R&D expense · 2017–2025

Fluent R&D expense

$11.8M−31.5% · FY2025

Fluent (FLNT) reported $11.8M in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, −31.5% year on year.

$2.6M2017$5.3M2018$8.1M2019$12.6M2020$15.8M2021$18.2M2022$18.5M2023$17.3M2024$11.8M2025
Fluent — R&D expense, 2017–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$11.8M−31.5%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$17.3M−6.4%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$18.5M+1.6%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$18.2M+15.0%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$15.8M+25.3%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$12.6M+56.5%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$8.1M+52.6%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$5.3M+104.8%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$2.6M—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 · 2017–2025 compound annual growth +21.0%

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Wikipedia

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Fluent R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
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  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 · 0001437749-26-010679 · March 31, 2026

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