020$393M2021$481M2022$539M2023$588M2024$665M2025
Docusign — R&D expense, 2016–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252026-01-31$665M+13.0%Open →
FY20242025-01-31$588M+9.1%Open →
FY20232024-01-31$539M+12.3%Open →
FY20222023-01-31$481M+22.2%Open →
FY20212022-01-31$393M+44.9%Open →
FY20202021-01-31$272M+46.3%Open →
FY20192020-01-31$186M−0.2%Open →
FY20182019-01-31$186M+101.2%Open →
FY20172018-01-31$92.4M+3.1%Open →
FY20162017-01-31$89.7M—Open →

R&D expense — Research and development expense is what the company charged to R&D in the income statement for the year. Most companies report no R&D at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the roughly 40% of filers that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2016–2025 compound annual growth +24.9%

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Wikipedia

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APA 7

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BibTeX

@misc{companiesranked-en-company-docusign-research-and-development-expense-2026,
  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Docusign R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/docusign/research-and-development-expense}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001261333-26-000021 · March 18, 2026

{{cite web |title=Docusign R&D expense — 10-K (0001261333-26-000021) |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1261333/000126133326000021/docu-20260131.htm |website=SEC EDGAR |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2026-03-18}}

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